When he opened the door to the private laboratory, he saw Great Magician Camilla holding two steel plates that were around ten centimeters long, five centimeters wide, and one centimeter thick in his left hand. He was putting the two steel plates together and his right hand was holding a strange looking little tool that was slowly moving from top to bottom along the gap between the two steel plates.
He couldn't see what Great Magician Camilla was doing from the door, but when he turned to the lab table and looked at it, he found that as the little tool in Great Magician Camilla's hand moved, the steel around the gap between the two steel plates quickly melted.
When the tool moved away, the melted steel quickly condensed again. When the tool went from the top to the bottom of the gap, the two steel plates were tightly joined together.
Xu Yi took the two steel plates from Great Magician Camilla's hands and shook them, finding that the two steel plates were tightly joined together. They didn't shake at all because of his actions, just like they were already joined together.
"Grandfather, you really are powerful. You actually made another breakthrough in this short period of time.
Looking at it now, this Magic Welding technology should have taken shape, right? "Xu Yi praised.
Great Magician Camilla gave a sigh and shook his head. He took the two steel plates from Xu Yi's hands and forcefully pulled them apart.
"Pa — —"
With a crisp sound, the two steel plates that seemed tightly joined were pulled apart.
Great Magician Camilla looked at Xu Yi from the side and said to him, "Do you see this? The current melting layer can only reach a depth of three millimeters, so there is no way to weld the two steel plates together. So this welding technology can't be considered complete at all."
Xu Yi took the two steel plates and reconnected them. Looking around, he couldn't help smiling, "Grandfather, I never thought that your research would progress this quickly, so I forgot to remind you.
If you want to weld these two steel plates, just relying on these two steel plates isn't enough. It's too hard to melt and weld the two steel plates together, so you need to use a welding wire to meet this requirement. "
"Welding wire?"
"Un ….." Xu Yi looked around and took out a thin steel bar from the scrap iron plates on the ground for Great Magician Camilla.
"Why don't you try using this as a welding wire and let it melt into the welding seam and see how it works?"
Great Magician Camilla took the thin steel wire and carefully considered it for a bit. Then he placed the two steel plates back on the table and placed them side by side. Then his left hand held the steel wire in the gap between the two steel plates and the small tool in his right hand. He poked his head into the gap between the steel wire and the two steel plates.
The probe lit up with a dark yellow light again. The thin steel bar instantly melted into molten steel and penetrated into the gap between the two steel plates. Then, it merged with the molten steel around the gap.
Great Magician Camilla carefully controlled the steel rod and probe to slowly move it down. When the steel rod was completely used up, only two thirds of the two steel plates were welded and there was still a part that hadn't been welded yet.
Xu Yi quickly handed over the other steel rod he had found beforehand. After Great Magician Camilla took it, he moved a bit faster and finished welding the remaining one third of the steel plates.
After stopping his hands, Great Magician Camilla carefully looked over the steel plates that had been welded together. He found that compared to the experiment just now, the two steel plates were much more firmly joined together.
He picked up the welded steel plates and used both hands to try and break them apart, but he found that they wouldn't move at all. Even if he used all his strength, he couldn't break them apart like before.
"This is more like it." Great Magician Camilla gave a satisfied nod as he handed the steel plate to Xu Yi.
"Can you try and see if you can break them apart?
If a young man like you can't break them apart, then you should be able to. "
Xu Yi shook his head, "I'm not that much stronger than you. If you can't break them apart with this much strength, then I can't either."
"Oh?
Then this welding technique is considered complete? "Great Magician Camilla asked.
"That isn't certain."
Xu Yi took the steel plate and pulled over a table. There was a bit of space between the table and the table as he placed the steel plate in the center. He then picked up a larger steel plate from the ground and forcefully smashed it down.
"Keng — —"
With a clear sound, the two steel plates that were welded together were smashed apart. They fell off the table at the same time and fell to the ground with a clear sound.
A trace of disappointment appeared on Great Magician Camilla's face.
"If this isn't enough, what should we do?"
Xu Yi picked up the two steel plates with a smile. After looking at them, he turned to Great Magician Camilla and said, "Look, there are still bubbles inside, so the welding isn't perfect.
As long as these small problems are solved, the quality of the welding can be guaranteed. "
"But I feel that even if it's like this, it can't be that firm. If it receives a strong impact, it will still fall off." Great Magician Camilla said with a frown.
"Could it be that this Magic Welding technique is still useless in the end?"
