Arcane Lord

But at the same time, Xia Duo also realized a problem. In addition to the arcane string, what other materials can withstand the long-term operation of the magic computer?

The current experiment is just a double-string 5-ring lifting ring calculator, which can be made of mithril, but what about the future?

Is it possible to only make such a small-scale calculator?

This is almost a dead end. The core computing component of the magic computer is not an energy-conducting component that can reflect the energy operation rules of the magic network, but it needs to bear a large flux of energy exchanges.

The material must be good, but not so good that it can be assimilated by the magic network!

Xia Duo, who realized this problem, almost blacked out. If this problem is not solved, he can imagine what the state of the magic computer in the future will be-

High cost and frequent maintenance!

Let’s not talk about the extent of the advantages. Just these two dense disadvantages make him very pessimistic about the application prospects of the magic computer.

The high cost doesn’t matter to him in the future. As long as the elemental composition of mithril can be found, the corresponding production capacity is nothing more than production capacity. This is not a serious problem.

The problem is that maintenance is frequent, which will greatly damage the practicality of the magic computer, unless all problems encountered in the future can be calculated in a short time, but how is this possible?

There must be some problems that require long-term calculations, and even many of his ideas are based on the long-term operation of the magic computer.

If it is frequently maintained, what is the value of using it?

It can be imagined that if mithril is used as the material of the core computing component, as long as the volume is large, it is likely to be turned on once and maintenance will begin after a few seconds.

How can such an application prospect not make people pessimistic?

As for using David strings, which are one level lower than the Aoneng strings, there is indeed no need to worry about being assimilated by the magic network, but the stability of the material itself is even worse, and its existence requires the help of additional support devices.

If used in a magic computer, perhaps the support device will be larger than the computer and more expensive, which is a bit like an ordinary laptop on Earth, but it has a whole building of support devices.

At that time, will this still be considered a magic computer?

This question is worth pondering. Anyway, Xia Duo knows that if that is the case, ordinary people obviously cannot afford a magic computer.

Even quite a number of researchers will not have the opportunity to use it. This kind of computer with extremely high maintenance cost will only be allocated to some important strategic areas in a small range.

Suddenly, Xia Duo found that this magic computer is a bit like the controlled nuclear fusion on Earth. There is no problem in theory, but it cannot be actually made due to many engineering problems.

In order to make a larger magic computer, a special material is needed. The property requires that the energy conduction property must at least reach the level of standard mithril, and most importantly, it is not easy to undergo element transmutation reaction, and it will not be assimilated by the magic network.

These three requirements are a bit similar to the "impossible triangle" in economics on Earth. If two of them are met, the third one is almost impossible to achieve.

For example, the energy conduction property reaches the level of standard mithril and it is not easy to undergo element transmutation reaction. These two points, the latter is a necessary condition for magic computers. Once they are not met, the maintenance frequency will increase significantly.

However, element transmutation reaction is unavoidable for any substance. If you want to reduce it as much as possible, you need to use materials whose essence is energy. Unfortunately, the higher the properties of this type of material, the easier it is to be assimilated by the magic network.

If we only consider the difficulty of element transmutation and the lack of assimilation by the magic network, there are too many options. The most typical one is gold, but the energy conductivity of gold is obviously much worse than that of mithril.

If the gold conductor wants to reach the energy conductivity level of standard mithril, it needs to make up for it with volume, which is at least two orders of magnitude. In this way, the cost is too high and the volume is also large.

It can be imagined that the magic computer in this situation has two development directions-

One is to use materials such as mithril with good energy conductivity but not stable enough as the material of the core computing component, at the cost of frequent maintenance.

The other is to use materials such as gold with good stability but insufficient energy conductivity, at the cost of high material cost and large computer volume.

Frequent maintenance is actually high cost. In comparison, it seems more appropriate to use gold as the material of the core component of the computer!

But Xia Duo was unwilling, "Is it the only way?"

Although it seems that using gold is a good choice, isn't gold also an industrial material on Earth? But who on Earth uses gold as iron!

If the core computing components of the computer reach the level of millions of elements, which is the same level as Misera, it is not difficult to achieve. With guidance, it will develop very quickly.

A little estimation will show that the amount of gold required for a computer of this level exceeds the total wealth of Savile County + Daxia County in the past.

And the wealth obtained by Daxia County and Savile County in the past was not obtained in the form of physical gold, but in transactions.

If converted into transaction volume, it is also an extremely huge number, almost 100 million gold coins, most of which come from the mithril transaction during the construction of the floating city, and a small part is the sale of mass-produced magic items in the Tower of Time.

Spending 100 million gold coins to build a magic computer that might not be very advanced, Xia Duo thought that if he got drunk one day, he might give it a try.

It was impossible for him to make such a decision whenever he was awake. This was simply not a decision that a normal human being could make.

If 100 million gold coins is not intuitive enough, the converted weight is almost 900 tons. Who is so naive to use 900 tons of gold to build a magic computer? Xia Duo can't do it himself anyway.

Of course, now that it is just a calculator and its size is small, it is not a bad idea to use gold as the core computing component material. The intermediate consumption should be regarded as the cost of researching "converting the magic effects caused by all calculations into elemental release effects" alright.

"What a pity! What a pity!"

Sha Duo realized that before the material problem was solved, there was a high probability that the magic computer would not be born. This was not a conventional magic item.

In other words, he may not be able to wait for the magic computer to process the ethereal layer detection data collected by the Plane Exploration Center for quite some time.

When this thought came to him, he even hesitated to complete the current level up and down level calculator. After all, this thing was of little use to him.

"Let's do basic research!"

Basic research does not need to be limited to a temporary period. Xia Duo plans to build a double-stringed five-ring calculator first, and then focus on plane exploration.

As for the problem of calculation effect conversion, let's leave it to study in our normal leisure time. This problem seems a bit too advanced when it is difficult to achieve even a magic computer.

As for the issue of new materials, Xia Duo himself is not prepared to jump into this big hole, but he can support David and even more people to study it.

He believes that if David was able to create David strings before, he will definitely be able to create new materials suitable for the core computing components of magic computers in the future!