Arcane Lord

After a detailed discussion with Iolum, we finally came to the conclusion that if we only pursue efficiency, sacrificing Misera is the best choice. If we also need to consider the cost, sacrificing magic scrolls is the best choice.

Because the essence of this so-called sacrifice is to invest more magic strings in the magic decay area. Any magic item, no matter what design scheme is adopted, must be condensed with a large number of magic strings.

In fact, only the magic strings condensed on the magic item are effective, and the carrier is not necessary. The reason why sacrificing Misera is the most efficient is that a Misera condenses more than one million magic strings.

And the number of magic strings condensed on an ordinary magic item is basically less than one hundred.

Of course, the more complex and powerful the item, the more magic strings condensed on it, but usually it will not exceed ten thousand, which shows the size of Misera.

Investing in a Mithra can be equivalent to tens of thousands of ordinary magic items, and another advantage of Mithra is that the carrier materials that carry magic are mostly artificial renewable materials such as arcane strings.

If it were not for the fact that the actual process is inseparable from the Great Archmage, Mithra would be the best solution only from the perspective of material cost, but if the labor cost is added, the cost performance is not suitable.

The most cost-effective magic scroll is based on this consideration. The production of magic scrolls does not require the use of precious metals such as mithril. The most precious material is just some gem powder, and gem powder has almost no other applications with higher added value except for making magic scrolls.

Although the cost of paper and parchment is relatively high, some well-made plant paper can also be used as the body of the magic scroll, so the cost is greatly reduced.

As for labor, it is even simpler. There are so many apprentices in the Tower of Time, and countless homework is generated every day. Many of them exist in the form of magic scrolls. Students do these to practice spells, not to sell scrolls.

Moreover, the apprentices in the Tower of Time have so many homework assignments that no one would deliberately collect those that have been completed. Even some time ago, Jose from the Academic Affairs Office of the Tower of Time told him that he had to find a way to deal with the abandoned practical homework of students.

Since magic scrolls involve a lot of applications of arcane geometry, and arcane geometry is a required subject for advanced arcanists, many of the apprentices' homework is produced in the form of magic scrolls.

Its effect may not be a specific spell, but may only be part of the spell elements, so those abandoned practical homeworks may not even be sold cheaply, so they are piled up in the Tower of Time.

Now is a good time to deal with it!

Assuming that a practical homework only involves 5 spell elements, the magic web strings condensed on it are about 5, and in fact, most of the spell elements involved in a practical homework are more than ten.

Only the homework of freshmen will be less than ten. If we calculate it based on an average of 5 spell elements, 200,000 homework assignments can replace a Mithra.

Of course, the analogy here only applies to the investment in decay areas to support the self-repair of the magic network. Outside of this situation, even 2 million assignments are not as valuable as a Misera.

Although 200,000 assignments may seem like a huge number, you should know that the current Tower of Time is no longer the same as it was in the past. Even if the new mages who have just exceeded 600 are deducted, the number of apprentices has reached more than 3,000, and this is still not the limit of the territory.

Xia Duo asked Leighton to do a statistics. At present, there are more than 150,000 children of school age in the territory, that is, people under the age of 16 (inclusive). In other words, there are 150,000 potential new mages.

Of course, there are still many fewer people who are really at the age of school enrollment, that is, 16 years old, which is less than 10,000.

The Tower of Time recruits new students twice a year, and the number of places continues to increase, but it still cannot reach the total number of people of school age. Xia Duo is also helpless about this. Before the teaching resources are reached, some people are destined to miss the best enrollment opportunities every year.

If people over 16 want to go to school, they may have to wait until all children of school age have gone to school. Of course, Xia Duo did not block their opportunities to make progress. The relevant textbooks are also circulated in the territory.

Not to mention, there are also workers' night schools, and they often arrange full-time teachers from the Time Tower's Academic Affairs Office to teach. As long as you can self-study and become a new mage, you can still join the Time Tower.

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200,000 practical assignments, only 1,000 apprentices, if each apprentice only completes this one assignment every day, it will only take 200 days.

In fact, the apprentices of the Time Tower have been over a thousand for more than three years, and it is impossible for an apprentice to only do this one practical assignment every day. Even the lowest grade will have at least two or three.

The higher the grade, the more practical assignments there are. This is related to the casting limit of each apprentice. Practical assignments are like this, and there is an upper limit.

As for paper assignments, there are not many restrictions. The lower and higher grades are similar, so I will not discuss them here.

Even though the practical work included a lot of parts that did not condense any magic net strings, the remaining number was still a very large number, conservatively estimated to be more than 1 million.

Jose couldn't even accurately count the specific number, and only used a relatively general description - occupying five large warehouses of the Magic Technician Department.

It was also because the Magic Technician Department couldn't stand it anymore and urged the Academic Affairs Office to deal with it as soon as possible. Jose himself was undecided and reported the problem to Xia Duo.

Xia Duo was also undecided at first, and was still thinking about whether to return the practical homework to the students. After all, when he was in school, he kept all kinds of homework by himself. In the future, when he looks back on those childhood homework, he will smile knowingly.

However, magic practical homework is not like other things. If the apprentices are allowed to take it back, it will still pose a certain threat to ordinary people. At present, Daxia Territory has not achieved universal spellcasters, and most of the apprentices' families are still ordinary people.

This is also the main reason why Xia Duo did not make up his mind to return the practical homework to the students. Of course, now he has a better way to deal with it. It is also a good place to repair the magic network.

As for the future, at most, he can prepare a few demiplane warehouses for the Academic Affairs Office to store student homework or other items, or let the Material Management Office help to store them. There is no shortage of warehouses there.

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After making up his mind, Shado discussed the details of the sacrifice with Iolum, and then sent him to a nearby tent.

He calculated the time and found that he could catch up with the sleeping ceremony, so he returned to his original body and called Niya to the territory to preside over the ceremony.