After the upgrade, Xia Duo did not leave the spell laboratory, but continued to test the specific energy consumption of the 8-ring spell.

With the help of the magic net casting, the energy consumption is all paid by the magic net, and the caster himself does not need to think too much, but if it is a miniature magic net cast with its own arcane fire, or if it is purely a magic net cast, then it needs to be considered.

Xia Duo has had relevant tests before, at most up to 7 rings, as for 8 rings, or even higher, he has speculated, but there is no actual data to support it.

This time, I did it in passing.

Slightly perceiving his own arcane fire, Xia Duo found that like the previous upgrade process, after perceiving a deeper magic net, arcane fire automatically derived a more complex structure.

When it is unfolded, the arcane fire, which can only be expanded into a maximum of 7 layers of magic nets, can now be expanded to the eighth layer.

It's as if the arcane fire that is combined with its own will, after its own will comes into contact with the deep magic net in the environment, it automatically replicates the new level that it has come into contact with.

At the same time, the coverage of the micro magic net has also been greatly improved compared to before the upgrade, if it does not rely on the leap growth when upgrading, the coverage of the micro magic net under normal circumstances can only be slowly increased through time.

Then, Xia Duo used the unfolded miniature magic net as a tool, and used the arcane energy stored in the arcane fire as the energy source, and began to cast spells, from 0 rings to 8 rings, and the energy consumption increased gradually.

0 rings aside, it can only touch the surface of the magic net slightly, and when the energy consumption is low, it is almost negligible, and when it is high, it is very close to the 1 ring spell.

However, starting from the 1st ring, almost every time the ring level is raised, there will be an obvious step-type growth trend in energy consumption.

This is very much in line with the simple intuitive cognition of ordinary people, and Xia Duo has passed many tests, and has even figured out the approximate energy consumption range of each ring-level spell.

If the true energy consumption of a 1-ring spell is 1 arcane energy, then-

2 rings are 2;

3 rings are 3;

4 rings is 5;

5 rings is 10;

6 rings is 20;

The 7 rings consume about 50~80 of Olympic energy;

Although mastering the 8-ring spell means becoming a senior arcanist, or archmage, in fact, the true energy consumption of the 8-ring spell, that is, between 100~200, is not an absolute gap with the 7-ring spell.

Xia Duo has tested multiple versions of the 8-ring [Mage Armor], and if it is simplified as much as possible to maintain the 8-ring level, then the consumption of arcane energy is at least above 100.

And even if it is extremely complicated, it is difficult to break through 200.

This is very consistent with his previous speculation, and if he follows this speculation, the real energy consumption of the 9-ring spell is between 200~500.

As for the higher 10 rings, that is, the level of power mastered by the Grand Arcanists, Xia Duo speculated that there would be a big increase, at least twice as high as the 9 rings.

As for how tall it is, he can't speculate for the time being.

However, Xia Duo had just returned from the [Projection Plane - Birth of Comanso], and in that projection plane he had obtained a large amount of elven magic materials.

Because of this, he knew that the 10 rings were a special level, which could almost be considered the end of magic.

In Nessreel, there is a similar statement, and the consumption of such magic, which can be called the ultimate magic, is difficult to deduce with common sense.

Maybe it's like the 0 ring spell, there is a base cost and an infinite cost, but the cost of the 0 ring spell can be infinitely small, and the 10 ring spell may be infinitely large on a certain basis.

As for the elves and above, they are collectively referred to as high magic, that is, the power that only high mages can master, up to 12 rings.

On the side of Nesserel, Xia Duo only knew that the level of the Tower of Time had reached 11 rings, and as for the specific upper limit of other Grand Arcanists, there was no record at all.

From this point of view, it seems that the elves are more clever, but the difficulty of the achievement of the Grand Arcanist is very different from that of the elven high mage.

As long as the Arcanist lives long enough, he can eventually become a Grand Arcanist, but the Elven High Mage needs to work day and night to sense the magic web, and at the same time study the principles of spells.

Of course, since elven magic is largely a passive cast of the magic web's automatic response, elven mages may not be as good as human arcanists in terms of spell principles.

When Chardo was communicating with his High Mage follower Elfitch on the projection plane, Elfitch had mentioned more than once that the Elfitch High Mage was hardly any younger than 300 years old.

If this were a human, all the bones would have melted at the age of 300!

And this may be the real reason why Nethrel finally gave up elven magic in the first place, the elves blocking magic knowledge may be only one aspect, and the slow upgrade speed is the key.

If human mages had been learning elven magic without any additional means of prolonging their lives, it would have been almost impossible for a high mage to appear, and the human race would have been crushed by the elves for the rest of their lives, and they would not be able to turn over.

It's like a life-and-death battle between a strong man and a sick man, and under normal circumstances, the strong man will always win overwhelmingly.

Unless innate factors such as physique are not considered, if you simply compete in wisdom, then the congenitally weak person may win.

The color-resistant magic system is such an existence, almost excluding any innate factors, as long as you study hard, you can gain strength, and knowledge and wisdom are the ultimate winning weapons.

Knowledge and wisdom are fair to any race, and any individual who wants to acquire knowledge and wisdom needs to accumulate time, and the time required for this accumulation is precisely within the scope of human tolerance.

Of course, elves can also learn color-resistant magic, but tens of thousands of years of tradition are not so easy to break!

But when the elves abandoned their traditions and began to learn like humans, there was no doubt that the elves at that time were terrifying.

Although Xia Duo regards the elves as his future opponents in his heart, he doesn't want to meet such elves, without him, the racial advantage is too great!

Although elves are only officially adults at the age of 100, in fact, elves are sexually mature at the age of 25, and as long as they are willing to train, they can mature quickly.

"The First Minister of the Ming Dynasty"

It's just that in a long-lived society like elves, they will be treated as children until they are 100 years old, and elves who grow up like that will naturally be immature.

Even human beings have a similar phenomenon, a society with a life expectancy of 80 years and a society with a life expectancy of 40 years are completely different things.

The latter, who may need to breed the next generation at the age of 14 or 5, and take on the heavy responsibilities of life, while the former may be a child who is still not growing up in his 20s.

Once the elves have fully learned about humans, then they can give birth at the age of 25 and then regenerate every 25 years, and as for education, it is completely according to humans.

Such an elf is almost a long-lived version of a human, and the further it goes, the greater its potential and the faster it develops, how can a short-lived species be an opponent.

Therefore, Xia Duo sincerely thanked the traditional power of the elves, and because of this, the main plane was not completely occupied by the elves, and there was also a human being, and there was room for him to play.