A Hospital in Another World?-Chapter 781: Tier-One Magic: Lightning Shield! You Research, I Pick Up the Pieces

Chapter 781: Tier-One Magic: Lightning Shield! You Research, I Pick Up the Pieces

Garrett was eager to negotiate a discount with Black Crow Swamp. However, when he cautiously asked Archmage Foster, "So, how do we describe our project to them..."

Archmage Foster immediately retreated and stated, "Thank you, but no. Thunder Horn can afford this."

Projects like this couldn’t be publicly disclosed. Protective suits for electrical defense were benefits for their own people; giving them to those outside the lightning branch would weaken their combat strength.

Until they found its weaknesses and developed targeted attack methods, at least until they devised specific detection methods, the production method of the protective suits, or even their existence, should be kept secret.

Garrett: "..."

But to be fair, the Faraday cage, or rather, a miniature version of it, he had demonstrated to the Enchantment Department more than a year ago. It could be used to weaken the detection of brainwaves.

As for when they would extend the Faraday cage to the whole body, discovering it could actually prevent electrical attacks and resist electric magic, Garrett had no idea...

When he explained the situation to Archmage Foster, this distinguished archmage, well, perhaps he shouldn’t be called "distinguished" in front of Garrett, as he was Garrett’s senior apprentice-brother—immediately deflated and said:

"So we need to collaborate with the Enchantment Department? Or..."

Garrett shrugged. He had no clue about factional policies and absolutely wouldn’t interfere. Such matters should be discussed by Archmage Foster and his senior sister.

Maybe they even needed to consult the master?

As for Garrett himself, he squatted aside, watching a group of lightning mages continuously repair that big white suit, repeatedly throwing lightning at it:

"Zap!"

Hmm, a tier-one Electric Claw spell, output power slightly high, probably... around 220 joules, did not penetrate the shielded suit.

"Zap!"

Still a tier-one Electric Claw, output power slightly lower, around 180~190 joules. This one also didn’t penetrate the suit, flowed into the ground, absorbed by something... maybe a magic array or magic crystal?

"Zap!"

A Ring of Shock attack. The suit was penetrated, a lightning bolt passed through the zombie body, striking the opposite side. Garrett spread his mental power, enveloping the zombie, quickly recording:

Estimated output power over 800 joules... muscle part carbonized, mental probe shows carbonization depth over 3 cm... a flower-shaped injury along the current path...

Blood vessels, well, zombies have no blood flow, barely any liquid, so no vascular wall damage, no rupture or embolism. As for common liquid-filled organs like intestines and lungs, naturally, there’s no damage.

As for the heart, unfortunately, a heart that has stopped beating shows damage similar to ordinary muscle, no additional myocardial electrical disturbances observed.

"By the way, what level is this zombie?"

"Level two." Someone quickly checked the records and answered:

"Level two warrior, no special energy attributes." Meaning, not a warrior trained in a specific power direction, nor blessed by divine favor...

Conclusion, a level two warrior cannot withstand a tier-two Ring of Shock attack. Using such high-intensity energy for cardiac defibrillation is out of the question.

"This zombie is too damaged! Replace it! Get a level three one!"

Garrett was having a great time squatting in his senior sister’s lab. Of course, his main task was to gather data whenever the shielded suit was breached, racing against time to record zombie damage. Occasionally, he also offered suggestions:

"Why not try buying these copper wires? Purchased copper wires have uniform diameter and resistance, making it easier to create shielded suits?"

"Pay attention to insulation! Flame retardancy! Copper wires get very hot when current passes through, you don’t want the suit to catch fire, do you?"

"Or... use a generator instead of manual power generation, this would make test results more stable? Using magic by different people yields different control effects and inconsistent results..."

This last suggestion was unanimously agreed upon by the mages...

Ever since Garrett introduced generators, Thunder Horn found the corresponding power levels between generators and electric magic. They made a manual detailing how many turns of the coil, the size of the magnet, and the speed of rotation, roughly equivalent to what level of magic.

Of course, for tier-four and above magic, only powerful water-driven generators by rivers or waterfalls could compare. But for tier-three electric magic, the generators in the mage tower could already substitute!

Facts proved, once generators standardized voltage, the development of shielded suits advanced rapidly.

Within three days, the mages successfully tested the shielded suits that could resist tier-one Electric Claw, tier-two Ring of Shock, and tier-three Lightning Beam spells. Each required a certain number of copper wires, drawn to specific thinness, connected in specific ways, with a certain amount of flame-retardant fiber added...

Garrett felt both gratified and pained. The completion of shielded suit tests meant fewer opportunities for him to pick up data. His tests weren’t done, and the data wasn’t enough yet!

Then he heard a mage, who was tired of drawing, twisting, and connecting copper wires, slap his forehead and provide another idea:

"Or... we could try creating a spell to transform copper wires and glass or asbestos fibers into shielded suits?"

"Yeah!"

"Makes sense!"

"Let’s try it!"

Using small amounts of materials and amplifying them through magic to achieve large-scale effects was a common mage practice. For example, Feather Fall uses a single feather to make people float gently like they have wings;

Grease uses a small piece of pigskin or tallow to cover a solid surface with a slick layer of grease;

The representative of mage power, the famous Fireball spell, uses a bat guano and sulfur pellet as casting material. Garrett personally experimented and found substituting the material with explosives greatly enhanced the spell’s power...

Following this principle, using a small piece of copper wire, a small piece of copper, or a bit of asbestos or glass fiber as casting materials could create shielded suits?

"Come on, let’s try!"

"Let’s try!"

Tier-One Magic: [Lightning Shield]. Protection school. Negates tier-two and below electric damage, greatly reduces tier-three electric damage.

Casting materials: a small piece of copper foil, a piece of asbestos fiber, or a small piece of glass.

Clearly, the success rate of the new spell was closely related to the mage’s mental power and control. The newly completed shielded suits immediately saw their shielding success rate drop from 100% to less than 20%...

Only Garrett was overjoyed. High failure rates were good for him, the more failures, the more data he collected!

He silently squatted in the lab, from level two zombies all the way to level eight zombies. The higher the level, the softer and more flexible the zombie bodies, closer to normal humans, with a higher probability of intact internal tissues.

Soft tissues around bones, joints, internal organs, the higher the level, the better preserved. The damage also increasingly resembled real-life scenarios. Go ahead, you research, I pick up the pieces!

"By the way, Mage Nordmark, we also have a comparison chart of damage endured by zombies and living people, would you like it?"