Chapter 3280 The Last Afterglow Preparations for Casting
"The number of nodes in this plan is so large, what are the test results?" Xia Duo continued to ask.
Speaking of business, Niya also straightened herself out, took out a series of previous test and experiment reports, handed them to Sha Duo, and at the same time briefly introduced:
"Three rounds of testing have been completed so far. The main framework is very stable and no problems have been found yet. As for the cooperation with other functional components, because of previous experience, it is estimated that there will be no major problems."
"Really!"
Xia Duo quickly flipped through the experiment report that Niya handed over. It was indeed as Niya said. There were three rounds of more than one hundred tests. The results were good and bad, but generally they were qualified.
"So when will this new mystery lock be updated?"
"This -" Nia hesitated for a moment, "There are still some finishing touches that have not been completed. The most important thing is that the size of this mystery lock is too large, and the difficulty of casting the spell will probably be unimaginably high. The last step is to update the current
There are user impacts, and I’m trying to figure out how to avoid this impact, but there’s no good way yet.”
Indeed, Xia Duo is also proficient in the field of myth locks. He was excited about Niya finally completing the million-level node design plan, but he ignored the specific implementation difficulty of this plan.
Now after being reminded by Niya, he finally remembered that the reason why he gave up the plan of stacking nodes before was because the difficulty of subsequent updates would increase exponentially!
It may be possible to barely complete it once or twice. When the number of responsible nodes reaches hundreds of millions or even billions, can it still be possible to organize manpower to cast spells as now?
I won’t say it’s absolutely impossible, but the feasibility is almost zero.
In order to cope with such development constraints, Xia Duo continued the technical route of the Red Heart Alliance - the hot update of the Mystery Lock, which means that every time the Mystery Lock is updated, there is no need to start from scratch, but only the parts that need to be changed need to be updated.
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The current Mystery update is not so much an update as it is a rebuild, but it will inherit the previous permission settings. If permission inheritance is not considered, it will even be a brand new Mystery after the update.
At the beginning of the Red Heart Alliance, the general consensus in the industry was that hot updates would be the mainstream of future MyLocker development, and MyLockers that did not have the hot update function were destined to be eliminated.
However, this key technology requires a few more steps in "variable control of mysterious lock communication rules" before it can be realized. This was the research direction of Sha Duo's mentor when he was at the Red Heart Alliance University.
Unfortunately, until Xia Duo left the Red Heart Alliance, research in this area failed to achieve any key breakthroughs.
But this is a big road, and there are also some other small roads, such as the unified myth lock solution, which unifies several functional mystery locks under a relatively durable framework mystery lock, so that each update only needs to update a certain functional mystery lock.
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The framework lock only requires regular maintenance and can go without substantial updates for a long time.
However, this solution essentially brings together multiple myth locks, and even because of the linkage of permissions, as long as a loophole in one mystery lock can be found, other mystery locks are equivalent to having back doors opened, and the security is low.
In addition, the unified puzzle has its limits. It is impossible to stuff everything into the framework puzzle. Moreover, the more functions there are, the more complex the system, and the greater the probability of errors. This is also a risk that cannot be ignored.
In addition to the unified mystery lock solution, there is also the node mapping magic network array solution that Niya thought of before. Although this path is slightly wider than the unified mystery lock solution, it is still a small road.
Niya discovered that a large number of virtual nodes can be reversely created by reshaping the macrostructure of the magic network with fixed node mapping. In other words, a communication magic lock with a total number of 100,000 nodes can create millions or even tens of millions of virtual nodes.
These virtual nodes can also be used as communication devices.
Compared with the unified secret locking solution, this solution is more secure because the system is unique, but compared with the large number of virtual nodes it brings, this security risk is still acceptable.
But everything has two sides. Although Niya's plan can create a large number of virtual nodes, the price is exchanged for the function of the mystery lock itself.
This solution has two extremes. One is not to shape virtual nodes, which is a normal distributed node communication puzzle. The other is to use all the resources of the puzzle to shape nodes. The result is——
This communication puzzle will not have any functions other than virtual nodes, which of course includes communication functions.
Of course, in this case, the number of virtual nodes locked will be directly filled up.
Generally speaking, the number of nodes in a puzzle determines the upper limit of its size, including the so-called nodeless puzzle, which only has no material nodes, and its energy flow still has more or less central areas, that is, nodes.
It's just that the energy centers of the nodeless mystical locks that are usually thought of are actually built in the magic network. The size of these mystical locks is also related to the number of energy centers.
But if there are material nodes, it is equivalent to setting a natural upper limit for the mystery, that is, the upper limit of the material nodes.
Niya's virtual node solution cannot increase the number of real physical nodes, nor can it change the size of the mystery lock itself.
Although there are such shackles on material node mystery locks, it is not without benefits. Otherwise, this kind of mystery locks would have been eliminated long ago.
The biggest advantage is of course that it is less difficult to construct and maintain (the cost is higher and a large amount of materials are needed to make material nodes). This kind of mystery lock can be built by a senior mage who specializes in mystery locks.
As for the Mystery Lock without material nodes, even the vast majority of high mages would not be able to complete it alive.
Such benefits cannot be ignored in the elf world, and the reason why Shado designed the communication mystery lock to have nodes is not because he cannot deal with the nodeless version.
Rather, considering the risk of Mysock being invaded, we must know that Communication Mysock will face countless users in the future, and who knows whether there are some saboteurs with evil intentions among those users.
In fact, there will certainly be.
In this case, if it is a nodeless mystery lock, once the other party finds a loophole, the entire mystery lock may be destroyed at once.
And if there are nodes, and the communication lock uses a distributed node design, as long as the Tower of Time firmly controls two-thirds of the nodes, no one can break through the authority.
Of course, it's not good to speak so absolutely. At least with Xia Duo's current ability, he can't even imagine how the enemy can seize authority. He has blocked every imaginable door.
The essence of a node puzzle lies in the nodes. The macro part of the puzzle can be regarded as the mapping of nodes. Fixed nodes are still at risk of being breached, but distributed nodes have the power to collect them and distribute them in the hands of a large number of users.
What about the node magic weapon of the communication magic weapon?
Even if all are collected, who would have thought that the actual nodes released by the Tower of Time are only one-third of the total? Even if one-third is collected, the mystery lock cannot be controlled, and even in the process of collecting, it will be blocked by the Tower of Time.
The tower noticed the abnormal enrichment of nodes, and then forcibly "offlined" those nodes.
In this way, the proportion of nodes controlled by the Tower of Time will increase again. Unless the enemy breaks through the Tower of Time, they will never be able to break through and seize the authority to seize the communication mystery lock.