The other material is very common, it is just refined parchment, soaked in a special potion, so that it does not bounce back when rolled up or unfolded.
Of course, you can also use ordinary parchment paper, but it's just not very convenient when rolled up or unfolded, and there's nothing else.
Even wood, rocks, metals, gems, cloth, liquids, etc. can be used to carry magic, but Xia Duo is not allowed to spread the stall too wide for the time being.
The magic scroll is a magic item that is relatively easy to get started with, has a wide range of applications, and is not very expensive. It is very suitable for Xia Duo.
Perhaps the only shortcoming of magic scrolls is that most magic scrolls are one-time products, and using them is simply throwing away money.
Many times, if you have money, you can really do whatever you want. On the other hand, the more powerful a person is, the easier it is to make money. Xia Duo has already realized this.
If he was really an ordinary apprentice, would Mrs. Patty still use 200 gold coins to hire him as a personal mage consultant? It would be better not to pursue the previous "pretending to be a mage".
Returning to the spell laboratory, Xia Duo placed the ink, parchment, and mithril pen on the workbench one by one, and made a level 1 spell scroll for the first time. Xia Duo chose a magic laboratory with a stable magic network environment.
This is an essential novice cost. Once you are proficient, you cannot put it in the spell laboratory. After all, cost reduction is also an essential step for novices to mature.
During his apprenticeship, Xia Duo made a 0-level [Light Technique] scroll and made a small profit, but later he gave up because he felt it was not worthwhile.
Now that he is making magic scrolls again, Xia Duo still misses it a little!
When he first made the [Lighting Technique] scroll, Shado had not been exposed to arcane geometry and did not think deeply about the patterns drawn on the parchment.
But now, Xia Duo has understood why those graphics look one way and not another way, and even know the allowable range of error.
This is like asking ordinary people to draw a regular heptagon with a ruler and compass. Some people know that all sides of the figure are equal and can draw it, but they cannot draw it accurately.
Some people even directly deny the possibility of drawing a regular heptagon with a ruler and compass, and conclude based on intuition that it is impossible.
Before, Xia Duo was the one who assumed that spell scrolls could be made but could not find the source, but now he already knows the meaning of any line on the scroll.
Based on the geometric knowledge he learned on Earth, he can even draw these figures more easily than Master Nese, and does not require additional auxiliary tools.
Because, with the addition of magic, with the help of [Magic Tricks], Xia Duo already has a set of drawing aids that will not be lost at all.
When studying the conversion of [Vapor Ray], Shado had already considered the entire drawing process, and now he only needed to follow the steps.
Entering the spell-casting state, with a thought, a blue auxiliary line appeared on the unfolded refined parchment, followed by one, and then another, until the paper was covered with dense blue straight lines and circles.
Chateau wanted to select 42 specific intersection points among these intricate lines, connect them with straight lines or arcs, and then remove the auxiliary lines.
What finally appeared in front of Sha Duo was a complex two-dimensional spell structure.
At this point, the scroll cannot be called a magic scroll, it is just a piece of parchment with strange patterns drawn on it. If it is an ordinary person, it can also do this step after training.
And the next thing only the caster can do - give it magic.
Or to put it more popularly, connect the magic network to this planar spell structure. Without the magic network, there would be no magic, and there would be no magic scroll.
"Must succeed!"
Xia Duo held his breath, as any movement involving people was not 100% accurate. All Xia Duo could do was try to increase the success rate.
Whether it is preparation in advance or the process of casting the spell, be as careful and rigorous as possible.
Buzz——
The magic net in front of him began to gather, entangle, bend, and overlap under Sha Duo's will, complying with every spellcasting element of [Steam Ray], forming a three-dimensional spell structure.
If the spell is cast normally, it can be activated at this step.
Making a scroll requires the next step, which is to convert the spell structure woven by the magic web into a flat structure. If you are making an ordinary scroll, an encryption conversion is required after this step.
However, it was the first time that Shado made a 1-ring scroll and did not perform encryption conversion. (The encryption conversion also includes the graphics on the parchment)
In other words, if he succeeds in making this scroll and it is taken away by others, then the secret of [Steam Ray] will be lost.
This is a learning scroll, which is even simpler than making an ordinary scroll, but because it has complete magical elements, few people are actually willing to make this kind of scroll.
Xia Duo, who did not need encryption conversion, directly weaved the magic web, and the spell structure after plane conversion overlapped with the graphics on the parchment.
At this point, if the error in the previous drawing process is too large, it will directly fail.
If it is within the tolerance range, there is a high chance that it will be successful. Xia Duo used a very precise drawing method, so naturally there will not be too big an error.
But - there are also errors in spell casting itself, which is why the actual spell effect fluctuates.
This time, Shado's casting error was too large, and the extremely accurate scroll graphics became a shortcoming that affected his success. During the process of connecting the magic network to the parchment graphics, the spell went out of control without warning.
However, this spell did not activate after all. It only caused vibrations in the magic network, but it was quickly suppressed and stabilized by the spell laboratory.
If it were outside, Xia Duo would inevitably have a headache. And if the spell went out of control after being activated, it might end up in his own hands.
As the "culprit" of the out-of-control spell, the extremely accurate drawing of the scroll graphics, the ink on it has become a ball at this moment.
What was originally a very regular and exquisite spell pattern has turned into a very abstract, unknown figure. Even the ink is no longer completely on the surface of the parchment, but has penetrated into all layers.
This parchment is completely unusable.
This failure did not affect Xia Duo. When he first made the [Light Technique] scroll, he was in the apprentice dormitory. He had neither a mithril pen to write so smoothly nor a calm and stable magic network environment.
In this way, he finally succeeded in making the [Light Technique] scroll.
It has only failed once now, which was completely within his expectation.
But thinking about the wasted parchment and ink, Xia Duo still felt a little distressed.
A piece of refined parchment costs 1 gold coin, and a bottle of red graphite water costs 20 gold coins. The bottle of ink here is not like there is on earth, it is just a small bottle.
It’s almost the same capacity as two bottles of eye drops, and you’ll use almost half of the bottle for one drawing. If the failure rate is too high, don’t expect to make money with this craft.