Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1228 Element Extraction Invisible Richest Man
Soon, Xia Duo arranged a series of protective spells in the laboratory. Of course, the focus was on avoiding detection. He didn't want to be found by someone tomorrow after refining a little high-grade mithril today.

In order to reduce the possibility of being spied on, he even confines this small piece of magic net in the casting area, and only casts spells with the miniature magic net unfolded by his own Austrian fire.

"If people can find out like this, then I will admit it too!" Xia Duo said fiercely.

Then he controlled the strings of the magic web to build an energy circuit. When the spell took effect, the entire laboratory was flooded by a strong light.

Even Xia Duo, the caster, couldn't judge the target—that is, the current state of the mithril ingot brought by the Arcane Federation.

But he doesn't care, he has seen such a situation more than once, if necessary, when he returns to the Tower of Time, he can ask Nya to observe and record for him.

This is just the aura produced by the extremely intense elemental reaction, which cannot be penetrated by the naked eye or even magic vision, but through special detection magic, many details of the reaction process can be fully understood.

As for the details, Xia Duo doesn't need to observe to know, after all, he has already studied this spell quite thoroughly.

The so-called "element extraction" is not actually "taking" Mithril out of the mixture directly, but starting from the elemental nature of Mithril as a substance, and stimulating the state of the sample substance to the critical state of [substance-element].

(It is necessary to extract the majority of Mithril in the sample. If other substances are the majority, it is to extract other substances)

Some of those non-mithril substances will be directly disintegrated into elements and dissipated directly, and some will be attracted by the framework of [Mithril-Essence of Elements] and transformed into Mithril.

The last part is to maintain the original, what was originally, after leaving the critical state, it will still be what it is, in layman's terms it is "impurity".

Of course, Mithril itself will also produce these three results during the extraction process. Of course, for Mithril, transforming Mithril means maintaining the original state, and in fact it will only produce one result, that is——

A small portion of Mithril is gone!
Through multiple extractions, the impurities are reduced one after another until reaching a limit, which is also the upper limit of the purity of Mithril that can be advanced by the [Element Extraction] spell.

At present, Xia Duo has not tried extreme extraction, and it is not clear how pure mithril can be extracted by this spell. It is not that he is not like extreme extraction, but the limit is too far away. He does not have so much time and energy to extract Test this out.

This is an attempt with diminishing marginal utility, and it may not be much better than first-class products in the end.

After Xia Duo had tried more than a dozen times before, he gave up decisively. In addition to the consumption of Mithril that made him unacceptable, the theoretical endlessness was also an important reason.

理论上确实存在一个可以萃取到的纯度上限，但理论上也同样达不到上限，类似于【1/2+1/3+1/4+……】求和的极限问题。

The more extraction times, the closer to the limit, but can a normal human being extract infinitely?

Even if it is possible, there is such a spell-casting tool with infinite time and energy, when the number of samples is small to a certain extent, it is possible that all of them will dissipate in a critical state.

This is the gap between theory and practice.

……

As for this time, Xia Duo only planned to refine these mithrils to first-class grades.

On the one hand, he didn't want to lose too much of these relatively high-purity mithrils.

On the other hand, these mithrils are used for magic items customized by others, as long as they can meet the basic requirements, no matter how high the purity is, others will not pay extra, so why should he be thankless!

Soon, the first extraction ended, and the glow of the elements that filled the laboratory suddenly dissipated. It took Xia Duo a while to recover his eyes from the contrasting darkness.

He first checked the target mithril ingot. Except for some irregularly distributed tiny pits on the surface, the overall shape did not change much.

Immediately afterwards, he cast a spell to measure the current weight of the mithril ingot, including the previous use to test the purity. If the Arcane Federation is not short of catties, then he consumed at least 100 grams of mithril for this extraction.

100 grams is a small amount compared to 10 pounds, but this is not the end of one or two extractions.

"Ugh--"

Xia Duo let out a long sigh, cheered up and started the next round of spellcasting.

……

A total of ten rounds of extraction!
Xia Duo still has some experience in this point. From standard mithril to third-class mithril, it only takes two rounds of extraction, but from third-class mithril to first-class mithril, it takes at least ten rounds!
After casting ten ring-9 spells, Xia Duo added ten arcane powers to Arcane Fire halfway through. His current upper limit of arcane power is only enough to cast a ring-9 spell once.

If you want more, you naturally need to supplement it with arcane energy crystals, and this is the meaning of arcanists' daily accumulation of arcane energy crystals.

Fortunately, he used his own arcane fire to cast spells, which reduced his mental consumption a lot. When he extracted elements in the Tower of Time, in order to save arcane energy, he used the external magic net to cast spells, which was much more difficult than this.

After ten rounds of extraction, the originally very regular and complete cube in front of Xia Duo has become riddled with holes.

This time, Xia Duo didn't measure its weight, but just weighed it with his hands, and roughly judged that it should be more than 3 pounds in the temple.

Although this is not in line with the ideal value that Xia Duo hoped for, it is already a bumper harvest for the current Netheril!
Deacon Tom from the Arcane Federation said before that level 5 members can buy high-quality mithril at the standard mithril welfare price, 10 pounds of third-class products or 1 pound of second-class products.

This somewhat shows that in the economic system of the Arcane Federation, every time Mithril is upgraded by one grade, the price will skyrocket tenfold.

Xia Duo’s extraction changed from 10 pounds of third-class mithril to 3 pounds of first-class mithril, and the price soared 30 times. If he sold the 3 pounds of first-class mithril, and then bought third-class or even standard mithril Continue to extract.

Repeated many times, he can definitely use this to become the richest man in Netheril!
The wealth that technological leadership can capture is beyond imagination!
Of course, if he really did that, the butcher's knife might come down soon!
No one wants their hard-earned wealth to be quickly stolen by others in this way. The water in the first-class mithril is too deep for Xia Duo to grasp for the time being.

He even suspected that there were so few high-quality magic items on the market, maybe someone was using this method to seduce clues of first-class Mithril.

Excluding the few "legitimate" sources, it must be someone who has mastered the refining technology of first-class mithril.

Of course, Xia Duo doesn't have to worry about it yet. There is a Mystic Ruin in his territory, which is a fact that almost everyone knows.

It is possible to find a lot of first-class mithril in any ancient elf ruins. As for the specific amount, only the discoverer himself knows.

But it would be bad if there was a large amount of shipments. It was almost straightforward to announce to others that I had material, so how could others bear it!
(End of this chapter)