Chapter 653: The Benefits of Printing Semi-Finished Products

To understand why certain words cannot be printed, or because those words cannot be engraved, one must first understand what a spell is.

Mantras were used to converse in ancient times. And in this language lies power, the power to command all things in the world. In other words, in this era, those incantations that are difficult to pronounce can actually be translated and turned into words with clear meaning that everyone can understand.

The content of any spell that has been passed down since ancient times can be understood when translated into modern languages, and it is nothing more than a statement of what is being ordered or done in whose name. On top of that, it's a bunch of rhetorical eulogies. And the magic that has been improved on this basis cannot, of course, get rid of this structure.

If it's a general statement or a fragment of a chantra, it's not a big problem to engrave it backwards and then transfer it. But what about 'who's in whose name'?

With the power of words and language, it is considered a blasphemy to pronounce a name upside down, or to write it backwards, backwards, or in reverse alphabetical order. If someone did do that, it would be the slightest thing to explode when the magic gets out of control; If that person hadn't fallen yet, it wouldn't have been impossible to come and beat someone up.

In order to make a letterpress for printing, of course, it is necessary to turn the target text or pattern upside down and engrave it on the letterpress. It is this process that angers the original owners of those names. Regardless of whether the other party is still in the world or not, that power in the dark will prevent such a situation from happening.

In addition, there are some special characters, although they do not represent a certain name, but they cannot be reversed to make an engraving. For example, words such as 'life' and 'creation' in a mantra are reversed and reversed.

It is important to know that spells and runes will have their influence even if they exist alone, but they are strong and weak. The research team led by the head of the Kabambi Academy risked their lives to find the characters that would cause violent reactions when they were inverted.

And in the course of this research, there is actually a small episode. Originally, the research team of the head of Kabanbay only divided the printed characters and patterns into three categories: first, normal; Second, the printing will disappear in a very short time, and the scroll will be discarded with paper; 3. You can't even engrave it, and if you carve it upside down, it will explode immediately.

Originally, these three types were identified, and as long as the latter two were avoided, the Manroland printing press could use the method of segmented printing to print a steady stream of semi-finished magic scrolls. After that, the magician or magic apprentice completes it, and a complete magic scroll is freshly baked.

Just as the head of the house, Kabanbai's men rolled up their sleeves and were about to show off their skills, someone stepped forward and shouted to stop.

If it were anyone else, I am afraid that the head of the house, who was proud of his achievements, would not listen to any 'advice' decorated with good intentions. Who knows if the person who said those words will really think in his heart whether he will be red-eyed or red-eyed.

But when the magician Gaybrash Tripwood spoke, the weight was completely different. He's going to have to listen to it anyway.

"Headmaster, have you ever wondered how long these parts that can be printed can be maintained? Even if you want to complete a half-finished magic scroll, it will take a magician or apprentice to put in the effort, time and power. Filling in those key points is no different from casting a spell. Even if a person can complete many more finished products in a day than in the past, there is always an upper limit, and what is this upper limit? If you don't print a lot without a plan, you're just going to waste material in the end. ”

It was this passage that allowed Captain Kabambai to start another phase of research, leaving a record of how long each individually printed rune or magic array line could be stored temporarily.

With Lam's assistance, the research team led by the Dean of the Institute has begun to use numbers to make some records and simple calculations. How many half-finished magic scrolls can be printed in a day by the Manroland printing press after the magic change, and how many half-finished magic scrolls can be completed in a day by an apprentice or a magician. As soon as the numbers on both sides were combined, it was realized that the previous plan could be said to be very wrong.

If you don't listen to someone's advice, after a little success, you will start making magic scrolls in large quantities. In the end, most of the materials will be wasted due to the lack of manpower to complete the half-finished scrolls, and they will not have time to complete the magic scrolls before the power is exhausted.

Although there are many materials that are discarded in the process of doing research in order to observe the results of experiments, at least that has contributed to it. If the material has to be scrapped because you don't plan well, it is a simple waste and loss. Even if the college is much more abundant than before thanks to the sharing of mathematics journals during this period, such losses are unbearable.

With a good suggestion as a start, Lin also put forward a lot of opinions one after another.

If the first suggestion hadn't been accepted, it might have been seen as too much interference in other people's research topics, after all, Lin Ke had taken the initiative to distance himself from the group that printed the magic scrolls. But with the first successful communication, and the group members do benefit from it, then the rest of the argument will be less difficult to accept.

