Chapter 2303: Magic Artifact Manufacturing

After several attempts, Saville easily grasped the macroscopic Magic Net fluctuation patterns corresponding to Creation Power, and could be considered to have officially perceived Creation Power directly with his own body.

As for Aiboke, his perception experiment failed again as expected; for now, he could only assist Xia Duo and Saville with the basic work of developing the Creation Mythallar while actively preparing for the next perception experiment.

Or perhaps, during the continuous development of the Mythallar, his understanding of the Mythallar might reach a new height, and in that way, he might be able to perceive Creation Power directly using Saville's method.

After all, as an Arcanist, Xia Duo still held the most basic expectations for Aiboke's abilities; even if they could not be realized in the end, he could still be used as a research assistant.

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After Saville left, Xia Duo remained in the Laboratory.

The calm Magic Net environment was conducive to his upcoming attempt at Magic Artifact manufacturing, but it was a pity that the Creation heritage given by the Mulan Prophet did not contain the method for manufacturing Magic Artifacts that Xia Duo envisioned Yimaska should already possess—one capable of precisely manipulating Creation Power.

At the time, after he had organized the heritage and checked it repeatedly, he had not found a single clue, which even made him doubt whether Yimaska possessed such technology.

Of course, there was no need to doubt this point; Yimaska possessed Magic Artifacts capable of manufacturing Magic Artifacts, so they must be able to allow Magic Artifacts to have the function of precisely manipulating Creation Power.

A possible explanation was either that the Prophet had withheld information, or that the Mulan had not been able to obtain the secrets in this regard.

Xia Duo was more inclined toward the latter; after all, it was already very difficult to obtain artisan heritage right under the noses of the Yimaska people, let alone this technology, which was almost absolutely critical to the artisan heritage.

Conversely, if the Mulan had it, Xia Duo would be the one to feel surprised.

Therefore, he could only manufacture the Magic Artifact by operating Creation Power himself; the Magic Artifact he was currently preparing to make was a type of household lock very common in Yimaska.

Its function was similar to the "Fingerprint Lock" from Xia Duo's hometown.

This was also one of the few Magic Artifacts in the Creation heritage that possessed a complete manufacturing process; most others only had fragments of information, making it impossible to follow them to build anything.

There were only three types of materials used to make the Fingerprint Lock; the first was used for the shell, which could be replaced at will, and did not even require Creation materials—any material would do.

Starting from the second type, Creation materials were required—that is, materials that had been altered by Creation Power and possessed specific properties; the second type was mainly used to realize the locking and unlocking function, with Iron as the substrate.

The third material was used for the lock's biometric identification and was linked to the locking and unlocking function; in fact, it could be regarded as the "central processing unit" of this type of lock, and it was a relatively complex system.

If one were to make a lock using Arcane Magic, it would actually be very simple, and there would be many ways to achieve it; most of the time, it could be realized with just one Spell.

But in the Creation Magic System, even just a common household lock required such a complex manufacturing process.

Also, Xia Duo's previous speculation when dismantling the Protective Puppet—that Magic Artifacts had an independent energy system—was correct!

After understanding the manufacturing process of the Yimaska Fingerprint Lock Magic Artifact, he already understood what kind of existence the Magic Artifact's energy system actually was.

Simply put, it was a technology similar to "batteries" on Earth, but it was not an isolated "battery"; Yimaska artisans smelted Energy-Conducting Materials and Energy Gems together through a specific combination method, forming the core material that composed the Magic Artifact.

In the manufacturing of the Fingerprint Lock Magic Artifact, the third material was such an existence, acting as both an Energy-Conducting Material and an Energy Gem.

The most critical part was the special design that allowed the energy circuit to automatically draw energy from the Magic Net when it was depleted!

In other words, as long as the core functions of a Magic Artifact were intact, it could be used indefinitely, even in a Magic Net Dead Zone, though it just couldn't "recharge" there.

Correspondingly, although the Magic Artifacts produced by the Arcane Magic System also contained energy in their Energy Gems, it was not used for the Magic Artifact's consumption; instead, the high-energy form of the whole acted as a node for Energy Buffering, and it actually consumed the energy of the Magic Net.

Such Magic Items, once they entered a Magic Net Dead Zone, or even some areas where the Magic Net rules were vastly different from the Main Plane—they would become useless!

Of course, the Arcane Magic System did not only have this one method of Magic Artifact production; there was also the method of making them through Spell fixation. This ability to resist different Magic Net rules was slightly stronger, and they could even be brought directly into the Astral Plane for use. (They still could not be used in a Magic Net Dead Zone.)

The disadvantage was that the threshold for manufacturing was relatively high, and once broken, wanting to repair them was almost equivalent to remaking them.

From the perspective of environmental adaptation alone, Magic Artifacts seemed to be superior, but from the perspective of reproduction and manufacturing, the Magic Artifacts of the Arcane Magic System seemed to be superior—no, Magic Artifacts could be manufactured automatically, while Magic Artifacts 【of the Arcane system】 could not yet.

Looking at it this way, Magic Artifacts 【of the Arcane system】 seemed to only have the advantage of low cost! And that was only compared to the current cost of Magic Artifacts; once the cost of raw materials dropped, the advantage of Magic Artifacts would be even greater.

Xia Duo was glad he had arrived in Yimaska in time and had even obtained the Magic Artifact manufacturing method in advance; otherwise, when Yimaska started "mass-producing troops," he might really have been dumbfounded.

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With the full set of design blueprints and manufacturing processes, Xia Duo quickly completed the material preparation for the Yimaska household Fingerprint Lock.

Of course, this was the result of him having practiced many times in advance.

According to the manufacturing process in the Creation heritage, the next step should be material shaping. For an artisan, this step was actually very difficult to complete without a Magic Artifact capable of precisely operating Creation Power.

Because this step did not require changing the essence of the material, it only required awakening it; if there was even a slight mistake, the entire workpiece would be ruined.

Xia Duo did not have that much time to practice slowly; the preparation of the materials alone had consumed a large amount of his energy to coordinate, and if the shaping process also required such effort, it would be too troublesome.

The reason he was willing to put more effort into the materials was that materials were the core of Magic Artifact manufacturing—of course, this was aside from the blueprints. As long as he had the materials, he did not need to use Creation Power to awaken them like Yimaska artisans.

Arcane Magic had better choices, and it could be completed automatically by designing specific Alchemy Arrays.

That is to say, as long as Xia Duo could import key materials from Yimaska in large quantities, he could build an automated production line for Magic Artifacts.

Of course, all of this was based on the premise inferred from the fact that "the shaping process of a Magic Artifact does not change the essence of the material" in the Creation heritage given by the Mulan Prophet.

If the Yimaska artisans were still hiding some "unspoken" final secret technique for the finishing touch, then that would not work.