Lord of Arcane

Chapter 174
Soon, the second production began. Xia Duo did not intentionally make the parchment graphics inaccurate, but chose to improve the accuracy of his personal spellcasting.

Spellcasting skills and proficiency are Xia Duo's shortcomings. After all, he has been a mage for too short a time, but the accuracy of spellcasting cannot be relaxed.

To use the terminology in the game, accurate casting means that the gap between the upper and lower limits of the spell is smaller, which means that the effect of the spell is always in your own hands.

It would be too dangerous if a mage couldn't even control the effect of his own spells.

Think about it, wouldn't it be very unjust for an accurately calculated teleportation spell to be transmitted into the crevice of the stone due to an error in casting the spell.

……

In the case of paying attention to the accuracy of casting spells, Xia Duo did not make too much error in casting spells for the first time, but it still failed in the end.

The reason is that there are too many steps in the process of linking the scroll to the magic net. The more steps, the easier it is to make mistakes, and as long as you make a mistake, you have to start all over again.

After a few visits, Xia Duo used up the red graphite water that he bought as a gift from the previous scroll. Fortunately, he bought "gray and white ink" similar to red graphite water at the material application office of the Mage Tower in advance.

Enough for him to splurge.

This kind of ink is not suitable for ordinary writing, because it is really off-white, and the price of a bottle of 20 gold coins is not beautiful.

There are many inks suitable for the 1-ring magic scroll, the price is roughly the same, and the effect is not different. Xia Duo, who changed the ink, succeeded after only a few tries.

A flash of light flashed, and the parchment was finally covered with a fascinating magical aura, and above the unfolded parchment, the three-dimensional magic structure woven by the magic net hangs down strands of magic patterns on the parchment. link together.

Xia Duo quickly rolled up the parchment, and the spell structure gradually shrank to the surface of the parchment as the parchment deformed to a certain extent, and finally turned into a radial magic net structure gathered around the scroll.

After a while, these radial magic net structures also gradually converged, and after reaching a certain level, they existed stably.

A [Steam Ray] learning scroll is made!
Once there is a successful experience, the follow-up will be repeated.

In the end, Xia Duo made 2 learning scrolls and 3 encrypted ordinary scrolls that can be sold.

It's not that there are no materials, but that the mage's chance to cast spells has been used up, and the only thing left is blood spells, and he hasn't started the transformation work of blood spells yet!

Calculated, his success rate of making scrolls today is almost only 30.00%. If only considering the cost of materials, he can barely pay back the cost.

However, considering that this is the first production, the follow-up should be able to make money.

But low-level scrolls, if you want to get rich overnight, don't even think about it. The number of daily productions is extremely limited, and you can only rely on time to accumulate.

Or make more advanced, or more widely used scrolls.

Otherwise, even a 9-ring [change the color of the stars in the sky] magic scroll, it is estimated that it will not sell for much price.

Personally speaking, magic is technology, and technology pays attention to practicality.

From the current point of view, [Steam Ray] is quite practical, but not so practical that it is absolutely necessary. It is estimated that it is somewhat hopeful to use this to raise the price.

"Oh—how is it so difficult to make money!" Xia Duo couldn't help complaining to the five finished scrolls, but then, his stomach also complained to him——

goo goo-

"Taling, instruction: current time." Xia Duo immediately greeted Taling.

"Level 2 authority, mage Xia Duo, current time: 9 am."

"..."

The first time Xia Duo didn't lament that he stayed up all night, but regretted wasting a chance to cast a spell during a rest period.

Thinking about it this way, I was already depressed because the price of the scroll could not be increased, and I became even more depressed.

Fortunately, the [Steam Scroll] has been made, Xia Duo's mood at the moment is still in the upper-middle state, and apart from being hungry, he doesn't feel too tired.

It may be that the physique is stronger, and it is more resistant to fatigue.

Xia Duo cleaned up the workbench in the mage's laboratory, put the remaining materials back into the storage room, and left with five finished scrolls.

The cost of one night also needs to include the cost of using the spell laboratory!Such a calculation may be a bit of a loss.

Open the door, there is a lunch box on the wall outside, it should be placed here by the apprentice who delivered the meal in the morning, and the "door bell" cannot be heard in the magic laboratory, unless it was arranged by Xia Duo himself.

Xia Duo imagined the scene where the apprentice was entangled in waiting or leaving, so he went back with the lunch box and started eating.

While eating, he took out the "Dasriel's Ultimate Protection" and flipped through it. Xia Duo had already read about half of this book.

It was a bit difficult for him at first, but after more than half of it, he felt more and more relaxed. [Mage Armor] is not a spell with a high threshold, but a quite popular spell.

This is almost the only spell that low-level mages can master to resist physical attacks. It must not work if you don't pay attention!
In this way, when the lunch was delivered and the "doorbell" rang, Xia Duo had already finished reading the book, and was speculating and completing the elements not recorded in the book.

After receiving the lunch and returning to the interior, Xia Duo suddenly felt that this kind of food delivery service was too inhumane, and delivery on time was not bad for people with normal work and rest.

Xia Duo's work and rest had always been normal before, but as a mage, it is hard to guarantee that there will be times when his work and rest are disordered, such as Xia Duo today, would other mages also endure it?

Or is there any other special service?
Xia Duo doesn't want to have a personal butler, a private chef, etc. for the time being, but he must be able to satisfy such a simple request as "you can eat whenever you are hungry".

Thinking of this, Xia Duo immediately contacted Ganal. As two apprentices under the same mentor, he and Ganal had already exchanged the secret seal.

It's not too abrupt to connect at this time, but when he heard that Xia Duo sent him a special message just to ask how to eat, Ganal still couldn't help but be surprised.

"Xia Duo, I think you should communicate with people more and stop asking common sense questions."

"Aren't I communicating with you now?" Xia Duo smiled. It's not that he doesn't communicate with others, it's just that he spends the time of chatting and drinking tea with others to study magic and practice spells.

Xia Duo, who came from an era of entertainment, was very uninterested in the so-called entertainment and social activities in the mage tower, but magic, a magical thing, fascinated him even more.

Of course, it's not that Xia Duo doesn't communicate with others at all. Isn't it just a matter of contacting Gardner now, he just acts more purposefully.

"Garnar, are you preparing for the Arcane Games?"

"I still don't know the specific rules, how to prepare, I just found some materials in the library, forget it, let's not talk about it, just ask Taling your question, Taling can provide instant food, or find an apprentice who specializes Bring you food, that's all."

After speaking, the contact was interrupted.

"Hehe." Hearing the end, Xia Duo showed a satisfied smile. It seems unreasonable to ask Ganal, but in fact it is very reasonable. The young man will inevitably be satisfied when he is questioned by someone who surpasses him.

If it doesn't involve secrets, I'm happy to show off for a while.

Xia Duo suddenly remembered an interesting incident in his high school. At that time, his grades were not bad, but there was a classmate in the class who liked to bully the students with better grades than him.

Xia Duo was also bullied, but once, he asked a very childish question to that classmate, so an interesting thing happened——

Instead of laughing at Xia Duo, that classmate gradually became friends with Xia Duo.

From the current point of view, perfection creates distance, and imperfection erases distance, but in essence, the gap between two people and the society's fancy has not been erased.

Therefore, although that classmate eventually became friends with Xia Duo, his opinions were often dominated by Xia Duo.

Today's Gardner may also be such a friend.

　happy New Year!

　
(End of this chapter)