Chapter 2712: Magic Glue Production Capacity

"I understand."

After listening to Laidun's account, Xia Duo also roughly understood the reason why the other party used the porcelain scheme; it was mainly a matter of cost.

It was not just the cost of the scheme itself, but also the hidden costs behind it. For example, the Constraint Array was actually not that useless; it was just that no Constraint Array specifically targeting the characteristics of the Magic Glue Monster had been designed.

But wanting to design a specialized Magic Array obviously required investing more research costs, not only on the Magic Array side but also in the research of the Magic Glue Monster.

However, Xia Duo would not go so far as to force the Magic Glue Breeding Farm to be filled with Magic elements. Although the Tower of Time was currently facing increasing employment pressure for new Mages, it would be too formalistic to forcibly add Magic elements and create unnecessary Magic positions out of thin air.

Magic positions should still be combined with reality; they can be innovative, but they cannot be fabricated out of thin air. Of course, the positions at the Magic Glue Breeding Farm were not exactly fabricated out of thin air, but when there were more suitable schemes, there was no need to increase costs just to deliberately increase Magic positions.

Nowadays, the Tower of Time already had a Middle School education plan for new Mages, and classes could start after the winter solstice; there was actually no such great demand for new positions.

Or rather, continuing advanced studies was the new position Xia Duo had created.

At this moment, Xia Duo also finally understood why universities in his hometown were always expanding enrollment; to a large extent, it was to alleviate employment pressure.

Whether it was High School, university, or graduate school, after cultivating so many talents, if they could not be arranged with employment, it would inevitably become a factor of social instability.

Under such circumstances, by expanding enrollment to throw these people back into school, employment pressure could be significantly alleviated, providing more time for the opening of new industries and new fields.

Once new fields and new industries were opened, they could immediately accommodate many graduates, and there might even be a shortage of talent; this was the correct way to fundamentally solve the employment problem.

Expanding enrollment for further studies was merely a relief. If one did not think about opening up new fields and new industries, expanding enrollment for further studies would become like drinking poison to quench thirst; the more enrollment expanded, the greater the pressure, and the more further studies were pursued, the more talent was wasted.

When this situation reached a level that society and the people could not bear, bottom-up reforms might appear.

Therefore, from the day the Tower of Time reformed, expanded enrollment, and popularized Magic Education, Xia Duo had always kept the employment problem of new Mages in his heart.

Fortunately, everything was currently in the starting stage, and with his hometown and the Red Heart Alliance as references, at least within ten years, there would be no major problems shaking the foundations of Daxia Territory and the Tower of Time.

"Spell constraints should also be taken into consideration; Yi Nu Wei Qi can keep an eye on this aspect." Xia Duo left this Indication casually and then continued the tour.

He had just glanced at it from the outside, and next was to enter the interior of the breeding farm. Of course, this was more of a formality; it was somewhat redundant for Xia Duo himself, but it was not redundant at all for Laidun and the others.

Entering the interior of the breeding farm, Xia Duo saw the pool water slowly churning in the square pool that occupied most of the central area. At first glance, there was only a pool of water inside, but in fact, there were four transparent Magic Glue Monsters entangled with each other.

"Raising four in one, won't they devour each other?" Xia Duo asked curiously.

"Under normal circumstances, they won't. Although they all originate from the same individual, they have now become independent individuals, and there is no tendency for them to devour each other."

"You said they won't under normal circumstances, so under what circumstances would they devour each other?"

"When the water in the breeding pool decreases to a certain level, they will devour each other; this is actually a stage of breeding."

Seeing that Xia Duo was very interested in this aspect, Laidun further introduced: "The breeding of Magic Glue Monsters is mainly divided into four steps. The first step is split-body cultivation, which is to separate part of the tissue from a mature individual and then cultivate it."

"The second step is to cultivate the split body into an independent individual, but such an individual grows slowly, so it needs to reach the third step, letting these independent individuals devour each other to grow stronger."

"Then it reaches the fourth step. This kind of strengthened individual can be used to cut tissue for split-body cultivation, or it can be used to cut tissue for making other Magic Glue Products."

Laidun's introduction was relatively simple, but Xia Duo believed that the process of exploring these steps was by no means simple. In just over half a month, they could come up with this breeding scheme that already looked quite perfect.

The relevant personnel must have put in countless efforts and hard work!

"Very good, how many mature individuals are there in this Magic Glue Monster Breeding Farm now? How much Primary Magic Glue can be produced every day?" Xia Duo asked again.

Laidun replied: "Currently, this breeding farm has sixteen breeding pools and five mature individuals. The amount of Primary Magic Glue produced is limited, which is about fifteen pounds per day."

"A mature Magic Glue Monster individual can only produce three pounds of Primary Magic Glue per day?"

"No, Lord Territory Owner, you have misunderstood. Currently, only three of those five mature individuals are used for glue production, and the remaining two are used to cultivate new individuals. A mature Magic Glue Monster can produce at least five pounds of Primary Magic Glue per day. As long as the collection amount is well controlled, these mature individuals will also grow, and the output will become larger and larger."

"Is there an estimated limit?"

"There is no growth limit for Magic Glue Monsters discovered yet. At the same time, out of consideration for the safety of the glue-collecting workers in the workshop, the breeding farm does not intend to cultivate Magic Glue Monsters of too large a size in the short term."

After Laidun finished speaking, Yi Nu Wei Qi interjected, "Regarding the research on the growth limit of Magic Glue Monsters, we are already doing it, and I believe there will be results in the near future."

"Hmm, I believe so too!"

But Xia Duo only believed that the growth of Magic Glue Monsters had a limit; he was not very optimistic about discovering this limit in the short term. After all, judging from the current situation, the Magic Glue Monster seemed to have no Wisdom.

Moreover, the split-body tissue could also be cultivated into new individuals. Xia Duo's judgment of this kind of Magic Glue Monster was closer to a relatively special plant.

He felt that the growth limit of this special creature might be ridiculously high.

But since Yi Nu Wei Qi had already started the research, Xia Duo did not want to interfere too much, just prepared to provide the Time Acceleration Array to the Magic Glue Research Center at an appropriate time.

As for the present, the Magic Glue Breeding Farm only had sixteen breeding pools. Given that each breeding pool had one mature Magic Glue Monster individual, the future production capacity would start at 80 pounds per day.

One must know that this was only Primary Magic Glue, and water accounted for a considerable proportion of it; the weight of the finished Magic Glue Products would probably drop by an order of magnitude!

A breeding farm of this scale was obviously unable to meet the Territory's future demand for Magic Glue Products.

Regarding this problem, Laidun was also well prepared: "This breeding farm is built more as a cultivation base. A new breeding farm has already been planned on the east side, adopting a more intensive design. The first phase plans for more than one hundred breeding pools, and we will plan and build more breeding farms according to actual needs later."

"Are there any difficulties that need me to solve?"

"The most difficult thing encountered at present is the firing of the breeding pools; the yield rate is very low. Currently, the Porcelain Workshop is improving the process, but I am afraid there will be no qualitative change in the short term."

"I will find a way for this problem."

Xia Duo gave an affirmative answer and then said, "Now take me to see how to collect glue from mature Magic Glue Monster individuals!"