Chapter 1242: Differences in Creation, Limits of Manufacturing

After the Halan Territory Lord left, Xia Duo did not return to Seventon, but instead remained at the Watchtower. He took out the design blueprints for the Demon-Slaying Arrow left behind by the Halan Territory Lord and began to study them in detail.

He had only flipped through them roughly before without thinking deeply, but looking at the blueprints again now, he quickly found a trace of inexplicable familiarity.

It was not that they were similar to the Magic Arrow inside his Personal Space—that was just the most easily visible part on the surface. The deeper level lay in the fact that this Demon-Slaying Arrow felt to him like a one-time-use Flying Sword.

It only lacked the functions for remote control; the rest, such as "Space-Piercing Flight" and "Haste," gave him an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.

Of course, as a one-time-use Magic Arrow, besides these basic functions, its core functions lay in restricting teleportation and the final self-destruct attack.

"This is not easy!"

After carefully examining the design blueprints, Xia Duo realized that wanting to craft a Demon-Slaying Arrow within three days was truly no easy task.

General high-quality Magic Items are usually centered around a spell of 8th rank or higher, and their functions are not complex. However, this Magic Arrow had numerous functions that had to fit together, making the difficulty of crafting it far higher than that of a typical high-quality Magic Item.

Additionally, there was one critical point: the design blueprints provided by the Halan Territory Lord were the original Elven versions. This meant that if the maker was not proficient in Elven Magic, it would be almost impossible to make.

Generally, Elven original spells or design blueprints like these need to be converted into the Netheril Magic System first before they can be handed over to a Netherese Mage for further processing.

To convert Elven Magic into Netheril Magic relatively completely, the converter must be proficient in both Elven Magic and Netheril Magic.

Moreover, conversion between different magic systems easily leads to information loss, resulting in a situation where "a miss by an inch leads to a loss of a thousand miles." Therefore, after conversion, it must pass through multiple rounds of verification to be considered truly complete.

In the current situation, even Xia Duo could not complete the "Netheril Magic conversion" of the Demon-Slaying Arrow within three days. Conversely, the Demon-Slaying Amulet was quite simple to localize because it only had one function.

Fortunately, after receiving the Demon-Slaying Arrow design blueprints, Xia Duo had already made up his mind to craft the original Elven version. Now, after this preliminary study, he was even more certain of this idea.

Wanting to craft a "Netheril version" of a Demon-Slaying Arrow within three days is something even a Great Arcanist might not be able to achieve, unless they had studied it beforehand.

There was an Alchemy Array inside the Watchtower, and Xia Duo went straight to work, gaining experience during the crafting process. Because the magic systems were different, the crafting process for Magic Items was also vastly different.

Of course, there were similarities.

Similar to the structure of the Magic Arrow he had initially obtained from the Mythallar ruins, the core of the Demon-Slaying Arrow was also a slender, tubular Mithril mesh structure. However, this Mithril mesh rolled into a thin tube was not woven from Mithril wire, but was formed as a single piece.

And the biggest difference between this Psionic Creation and a Netheril Magic Creation was that it did not require an Energy Buffering core. That is to say, crafting the Demon-Slaying Arrow did not require Five-Colored Gemstones or Arcane Crystals; if they were needed, it was only for decoration.

To a certain extent, it was more like a Magic Item created using Constant Magic, but in reality, it was entirely a Mithral Component Magic Item.

It only appeared so unique because of the differences between the Elven and Netheril magic systems.

Above the Alchemy Array, light-shadow threads of various colors crisscrossed. Although he was crafting an Elven Magic version of a Magic Item, Xia Duo was still in the habit of creating auxiliary lines first.

After the auxiliary lines were finished, he tossed a first-grade Mithril Ingot above the Alchemy Array. Almost in the blink of an eye, the Mithril Ingot turned into a mass of liquid, churning continuously above the Alchemy Array.

In this situation, if it were an ordinary Mage, they would naturally use the Transmutation spell Mage Hand to directly control the liquid Mithril into various shapes.

Xia Duo did the same, but he had the advantage of auxiliary lines compared to an ordinary Mage. Without auxiliary lines, one could only rely entirely on feeling to shape it. Perhaps practice makes perfect, but such a technique is very difficult to pass on.

As a former Programmer who had received modern engineering education, Xia Duo did not like the term "technique" very much. He preferred to summarize a standard operating procedure that could be executed repeatedly.

After all, this was manufacturing, not art. If too many human factors were mixed in, the yield rate would be very difficult to control.

The limit of manufacturing is to eliminate all unnecessary human interference; ideally, it would be a single command, and the machine would automatically complete the manufacturing process.

Only in this way is it possible for the finished product to be as consistent as possible with the design blueprints. If it is inconsistent, then it is the machine's problem.

Once calibrated, the quality can remain unchanged for a long time. How could a person be that stable!

Soon, Xia Duo produced the first slender, tubular Mithril Component. It followed the requirements of the design blueprints perfectly; the curvature of the mesh lines, the intersection angles, as well as the number of nodes and their relative positions, were almost flawless.

The next step was to Link Magic Web.

After experiencing the systematic Elven Magic education in the 【Projection Plane: Cormanthor Birth】, Xia Duo now had a completely different understanding of the crafting of Elven Magic Items than he did at the beginning.

The Elven Magic system is inherited in one continuous line and closely linked. The essence of crafting this Magic Item was essentially weaving an ultra-micro Mythallar with the Mithril Component as the core.

If the core of the Netheril Magic system is Arcane Fire, then the core of the Elven Magic system is the Mythallar. From the Perception during Meditation at the start of enlightenment to the training and honing of various skills, everything was in preparation for the Mythallar.

And for Netheril Magic, before achieving Advanced Rank and creating Arcane Fire, all Focus Training and Spellcasting Training could also be considered preparation for controlling Arcane Fire.

Of course, whether it was the Netheril Magic system or the Elven Magic system, both were systematic operating methods created based on the Magic Net and the operability Principles of the Magic Net String.

The essence is actually the same; both are operations on the Magic Net.

Unlike the step of crafting the Mithril Component, Xia Duo did not proceed smoothly with the step of Linking Magic Web. Although Elven Magic is also a manifestation of Knowledge, it was far more complex than Netheril Magic during the Spellcasting process.

Of course, this is for a Spellcaster accustomed to Netheril Magic. If it were a native Elven Mage, they might feel that Netheril Magic is the unreasonable, barbaric act.

In fact, Xia Duo believed that Netheril Magic was a more refined Spellcasting method that conformed to the logic of ordinary people. He called this "forced feedback style," meaning that one (will) action necessarily feeds back one result.

The Elven Spellcasting method, however, was similar to "passive collaborative style," requiring the Spellcaster to seemingly actively but actually passively fit into the Magic Net and provide Guidance to the Magic Net. If the fit was not good, accidents would naturally occur frequently.