As for how to implement the auxiliary spell-casting function, it is not difficult for Xia Duo.
After all, he even designed the spell book, which was at best a simplified version of the spell book. In the time it took Niya to finish a set of test papers, he completed most of the design.
Since a plastic energy equation spell was developed not long ago, when designing this auxiliary spell-casting function, Xia Duo consciously or unintentionally relied on the equation spell.
After all, knowledge is always relatively objective. Equation spells are essentially the embodiment of laws in a certain field. If you want to assist in spellcasting, you must use these laws.
According to this design concept and direction, in fact, the spell books designed by Xia Duo before have completely fallen behind.
Of course, the premise is to derive equations that cover most common spells in the world. At present, Shado only has one evocation equation, and it is far from time to update the spell book.
However, he could also imagine that if a spell book could be designed in the form of equation spells, would this spell book still be a spell book? It would simply be magic itself.
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In Xia Duo's completion plan, he divided the upgraded communication magic weapon into four basic models based on its auxiliary spell-casting function, corresponding to -
Evocation, plane, mind, physical state.
These are the areas that Shaduo is good at, and he is confident that he can provide users with a considerable degree of auxiliary spell casting effects in these areas.
The first three basically cover the mainstream creation and psychic spells in Netheril, while the material state is a smaller area in the transformation system.
Shado has not done much research on change spells, but there are not many mages in Netheril who specialize in change spells, and most of them may not be as good as Shado!
When used as an auxiliary function for communication instruments, it is actually considered qualified. After all, the default users of this function are middle- and low-level mages.
High-level mages no longer need such simple auxiliary spell-casting props. They can completely use spell books, which are much better than this (the prerequisite is that they must be designed by themselves, and it is difficult to buy ready-made ones directly).
But it can still be used, and for high-level mages, Xia Duo also has a four-in-one advanced version. Even if it is not practical, it is still a good choice just to collect the so-called Grand Arcanist's handiwork.
In order to make money to build the floating city, Xia Duo tried his best.
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The only thing that needs to be considered now is whether to suspend the production of ordinary communication instruments.
Even if this issue is only a month in advance, Xia Duo will not be too entangled. Anyway, there are few people and he will definitely have to stop one first. But now, new mages are promoted in the Tower of Time from time to time, which gives Xia Duo a hope——
A hope that can satisfy both the normal version and the upgraded version of the communication instrument production line.
But at the same time, Xia Duo will not ignore the fact that the Tower of Time itself is also short of people. To be precise, it is lack of new mages who have obtained formal ranks.
The Territory Magic Affairs Officer plans to recruit at least 20 people, but only four are currently in place. This is largely due to the lack of people in the Tower of Time.
In the past, he was worried that if all the apprentices were promoted, there would be chaos because he would not be able to arrange work for them all.
But now, Xia Duo no longer has such worries. He now wishes that these apprentices could be promoted faster so that he could meet the Tower of Time's growing demand for new mages.
"well!"
Xia Duo sighed, and finally decided not to suspend the production of ordinary communication instruments. After all, the market for ordinary communication instruments is not yet saturated, and he really can't give up his net income of at least 200,000 per month.
"It's hard to say that we need to make some flexible operations."
Thinking like this, Xia Duo already had an idea.
The method is actually very simple, just add a few professional level exams temporarily. Under normal circumstances, the level exams in the Tower of Time are only held once a month. After all, organizing exams also requires costs.
But in fact, most of the current level 3 apprentices in the trial class can become official mages immediately. They just don't have the confidence to pass the class exam, so they stay in the class and continue to study.
If these people can be released in a short period of time, the Magical Engineering Department will have a new batch of technicians.
As for the shortage of new mages in other places, we can only wait for a while. Anyway, there are still level 2 apprentices in the preparatory class! It won't take long for them to be promoted.
And the most important thing is that the Tower of Time will welcome a large wave of new apprentices in the Midsummer Recruitment two months later.
It’s hard to say how many young people of the right age there are in the Gray Eagle Tribe of the Great Xia Territory. After all, some people have not yet passed the language barrier. However, in the Saville Territory, Xia Duo has decided to bring in all the young people of the right age as much as possible, so the number will be quite large.
Therefore, before the Midsummer Festival, he must complete the construction of the flight control system of the floating city, and then bring the floating city to the main plane, otherwise the Tower of Time will not be able to accommodate so many people.
Even if they could be crammed in, it would be difficult to support their daily magical activities. If they couldn't carry out magical activities, what was the point of forcing them into the Tower of Time?
With this calculation, Xia Duo felt more and more pressed for time. The only good thing was that the Tower of Time, the material for the flight control system, was still available for the time being.
I just hope that the Tower of Time’s earning speed can keep up with the construction progress of the Floating City!
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Since the Tower of Time's only three mass production design and research laboratories were busy with engineering design tasks for the floating city's energy transmission lines, Xia Duo started mass production design on his own after briefly testing several models of upgraded communication instruments.
It was not until the end of May and another four or five days in June that he completed the mass production design.
During this period, Shado spread the word through Brundes, Belera, Hechenis and others in Severton, saying that he was undertaking the customization of a variety of high-quality magic items.
At the same time, six more job exams were temporarily added within the Tower of Time. A total of 22 apprentices in the trial class successfully passed the exam and obtained the official job rank, and were immediately upgraded to official mages after the exam.
Of course, these 22 new mages, together with the two junior magic technicians transferred by Sha Duo from the papermaking workshop, and the four intermediate mages temporarily borrowed from the independent research laboratory, joined the newly established upgraded communication magic weapon production workshop
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Compared with ordinary communication weapons, the upgraded version of the communication weapon also requires the participation of high-level mages. Fisher, Anthony, and Coker will be useful again after they use the Demon-Slaying Talisman.
At this stage, only one high-level mage is enough. When more new mage are promoted and the production line is expanded, the three Fishers can join in.
On this day, Xia Duo just came out of the workshop where the new production line was located. He was in a good mood and vented all his busy and anxious emotions during this period.
The trial run of the new production line was much smoother than the previous production line. This batch of magic technicians gave him a big surprise. They adapted to the state of the production line very well without any teaching.