Chapter 179: Augmented Reality – Part 1

Chapter 179: Augmented Reality – Part 1

While the helmet is a curious thing, it's still barely usable due to the headache and heavy mana drain, so Lina retreats back to our mansion to work on it. Improving her understanding of the fourth dimension would help, but first, she wants to polish the enchantment a bit.

She doesn't need to take the helmet with her since she's going to make another one, so I play around with it while the rest of the girls return to our guest mansion. I still have no idea how Lina did the filtering and splitting of light; it just works. I assume the heavy MP cost means that it shouldn't work, but we're using enough mana that the laws of reality just bend over and take it up the ass while crying tears of blood.

That might make it sound like the laws are weak and easily fucked, but Lina needed a total of thirty free plus fifteen trained points in [General Enchanting] and twenty-six in [Space Magic] to achieve this. It isn't something a beginner could ever make.

But now I'm wondering how Lina's enchantment could actually work while obeying physics. I mean, the rules of reality are merely a suggestion in the face of overwhelming amounts of mana, so much so that a mana storm is an extremely destructive thing that just fucks up anything it touches, but the more compliant with physics a spell is, the less mana it costs, so this train of thought should help Lina.

But I have no idea where to even start, so... yeah...

Alcander returns the helmet to Jarn and promptly drinks an MP potion. He's certainly motivated, so I might as well hear his thoughts.

"What do you think of the enchantment, Sir Alcander?" I curiously question.

The tall imperial immediately beams in excitement, a rare sight since he's a rather pompous man.

"What a marvelous thing! I can't believe it produces such a clear image, even though it was Her Highness Lina's first try!" he exclaims while gesticulating with his arms, making his long robes sway.

I reflexively smile at his enthusiasm as I explain, "It's because of my Gift. Let's just say I 'powered her up' a bit."

"And what a powering it was!" he adds, his black eyebrows high up in awe.

I make sure Lina hears what he's saying just because I love to make her embarrassed, and her bashful reaction makes me flash a smile. So I inquire further, "Any other comments about it? I'm trying to think of ways to make the enchantment more physical rather than have it use such abstract magic to build the layered three-dee picture."

He nods in agreement and then becomes pensive. "Yes, that's exactly what I'd recommend Her Highness focus on to start her improvements, but as to how to achieve that... perhaps an Illusion mage could help?"

Alissa's fox ears twitch at that, but I have other things to talk about first. "Hmm... maybe. But I was thinking more along the lines of how to physically turn four-dee photons into the image the enchantment gives."

"'Photons'?" he repeats confusedly.

"Particles of light; they form an image when added together," I promptly explain.

He nods in understanding, then turns to the 4D corner as he starts to deliberate, "Ah, yes. Now that is quite the question... but I believe I'd start by finding a way to suppress the fourth dimension of the light particles and then project them onto a wall so that I could see the resulting image."

That's right! Light is a 3D wave, but you can think of it like a piece of string being whipped in a spiral, and if we pass the string through a vertical fence, it now only moves along the vertical axis. That's how polarized sunglasses work, and they make images darker but not completely black. And now that we have four axes, what if we suppressed two axes in one image and then inverted the suppressed axes in another image?

No, that... that wouldn't produce any interesting results.

But what if... we linearly interpolated the axis suppression while also rotating the suppressed axis, creating dozens of images of each axis combination?

Yes, it's-...! Actually, let's just forget that one because even I don't understand what I just said.

No, no, I'm just mixing up my mathematical terms. What if we suppressed one axis, then used a rotating polarized filter along the plane perpendicular to another axis? This would create a polarized 2D image that's understandable to us, but what plane is perpendicular to an axis in 4D space?

If you're in 3D space and you have the X, Y, and Z axes, all perpendicular to each other, the plane created by the X and Y axes is perpendicular to the Z axis, but how does that work in 4D space...?

I'm starting to think I'm just spouting bullshit again. I don't know enough math or physics to think about this properly, and I feel like I'm about to pull a muscle in my brain!

But wait, a normal image is in 2D, so 4D light creates a 3D image. Can I use this information in any way...?

Nope, nothing comes to me.

I sigh and resurface from my inner thoughts. My brain is twisting too much.

And seeing that I'm not reflecting anymore, Alcander makes another suggestion, "Your Highness, I'd also look into improving the way the image is projected into our minds. An Illusion mage might know how to do it more gently and naturally, which I believe should help with the headache."

"Oh, that's a good idea," Alissa happily hums inside my soul space.

"Alright, I'll see what Alissa can do," I gracefully agree. Then I let out a long sigh of tiredness.

"What's that thing about 'polarized sunglasses'?" Lina questions curiously.

"You think it's workable?" I curiously ask back.

"It'll be an improvement, yes," she replies with a nod in real life.

So I explain to her how polarization works as I [Gate] back to the mansion, and she recreates the sunglasses after a mere half hour. It also consumes a stupid amount of mana to keep it active, but less than with the helmet.

But the sheet of glass she enchanted only becomes polarized when the spell is active, and I think that's a bit wasteful.

So I propose, "Wait, I think Alteration would be better here because we could create a material that absorbs horizontally-polarized light, and then we wouldn't need to spend mana to maintain it."

"But my specialty is enchanting," she promptly points out.

It takes me a moment, but I come up with a better idea, "What about an enchantment that conjures the material?"

And it takes her only a couple of seconds to agree. "Hmm... okay, but put my extra points in [Conjuring Magic]."

Now it takes her an hour to come up with the enchantment as she doesn't have much experience working with Conjuring.

And she conjures a long sheet of polarized glass.

"Huh, it really makes things darker," Alissa curiously remarks as she looks through the glass.

"Look at the sheen of metal; it should be gone now," I point out after I [Equip] my sword.

And her fluffy tail lazily wags as she counter-proposes, "Can I fuck someone else's mind, instead? It feels wrong to do such a thing to you."

So I hum as I look around, "Alright..." Then I point a claw at today's victim. "Elven whore, I want to see you get mind-fucked."

"I love it when he abuses her," Kaatohe whispers with mild excitement and starts to gently touch her clit.

"Same," Roxanne whispers back, and she doesn't know whether to stare at the masturbating cat or the elf being mindfucked.

Caterina just stares in silence at Yunia, seemingly worried but maybe also a bit aroused. Being surrounded by this much lesbianism every day must be torture, so I give Alissa a hand with fucking and fucking with Yunia's brain as lewdly as possible.

[Illusion Magic] is an unfinished magic school, so its themes aren't as clear and streamlined as they could be. The first two spells, [Ghost Lights] and [Double Image], are simple holograms, but the next spell, [Ignorance], already starts to mess with the brains of those who gaze upon the illusion. The fourth and following spells, [Pacify], [Vicious Rage], and [Nightmare], directly mess with the target's brain without a single hologram being used, and it's exactly those spells that Alissa has to study to help Lina.

My fox already has enough points for [Pacify] and [Vicious Rage], but she never really needed to use them as she focused on Nocturna's more useful Illusion spells. This is a great opportunity for her to broaden her knowledge further, though, and even Nocturna's spells make use of the mind-bending aspect of [Illusion Magic] to make the illusions more powerful, so this experiment may prove to be quite useful to her.

But those are all just side bonuses because pleasing me by brain-fucking Yunia is all the motivation that Alissa ever needed. My foxy and elven whores would do anything I ask if there's some sexual component to it.

So Alissa scours my mind for all sorts of depraved fetishes.

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