Vikas’ on-site teaching gave Duke finally the most intuitive understanding of card making, which is much more difficult than repairing cards.
Repairing a card is just a repair of details, just like repairing a car.
Card making includes design and research and development, just like completely manufacturing a car. The level of difficulty is not at all the same.
"The card materials are different every time, so every time I make a spiritual card, it is like a brand new adventure." Assistant Vikas holds the psychic pen, draws and carves the last energy line, and connects the energy line
Press it into the card material and perfectly connect with the energy line at the beginning.
So.
A 1-ring spirit card-spirit storage card is basically completed, and the only thing left is the packaging cover.
"It seems to have no technical content, it is just a thin card. In fact, all the technical content is in the minds of our card makers."
Vikas handed the spirit storage card to Duke.
Duke quickly injected a trace of spiritual energy to activate the spell model in this spirit storage card, confirming that it was a successful spirit storage card.
"Congratulations to the guide, you successfully earned 15 Silver Dragons."
Duke has run a card repair shop before, so he naturally knows that the market price of a 1-ring spirit storage card is 15 Silver Dragons, which is not cheap for ordinary people.
Assistant Vikas shook his head: "We only sold 15 silver dragons. Making it is a waste of time for me."
"It seems that card makers don't like making this kind of civilian cards?" Duke asked.
"Of course, the price of a civilian card can be as low as 1 Silver Dragon. No ambitious card maker will waste his energy on this."
"Then what are the civilian cards on the market made of? They can't be handed over to spiritual apprentices, right?"
"You have repaired many spiritual cards before. How about you take a guess at how these civilian cards are produced based on their condition?"
Assistant Vikas smiled and asked Duke a question.
Duke thought for a moment, then his eyes lit up: "You mean, the arcane mages behind the United Card Shop have the technology to produce civilian cards in large quantities?"
On the civilian cards he repaired, you can find some very similar energy lines, as if they were copied from the same mold.
"Yes, it is a very powerful technology. It is this technology that has changed the landscape of spiritual cards and allowed civilian cards to enter thousands of households." Vikas highly praised this technology, "Psychic resonance memory, through
The resonance method allows a large amount of psychic energy to be output simultaneously with the card maker."
In short, psionic resonance memory means that when a card maker makes a spirit card, he will have a set of equipment to record his psionic energy at all times, and then copy his movements to complete the production of a unified format of spirit cards.
After Duke understood it, he asked doubtfully: "The card materials are different, and the spiritual distribution is also different. How can we adapt to the unified mode of spiritual energy output?"
"I have never seen this technology, but the instructor is a consultant at the United Card Store, and he has seen this technology. First, the card materials can be made uniformly to ensure that the spiritual distribution is roughly the same, and then it is handed over to the spiritual apprentice to check the spiritual distribution and select
Card materials with the same layout..."
United Card Store almost monopolizes the low-end spiritual card market in major cities, especially civilian spiritual cards, which are basically produced by United Card Store.
They need to make a large number of civilian cards, so among a large number of card materials, it is easy to gather a batch of card materials with the same spiritual layout.
When handed over to the card maker to draw, a large number of spell models can be drawn and carved at one time by using psychic resonance memory.
The more card materials and the more spiritual cards that can be drawn and engraved at one time, the higher the value of the psychic resonance memory.
"So you understand, card makers trained in small places will either end up being recruited by United Card Stores, or they can only take the high-end route and make arcane cards, and high-level arcane cards."
Vikas smiled and continued: "It is more profitable to make a 2-level card than to make dozens of 1-level cards... The more complex the spell model is, the higher the requirements for the spiritual distribution of the card materials, and it is difficult to slow down.
To meet the needs of psychic resonance memory technology."
With a somewhat proud expression on his face, Vikas said ostentatiously: "So even if United Card Store monopolizes the entire low-end spiritual card market, we card makers can still live a very prosperous life just by relying on high-end cards."
"That's it."
"Okay, today we will teach you how to make these basic cards. Don't underestimate these technologies, they are enough for you to study for a long time." Vikas said, and said with inexplicable emotion. "As for the slightly more complicated spirit cards above the basic cards,
Every technology requires years of hard work!”
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What Vikas teaches is only the most basic spirit card making technology.
There is no need for additional spiritual materials to serve as raw materials for the energy line, only the arcane mage's own spiritual energy is needed to complete the production.
"It doesn't sound difficult, right, Xiaoyi." Duke returned to his office and applied for a set of card-making equipment.
The most important ones are the card material tomography machine and the ring pressing machine.
"Master, Xiaoyi needs simulation experiments to determine the technology for making spirit cards. Isn't it very difficult?"
"Then let's give it a try."
Duke took out a blank spiritual card. To be precise, it was just a card material.
Put it into the card material tomography machine, and the distribution of spirituality in it was quickly scanned. At the same time, Xiaoyi also created a 3D image of this card material in the spiritual sea.
And began to mobilize the power and calculate how to draw and carve the spell model on the card material.
But soon, Xiaoyi received feedback: "The calculation data is insufficient, so we need to conduct experiments on the card materials in person."
"Well, isn't it enough just to rely on calculations?" Duke was a little surprised.
Before making cards, he read all the books on card making that he could find on the market and entered them into Xiaoyi's database.
Although these books do not record the actual card-making techniques, they do explain a lot of spell models.
In particular, Xiao Yi has long been proficient in the techniques and principles of drawing and carving spell models.
"Master, the combination of card materials and rings requires more actual operation data to determine the optimal solution for making spirit cards."
"I understand, let's give it a try."
Duke put the blank spirit card into the ring press, started the machine, held a psychic pen, and began to follow Xiaoyi's experimental steps to draw and carve the first energy line.
Not as skilled as Vikas.
But with the help of the projection of the Dou Qi holographic screen, his writing speed was not slow. After all, he was just drawing and carving energy lines. When he was in the research group, he didn't know how many spell models he had drawn and carved, and he almost formed a kind of muscle memory. When he drew and carved the third energy line, the energy line compressed into the card material suddenly flickered and then burst.
When the card material was also destroyed by this energy line, the released spiritual energy melted and left a scorch mark.
"Failed, Master." Xiaoyi responded with a hint of human disappointment in her tone.
It's not that Xiaoyi has human emotions, but that after its computing power is improved, it can imitate human emotions even more effectively.
"It's okay, come again!" Duke didn't care.
The cost of the card materials was only a dozen copper coins. If it broke, he would just throw it away. He didn't even plan to repair it. He no longer relied on the waste card station to find cards.
Put a new spirit card into the ring press.
The instrument is started, and the Dou Qi holographic screen continues to project and draw the path of the energy line on it. All Duke needs to do is to easily draw a new energy line according to the projection position.
One energy line after another is compressed into the card material.
Until an error occurred in a certain link, the energy line quickly melted and burned part of the card material.