A brand new tower-shaped building stands on the high ground on the west side of Winter Fort. The snow-capped mountains in the north that have been transformed for years have been rolling curtains, turning into the background of the tower.

The tower is made of steel and cement, with a hexagonal base and simple straight lines. The misty streaming light wanders between the rune lines and the magic metal at the bottom of the tower, as if it has a surging vitality, and a huge scale, supporting device with mechanical structure and a crystal array formed by plural crystals are fixed on the top of the tower. In the cold wind in the extreme north, a translucent magic shield isolates the erosion of wind and frost, and the crystal array on the top of the tower constantly fine-tunes its own structure and angle within the shield.

It has not yet started, and the crystal array is further adapting to the magical environment near Winter Fortress.

In a gust of wind and snow, Victoria and several high-level mages slowly landed from the air and came to the high ground that was closely protected by several military towers and a circle of walls. She raised her head and saw the tower shining brightly in her sight, piercing the sky like a sharp sword, and a smile couldn't help but appear in her eyes.

This is probably the most beautiful one among all the magic net main hubs in the entire empire - the white color scheme and simple and powerful lines may look simple, but it perfectly matches the surrounding environment. When designing this tower, Victoria even personally participated in some steps, which made the style of the main hub in the North to a certain extent synchronize with the same white Winter Fort next to it. Now, she is very satisfied with the posture of the tower in the end.

And the connection between this tower and Winter Fort is more than that.

Below this high ground next to the main building of the castle, in a series of magic net relay devices extending along the mountain, there is a surging magic power flowing day and night - this main hub is connected with the magic power of Winter Castle.

The Wilder family in the North has been the most outstanding magic family in this country for hundreds of years. Winter Castle has accumulated the family's heritage for centuries. Victoria has not wasted the ready-made and excellent magic foundation here. After carefully studying the knowledge of rune logic and magic technology, she and technical consultants from the imperial capital jointly designed a huge system. This system uses magic nets as the "base" to cover the magic structure of Winter Castle itself and the entire urban area around the castle. At the same time, it solves the problems of urban energy supply, magic net hub energy supply, strengthening the stability of the magic net and upgrading the castle's own facilities.

Now, the system has been operating. It gathers surging and stable energy and injects it into the tower in front of Victoria. Soon, it will further stabilize through the crystal array on the top of the tower, broadcast the energy after adjustment to the entire area, and establish a stable connection with the magic network hub in other nearby towns.

"After completing the last stage of stress test, send the news to the imperial capital," the Duke of the Duchess restrained his expression and said to the people around him lightly, "You can start preparing for the final connection to the grid."

The mage beside him immediately took the order to leave, and Victoria looked at the tower quietly for a moment, then lowered her head and chanted softly: "The magic goddess Milmina... May you watch all this..."

In fact, she rarely prayed to the goddess of magic. After learning a lot of truth about gods in recent years, and even witnessing two "divine disasters", she has reduced the number of times she mentioned the name "Milmina". But in the final analysis, she is still a mage. Some things that are rooted in habits are not so easy to change. Even if it is just out of a simple spiritual sustenance, she maintains respect for the legendary "source of all things" and "Magic Lord".

The prayer received no response, but he could feel a vague attention and psychological response - as expected and reasonable.

...

Accompanied by the slight buzzing sound and the clicking of the mechanical device, a document was slowly spit out from the printing device beside the desk. Gao Wen took the document casually and took a look, and couldn't help but smile on his face.

"Byron's contact with the Grey Elves and Dwarf representatives in White Feather Port was very smooth. The first flight of Curiosity achieved a more than expected success," he said with a smile to Hetty, who was standing aside and just reported his work. "It seems that the dwarves living in the extreme western part of the mainland are very interested in Cecil's foreign trade machinery and magic technology - they may offer very high prices."

"Really? Ah... I've been waiting for this good news for several days," Hurtie blinked, and his tone became very happy. "The dwarves have always been short of gold, silver and magic materials, but the bow-shaped mountains facing the inland of the Dwarves have long affected their trade with the countries of the mainland. If the sea trade route from North Port to Forge City can be opened, although the distance seems a little farther, the cost is definitely countless times more cost-effective than land transportation."

"I have heard that the Dwarf Kingdom has rich minerals. To be honest, most of the reason I restarted the Northern Continental Route was to open a trade route with the dwarves - it was too difficult to establish a trade line through the borders of the Dwarf Kingdom and the Ogure Tribe's Against a series of high mountains and ridges," Gao Wen said with a smile, with undisguised joy and relaxation on his face. "That's good... Although the Curiosity only opened the route from Beigang to Baiyu Port this time, this is at least a good start, which shows that our entire plan is feasible."

While speaking, he outlined a map of the coastline in the northwest part of the mainland in his mind, and corresponded to the navigation data sent back by "Curiosity" with the details on the map.

He could clearly "see" the locations of Beigang and Baiyu Port, and also see the bow-shaped mountains of the Dwarf Kingdom and several natural ports facing the sea. To be honest, for the gray elves who have opened up land trade routes and are adjacent to the Cecil Empire, the line from Baiyu Port to Beigang is not very meaningful, but as long as the route continues to extend and the merchant ships connect Baiyu Port and Forge City, the gray elves merchants will immediately gain huge benefits from it - that very short maritime trade route is definitely easier than crossing the bow-shaped mountains.

I believe that the keen Ms. Wenna Baizhi can also see this, otherwise she would not have been so proactive in cooperating with the Cecil Empire's route restart plan and agreed to open the only seaport port in Momlin to ships in North Port.

