Chapter 3223 The best place for students to practice homework
After a detailed discussion with Iolum, I finally came to the conclusion that if you only pursue efficiency, sacrificing Mythra is the best choice. If you also need to consider cost, sacrificing a magic scroll is the best choice.
Because the essence of this so-called sacrifice is to put more Magic Network strings into the decaying area of the Magic Network, any magic item, no matter what kind of design plan is adopted, must have a large number of Magic Network strings condensed on it.
What actually takes effect is only the magic weave strings condensed on the magic items, and the carrier is not necessary. The reason why sacrificing Mythra is the most efficient is because one Mythra condenses more than a million magic weave strings.
As for an ordinary magic item, the number of magic web strings condensed on it is basically less than one hundred.
Of course, the more complex the function and the more powerful the item, the more strings of the magic network will be condensed on it, but usually it will not exceed 10,000, which shows how large Mythra is.
Investing in a Mythra can be worth tens of thousands of ordinary magic items, and another advantage of the Mythra is that most of the carrier materials that carry magic are artificial and renewable materials such as arcane strings.
If the actual process was not inseparable from the Grand Arcanist, and considering only the cost of materials, Mythra would be the optimal solution. However, if labor costs are added, the price/performance ratio would not be appropriate.
The most cost-effective magic scroll is based on such considerations. The production of magic scrolls does not require the use of precious metals such as mithril. The most precious material is just some gem powder, and gem powder is not only used to make magic scrolls.
There are almost no higher value-added applications.
Although the cost of paper and parchment is relatively high, some well-made grass and wood paper can also be used as the main body of the magic scroll, so the cost is greatly reduced.
As for labor, that's simpler. There are so many apprentices in the Tower of Time, and countless homework assignments are produced every day. Many of them are in the form of magic scrolls. Students do these to connect spells, not to sell the scrolls.
Moreover, there are so many homework assignments for Tower of Time apprentices, and no one would deliberately collect those completed homework assignments. Even some time ago, Jose from the Tower of Time Academic Affairs Office told him that he should find a way to deal with the students' discarded homework.
Practical homework.
Since magic scrolls involve a lot of applications of arcane geometry, and arcane geometry is a compulsory subject for advanced arcanists, many apprentices' homework is generated in the form of magic scrolls.
The effect may not be a specific spell, but may only be part of the spell elements, so those abandoned practical assignments may not even be sold at a low price, so they are piling up in the Tower of Time.
Now is a good time to deal with it!
Assuming that a practical assignment only involves 5 spell elements, the number of magic web strings condensed on it is only about 5. In fact, a practical assignment usually involves more than ten spell elements.
Only freshmen's homework will be less than ten. Taking an average of 5 spell elements, 200,000 homeworks can equal the weight of a Mythra.
Of course, the analogy here only applies to investing in the decay area to support the self-repair of the magic network. Outside of this situation, even 2 million jobs are not worth as much as a Mythra.
While 200,000 jobs may seem like a huge amount, you must know that the Tower of Time is no longer what it used to be. Even if you exclude the new mages who are just over 600 years old, the number of apprentices is already over 3,000, and this is still not the limit of the territory.
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Chateau asked Leiden to make statistics. Currently, there are more than 150,000 school-age children in the territory, that is, territorial residents under the age of 16 (inclusive). In other words, this is 150,000 potential new mages.
Of course, the number of people who are actually at school age, that is, 16 years old, is still much smaller, less than 10,000.
The Tower of Time accepts new students twice a year, and the number of places continues to increase, but it still cannot reach the current total number of eligible citizens. Xia Duo is also very helpless about this. Before the teaching resources are reached, some people are destined to miss out on the best every year.
Admission opportunities.
If people over the age of 16 want to go to school, I am afraid they will have to wait until all school-age children have gone to school. Of course, Xia Duo does not block their opportunities to advance, and relevant textbooks are also circulated in the field.
Not to mention, there are workers' night schools and the like, and full-time teachers from the Tower of Time Academic Affairs Office will often be arranged to teach. As long as you can teach yourself to become a new mage, you can still join the Tower of Time.
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The 200,000 practical assignments are calculated based on only 1,000 apprentices. If each apprentice only completes such an assignment every day, it will only take 200 days.
In fact, the Tower of Time has more than a thousand apprentices for more than three years, and it is impossible for apprentices to only do such a practical assignment every day. Even the lowest grade students will have at least two to three assignments.
The higher the grade, the more practical homework there will be. This is related to the spellcasting limit of each apprentice. This is how practical homework is, there is an upper limit.
As for paper assignments, there are not many restrictions. They are similar for lower grades and upper grades, so we will skip them here.
Even if the practical assignments include a lot of parts that do not have any magic network strings condensed at all, the remaining number is still a very huge number, conservatively estimated to be more than 1 million copies.
Jose couldn't even calculate the specific number accurately, and only used a more general description - occupying five large warehouses of the Magic Mechanic's Department.
It was also because the Magic Mechanics Office couldn't stand it anymore and urged the Academic Affairs Office to deal with it as soon as possible. Jose himself couldn't make up his mind before reporting the problem to Xia Duo.
Xia Duo was undecided at first and was still thinking about returning those practical assignments to the students. After all, when he was in school, he kept all kinds of assignments for himself. Looking back on those assignments when he was a child in the future, he would also reveal
A knowing smile.
However, magic practice homework is no different than others. If apprentices are allowed to take it back, it will still pose a certain threat to ordinary people. At present, Daxia Territory does not have all the people who cast spells, and most of the apprentices' family members are still ordinary people.
This is also the main reason why Xia Duo has not made up his mind to return the practical homework to the students. Of course, now that he has a better way to deal with it, it can be considered a good place to repair the magic network.
As for the future, the worst possible scenario is to prepare several demi-plane warehouses for the Academic Affairs Office to store student homework or other items, or to ask the Materials Management Office to help store them. There is no shortage of warehouses there.
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After taking note, Shado discussed the details of the sacrifice with Iolum before sending him to a nearby camp.
And he calculated the time and found that he could catch up with the sleeping ceremony, so he realized his true form again, and then called Niya to the territory to preside over the ceremony.