Arcane Lord

In the afternoon, Iolum temporarily left the laboratory because he still had official business with the Austrian Law Association to deal with outside, leaving Xia Duo alone in the laboratory.

"As expected, I still have a hard life!"

However, Xia Duo was content with it. While continuing to connect the automatically produced David string components to the Magic Network, he also found time to conduct a simple test of the new Austrian Fire plan.

Iolum's plan for the Austrian fire is generally to design the David string component as a cross-section of the device sphere. Several sections are combined to form a spherical multiple composite independent Austrian fire device.

Chateau's plan is more extreme. The David chord component is designed as a cone with the apex at the center of the sphere. Of course, it does not actually include the center of the sphere. The center of the sphere is designed as a partially shared support component.

This solution is simpler than Iolum's solution. After all, the cross-section design must take into account the cross-section intersection problem, there are more redundant components, and the space utilization rate is not high.

Or there are too many shared components, causing high-flux energy to flow through some components all the time, which is another big challenge to the stability of the David string.

Theoretically, designing each arcane fire as a line from the center of the sphere to the surface of the sphere is the most efficient and simple solution (in the design of multiple composite arcana fires). However, that ideal state is simply impossible to achieve in reality.

In the final analysis, the independent Austrian fire device is not a theoretical problem, but an engineering problem.

Theoretically, when Shado first became an arcanist, he speculated on the two directions to realize this device and their respective difficulties.

But it wasn't until the emergence of David's string that the independent arcane device really showed its light. Previously, Iolum's mithril material plan had always failed because the engineering conditions were not met.

If he could prepare mithril that was infinitely close to 100% pure, maybe he could really succeed!

It's just that such an arcane fire device is more expensive, more difficult to manufacture and even more difficult to maintain than the current David string material solution, and has basically no practical application value.

Xia Duo is more experienced in engineering design than Iolum. The modernization of his hometown is a miracle of engineering. Under the influence of his ears and eyes, he is naturally exposed to many ideas that at least are not too backward.

Programming is actually an engineering problem, and as a programmer, Xia Duo has more say in this aspect.

…

It was approaching evening and Iolum had not returned yet, but Shado had completed the verification of the David string component energy circuit corresponding to some of the spell elements in the plan, which was completely in line with expectations.

However, if you want to conduct a complete experiment, Iolum's support is still indispensable, and there is another problem -

The independent arcane fire involves the tenth level of the magic network. If Sha Duo only provides some suggestions or even conducts some experiments, then it is nothing. At most, it only proves that he has profound knowledge in the principles of magic.

But if a complete experiment was to be carried out, it would be almost impossible to hide the fact that he had become a Grand Arcanist.

After all, if you want to connect to the tenth level of the magic network, even if there is an alternative spellcasting plan, it will be difficult to successfully cast it before you have a full understanding of the tenth level of the magic network.

What's more, being able to perform substitutional spellcasting is almost equivalent to a great arcanist to a certain extent.

Instead of continuing to be secretive, it is better to openly admit that Xia Duo knew that this day would come sooner or later, but he did not expect that this day would come so quickly!

…

Just when Shado was thinking about when to confess to Iolum, Iolum finally came back. As soon as he arrived, he noticed the David string component that Shado used to verify the new plan. He couldn't help but become interested and asked:

"The new arcane fire plan you designed?"

"Yes, I think it might be more reasonable to use a cone, which can make the overall structure of the device more compact."

"It's a good idea, and I'm planning to improve it like this!"

Then, Iolum further explained the origin of his current cross-section design, "Initially in order to save mithril, I had to use this solution with more shared components. Now with the David string, there is no need to Saved."

That being said, in fact, the cost of David's string is not lower than that of mithril at all. Not to mention manual preparation, arcanists are the best, or at least high-level mage.

Even automatic preparation of magic equipment requires the consumption of a large amount of arcane crystals. (High-level mages also need to consume arcane crystals)

That is to say, Iolum was able to collect hundreds of thousands of arcane crystals as starting capital during the previous experiment. Otherwise, the cost of one experiment would not be much lower than before, and it would probably still start at tens of millions.

Of course, it is also a fact that the further you go, the lower the preparation cost of David strings becomes.

…

The two briefly chatted for a few words and then returned to work. During this period, Iolum would occasionally ask a few questions about Sha Duo's design ideas. Sha Duo naturally had nothing to hide.

As the saying goes, "Heroes see the same thing." Shado was surprised that Iolum had such a keen engineering design intuition without being baptized by various professional engineering creations.

And Iolum also appreciated Shado's various ideas very much. When the two got excited about chatting, they would even stop working on connecting the magic network and go aside to focus on the discussion.

…

In this way, time quickly came to mid-August.

In the plane overlapping area in the center of the laboratory, surrounded by the ring-shaped automatic preparation machine for David string components, a large sphere that looks almost entirely composed of faint blue luminous threads to the naked eye is gradually approaching perfection.

Without the David string component automatic preparation machine, it might take two or three months to achieve this level of progress, but now with this set of equipment, an experiment of the Austrian Fire Device can be compressed to less than half a month.

Looking at the arcane fire device that was gradually taking shape, Sha Duo suddenly felt emotional. Only by constantly liberating and developing productivity can a true magical civilization be created.

Now Netheril is in desperate need of an industrial revolution. While the eyes and even hands and feet of the northern kingdoms are entangled in the drow war underground, this is the best time!

However, he is more aware that if production relations cannot match the surge in productivity, more serious consequences may occur.

He still needs to be careful whether he makes changes or not. Currently, only the small piece of land in the south can be completely controlled by him.

However, the unlimited energy of the Mitha core is about to come out, and Shado has to consider the future direction of Netheril's large base.

“Perhaps it’s time to show Severington Council what’s happening in the south!”

Of course, before that, Shado also needed to obtain an identity that could match this achievement. Thinking of the continuous preparations over the past few days, Shado decided to confess to Iolum today.

As for when to announce it to the public, he still needs to think about it again, but he probably has a bottom line in his mind, which is the time when the new apprentice of the Tower of Time will give birth to a high-level mage.