"Congratulations. You have the great honor of witnessing the dawn of a new era."
Seeing Xia Xu's pupils focus and then abruptly contract, Victor's smile blossomed fully. He proudly spread his arms in welcome.
"What stands before you is Victor Spot's latest masterpiece, an epoch-making creation that will truly revolutionize energy technology: the Magnetic Confinement Energy Core."
"You lunatic."
Victor's words left many of those around him bewildered, but some, Xia Xu included, felt their eyelids twitch and instinctively stepped back.
They did not know exactly how this so-called Magnetic Confinement Energy Core worked, but its name gave them a rough idea-using a magnetic field to contain energy.
In other words, the thing before them was not a crystal at all, but a mass of energy that Victor Spot had somehow condensed and confined within a magnetic field.
Put simply, this thing was actually a battery.
But it was a super battery that stored an unknown amount of energy, enough to power high-energy lasers and electromagnetic cannons for extended periods.
Most importantly, this thing was nowhere near as stable as a battery with a physical storage medium.
Since it relied on a magnetic field to contain energy, any problem with the source generating that field, or any disturbance, could instantly turn it from a super battery into a super bomb.
"Relax, it won't explode. Blowing myself sky-high isn't one of my hobbies."
Victor naturally understood their concerns and added this with affected humor.
"How stable is it? What's its maximum energy capacity? Can it be mass-produced?"
Xia Xu cut straight to the heart of the matter.
If this so-called Magnetic Confinement Energy Core could be mass-produced, then it was undoubtedly an epoch-making creation.
There were only two key factors restricting the development of modern technology: materials and energy.
Once the