Chapter 877: 274. Continuous linkage

“Sir, the success rate of this scheme is very high, estimated to reach 99%. You should know what the final product of this scheme is, right?” Nolin asked.

“Yes… I know…”

Noland Lee snapped back to reality, with images from his memories swirling in his mind.

His gaze became somewhat distant, his expression gradually complex.

He was, of course, clear about what the ultimate product of this scheme was.

It was a computer.

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Nolin had provided a scheme for creating a computer.

Thunder and Lightning Energy is not an electric current from the technological side. It is neither direct current nor alternating current, and it doesn’t even involve concepts such as voltage, charge, or electric potential.

But that does not prevent it from being a carrier of information.

Accurately speaking, anything capable of changing its quantity, form, volume, and color according to human will can be used to make a computer. noveldrama

Noland Lee had once seen something known as the “Human Array Computer” in a certain science fiction masterpiece.

It was a computer constructed of human parts, using body language to perform calculations instead of binary.

The Golden Federation used Alchemy to create Computing Arrays.

Wizards of the Ulnas Circle crafted self-operating Magic Circles through magic, and then used those circles to create magic puppets, Magic Servants, and magical devices, and so on.

Computing Arrays, Magic Circles, and such things, can all be regarded as computer-like products created by humans using extraordinary energy.

Given that, following Nolin’s computer manufacturing scheme, using Thunder and Lightning Energy as a data carrier, it is also possible to create a computer-like product.

With it, Noland Lee would be able to circumvent the restrictions of Sage-level Alchemy, using automated devices to share part of Nolin’s computational work, indirectly increasing the number of Nolin’s Thought Threads.

With it, the wizard forces’ monopoly on magic materials would no longer hinder Noland Lee from producing Magic Servants, magic puppets, and Magic Circles.

He could manufacture his own automated devices and Mechanos without restrictions.

Following that, absolutely controlled factories, farms, mines, and shipyards owned by him would emerge…

Noland Lee thought of many, many things.

In the process of operating in the Sub-Dimensional Plane, he would use many Plane Devices.

Plane Devices are mainly divided into three kinds: Plane Stabilization Devices, Plane Teleportation Devices, and Plane Expansion Devices.

Plane Stabilization Devices repair damage to prevent the collapse of planes.

Plane Teleportation Devices are essential components for opening Teleportation Gates.

Plane Expansion Devices allow the plane to expand outward at an extremely slow speed.

These three devices are the product of Magic Plane Studies.

Within the entire Ulnas Circle, only a few large wizard forces such as the Pure Light Court, Hotams, and others can manufacture them.

Even if Noland Lee got his hands on the blueprints for the Plane Devices through Deconstruction, it would be impossible to produce them.

Firstly, the core magic materials are in the hands of large wizard forces and are not for sale to the public. Market knock-offs are either fake or are “fishing” traps.

Secondly, even if he actually managed to produce them, Noland Lee would be constantly anxious for fear that others might discover his imitation of Plane Devices.

This activity couldn’t be kept secret.

Because the operation of a Sub-Dimensional Plane necessarily relies on these three types of Plane Devices.

Anyone visiting Noland Lee’s Sub-Dimensional Plane could determine whether there were Plane Devices present.

Without personally inspecting Noland Lee’s Sub-Dimensional Plane devices, just by asking around the major wizard forces, it would be known whether Noland Lee had illegally replicated Plane Devices.

Illegal replication of Plane Devices is a serious criminal act.

Noland Lee would have to pay three times the sale price of a Plane Device in order to redeem himself.

The price of Plane Devices is exorbitant.

It costs between 1.3 and 2 billion gold coins to purchase one of the three types of Plane Devices.

If the Sub-Dimensional Plane is large, several Plane Devices might need to be purchased to fully protect one’s Sub-Dimensional Plane.

Noland Lee had previously calculated with Selena that just to purchase three types of Plane Devices for a small Sub-Dimensional Plane, they might have to spend 4.5 billion gold coins.

Selena, as the Deputy Dean of the Deep-sea Branch, had no influence when it came to purchasing Plane Devices.

Hotams would not give her any discounts.

The prices of Plane Devices were set by several major wizard forces together, so Hotams could not breach the contract with other forces.

Of course, while discounts were off the table, it did not mean other convenient services couldn’t be offered.

Regardless, Nolin’s computer manufacturing scheme presented a glimmer of hope regarding the restrictions of Plane Devices for Noland Lee.

With the computer-like magical creation, he could break away from the Pangula Family and build an automated Ore Smelting Factory.

Correspondingly, assembly lines for producing automated Mechanos, magical devices, and Alchemy Devices would also come into being.

In a broader sense, the computer-like magical creation could perfectly replace Magic Circles.

As the core component driving Magic Servants, magic puppets, and magical devices, once Magic Circles are substituted by computer-like magical creations, the variety of magical things Noland Lee could produce afterward would increase tremendously.

Noland Lee was curious about what a magical creation transformed from a computer would look like.

He wondered where its computational limits lay.

He contemplated what its evolutionary path would be.

He pondered whether the system based on it belonged to the technological side or the magic side.

He thought about what this system should be called.

Many threads of thought churned in Noland Lee’s mind.

He lifted his hand, pinched the tightened brow with his fingers, and gently rubbed it.

As Noland Lee fell into contemplation, Nolin stopped the Magic Pen that had been working continuously for several hours.