I Created Scientific Magic

"If you find the situation impossible, retreat as quickly as you can—your safety is equally important. Do you understand?" Lynn continued to instruct.

"Don't worry, I'll make sure the mission is accomplished!" Lydia said with a grin, giving a military salute.

Lynn shook his head and said no more, handing over the three alchemy constructs he had made to the halfling girl and explaining their effects one by one.

Since it is impossible to connect to the magical network outside the domain, Lydia, who originally relied on the magical network to deploy detection techniques, would lose the ability to locate enemies in the high skies.

However, these alchemy constructs could replace the function of the magical network and cast specific spells; one of them was even meant to help Lydia locate Rafael and the others in the foreign realm.

Lydia pocketed the three alchemy constructs, clarified how they worked, and then lowered the wind protection canopy of the combat aircraft, ready to set off.

The closed Space-Time Gate was now open, its diameter growing larger and larger, soon exceeding forty meters. A vast amount of magic power surged out from the undulating space-time node, along with a small amount of sand and stones that were sucked in as well.

Lydia hit the ignition switch on the fighter's thruster and shouted loudly,

"Charge!"

A long tail flame burst from the massive exhaust behind, propelling the fighter towards the swirling Space-Time Gate. Two airships also shakily floated into the gate beside it.

"I hope everything goes smoothly," Sanchez murmured, watching the airships disappear from view with a quiet sigh.

Once inside the Space-Time Gate, contact between the two worlds was severed; all they could do now was wait.

Lynn quickly shifted his gaze and spoke up to interrupt, "Let's go, take me to see the new experimental lab!"

There were other people to watch over this place; two more or two fewer wouldn't make a difference. Besides, there was no telling how long Lydia's rescue mission would take—if it was one hour there, it would mean seven full hours here.

This time couldn't be wasted!

Sanchez nodded and led Lynn towards the experimental lab situated outside the valley, not too far from the fortress.

It was positioned there to facilitate personnel movement, and having the laboratory near also made it convenient to monitor the Space-Time Gate.

Five minutes later, the two men stepped into the vast interior of the experimental lab. As seen from outside, the lab was quite spartan and spacious, but the massive ring-shaped device at the center immediately drew Sanchez's attention.

It was a lengthy tube, nearly too long to see the end of, surrounded by loops of rings crafted from mithril extending as far as the eye could see. Upon closer inspection, each ring was etched with densely packed alchemy runes.

"How is it? Can this thing operate now?" Lynn asked a group of alchemists who were busily at work.

"As per your instructions, the Electromagnetic Drive Array has been set up, though we've yet to conduct any experiments," replied the lead alchemist.

"Is this thing used for launching an electromagnetic cannon?" Sanchez asked curiously.

In his memory, the primary use of an Electromagnetic Drive Array was to launch electromagnetic weapons.

After multiple improvements by several great Wizards at the Magic Research Institute, the Council's latest railguns could easily achieve speeds over fifteen times the speed of sound, boasting terrifying destructive power. They could penetrate steel plates thicker than half a meter and reduce flesh to ashes.

Yet, even with such power, the rails used for launching were merely about seven meters long, but this time, Lynn had set up an Electromagnetic Acceleration device spanning several kilometers. The speed and destructive power of the projectile it could launch were unimaginably fearsome.

Lynn shook his head with amusement and then proceeded to explain. "This is an electromagnetic cyclotron, it's used to accelerate particles!"

"Accelerate particles?" Sanchez frowned, puzzled.

"Correct!" Lynn nodded. "Our current understanding of the internal structure of atoms relies merely on speculation and the results of alpha scattering experiments. To verify whether these conclusions are correct, there's a straightforward method—shatter them and see what is really inside!"

"However, atoms repel each other because they both carry negative charges, so they repel each other when they get close. To overcome this repulsion between atoms, extremely high speeds are necessary to make them successfully collide."

Of course, his real purpose was not to study the atomic structure, but to search for antimatter!

Using high-speed particles to smash elements open and examine their internal structures... Lynn's ingenious ideas left Sanchez tongue-tied, yet they seemed somewhat plausible.

Lynn didn't waste any words and immediately unfolded his domain. Since the construction time for the experimental site was too short, they hadn't even managed to create a vacuum tube, so magic would have to replace some of the functions of the equipment.

A group of alchemists immediately got to work, using magic power to control a stream of particles into the accelerator's track.

Just a second later, Lynn activated the switch with the Mage's Hand. Under the powerful electromagnetic force, the particle stream started to whirl around the kilometers-long track at breakneck speed.

With every half-circle they traversed, their velocity increased by a thousand kilometers per second. The increasing speed slightly deviated the particle stream from its track, its path resembling a vortex spiraling outward, becoming faster and faster.

At such speeds, there was a high probability that a hit would shatter a nucleus!

Lynn concentrated all his attention on the particle stream, but such rapid speed already far exceeded the limits of his perceptual ability. Even with full concentration, he could only detect a faint trace when the particle stream passed by.

After fifty laps, the particle stream had exceeded speeds of thirty thousand kilometers per second, one-tenth the speed of light. This was the near-limit speed within their capabilities.

The particle stream successfully reached the target track, and in one hundred-thousandth of a second, they crossed paths at an incredibly high speed!

Lynn's heart tightened momentarily, then he shook his head in disappointment. "Unfortunately, it missed."

"Let's try again, this time with double the particle stream!" Lynn looked at the alchemists and continued to instruct.

The alchemists immediately complied, doubling the number of particles in the stream to four thousand. Despite this, hitting the target at high speed still required some luck since they both were too small!

Fortunately, for wizards, capturing atoms was not too difficult a task; they had plenty of material to experiment with.

Lynn was very patient. Four hours and nearly thirty failed attempts did not shake his determination.

However, for Sanchez and the others who were already uncertain, it became somewhat agonizing to wonder whether the method of shattering atoms by collision was truly feasible.

At that moment, Lynn's expression suddenly changed, and he rapidly concentrated his domain on the collision point.

Surprise etched deeply across Sanchez's face, too. His perceptual abilities were far weaker than Lynn's, but he used some tricks, focusing his attention on the few targets.

Now, one of those targets had vanished from his perception.

The alchemists present also closely monitored the collision point. Even though microscopic particles were impossible to see with the naked eye, and even legendary wizards struggled to detect them, Lynn had specifically arranged a cloud chamber around the point of impact!

As with the initial monitoring of alpha radiation particles, exploding high-speed particles entered the dense water vapor, pulling out clear traces of mist… It was as if a flower of fog bloomed out of the void.