Arcane Lord

Outside the barracks, Chateau and Leiden communicated for a long time, and once again imparted his ideas and concepts on the construction of new towns in the territory to Leiden.

At present, Leiden may be unqualified as a pioneer of new models and new roads, but as an executor, he is absolutely competent!

In fact, at this early stage of development, Xia Duo does not need a consul with too many ideas of his own. It is enough to be able to carry out his instructions without compromise.

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Returning to the Tower of Time, Shado continued to compile middle school textbooks for new mages, and at the same time he did not forget to improve the automated equipment for spirits. The recent trip to Everesca allowed him to see more business possibilities in the elven society.

Therefore, he decided to speed up the layout of Communication Mystery Lock. To do this, he first needed to increase the production capacity of node magic weapons and bring the 1.0 version of Communication Mystery Lock to the public as quickly as possible.

If you want to increase the production of node magic weapons, you will undoubtedly need to improve the automated Jingspiri production equipment. In the future, no matter how many generations the communication lock is upgraded, you will need to control at least two-thirds of the nodes in your own hands.

The more potential users it targets, the more node artifacts need to be prepared in advance. Correspondingly, the Jingspiri automation equipment used to produce those node artifacts needs to be more efficient.

The Jingso automation equipment currently used by Xia Duo to produce node magic weapons is of the Quadruple Jingso level, which is equivalent to the collaborative production of four high-level mages.

It takes almost half a year to produce 280,000 node magic weapons.

But half a year is still a bit hard to accept for Xia Duo. Now it only takes half a year for 280,000 pieces. In the future, once the communication lock is upgraded, the number of users that can be supported, that is, the number of nodes, must be increased to at least one million levels.

In this case, 280,000 nodes are not enough to ensure that the Tower of Time can fully control this communication mystery for the public. Therefore, before upgrading, two-thirds of the node magic tools need to be prepared in advance.

If Jingpo automation equipment is not improved, how long will it take to wait?

Shado's goal is for everyone in Netheril and even the Northern Alliance to possess the Tower of Time's communication magic weapon, that is, to become a user of the Tower of Time's communication mystery lock.

Netheril alone now has a population of nearly 20 million (originally 10 million in the main plane, and 7 million later returned to the alien plane), that is a node of 20 million.

To control a mythical lock of this size requires at least twice the number of node magic weapons, or a spell cluster carrier containing 40 million node elements.

If we still use the current Quadruple Spirit Automation Equipment for production, it will take close to a hundred years!

This is obviously not a good choice.

Either improve the Jingspiri automation equipment to increase production efficiency; or improve the design of the mystery lock so that the Tower of Time can control the mystery lock through fewer nodes.

But the latter requires redesigning the overall structure of the Mystic Lock, and doing so also leaves greater loopholes for the enemy. In contrast, Shado is more inclined to improve production equipment.

In this way, the only flaw in the Communication Mystery Lock is the number of nodes, but the number of nodes released by the Tower of Time is always only one-third, and the enemy will never be able to seize control of the Communication Mystery Lock.

However, this also has a disadvantage, that is, as the number of nodes increases geometrically, the difficulty of upgrading the mystery lock also increases geometrically.

Xia Duo estimates that it is probably impossible to upgrade to the 60 million-node version at all. Although the complexity of the puzzle itself is not directly related to the number of nodes, when there are 60 million nodes, an update may take a long time. for several months.

In other words, he needs to prepare enough spellcasters to continuously relay and work without making mistakes for a month in order to be able to complete such an update.

If you make a mistake in the middle, you will have to start over, which is no less difficult than repairing the Dragon Madness Lock.

However, considering that in the future, a method of updating the puzzles in real time may be developed, which can be "online hot repair" without completely remaking it and then launching it online.

Although the Red Heart Alliance has not developed such a method, it can still be determined whether there is such a method. It is nothing more than investing more resources and time in research.

The reason why the Red Heart Alliance has not researched it is not because of insufficient investment, nor because the research power of the Red Heart Alliance is insufficient, but because research in this field has just emerged and it belongs to the frontier among frontiers.

Only a few laboratories are engaged in research in this area.

When the problem of Mystery Lock update becomes serious, the Red Heart Alliance will definitely invest more resources in research. Unfortunately, Xia Duo's second entry is still a bit early. If it were later, he might be able to directly obtain relevant theories and technologies.

But at that time, he was thinking that if it was too late and the projection plane disappeared directly, it would not be worth the loss, so he tried not to waste any time.

But even so, there is still a time difference of more than a thousand years from the plane he first entered. If he hesitates for a while, he may not be able to wait for the projection plane.

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In fact, for now, Xia Duo does not have a strong demand for the real-time update of the Mystic Lock. After all, it is impossible for the Tower of Time Communication Mystic Lock to reach 20 million users for quite some time. He has enough time. Come prepare all this.

But 20 million is not enough. The million level is still not difficult to achieve, especially in Xia Duo's own territory. He will try his best to let everyone have a communication mystery lock, which is half a million people.

If other places work together, one million users is really not an unreachable goal. If the node magic weapon can keep up, it may only be a matter of one or two years.

In this case, it is even more necessary to improve Jingspiri automation equipment.

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There are actually two aspects to improving Jingso automation equipment. One is of course the equipment itself, and the other is the elemental Jingso that exists as a consumable.

At present, the elemental spirits in the Tower of Time all come from Calimshan in the south. A few of them were "dropped" by Sha Duo himself in the Arctic. However, these are all produced automatically. He can harvest so much by just going to the jungle. A little elemental essence cannot keep up with the consumption.

Therefore, a larger and more stable supply of elemental spirits is inevitably needed.

What Shado is most worried about right now is that Calimshan will increase the price or not sell to him. In the long run, he is worried that the entire output of Calimshan will not be able to meet his consumption.

However, can he use potential demand to ask Calimshan to continue to increase production?

If there were other soul suppliers, that might be possible, but now Calimshan is almost the only place on the main plane that can stably provide elemental souls.

Exclusive business is the best thing to do, of course for Kalishan, but for Shado, this is not good news.

Therefore, Xia Duo needs his own elemental pasture, or even if he does not own it, he must at least master the relevant technology. Otherwise, once he is choked by Kalinshan, the prospect of magic industrial automation that is just beginning to dawn will be put in a big question mark.

You must know that Jingso Automation can not only be used to produce node magic weapons, but also any other magic items designed for mass production can be produced with it.

The reason why Xia Duo doesn't use it now is mainly due to two considerations. One is the accumulation of technology, and the other is the current development status of the Tower of Time.

The number of new mages is constantly increasing. If automated equipment is taken out at this time, how will those new mages deal with it? Continuing further studies, going out for a trip, or lying down in an instant?

Neither is suitable.

But it is not used now, but it must be used in the future. In this case, elemental creature breeding is absolutely indispensable!