Chapter 689: Chapter 571: The First Generation of God-Powered Warp Ship!
Summoned by the Council, Glenn and Luo’er, who had hurried over, heard this completely unfamiliar term and immediately looked at Lynn, their expressions full of confusion.
“Yes, you can think of a film as a kind of three-dimensional, connected series of pictures!” Lynn explained succinctly.
Glenn was very interested in this concept, having been obsessed with photography since he had developed optical photography.
You see, elements wandering in the void change their positions every moment, and after Lynn proposed quantum theory, achieving actual time reversal was nearly impossible.
But photography could capture moments and freeze them forever!
Now, the cameras he invented had taken the entire kingdom by storm, with hundreds of thousands sold, and what limited their distribution in every household was not the high price but the consistently insufficient production to meet demand!
Glenn was recently pondering how to increase production further and reduce the selling price. However, after Lynn had roughly described the video magic developed by Aurora, Glenn felt both excited and worried.
He was excited because this technique could directly record events over a certain period using magic power. He worried that the sales of cameras might be impacted since this projection technique was much more convenient than his photography, also with the potential to become widespread.
Luo’er, purely delighted, knew the value of this technique as a journalist.
“Are you saying that making films involves us recording certain events? Could it possibly involve that spaceship brought back from the moon?” Glenn immediately thought of this and looked expectantly at Lynn.
Capturing significant, memorable events was indeed the original intent behind the development of photography technology.
A few months ago, the sight of that unimaginably huge spaceship being moved from the moon had sparked a heated debate.
Although many had seen it, photography and filming were not allowed, and the Council had not given any explanations to the public. They had even spread various rumors to mislead the public, leading the citizens of the kingdom to believe that the Wizards had created a magical flying city.
Even some official Wizards utterly believed this news!
Glenn, who was friends with Luo’er, the editor of the Magic Daily, of course knew some insider information and did not fall for those false rumors.
“No, it has nothing to do with that spaceship; making movies can actually be likened to operas, only more sophisticated!” Lynn briefly explained the concept of acting.
What they needed to do was conceive a story, perform it, record it with video magic, and distribute it throughout the kingdom for playback.
“Isn’t that just propaganda?” Glenn said subconsciously, then immediately realized he had spoken too bluntly and quickly shut up.
Luo’er coughed lightly, hastily interjecting to correct him. “It should be said that this is reenacting reality with some reasonable modifications and improvements…”
Lynn looked at Luo’er and nodded; he had two main types of content in mind for the films.
The first was to dispel the influence that the Church and the Empire still held in people’s hearts.
For example, how the Church fooled the public with beliefs, claiming that entering heaven was actually becoming a reserve energy source for Eira, and how the Empire’s nobles brutally dominated and exploited the common people.
Thinking about it, the Wizard Council had ruled the kingdom for only a few years, while the territory had belonged to the Church and the Empire for nearly a thousand years. Lynn was aware that although they had largely suppressed major conflicts through absolute military force and abundant material supplies, there were still plenty of issues under the surface.
In the cities, things were somewhat manageable, but if one looked further down to the town level, the Council’s control sharply declined. Lynn had received reports that some commoners in the kingdom’s border areas still secretly worshipped Eira in private.
These people hadn’t taken further action, and it wasn’t feasible to eliminate them all, so tackling the issue through public opinion and ideological change was essential.
The second objective was to dispel some common misconceptions and fears about magic among the citizens, as well as to propagate the current policies of the Council.
Lynn briefly outlined his requirements and then reminded the two that they could gather material for the films by interacting more with the lower-class citizens, as he was confident there were countless similar real-life examples. Using real cases would also more easily resonate with the lower-class citizens.
“Actually, I think some of your own exploits are very suitable!” Glenn suddenly spoke up. “A Wizard persecuted and hunted down by the Church and the Empire, flees to Wizard Land, and then counterattacks to end the evil reign of the Church and the Empire. There are both dramatic and explosive elements, and it will also help the commoners understand the history of the Council and the origins of the Wizards…”
Luo’er looked at Glenn in surprise; he had always thought Glenn was a straightforward and honest man but hadn’t expected him to be so adept at flattering, even quicker on the draw than himself!
