Chapter 111 Join the glorious evolution!

Watching Madeleine bend the orichalcum rod until it sank in the middle, Sissi's eyebrows also began to sag.

Madeleine, how come you suddenly have magical powers?

How come the amount and strength of this magic power are almost the same as that of Sissi, the veteran witch's companion?
Taking the orichalcum rod from Madeleine, Sissi bent it twice to confirm that there was no problem with the orichalcum.

Turning around, he called the child soldiers, handed them the orichalcum rod, and asked them to test a few more villagers who had recovered from their illnesses.

"Madeleine, can you try to cast a spell?" Sissi said to Madeleine, "Try and feel the magic power in your body."

With her eyes tightly closed, Madeleine looked as if she was constipated. After a long while, she opened her eyes angrily and said, "I can't feel anything."

Sissi immediately looked at Horn with suspicion. This was exactly the same as Horn's condition, with only magic power but no spells.

Under normal circumstances, without the use of magic, it is impossible to determine the identity of Madeleine's witch followers, whether they come from Jeanne, Carrie, or Horn.

Because anything is possible. Many witch followers have very weak magic power at the beginning, and they cannot feel the existence of magic power and cannot use spells.

But Orichalcum proved that Madeleine's magical power was not only there, but was almost as powerful as Sissi's.

If Horn's witch spells actually have more mana, then his followers should also have more mana.

Isn't this right? Isn't this right?
Thinking of this, Sissi suddenly felt that the symptoms of the patients in the camp were very similar to the witch's disease.

Cough, rash, fever, but the biggest difference is that the intensity is very low.

Most people have a low-grade fever, and some even just have a stuffy nose and a cough. When they are sick, they can not only walk, but also run and jump.

Their witch disease had no aftereffects at all, and their sensory organs even became more sensitive, which was extremely similar to Horn.

Eliminating all possibilities, there is only one answer.

You are a devil, Horn!
Could it be that the witch disease he had previously had was just a more serious cold? Was he mistaken for a witch disease?
This is the only explanation for these amazing phenomena.

Before Xixi could get rid of her confusion, she heard the sound of the door curtain being lifted.

"Brother Sissi." Grampven ran into the tent holding the mountain copper stick and shouted excitedly, "I went to test it, and nine out of ten villagers who recovered from their illnesses have magical powers now."

"Can they feel the power?"

"No, I can't feel any of it."

It was confirmed, and Xixi suddenly felt that she already knew the truth of the matter.

Although no one knows why, Horn is indeed a male witch, or a demon man.

Extending from this, Horn's witch disease symptoms were mild and the mortality rate was extremely low. The only two seriously ill patients were brought back by allicin.

Does that mean Horn can mass-produce witch followers?
Unfortunately, Horn's followers also had mana but no spells, and their mana was not enough to support them in using Ferdinand's longbow.

Switching to a smaller bow is also unlikely, as the cost is too high, and there is a reason why wizards don't equip large numbers of orichalcum bows.

Not everyone has the amount and strength of mana that Horn has.

These followers might just have to become alchemists.

Regardless, this is also of great value, especially since the White Mountain Hermitage's bulk of income comes from the sale of alchemical products.

This Horn must be taken to Black Snake Bay. Sissi has a hunch that if his identity as the magic man can be confirmed, it will be of great benefit to the secret party and the current development of magic.

"Your Majesty, I have something that I need to talk to you about alone later." Sissi walked quickly to Horn's side and decided to tell him the truth.

"Hmm?" Horn seemed a little absent-minded at the moment.

When he saw Madeleine bending the orichalcum rod just now, he always had a feeling, a feeling that he had grasped something key.

At this moment, he did not notice Sissi's eyes, but just focused on the copper rod in his hand. He always felt that something was stuck in his mind, but he couldn't figure it out.

Calming himself down, Horn began to think over his thoughts from the beginning.

In fact, Horn has his own opinion on the alchemical product of mountain copper.

He believed that Sissi's "the transformation of orichalcum comes from magic power" was very crude and even wrong.

If we analyze it from the perspective of energy conservation, it is not that the deformation of orichalcum absorbs mana, but that the mana changes the material strength of orichalcum.

At the moment when the mountain copper came into contact with the magic power, before it could be deformed by external force, part of the magic power had already entered.

The effect of magic power is to change the Young's modulus of the mountain copper material, or in a macroscopic sense, the stiffness coefficient, making it smaller, causing the material to become softer.

When contact occurs and deformation occurs, deformation becomes easier than before due to the reduction in stiffness coefficient. In order to maintain this additional deformation, mana needs to be absorbed.

According to common sense, the elastic potential energy converted from the kinetic energy of deformation is smaller than that in the case of no magic.

Because Horn only used so much force.

But at the moment of letting go, the magic force that maintains the smaller stiffness coefficient leaves, and Young's modulus immediately returns to normal.

At this time, the elastic potential energy should also increase.

Normally, energy cannot be created out of thin air, so where does this energy come from?
The only explanation is that it converts magic power into this part of elastic potential energy.

Of course, this does not mean that all its kinetic energy comes from the conversion of mana. Its own elasticity is also very important.

Obviously, Orichalcum is actually a one-way converter from mana to elastic potential energy.

From this perspective, things get interesting.

Because there is another phenomenon, that is, after the orichalcum returns to its original state and enters a static state, the excess mana will be converted into spells and discharged.

If Horn's mana is not enough to power the spell, will Orichalcum convert all the remaining mana into kinetic energy?
At least that's what Horn did when he first tested the orichalcum rod.

The more Horn thought about it, the more he felt an idea was about to emerge.

Inside the huge Papal Palace, there was complete silence at this moment, and everyone's eyes were on Horn.

Although no one knew why Horn was thinking or what he was thinking about, the others did not want to disturb him and just stood aside and waited.

After all, with so many people with magical powers appearing, they need Horn to characterize the matter and calm the public.

"Dududu-"

A long and shrill flute sound came from far away. Anyone with ears would know that this unfortunate voice was Carrie.

The moment Carrie stepped into the tent, Horn was struck by lightning, and the idea that was about to come out became clear immediately.

"Boom!"

A sound of a table being smashed was heard in the eerily quiet tent, which scared everyone, including Carrie.

Horn stood up with rare excitement: "I understand. This is very interesting. This is very interesting."

"Your Majesty, what are you doing..."

"Duvalon, go call Jeanne, I need her to help me make something, and call Rector as well."

Xixi frowned: "What are you going to do?"

Walking back and forth in the tent, Horn smiled mysteriously: "I'll tell you when I succeed."

(End of this chapter)