Chapter 42 Preparation
Everyone has a different sense of the passage of time, sometimes they feel like they are running too fast like a white horse, and sometimes they feel like a sandstone man in some earth-elemental plane, and a kiss takes a thousand years of Norland time, which is ridiculously slow.
After receiving the question of the legendary mage, both Richard and Stevenson are moving towards the goal in their own way.
In fact, Richard, as before, basically did not change his life and rest time, and even his magic cultivation and meditation were not interrupted. Only slightly adjusted the schedule, and appropriated some of the time spent on the philosophy of magic to the magic pattern construction. [Search for the latest update.]
But it didn't take long for Richard to realize that he was going in the wrong direction. In order to understand the master's design concept, he had to go back many times to read the basic theory, and then was surprised to find that no matter how complicated the surface is, and the design ideas are amazing, the magic pattern construction is fundamentally derived from the understanding and knowledge of the magic world. Richard therefore knew that he did not lack knowledge of magic arrays now, but needed to strengthen his attainments in the philosophy of magic, which would be more helpful to his creation.
At the same time, Richard also began to get involved in the manufacture and installation of the build plug-in, and a magic pattern had to be installed on the snow rabbit in order to really work. A full-fledged Demonic Pattern Construct insert that merges with the target creature's body and eventually becomes a part of the body, similar to a tattoo. Further, the pattern is drawn directly on the body of the target creature, and only in this way can the structure be truly integrated with the target and become unique.
In addition, in order to create a new magic pattern structure, magic material science has also become a key field. What kind of material to use to achieve the corresponding effect is not as simple as it seems. Even if it is the same kind of magical beast, the skin of different parts of the body may have different magical effects, and the process of processing leather can be as many as nearly a hundred, and finally produce at least thirty or forty enchanted skins with different magical attributes. There are more than 1,000 materials involved in the magic pattern construction, coupled with the difference in the middle and post-processing processes, and the fact that each master has more or less his own unique techniques, the combination is completely an unimaginably large number.
In this way, Richard explored the vast labyrinth, learning and practicing the basic techniques needed to construct the zuò magic pattern. He was very patient, not in a hurry at all, and moved forward step by step, at most, to review the effect of the previous stage of learning in a few days, and then slightly adjust the schedule.
In fact, there are many shortcuts to magic materials, such as asking for them from the family. The Akmund family is again regarded as an upstart, after all, it is also a model of successful outbreaks, and the materials and pretreatment processes that can be provided to Richard will definitely be dozens of times stronger than those made by himself. For example, Sdevenson's refined Flame Land Walking Dragon Skin Level 1 material, even if it is extremely precious, the Akmund family is not unable to get it.
However, Richard would rather use an ordinary monster skin that was 1,500 times cheaper than take a Flame Land Dragon skin from Gordon. Even though he was well aware of the importance of high-grade magic materials to the quality of the finished parts, he stubbornly ignored this little convenience and instead looked for his own way forward.
Stevenson is a busy other way, communicating with Santa Cruz almost every day to discuss the Snow Rabbit's Magical Pattern Build. And he also started to do a lot of targeted exercises.
Helen Sue's problem was also a problem for Santa Cruz, of course, stuck in Stevenson's magic pattern drawing technique. Santa Cruz didn't just have to figure out a solution, it had to make sure it was something that Stevenson could accomplish at the moment.
Within a few days of receiving the question, the architect, who had been famous for decades, had made more than a dozen feasible construction design plans, but none of them were able to be completed by Stevenson. Therefore, while Santa Cruz was thinking of a new plan, he urged Stevenson to carry out targeted exercises, especially to strengthen the drawing practice of more than a dozen local magic arrays. Although the final solution has not yet been obtained, the general idea is already there, and most of these more than ten magic arrays will be used in the future.
The long-range communication magic array, especially the ultra-long-range communication with a communication distance of more than 5,000 kilometers, is also extremely expensive. But compared to the first batch of special magic materials that the Solam family had scheduled to send to Deep Blue, the thousands of gold coins for a single communication were really nothing.
Duke Solam paid Stevenson a million Imperial Gold in advance to purchase materials in the Deep Blue. The cultivation and improvement of snow rabbits is also a large expense, and because the time is limited to half a year, the cost has risen significantly. To develop a more powerful monster that is still a snow rabbit, the total cost will be more than three million gold coins.
In fact, the reason why the things in the dark blue range from several times to dozens of times more expensive than the outside world is because the quality is far superior to similar products in the outside world. In the eyes of Duke Solam, the price of dark blue is still quite fair. Although the dark blue is becoming more and more prosperous year by year, the annual production is limited after all, and according to the treaty, the Holy Alliance will be supplied first, and the rest will be put on the mainland market. In the outside world, dark blue products are often high-end goods that money can't buy. Due to the fact that the Solam family is a disciple of the legendary mage, they were able to squeeze into the dark blue customer list, and for that alone, Duke Solam and his family council thought it was worth the money.
Less than a month after the first gold coin was delivered, the Solam family's supplies arrived in Deep Blue, along with the magic supplies, an additional two million gold coins. That's because the quadrennial Midsummer Carnival in the deep blue is coming again.
The so-called Midsummer Carnival is not a traditional festival on the mainland, but a super-large-scale auction of magical materials and materials held inside Deep Blue. The Midsummer Carnival has been held three times, and this is the fourth. The first three auctions became more and more sensational, and the third even attracted the participation of many big families of the Holy Alliance, and this carnival, it is said that many wealthy families of the three empires will send people to participate.
The Midsummer Carnival is no ordinary auction fair, although the format is similar, Deep Blue and the suppliers it invites provide the main goods, and the participants will also bring their own materials to seek trade, many times gold coins are not the main settlement tool, rare materials often need to be bartered. The fundamental reason why the Midsummer Carnival of Deep Blue is not ordinary is that every four years, the legendary mage will open his private treasury and select some materials from it for public auction.
Something that can be cherished and treasured by legendary mages is definitely rare in the entire Norland continent. And the legendary mage, due to some special personal hobbies, has a lot of dragon-related things in his private library. Any material, as long as it is in touch with the dragon, is a good thing. For the real veteran aristocrats and mainland powerhouses, gold coins are nothing at all, and these top-level materials are things that can be encountered but not sought. How can you miss the opportunity to exchange gold coins for top-of-the-line materials?