Xu Yi laughed before shaking his head and saying, "Grandfather, you can't be discouraged.
This Magic Welding technique isn't useless, rather it is very important.
Your welding technique isn't up to standard, so the quality of the welding is quite poor, resulting in this result.
In this aspect, I feel that you aren't that good at it. Rather, those blacksmiths and dwarven craftsmen are better at it.
So I feel that in the following research, you can cooperate with them. "
"Un, that's right." Great Magician Camilla nodded.
Great Magician Camilla nodded, "I'm just a bit better at magic, but I can't compare to those craftsmen when it comes to smelting."
"That's right. Then again, Magic Welding doesn't require the metal plates to be connected together. Most of the time, it's just for connecting and sealing, so it won't be impacted by strong forces, so the requirements aren't that high." Xu Yi then said.
"Then again, this technique has a lot of room for improvement, so you don't need to be anxious."
"How can I not be anxious?" Great Magician Camilla glared at Xu Yi.
"Camby and the others have already developed the Magic Engine and I still haven't solved the problem of welding, isn't that embarrassing?"
"So that means that in terms of practical operation, you don't need to study this field.
Your main work is in this. "Xu Yi picked up the small tool that Great Magician Camilla had placed on the test bench.
"This Magic Welding Gun is the thing you need to seriously study. Based on the current situation, it has already been considered a success.
Next, all you need to do is to engrave the Transformers array on the magic welding torch and give a specific design of the array.
As for the details of the design, Camby and the others will take care of it. "
"Why do I feel that I'm very useless when you say this?" Great Magician Camilla said with a frown.
"How is that possible!" Xu Yi quickly refuted in a loud voice.
"Grandfather, we are studying magic machines and magic is the most important thing, how could you be useless?
If it wasn't for you researching this Magic Array, this Magic Welding Gun wouldn't have appeared at all!
So you are the one who played the most important role, no one else can compare to you! "
"Alright, stop flattering me, I know what I'm doing."
Although Great Magician Camilla glared at Xu Yi, he was still amused by Xu Yi. He asked with a smile, "I still haven't asked you, what was the result of your trip to the Principality of Constantine this time?
Did it go smoothly? "
Xu Yi gave a shrug, "In front of the great Gold Pioneer, what problem can't be solved?"
"What?
How many gold coins did those greedy fellows ask you for? "
Xu Yi said with a bitter smile, "It would be better if they directly asked for it, but the problem is that they still care about face, so they only hinted at it and didn't give me a specific number.
In the end, I had to guess their real thoughts many times and was afraid that they would be unhappy if I gave them too little money.
Ai, it really makes me cry.
These days, it's so tiring to give people money. "
"Humph, those fellows will sell the entire Principality of Constantine sooner or later."
Great Magician Camilla looked at Xu Yi and pointed at him as he said, "Perhaps you'll be the one to buy it in the end."
"If possible, I really want to buy it all." Xu Yi said with a smile.
"Although the people of the Principality of Constantine aren't that good, whether it is in terms of location or natural resources, it is very good. If I could have this place as my territory, that would be great."
"You think I don't know what kind of tricks you're playing?" Great Magician Camilla gave a cold snort.
Great Magician Camilla gave a cold snort, "In my opinion, you've already set your eyes on this place and will get it sooner or later, right?
But that's also good. In the name of those greedy nobles, it's better for you to get it.
At least you're willing to work hard for normal citizens to live a good life. "
"If everyone in the Lampari Kingdom, alright, as long as Count Stark can understand my painstaking efforts like you, how much better would that be." Xu Yi said in an emotional voice.
"In your dreams, his granddaughter isn't married to you."
Great Magician Camilla rolled his eyes and suddenly said, "But I've heard that Count Stark has an unmarried daughter who's twenty seven this year. Are you interested?"
Xu Yi waved his hand, "Grandfather, don't make this kind of joke.
If I really had other thoughts, not to mention Stiel, wouldn't you be the first to get rid of me? "
"Humph, it's good that you know!"
Great Magician Camilla turned back to work on the table, but he spat out, "That little girl named Teresa, Stiel already knows about her. You can decide for yourself."
Xu Yi couldn't help muttering that he was wronged in the end, he had only met Teresa twice.
The reason for this misunderstanding was probably because he had left Teresa in the Falling Star Manor.
After thinking about it, Xu Yi immediately bid farewell to Great Magician Camilla and headed to the new Academy of Magic in the Falling Rain Valley.