booktalesy Chapter 170 [Harmonic Misalignment]
Chapter 170 [Harmonic Misalignment]
Chapter 170 [Harmonic Misalignment]
Project code name: [Harmonic Imbalance]
Drafted jointly by Rowling and researcher Duden, and approved by Master Veranica and the War Affairs Department, it immediately entered a high-speed operation phase.
The resources of the Holy Tower were mobilized efficiently.
The research department has allocated a high-standard energy simulation laboratory, equipped with a state-of-the-art resonance generator and an ultra-long-range energy conduction focusing array.
The Empire also secretly transported a batch of specially made crystal sensors that are exceptionally sensitive to fire and ley line energy, to enhance signal reception and target energy spectrum capture.
Rowling, Duden, along with several core members of the tide observation team and several energy engineering and remote spell experts who were temporarily conscripted, formed the [Harmonic Operation] technical team.
The Empire sent Cassan and two other Flamebringers skilled in energy channeling as liaisons and assistants.
The first step is to accurately measure the energy characteristics of the target magma lake.
The group repeatedly reviewed and analyzed the last images transmitted from the lost monitoring point.
Energy noise in the images was magnified and filtered frame by frame to extract relatively stable deep energy fluctuations in the background originating from ley lines and magma lakes.
These fluctuation data were compared and corrected with a general model of the geothermal energy in the southern region of the Burning Mountains from the observer database.
This work is tedious and complicated, requiring a great deal of patience and attention to detail.
Lorin connected the recording function of the Insight Ring to the energy analyzer in the laboratory, constantly adjusting the parameters in an attempt to extract the unique "energy fingerprint" belonging to that specific magma lake from the chaotic background noise.
At the same time, Duden led his team to design the transmission path and focusing scheme for the remote resonance signal based on the energy conduit model extracted from the observer data.
They need to find a suitable relay or transmission point that can effectively transmit and amplify signals, while also being sufficiently concealed so that it cannot be easily detected by the Ash Ring.
Rowling suggested using the remains of a small Observer relic that they had stumbled upon while exploring the Ash Plains.
The wreckage was located in a relatively secluded mountain about three thousand kilometers behind the target area. Its structure was severely damaged, but its basic energy receiving and stable circuits seemed to still be functioning, serving as a natural signal amplifier and energy "lens".
Ella and Gorson were temporarily reassigned to lead a crack team to secretly conduct on-site surveys and environmental cleanup of the ruins, ensuring their safe use and setting up necessary protection and camouflage.
Time was slipping away as everyone raced against the clock.
On the first day, 70% of the energy characteristics were extracted.
The next day, Duden's team completed the initial construction of the signal path model.
On the third day, Ella sent back a message that the ruins had been cleared, the basic stable circuits had been repaired and were ready to be used, and that guard posts and camouflage had been set up.
By the afternoon of the fourth day, the energy characteristic spectrum of the target lava lake was finally fully drawn.
It was a complex and violent energy waveform diagram, with the scorching earth vein fire at its core and various noise waves and resonance peaks generated by geological activities and human intervention of the Ash Ring surrounding it.
The next step is the most crucial and difficult: designing the [mistuned harmonics].
The principle is not complicated:
Find the most vulnerable and critical resonant peaks in the target energy spectrum, design an energy wave with an extremely close frequency but exactly opposite phase, or with a specific destructive modulation signal, and send it remotely.
When this mistuned harmonic wave encounters the target resonance peak, it will produce violent interference and energy cancellation, thereby disrupting the stable balance of the entire energy system.
The challenge lies in accuracy.
The frequency must be exactly right, the phase must be precisely controlled, and the signal strength must be just right.
Too weak and it won't trigger enough intervention; too strong and it might expose itself, or even trigger an uncontrollable chain reaction.
Rowling locked himself in the innermost isolation room of the laboratory.
He was the only person in the room, along with the complex resonance generator control terminal in front of him.
The table was covered with parchment filled with calculation formulas and sketches of energy structures.
Several basic symbolic fragments about energy interference and phase modulation, deciphered from the Civilization Stele, kept swirling and combining in his mind.
He needs to create an unprecedented, highly sophisticated "energy scalpel".
With his mind highly focused and the echo unit running at full power, coupled with the precise control module of the Insight Ring, Luo Lin began to try to build the first mistuned harmonic model on the control terminal.
He projected the target spectrum into his consciousness, as if examining a precise mechanical blueprint, searching for those seemingly powerful but actually delicately balanced key nodes.
Time passed second by second.
Outside the isolation room, Duden and the other team members waited anxiously, but no one dared to disturb them.
Sweat soaked Luo Lin's forehead, and a throbbing pain came from his temples.
This kind of "sculpting" work at the microscopic energy level requires an abnormal level of mental energy consumption and precision in manipulation.
He had to take concentration drugs frequently in order to maintain his focus.
It failed three times; the model crashed halfway through construction due to the instability of a certain parameter.
On his fourth attempt, Rowling adjusted his approach.
Instead of pursuing the construction of a complete complex harmonic wave at once, we first try to construct a simple single-frequency reverse wave targeting the most obvious resonant peak.
Fingertips glide lightly across the smooth panel of the control terminal, and mental energy, like the most skillful carving knife, guides the energy flow inside the instrument, weaving and shaping it little by little according to the preset mathematical model and the underlying rules gleaned from the stone tablet.
Buzz————
The resonance generator emitted an extremely faint, steady sound.
On the screen of the control terminal, a simple and beautiful energy waveform, mirror-symmetric to the target resonant peak frequency but opposite in phase, slowly took shape and flickered steadily.
The first one was a success!
Without pausing, while his touch and form were still intact, Luo Lin immediately began constructing the second and third mistuned harmonics targeting different resonance peaks.
Each one is more complex than the last, requiring more precise handling of phase relationships and modulation signals.
When the fifth and final critical mistuned harmonic was completed and formed a synergistic resonance network with the first four in the control system, Luo Lin felt his mental energy almost completely drained, and his vision went black.
He persevered and managed to completely save and encrypt the harmonic misalignment array model he had constructed.
As soon as the door to the isolation room was opened, the crowd waiting outside immediately surrounded them.
Seeing Rolin's pale but slightly relaxed expression, Duden quickly asked, "How are you?"
"The model is complete." Luo Lin said in a hoarse voice, handing over the storage core.
"Five key mistuned harmonics, coordinated array."
"A simulation test needs to be conducted immediately to verify the interference effect on the target spectrum."
Duden quickly took it and plugged it into the lab's main simulator.
A massive holographic projection of energy illuminates, with a complete dynamic energy spectrum model of the target magma lake on the left and a harmonic misalignment array model constructed by Rolin on the right.
"Initiate simulated interference." Duden took a deep breath and gave the order.
In the projection, pale blue ripples representing mistuned harmonics emerge from the array on the right and precisely "collide" with several key resonant peaks of the target spectrum on the left.
In an instant, the dynamic model of the target spectrum began to fluctuate violently!