Lord of Arcane

Chapter 2635 Cost Calculation
As for the consumption, excluding the general basic maintenance, the consumption of the spirit itself should be considered the biggest. According to the number of element levels of the link magic net of the magic weapon produced, a primary spirit can only be used to give 4 node spells. The device link magic net.

In other words, taking Xia Duo's current design of the quadruple spirit automation network device as an example, if you use elementary spirits, you need to change nearly eight sets of spirits a day.

And if you use intermediate spirits, you need to change about three sets; if you use high-level spirits, you need to change spirits once every five days.

In terms of overall cost, it costs more than 9000 gold coins a day to use a primary spirit, about 6000 gold coins to use an intermediate spirit, and only about 800 gold coins a day to use a high-level spirit!

If you just rely on feeling, it seems that it is more cost-effective to use low-level spirits, but in reality, Xia Duo realizes how unreliable his intuition is. The cost of using high-level spirits is less than one-tenth of that of low-level spirits!

This has not taken into account the reduction in production capacity caused by the downtime when replacing the soul, such a comparison, the price-performance ratio of the advanced soul has reached a new level!
After careful analysis, Xia Duo finally figured out the difference. The reason is that the elemental spirits are consumables for him, and the consumption is fixed according to the energy of the spirits.

Compared with the elementary and intermediate levels, the price of high-level spirits does not increase linearly with the energy of spirits, but the energy increases faster, and the price is not so outrageous.

300 gold coins for elementary spirits, [-] for intermediate, and [-] for advanced!
As for the energy consumed by spirits to link quasi-magic items to the magic net to maintain their own stable existence, high-level spirits are nearly 40 times that of junior spirits, and more than ten times that of intermediate spirits!
In fact, if elder-level spirits can also be mass-produced, as long as the price does not exceed ten times that of high-level spirits, it is actually more cost-effective to buy elder-level spirits!

Xia Duo now has a set of four-element elder-level spirits presented by the Maired family. During his research, he found that as long as a certain energy of the elder-level spirits is not completely exhausted at one time, as long as it is placed in the corresponding In the elemental environment, it will slowly recover!

In other words, as long as there are enough elder-level elemental spirits, the cost of spirits can be completely ignored at the speed of spirit automation!
He wasn't sure how many such restorations could happen, but as long as the total number was enough, the cost would be close to nothing.

It's just that he only has these four elder-level spirits in his hand now, and he is not willing to use them for extreme experiments.

During the experiment, Xia Duo also guessed what kind of model Calinshan's element breeding is. From the perspective of energy, this kind of pricing is actually unreasonable. The price of elementary spirits is too high!
And from the perspective of breeding costs, it is also unreasonable. If the cost of breeding high-level elements is only three times that of primary elements, then it is not as good as raising primary element organisms alone. The cycle is short and the results are quick, and the benefits are easier to maximize.

He speculated that the price of Calinthian's elemental essence may be related to the formation of the elemental essence. Not all elemental creatures can produce essence after killing them.

The lower the level, the lower the output rate, but in this case, there is actually no need for Calinshan to maintain the production of primary elemental essences, and just focus on high-end products.

The reason why there are still primary spirits produced may be that there are too many primary elemental creatures, which occupy the resources of other levels of elemental creatures, and must be harvested regularly to maintain the normal operation of the elemental pasture.

Or, Calinthian has some special needs for primary elemental spirits, which is why a certain amount of production is maintained.

But still the same sentence, for someone like Xia Duo who uses elemental spirits as consumables on the spot, the price of low-level spirits is really too high.

Referring to the price of high-level spirits, it is more reasonable to set the price of a junior spirit below 20 gold coins.

In this way, when producing some lower-level magic items, it is more cost-effective to use primary spirits.

Of course, Xia Duo didn't want Calinshan to increase the price of high-level spirits according to the price of elementary spirits. That would be too exaggerated, and a high-level spirit might sell for more than [-] yuan.

But no matter what, even if all of them are produced with primary essence, the cost of more than 120 will be shared by 9000 node magic tools, and the average cost of one node magic weapon will only increase by 80 gold coins.

If this is a normal magic weapon, which is for sale, and the cost is only 80 gold coins, he can completely offset this part of the cost with a price increase of 200.

In fact, the price of a high-level magic item has to be at the level of a thousand gold coins. No matter how much the real cost is, the price in the past has been relatively stable.

In the past, the bulk of the cost actually came from the high-level spellcaster itself. If the production is automated with the soul, there is no need for a high-level mage.

Which high-level mage is willing to spend 80 gold coins to link the magic net for a quasi-high-level magic item?

Moreover, the production efficiency has also increased with the use of soul automation. It is impossible for any high-level mage to come and produce for him without eating or drinking all day long.

A piece of wages is only 80 gold coins, even a fool is not willing to, but can become a high-level mage, is there a fool?
So at this stage, no matter how high the price of the elemental essence is, Xia Duo can accept it, because no matter how high the cost in this regard is, it can't be as high as hiring a living high-level mage.

The machine can be turned on when it wants to, and it can be turned off when it wants to, and high-level mages need to be paid no matter whether they work or not.

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Of course, at this stage, Xia Duo is not planning to apply Spiritual Automation on a large scale, and he is not even planning to make it public inside the Tower of Time.

If this is made public, it is estimated that most magic mechanics will be desperate. Although not all magic mechanics have no potential to continue to improve, relatively speaking, these people have already been screened, and their potential is generally low.

Always give them a suitable place to go. At this stage, the magic-related industries in the territory are still very immature, or just in their infancy. This is a good opportunity for these magic technicians to show their strengths.

If Jingsoul Automation is launched now, this process will undoubtedly be interrupted. Only when most industries develop to a certain level can they be upgraded on this basis.

A mature civilization, or a mature society, must provide enough and relatively suitable employment opportunities for most members, if not, it may be the beginning of chaos.

Of course, Xia Duo does not want the territory he has placed high hopes on to go into chaos. As long as the interior is not chaotic, everything can be slowly adjusted and improved under his control until he finds out the most suitable civilization development model for this magical world.

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In the next two days, Xia Duo worked overtime to complete the finalization of the Jingpo automation networking device, and then spent another day manufacturing the first batch of ten devices.

(End of this chapter)