Chapter 2316: Element-level Spell Pool

"Well said!" Xia Duo praised Depake's answer.

It was not just because the other party answered the reason why the Tower Spirit could not cast spells, but more because he connected spells with the Mythallar, recognizing that these were all movement trends of the Magic Net; this kind of understanding had already reached a very high level.

Ordinary spellcasters might not distinguish between the differences in Magic Net Strings at all, let alone think about the essence of spellcasting, but an Arcanist would not.

Without understanding the Magic Net, without understanding the essence of spellcasting, and without understanding that will is a facet of the soul, one simply cannot become an Arcanist.

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As for the question of whether a Tower Spirit can cast spells, in reality, any spellcaster could easily think of it with a little deep thought: why can a Tower Spirit control all the facilities within a Mage Tower, yet cannot cast spells randomly according to need?

A single-element Magic Item is not difficult to realize; one could even say it is very easy to realize, as it is essentially an extremely crude Prestidigitation.

Countless Prestidigitations combined together become a true spell; Xia Duo believes that people in the past must have thought about this, and perhaps even tried it personally.

The Spell Pool commonly applied in Mage Towers today is likely a product of that time, but precisely because it is a Spell Pool rather than an Element-level pool, it shows that people back then were also unable to overcome the point that a Tower Spirit lacks the will to locate Spell Source Points.

The Spell Pool Xia Duo has now is not designed for a Tower Spirit, but for an experimenter; if every experiment required the experimenter to cast spells themselves, it would be too exhausting.

In the past, at the Tower of Time, or in most Mage Towers in Netheril today, the exploitation of Apprentices by mentors largely stems from the limitation of their own spellcasting frequency, necessitating the use of Coordinated Casting to exploit the Apprentices' spellcasting abilities.

It is just that an Element-level Spell Pool is not a high-threshold thing; it is much simpler than a true Spell Pool. Anyone capable of building a Mage Tower can build an Element-level Spell Pool.

Why hasn't it appeared yet? Perhaps it is because Netherese Mages had a blind spot in their thinking and didn't think of it; the fact that they could exploit Apprentices served as a supplement to this. Furthermore, some Mage Towers might have designed it long ago, just without making it public.

Xia Duo does not care whether it is made public; in fact, he is more inclined to make it public. Recently, he received some not-so-good news, so he is preparing to make this application public after the Snow Melting Competition ends.

Of course, besides using it as a bargaining chip itself, Xia Duo making this application public is also in the hope that Mage Tower organizations across Netheril will conduct in-depth research on it; if a way can be found to let Tower Spirits cast spells, that would be even better.

However, this hope is very slim. Being able to cast spells means being able to link the Magic Net for quasi-Magic Items; this is the prerequisite technology for standard Arcane Magic-style fully automated production.

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"Currently, I don't have the ability to design and build an exhaustive Element-level Spell Pool. If you need to use elements not in the Spell Pool during your experimental process, remind me to add them at any time. I hope this facility can lighten the burden for your upcoming work."

"Mm."

Depake responded, then continued to follow Xia Duo to tour the Laboratory. By the time this trip was over, Depake already had an extremely profound impression of the Creation Mythos Laboratory.

Of course, he also had a preliminary understanding of the Creation Mythallar project and the work he would need to do in the future.

In Depake's view, the Creation Mythallar was more like a nearly omnipotent new type of Alchemy Array; one could imagine the design difficulty involved, and his future work could be summarized in one sentence—

Like an Apprentice, perform various tests according to the requirements above, provide feedback on the results, and then repeat this process.

Having come from being an Apprentice himself, Depake was no stranger to this kind of work; he even felt a bit novel, and even somewhat excited, about the upcoming work because he hadn't experienced Apprentice life for too long.

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As for Xia Duo, after introducing the Laboratory to Depake and letting him temporarily intern under Aiboke, he felt the whole person was much more relaxed.

After discussing Mythallar issues with Saville for a while, the current research progress of both of them largely depends on the experimental progress on Aiboke's side.

For the entire project, Xia Duo has divided it into two major parts to realize: one is the expansion of Creation Power, which is to design control items for it that can precisely regulate the intensity, attributes, direction, range, and even more attributes of Creation Power.

Or one could call it an interface for the Mythallar.

The other part is the Mythallar function design based on this foundation, including but not limited to the connection with Creation Power, auxiliary control in production, interaction with spellcasters, as well as Permission Level settings, encryption, and so on.

The most difficult part is the first one; this is also the part where Xia Duo and Saville currently discuss, exchange, experiment, and improve the most intensely, sometimes changing several plans within a single day.

As for the second part, it can largely apply the frameworks of other Mythallars, but Xia Duo does not like to use the Traditional Elven Mythallar and is more inclined to develop it based on the Adaptive Mythallar of the Floating City.

The second part is currently only on paper and has not undergone relevant design and experimentation; it won't be too late to start the second part once the first part has made progress.

The Adaptive Mythallar is a new type of Mythallar that Xia Duo participated in developing throughout the entire process in the Projection Plane, and he has sufficient confidence in the subsequent development and application of the Adaptive Mythallar.

On the contrary, with the Traditional Elven Mythallar, the Elves have accumulated too much in that area. Although Xia Duo knows a lot about Elven Magic, he dare not say he is completely proficient in the field of Mythallars. He is very worried that his research might end up being something the Elves have already played out, which would be tragic.

It is better to change tracks, just like the Creation Mythallar itself.

Yimaska uses Creation Secret Tools, he cannot compete with that; switching to Mythallars, he cannot compete with the Elves in Traditional Mythallars, so he will come up with the Adaptive Mythallar.

The smartest point about intelligent life is that it will always find a way out for itself, it is just that some people use it for good, and some people use it for not-so-good.

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Seven days later, three days before the Snow Melting Recruitment, and also the seventh day since the official start of the Tower of Time's first Steam Locomotive Design Competition.

Over these past few days, more and more competing teams have been test-driving on the Floating City—not the sample cars issued to them, but the competing cars they designed and manufactured themselves.

As long as the number of team members is not ridiculously small, with the help of the Alchemy Array, half a day is enough to assemble a Steam Car; more time is spent on improvements and testing.

Also, because more and more competing cars have appeared, many competing teams have realized the disparity between people in the field of mechanical design, and have successively given up the competition, preparing to use the remaining little time to catch up on their studies.

But more chose not to give up and continued to participate in the competition; after all, they had already been busy for so many days, and all team members had devoted a lot of time and energy to this. They would not be reconciled if they didn't clash with others.

When Xia Duo was working overtime in the Creation Mythos Laboratory, he did not forget to frequently pay attention to the situation of the Locomotive Design Competition, and he basically had a good idea of the competing cars that each team was preparing.

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