Chapter 44: Making the Scroll
Jiayi took out a piece of paper and laid it out, these papers are the size of standard scroll paper, one foot square, about 30 centimeters, which is not big. The ink is an emulsion made from the blood of the Burning Fruit and the Horned Rhinoceros, plus the Devil Shark Oil, which should be shaken before use and mixed evenly.
Kaichi is actually not too satisfied with the current magic ink, because too many magic materials are used, so many magic inks are not solutions, and it is very easy to block the tip of the pen. As a result, the rune pen used to copy scrolls is very troublesome to use, and it must be cleaned and dried every time it is used before being used next time. In addition, although it is equipped with a suction ink reservoir, the ink must be re-squeezed out after each use, and then cleaned and stored. For this reason, dipping pens are the mainstream in the field of rune pens because they are easy to clean.
However, if it was a more complex scroll to copy, the mages would rather be more cumbersome and would use pens with ink sacs. This is because this does not mean that the mage scroll runs out of water halfway through writing, which will greatly reduce the success rate of scroll copying.
The scroll of the greasy technique is made for the first time, and most of them used to make fireballs, wind blades and other popular offensive spells, and his own level is not as good as his teacher Yimu after all, and most of the scrolls he uses are made by Yimu, although theoretically, Jiayi and Yimu are both junior gray-robed mages.
Kaichi first made a draft on the paper, sketched the scroll design, and then sketched out the sketch with a pencil on the parchment, and drew the calculated rune circle on the parchment.
This is Kaichi's unique skill, and the average mage copies the designed scroll at most, so many people also call making magic scrolls a copy scroll. However, this situation is easy to grasp poorly, and the proportion is wrong when copying, or even the wrong pen is missed. The fewer pauses you have when copying a scroll, the higher the success rate, and if you can do it in one stroke without any mistakes or omissions, the success rate is close to 100%. With this method, you don't have to worry about copying mistakes, just follow the description.
The first time Kaichi used this method to describe scrolls, Imu reprimanded him for being opportunistic and affecting his basic grasp of scroll copying. For about half a year, Yimu did not allow Jiayi to use this method to make scrolls, until Jiayi's technology came up and he was able to copy scrolls well, so he was allowed to use this tricky method.
Now, after tasting the sweetness, even Imu himself is using this method. In the past, even low-level scrolls that had been copied to the point of familiarity had a success rate of about 80%, while for newly learned scrolls, the success rate of using 20% was very good, and the success rate of general scroll production was only about 60%. The success rate of low-level scrolls using Jiayi's method has increased to more than 98 percent, especially for newly learned high-level scrolls, the success rate has increased to about 60 percent, and the success rate of ordinary scrolls has increased to 90 percent. Although these data are not supported by a large number of samples, they are only roughly estimated, but they do improve dramatically. Such a huge increase in the success rate means that a lot of materials for copying scrolls are saved, especially for newly learned warning scrolls, which are three times more efficient, and no mage can refuse.
Later, Kaichi even invented a further method, in order to straighten out the analogy, he marked the arrow on the scroll sketch, and traced along the arrow, and the success rate was improved.
Imu always felt that Jiayi had ruined the beauty of the copying scroll, so he could only use this method while scolding Jiayi for being opportunistic, and then slowly became dependent and could never give up again.
Just like when calculators were first popularized, people were resistant to this kind of thing, thinking that calculators reduced people's ability to calculate by hand, but this tool is indeed very convenient. Later, even schools began to teach how to use calculators. Although people are amazed that the mental arithmetic prodigy can mentally calculate the four operations of several numbers, they will never give up the calculator.
Kaichi didn't draw arrows on the scroll this time, after all, the greasy spell is not a complicated spell.
After getting ready, Jia Yi dipped his pen in ink and began to draw along the finished base, steadily outputting magic power while drawing, and at the same time sketching the corresponding spell model in his mind. Thanks to the balance of the pen power practiced in sketching and the balance practiced in Tai Chi, Jiayi's lines are very stable, and the output of magic is also very stable.
Seeing that he was able to draw more than half of the scroll, Kaichi felt that this time he was stable, thinking that although he rarely made greasy scrolls, his level was still very good.
It's just that while he was drawing, all of a sudden, the greasy jutsu model in Kaichi's spiritual sea produced a spell fluctuation, which resonated with the scroll that was about to take shape in Kaichi's hand. After the resonance was generated, the spell fluctuations in the scroll in Jia's hand suddenly increased, rising higher and higher.
Jia Yi was taken aback, it was the first time that he had encountered such a thing after studying magic for such a long time, and the magic power in the scroll was surging, and it was already uncontrollable. He was afraid that the uncontrollable mana would explode, and he was about to cut off the mana supply, but the mana that he didn't expect to rise to the top suddenly looked like a deflated tire, and "poof~" was all leaked.
The reel production failed.
The half-drawn magic parchment was stained with disordered magical fluctuations, destroying the original magical arrangement on the paper, changing from order to disorder, silence to restlessness, and the paper was already wasted.
Jia Yi looked at the paper for a long time, this situation was the first time he had encountered it, and he was a little skeptical that it was a hallucination. After carefully checking the parchment for a long time, there was no problem at all, and after thinking about the operation just now, there was no problem.
This is not the first time he has made a scroll, although he has not chosen to use the first layer of parchment before, but in the end, this is only made of the skin of the demonized horned antelope, not the dragon skin, and it will not have much of a blessing effect.
After thinking about it for a long time and not finding a problem, Jia Yi could only think that it was an accident and prepared to remake it. It's like the software developed by Jiayi before, sometimes there is a problem and you can't check it out at all, but you just need to restart it.
He took out a piece of parchment again, and continued to make the scroll, and when he was more than halfway through the pen, it was the same situation again, and he failed again. Sensing that something was wrong, Kaichi took out the parchment paper and continued to make the Greasy Scroll, but it still failed.
Kaichi was sure that something was wrong, and he had never failed to make a scroll three times in a row, and this was the first time. Because every accident started with his own spiritual Hazhong spell model, Jia Yi was very afraid that something would go wrong with his spiritual sea.
He carefully reviewed his process and was sure that there were no problems, at least if he had been able to successfully produce a scroll by following this process before. He decided to test it, took out the parchment, did not make a draft, drew the base drawing, and started to write directly on the parchment.
This time, without any surprises, Kaichi succeeded in making a scroll of the Fireball Technique.
Next, he successfully made various basic magic scrolls such as Ice Arrows, Wind Blades, and Strong Acid Arrows, and all of them were successful. Then he made the Greasy Scroll, but it failed again.
Jia Yi can be sure that the problem is not anything else, it is his own greasy technique itself.