Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1109: What the King Does Bypassing Skills
Thinking of this, Xia Duo simply gave up the six preset stone pillars, and then left the workshop and came to the magic laboratory of the residence.

There is a more stable magic net environment here. Although the bloodline ability is less affected by the magic net environment, it still has an impact.

Moreover, for the first time, Xia Duo still maintained a state of concentration when using the bloodline ability. In this state, he summoned a ball of water again.

Compared with the rough miniature model made in the workshop before, repeated carvings were carried out, focusing on the straight and smooth lines, the fullness and perfection of details, and the stability and reasonable structure.

Whenever he felt that the carving was almost done, he cast a spell to turn it into stone, and then continued to use this new miniature model as a reference to continue carving.

After repeating this, Xia Duo stopped the almost endless polishing work until Niya came back from the study on the top floor, opened the door of the spell laboratory, and called Nya in, asking her for reference:
"Do you think the code entity can be made like this?"

Niya took the palm-sized dark blue and black stone sculpture from Xia Duo, and a hint of curiosity flashed in her eyes. She knew that Xia Duo was going to make the code entity, but she didn't know the specific progress.

Looking at the small book-shaped sculpture in her hand, Niya subconsciously said, "You want to use this stone sculpture as a permanent substrate?"

"No."

Xia Duo glanced at Niya, shook his head, and said, "It's my fault that I didn't make it clear. This is just a model. I'm going to make a bigger one and put it on the territory square. Please help me see what else is there in terms of shape and details. The place can be improved and adjusted.”

"modeling?"

Niya looked at the heavy sculpture in her hand again, and even brought it closer to her eyes for a closer look. The shape of the sculpture was not weird. The main body was a very regular prism base, with a half-open thick book on top.

The overall shape looks quite satisfactory, and Niya can't think of where it can be modified for a while, and this shape was chosen by Xia Duo, so it is inconvenient for her to make major adjustments.

After reading it over and over several times, Niya couldn't find anything that needed to be improved or adjusted. In the end, she could only point to the mysterious runes on both sides of the trial balance on the cover of the code, and asked Xia Duo:
"These runes look familiar, are they the characters of your hometown?"

"Yes."

Xia Duo is ready to make a sculpture, so naturally he doesn't mind other people knowing. Furthermore, the emblem "Xia" that Da Xia led and registered with the Sevingtona Council is a Chinese character.

Of course, the name "Daxia" is not a Chinese character, but a phrase that sounds similar to the Chinese character "Daxia" in Elf language, meaning "the land opened up by the brave".

Xia Duo read "Is it the land of the king in the whole world, and the land of the land is the subject of the king" in Chinese, and then said: "This is an ancient proverb in my hometown, which says——

"As a king, even the people outside the king's land have the responsibility to protect and educate."

Later, Xia Duo took Niya's teacher as an example and explained: "Although most of the land in Netheril does not belong to the Netherese family, Her Royal Highness is still thinking about the future of Netheril and the people of Netheril. Thinking about the future, this is what a king does."

After saying this, Niya immediately understood the meaning, she looked at her husband with wide eyes, "Xia Duo, you—"

Xia Duo shook his head, "For the time being, I can't be responsible for everyone like Her Royal Highness, and maybe I will never be able to do that, but in my own territory, I will never forget my responsibility as a lord."

Niya breathed a sigh of relief after hearing what Xia Duo said. She was really worried that Xia Duo would take too many responsibilities for herself, but Niya didn't know that there is a proverb in her hometown that "cultivates one's self, governs one's family, governs the country and the world" .

First govern your own "vassal kingdoms", and then the advanced nature of "our country" will naturally radiate to "the world". At that time, even if Xia Duo doesn't want to, he can't do it. This is called the general trend.

……

The couple didn't go any further on the proverb issue. Niya quickly stuffed the small sculpture back into Xia Duo's hands, and said with a smile, "I'll return it to you. I can't think of anything I can modify."

"Okay, let's leave it like this for the time being. After the big sculpture is finished, we'll see if it needs to be adjusted."

Xia Duo put away the small sculpture, and pulled Niya out of the magic laboratory, "It's getting late, it's time to rest!"

……

Early the next morning, Xia Duo woke up naturally. After finishing the meditation training, Niya was still asleep. He carefully twitched his right arm that was still under Niya's neck.

Just this little movement startled Niya, she murmured, but she didn't wake up, she just hugged Xia Duo sideways.

Feeling the warm touch from Niya's body, Xia Duo felt extremely uncomfortable. He only woke up in the afternoon yesterday, and slept for a while at night, and now he is in good spirits.

But Niya did a lot of spellcasting experiments during the day, and had some secret affairs with him at night, and she was struggling right now. Even if she was close to her body, Xia Duo had no choice but to use other methods to divert her attention.

He originally planned to get up early to repair the magic net with Abeck, but now it seems that Abeke can only repair it by himself.

Therefore, Xia Duo simply closed his eyes, immersed himself in the world of consciousness, and designed the magical production method of the Codex sculpture.

There is nothing wrong with the step of transforming large stones. It is nothing more than digging a pit and injecting water before transforming. The key is the subsequent process of "carving" the stones into sculptures.

The process of pure "carving" is not difficult to achieve on the technical level. The only difficulty is how to ensure that the shape is consistent with the model.

It doesn't have to be exactly the same, as long as there are no serious deviations.

The small sculpture Xia Duoke needs to use the power of the blood to shape the water model first, and then transform it as a whole. Since the water model is shaped by the power of the blood, it is highly adjustable and can be modified almost at will.

But this is not the case for large sculptures. Xia Duo still cannot control such a large volume of water to construct the fine appearance structure of sculptures.

If the stone is made first, there will be a problem of "carving craftsmanship".

Xia Duo didn't master any engraving techniques, which meant that even through magic, he couldn't use the "magic carving knife" processing method.

But having to bypass the "carving craft" is a headache.

Xia Duo had thought about using a method similar to injection molding to release the mold, but he still couldn't solve the problem of the "sculpture" of large-scale sculptures involved in the mold.

If there is a way to bypass the "craft of carving" to make molds, why not just use this method to make the sculpture itself?

Craftsmanship may seem like some kind of personal quality that is difficult to quantify, but in the industrial age on earth, there may not be no substitutes.

So if a person who has no carving skills wants to make some sculptures on the earth, what will he do?

Thinking like this, Xia Duo gradually had an idea.

(End of this chapter)