Lord of Arcane

Chapter 173 Magic Scroll Making
The other material is very common, it is just refined parchment paper, soaked in a special potion, it can be rolled up or unfolded without rebounding.

Of course, ordinary parchment can also be used, but it is not very convenient when rolling or unfolding, and nothing else.

It is even possible to use wood, rocks, metals, gems, cloth, liquids, etc. to carry magic, but Xia Duo is not allowed to spread the spread too much for the time being.

The magic scroll is a kind of magic item that is relatively easy to get started, has a wide range of applications, and is not expensive. It is very suitable for Xia Duo.

Perhaps the only disadvantage of magic scrolls is that most magic scrolls are disposable products, and using scrolls is simply throwing money.

Most of the time, rich people can really do whatever they want. Conversely, the more powerful people are, the easier it is to make money. Xia Duo has already realized this.

If he was really an ordinary apprentice, would Mrs. Patty use 200 gold coins to hire him as a personal mage consultant?It's fine not to pursue the previous "pretending to be a mage".

Back in the magic laboratory, Xia Duo put the ink, parchment, and mithril pen on the workbench one by one. It was the first time to make a 1-ring spell scroll. Xia Duo chose the magic laboratory with a stable magic net environment.

This is an essential novice cost. Once you are proficient, you can't put it in the magic laboratory. After all, cost reduction is also an essential step for novices to mature.

During his apprenticeship, Xia Duo made a 0-level [Light Art] scroll, and made a small profit, but later gave up when he felt that it was not worthwhile.

Now that he started making magic scrolls again, Xia Duo still misses it a bit!

When making the [Light Art] scroll, Xia Duo had no exposure to arcane geometry, and did not think deeply about the patterns drawn on the parchment.

And now, Xia Duo has understood why those graphics look like they are, not what they look like, and even know the allowable range of error.

This is like asking ordinary people to draw a regular heptagon with a ruler. Some people know that the sides of the figure are equal, and they can draw it, but they can't draw it accurately.

Some people even directly deny the possibility of drawing regular heptagons with a ruler and compass, and conclude that it is impossible only by intuition.

Xia Duo before was the one who defaulted that spell scrolls could be made, but couldn't find the source, but now he already knows the meaning of any line on the scroll.

And based on the geometric knowledge he learned on Earth, he could even draw these figures more easily than the Nether mage, and he didn't need additional auxiliary tools.

Because, there is more magic, with the help of [magic tricks], Xia Duo already has a set of drawing aids that will not be lost at all.

When studying the transformation of [Steam Ray], Xia Duo had already considered the drawing process in an all-round way, and now he only needs to follow the steps.

Entering the spellcasting state, with a thought, a blue auxiliary line appeared on the unfolded refined parchment, followed by one after another, until the paper was covered with dense blue straight lines and circles.

And Xia Duo wants to select 42 specific intersection points among these intricate lines, connect them with straight lines or arcs, and then remove the auxiliary lines.

What was finally presented to Xia Duo was a complex two-dimensional spell structure.

Up to this point, the scroll can't be called a magic scroll, it's just a piece of parchment with strange patterns drawn on it. If it's an ordinary person, he can do this step after training.

And the next thing only the caster can do-enable it with magic.

Or to put it more generally, link the magic net to this flat spell structure. Without the magic net, there will be no magic, and there will be no magic scroll.

"It must be successful!"

Xia Duo held his breath, but none of the actions involving people is 100% accurate. What Xia Duo can do is to try to increase the success rate as much as possible.

Whether it is the preparation in advance or the process of casting the spell, be as careful and rigorous as possible.

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Under Xia Duo's will, the magic net in front of him began to gather, entangle, bend, and overlap, following every element of [Steam Ray]'s spell-casting, forming a three-dimensional spell structure.

If the spell is cast normally, it can be activated at this point.

The next step is to convert the spell structure woven by the magic net into a flat structure. If it is to make a normal scroll, an encryption conversion is required after this step.

However, Xia Duo made a 1-ring scroll for the first time, and did not perform encryption conversion. (Cryptographic transformations also include graphics on parchment)

That is to say, if his scroll is successfully made and someone else takes it, then the secret of [Steam Ray] will be lost.

This is the learning scroll, even simpler than making ordinary scrolls, but because of the complete magic elements, this kind of scrolls is actually not willing to be made by anyone.

Xia Duo, who doesn't need encryption conversion, directly overlaps the magical structure weaved by the magic net and the plane conversion with the graphics on the parchment.

At this point, if the error in the previous drawing process is too large, it will fail directly.

If it is within the tolerance range, there is a high probability of success. Xia Duo used a fairly accurate drawing method, so naturally there will not be too much error.

But - there are also errors in the casting of spells, which is why the actual spell effects fluctuate.

This time, Xia Duo's casting errors were too large, and the extremely accurate scroll graphics became a shortcoming that affected his success. In the process of linking the parchment graphics to the magic net, the spell lost control without warning.

It's just that this spell didn't activate after all, it just caused the magic net to vibrate, but it was soon calmed down and stabilized by the spell laboratory.

If it was outside, Xia Duo would inevitably have a headache.And if the spell gets out of control after it's activated, it might hit your own hands.

As the "culprit" of the out-of-control spell - the extremely accurate drawing of the scroll graphics, the ink on it has already been sprayed into a ball at this moment.

The originally very regular and exquisite spell graphics turned into a very abstract, unknown figure, and even the ink was no longer completely on the surface of the parchment, but permeated through all layers.

The parchment is completely unusable.

The failure this time did not affect Xia Duo. When he made the [Light Art] scroll, he was in the apprentice dormitory, and he did not have such a smooth Mithril pen for writing, nor a calm and stable magic net environment.

In this way, he finally succeeded in making the [Light Art] scroll.

It has only failed once now, which is completely within his expectations.

But thinking about the wasted parchment and ink, Xia Duo still felt a little distressed.

Refined parchment 1 gold coin a piece, red graphite water 20 gold coins a bottle, a bottle of ink here is not as much as on Earth, just a small bottle.

It is almost the capacity of two bottles of eye drops, and it takes about half a bottle to draw once. If the failure rate is too high, don't expect to make money from this craft.

(End of this chapter)