Chapter 1583: Daily Production of Twenty Thousand, Designing New Machines

Upon arriving here, Xia Duo noticed that more than half of the ten Arcane Crystal Extractors were already damaged, and the Magic Aura emitted by the remaining ones was in an unstable state.

Xia Duo estimated that it would be difficult to reach the ideal production state.

Arriving near the surface of the island, Niya was excitedly fluttering up and down around those Arcane Crystal Extractors, from time to time grabbing a handful of Standard Arcane Crystals, then scattering them and grabbing another handful again.

Because the gravity on the Blue Crystal Plane is extremely weak, the Arcane Crystals Niya scattered fell extremely slowly, and soon they covered a large area of space.

Under the illumination of the 【Mythallar】 device not far away, they looked exactly like strings of shining teardrops.

After Xia Duo arrived, he used Spellcasting to gather all the Arcane Crystals together and stack them neatly; since Standard Arcane Crystals have a fixed size, Xia Duo could roughly judge the quantity of this batch of Arcane Crystals with just a glance.

It was about 120,000, a full one-fifth less than the 150,000 he had initially estimated!

"It's alright."

"What do you mean it's alright! There are so many here, and this only took six days; it's hard to imagine how many Arcane Crystals we can have in a year!"

Compared to Xia Duo's calmness, or even faint dissatisfaction, Niya looked much more optimistic, turning around the crystalline cubes—each with a side length of about half a meter—that Xia Duo had stacked, the smile on her face never stopping.

"Stay calm, this is just the beginning; in the future, we will never be short of Arcane Crystals!"

Xia Duo reminded her, then quickly changed the subject, "Let me ask you a question: go and check those Arcane Crystal Extractors and see why they were damaged?"

Once he said this, Niya was indeed attracted, and upon seeing the appearance of those Arcane Crystal Extractors, she was immediately surprised: "Why are all the ones you made damaged, while the ones I made aren't broken yet?"

"Go and check!"

Xia Duo had actually already guessed the approximate reason; this should also count as an engineering problem, but the time spent experimenting in Seventon before was too tight, and only the feasibility of the Arcane Crystal Extractor was verified, without conducting long-term, high-intensity work tests.

Niya had not yet realized it at this moment; she first checked the ones Xia Duo had made that were already damaged, and only after that did she check the ones she had made herself.

Before long, Niya returned to Xia Duo's side and tentatively gave an answer: "The damage situation is related to the quality of production; the better the quality, the easier it is to be damaged?"

But in fact, she herself didn't quite believe this answer; it was simply too counterintuitive, yet the reality was right there.

It was difficult to make a horizontal comparison between the extractors Xia Duo made that were already damaged, but among the ones she made, there were still several in standby working state!

It was clearly the ones made later that were easier to damage; the first extractor she had made previously, despite having the worst quality, was in the best condition among these ten extractors!

"You only got half of it right!"

Xia Duo didn't keep her in suspense and quickly explained the real reason for the damage to these extractors: "These ten devices are in the same work Sequence; the ones I made were ranked in the front, so damage under continuous high-intensity work was almost an inevitable result."

"And the ones you made were slightly rougher, which made the working state of their devices unstable; when in the work Sequence, the working states of several devices would switch back and forth. The one with the worst quality had the least amount of work time when it was its turn, and relatively speaking, it was easier to preserve."

After hearing Xia Duo's explanation, Niya's mood was a bit complicated: "You mean, the ones you made were all damaged first, and only then did the ones I made share the workload, which is why the ones I made weren't completely damaged?"

"Pretty much, and the last extractor I made, if nothing goes wrong, should have only been damaged yesterday."

"Alright! So that's how it is!"

Niya sighed heavily; she had thought she had discovered some special technique in the process of manufacturing Magic Items! She didn't expect it to be like this!

Immediately after, she seemed to have thought of something and asked hurriedly: "Then do we have to make a new batch of extractors every time we come here in the future? Or should we make them in the Main Plane and then bring them in?"

"No need." Xia Duo shook his head, "It was my oversight before, ignoring the usage limits of normal Magic Items; just adjusting the work frequency will be enough."

The main reason normal Magic Items can be used for a long time is that their working time is very short, while an Arcane Crystal Extractor has to respond almost every few seconds, and it can run through the entire lifespan of a normal Magic Item in about a day.

And this is only because the Mithril material Xia Duo used was all high-purity Mithril for making boutique Magic Items; if he had switched to ordinary Mithril, it might not have even lasted half a day.

There is another problem, which is also one that Xia Duo and even Iolum have ignored, and that is—

Now that Arcane Energy is extremely abundant, using Standard Arcane Crystals as a unit of measurement, as well as a unit for Spell extraction, is already somewhat inappropriate.

A larger standard needs to be replaced to match the future growing output power of the 【Mythallar】.

The 【Create Arcane Crystal】 Spell is only a 5th Circle Spell, and its limit is to create one Standard Arcane Crystal; if replaced with a higher-circle Spell, perhaps it could extract as much Arcane Energy as more than 100,000 Standard Arcane Crystals at once.

Or, the Arcane Crystal should return to its original unit, using Arcane Energy Value to calculate size, rather than using Standard Arcane Crystals to calculate quantity.

According to the standard Xia Duo previously measured and defined, one Standard Arcane Crystal converted into Arcane Energy Value is about 1000 points.

And this is also the actual energy consumption of a standard 10th Circle Spell.

That is to say, he obtained a total of 120 million points of Arcane Energy in Arcane Crystals over these six days.

However, these are all unit conversions; what standard to adopt still needs to be combined with reality, for the sake of easy calculation or intuitive feeling, and Xia Duo is not yet prepared to force the 1 Crystal = 1000 points Arcane definition standard.

"Niya, now I have another task for you!"

"What task? Aren't you going to build the Floating City?"

"Of course I am, but there is still some preparatory work to do; during this time, help me design an extractor that can extract at least 1000 Standard Arcane Crystals at once."

The number 1000 is a rough estimate Xia Duo arrived at by considering the upper limit of the intensity of the Arcane Energy Field currently produced by the 【Mythallar】 device (the amount of field converted into Arcane Energy).

The Arcane Energy Field intensity is not constant, but is constantly increasing, but it has a manually set upper limit; after exceeding the upper limit, the Arcane Energy produced by the 【Mythallar】 device will flow into the Magic Net instead of continuing to push up the field intensity.

The Arcane Energy of 1000 Standard Arcane Crystals cannot be produced in an instant, but such a large amount of Arcane Crystals can be manufactured at once, it will just significantly weaken the field intensity.

During normal use, it would certainly limit the rate at which the field intensity drops, but now, in order not to waste even a single bit of Arcane Energy, while also trying to extend the service life of the Arcane Crystal Extractor as much as possible, this is the only way to do it.