Chapter 1116: Improving Scaling, Land Thawing

Beside the square well, Xia Duo looked down at the Code Sculpture submerged in the water, then silently cast a spell to float the sculpture up from the well, finally letting it land beside him.

Although Xia Duo had long since estimated the size of the Code Sculpture, when the finished sculpture was truly placed before him, he could still feel a strong visual impact.

The base of the sculpture's lower half was approximately a 6*6*6 cube; standing next to it was like facing a tall, dark wall, extremely oppressive.

Above the base was a giant, half-open book. Of course, one could not see the upper part of the sculpture if standing too close; one had to step back a few paces to see the magnificent Daxia Code.

After circling the sculpture twice to ensure there were no quality issues, Xia Duo finally revealed a satisfied smile.

Of course, having no quality issues did not mean there were no other problems; in fact, there were quite a few!

The most prominent among them was the lack of coordination after the details of the miniature Code Sculpture were scaled up proportionally.

In reality, the miniature Code Sculpture itself was fine, but due to its small size, Xia Duo had considered it more from a top-down and eye-level perspective during the creation process, whereas the enlarged official version only offered a bottom-up view.

The change in perspective would lead to the sculpture looking somewhat incongruous. Fortunately, the elements of the sculpture were simple—just a book and a cube—so the sense of incongruity was not yet too obvious.

If it were a human figure, the sense of incongruity might be even stronger.

Another problem was also related to the enlargement, and that was—

When it was a small sculpture, the base had no decorative patterns or textures, so it didn't feel like anything was missing, but once enlarged, if it still lacked decorative patterns or textures, it would appear too monotonous, with large, blank areas.

Therefore, subsequent versions would need to add some decorative textures or patterns.

Finally, there was the issue of the miniature sculpture's precision; of course, it was also related to the enlargement.

When creating the miniature Code Sculpture, although Xia Duo polished it in every way, his focus was more on the design, and he had not considered precision much.

At least he had not used specialized measurement spells to control the precision, merely "hand-crafting" it based on feel.

Although it was not very obvious when it was small, when it was scaled up proportionally countless times, the lack of precision was also magnified countless times, making it much more obvious.

For example, the base, which served as the lower half of the sculpture, should have had four sides that were very smooth planes; although they were still smooth now, they were not flat.

The light in the Arcane Garden was very sufficient, and Xia Duo could easily see through the reflection of light that there were uneven, concave, and convex phenomena on the four sides of the base.

This would also need to be corrected in the future.

Of course, subsequent versions would also need to add the text of the Daxia Code to the four sides of the sculpture's base; the previous miniature version did not have the code text.

This involved typesetting again, as well as the effect after enlargement, which would require Xia Duo to test continuously.

However, for the subsequent tests, Xia Duo would not need to create a physical sculpture every time; this time, creating a physical sculpture was merely to verify whether the 【Large Stone Shaping Technique】 was feasible.

Facts proved it was feasible.

And next, he only needed to observe the projection of the miniature sculpture after enlargement to make targeted adjustments to the miniature sculpture.

Once all the problems related to precision, enlargement effects, and the typesetting of the code text were solved, that would be the time for the 【Code Sculpture Constant Matrix Official Version】 to be born.

The so-called "Constant Matrix," in layman's terms, was an item that could be used for Constant Magic. Only after the 【Code Sculpture Constant Matrix】 was completed would Xia Duo cast Constant Magic on it, making it a practical Magic Item with more functions, rather than just a sculpture.

Even if this sculpture actually contained the text of the code.

……

Besides the problems related to the construction of the Code Sculpture, Xia Duo also discovered a problem related to the 【Large Stone Shaping Technique】.

That was the boundary problem of the open field.

This time, because it was a reversal of Petrification, it did not have any impact on the area outside the 6*6*10 square well, but what if the effect of the 【Shaping Technique】 was not a reversal of Petrification, but erasure?

In fact, erasure was more universal; it could be used on any stone or even other materials.

And if it were an open erasure field, wouldn't even the Spellcaster themselves be within the range of erasure? That would be too stupid.

Therefore, this shaping spell ultimately needed to converge its outward-radiating field, turning it into a limited, convergent Heteromorphic Field.

However, Xia Duo had little interest in solving this problem; he only researched the Shaping Technique to build large sculptures. If he were to manufacture other small items, an Alchemy Array would be a better choice.

In fact, he was prepared to carry out the subsequent improvement work on the miniature Code Sculpture through an Alchemy Array.

In the future, besides continuing to build large Code Sculptures, Xia Duo estimated he would have few opportunities to use the 【Large Stone Shaping Technique】, so naturally, he had no motivation to improve it.

It would be in time to improve it when there was a need; currently, the priority was to finish the Code Sculpture quickly.

Of course, the Magic Net environment outside the Tower of Time also needed to be repaired as soon as possible.

Just like that, Xia Duo once again started the mode of running back and forth with one-hour rotations.

Of course, strictly speaking, his main work was actually repairing the Magic Net; the work related to the Code Sculpture was used to take a short rest when he was tired from repairing the Magic Net.

……

Just when Xia Duo, this lord, was working hard, the Daxia Territory was naturally no exception. Since receiving Xia Duo's Indication, Laidun went to check the thawing situation of the land east of the Elemental Fountain every day. (The chaotic area of the Magic Net was shrinking; some areas had already calmed down, allowing ordinary people to start work first, then wait for subsequent restoration to normal.)

At noon that day, he came to the east of the Elemental Fountain as usual, first bowing from afar to the lord who was still working, and then squatted down to check the thawing situation of the ground under his feet.

The criterion for judgment was to forcefully insert a shovel into the ground; if it could be inserted, it meant that work could begin; otherwise, it would need to wait another day.

Without the blessing of Holy Power, Laidun's strength was not much greater than that of an ordinary person; as long as he could insert it, others would certainly be able to as well.

It was just a matter of lower efficiency; as long as work could start, everything was fine.

If it weren't for the lord specifically instructing not to burn fires, Laidun would have preferred to pull the wood piled everywhere in the Territory here to burn.

However, with this shovel today, seeing the shovel inserted firmly and deeply into the ground, Laidun knew there was no need to burn fires or think of any other methods.

The land had already begun to thaw!