Lord of Arcane

After observing the first floating island for about half an hour, Xia Duo then went to the second floating island. This floating island was about the same size as the previous one, and the number of incubation boxes was also similar, both around one million.

There are a total of six floating islands in this wind elemental plane, which means there are almost 600 million breeding boxes. The fixed breeding cycle of the breeding boxes is one to three years.

This can simply estimate the basic production capacity of this element ranch, which is almost 600 million in three years, which is 200 million a year.

Of course, this is an ideal situation, considering the success rate of the incubator stage, a significant proportion of elements will be born for more than three years.

Even for primary elements that meet the minimum harvesting standards, elemental essences are not 100% harvested, and the proportion is greatly reduced.

Based on the various indicators agreed between Shado and the Mairead family (the output rate of primary essences is about 6%), the annual output of the elemental ranch in this plane should be [-] primary essences.

But it does not only produce primary essences, but the longer the cultivation time, the higher the proportion of elemental essences that can be produced, and the higher the quality. Correspondingly, the higher the requirements for related technologies and processes.

The most basic one is of course 6 junior essences. Based on the price of junior essences that Sha Duo had previously traded with the Mairead family, the annual output value of this ranch is 1800 million gold coins.

Of course, this includes the cost, and what is left after deducting the cost may not match an elemental ranch of this size!

If you don’t want to pay too much cost, then reduce the cultivation intensity and extend the cultivation time. The cost will probably only be the maintenance cost of the incubator.

However, the normal growth rate of elemental creatures is too slow. Either they are allowed to devour each other, or they need to be actively fed. The former may cause the elements to develop violent intelligence, and the output efficiency is far less than active feeding.

The only disadvantage of the latter is that it requires more money.

Considering the time that can be saved, Xia Duo prefers to actively feed, but it is not enough for him to only produce primary essences. It is best to be able to produce high-level essences.

Because from a longer-term perspective, the cost of producing and consuming high-level essence is lower than others.

Xia Duo introduced elemental ranches and produced essences in order to prepare for future essence automation, so it was natural to consider costs.

But the elemental breeding technology he could get from the Mairead family was only intermediate elements at best, and the Mairead family was unwilling to sell the advanced elemental breeding technology.

Not to mention that there are elemental elders who are difficult to cultivate, so the technical gap is still quite large.

Of course, this does not mean that the intermediate element ranch cannot produce high-level essence. In fact, it is a problem of scale production.

If the high-end ranch can stably cultivate high-level elements and stably produce high-level essence.

Then the mid-level ranch has limited conditions and cannot breed high-level elements on a large scale. Although they are all free-range, the breeding process is actually controlled by the elemental elders.

In addition to the part that requires manual labor, the transfer of technology is, to a large extent, the transfer of elemental elders who have mastered the corresponding technology.

As for the proportion of elemental harvested essence, no matter what size of pasture, the harvesting proportion is relatively consistent. The proportion of advanced element harvested essence is about [-] to [-]%.

The intermediate level is [-] to [-]%, and the elementary level is only [-]%.

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After visiting the floating island, Sha Duo followed Tarafu along the elemental breeding process to the next stop of the elemental ranch, which is the grazing area where the elemental elders are located.While moving in the high-speed wind field, Sha Duo noticed that there were some free-roaming miniature wind elements around the two of them. They had just come out of the breeding box, were summoned by the elemental elders, and were heading to their next stop.

At the end of the wind field, Xia Duo saw a huge wind whirlpool in the distance. According to Tarafu's introduction, it was one of the elemental elders of this ranch.

The miniature wind elements that have just come out of the incubator will first go to the vicinity of the elemental elders, or to be more precise, merge into the violent wind field controlled by the elemental elders, and continue to grow in the field for a period of time.

At this moment, the giant whirlwind suddenly started to move, and Tarafu quickly reminded Shado to follow him, "Aziz is about to go to the feeding point, let's follow him and take a look!"

"Ah."

Sha Duo responded and sped up a little. The elemental elder named Aziz was also moving in the high-speed wind field. Without the application of spell acceleration, the speed was much faster than the two humans.

The wind field can be regarded as a kind of highway in the sky, which is actually to facilitate the rapid movement of wind element creatures or other creatures with wind element control abilities.

Generally speaking, elemental elders can build wind field channels, but if you want to maintain them for a long time, you need to invest resources in construction, which is a special kind of infrastructure.

Previously, wind field channels were used by Tarafu to travel between the south and the north, and to move water vapor from the north to the south.

Now, although Sha Duo himself did not cast a spell to accelerate, Tarafu took the initiative to lead Sha Duo forward at a faster speed. This is a professional method of fast movement in the wind field channel, and it is also part of the agreement that Sha Duo and the Mairead family are about to sign. One of the technologies that needs to be transferred.

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Following Aziz, the elder of the wind element, Sha Duo and the two occasionally bumped into the miniature wind elements that had escaped from Aziz's wind field. Some of them were directly collided and disintegrated, which was equivalent to death.

Some were lucky enough to survive, and like the two Shados, they continued to chase Aziz in the direction he moved.

After almost crossing half of the plane, Aziz stopped. There was no floating island in sight around him, only the vast and endless wind currents.

"Aziz has summoned the nearby primary elements while on the road, and the next step is to feed."

Following Tarafu's introduction, the "body" of Elemental Elder Aziz suddenly accelerated its rotation, and part of the airflow in the outer circle quickly disintegrated and dissipated, but in exchange it was lightning and thunder from the main body.

Moreover, those lightning bolts were precisely controlled by Aziz, and little stars would fall down almost every time the lightning bolts intersected.

Soon Aziz's body seemed to be thrown into countless sequins, sparkling as it rotated.

"Those are the elemental gems that were fed, right?" Sha Duo suddenly said.

"Yes, those are elemental gems. Most of them are of the wind element attribute, but there are also other attributes. During the feeding process, Aziz will convert the gems of other attributes into wind attributes, and at the same time cut the larger gems into smaller ones. share."

As soon as Tarafu finished speaking, the rotation speed of Aziz's body slowed down slightly and his body grew stronger. At the same time, the released elemental gems broke away from Aziz's body and dispersed in all directions. Come on.

The next moment, the nearby strong wind suddenly came alive, like boiling water, and countless primary elements began to frantically chase the gem fragments that escaped from Aziz's body.

Seeing this scene, Xia Duo couldn't help but think of the scene of feeding koi carp in the park when he was still in his hometown. Sprinkle a handful of bait, and the koi carp that are accustomed to human feeding will surge wildly, turning the water surface into a A pot of boiling fish soup. (End of chapter)