Chapter 653 The benefits of printing semi-finished products
The reason why specific words cannot be printed, or those words cannot be engraved, is to understand this, you must first understand what a spell is.
Spells are a language used for conversation in ancient times. And this language contains power and the ability to command all things in the world. In other words, in this era, those spells that are difficult to pronounce can actually be translated and become everyone's words.
Everyone can understand words that have clear meaning.
For any magic that has been passed down from ancient times, if the content of the spell is translated into modern languages, you will know that it is nothing more than stating who is in the name of someone, ordering something, and doing something. Other than that, it is just a bunch of
A eulogy with gorgeous words. Of course, the magic and spell content improved on this basis cannot escape from such a structure.
If it is a general statement or a mantra fragment of praise, if it is engraved backwards and then transferred, there will be no big problem. But what about ‘whose name’?
With the power of words and language, it is considered an act of blasphemy to pronounce a name backwards, or write it backwards, backwards, or in reverse alphabetical order. If someone does this, the magic is out of control.
The last explosion was the least serious thing; if that person hadn't died yet, it was not impossible for him to come and beat him up directly.
In order to make a relief plate for printing, of course the target text or pattern to be printed must be turned upside down and engraved on the relief plate. It is this process that angered the original owners of those names. Regardless of whether the other person is still alive or not, that
The power in the universe will prevent such a situation from happening.
In addition, there are some special characters. Although they do not represent the name of a certain existence, they cannot be reversed to make an engraving. For example, words that represent 'life', 'creation' and the like in spells must be reversed.
It turns into the opposite meaning.
You must know that even if spells and runes exist alone, they will have their influence, which is just strong or weak. The research team led by the dean of Kabamba Academy risked their lives to find these inverted engravings, and then alone
Characters that cause violent reactions if present.
In the process of this research, there was actually a small episode. Originally, the research team of Dean Kabambai only divided the printed characters and patterns into three categories: first, normal; second, printed characters will disappear in a very short time.
, and the scroll must be discarded with paper; third, it cannot even be engraved, if it is carved upside down, it will explode immediately.
Originally, these three types were found. As long as the latter two are avoided, the Manroland printing press can use the segmented printing method to continuously print out semi-finished magic scrolls. Later, the magicians or magic apprentices can make up for it.
All, a complete magic scroll is now freshly baked.
Just as Academy Principal Kabamba's men were rolling up their sleeves and preparing to show off their skills, someone came forward and shouted stop.
If it were someone else, I am afraid that the dean, who is proud of his own achievements, would not listen to any 'advice' decorated with good intentions. Who knows whether the person who said those words is really jealous or jealous?
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But when Magician Gabrash Tripwood spoke, the weight was completely different. No matter what, he had to listen.
"President, have you ever thought about how long these parts that can be used for printing can last? Even if you want to complete a semi-finished magic scroll, it still requires a magician or an apprentice to devote effort, time and power to make up for it.
Those key points are no different from casting a spell. Even if a person can complete much more finished products in a day than in the past, there is always an upper limit, and what is this upper limit? If there is no planned large-scale printing, eventually
It’s just a waste of materials.”
It was this passage that made Dean Kabanbai initiate another stage of research, leaving a record of how long each individually printed rune or magic array line could be temporarily stored.
With the assistance of Lin, the research team led by the dean of the college has begun to use numbers to make some records and simple calculations. How many semi-finished magic scrolls can the modified Manroland printing press print in one day? One apprentice and one magician can print one day.
How many semi-finished products can be completed? Once the numbers on both sides were combined, I realized that the previous plan was completely wrong.
If you don't listen to someone's advice, and after you achieve some results, you start making magic scrolls in large quantities. In the end, because there are not enough manpower to complete the semi-finished scrolls, you will not have time to complete the magic scrolls before the power is exhausted, and most of the materials are wasted.
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Although in the process of doing research, a lot of materials were discarded in order to observe the experimental results, but at least they made a contribution. If the materials have to be scrapped because they did not plan well, it is pure waste and
Loss. Even if the college's funds were much richer than before thanks to the share of mathematics journals during this period, such losses would still be unbearable.
With a good suggestion as a starting point, Lin also put forward many opinions one after another.
