Chapter 1010: 1010 Powah!

Wolfe knew that he didn’t need to generate an actual nuclear reaction inside the reactor, all he had to do was generate intense heat, and the coolant circulating as steam through the turbines. The whole reactor complex was self-contained, while the coolant lines ran in a large loop underground to cool the fluid naturally as it returned.

Wolfe began building the first of the arrays in front of him, where he could see what he was doing, though it was just simple air and gravity magic to make the steam carry more force as it hit the turbine. Then he added layers of gravity magic for the turbine to spin more freely, and electromagnetism to the actual generator coils.

That was enough to set up the output side of the reactor, and Wolfe nodded in satisfaction as he laid the spell over the Reactor Two complex.

Cassie laughed quietly at the shocked expressions on the Demons’ faces. That look never got old, and it was just a shame that the humans had no idea what Wolfe was doing or why it should be impressive, though they could see the spells being built in front of them.

Then Wolfe started on the reactor. The question was what was the most mana efficient way of creating the heat that they needed. If he pushed gravity magic to its logical maximum, he could likely generate spontaneous fusion the moment that he got the temperature high enough. But that would need even more magic to contain, so it wouldn’t be efficient for the application.

As he considered it, he realized that the burning Null Stone was actually very heat efficient for the amount of magic and material involved, so began to adjust the Lightning Magic to mimic the aura that the Null Stone gave off, or at least its interaction with Fire Magic, and then enchanted the walls of the coolant tubes to transfer heat more efficiently.

When he put the spell on the reactor core, Wolfe turned to the scientists. “You can close the reactor now. I’m preparing to bring it up to temperature. The spell will hold a constant temperature in the reactor walls and coolant output, so the maintenance will be minimal, and you will only need to monitor it to make sure that it doesn’t change.

I will link it to the kill switch on your controls, so if there is an issue, anyone on staff can hard stop the reactor in a split second. I don’t foresee any issues, this sort of spell can be stable for thousands of years. The weak link will be the physical reactor itself, and the witches have kindly upgraded that already.”

The team got to work closing the reactor containment, and Wolfe settled the spell on the interior of the reactor.

“Are we ready for this?” He asked.

“Clear.”

“All good.”

“No errors.” They agreed in a practised order.

Wolfe began to add mana to the spell and tweak it a little for efficiency as he did.

Once he was happy that six times that amount wouldn’t disrupt the mana balance in the area, Wolfe finalized the spell and began to link everything through a mana gathering array.

Then he linked the heat spell to the control room controls so that they could turn it up and down, the same as if they had actual fuel rods in the reactor again.

“Bring fuel temperature up to operating.” He instructed.

The scientists complied immediately, and the gauges began to light up and swing into the green operating ranges as the reactor came to life.

All except one, that was.

The total output of the generators was off the charts, and the panel couldn’t properly measure the output. With the improvements that Wolfe had made, the one reactor was already outputting half of what the entire facility should.

That fact was immediately noticed by the main control room, which was monitoring the functional reactor, as well as the Gormana National Power supplier, who saw that they had a massive amount of new capacity online, and began to slow the rolling blackouts around the nation, as the grid adjusted.

“Alright, that’s one. Five to go, and then we can move on to the next power plant.” Wolfe informed the observers.

“You’re still going to bring all five reactors online? The main transmission lines can’t handle that. We have no way of sending that much power out.” The young scientist informed him.

“Oh? I hadn’t considered that. Alright, I will do two reactors, enough that they alone will be at or exceeding the design capacity of the facility. Then in the future, if there is a need, it can be upgraded and the other reactors can be brought online.” Wolfe agreed.

Then, to finish things off, he added a mild barrier over the reactor area so that nobody could physically tamper with the facility without using heavy weapons or magic.

“Alright, let’s go to Reactor Three. If I only have to do these two, this will be even faster than anticipated, and the Capital Region will be back online.” Wolfe announced happily.

As they walked, an Incubus from the Guardian team leaned over to whisper to Wolfe. “You know, with that gravity charm you put on the turbine, we could just have that big lunk spin it with his hands, and it would bring the reactor online.”

Wolfe laughed. “While I can’t rule out that possibility, he would quickly get bored and distracted, which would turn the lights off again.”

The other Demons chuckled, while Galrog smirked. He honestly wondered how much strength it would take to manually turn a reactor turbine that was large enough to power a city.

“Alright, I won’t demonstrate this time. Just follow my directions and we will bring everything online.” Wolfe instructed as they reached the next control room.

The startup procedure was written on a huge poster on every wall, so he simply followed that.

“Prepower checks?”

“All Green.”

“Coolant levels?”

“Nominal.”

“Close reactor, all switches to idle.”

“Done.”

“Temperature coming up. Reactor heat is in range.”

“Begin bringing the reactor online.”

“Check Power output.”

“All green, output exceeds internal meter readings.”

Wolfe watched for a moment, and then added a few more spells to the matrix, to reduce the resistance of the main power conduits to the power combiner, so that they didn’t generate wasted heat from the overload of power.

Once that was done, he saw no more issues with the plant as it operated at full capacity, and the working temperatures through the plant stabilized over the next ten minutes.

“Wonderful. Enjoy your power, ladies and gentlemen. We’re off.”

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