Rhode touched his head, still shaken.
Good thing it blew itself up instead of blowing up my head...
Fortunately, those four failed attempts had not been fruitless.
Comparing his experimental records, Rhode discovered that the points responsible for the errors all led to a single blank spell node.
There should perhaps have been a bridging node there, but no such node existed in the Spell Model, nor was one marked.
Could this be a hidden mechanism?
To connect two different types of Spell Models, he had to find a hidden node like this.
Under normal circumstances, ordinary mages would struggle to find hidden nodes, since there were no clues to follow.
But Rhode was different.
The Spell Models he made reported errors when spell experiments failed, and he could even debug them with breakpoints.
That made it easy to narrow down the search area. With a clear target, finding the damned node was no longer particularly difficult.
Sure enough, before long, Rhode found a route within the Spell Model that led to the Spell Model "next door."
Suppressing his excitement, Rhode slowly searched along that route. As expected, he spotted a spell node that had not been marked in the Spell Model.
The instant he connected to that node, two long, whisker-like lines extending from it flickered faintly.
That meant the connection between those two locations could be completed as soon as mana flowed into them.
This had to be it.
Rhode began channeling mana, and sure enough, both node lines immediately lit up.
It worked!
He had successfully connected two different types of Spell Models!
Rhode immediately summoned a new arcane golem, then pointed at the Test Training Dummy in the laboratory and said, "Attack."
This time, the arcane golem approached with noticeably steadier steps.
When it was a