Chapter 1317: Production Line Improvement Plan and Recent Status of the Magic Technician Office

Tower of Time.

As the saying goes, "a short parting is better than a new marriage." On the morning of the second day after Xia Duo returned, it was only after the Magic Moment reminded him multiple times that he reluctantly let go of Niya, and then the two rose together.

After breakfast, Niya headed to the top-floor Study to continue researching her Communication Mythallar, while Xia Duo arrived at the Public Level, preparing to check on the production status of the Demon-Slaying Amulet.

Before coming, he had already learned from Niya that the Demon-Slaying Amulet production line was located in workshop 023 on the Public Level, so he headed straight there this time, giving the relevant personnel no time to prepare.

Pushing open the door, the most realistic production scene of the Demon-Slaying Amulet appeared before Xia Duo—

Two parallel workbenches intersected near the end of the room, with seven Alchemy Arrays distributed at specific positions upon them, capable of allowing twenty-one people to work simultaneously.

However, at this moment, Xia Duo could only see nearly thirty Magic Technicians, crowding the area around the workbenches completely.

But having many people did not mean chaos; beside the seven Alchemy Arrays, only sixteen people actually needed to operate the arrays to produce the Mithril Components required for the Demon-Slaying Amulets.

The others were mostly assistants to these sixteen, providing support for auxiliary lines or precise measurement spells; a few were responsible for final assembly and packaging.

In just an instant, Xia Duo saw the entire early production process of the Demon-Slaying Amulet—from tiny Mithril grains to delicate and intricate Mithril Components, and then to the prototype amulets in pure silver packaging after final assembly.

They were not yet linked to the Magic Web, because only two days had passed since Xia Duo had Aiboke bring back the mass production design plan; counting today, it was only the third day.

It was not something that could be completed in a day or two for the relevant personnel to familiarize themselves with the final production steps of the Demon-Slaying Amulet.

"My Lord!"

"No need for formalities, carry on with your work, I am just looking around."

Refusing the bows of the crowd, Xia Duo walked slowly behind the packagers at the end of the line, and three small, lidless wooden boxes immediately came into view.

The insides of the boxes were divided into 6x6 grids, and the first box was already more than half full. Xia Duo glanced at it and found that 29 small silver amulets were lying quietly in the small grids.

He casually picked up two amulets and placed them in his palm. At first glance, they were just two unremarkable little silver plaques with no decorations, forming a sharp contrast with other amulets.

But this was the specialty of the Tower of Time—

Mass production!

It was not that they couldn't add patterns to them, but that would inevitably increase the number of processes and man-hours. For a mission cycle of less than 20 days, it was still a bit too tight.

As long as the core functions were not missing, that was enough. With those Dwarves suffering through a war, how much heart would they have to appreciate the artistic attainments on a tiny amulet!

The mass production plan for the Demon-Slaying Amulet was something Xia Duo had people research in the Projection Plane, and he himself was very familiar with this plan.

At this moment, holding two prototype amulets, he began to try to link them to the Magic Web. Unfortunately, of the two prototypes he picked up at random, only one linked successfully, while the other ended in failure.

It was not that Xia Duo was unfamiliar with the steps to link the Demon-Slaying Amulet to the Magic Web, but that the amulet itself had a problem; the Mithril Components inside had deviations during final assembly.

Unless he could calculate a new linking method in real-time based on this deviation, he would fail to link one for every one he tried. This was also the main reason why the yield rate could not reach one hundred percent.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo looked again at the current production situation of the line, and after a moment of thought, he came up with areas for improvement.

Currently, the functions of the Alchemy Arrays in the Tower of Time were insufficient, and compared to the Alchemy Arrays in the 【Projection Plane: Empire Remnants】, there was still considerable room for improvement.

But for the production of the Demon-Slaying Amulet, this backwardness was not the problem; the key was that his Magic Technicians had misconceptions about the understanding of Alchemy Arrays.

Alchemy Arrays were certainly set up for production, but production did not mean only change and output; in fact, the entire process from raw material to finished product belonged to production.

Mithril Components could be shaped on the Alchemy Array, and final assembly could be done there as well.

The Mithril Components of the Demon-Slaying Amulet were far less delicate than the Spell Chips Xia Duo designed in the Projection Plane, but they were still very small. In the process of flowing from shaping to final assembly, a slight bump could lead to rework.

Additionally, during final assembly, it was not easy to operate such small "parts."

What Xia Duo thought of was to equip the final assembly stage with an Alchemy Array as well. Even if the current Alchemy Arrays of the Tower of Time were backward, they still possessed basic Levitation Fields.

Performing final assembly in a zero-gravity environment would surely minimize errors to the greatest extent.

It was just a pity that these Magic Technicians were not even Official Mages. If they had the spellcasting abilities of those Magic Technicians among the Empire Remnants, Xia Duo still had final assembly spells specifically designed for the Demon-Slaying Amulet.

This would further reduce the influence of human factors.

Besides the final assembly Alchemy Array, there was also the outflow process after the Mithril Components finished shaping, which would be best kept within a Levitation Field throughout.

Although this required a certain degree of modification to the production line, for the increasingly expected orders of Demon-Slaying Amulets, this effort was still very worthwhile.

Having only roughly looked at the situation of the two amulets, Xia Duo did not immediately call a halt to the production line. In any case, the daily working hours of these Magic Technicians would not exceed 4 hours at most, so it would not be too late to modify it when they were resting.

After coming out of workshop 023, Xia Duo turned and went to the Magic Technician Office, also located on the Public Level, which mainly handled matters such as data compilation and personnel training.

The production of the Demon-Slaying Amulet, besides the amulet prototypes, also had the most critical link to the Magic Web. This part could be done by High Mages, but the Tower of Time had a severe shortage of High Mages.

Therefore, when he was in the Projection Plane, when Xia Duo set up the project for Hake and the others, he required that the processes be broken down so that Low-level Mages could also participate in the process of linking to the Magic Web, sharing some of the work for the High Mages.

After arriving at the Magic Technician Office, Jianaer came forward to greet him with a slight bow. Xia Duo and Jianaer were once both apprentices of Niya, so their relationship was naturally much closer than with ordinary mages.

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and only then did they talk about the recent development of the Magic Technician Office—

"In terms of personnel, in addition to the 30 Apprentice-level Technicians initially rehired, another batch was rehired later, plus some of the Official Apprentices in the Tower of Time have also registered their identities as Magic Technicians."

"Currently, the Magic Technician Office has a total of 112 Apprentice-level Technicians, of which only 52 are full-time, and the rest only come over occasionally when there are production tasks."

"There are 9 Primary Technicians, of which 5 are full-time and 4 are part-time; there are 3 Intermediate Technicians, of which 2 are full-time and 1 is part-time."

"As for production, in addition to the previously mass-produced Magic Artifacts, Warning Amulets, Missile Wands, and Wood Pulp Paper, the production line for the Demon-Slaying Amulet is also being adjusted, and it should not delay the order from Lord Halan."