Chapter 1095: Chapter 572: Industrial Cthulhu, Mechanical Augmentee_2
The illusory Machine Spirit of the Leviathan Whale let out a cry, and immediately split off two luminous gears of light, linking them into the transmission systems of the two machines.
steel, Whale Oil, Blaze, Steam, and the surging Willing Power of Humans underwent a chemical-like reaction, and within the Zero-Level Sacred Relic, a universal Machine Spirit was born that could perfectly control the power output of Steam Engines—the Leviathan Whale Spirit.
As long as you give an order to the Whale Machine Spirit, it can automatically generate a "Kinetic Field" similar to a Divine Domain within a radius of a hundred kilometers.
With the Machine Spirit regulating from the center, it can freely allocate its own horsepower, turning all manpower, livestock power, water-powered and wind-powered tools within this range into Steam Power Mechanical devices.
At the same time, every time a Whale Oil Steam Engine is born in the world, five percent of its horsepower will be aggregated back into the body of the prototype machine.
The more fully the world industrializes, the higher the power of the prototype machine becomes; using it as the power source for a Difference Engine and Analytical Machine couldn’t be more appropriate.
"Babbage, the right to the first computation is yours."
Violet stepped aside, giving her student both the first chance to use these two machines and the qualification to enjoy the rewards of the promotion ritual.
The group of [Whale Oil Mechanics] watching nearby all had an involuntary flicker in their eyes.
Violet, this grand academic master who opened the Steam Era, showed not the slightest sign of usurping her student’s research成果 or taking advantage of their labor, undoubtedly setting a fine precedent for the [Whale Oil Mechanic] faction.
Every technological explosion can create immense profits, plus a vast number of academic papers, and give birth to many scientists and researchers.
And as industrialization advances, thousands upon thousands of Engineers will spring up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.
Violet’s students and their students occupy the top of the ecological niche of the Tower Sequence [Whale Oil Mechanic]; the North Sea Empire and the Golden Empire will also become academic holy lands for Whale Oil Mechanics, and the economic and transcendent benefits involved are simply immeasurable.
A good academic atmosphere is thus maintained consistently.
Talented young people in the future will not have to worry about being unable to stand out.
And those experts who have already stepped into the Middle Sequence, seeing Violet, this grand master who has already achieved the Immortal, leading by example, will also have to carefully weigh the consequences if they plagiarize their students’成果 in the future, pave the way for their sons and daughters, and use decades of dominance to forge a monopolistic academic clique.
You have to know that Violet is not only an academic leader, but also the Queen of the Empire, the future Empress, and a [War Queen] who made her start in arms dealing.
On top of that, there is that Pirate Emperor who loves his wife like his life.
The consequences of angering the big Boss will probably be far from something as simple as stripping you of your transcendent ability and expelling you from the sect.
"Yes, Teacher."
The young Babbage answered respectfully and had already walked to the front of the two machines.
Even though the functions of the two machines had already been verified in Teacher Violet’s virtual [Alchemical Workshop], he was still a bit nervous.
His hands trembling, he fed the punched cards into the machine, completing a set of program instructions similar to assembly language, and the few front copper columns of the brass machine were locked in sequence.
They automatically back-solved the corresponding function f(x)=x^3+1, to be evaluated at x=66.
Then he flipped the power switch, and tens of thousands of gears and carry mechanisms began to run with a precise "clatter-clatter," full of a pleasing mechanical beauty.
Nothing unexpected occurred; very soon, a combination of numbers and letters was automatically printed out: f(66)=287497.
This completed the first computation ever performed by a Steam Mechanical Computer in this world.
"It’s done, it’s done!"
As Babbage turned around, excitedly holding up the strip of paper to show everyone, the two machines behind him, together with himself, suddenly burst into blazing Divine Light.
The Golden Law and Silver Law naturally manifested, and the Power of Law poured down.
Babbage, who had not yet come of age, succeeded in advancing to the Third Order in just an instant, gaining the core Professional Ability [Alchemy] and the branch ability [Prosthetic Modification].
This pace of promotion might be sheer fantasy in other fields, but in mathematics it was only natural.
Mathematics is a young person’s game; if you don’t become a master before thirty-five, you can give up for life, and prodigies among youths have always been abundant.
Dang, dang, dang...
Amid the grand pealing of bells, the two machines—erupting with Golden radiance—unsurprisingly formed a parallel linkage, just like how the Jenny Machine and the loom once did, gaining even more powerful functions.
In addition to each achieving the titles of [First Difference Engine] and [First Analytical Engine], they also gained other epithets: [Most Complex Machine of the Mechanical Age], [Whale Oil Powered Mechanical Computer], and so on.
They leapt in one stroke to become the most top-tier First Level Sacred Relics of the current era.
The only thing limiting them from becoming Zero-Level Sacred Relics was the current level of technological development.
The Steam Engine itself had only just been born less than a year ago; productivity and computational demand were seriously mismatched.
In other words, they were simply too far ahead—at least several centuries beyond the current era’s productive forces—making it difficult for their historical impact to fully manifest.
However, as long as this era catches up even slightly with their pace, their promotion to Zero Level to open the information age will be nothing more than a matter of course.
Their Transformation after becoming Sacred Relics was still not over.
The Silver Law quietly faded, and the Golden Law, which can govern Heaven, Earth, and Humans, just like when it linked the Thirteen Crystal Skulls in the past, automatically plugged them into the first layer of the seven-layer Law Network.
Buzz—!
An illusory brain as large as a basketball court floated up from within the machines and fused perfectly with the first layer of the Law Net.
Byron’s eyes blazed with light, and he instantly read out the two great abilities of this Sacred Relic.
