Chapter 101: Success
Time-based magic items, the more difficult it is to craft them in the future. Ciri is now a high-level magician, but it is only up to the minimum requirements for post-production. Therefore, in the last few moments, the rune inscription would deplete his mana.
Every mistake in the carving of the rune pattern may cause the entire Tree King Mu Jing to be completely scrapped, and all previous efforts will be burned. Despite Ciri's care, there were some mistakes in the final rune engraving, resulting in the first material being scrapped.
After a day's break, Ciri began a second production. This time, Ciri was very energetic and cautious again, preferring to slow down the completion time rather than make a mistake and cause the production to fail.
The rune engraving was successfully completed during the second production, and after Xi Rui completed all the [Time Festivals] in the same way, he walked out of the Blossom Academy with the test items that were successfully made for the first time, and ran outside to find a secluded place to start the test results.
When this magic item is activated, its target --- a simple [logic module] puppet does not appear to speed up, but quickly appears to age the material, and then directly explodes, its power makes Ciri's heart flutter in the distance.
There is no doubt that the second production was also a failure. Back in the lab, Xi Rui carefully studied and found that the structural properties of the entire Tree King Wood Crystal would change slightly after all the time runes were inscribed.
This change will affect all the time runes that have been carved before, but the [Time Festival] that will be engraved later will not be affected at all. Through some small experiments, Ciri discovered that this subtle change was a necessity, and the second production failure was precisely because the [Time Festival] was engraved at the end, resulting in all the [Time Festivals] not having this small natural change, and thus falling short.
After understanding why, Ciri proceeded to work on it for the third time. This time, after he completed some time rune engraving, he would also engrave the [Time Section] that connected them, as long as the last step was engraved with the time rune, all the [Time Section] would change like the time rune.
But the goddess of luck was also not on Xi Rui's side this time, and after the third time spell prop production was completed, the strange brightness suddenly disappeared, and the entire Tree King Mu Jing regained the same brightness as the surrounding environment.
Time-based boosters have a fixed failure rate of over 80%, and they behave like Ciri's third work. This is due to the fact that some humans are not yet aware of the fact that every time a time-based magic item is made is unavoidable, and it is a "normal" failure. It's okay to say that simple time magic items like Ciri have a higher "normal failure rate" and are more difficult to craft.
There was no way, so Ciri had no choice but to take out a new copy of the Tree King Mujing material and start the prop production work again. This time, however, there was that "normal" failure, leaving Ciri helpless. All the time-based prop makers have spent countless efforts researching the causes of this "normal" failure, but no one has found a clue, and in the end they have to live with this failure as a "normal" failure.
They named this failure phenomenon "normal" to tell their peers that they don't need to find other reasons for this phenomenon, it is pure bad luck, and they may succeed if they make it again, and there is no need to waste time and energy to investigate the cause of failure and make some unnecessary changes.
The fourth production was also a failure, and the reason for the failure was also that "normal" failure. Xi Rui also briefly checked the failed product this time and found no problems. Since this failure can force all talented time-type magic prop makers to call it "normal", it is naturally impossible for Ciri to find the reason so simply.
The inspection was completed, but nothing was found. Ciri sighed, it seems that Lady Luck has been on vacation for the past two days. He took a break for a few days before resuming the fifth time item crafting.
After all the rune carvings were completed this time, looking at the finished props that were still significantly brighter than the surrounding environment, Ciri's heart that had been hanging finally let go. Even if it doesn't work out as expected, it's better to find some reasons than a "normal" failure that makes people helpless and clueless.
Ciri left the Blossom Academy once again and went to the secluded test site from last time.
After being blessed with the [Half-Time Acceleration Technique] contained in the magic props this time, all the realization of the puppet was perfect, and all the states on its body were doubled.
After the test was completed, Ciri used the remaining five materials to produce two finished products, as well as a by-product prop that corroded the material and exploded. With the three finished products, Ciri directly approached Associate Professor Hobart and asked him to help test the detailed data.
Although it had been expected, when Ciri actually took out three finished time-type magic props in front of Hobert, the associate professor, who had experienced countless winds and waves, was still stunned for a moment.
A layman who doesn't understand the difficulty of making time-based magic props may not be able to imagine the shock in Hobert's heart. Whether it is from theory or from the historical facts of such a long time, the personal strength of the ultimate archmage or below cannot make time-type magic props.
Now, judging from the external performance of the finished product that Ciri has taken out, he has undoubtedly broken this iron rule. Regardless of the effect, Ciri has managed to create a time-based magic item as a high-level magician.
Hobert sighed and patted Ciri on the shoulder, took the three props and walked into the testing room of his testing ground. Every time he sees Ciri, Hobart has an illusion that he can't keep up with the pace of this era.
As an academic mage with the title of associate professor, Hobert's magic item effect test is naturally not as simple and crude as Ciri's. Due to the extreme power of the effects of time-based magic items, the first test target was a precision golem that could detect a lot of specific information and feed it back to Hobert.
The test went well, and the [Half-Time Acceleration Technique] magic item performed exceptionally perfectly, even to Ciri's surprise. The test results showed that the golem's own time was perfectly doubled, and both the attack movement speed and the reaction cast speed were doubled compared to normal, without any side effects.
The second finished product was applied to a test worker, who also doubled the time it took to do so. According to his own account, everything around him seemed to him to be slowed down to only half speed, and he did not feel any discomfort, and Ciri's fear that the thought time would not be synchronized with the material time because it was not accelerated. The tester simply did not realize that he was only speeding up in terms of matter, not in terms of thinking.
This proves that the asymmetry between thinking time and material time does exist, and that thinking time is more than twice as fast as material time, so that the subject does not feel a sense of temporal confusion.