I Created Scientific Magic-Chapter 245 - 232: The Broken Faraday Cage (Please Subscribe)
Chapter 245: Chapter 232: The Broken Faraday Cage (Please Subscribe)
Under the ravages of Thunder Magic, the meeting hall had become a pile of ruins, with a massive whirlpool of thunder constantly vomiting ferocious lightning at its center, its formidable power causing the entire area to collapse.
Even though Fula and the others reacted swiftly, they were not completely spared from harm; the violent force instantly flung those closest to it outwards.
“This is the power of Thunder Magic!” Fula wiped the fresh blood from the corner of her mouth, her face filled with admiration.
“He’s definitely dead, he’s definitely dead…” a male Wizard shouted excitedly, as under such an immense force, not only a commoner without Magic would face certain death— even a Grand Wizard caught in it would have no other fate!
So-called Faraday cages would only turn to dust under such thunder…
“Cough cough…” Releasing a sixth-ring spell was a tremendous burden for Anthony; his face was deathly pale, and his eyes stared intently at the flickering whirlpool of thunder, as if trying to penetrate the barrier of lightning to glimpse the interior situation.
This Magic was originally his trump card against Cardinal Losak, yet now it was unleashed!
He was desperate to shatter this so-called bane of Thunder Magic, to vindicate the results of his years of effort!
Tens of seconds later, the whirlpool of thunder began to fade, yet to everyone’s despair, the copper cage, though slightly twisted from the falling debris, still stood erect amidst the collapsed ruins.
Laud inside the Faraday cage was dizzied by the violent impact, clearly having not yet recovered from the lightning column that nearly engulfed the entire area just before.
“I’m actually still alive!”
Laud said in a daze, just as astonished as Fula and the others; at the instant the thunder struck, he thought he was certainly a goner, yet the reality once again attested to the strength of the Faraday cage.
Even after such a powerful baptism of Thunder Magic, he was unharmed.
It was not until that moment that Laud realized, in an effort to maintain his balance, he had unconsciously grabbed onto the edge of the copper wires, and while spurts of electric sparks emerged, he was like someone unaffected by it.
For a moment, Laud even felt the illusion that he had mastered Thunder!
Inside the meeting hall, silence reigned as hundreds of Wizards stared at Laud in the copper cage, surrounded by currents of electricity, looking like a god of thunder, disbelief filling their eyes.
“He’s actually still alive?” “Impossible, that’s a sixth-ring Magic!”
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Fula collapsed to the ground, her mind flashing back to her colleagues who had paid with their lives in the quest to study and master Thunder Magic.
If this so-called bane of Thunder truly existed, what meaning was there in their sacrifices and all the pain she had endured?
“Why?” Anthony’s body shook violently, and within his perception, the structure of the entire Faraday cage couldn’t be clearer; there was no Life Magic cast inside it—it was just an ordinary cage, yet it had blocked his most powerful Thunder Magic.
“Bane of thunder…” Anthony murmured softly, seeming to age a decade, as the Thunder Magic he had devoted half his life to researching proved to have such a fatal flaw!
Normally, it would be impossible for enemies to bring a cage into battle, but for a great wizard of equal rank, creating a “Faraday Cage” with magic is not a difficult task as long as one knows the method.
Under the stares of everyone either in shock, fear, or hysteria, Laud swallowed hard, fearing that the people, in a fit of pique, might kill him.
“Can you tell me why this Faraday Cage can protect against lightning?” Anthony, staring at Laud caged in copper, asked almost beseechingly.
“Lord Lynn said that it has to do with the elimination of electrical potential difference… Beyond that, I’m not sure,” said Laud cautiously.
Anthony frowned in thought about what exactly this electrical potential difference was, when suddenly a voice rang out in the conference hall.
“The principle is actually quite simple, because the electric current always flows from a higher potential to a lower one. For instance, if a person standing on the ground is struck by Thunder Magic, the body becomes a temporary conductor, channeling the current to the ground.”
“However, inside the Faraday Cage, there is an equipotential space; the electrical potential at every point on the shell is the same. Since there’s no potential difference, naturally, no current will flow through the body.”
As the voice sounded, a figure appeared out of thin air inside the Faraday Cage, a very young wizard wearing a long green robe that shimmered with the light of magic power.
“You are Lynn?!” Anthony, looking at the young wizard who had suddenly appeared before him, quickly determined that this wasn’t his real body but a Magic Projection.
“Indeed.” Lynn nodded.
Anthony didn’t care how the projection had arrived, he pondered the implications of Lynn’s words. Although the terms “electrical potential difference,” “equipotential,” and such were new and unheard of, they weren’t completely incomprehensible.
“Moreover, copper is a very good conductor. Under the influence of an external electric field, electrons within the conductor will move to its surface, creating an opposing electric field of equal magnitude, thus canceling out the internal and external electric fields. I call it electrostatic shielding.” Lynn said with a smile. “You can think of the Faraday Cage as using the power of lightning to withstand the lightning!”
“I see…” Anthony’s mind trembled.
Indeed, only the power of thunder could counteract thunder…
“Then how can one break through this Faraday Cage?” Anthony asked eagerly but then paused, since that was obviously the most important secret.
After Lynn explained the principle of the Faraday Cage, Anthony couldn’t think of any way to break through this almost perfect “Thunder Nemesis,” unless one used a force other than Thunder Magic.
“Where there’s electricity, there’s magnetism. When an electric current passes through a copper coil, it will generate a magnetic field. So why don’t you try a different approach, using magnetism?” Lynn said, intrigued.
Anthony’s eyes lit up as he closed them and tried to sense it; the Magic Mimicry of the electric current was conducting along the copper wire, and a mysterious force was radiating outward—that was the magnetic field!
Suddenly, Anthony’s eyes snapped open, his right hand clenched, and an unpleasant, hoarse rumble sounded. The Faraday Cage, which still stood firm under the tens of millions of volts of high-voltage electric current, began to bend and twist inwards…
“Enough, enough!” Laud yelled in terror. The robust Faraday Cage was no longer his protective deity; instead, it had become a deadly prison.
