This spinning and weaving machine had an incredibly intricate design, with tons of metal components—levers, linkages, gears. Its power source was a magic power engine too.

Under the watchful eyes of Viscount Roster, the Wandering Wild Mage, and the others, the apprentice nervously got all the materials and stuff into position. As a button got pressed, magic power started flowing through the spinning and weaving machine. Fine threads slowly pulled through from various ports on the machine, and with some graceful movement, they started turning into cloth without a hitch.

Sure, it didn't look artistic at all, and the quality didn't seem that great either, but Viscount Roster's breathing got heavier. He felt like a whole new era was rushing right at him!

About three thousand years ago, cotton showed up in this world. Back then, people called cotton "grass covered in wool." In just a few years, cotton became the main material for people's clothes, and textile technology emerged in that environment.

The Kingdom of Dawn grew cotton and shipped raw cotton to the Gray Fort Empire. Gray Fort Empire farmers used that cotton from Dawn Kingdom plus what they grew themselves to make cotton textiles, and some of those textiles got sold back to the north... This trade had been going on for like a thousand years, creating super prosperous trade routes. Lots of people called it the "Cotton Road."

Before Magic Conductors rose up in Roster territory, the cotton business made up about a quarter of trade between the two major human nations. You could say pretty much everyone, men and women, young and old, wore cotton clothes...

But wearing cotton clothes didn't mean cotton clothes were plentiful. Actually, most people wore their clothes for over a decade, constantly mending and patching them until they could barely hold together. Going ten-plus years before changing clothes was totally normal.

There were lots of reasons for all that.

Yeah, after a thousand years of effort by farmers, spinners, weavers, and merchants, the cotton world had gradually prospered and kept expanding. But cotton growing and processing had pretty much always stayed small-scale, mostly family production.

Family cotton growing had this delicate balance with other grain crops, and cloth production efficiency was the same. Output was just way too low.

But this spinning and weaving machine showing up right now was gonna completely change that pattern!

He felt like a brand new commodity that could affect the whole world was being born right there in their hands. Heck, the products made with it might even sell better than Magic Conductors...

Around the same time, in the Gray Fort Empire, in a "laboratory" not far from the palace, Bonnie Sunstrider, a high elf druid, walked in with some food like usual.

As soon as she came in, she felt like the vibe in there was a little different than normal.

"What happened?" Bonnie asked one of her lab buddies, pretty confused.

"Bonnie, didn't you see the new feature the Magic Net rolled out?" Her colleague looked at Bonnie kind of surprised.

"Reading? Yeah, I know about it. I stayed up half the night last night reading the Elven Epic. Gotta hand it to the Goddess of Writing's masterpiece—there's tons of info in there even I didn't know, and I'm a high elf." Bonnie couldn't help sighing.

Her colleague had an "aha" moment. The first recommended book was about elves, so it made sense this elf lady didn't notice the other stuff. "Below the Elven Epic there's a masterwork by the God of Technology! Our self-charging magic arrays and Magic Power Network might actually work!"

"Huh?" Bonnie looked at her colleague, surprised. "You're saying the 'reading' feature has a masterwork by the God of Technology that directly teaches us how to build self-charging magic arrays and Magic Power Networks?!"

If that was true, then what was the point of all the huge sacrifices the elves made to go buy stuff from the Kingdom of Dawn, then setting up a trade route through over twenty little countries? What did they even get out of all that?

The Gray Fort Empire was different from the Elf Kingdom. Gray Fort Empire and Dawn Kingdom shared a ton of border territory. Over the past few hundred years, small-scale conflicts barely ever stopped. In that situation, after paying a certain price, the Elf Kingdom dared to use Dawn Kingdom's Magic Conductor tech, but Gray Fort Empire couldn't, absolutely couldn't.

They'd always suspect Dawn Kingdom planted traps in there!

Unless the tech was something their people stole back at huge cost. Then maybe.

Of course, if they could, Gray Fort Empire would way rather develop it themselves.

So they ended up in their current state—working both angles at once!

On one hand recruiting more magicians for related research, on the other hand sending stealth specialists to Dawn Kingdom to steal technical documents.

But so far, neither approach seemed to be getting anywhere.

Who'd have thought that a new Magic Net feature update, one book called "Magic Conductors from Beginner to Mastery," would basically solve most of their problems.

"No, no, no, it doesn't have the complete plan, but combined with what we've already got and the content from 'Magic Conductors from Beginner to Mastery,' our progress should speed up a ton!"

Her colleague's words surprised Bonnie again. No detailed plan, but would seriously speed up progress? She got curious right away. She kinda wanted to see what this book actually had in it.

She quickly found "Magic Conductors from Beginner to Mastery" and as soon as she opened it, she saw a line: [The core of Magic Conductors is innovation. To protect inventors' interests and encourage continuous technical innovation and creative invention, this book will not describe in detail any technical specifics created by mortal Magic Conductor inventors, to ensure protection of their rights.]

Bonnie was stunned again.

This seemed kinda like the magic system, where most people were kept in a black box and only a few could dig into more detailed info.

But pretty quick, she realized that wasn't it at all.

Traditional magic black boxes were monopolized by certain people. Most folks didn't know the principles, could only cast the spells. But this book actually explained Magic Conductor principles in detail—basic mechanical structures, rune details, all of it. Even combination formulas, how to combine stuff, what effects you could get—everything was there.

In other words, this was Magic Conductor fundamentals, a textbook. If you could really absorb everything in the book, heck, you could just look at any Magic Conductor and reverse-engineer its principles.

Besides, the book had tons of case studies, just none of the stuff that mortal Magic Conductor masters in the mortal realm had invented!

Bonnie immediately got all excited and started flipping through it. Recently, with more and more Magic Conductors showing up, especially all kinds of Magic Conductor machines from Dawn Kingdom getting exposed, she'd gotten really interested in Magic Conductors!

"Everyone, look! The Wandering Wild Mage is teaching a class directly in the 'Magic Conductor Forum,' explaining how to make self-charging magic arrays and Magic Power Networks!"

Before Bonnie could even finish reading the preface, she suddenly heard shouting all around. The Wandering Wild Mage was actually gonna publicly explain self-charging magic arrays and Magic Power Networks!

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