Chapter 664 Five Sets of Data <TOC> Chapter 666 Soul Cage
Translator: SumTLMan
Although it was an imperfect beginning, it allowed Angel to gain a basic understanding of the Eye of Nalda. The unique appraisal mechanism and algorithm of the Eye of Nalda were quite different from Angel’s previous imagination of this trick. He originally thought that the appraisal result would be unique, but he didn’t expect that different branches would appear in the appraisal results.
This was probably because his knowledge was too narrow, resulting in too many variables in the final outcome.
With a slight sense of regret, Angel put away the Prelude of Reincarnation.
He originally wanted to use the Eye of Nalda to appraise the function of the White Light Bullet, but he didn’t expect the final result to be like this. Those five sets of different data effects might not be the real answers in the end.
To truly understand the function of the White Light Bullet, further experiments were necessary.
However, this experiment required keeping one or more ghost samples. In other words, there were two prerequisites for Angel to conduct this experiment: not only to capture the ghost but also to have a place where the ghost could be confined.
The place to confine the ghost was not difficult, as the Cathedral of the Dead he had crafted last time could be slightly modified to confine the ghost. But capturing the ghost was a difficult task. It was easy for him to eliminate the ghost using the Prelude of Reincarnation, but capturing them without using the Prelude would be very challenging.
In a one-on-one fight, Angel might not be defeated by a ghost, but defeating a ghost would not be an easy task either.
It seemed that not only did he need to craft a place to confine a ghost, but he also needed to craft a weapon that could restrain the ghost without killing them. Angel pinched his brow with a bit of distress, deciding to put this matter aside for now and focus on familiarizing himself with the Eye of Nalda.
After putting away the Prelude of Reincarnation, Angel continued to build the “server” in his mind space.
With the first successful construction, the second construction also followed naturally. Although it still took a long time, the final result was successful.
This time, Angel let the “server” operate without choosing items of hellish difficulty, and began appraising single items, such as mundane objects.
Angel found that when appraising mundane objects, the server’s computation was low, and even if he appraised more than a dozen mundane objects at once, the trick model did not show signs of collapsing.
However, during the appraisal of mundane objects, Angel discovered some interesting things.
For example, the majority of mundane objects were only appraised for their materials, but if a mundane object was an impressive piece of art to Angel himself, the appraisal would include some artistic appreciation.
However, this kind of artistic appreciation was still limited by Angel’s knowledge. Some mundane objects could not be appraised satisfactorily with Angel’s artistic ability.
Angel did not expect that he would stumble even in the appraisal of mundane objects.
So, when he began to appraise alchemical items, Angel felt a little apprehensive.
Fortunately, Angel appraised several of his alchemical works in a row, almost instantly giving accurate appraisal results without any artistic appreciation. This made Angel unsure whether to breathe a sigh of relief or a sigh of disappointment.
After appraising ten non-entry level alchemical works in a row, when he finished appraising the katana crafted by David, the illusion model in his mental space finally showed signs of collapsing and dissipating.
Angel made a rough calculation: a “server’s” calculation limit can appraise more than 30 ordinary items, as well as 11 non-entry level alchemical works.
Angel didn’t know how good this level was, so he took out two alchemy notebooks from his bracelet.
One was an alchemy notebook from Promi, and the other was Midora’s alchemy notebook.
Angel opened their notebooks and found some records of them learning the Eye of Nalda. Promi’s first appraisal only appraised 17 ordinary items before the illusion model collapsed; Midora appraised 50 ordinary items, 7 non-entry level alchemical works, and even 1 entry-level alchemical work.
From the data, Angel surpassed Promi but was far inferior to Midora.
Midora was able to construct such a powerful Eye of Nalda illusion model for the first time… Angel couldn’t help but feel in his heart that it was no wonder he was the Alchemy Master of Mechanical City. His talent and skills were far beyond those of ordinary alchemists from the very beginning.
However, this appraisal quantity is just a horizontal comparison. In a vertical comparison, Angel might not necessarily be better than Promi.
Because if he remembered correctly, Promi had already listed the Eye of Nalda As a spell position illusion. When appraising, as long as there is magic power, the server will continue to run and never dissipate.
In the following days, Angel immersed himself in the appraisal of the Eye of Nalda.
