Chapter 1289 Education Reform, Chip Trial Production

After reading the information of the twelve people, Sha Duo couldn't help but have an idea - "Should we introduce an examination promotion system in the Tower of Time?"

The ring promotion trial can indeed test the caster's learning achievements in spell principles and spell-casting skills, but it is not comprehensive enough.

Moreover, the assessment is single. In the Tower of Time, where the number of apprentices has increased dramatically, it is actually of little use to those who are latecomers.

It's more of just a tradition.

"Education reform is imperative!"

Without much hesitation, Xia Duo decided to bring the imperial examination system back to the Tower of Time. In addition to the system, the examination syllabus, examination questions, and even teaching aids could also be brought back for reference.

Educational resources are limited, and prioritizing the selection of better talents is in line with the general laws of development.

Even in Xia Duo's hometown, education is highly developed. After many rounds of enrollment expansion in colleges and universities across the country, all people of the right age have not been able to enroll in college.

The same is true in the magical world. Unless productivity develops to an extremely high level in the future and there is no shortage of resources, perhaps there will be a true comprehensive education for all.

Of course, in addition to selecting talents, the role of examinations is also to allow learners to have a clearer understanding of their own status, and then to identify and fill gaps and move towards a higher level.

In Xia Duo's plan, apprentices will receive general education before advancing to become arcanists to increase their knowledge, enrich their foundation, and at the same time identify their desired development direction.

After advancing to the level of Arcanist, you can choose a major and focus on the direction of your choice. Of course, this is for most people.

For a few people with outstanding talents, professionalism does not limit their development. They have a broader future.

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Two days later, the laboratory returned to calm again. The new apprentices kept to themselves and did not cause any trouble.

The assistant researchers are working hard to make progress in their respective projects.

The Huck Laboratory was just established not long ago, and a living example is in front of them. If they don't work hard now, how long will it take? What if it takes too long and "McCard" changes his mind?

For a moment, Xia Duo could clearly feel that the various projects were advancing much faster than usual. He could vaguely sense everyone's thoughts, but at this moment, he didn't have much time to think about them.

Since yesterday morning, he has monopolized a refined alchemy circle in the laboratory. The trial production of the spell chip has reached a very critical step -

Mithril infusion!

Since it is a chip, it is naturally extremely small, and the smaller the mithril component, the softer the mithril wire in it is, and the more restrictions there are during production.

It may be that just a slight movement of the suspended field may cause it to deform, thus affecting its subsequent connection to the magic network.

Therefore, what Xia Duo thought of was to use a material with stable physical properties as the base, and use a high-precision alchemical array to etch out the space required for the mithril components.

He chose fine gold which is not easily deformed.

Of course, the physical properties of gold are also very stable, but the texture of gold is relatively soft. For the sake of safety in the first experiment, gold was not chosen.

All day yesterday, Xia Duo was manually etching the fine gold base. Until now, after injecting mithril, a semi-finished spell chip was completed.

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Since mithril usually exists in a solid form, it needs to be converted into a liquid state during injection, which requires the use of magic. Once magic is used, a more violent elemental transmutation reaction will occur.

The key to this step is to complete the injection in the shortest possible time.

Otherwise, the reserved mithril component channels are extremely small. If the element transmutation reaction is more or faster during this period, it will greatly affect the purity of the finished mithril component.

The purity of the mithril components is related to the frequency of elemental transmutation reactions when the actual spell is generated after the magic network is subsequently connected.

To put it simply, if the purity is not enough, the magic chip will be prone to accidents when connected to the magic network. Even if nothing happens when connected to the magic network, it will definitely happen when it is activated and used.

Maybe it will explode in one hand!

Therefore, Xia Duo was extremely nervous and extremely calm at the moment. These two very contradictory mental states appeared on him at the same time, just for a small magic chip.

The last time he had this kind of mentality was when he learned his first spell. He was also like this now, nervous and excited, but at the same time he was doing his best to restrain himself and keep himself calm.

Fortunately, Xia Duo never let himself down at the critical moment. He calmly operated the alchemy circle, turned a mithril grain the size of a soybean into a liquid, and drove it to enter through the "entrance" of the chip base.

Counting "1, 2, 3" silently, a very fine trace of mithril liquid, almost invisible to the naked eye, flowed out from the "exit" of the chip base.

But before it could flow out more, Xia Duo controlled the alchemy circle and dropped the suspended chip into the fine gold liquid at the other end of the suspended field.

Infused with mithril and encapsulated in fine gold, it’s all done in one go!

The final chip body is a small ball of faint blue fine gold, with a diameter almost as large as a human pupil.

Although it is called "chip", this is more of a name borrowed by Xia Duo from a similar item in his own knowledge. In fact, the mithril components inside the spell chip are generally distributed in an irregular spherical shape in space.

In line with the principle of not wasting too much, the fine gold used for packaging naturally takes on the shape of a sphere.

Of course, this is just the distribution shape of the internal mithril components of this [Protective Force Field] spell chip. Taking into account the mutual cooperation mechanism of multiple spell fusions, Sha Duo specially designed it into a spherical shape.

If you don't pursue spell fusion and just stack normally, then it may be more reasonable to design an array layout.

In that case, the spell chip can really be designed as a "piece".

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There was a heavy fine gold ball on his hand. In fact, a small half of it was occupied by mithril, which was about the size of a soybean.

But just that few soybean-sized mithril grains used up nearly half a month of the basic mithril share of Sha Duo Laboratory.

If it weren't for the fact that many Level 1 projects in the laboratory had not been completed during this period, and there were also many projects initiated at the same time, he really wouldn't be able to squeeze out so much Mithril to make chips.

Regardless of the hard work and equipment losses involved, just counting the mithril itself. For this small amount of high-purity mithril, more than 50 pounds were consumed. In the main plane of Netheril, it can be called Standard mithril of high grade mithril.

In the end, after getting such a small amount, Xia Duo did not dare to test its purity, because the test itself would either consume the total amount or reduce the purity. No matter which one it was, he was not acceptable.