Lord of Arcane

Chapter 488 Limit Testing
At the same time, Savile Town, the former site of the Tower of Time.

This is where the Tower of Time and the portal of Savile Town are located. In order to protect this portal, a semi-permanent camp appeared here, and soldiers were stationed day and night.

Dean was still here by Xia Duo, holding the head-sized, unencapsulated communication instrument. The Mithril structural parts were shining silver in the sun, and the lock was fixed as the energy core. Five colored gemstones.

Although the soldiers stationed around have no magic vision and cannot see the magic aura, but just looking at it from the perspective of ordinary people, this laboratory version of the communication magic weapon looks extraordinary.

From time to time, soldiers cast curious glances, not only looking at the weapon, but also at Dean, wondering what the mage was doing here and why he looked a little silly.

Just when Dean was a little uncomfortable being seen by the soldiers next to him, a line of text suddenly appeared in front of him——

"start testing"!
Dean was taken aback by the sudden vision, and almost threw the communication magic weapon in his hand, but he quickly realized that it was Xia Duo who was notifying him.

So Dean activated the communication magic weapon a little clumsily but accurately, then selected the twin mark, projected the text "Test 1", and activated the spell. The aura on the communication magic weapon rose a little bit, and then dimmed again.

On the other side, above a certain forest in the north.

Xia Duo held the communication artifact in his hand, waiting anxiously, and kept an eye on the surrounding situation.

After using the 2nd Ring [Background Communication] to send a notice to Dean, Xia Duo's heart has been hanging, not only worried about the unknown existence that may appear at any time, but also worried about the failure of the test.

After a while, the communication instrument in the palm suddenly lit up, and then a line of words "Test 1" was projected.

This is the test method agreed upon by Xia Duo and Dean before. Xia Duo sends a test command, and Dean only sends a test sequence to check the communication effect and whether there is any "packet loss" or the like.

The first communication was in good condition, and Xia Duo did not find any unknown existence that suddenly appeared like the previous great arcanist Byron.

My heart suddenly felt a little lighter.

Then the test continued, "Extreme Triple Test"

-- "Test 2", "Test 3", "Test 4"

The three times the information was delayed, about 2 minutes, this is the time required for the "reloading" of the spell, of course, it can also be regarded as the "cooling time" of the magic item.

Magic items want to be used repeatedly, except for the element cycle created by [Magic Persistence], magic items made of Mithril structural parts must use energy cores.

Of course, the function of the energy core does not lie in its own energy, but for the excitation, exchange, and circulation of the energy transmitted from the magic net.

This is a bit like the principle of automatic loading of bullets in modern firearms, except that the residual energy "prime" after the spell is activated is used to "load" the spell again.

In theory, magic items can be used an unlimited number of times.

However, considering that the mithril structural parts carry energy and the energy core circulates energy, there will be elemental mutations, which will reduce the purity of mithril and mutate the five-color gemstones. The actual magic items have a shelf life.

The more you use it, the later it will break.

Of course, the higher the purity of Mithril, the higher the tolerance of the energy core (arcane crystals are very useful), and the longer the service life.

As for the "reloading" time, it is actually related to the casting environment. Since it is a magic item casting spells, it is different from a creature with subjective initiative like a human, and requires a relatively stable casting environment.

To put it simply, it takes time for the magic net to calm down after casting a spell. If you ignore this, the magic item will "protest", and "protest" usually comes at the cost of damage.

Xia Duo does not need to do the "beyond the limit" test for the time being, just test a normal limit communication interval.

2 minutes would be very uncomfortable for earthlings who are accustomed to instant messaging software, but for Nether native mages, it is very fast.

Moreover, the less the interval of use, the higher the frequency of use, and the easier it is to reduce the service life, even if it is not replaced.

If you want to do instant messaging with a low threshold of use, you still need the support of a huge external system, which is difficult to achieve with a single communication tool.

Xia Duo has no ambitions in this area for the time being, so let's make some money with low-cost communication instruments first.

……

Testing continues—

"Return to the Tower of Time"

After a while, Dean sent "Test 5". Although in theory only an extremely calm magic net environment like the magic laboratory can block the [background communication], when he actually received the message from inside the mage tower, Xia Duo still breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, a question also arises, does this mean that there is a loophole in the Tower of Time's defense?
Or in the future, only a fixed communication area will be reserved in the mage tower, and the magic net environment in other areas will be reshaped to block external signals?

But there is no need to think about this for the time being. After all, [Background Communication] is not an electronic signal for hacking, and the Mage Tower is not an electronic device that can be easily usurped.

Next, Xia Duo asked Dean to enter various areas of the Tower of Time to test the specific communication situation.

After some tests, only two areas, the Arcane Garden and the Magic Lab, completely blocked the communication, while other areas also affected the communication more or less, such as projection distortion, dimness, blurring and the like.

Due to Dean's limited authority, Xia Duo can't contact Ta Ling for the time being. Of course, even if he can, Dean can't go to some places.

Overall, Xia Duo is quite satisfied with the test results, after all, it is his own work!

……

Back at the Tower of Time, Xia Duo took back the communication magic weapon in Dean's hand, and then began the last test-the real limit test.

Once every 2 minutes, use it uninterruptedly until Xia Duo exhausted his patience and failed to use up this laboratory version of the communication magic weapon. It seems that it is still somewhat doable.

However, the test still had to continue. Xia Duo himself was impatient to use the magic weapon until it broke, so he sent the test task to the "Jin Society" through the tower spirit.

Anyone who is marked as "Joining the Academy" in the Tower of Time can see this quest, whether it is an apprentice or a formal mage, the only limitation is that the quest location can only be at the quest management office.

After sending both communication instruments, Xia Duo just waited for the result.

However, during this period, he was not idle either. After all, the human head-sized communication instrument is still a bit big. If the "encapsulated" crystal material is included, it will be very inconvenient to use in practice.

It is natural to shrink a little.

In addition, "encapsulation" also needs to be tried several times, which is different from the laboratory version. At this stage, Mithril is Mithril, and five-color gems are five-color gems. The two sides are only connected by locks.

However, the packaging needs to use other materials, such as cheap gemstones such as crystals, or even metal and wood, to seal the mithril and five-color gemstones, which have the functions of beauty, protection, and encryption.

Once the encapsulation fails, Mithril and encapsulation materials get mixed together, and it is not so easy to separate them.

(End of this chapter)