Chapter 1345: Design Thinking for the Mythallar

At this moment, the Mythallar that Xia Duo had been constantly thinking about finally unveiled its mysterious veil; with this data, suspected to be of the Mythallar, placed before him, he truly did not want to miss a single second.

At this moment, Xia Duo did not care about exposing his extraordinary memory ability, and in front of Iolum, he flipped through the book as if counting banknotes.

This book looked thick, but the Arcane Union had not yet popularized Elven Paper (Wood Pulp Paper), so they were still using Parchment; the thick volume was actually only two hundred pages or so.

With so little paper, Xia Duo finished flipping through it very quickly, but this was merely to imprint it into his brain so that it could be retrieved by his Memory Retrospection ability.

Regarding the content above, he did not actually truly remember it; if he did not use Memory Retrospection, even his impression of it would be extremely shallow.

The only thing he could be certain of was—this data was indeed related to the Mythallar.

Of course, the current Iolum had not yet named this "large-scale Independent Arcane Fire Device," and the so-called "Mythallar" was nothing more than Xia Duo's Prophet ramblings.

Next, he began to read carefully from the beginning; if the previous act was like starving and gorging, then this was chewing slowly and swallowing carefully.

Through careful reading, Xia Duo learned the context of Iolum's research on the Mythallar; it was indeed as he had previously guessed, there were mainly two routes—

One was, of course, to utilize the real Magic Net Strings from the outside world to create true Arcane Fire, and to find ways to ensure that the Arcane Fire would not be assimilated by the Magic Net without being combined with the Spellcaster's will.

The other was to use Energy-Conducting Materials to create a substitute product with the same functions as Arcane Fire; this one did not need to consider assimilation by the Magic Net, as long as it could be built, it could be used.

Of the two technical routes, the first was undoubtedly more advanced, and the early manufacturing costs, as well as the later maintenance costs, were also lower.

Iolum's initial attempts were along this route, but unfortunately, after countless attempts, he could not find any effective method to preserve the Arcane Fire.

He had no choice but to choose the second route.

However, the second route was by no means smooth sailing; its greatest difficulty lay in the fact that long-term, high-flux energy circulation would greatly increase the speed at which the device's core components underwent Elemental Transmutation reactions.

Once the core components deteriorated, the entire device would have to shut down.

There were solutions, which was to manufacture small devices, but such small devices did not have much significance, as this fundamentally went against the original intention of manufacturing an Independent Arcane Fire Device—

To obtain enough energy within a unit of time, and to obtain it continuously!

Another solution was to increase the purity of the core components—Iolum chose Mithril—as long as the purity was high enough, the speed of the Elemental Transmutation reaction would also decrease, which extended the device's operational lifespan.

But to make an experimental device have a certain degree of practicality, the purity of the Mithril required for its core components had to be at least a million times that of Standard Mithril.

This was too difficult; Mithril of that purity would rapidly deteriorate even if placed in the air; although it would not deteriorate to the point of being unusable, it would certainly no longer be a million times the purity of Standard Mithril.

Even in a vacuum, once it started running, the speed of Elemental Transmutation was still very fast.

Most importantly, even the amount of high-purity Mithril required for one set of experimental devices was enormous; the loss from a single experiment would start at at least ten million.

Learning these inside details, Xia Duo could not help but think of the Spell Chip experiments he had conducted in the 【Projection Plane: Empire Remnants】.

A single Spell Chip was worth one million in Netheril's current price system, and even then, he could not afford to play with it; he could only wait until he had his own Mithril Mine later.

Yet Iolum's Mythallar started at ten million; looking across all of Netheril, it was estimated that the vast majority of Spellcasters could not even afford the startup costs for the experiment, let alone continuous experimentation.

Just from this point, Xia Duo was certain that Iolum must have a mine in his hands; if he didn't have a mine, Xia Duo really couldn't imagine what the other party would rely on to sustain such a high-consumption experiment.

"No wonder the teacher told me before to find him if I had any needs regarding supplies; it really wasn't just empty words! Nor was it mere politeness, but rather that he simply didn't care about this bit of consumption!"

Aside from envy, Xia Duo really couldn't think of any other word to describe his mood at this moment; if he couldn't hold onto this golden thigh, he wouldn't even forgive himself.

Continuing to read, besides providing a relatively broad research process for the Independent Arcane Fire Device, the data mostly recorded the complete design blueprints of the device.

Right up until seeing the end, Xia Duo could not help but marvel at the ingenuity of Iolum's design thinking.

The design thinking was somewhat similar to a brushless motor on Earth: the multiple coils on the periphery remained stationary, only changing the current in the coils so that the changing magnetic field produced would continuously push the magnetic rotor in the middle to rotate.

Not all coils were energized at the same time; only when the magnetic rotor rotated to a certain angle would the corresponding coil be energized to push the rotor to continue rotating; once it passed that certain angle, if the coil continued to be energized, it would instead hinder the rotor's operation, so it had to be powered off.

Applied to the Independent Arcane Fire Device designed by Iolum, because the Independent Arcane Fire Device had relatively high requirements for materials and could not run for a long time.

Iolum designed the device into several sets of composite forms equivalent to Arcane Fire, starting only one set at a time, and the startup time was extremely short; multiple sets were started in turns, allowing the device to output energy to the outside world continuously.

As long as the number of standby Arcane Fires in the circulation startup Sequence was large enough, allowing the unit Arcane Fire to timely eliminate the internal pre-factors of Elemental Transmutation, the entire device could be kept running in a relatively "cold," and of course, lower-power state.

This greatly increased the service life.

Currently, the design blueprint Xia Duo saw in this data had an astonishing 124 sets of Arcane Fire in the circulation startup Sequence.

But unfortunately, even with such a long circulation startup Sequence, it could not keep the entire device running for a long time; Xia Duo noticed that in Iolum's most recent experiment, the device only lasted for less than 2 minutes.

To be precise, starting from 73 seconds, the 124 sequences collapsed one after another.

A simple estimation was that as long as the 124 sequences were expanded tenfold, the duration of the device's continuous operation would also increase by at least tenfold.

That is, over ten minutes.

If the number of circulation sequences continued to be expanded, the duration of the device's continuous operation could continue to increase until it reached an acceptable ideal time.

It was just that for every additional circulation sequence, the entire device needed to be redesigned once, so of course, it was impossible to test and increase them one by one.

One had to increase by a larger amount at once.

Additionally, an Independent Arcane Fire Device designed in this way would inevitably be very bloated; it would be better to improve the properties of the materials to make it more stable.