Lord of Arcane

Chapter 3223 The best place for students to practice their homework

After a detailed discussion with Iolum, they finally came to the conclusion that if efficiency is the only concern, sacrificing Misera is the best option. If cost is also a consideration, sacrificing the magic scroll is the best option.

Because the essence of this so-called sacrifice is to invest more magic strings into the area where the magic network is decaying. Any magic item, no matter what design it adopts, will inevitably be condensed with a large number of magic strings.

The only thing that actually works is the magic string condensed on the magic item, and the carrier is not necessary. The reason why sacrificing Misera is the most efficient is that a Misera condenses more than a million magic strings.

For an ordinary magic item, the number of magic web strings condensed on it is basically less than one hundred.

Of course, the more complex and powerful the item is, the more magic strings will be condensed on it, but usually the number will not exceed ten thousand, which shows the size of Misera.

Investing in a Misera is equivalent to tens of thousands of ordinary magic items, and another advantage of Misera is that the carrier materials of magic are mostly artificial renewable materials such as arcane strings.

If the actual process did not rely on the Archmage, and only considered the material cost, Misera would be the optimal solution. However, if the labor cost is added, the cost-effectiveness would not be appropriate.

The magic scroll with the best cost performance is made with such consideration in mind. The production of magic scroll does not require precious metals such as mithril. The most precious material is just some gem powder. Apart from being used to make magic scrolls, gem powder has almost no other applications with higher added value.

Although the cost of paper and parchment is relatively high, some well-made plant papers can also be used as the main body of the magic scroll, which greatly reduces the cost.

As for the labor, that is even simpler. There are so many apprentices in the Tower of Time, and there are countless in-class assignments generated every day. Many of them are in the form of magic scrolls. Students do these to practice spells, not to sell scrolls.

Moreover, the apprentices in the Tower of Time have so much homework that no one would deliberately collect those completed assignments. Even some time ago, Jose from the Academic Affairs Office of the Tower of Time told him that he should find a way to deal with the students' abandoned practical assignments.

Since magic scrolls involve a lot of applications of arcane geometry, and arcane geometry is a required subject for advanced arcanists, many of the apprentices' homework is in the form of magic scrolls.

The effect might not necessarily be a specific spell, but just some of the spell elements, so those abandoned practical exercises could not even be sold cheaply, and so they piled up more and more in the Tower of Time.

Now is a good time to deal with it!

Assuming that a practical assignment only involves 5 spell elements, the number of magic web strings condensed on it will also be around 5. In fact, a practical assignment usually involves more than ten spell elements.

Only the freshmen's homework will be below ten. Assuming an average of five spell elements, 5 homework assignments can equal a Miserable.

Of course, the analogy here only applies to investing in decay areas to support the self-repair of the magic network. Outside of this situation, even 200 million jobs are not worth as much as a Misera.

Although 20 assignments may seem like a huge number, you have to know that the Tower of Time is no longer the same as it used to be. Even if you deduct the 600 or so new mages, the number of apprentices has already reached more than 3000, and this is still not the limit of the territory.

Shado asked Leiden to do a statistics. There are currently more than 16 children of school age in the territory, that is, citizens under the age of 15 (inclusive). In other words, these are 15 potential new wizards.

Of course, the number of people who are actually of school-entry age, that is, 16 years old, is much smaller, less than .

The Tower of Time recruits new students twice a year, and although the number of places keeps increasing, it still cannot reach the total number of citizens of the current school age. Xia Duo is helpless about this. Before the teaching resources are sufficient, some people are bound to miss the best admission opportunity every year.

If people over the age of 16 want to go to school, they may have to wait until all children of school age have started school. Of course, Xia Duo did not block their chance to make progress, and relevant teaching materials are also circulated in the territory.

Not to mention, there are workers' night schools and the like, and full-time teachers from the Academic Affairs Office of the Tower of Time are often arranged to give lectures there. As long as one can teach by himself to become a new wizard, he can still join the Tower of Time.

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There are 20 practical assignments. If there are only 1000 apprentices and each apprentice completes one assignment every day, it will only take 200 days.

In fact, the time it takes for apprentices in the Tower of Time to reach 1,000 is already more than three years, and it is impossible for an apprentice to do only one practical assignment every day. Even the lowest grade will have at least two or three.

The higher the grade, the more practical assignments there are. This is related to the casting limit of each apprentice. Practical assignments are like this, there is an upper limit.

There are not many restrictions on paper assignments, which are similar for both lower and higher grades, so we will not discuss them here.

Even though the practical assignments included quite a few parts that did not contain any magic web strings, the remaining number was still a very large number, conservatively estimated to be more than 100 million.

Jose couldn't even give an accurate count of the specific numbers, and only used a more general description - occupying five large warehouses of the Magic Technician Department.

It was also because the Magic Technician Department could not bear it anymore and urged the Academic Affairs Office to deal with it as soon as possible. Jose himself could not make up his mind, so he reported the problem to Xia Duo.

Xia Duo was undecided at first and was thinking about whether to return the practical assignments to the students. After all, when he was in school, he kept all the homework himself. When he looks back on those childhood homework in the future, he will smile knowingly.

However, magic practice assignments are no different from other assignments. If apprentices are allowed to take them back, they will still pose a certain threat to ordinary people. Currently, the Great Xia Territory does not have all spellcasters, and most of the apprentices' families are still ordinary people.

This is also the main reason why Xia Duo did not make up his mind to return the practical assignments to the students. Of course, now he has a better way to deal with it, and using it to repair the magic network is also a good place to go.

As for the future, the worst that could happen is that we could prepare a few demi-plane warehouses specifically for the Academic Affairs Office to store student homework or other items, or we could ask the Materials Management Office to help store them, as there is no shortage of warehouses there.

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After making up his mind, Shado discussed the details of the sacrifice with Iolum before sending him to a tent nearby.

He calculated the time and found that he could just make it in time for the sleeping ceremony, so he regained consciousness and called Nia to go to the territory to preside over the ceremony.