Chapter 1075: Low-Maintenance Improvements, A Life of Toil

With Xia Duo's current attainments in magic, the inspection and sorting work of the Watchtower was basically not very difficult for him; the key was that the process was rather tedious.

But if it were replaced by an ordinary Advanced Rank Mage doing it, that might also work, only the time would be dozens of times that of Xia Duo, or even more.

From this, it can be seen that the construction of any Mage Tower is not an easy matter, and this can be considered worthy of its construction cost, which starts at one million.

After casually cooking some salted meat and vegetable porridge and hurriedly filling his stomach, Xia Duo continued to devote himself to the analysis of the Blazing Sun Array.

The Blazing Sun Array involves the ninth layer of the Magic Net, which is a domain Xia Duo has not directly come into contact with; wanting to finish the analysis in less than a day like the Energy Core Magic Array is basically unrealistic.

Fortunately, after inspection, the Watchtower's Energy Core Magic Array did not have any traps or hidden measures, so the Blazing Sun Array would likely not have any either.

After all, as long as Xia Duo wants, he can cut off the energy supply of the Blazing Sun Array at any time; even if there were any traps or hidden measures, relying solely on its own connection to the Magic Net, it would at most have the power of one strike.

This power of one strike, even if it reaches the 9th Circle, is very difficult to achieve much result inside a Mage Tower.

Of course, there will certainly be destruction and losses, but as long as it cannot hurt Xia Duo, then it has no meaning. The difference between preserving people while losing land and preserving land while losing people is also applicable here.

However, although the Watchtower has been taken over by Xia Duo, it is not considered completely received until it has been thoroughly inspected.

After the Blazing Sun Array, there are still magic arrays for other functional systems everywhere!

Even the non-Magic Net parts, such as whether the tower body is damaged, whether there are any hidden injuries, and so on.

After all, this is not a new Mage Tower that he designed and participated in building himself, but a second-hand Mage Tower gifted by others.

On Earth, buying a second-hand car requires a comprehensive inspection; getting a Mage Tower in hand requires even more comprehensive inspection and troubleshooting.

Even if it is a gift from an acquaintance, the necessary procedures still cannot be skipped.

Xia Duo believes that if other Mages had the opportunity to be gifted a Mage Tower, they would definitely conduct a comprehensive inspection of such a large object that can be used to settle down and establish a career.

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Time passed in a hurry, and soon it was the third day—the day Xia Duo and Luodite and the others had agreed upon.

A whole day had passed, and the Blazing Sun Array was of course not finished being analyzed; Xia Duo had come into contact with the Element Pool and Energy Pool magic arrays before, so he had taken a shortcut, but he had never come into contact with the Blazing Sun Array before.

Moreover, this magic array is as high as the 9th Circle, and it requires more time to carry out the conversion of low-circle elements; as for whether it is a triple magic array, that is secondary.

Of course, Xia Duo was not without gains from this day of research; at least he confirmed that the information in the Watchtower library regarding the maintenance of the Watchtower was not false.

Leaving other aspects aside for now, for the Blazing Sun Array alone, he estimates that it needs to be maintained once a month, and the energy buffering core within it, which is the Arcane Crystal, needs to be replaced.

Of the 100,000 Gold Coins in annual maintenance funding, the Arcane Crystal item alone would take up the majority. (Market price of an Arcane Crystal is about 5000)

Fortunately, Xia Duo's Arcane Fire can now provide a surplus of about one-tenth of a Standard Arcane Crystal every day; if it were back when he had just advanced to Arcanist, it would have taken him at least half a year to save up one Standard Arcane Crystal.

Arcane Crystals can be said to be a trump card that any Arcanist will save up as much as possible; according to this method of consumption, even a Senior Arcanist might not be able to bear it.

If there were no subsidy from the Seventon Council, Xia Duo would rather turn off the "light bulb" outside right now.

But if there is a subsidy, that is another matter; what Mage Steven said before leaving, that the Council subsidy could cover the maintenance of the entire Watchtower, was not entirely a comforting remark.

If operated properly, there could even be quite a bit of surplus!

The most direct operation among them is, of course, to reduce the power of the "light bulb" outside, so that the Blazing Sun Array does not need to be in a high-output state for a long time, and the maintenance costs will be greatly reduced.

But the Seventon Council is not stupid either; perhaps when the Watchtower was in the hands of the Princess, it could still be used to cheat for subsidies, but when it reached Xia Duo and Niya, it might not be so cheap.

Xia Duo is not yet prepared to use such a method to cheat for subsidies; he is prepared to use some more conventional methods to reduce maintenance costs.

Such as regular inspections, regular use, and even optimizing the efficiency of the magic array in energy transmission, including the Principles of magic or engineering techniques.

While waiting for Luodite and the others to arrive, Xia Duo continued to analyze the Blazing Sun Array while already starting to calculate the corresponding Watchtower improvement plan.

However, there is currently a more urgent problem before him, and that is—the maintenance of the Blazing Sun Array this month.

There are now less than ten days left until the end of the month, which means that Xia Duo needs to finish the analysis of the Blazing Sun Array and complete the maintenance within ten days.

Of course, it is possible to perform maintenance without finishing the analysis work, but after all, this was someone else's territory before, so there will always be some unease.

Ten days for maintenance is relatively tight; although due to the existence of the triple magic array, the maintenance work can be delayed for at most two months, it still has to be done eventually.

It is a pity that those Apprentices of the Tower of Time have not yet grown up; otherwise, if he could casually assign a few Apprentices who have achieved the rank of Mage, calling it "practical training," how good that would be!

Unfortunately, apart from himself, the only ones in the Tower of Time who have the ability to maintain the Blazing Sun Array are Niya, Aiboke, and Depake.

Niya has not even taken over the Watchtower, and presumably she is not willing to waste time maintaining it; Aiboke is busy repairing the Magic Net outside the Tower of Time as entrusted by him!

As for Depake, he has just become a Mage after all; although he has a lot of experience in manufacturing Magic Items and has participated in the maintenance work of the Tower of Time many times.

But the maintenance of the Blazing Sun Array is not like the maintenance of the Tower of Time, which can be broken down into small tasks best suited to individual abilities under the distribution and command of the tower spirit; Xia Duo is really worried that Depake will blow up the Blazing Sun Array during maintenance.

This means he can only do it himself.

"I really am a life of toil!"

Xia Duo couldn't help but sigh, and at the same time, in his heart, he felt even less interested in the upcoming ruin exploration.

But the state of existence of the ruins he is interested in also has a time limit; the Plane Overlap state has already shown signs of separation, and perhaps one day, this ruin will completely collapse.

Therefore, it is also necessary to seize the time to investigate, test, and research.

Compared to before, after becoming a Senior Arcanist, time can indeed be said to have become much more abundant, but it cannot withstand many things happening all at once!

Just as he was thinking, the Sending from Luodite requesting the Access Key for the Watchtower's Teleportation Array finally arrived; Xia Duo set it up and hurriedly sent it over.

Once the agreement for the ruin exploration is completed early, he can do his own things early.