Chapter 351: Direction and Guidance

First clarify the needs, and then design specifically according to the needs.

This was the design idea of most products, and rune construction was usually carried out according to this idea.

According to this idea, Gao De first listed his basic situation:

Mage level: Early 1st-rank mage

Mental power: 186

Mana: 26 drops of liquid

Spells: 44 cantrips, 23 1st-rank spells

Specialty: 【Self-Adaptation】 (Intermediate Ice Blessing Body, Body of Mage Endurance)

Extra: Mandora Magic Eye 3rd rank (1/72) - Far-sighted, Insight, Truth-seeing

It was very clear that his strength was outstanding mental power, and at the same time, he had mastered numerous spells. Combined with the specialty 【Self-Adaptation】, it could be said that his means were comprehensive, and he basically had the ability to deal with most special situations.

The shortcoming was that the total amount of mana was small, not enough to support him to cast spells to his heart's content.

In addition, there was a mana-consuming big user "3rd-rank Mandora Magic Eye," which also needed to be used sparingly in daily life.

Another thing was that the 1st-rank attack spell means were relatively scarce, with only 【Ice-Sealed Blade+】.

Although the strength of 【Ice-Sealed Blade+】 was high enough, it could even be said to be super-modeled, but precisely because of this, it was generally used as a trump card, not easily cast, and was a single-target spell.

So much so that Gao De was now mainly using cantrips in most combat scenarios.

What rune construction had to do was to develop strengths and avoid weaknesses.

After analyzing his strengths and weaknesses, Gao De quickly determined his needs:

Improve endurance and increase damage means.

The design of the former could completely refer to 【Wilderness Breath】 made by Mentor He Xi.

This set of rune constructs could be said to have achieved the ultimate in improving endurance.

As for the latter, Gao De needed to design it independently.

After determining the needs and direction, Gao De began the formal design of rune construction without stopping.

That was the drawing of the rune construction design drawing.

Magic arrays had array diagrams, and runes also had rune diagrams; these two were common things in the field of rune studies.

But for rune construction, the design drawing was a brand-new concept.

The reason was also very simple; in the existing rune study system, "rune tuning" was a threshold that could not be bypassed.

Through rune tuning, rune masters could confirm whether the runes could form an array, whether they could take effect, whether they could be successfully drawn on the selected magic-conducting materials, and adjust the rune composition, arrangement rules, positions, and connection methods according to the results of rune tuning.

And in rune construction, the complexity of this matter was raised to the extreme, so much so that there was no space for construction design drawings—every set of rune constructs was privately customized by rune construction masters through rune tuning and adjusting little by little.

Of course, for Gao De, this was already an old-fashioned rune construction manufacturing method.

What he learned was the new rune study system single-handedly created by He Xi; the core was no longer the "rune tuning" on the supernatural side, but the "calculation" on the mathematical side.

Relying on the six basic rules of rune studies, he could first design the magic array, and then through calculation, obtain whether the magic array could be successfully drawn on the magic-conducting material.

"Four 1st-rank magic-gathering runes, separated by four diffusion runes, and then embedded with a 1st-rank storage rune..."

In terms of improving endurance, because there was 【Wilderness Breath】 as a reference, Gao De's design ideas were quickly determined, and a preliminary design drawing was made.

But in terms of increasing damage means, Gao De fell into difficulties.

This was not because his creativity was not good, nor was it because his foundation was not solid.

The biggest reason was that Mentor He Xi left too early, and his teaching to him was too little, and the rune constructs Gao De had seen were too few, or it could be said that there was only this set of 【Wilderness Breath】, so much so that he didn't know where to start.

Just like writing, no matter how genius the author was, they had to see enough works to write their own things.

Gao De stopped the pen in his hand and entered a state of contemplation.

Anna, who had been watching Gao De quietly, curiously stretched out her small head, looked at what Gao De had written on the parchment, and after looking at it for two glances, asked: "Brother, what are you thinking about?"

"I'm thinking about designing a rune construct that can increase attack means, and where to start..." Gao De in the state of focus did not realize who the question came from, but answered instinctively and subconsciously.

Anna noticed Gao De's distress and contemplation, pouted, thought about it earnestly, and reminded in a milky voice: "With so many magic-gathering runes and storage runes, why not add some conversion and output runes?"

Gao De was stunned, and then clapped his hands, "Yes!"

Gao De, who had ideas, immediately picked up the pen again, excitedly and focused on perfecting the design drawing.

Anna, who had already stretched out her small head, did not shrink her head back, but just opened her big eyes and watched Gao De's every move earnestly.

Once the idea was opened, the specific realization of the idea was actually not that difficult for Gao De.

About only ten minutes later, a set of preliminary rune construction design drawings had been designed.

Of course, it was really very preliminary.

Because it still had to be verified whether the magic array was established through calculation, and then according to the calculation results, corresponding adjustments were made until it could be completely established.

And before this, it was necessary to determine the magic-conducting materials used for rune construction and the specific dimensions.

The latter was not difficult; Gao De designed it for himself, and he knew his own body data like the back of his hand.

In terms of magic-conducting materials, he thought deeply and decided to use bright copper, which was extremely commonly used in the manufacture of first-rank rune constructs and had a very high cost-performance ratio, as the main material.

Bright copper was a variant of brass, and its magic resistance was similar to brass, which was tested by He Xi to be 45.6%, that is, R=0.456.

The magic conductivity was not outstanding among a group of supernatural materials, but it had the two major advantages of being extremely easy to shape and the price being relatively cheap.

Once the magic-conducting material was determined, the magic resistance was also determined.

Since this was the case, the robust value could be calculated through the six basic rules of runes.

"No, the first rune magic array is not established. The actual robust value exceeds the theoretical robust value by 9.52. It is necessary to reduce the actual robust value or increase the theoretical maximum robust value..."

"To increase the theoretical robust value, either increase the number of runes and the number of rune pairs, or choose magic-conducting materials with low magic resistance. The latter is not considered for the time being, the former..."

"My current rune manufacturing number has reached the second rank, that is, 7, but the second-rank rune construction is overloaded for me, and I can't wear it for the time being, so I can only make rune constructs according to the first-rank rune manufacturing number, that is, 5..."

"According to the area calculation, this area can draw at most 31 basic runes, currently it is 28, and 3 more can be added..."

"Add two more 1st-rank magic-gathering runes and one diffusion rune..."

"Still exceeded. Then the actual robust value must be reduced. Change four of the 1st-rank magic-gathering runes to secondary runes with lower energy, that is, 0-rank magic-gathering runes..."

"This is established, proceed to the next rune magic array calculation adjustment..."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 352 =====