Chapter 1295: Million-Value, Realistic Problems

Without even needing to look at the final results of the experiment, just from the preliminary preparations for this experiment alone, Xia Duo abandoned the idea of returning to the Main Plane to continue producing Spell Chips.

At the very least, until large-scale, cheap, High-Grade Mithril appears, he is not prepared to do it.

Setting aside whether it succeeds or fails, without a base of several million Gold Coins in the early stages, one cannot even gather the materials required for the experiment.

Even if the materials are gathered, it would be fine if the experiment succeeded, but if it failed, one would only hear a bang.

On the Projection Plane side, the Research Institute foots the bill for experimental consumption, but once he returns to the Main Plane, Xia Duo really does not have that much spare money to conduct this kind of experiment.

Spell Chips are arranged quite far back in Xia Duo's plans; when on the Main Plane, he would only occasionally think of them and let out a sigh.

It is only on this Projection Plane that he has such favorable conditions to complete a Primary Chip with a very singular function.

Once he returns to the Main Plane, as long as there is money, he has his own 【Element Extraction】 refining technology to always obtain the High-Grade Mithril he wants, but high-precision Alchemy Arrays are very hard to come by.

Regarding this, Xia Duo also has alternative plans, but they are ultimately just conjectures, and he currently lacks some of the prerequisites required for those plans, making it impossible to even verify them.

……

After toying with the million-value Adamantine Small Ball in his hand for a while, Xia Duo finally remembered that the Spell Chip had not truly been completed yet.

Only the final step of linking to the Magic Net remained.

For a Spell Chip, "small" is not its primary characteristic; its most important feature lies in the integration of a large number of spells, similar to multiple spellcasting or effect stacking.

This 【Force Shield】 chip of Xia Duo's integrates 28 1st Circle 【Force Shield】 spells within an Adamantine Small Ball only the size of a human pupil.

The theoretical protective strength during design is similar to the level of a 1st Circle 【Force Shield】 core Element Unit being ascended to the 5th or 6th Circle.

In other words, this one Spell Chip could actually be replaced by a more concise 5th Circle, or perhaps a slightly higher 5th Circle spell.

Then where is the actual significance of its existence?

This means that even if the Magic Net collapses, this Spell Chip can still exert its normal protective effect; it will only lose its function if the Magic Net disappears completely.

At the same time, the threshold for producing this chip is actually not high; as long as the conditions are suitable, even a low-level Mage could potentially complete it.

In other words, as long as the conditions are suitable, its cost can be as low as just the material fees.

And material fees are actually a false proposition; it might be very expensive at the beginning, but once the technology breaks through a certain limit, it will become extremely cheap.

Besides this, since a Spell Chip is an integrated effect, now that Xia Duo can produce a 28-in-1, it is not impossible to produce a 280-in-1 in the future.

It is just like Moore's Law for chips in his hometown; as long as people keep joining the research, its development will actually be very fast. Xia Duo is very confident about this.

……

The process of linking to the Magic Net did not encounter any hitches; it went more smoothly than Xia Duo expected. Following the linking sequence in the plan step-by-step, there was not a single error throughout the entire process.

It was not until the linking was complete and the Adamantine Small Ball emitted a dim yet thick Magic Aura in his Magic Vision that he realized this chip trial production was likely stable.

If problems arise during subsequent activation, it would not be related to the design, but rather that the purity of the Mithril might have been affected during the production process.

Carefully examining this finished 【Force Shield】 chip, it seemed as if the future scene of various Spell Chips appearing in large numbers appeared before Xia Duo's eyes.

Immediately after, he took this unique-at-the-present-stage Spell Chip to the Suppression Field in the Laboratory.

After driving away all other irrelevant people, he worriedly cast a wide-range Avoidance of Detection spell before activating the chip.

……

As soon as the chip was activated, a large number of palm-sized diamond-shaped Force Fields emerged around Xia Duo, dense and layered, continuously extending outward.

Force Field protection is very effective against physical attacks, but it is not as effective against energy attacks; of course, there is still some protective effect, at least better than having nothing at all.

And this 28-in-1 Force Field protection spell now possesses a protective strength exceeding that of a 5th Circle spell.

Although this is not very practical for Xia Duo right now, its potential for future development is immense. Seeing the Spell Chip successfully activated, Xia Duo nodded repeatedly in excitement.

"Finally reached this step!"

At this moment, Xia Duo really wanted to share the joy in his heart with more people, but in order to continue staying on this Projection Plane, he forcibly suppressed the restlessness in his heart.

As his mood gradually calmed down, Xia Duo also began to think about a more realistic problem: even with such good conditions as the Empire Remnant Research Institute, this chip was still born with such difficulty.

If it were placed on the Main Plane, how much time would it take for it to reappear?

Furthermore, this is just a 28-in-1 chip with simple functions; if one needed to realize more complex functions, or say, wanted to manufacture the computer he has always been thinking about, how complex would the manufacturing process be?

Besides manufacturing, design also has major problems.

Xia Duo had started pondering the design of this chip back on the Main Plane, but it was only because he lacked the conditions to realize it that it had been shelved; as for other chips, they would need to be redesigned.

It can even be said that even for the 【Force Shield】 chip, a 28-in-1 and a 29-in-1 are completely different concepts!

Xia Duo has not yet grasped the laws within this; to efficiently design various types of chips, more research is needed, or more specifically, more time, personnel, and resources are required.

Thinking about the complexity of the electronic chip industry in his hometown, while the conditions for realizing Magic Chips might be fewer than electronic chips because Spellcasters themselves possess relatively strong productivity, they would not be that much fewer.

With just a casual thought, Xia Duo could come up with a whole bunch of problems.

"The popularization of education must be persisted with! The population of the Territory must also continue to increase!"

In a magic world, the power of an individual might be boundless, but the collective still has an overwhelming advantage; can the addition of two strong individuals really be weaker than one strong individual?

Furthermore, even for a strong individual, their Wisdom does not necessarily exceed that of a weak one.

It is commonly said that a Mage is the embodiment of Wisdom, but in reality, a Mage can only be said to be the embodiment of intelligence or the embodiment of Knowledge.

Following the path of predecessors, as long as one is willing to put in the hard work and copy the pattern, it is not difficult to become a Mage, or even a Great Arcanist.

Wisdom, however, is a higher form of intelligence; it is a high-level creative thinking ability possessed by life based on physiological and psychological organs, containing all abilities such as Perception, memory, understanding, analysis, judgment, and Ascension regarding Nature and humanities.

Possessing intelligence does not equal possessing Wisdom.

For example—inspiration should belong to the category of Wisdom, not the category of intelligence.

Inspiration may have prior accumulation and paving, or it may appear without any warning; even a strong individual cannot guarantee that they will definitely be able to generate inspiration when needed.

If that were truly the case, wouldn't that be an omniscient mode of creating something from nothing!

Individual Wisdom cannot be omniscient, but collective Wisdom may not necessarily be unable to approach omniscience; as long as the number of individuals is large enough, all situations can be exhausted.

This is also the logic of civilization that Xia Duo has always firmly believed in!