Ao Lan and others traveled throughout the city. While making design preparations, they also had to expand the number of members, mainly the magicians who were responsible for deploying the magic array in the third period.
After communicating with Natasha, I was promised an additional one hundred yuan a day for the third period.
Except that these quotas cannot be allocated to the three themselves, they can be allocated arbitrarily, but they cannot be lower than the minimum wage.
The basic threshold for large-scale magic arrays is not high, and a three-ring mage can create it. However, due to various historical reasons, people nowadays trust the magician group more.
But in fact, magicians rarely have the ability to design new formations. This kind of thing requires more magicians who deal with mathematics.
That's right, math.
Because of the existence of magicians, mages are always seen as a group of guys who only use magic to blast people. They are smaller in number than warriors who just have different divisions of labor. In fact, starting from the second level, geometry is a compulsory subject for mages.
Olan is only at level 4 and has enough magic touch to learn fifth-level spells, but what he needs to design now is a city defense system that can withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of seventh-level mages.
Fortunately, magic arrays are different from people. Magic power has never been the bottleneck of magic arrays, money is. If there is any magic that cannot withstand it, most of it is limited by the area, available materials and cost of the magic array, or the designer's oversight. It is definitely not the fault of the magic array.
Oran doesn't need to worry about this. The magic gem can be used freely. This is definitely a treatment that no mage in history has received.
And in order to cooperate with his design work, after the female adjutant visited once, Natasha brought the largest rough gemstone in existence to the three of them.
A rough stone that is truly bigger than a washbasin!
Round, 45 cm in diameter and 8 cm thick.
Just looking at the shape often gives people the wrong impression. It is more intuitive to weigh it directly. Such a piece weighs 44.5 kilograms!
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An entire gem weighing more than 40 kilograms would be considered a waste to use as a magic amplifier, but as a magic power storage core, if this piece is fully stored, it will probably exceed the whole body magic power of a seven-ring mage.
Natasha also revealed more information to ensure that the design is completed once and that there is less hassle in improving the work.
"We are preparing for mass production of alumina. I can't confirm the final shape and size yet, but I am sure we can make one that is at least twice as big as this."
...Olan has become a little numb and feels that gems are no different from stones.
Perhaps sensing that he was not in the right mood, Natasha comforted her: "After mass production, the price for the alumina crystals you buy in the second and third stages will be lower."
With sufficient communication, Olan stopped being petty and added many giant gems into the design.
The space reserved by Phoenix City is large enough and is an internal space where no one will pass by. Therefore, each module can be fully expanded to prepare for the specific shape and size of the gemstone later.
In the past, urban defense formations basically had only two modules.
The magic array maintenance module is what prevents the magic array from collapsing due to loss of magic power. It requires continuous maintenance by a mage. The specific maintenance frequency depends on the scale and quality of the magic array energy storage mechanism.
The main body of the magic circle has various functions concentrated in it, and is not limited to a single protective magic.
Two modules can be connected only by a magic loop, but in practical applications, they are often integrated, because such highly confidential places are often not too large, otherwise they will be easily destroyed.
There is almost another city hidden inside Phoenix City, especially the huge oval area under the secondary platform and under the city garden. Even the evacuation personnel cannot reach it, and the magic array can be made into separate parts.
For example, Olan has specially set up a total of six spell amplification modules for the magic circle, which are distributed in the core area and under the four walls.
In a general magic circle, it only has a small function. Now Olan has made it a separate module because of the special needs of Phoenix City to protect the entire city.
The magic wand used by magicians is essentially a spell stabilizing and amplifying device. It is a way to temporarily utilize the magic power of the environment. It can effectively save magic power consumption for most magic. Large high-quality magic crystals and magic gems are also mainly used as magic wands. The core of this feature.
However, the normal magic array does not occupy enough space, and the actual wild magic power that can be mobilized in a short period of time is relatively limited.
The space provided by Phoenix City is three-dimensional, with four walls and two ends. The actual range that can be mobilized instantly is almost 3 cubic kilometers. The longer the time axis, the more it will become.
It is still calculated based on the common magic unit Minte.
Olan's own magic power is 10 minte, which barely supports his use of five-ring attack spells to output the lowest destructive power.
Because there are not many mages in Phoenix City, and there are large areas of uninhabited land around it, the magic power content is relatively high. The instantaneous callable capacity within 3 cubic kilometers is about 120 minte, which is equivalent to four to five fifth-ring mages in a state of complete victory. The total amount of magic power.
Of course, these environmental magic powers must be used. In addition to the usual magic power reserves, making a few amplification devices can effectively reduce losses. Anyway, the gem tube is enough.
The three of them made quantitative measurements in the first phase, 0.5 kilograms. After polishing and storing the gems engraved with magic patterns, without performing any other functions, they can store about 180 min of magic power.
The numerical value seems a bit outrageous, but it is also normal. Natural-sized gems can become the first choice of mages. Of course, it is because of the large magic power reserve. A 50-gram finished product is equivalent to more magic power for a five-ring magician. Half of the time, the magic stabilization and amplification functions are included, and the methods are better. A staff is not limited to using only one gem.
Based on this value, the largest gemstone the three of them have ever seen can reach a reserve of 15,000 mint after being made into a finished product. The actual surface area destruction ratio is smaller and larger.
The 7th level mage uses forbidden spells, and the concentrated attack is very powerful. But if you really have to calculate the value, blocking it will consume 500 magic power.
Of course, the battlefield situation will be more complicated if there is a real fight, but the result is the same. As long as the magic power reserve is huge enough, no one can forcefully break through the city before the magic circle stops.
Olan is here doing math problems and drawing magic arrays all day long, and the other two are not idle either.
Rodri and Bunky are both producing material.
Rodri mainly uses small-sized artificial gemstones to make powder. Except for those mixed in the second phase, many fragments are left after the use of gemstones in the first phase.
The first period of gemstones were mainly used to make various tools and instruments. Some of the fragments that were born were quite big. The three of them actually had some ideas, but since the price of artificial gemstones will be reduced in the future, these are nothing. , smash it directly to save time for later work.
Gemstone powder cannot be used alone in the form of a magic array, and other things are needed as adhesives and encapsulation layers.
The three of them don't have to worry about these supplementary materials. They are not valuable magic materials. Rodri is only responsible for making a list, and Natasha's adjutant will help find the merchants to get it done.
In addition to trying to get some magic adsorption materials every day, Bunji also took the opportunity to do private work.
Instead of going into other businesses privately, I bought a batch of slime gel available on the market and tried to purify and make gemstones myself.
No one here is a fool. Seeing the shape of the huge 44.5 kilogram gemstone, you can deduce that this thing is probably burned, so let's give it a try.
It cannot be said that the progress is not smooth, but basically not at all.
Because purification cannot achieve the pure white color of early samples, the gems fired with this material are not transparent even after polishing, and the magic power reserves have shrunk to less than one-tenth of real gems.
Impurities are the alchemist's eternal enemy, and Bunji doesn't know if he can win.
