Chapter 2617: Automation Route for Elemental Essences

After leaving the Government Hall, Xia Duo did not wander around on the ground, but returned directly to the Floating City, then sent a message to Niya to ask about the production status of the Communication Magic Tools and Aipusi's physical condition.

By the time he entered the Detection Laboratory, Niya's reply had just arrived, so he checked Niya's reply while preparing for the Prophecy Ritual.

The Communication Magic Tools were related to the next phase of the Tower of Time's grand strategy, and both Xia Duo and Niya were very concerned about it, especially Niya; this should be the first career she had undertaken since coming of age, so she naturally invested enough energy into it.

After these days of preparation, the Tower of Time had completed the production of the first batch of mass-produced new Communication Magic Tools, waiting only for a suitable opportunity to launch them into the market.

In her reply to Xia Duo, besides introducing the preparation status of the Communication Magic Tools, Niya also asked about another very important matter, which was the issue of the two-thirds of the nodes.

The Communication Mythallar adopted a distributed node design, and the Permission Level was also dispersed among a large number of nodes; currently, the 1.0 version of the Communication Mythallar supported a maximum of 420,000 nodes.

In other words, to fully control this Mythallar, one needed to control at least two-thirds of them, which was 280,000 nodes.

With the sale of the new Communication Magic Tools, the secret of the Communication Mythallar would inevitably be exposed; although they could keep two for every Communication Magic Tool sold, others might not necessarily refrain from mass-producing them.

Once it exceeded two-thirds of the current number of nodes, this Communication Mythallar would change hands.

Therefore, the safest approach was to control seven-eighths of all nodes in one's own hands immediately after the official release.

Of course, the builder of a Mythallar at least needed to be a Senior Arcanist or a Mage; if it were the former, it would also require an additional consumption of a large amount of Arcane Crystals.

If this manufacturing method could be applied to the production of other Magic Items, that would be true fully automated production, unlike the current Magic Technician Office of the Tower of Time, which, although it had assembly line designs, could ultimately not do without Spellcasters in the actual production process.

Elemental Essences did not necessarily possess Wisdom, so Xia Duo did not need to worry about any moral burden, but the acquisition of such special resources was not easy!

Skillfully anchoring to the present world, he then projected his Perception into the Astral Plane; for this prophecy, he did not directly choose to use the Demon Descendant as an entry point, but chose the Ailan Kingdom instead.

Of course, there was no need to consider such long-term matters at the moment; using it for a while would not have too great an impact. In fact, the more he understood the essence of Spellcasting, the more Xia Duo slowly discovered that the automation of the pure Arcane path he once longed for might not be so easy to realize.

That was very unrealistic, because for the next upgrade, the number of nodes supported by the Mythallar would likely head straight for the millions or tens of millions; if he had to manufacture them one by one, he would have nothing else to do in the future, just doing that alone.

After all, the Northland Alliance performed prophecies on Demon Descendants almost every day, whether it was pure spell-based prophecy or prophecy aided by Divine Power; they were already sick of it, and Xia Duo did not want to get involved in that quagmire again.

However, even for Xia Duo himself, the time required would likely have to be calculated in months; after all, 290,000 node magic artifacts, even if the individual elements were few, would add up to at least a million.

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The workload was approximately equal to building a 【Spherical Radial Configuration Independent Arcane Fire Device】, which was the version Xia Duo had previously researched with Iolum and the others.

The only regret was that this manufacturing method was essentially similar to enslaving other Spellcasters to perform the manufacturing, and it would inevitably cause consumption of the Elemental Essences during the process.

Thus, Xia Duo replied to Niya that he would find a way; as for Aipusi's physical condition mentioned in Niya's message, Xia Duo did not comment too much, as confirming that the other party had no problems for the time being was enough.

Let the Elemental Essences manufacture automatically through special design!

So Xia Duo decided to cheat; previously, he had obtained a 【Spirit Amulet】 from Calimshan in the south that could resist illusion attacks from the Mental Image World. The amulet itself was not the key; the key was the way to manufacture such an amulet—

Future matters could be discussed in the future; as long as the other party was not intentionally seeking death, no matter what happened, he should be able to handle it.

As long as this was settled, it would at least be a line of thought for future industrial upgrades.

Limited by the fact that materials could not be circumvented through design, the total amount of elements involved was greatly increased.

Wanting to master core technology was not that easy; Xia Duo had developed such a conjecture after he first manufactured the Spirit Amulet—

"Do you really think I'm some kind of Doraemon who can do everything!" Xia Duo complained in his heart, but he did not completely give up the idea of taking action himself.

Calimshan so easily gave away the manufacturing method for the Spirit Amulet; perhaps they had the idea of making a fortune by exporting Elemental Essences in the future!

Once this technical route was chosen, he could almost imagine that in the future, the Great Xia Territory or Netheril would inevitably have to import a large amount of Elemental Essences from Calimshan in the south, provided that they were willing to sell.

And this was only the first version of the Communication Mythallar, supporting only 420,000 nodes; when the Mythallar was upgraded in the future and the number of supported nodes increased, would he still have to do it personally then?

Xia Duo had performed this kind of ritual many times; the ritual itself did not have any problems, but there were more potential hidden dangers outside the ritual, such as falling into an obsession with a certain specific future, and so on.

It was just that he did not intend to personally manufacture those 280,000 node magic artifacts one by one, or a cluster magic artifact containing 280,000 node elements; the workload was simply too great.

The crux of Niya's question was this, because wanting to produce 280,000 functional Communication Magic Tools or node magic artifacts in a short time was not realistic.

Therefore, letting Xia Duo manufacture those 280,000 node magic artifacts was actually very cost-effective, because under the same workload, the cost of him taking action was definitely much lower than that of ordinary Magic Technicians.

Just prophesying the Demon Descendants, it was estimated that one would never be able to find a clue, or what was found would be a smokescreen released by the Darkness Society.

Perhaps if one wanted automation in the future, this was the only path to take; getting familiar with it in advance could be considered laying a foundation for the future.

This was something Xia Duo could not accept, and of course, it was something Niya could not accept, so she came to ask Xia Duo.

After replying to Niya, Xia Duo had already prepared everything needed for the Prophecy Ritual in the laboratory; what followed was the performance of the ritual.

But if the Magic Technicians of the Tower of Time were to manufacture them, the time required to complete 280,000 node magic artifacts would probably have to be calculated in years, right?

But the Ailan Kingdom was different; currently, among non-Demon Descendant existences on the Main Plane, it was estimated that he was the only one who knew that the name Ailan was related to the Demon Descendants. This was a huge advantage for a Prophet, and if he could use it, he naturally had to use it!