The first-generation prototype of the Magic-Energy Computer looked somewhat cultish in appearance.
Or rather, more than somewhat.
Looking at the final result, Jia Xiu finally realized there was one mistake they had overlooked from the very beginning.
It could not really be called a serious mistake. It was just that the result was a little... well, indescribable.
They should have thought to hire some industrial designers from the start.
In an open space spanning nearly a thousand square meters before them, several interconnected machine cabinets formed the first non-mechanical computer in the history of this plane's civilization.
The computer's main components were conductors made of gel. To make them as compact as possible, the conductor tubes had been made extremely thin—so thin that they could no longer be rigid materials and had become soft tubes instead. As a result, the countless soft tubes composing the logical computation core wound and twisted around one another in dense, tangled knots. Although the wiring had been organized to some extent, it could not fundamentally save this chaotic mess. Worse still, it glowed an oily green.
As for the stable output supplying magic power, after the fairies pushed their optimization to the limit, it had ultimately evolved into something resembling a hybrid of plant and fungus.
That did fit the fairies' nature. Aside from those who flitted about with tiny wings, there were also many plant-type fairies—such as tree spirits, flower spirits, and moss spirits—who were especially skilled at plant magic.
They felt somewhat similar to the yao of Chinese legends: any living thing had a chance of "becoming a spirit." So far, though, they had yet to discover any fairies in this world based on inanimate objects.
Jia Xiu had no objections to a plant-and-fungus magic-power generator. But when it was connected to