Chapter 2543: Prospects for the Civilian Market

The reason for this is also mentioned by Laidun in the "Measures," because after the magic stove, several other household magic appliances will be launched one after another, which mainly depends on the progress of Xia Duo's student, Jieyin.

If the magic stove can be successfully popularized, it will also be conducive to the promotion of subsequent household magic appliances. Although the initial investment for products like the magic stove is relatively high, in the long run, both in terms of cost and convenience, they far exceed traditional, ordinary appliances.

This is the part that can be compared; in the future, more and more magic appliances will not have similar counterparts in the past, as they are all brand-new concepts, actually intended to facilitate people's lives.

For example, a washing machine—in the past, it was almost impossible for ordinary people to imagine such a thing. Even the Cleaning Spell of a Spellcaster is actually not as useful as imagined, as it can only clean some floating dust.

Stains like grease, odors, and juices are not that easy to clean.

Of course, this refers to the traditional Cleaning Spell. Although Xia Duo developed a new Cleaning Spell very early on, it can only clean most common stains and is not adapted to all future scenarios, and such spells largely require specific adaptation.

Adapting to individuals, adapting to clothing, and adapting to various things that need cleaning—for a Spellcaster personally, this might not be considered much trouble, but when it needs to be used in a universal appliance, it is not that simple.

And if one considers the principles of washing machines on Earth, detergents become quite a bit of trouble.

In short, household magic appliances have great room for development, and this is also the field that the Territory's work on Magic Civilianization will mainly focus on in the future. The popularization of magic lamps has not yet laid a poor foundation for that work.

Once the magic stove successfully enters the true homes of thousands, allowing the vast majority of the territory's residents to enjoy the convenience of magic, then when such magic appliances are launched in the future, there will be no need to rack one's brains to promote them; instead, the headache will be the issue of insufficient production capacity.

Although the Tower of Time is short-handed, Xia Shao still seriously considered this matter. This is not only conducive to promoting the progress of Magic Civilianization within his own territory, but these magic appliances can also be sold externally in exchange for various resources required for territory construction.

Thinking of this, Xia Shao pulled out the "Measures" document, which was still in a pending state, left an "Approved" mark on it, and then placed it on the desk to the side, so that Laidun could see it the next time he came here.

Of course, if there is an opportunity in the future, one must still find more rich Mithril mines. Earning others' money is not true ability; having one's own mines is what truly gives one confidence, and even if one has mines, it does not mean they must be mined immediately.

From this point, the superiority of the Mythallar is further highlighted. It directly uses Magic Net Strings for reshaping, and in essence, it has completely broken away from the concept of Magic Items.

As far as the present is concerned, the only material Xia Shao does not need to import from the outside is Adamantine. As for others like Mithril, even if he has Arcane Strings that are close to Magic Net Strings, it is impossible to completely replace Mithril.

Therefore, for Xia Shao, he usually only uses Arcane Strings where Mithril cannot be used as a substitute, such as in Mythallars, High-Flux Portals, and the like. In other places, even if more frequent maintenance is required, he is more inclined to use Mithril.

After all, no matter how close an Arcane String is to a Magic Net String, it is still not a true Magic Net String; its essence is the material projection of Arcane Energy onto the Magic Net String.

Introducing the research and development progress of his team on magic appliances, as well as the feasibility response to Laidun's proposal, the most mentioned things among these are cost and manufacturing difficulty.

Besides mines—and not just Mithril mines, but also gold, silver, copper, etc. —the best result is actually discovering the elemental composition of these substances.

Of course, it does not necessarily have to be Laidun. Laidun's Clerk almost comes here every other day to save copies of documents. If they see a document with the Lord's approval, they will naturally bring it to Laidun; Xia Shao does not need to worry about this at all.

In addition to specific promotion measures for magic appliances, on this row of bookshelves, there are also some of Laidun's thoughts on household magic appliances for the territory, as well as Jieyin's replies to them.

It has not yet entered the research and development stage; it is just a preliminary cost estimate of five hundred Gold Coins based on the prices of traditional Magic Items. Of course, these costs exclude labor.

Even if its own nature is very stable, the essence of its energy is still not as reliable as Mithril, which is a substance, when constructing complex systems.

As for labor costs, at present, the cost of Magic Technicians at the Tower of Time is relatively uniform. There is no such thing as a higher price for higher-level Magic Items. The wages of Magic Technicians have nothing to do with the level of the Magic Item, but are related to the working hours and the number of Spell Elements completed to Link Magic Web.

It is no wonder that even if the Red Heart Alliance of the Projection Plane possesses a brand-new magic system, they would still take the Mythallar of the Elven Magic System as the main application direction of the new magic system.

It neither requires frequent maintenance nor lacks guaranteed stability. There are often Mythallars that are still lingering on after losing maintenance for hundreds of years, but it is rare to hear of any Magic Item that can be used for hundreds of years.

Selling household magic appliances and other mass-produced Magic Items that may be more combat-oriented, in exchange for raw materials like Mithril, conforms to the general trend of territory development.

But even for the Red Heart Alliance, Mithril is a very exclusive and important magic material; it is even more impossible for Xia Shao now.

To explain it in terms from Earth, it should be that the stability of Mithril's own nature is not as good as Arcane Strings, but the robustness of Magic Items based on Mithril material is higher than that of Arcane String creations.

"Perhaps I can increase the manpower for the household magic appliance R&D team!"

Although objectively, high-level Magic Items contain more elements and require longer working hours, for the Tower of Time, a unified wage standard has more significance for long-term development.

At present, Xia Shao has mastered the elemental composition of seventeen substances, including Adamantine and Iron, and can produce them in batches. If he can master the elemental composition of more key resources, then the Great Xia Territory's dependence on the outside world can be said to be reduced to the lowest limit, and he can grasp the greatest initiative in various interactions with the outside world. The cost of these magic appliances is no higher than ten or twenty Gold Coins, and if expensive, no more than five hundred. Xia Shao noticed that the most expensive magic appliance in Jieyin's plan was named by him as 【Household Force Barrier】.

Xia Shao currently has a Mithril Mine, but he has no intention of mining it at all; instead, he uses it as a strategic reserve. When he can buy from others, he should try his best to buy.

Xia Shao roughly flipped through it. The costs of the various magic appliances that Jieyin's team is developing are mostly not high—of course, this is relative to traditional Magic Items. If the cost is found to be too high during the R&D process, Jieyin will decisively interrupt the R&D, save the data, and wait for another opportunity to restart in the future.

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