With the further support of the Gray Elf, his route restart plan will undoubtedly become smoother...

At this moment, the buzzing sound of the machine and the clicking sound of the printing device suddenly sounded again, interrupting Gao Wen's thinking.

He looked at the printing device connected to the Magic Net terminal in surprise and saw another document slowly spit out from the outlet - on the half-page of paper that had been exposed, he could see the snowflake emblem representing the Wilder family.

The paper fell into the tray, Gao Wen reached out to pick it up, while Hetty, who was beside him, looked curiously: "Where is the report?"

Documents that can be directly transmitted to this study are usually very unusual, and two reports are rarely sent in such a short time.

At this time, Gao Wen had already glanced at the main part of the document. The short words were not much space, but the content was full of big news.

"The main hub in the North is ready, one day ahead of the expected one!" he said with great pleasure, even happier than when he received the good news from Byron. "The report from Victoria - the hub has completed all acceptance processes and final stress tests, and can now be incorporated into the backbone network at any time - just wait for the order of the imperial capital."

Herty suddenly opened her eyes wide. She also waited for this news for a long time, especially recently, as the expected acceptance date approaches, her expectations are increasing day by day. As one of the people who have watched the development of magic technology, she is particularly clear about what it means to connect the magic network in the entire empire. After staying for less than a second, she showed an extremely happy expression: "Great! We have finally waited for this day!"

"How is the preparation?" Gao Wen asked quickly.

"The preparations for all departments were completed the day before yesterday, and most of the staff were on standby at this moment. We have been waiting for news from the north," Hetty said immediately. "If you start to enter the grid connection preparation process now, the first main hub will be officially launched in about four hours - starting from the hub of Shilin City."

"Then go," Gowen nodded to Hetty, "The next few hours will be a big deal."

This is definitely a big deal, and he is extremely sure of it in his heart - just like the launch of the first magic net prototype, like Ansu's civil war, like the establishment of the empire, what will happen in the next few hours will be enough to leave a mark on the times, and he can even foresee that this will be undisputedly printed on the textbooks and test papers of the students' future days, including history classes, politics classes, and even magic technology classes.

You must memorize the liberal arts and science must be a compulsory course.

Thinking of this, Gao Wen couldn't help but pull the corners of his mouth, revealing a strange expression.

The ancestor suddenly showed a strange smile. The eldest princess of the empire was a little confused about this, but soon Hetty threw the doubts in his heart behind his head. At such a happy moment, the ancestor must have had a tide of heart, and it was reasonable to have a more complicated smile.

She explained to herself, then turned around and left Gao Wen's study. She came to the corridor, looked at the neatly tidy magic crystal lamps on both sides of the corridor, let out a gentle breath, then lowered her head, put her hands on her chest and made a short prayer that she had not made for a long time: "Magic goddess Milmina...will you witness everything..."

The prayer received no response, but he could feel a vague attention and psychological response - as expected and reasonable.

...

In a brand new classroom at Imperial College, senior magic students were sitting neatly behind desks, listening to the new "Neural Network Concept Course" added this semester.

Elivan, wearing a magic uniform, was staring at the direction of the podium intently, while beside him, a big boy with short brown hair and a few freckles on his face was lowering his head and writing quickly.

"Storm," Elivin couldn't help but touch his new classmate, and whispered, "Don't just take notes - the teacher is talking about key theoretical knowledge."

The big boy named Storm seemed to be startled, and the tip of the pen left a crooked ink mark on the paper. He looked up and looked at Elivan quickly, with a nervous and cowardly appearance on his face: "I... OK, OK..."

Seeing the other party's reaction, Elivin wanted to say another word, but the next second, a thunderous version of the sound suddenly came from the direction of the podium: "Don't talk in class! Mr. Elivin Franklin!"

This loud voice rolled through the classroom like a storm, and all the students were shocked in an instant. Elevin Franklin even sweated: Even if he was the son of the duke, he would be extremely nervous when facing this loud voice. In fact, even in the entire Imperial Academy, no student was not afraid of this loud voice.

He immediately sat upright, made a gesture that he had realized the wrong one, and carefully glanced at the figure on the podium.

A short middle-aged man with a stature and erect hair was standing there. He floated in the air, and there was a magic net projection crystal at the corresponding position under his feet, making a very slight buzzing sound.

After Magnan finished training the student, he shook his head, turned around and looked at the diagram he had just outlined in the air, and was about to continue the next lesson: "Okay, everyone is energetic, let's continue in the next part, how to ensure that it will not interfere with each other after multiple brain wave signals are sent to a node at the same time. You all listen carefully, because the pioneers who summarized this part of knowledge have spent ten years to solve this problem, and you lucky guys now only need less than half a class! First of all..."

Magnan's voice was halfway through, and suddenly stopped.

In the short silence, the students inevitably had a little commotion, and Elivan heard someone whispering behind him:

"Why did Mr. Magnan suddenly stop talking?"

"Will Ms. Selena turn off the speaker again..."

"Shh-Ms. Selena might be watching in the classroom."

"Quiet!!" Suddenly, Magnan's loud voice exploded again. He glared at the class and waved his hand. "Okay, today's course seems to be over early. There is a task on the neural network. I want to turn my attention to other work. Leave the rest of this class until next time."

Then he added with a loud voice: "But don't think about being lazy - I have prepared the test papers for the previous part of the courses for you! A teaching assistant will be sent here later, and the remaining half of the class and the next self-study class will be left here to write the papers!"
Chapter completed!