Lin's second suggestion was to re-examine the ease of making magic scrolls on the premise of the semi-finished printing methods that he had mastered so far.

Basically, the difficulty of making a magic scroll is comparable to the difficulty of casting spells, or even more difficult. Because casting spells requires the ability to build spell models, as well as chanting spells. It is necessary to understand it thoroughly enough before it is possible to cast magic without chanting.

However, when part of the magic scroll can also be printed by machine, the difficulty of making it should be judged by how many parts of it must be done by hand, and this part cannot be done by the machine.

The third suggestion was originally intended for the Kabambi Captain to mobilize his connections and human resources to research what kind of magic scrolls would be more popular in the market. To put it simply, do a sample survey of active adventurers to see what type of magic scrolls they want to use as a boost in their adventures.

But considering the market mechanism, in an era of low productivity, it is the supply that determines the demand; In the era of high productivity, demand determines supply.

Although the team led by the head of Kabanbay, with the support of the Manrolan printing press, was able to produce magic scrolls quickly and in large quantities, it was only one machine, and it was not yet a new era. To meet the needs of the market, the current productivity is far from enough. So Lin gave up using the results of the survey to make magic scrolls that were in high demand.

Basically, this is still an era where you can sell as much as you can.

Of course, with the great magicians of Kabanbai and Bijan in charge, they will never make a large number of magic scrolls that are not useful for adventure, battle, life-saving, etc.

But even if there is no reminder from someone, there is an experience of almost printing a large number of materials before, but the follow-up manpower cannot keep up, and a large number of materials are almost scrapped. After getting more results, the head of the Kabanbai Academy did not keep his head down, and randomly found a few magic scrolls to do blindly.

Instead, he found the president of the Chamber of Commerce who had cooperated with him for a long time and asked what type of magic scroll was more popular, or to put it bluntly, it was easier to sell. To put it simply, the issue of sales is taken into account before it is made.

However, just like Lin's conjecture, the current demand for magic scrolls in the Lost Land is still in a state where the demand far exceeds the supply. Even if there are a lot of magicians in the holy city of Estari, there are relatively few adventurers, and the magic scrolls can't sell much; But if you look at the entire Gwana Empire, the magic scroll is a proper strategic resource for the nobles and the army, and you can basically collect as much as you want.

Since you don't have to worry about sales, of course, Dean Kabanbay is not welcome. In the first official production, he did not choose to make multiple magic scrolls at the same time, but conservatively only made one. The target is apprentice-level one-ring magic, summoning an upgraded version of the puppet - summoning a high-level puppet.

This magic is difficult in the production of scrolls. Of course, it can't be compared to strategic magic, but it's not something that a magic apprentice or someone who has just been promoted to a magician can do. Even the one-ring summoning puppet magic scroll is not easy to make.

After all, it is necessary to communicate with the elemental plane, deal with any consciousness in it, negotiate, and then pay the price, so that the other party is willing to come to the main material realm to work hard, so the complexity of the magic array is on the high side. Many magicians make magic scrolls that 'summon high-level puppets', and the reason why the success rate is not high is precisely because the magic formation is not well drawn, which leads to the failure of the production.

However, whether it is 'summoning puppets' or 'summoning high-level puppets', it is a very popular magic for adventurers. In addition to having one more combat power in battle, you can use puppets as shields, pathfinders, and even triggers to destroy traps during your adventure.

For the consciousness that resides in the puppet, their destruction in the main material realm is just a return to the elemental plane and rebirth. So I don't care about the harm at all, and even the end of the body that I live in.

However, with the use of the Manroland printing press, the difficulty of making the magic scroll of 'Summon a High-level Puppet' immediately drops to the bottom. Because of the entire complex magic scroll made by ancient methods, there are actually less than five places in it that need to be made by hand, and the half-finished product is only three days away from being scrapped.

What's more, because most of the magic circle lines are done by the printing press, the success rate of the 'Summoning a High Puppet' magic scroll has increased like a rocket.

The increase in the success rate is accompanied by a decrease in costs. In addition, the magic scrolls that were not necessarily possible for magic apprentices and even new magicians can now be mass-produced in hundreds a day. With such an amazing success rate and production speed, it is not surprising that it is a sensation!