Arcane Lord

Thinking of this, Xia Duo simply gave up on the six pre-installed stone pillars, and then left the workshop and came to the magic laboratory in his residence.

There is a more stable magic network environment here. Although the bloodline ability is less affected by the magic network environment, it still has an impact.

Moreover, for the first time, Xia Duo still maintained concentration when using his bloodline ability. In this state, he summoned a body of water again.

Based on the rough miniature model made in the workshop, we repeatedly sculpted it, focusing on the straight and smooth lines, the fullness and perfection of the details, and the stable and reasonable structure.

Whenever he felt that the carving was almost done, he would cast a spell to turn it into stone, and then use this new miniature model as a reference to continue carving.

This was repeated until Niya came back from the study on the top floor and was ready to rest. Xia Duo stopped the almost endless polishing work, opened the door of the magic laboratory, called Niya in, and asked her to refer to:

"Do you think it's okay for the codex entity to be like this?"

Niya took the palm-sized dark blue-black stone sculpture from Sha Duo, with a trace of curiosity in her eyes. She knew that Sha Duo was going to make the codex entity, but she didn't know the specific progress.

Looking at the small book-shaped sculpture in her hand, Niya said subconsciously: "You want to use this stone sculpture as a constant matrix?"

"no."

Xia Duo glanced at Niya, shook his head and said, "I blame me for not making it clear. This is just a model. I'm going to make a bigger one and put it in the territory square. Can you help me see what else there is in terms of shape and details?" There are areas that can be improved and adjusted.”

"modeling?"

Niya looked at the heavy small sculpture in her hand again, and even brought it close to her eyes to take a closer look. The sculpture was not weird in shape. The main body was a very regular prism base, with a half-open thick book on top.

The overall shape looked quite satisfactory, and Niya couldn't think of anything that could be modified. Moreover, this shape was chosen by Xia Duo, so she couldn't make any major adjustments.

After looking over and over several times, Niya couldn't find anything that needed improvement or adjustment. In the end, she could only point to the mysterious runes on both sides of the judgment scale on the cover of the code and asked Shado:

"These runes look very familiar. Are they the characters of your hometown?"

"Yes."

Xia Duo is ready to make a sculpture, so naturally he doesn't mind others knowing about it. Furthermore, the emblem "Xia" registered by the Severnton Council in Daxia is a Chinese character.

Of course, the name "Daxia" is not a Chinese character, but comes from a phrase in the Elvish language that sounds similar to the Chinese character "Daxia", which means "the land pioneered by the brave."

Xia Duo read "Everything in the world is not the king's land, and the shores of the land are not the king's ministers" in Chinese, and then said: "This is an ancient proverb from my hometown, and it says -

"As a king, you have the responsibility to protect and educate even the people outside the kingdom."

Later, Shado took Niya's teacher as an example and explained: "Although most of the land in Netheril does not belong to the Netheril family, Her Royal Highness the Princess is still working hard for the future of Netheril and the people of Netheril. Thinking about the future, this is what a king does.”

After saying this, Niya immediately understood the meaning. She looked at her husband with wide eyes, "Xia Duo, you-"

Xia Duo shook his head, "I am not yet able to be responsible for everyone like Her Highness the Princess, and maybe I will never be able to do that, but in my own territory, I will not forget my responsibility as a lord."

After hearing what Xia Duo said, Niya breathed a sigh of relief. She was really worried that Xia Duo would take on too many responsibilities for herself, but Nia didn't know that there was a proverb in her hometown that "cultivate oneself, harmonize the family, rule the country and bring peace to the world." .

First govern your own "vassal states", and then the advanced nature of "our country" will naturally radiate to the "world". By then, even if Xia Duo doesn't want to, it won't work anymore. This is called the general trend.

…

The couple did not go into depth on the proverb issue. Niya quickly put the small sculpture back into Xia Duo's hands and said with a smile: "Give it back to you. I can't think of anything that can be modified."

"Okay, let's leave it like this for the time being. We'll see if we need to adjust it after the big sculpture is finished."

Xia Duo put away the small sculpture and pulled Niya out of the magic laboratory, "It's getting late, it's time to rest!"

…

Early the next morning, Xia Duo woke up naturally and finished the meditation training. Niya was still asleep. He carefully twitched his right arm, which was still pillowed under Niya's neck.

This little movement alarmed Niya. She murmured, but did not wake up. She just hugged Xia Duo sideways.

Feeling the warm touch from Niya's body, Xia Duo felt extremely uncomfortable. He only woke up in the afternoon yesterday and slept for a while at night. He was in good spirits now.

But Niya had done a lot of magic experiments during the day, and had some secret marital affairs with him at night. She was sleepy at the moment, and even if her body was close to him, Xia Duo had to use other ways to divert his attention.

He was originally planning to get up early to repair the magic network with Ai Burke, but now it seems that he can only let Ai Burke repair it alone.

So, Xia Duo simply closed his eyes, immersed himself in the world of consciousness, and designed the magical production method of the Codex sculpture.

There is nothing wrong with the step of converting large stones. It is nothing more than digging a hole and filling it with water before converting. The key is the subsequent process of "carving" the stone into a sculpture.

The process of simply "carving" is not difficult to achieve at a technical level. The only difficulty is how to ensure that the shape is consistent with the model.

It doesn’t have to be completely consistent, as long as there are no serious deviations.

The small sculpture Xia Duoke must first use the power of blood to shape the water model, and then transform it into one piece. Since the water model is shaped by the power of blood, it is highly adjustable and can be modified almost at will.

But this cannot be the case for large sculptures. Chateau cannot yet control such a large volume of water to construct the fine appearance structure of the sculpture.

If you make the stone first, there will be a problem of "carving craftsmanship".

Xia Duo does not master any carving techniques, which means that even through magic, he cannot use the processing method of "magic carving knife".

And having to bypass the "carving craftsmanship" aspect is a headache.

Xia Duo once thought about using a method similar to injection molding, but he still couldn't solve the problem of the "carving craftsmanship" involved in the mold for large sculptures.

If there is a way to bypass the "carving craft" to make the mold, then why not just use this method to make the sculpture itself?

Craftsmanship seems like some kind of personal quality that is difficult to quantify, but in the industrial age of the earth, there may not be no alternatives.

So if a person on earth who has no sculpting skills wants to make some sculptures, what would he do?

Thinking like this, Xia Duo gradually came up with an idea.