Chapter 2544: Observations at the Theater

————A little late today, still need about 5 minutes~~

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The reason for this move, which Laidun also mentioned in the "Measures," is that after the magic stove, several more household Magic Appliances will be released one after another; this mainly depends on the progress of Xia Duo's student, Jieyin.

Just as the magic stove can be successfully popularized, it is also beneficial for the promotion of subsequent household Magic Appliances. For products like the magic stove, although the initial investment is higher, 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 traditional past, as they are all brand-new concepts, actually intended to facilitate people's lives.

For example, a washing machine; in the past, ordinary people could hardly imagine such an existence. Even the Spellcaster's Cleaning Spell is actually not as useful as imagined, as it can only clean some floating dust.

Stains such as oil, odors, and juices are not so easy to clean.

Of course, this is 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 this type of spell largely requires specialized adaptation.

Adapting to individuals, adapting to clothing, adapting to various things that need cleaning—for an individual Spellcaster, this might not be considered too troublesome, but when it needs to be used in a universal appliance, it is not so simple.

And if one considers the principle of a washing machine on Earth, detergent becomes a big problem.

After all, no matter how close an Arcane String is to a Magic Net String, it is still a real Magic Net String; its essence is the material projection of the Magic Net String onto Arcane Energy.

As far as the present is concerned, the only material Xia Shao does not need to import from 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.

Of course, if there is an opportunity in the future, he still needs to find more rich Mithril Mines. Earning others' is not considered true ability; having one's own mines is true ability and provides real confidence, and having one's own mines does not necessarily mean they must be mined immediately.

To explain it using terms from Earth, it should be that the stability of Mithril's own properties is not as good as Xia Duo's, but the robustness of Magic Items based on Mithril materials is higher than that of Arcane String creations.

In short, household Magic Appliances have huge room for development and are also the field that the Territory's Magic Civilianization work will focus on in the future. The popularization of Magic Lamps has already laid a good foundation for this work.

It is no wonder that the Red Heart Alliance of the Projection Plane, even after possessing a brand-new magic system, would treat the Mythallar of the Elven Magic System as the main application direction for their new magic system.

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.

The cost of these Magic Appliances is no more than ten or twenty Gold Coins, and if expensive, no more than two hundred. Xia Shao noticed that the most expensive type of Magic Appliance in Jieyin's proposal was named by him as 【Household Force Barrier】.

Once the magic stove successfully enters the true homes of thousands, allowing the vast majority of territory residents to enjoy the convenience of magic, then in the future, when such Magic Appliances are released, there will be no need to rack one's brains to promote them; instead, one should worry about the problem of insufficient production capacity.

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

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.

It introduced the R&D progress of their team on Magic Appliances, as well as answers to the feasibility of Laidun's proposals, among which the most mentioned were cost and manufacturing difficulty.

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

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 it can be bought, he should try his best to buy others'.

Xia Shao flipped through it roughly. 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 an opportunity to restart in the future.

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It neither requires frequent maintenance nor lacks guaranteed robustness. There are often Mythallars that have been gasping for breath for hundreds of years after losing maintenance, yet it is rare to hear of any Magic Item that can be used for hundreds of years.

As for labor costs, at present, the cost of Magic Technicians at the Tower of Time is relatively uniform. There is no situation where high-level Magic Items have high prices; 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 in linking the Magic Net.

In addition to specific Magic Appliance promotion measures, on this row of bookshelves, there are also Laidun's thoughts on civilian Magic Appliances in the Territory, as well as Jieyin's replies to them.

"Perhaps we can increase the manpower for the household Magic Appliance R&D team!"

Of course, it does not necessarily have to be Laidun. Laidun's Clerk comes here almost 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.

Selling household Magic Appliances and other mass-produced Magic Items that might be more inclined toward combat, in exchange for raw materials like Mithril, conforms to the general trend of Territory development.

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

It has not yet entered the R&D stage; only a cost of two hundred Gold Coins was initially estimated based on the price of traditional Magic Items. Of course, these costs exclude labor.

At present, Xia Shao has mastered the elemental composition of seventeen substances including Adamantine and Iron, and can mass-produce them. If he can master the elemental composition of more key resources, then the Great Xia Territory's dependence on external resources can be said to be reduced to the lowest limit, and it will be able to grasp the greatest initiative in various external interactions. From this point, the superiority of the Mythallar is further highlighted; it directly utilizes Magic Net Strings for reshaping, and in essence, it has already departed from the concept of ordinary Magic Items.

But even for the Red Heart Alliance, Mithril is a very important magic material that cannot be excluded, and it is even more impossible for Xia Shao now.

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