If the first suggestion was not accepted, these might later be regarded as excessive interference in other people's research projects. After all, Lin took the initiative to keep distance from the group that printed the magic scroll. But with the first successful communication,
The group members did benefit from it, so the following opinions will not be so unacceptable.
The second suggestion Lin gave was to re-examine the difficulty of making magic scrolls based on the semi-finished printing method currently mastered.
Basically, the difficulty of making a magic scroll is on par with the difficulty of casting a spell, or even more difficult. Because casting a spell requires the ability to construct a spell model and recite the spell. Only after you understand it thoroughly enough can it be possible.
Chant to cast magic.
But when part of the magic scroll can be printed by machine, the difficulty of production should be judged by how many parts of it must be completed by human hands, and this part cannot be done by machines.
The third suggestion was originally to let Dean Kabamba use his contacts and human resources to study what kind of magic scrolls would be more popular in the market. Simply put, a sample survey should be done first to target the target group.
It's up to the current adventurers to see what type of magic scroll they want to have as an aid in their adventure journey.
But considering the market mechanism, in an era of low productivity, supply determines demand; in an era of strong productivity, demand determines supply.
Although with the support of the Manroland printing press, the team led by Dean Kabambai can produce magic scrolls quickly and in large quantities, it only has one machine, and it is not yet a new era. Want to
The current productivity is far from enough to meet the market demand. So Lin gave up using the survey results to produce magic scrolls with high market demand.
Basically, this is still an era where you can sell as much as you can make.
Of course, with the great magicians like Kabamba and Bijan sitting in charge, they would never produce a large number of magic scrolls that are useless for adventure, combat, life-saving, etc.
But even without someone’s reminder, I had the experience of almost printing a large amount before, but the follow-up manpower could not keep up, and a large number of materials were almost scrapped. After obtaining more results, President Kabanbai did not keep his head down and just casually
Find some magic scrolls and make them randomly.
Instead, he found the president of the Chamber of Commerce, who had been working with him for a long time, and asked what types of magic scrolls were more popular, or to put it bluntly, easier to sell. To put it simply, the issue of sales was taken into consideration before production.
But just like Lin's conjecture, the current demand for magic scrolls in the Lost Land is still in a state where the demand far exceeds the supply. Even if there are many magicians in the holy city of Estali and relatively few adventurers, magic scrolls are sold
Not much; but looking at the entire Gwana Empire, magic scrolls are a proper strategic resource for the nobles and the army, and they can basically collect as much as they have.
Since there is no need to worry about sales, Principal Kabanbai is of course not polite. For the first official production, he did not choose to make multiple magic scrolls at the same time, but conservatively made only one kind. The target was the apprentice level.
Magic, an upgraded version of summoning a golem──summoning a high-level golem.
This magic is difficult to make in scrolls. Of course it cannot be compared with strategic magic, but it is not something that a magic apprentice or someone who has just been promoted to a magician can do. Even a first-level summoned demon
Even magic scrolls are not easy to make.
After all, it is necessary to communicate with the elemental plane, deal with any consciousness inside, negotiate, and then pay a price to make the other party willing to come to the main material world to work hard, so the complexity of the magic circle is on the high side. Many magicians make
The reason why the success rate of the magic scroll for summoning high-level golems is not high is precisely because the magic formation is not drawn well enough, which leads to the failure of production.
But whether it is 'summoning a golem' or 'summoning a high-level golem', it is a very popular magic for adventurers. In addition to adding more combat power in battle, you can use golems during the adventure journey.
It can be used as a shield, as a pathfinding tool, and can even be used as a trigger to destroy traps.
For the consciousness residing in the golem, their destruction in the main material world is just a matter of returning to the elemental plane for rebirth. Therefore, they don't care about the harm at all, or even the end of the body they host in the lost world.
However, using the Manroland printing press, the difficulty of making the 'Summon Advanced Golem' magic scroll immediately fell to the bottom. Because the entire complex magic scroll made using ancient methods, there are actually less than five places in it that need to be made by hand.
, and the semi-finished product is still three full days away from being scrapped.
More importantly, because most of the magic circle lines are completed by the printing press, the success rate of the 'Summoning Advanced Golem' magic scroll increases like a rocket.
The success rate has increased, and the associated cost has dropped. In addition, in the past, magic apprentices and even new magicians may not be able to make magic scrolls well, but now they can mass-produce hundreds of them a day. Such an astonishing success rate and production speed