His daily routine was simple, either appraising, meditating, or deepening his knowledge base. This kind of life, though seemingly dull, brought him substantial growth every day, so Angel felt very fulfilled.
During this period, Angel not only experimented with all 27 arrangements but also found the most suitable arrangement for his mental space. This made him the most comfortable and fastest when constructing illusion models.
Currently, the time it took him to construct an illusion model was reduced to a minute and a half. Although still slow, with the help of the Universal Axis, he had never made a mistake while constructing illusion models and could achieve a 100% construction success rate. If it were other alchemists, the failure rate of constructing such a large and complex illusion model would be more than 50%.
Although the success rate of constructing illusion models reached 100%, there was still a significant margin of error when appraising items.
After several days of experimentation, Angel now knows that the identification results of an item, as long as it contains materials that are not fully understood or not recognized by Angel, and alchemical reactions that are not understood, the final result may appear like when identifying the Prelude of Reincarnation, multiple sets of data.
When multiple sets of data appear, it requires Angel to comprehend them and then extract the key content with obvious overlaps from each set of data to make true or false judgments.
Angel can now truly understand the Eye of Nalda. To some extent, the Eye of Nalda not only tests one’s knowledge but also tests their comprehension and decisiveness.
No wonder the Eye of Nalda is a trick that alchemists can never let go of, accompanying an alchemist throughout their life.
Because it is not just a trick but also a standard for self-awareness.
While it identifies other objects, it also identifies oneself.
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Mid-month of the Month of Flowing Fire.
The wall clock, the hour hand pointing at ten in the morning.
The sky was clear, cloudless and rainless. Sunlight penetrated through the leaves and shone into Angel’s bedroom, casting patches of mottled golden fragments on the desk.
Angel sat at the desk, lazily basking in the sunlight while contentedly taking a sip of milk. – The milk was sent by Butler Goode. Angel didn’t have any specific requirements for regular meals, but for desserts and milk, Butler Goode delivered them almost every day.
Accompanied by the slightly astringent taste of milk in his mouth, Angel happily took a diamond-shaped crystal from his bracelet.
It was the diamond-shaped crystal that Little Spot had given him.
Taking advantage of the beautiful time and good mood, Angel decided to identify the diamond-shaped crystal for the first time today.
Taking a deep breath.
Angel closed his eyes, cleared the cluttered thoughts in his mind, and then put away his lazy expression, solemnly constructing the Eye of Nalda’s trick model.
After a while, Angel opened his eyes, and the azure blue pupils were filled with flowing colors, shimmering with a strange brilliance.
In his vision, lines of data began to emerge from the diamond-shaped crystal.
At this first glance, Angel’s brow furrowed because there were many question marks in this data. Even the material composition of the diamond-shaped crystal had several question marks.
After this period of experience, Angel is well aware of the meaning represented by these question marks – variables.
Once variables appear, the final appraisal result will definitely become “multiple sets of data.” If there are too many variables, there might not even be any data generated in the end.
When “multiple sets of data” appear, Angel can still use the method of “extracting the commonality, finding the common denominator” to roughly find out some of the appraisal results, just like the “Prelude of Reincarnation,” which succeeded halfway… or rather, failed halfway.
But if there is no data at all, it means that this appraisal has definitely failed, and there is only one way left: to continue accumulating knowledge.
Looking at the rows of question marks appearing, can the Nalda Algorithm really predict data with so many variables?
Angel frowned, waiting for the final calculation result.
When the result came out, Angel’s mind suddenly felt dizzy… The Nalda Algorithm’s calculation platform is actually the brain, but the vast majority of computing power relies on servers, and the brain only takes on a very small part of the computation.
The result of Angel’s calculation this time caused discomfort even in his brain, which is enough to show that the calculation has been overclocked.
After recovering slightly, Angel began to examine the results imprinted in his mind.
Indeed, Angel thought that there would be no data this time due to too many variables. However, to his surprise, the final data still came out.
But there are six sets of data, and Angel found that these six sets of data seem to have significant differences.
Those different parts may contain the correct answer, but to be cautious, Angel temporarily uses “not to be trusted” as the audit standard. He directly extracts the same parts of these six sets of data because the same parts must be correct.
After extracting these same parts of the data, Angel looked carefully. After a while, his pupils suddenly shrank.
Is it really like this?!