“We should talk about this kind of large-scale series another time,” Lynn said noncommittally, suggesting that Glenn and Luo’er start by producing some simpler shows to test the waters and see the effects before considering further.
“Regarding the filming, camera work, and some techniques of scriptwriting, I have written them all down in this book. You might want to take a look when you have time…” Lynn handed a thick booklet to Luo’er and Glenn for them to study thoroughly.
As for the content of the book, it was, of course, sourced from the smart brain’s data repository and directly printed using magic, which was convenient and quick!
Luo’er was the first to take the booklet, which was four fingers thick. After flipping through it briefly, he was immediately engrossed by the contents—such as the four-step creation method, the three-act structure of scripts, and detailed explanations of camera language usage that surprised Luo’er, who had not expected Lynn, the Speaker, to know these things.
Wasn’t this being a bit too versatile?
But then Luo’er remembered that this star of magic had advanced to an unimaginable realm, with computing power far beyond theirs, capable perhaps of multitasking to an extent even greater than they could fathom.
“Alright, take this book and have a good look at it. Bring me a script in half a month,” Lynn said with a wave of his hand.
Luo’er and Glenn responsively agreed and then took their leave.
Lynn then stood up from his seat, and with a step, he had already traversed several kilometers, the walls, trees, and rocks ahead seemingly nonexistent in his path.
To him, all things larger than a microscopic scale had huge gaps, allowing him to squeeze through easily!
In just over a dozen steps, Lynn had already reached the Land of Death just outside Fire Oil City. With months of practice, this spatial control had become even more effortless…
This area was heavily fortified. On the outermost was a huge magic barrier, inside was a wall one meter thick, and at the very core was a defense barrier he had personally set up, even capable of blocking divine scrutiny!
Upon entering, Lynn, who made no disguise of himself, was quickly spotted by the guarding wizards.
“Speaker Lynn, Lord Vittorio has been waiting for you for a long time!” Dennis hurried forward, excitedly speaking.
“It seems you have already managed the ship’s power system?” Lynn’s face also showed a hint of anticipation. The curvature engine, although present in the smart brain’s database as a sci-fi weapon, existed only in concept and was truly unbuildable.
If they could make a breakthrough in this area, it would mean they had surpassed the Earth Federation of his previous life in the field of power systems!
“We’ve completed over ninety percent, the main parts are all finished, the remaining issue is the protection of the Alchemy Array—actually, we can start test-flying today!” Dennis said proudly, attributing part of the success to his own contributions.
Encircled by a group of alchemists, Lynn soon entered the ship. Many areas inside were dismantled, with a curvature generator built at both ends creating a ‘U-shaped curvature space’ that tightens at the front and expands at the back, making the ship slide through space as if on a slide!
Dennis smacked his lips and continued explaining to Lynn that the ship now had two power systems. They first needed to use a nuclear explosion engine to accelerate the ship to over fifteen times the speed of sound to leave the atmosphere of the Eternal Star, then activate the curvature engine to further increase the speed, flying into the vast outer space!
The reason for the extra step was that they still could not precisely control the output power of the curvature engine, and supersonic flight within the atmosphere of the Eternal Star might cause terrifying consequences.
Lynn nodded. Extreme speed meant extreme power, and the concerns of Dennis and the others were not unfounded; it was better to be cautious.
He didn’t expect the first-generation propulsion system to adopt a full curvature drive, so a hybrid power system was also not bad.
“By the way, what are you using as the energy source for the curvature engine?” Lynn suddenly asked curiously, but the next moment he saw a spherical earth clump over a hundred meters in diameter floating above a huge Alchemy Array, tightly bound by numerous rune locks.
Using soil and rocks as fuel?
Lynn was initially stunned, then soon sensed an aura from it that faintly felt familiar.
This couldn’t possibly be…
Lynn immediately thought of something, followed swiftly by Vittorio’s voice coming through.
“This is lunar soil, also known as the Moon God Body!”
Only this could provide enough energy!