Arcane Lord

In the next few days, Xia Duo persuaded the students in the class to use their spare time that was originally used for previews or extended exercises to work on independent projects.

It's just that after he handed in the project about the material node mystery lock, he never got a reply, which made him a little anxious. However, after asking Tutu Tutor, he learned that the academy was also in trouble——

On the one hand, the college has limited funds, and with the addition of Lingsi Network this year, it is difficult to choose the projects submitted by senior students, let alone a junior class.

But on the other hand, the reason why Misuo Academy has so many high-quality independent projects this year is thanks to Lingsi Network. From this point of view, it is somewhat of a blessing to Xia Duo, plus he is the first in Class Four. It’s an independent project, so it’s a bit unreasonable to disagree with it.

After Xia Duo knew the truth, he naturally did not want to make the academy continue to face difficulties. He asked Tutuo to help him cancel the application for this project. He decided to use his patent income to do so.

In fact, the cancellation application can be processed directly "online" through the secret lock. The reason why Tutuo had to go there in person was mainly to make the college aware of his initiative to give in this time.

Then the next time he applies again, he will be approved quickly, and next time he plans to do the floating fortress project, the application for the arcane fire component is also an uncertain matter. If they can be put together, there is a high probability that the academy will be able to do so. Pass together.

Xia Duo can independently fund the research on the material node mystery lock, but not the arcane fire components. He hopes to get a newer version of the arcane fire components, and for the time being he can only apply from the academy.

This result should be considered a good start for Xia Duo.

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Next, Xia Duo soon received a notification from the Academy Mystery Lock. The academy opened some new interfaces of the Academy Mystery Lock to him. Through these new interfaces, he can use the advanced functions of the Academy Mystery Lock.

It's just that if you have an independent project in hand, the use of these new features is almost completely free, but now you need to pay for every second of use.

But this is not bad. If it is in the main plane, I am afraid that you will have to rent a laboratory from the beginning. This method will cost money to start with, but it does not mean that you don’t need to pay.

Now, at Chixin University, Xia Duo can actually complete the upgrade of experimental facilities in the practice base of Class 4, with little or no need to purchase anything additional.

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At noon that day, Xia Duo and his classmates in Class 4 reviewed the content of the previous class and conducted some expansion exercises in the practice base. After that, he called everyone together and introduced them to the material node fans. Lock the contents of the project and present:

"Our goal is not only to create a mythical lock with material nodes, but I hope to find a universal way for the transformation of this kind of material node. In the future, we can directly transform existing non-material node mythos into There is a physical node mystery lock.”

In fact, most of the traditional puzzle locks have material nodes. The puzzle lock without material nodes is actually the highest state of the traditional mystery lock. However, from the day when the adaptive mystery lock was born, or the birth of the modern myth lock, the original highest state It can only be considered a starting point.

But this does not mean that the Mystery Lock with material nodes will be completely eliminated. Whether it will be eliminated depends on whether other more advanced things can completely replace it.

Obviously, in the current era, mystery locks without material nodes cannot completely replace those with material nodes. At least in the construction of movable floating fortresses, myth locks with material nodes are almost irreplaceable.

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After talking about the goals of the project, the next step is to advance the project. The first thing Sha Duo proposed was to transform the adaptive mystery lock into a version with material nodes. It is also possible to directly use the traditional mystery lock, but it is difficult to integrate with the components of modern mystery locks. compatible.

We still need to start with the modern Mystery Lock itself. There are versions now that have no material nodes. First transform the ones with material nodes, and then look for the transformation rules.

The advanced function interfaces of the inter-school secret lock provided by the college are very useful. By calling them, the Xia Duo team can conduct various verifications on the experimental secret lock very quickly, which is much easier to use than the self-built verification platform at the practice base.

The only disadvantage is probably that it costs money, but this is not the disadvantage of the school's secret lock, but the disadvantage of Xia Duo himself.

But fortunately, the income from the inspiration headband patent is pretty good. Supporting him to complete the first project is not a problem at all. As for the project expenses——

In addition to the cost of using the school's infrastructure, he must also pay salaries to other members of the team. In fact, if he applies for the college's independent project fund, this part of the money will be the college's wool.

In addition, there are some experimental consumables. Research on non-material node mystery locks may not require many consumables, but research on material node mystery locks will definitely require a lot of consumables.

Among them, only a few materials such as David's string and iron that can be created directly with magic can be applied directly to the academy for free, or low-level products can be processed by oneself. The others need to be purchased.

In-depth research on the [Element-Substance] equation has led to the determination of the origins of fourteen substances, including iron, water, and salt, which can be created directly through magic, or to put it in a more popular way——

synthetic.

If we continue to study the [element-matter] equation and analyze everything in the world, it will be almost a groundbreaking achievement.

Not to mention anything else, as long as the artificial synthesis method of mithril is developed, it will definitely be regarded as a super killer weapon of the arcane magic system in the main plane.

No matter how much energy is consumed, if a large number of new Mythras are built, the final cost will be infinitely close to the maintenance cost of Mythras.

Compared with the original price of Mithril, Mythra's maintenance cost is completely worthless.

It is a pity that the Red Heart Alliance has only analyzed the elemental composition of fourteen substances. Although Xia Duo learned this from the textbook, it is not estimated to be much more in reality.

The research on the [Element-Substance] equation mostly depends on luck, similar to the materials science in Sha Duo's hometown, and luck is the most unreliable thing. Maybe a brilliant researcher will work hard all his life to figure it out. Something that a novice who just got started can do with just a few fiddles, you think this is so irritating.

Therefore, in the Red Heart Alliance, the research on the [Element-Substance] equation is actually a very unpopular field. Most of the researchers are beginners, and there are not many senior researchers.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons why only the elemental composition of fourteen substances has been found so far.

Another reason is, of course, that the arcane magic system does not have high material requirements. In fact, the most needed materials are various energy-conducting materials, and the Red Heart Alliance has the trick that Xia Duo used at the beginning - David String.

After more than 1,500 years of research, David String has been perfected countless times and can already replace mithril. Since there is little demand for various materials in nature, research is naturally not of much interest. .

This actually makes Xia Duo feel regretful.