After Lord Harlan left, Shado did not return to Severdon. Instead, he stayed in the Watchtower. He took out the design drawings of the demon-slaying arrow left by Lord Harlan and began to study them in detail.
Before, he had just glanced through it briefly without thinking deeply about it. Now when he looked at the drawing again, he quickly found an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
It's not that it's similar to the magic arrows in his portable space. That's just the easiest part to see on the surface. The deeper part is that the demon-slaying arrows feel like a disposable flying sword to him.
It's just that the remote control function is missing, and other functions such as "flying through the sky" and "acceleration" all have an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.
Of course, as a one-time magic arrow, in addition to these basic functions, its core function is to limit teleportation and the final self-destruction attack.
"It's not easy!"
After carefully examining the design drawings, Xia Duo realized that it was really not easy to make a demon-slaying arrow within three days.
Generally, high-quality magic items only have a certain spell of level 8 or above as the core, and their functions are not complicated. However, this magic arrow has many functions and needs to be coordinated with each other. The difficulty of making them is much higher than that of general high-quality magic items.
In addition, there is another crucial point, that is, the design drawings provided by Lord Harlan are the original elves. In other words, if the manufacturer is not good at elven magic, there is almost no way to make it.
Generally, original elven spells or design drawings like this need to be converted into the Nese magic system before they can be handed over to the Nese mage for further processing.
In order to relatively complete the conversion of Elf magic into Nese magic, the converter must be proficient in both Elf magic and Nese magic.
Moreover, it is easy for information to be lost in the transformation of different magic systems, leading to the situation of "a slight difference can make a huge difference". Therefore, after the transformation, it must pass multiple rounds of inspections before it is truly completed.
Under the current situation, even Xia Duo could not complete the "resistance magic conversion" of the demon-slaying arrow within three days. On the contrary, the demon-slaying amulet had only one function, so localization was very simple.
Fortunately, after Xia Duo got the design drawings of the Demon-Slaying Arrow, he already made plans to create the original version of the Elf. Now after such preliminary research, he is even more certain of this idea.
Even a great arcanist may not be able to make a "Nese-colored version" of demon-slaying arrows within three days, unless he has studied it in advance.
There is an alchemy circle in the watchtower. Sha Duo can directly get started and gain experience during the production process. Different magic systems mean that the production process of magic items is also very different.
Of course, there are similarities.
Similar to the structure of the magic arrow originally obtained from the Mysterious Ruins, the core of the Demon-Slaying Arrow is also a slender tube-like mithril structure, but this mithril network rolled into a thin tube is not woven from mithril threads.
It is formed into one piece.
The biggest difference between this creation and the Nese magic creation is that it does not require an energy buffer core. In other words, making the demon-slaying arrow does not require five-color gems or arcane crystals. If it is needed, it is just for decoration.
To a certain extent, it is more like a magic item created using constant magic, but in fact it is completely a mithril component magic item.
It is only because of the differences between the elves and Netheril magic systems that it appears so unique.
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Above the alchemy circle, light and shadow threads of various colors crisscrossed each other. Although they were making magic items for elves, Sha Duo still habitually made auxiliary threads first.
After completing the auxiliary line, he also threw a first-class mithril ingot onto the alchemy circle. Almost in the blink of an eye, the mithril ingot turned into a ball of liquid, surging above the alchemy circle.
In this case, if it is an ordinary mage, it is natural to directly control the liquid mithril into various shapes through the transformation spell of the mage's hand.
Xia Duo also did this, but he had more auxiliary lines than ordinary mages. If there were no auxiliary lines, he could only shape it based on feeling. Maybe he could make perfect, but this skill is difficult to pass on.
As a former programmer who has received modern engineering education, Xia Duo does not like the term "technique" very much. He prefers to summarize a standard operating procedure that can be executed repeatedly.
After all, this is manufacturing, not art. If too many human factors are involved, the yield will be difficult to control.
The limit of manufacturing is to eliminate all unnecessary human interference. It is best to just give an instruction and the machine will automatically complete the manufacturing process.
Only in this way can the finished product be consistent with the design drawings to the greatest extent. If it is inconsistent, it is a problem with the machine.
Once the adjustment is done, the quality will remain unchanged for quite some time. How can humans be so stable?
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Soon, Xia Duo made the first slender tube-mesh mithril component, which completely complied with the requirements of the design drawings. The curvature of the network lines, the staggered angle, the number of nodes, and the relative positions made it almost impossible to find any faults.
The next step is to connect to the magic network.
After experiencing the systematic elf magic education in [Projection Plane: The Birth of Cormanthor], Sha Duo now has a completely different experience when looking at the production of elf magic items than at first.
The elven magic system comes from the same origin and is closely related. The production of this magic item is essentially weaving a super-miniature mythical lock with mithril components as the core.
If the core of the Nese magic system is the arcane fire, then the core of the Elf magic system is the Mystery. From the meditation and perception during enlightenment to the training and refinement of various skills, everything is preparing for the Mystery.
As for Nese Magic, before reaching high levels and creating arcane fire, all focused training and spell-casting training can also be considered as preparation for controlling arcane fire.
Of course, both the Nese magic system and the Elf magic system are systematic operations created based on the operability principle of the Magic Network and the Magic Network's strings.
The essence is actually the same, they are all operations on the magic network.
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Different from the step of making mithril components, the step of connecting the magic network did not go smoothly for Shado. Although elf magic is also a manifestation of knowledge, the casting process is much more complicated than Nese magic.
Of course, this is for a spellcaster who is used to Nese magic. If he is a native elf mage, he may feel that Nese magic is an unreasonable and barbaric act.
In fact, Shado believes that Nese magic is a more sophisticated way of casting spells that is logical to ordinary people. This is called "forced feedback type" by him, that is to say, an action (of will) will inevitably give out a result.
The elves' spellcasting method is similar to the "passive synergy" method, which requires the caster to seem to be active but actually passive to fit and guide the magic network. If the fit is not good, accidents will naturally occur frequently.