Arcane Lord

Xia Duo even thought of dividing the communication magic weapon into levels such as basic version, mid-range version, high-end version, and supreme version according to the number of friends that can be added to the communication magic weapon (the number of twin marks stored), and then adjust the appearance of the magic weapon. Design accordingly.

It can be sold at the ideal price corresponding to the caster status of each level to achieve the purpose of precise harvesting.

Storing twin marks depends on the quantity. In fact, it has little impact on the communication magic weapon. Whether to store one or 10,000 is a matter of "external memory", although the communication magic weapon has not yet been designed.

But Xia Duo speculated that as long as there were not really 10,000 stored, there shouldn't be much difference between the magic weapons. If you want to make a difference, you may even need to make artificial restrictions.

Perhaps the biggest difference is the appearance.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo's enthusiasm for research became even more intense.

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Ten days later.

Tower of Time, public floor, workshop.

Xia Duo was concentrating on it, using [Mage's Hand] to control the liquid mithril suspended on the alchemy circle, which felt like "3D printing".

But in fact, it is simpler than "three-D suppression".

[Mage's Hand] is not a creation-type force field spell that restricts the form of mithril with external force, but a transformation-type spell that directly controls the material itself.

Therefore, the final shape of the mithril structural parts depends largely on the caster's on-the-spot performance. Even Xia Duo is no exception. If one accidentally thinks wrongly, it will be like his hand being crooked while doing carving. Same.

The only difference is that you can do it over and over again, and all it takes is the energy to use [Mage's Hand].

However, Xia Duo also has his own unique production or processing skills——

Extremely accurate auxiliary lines!

Although "arcane geometry" has appeared in Netheril at present, arcane geometry is not mathematical geometry, but an intuitive expression of the transformation relationship of the magic network's strings, which is actually not very helpful for drawing.

Maybe other mages have mastered some drawing skills, but they certainly won't take systematic geometry courses like Xia Duo. Although some knowledge points are blurred, they can be mastered quickly in practice. This is to establish in advance. The advantage of big concepts.

With precise geometry, it will be of great help in the drawing of arcane geometric figures. The mithril structural parts are actually based on arcane geometric figures.

With accurate auxiliary lines, Shado will have an easier time making mithril structural parts than other mages. To describe it in more intuitive language, that is, his skill level in making magic items is higher than others!

Soon, the three-dimensional mesh mithril structure was basically formed, and Xia Duo controlled the alchemy array to cool and solidify it. At this point, the communication instrument was only half completed.

Of course, if Netheril's industrial base could automatically produce such mithril structural parts, then he wouldn't need to do it himself and could just purchase the finished product directly.

Spellcasters still need to be used in key places.

For example, a step that cannot be avoided no matter what.

Whether it is making magic scrolls or communication instruments, the link to the magic network cannot bypass the spellcaster himself. If it can be bypassed in the future, perhaps the mass production of magic items will become a reality.

But now, any magic item is essentially the "handmade" of the caster.

What Sha Duo can do now is to use the caster only in the final link to the magic network as much as possible, so as to minimize the cost.

As for the cost reduction caused by technological progress, it is another matter.

Next, there is no need to worry about installing the energy core. At the beginning of the design, Xia Duo reserved the connection locks for the corresponding five-color gemstones on the mithril structural part, and just installed them one by one.

Afterwards, connecting to the Magic Network is no longer a problem.

After a while, this human-head-sized, three-dimensional mesh mithril structure emitted a faint magical aura, and the laboratory version of the communication instrument was completed.

Although the size of this version of the mithril structural parts can still be adjusted, in terms of layout, it is actually the most perfect. However, such a magic item is obviously not very convenient to use.

This is just like the electronic circuit of a mobile phone being exposed to the outside and needs to be encapsulated. If crystal encapsulation is used, it can be made into a communication crystal ball.

And if you want to make it smaller, or even small enough to be embedded in a ring, it will be quite troublesome.

This not only requires more sophisticated spellcasting operations when making the mithril structure and linking the magic network, but also requires mithril structural parts and even energy cores.

The requirement for mithril is purity, while the requirement for energy core is energy density.

Basically, the mithril share obtained from the Arcane Federation cannot be used to create such a fine and complex structure. It is not that the structure itself cannot be made, but that the mithril is not pure enough to link the same magic on such a fine structure. The string of the net.

As for the energy density of the energy core, it is very easy to understand. Things have become smaller, but the power has not changed. Isn’t it necessary to increase the energy density?

The problem of energy core is easy to solve, just use arcane crystal.

As for the micro-mithril structural parts——

The usual practice of Nese mages is to use mithril jewelry found in various elven ruins. The purity of mithril in some jewelry can meet the standards for making miniature magic items.

Or directly buy mithril jewelry for modern elves' own use, but this often greatly increases the production cost.

In addition to the premium of purity itself, there is also the so-called "artistic added value".

In the mithril refining method of the Arcane Empire recorded by Sha Duo in the projection plane, the production of high-quality mithril is not simple, and requires a method called [Element Extraction] to produce it.

This kind of compound ritual spell is cast by multiple casters. If it is cast by one person, the threshold is extremely high, at least for Xia Duo now, there is no chance.

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In addition to using high-purity mithril to make tiny structural parts, there are other ways to make miniature magic items.

Adjusting the mithril structural parts, not using the optimal layout, and trying to fit the shape of the ring, so that it can be made with slightly lower quality mithril. Of course, this method comes at the expense of the performance of the magic item.

Or use the magic constancy spell, which does not limit the size, but the magic items made by the magic constancy spell are not as stable as those made with mithril structural parts.

As for what method Xia Duo uses?

He didn't choose any of them!

Because at this stage, there is no need to make a small or micro communication instrument in the shape of a ring.

Isn’t a communication crystal ball delicious? It’s good if you can use it, there are so many picky things!

What's more, he has witnessed so many business cases on earth, how could he take out and release the micro-communication magic weapon all at once? It must be updated from generation to generation.

Even if you wait until you can produce high-quality mithril, you may not be able to produce this kind of miniature communication weapon immediately.

Unless the "friendly businessman" upgrades first, he will not consider following up at all.

In addition, even if Xia Duo's manufacturing cost is lower, it is unlikely to have a price war. It is more likely that a minimum price will be determined under the coordination of the Austrian and French Federation.

Of course, Xia Duo is not sure what the specific situation will be, so he can only make a rough prediction.

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