After sending the two girls away, he asked Kaya to tidy up the interior of the Magic Tower and sent Hallumi out to hunt for tonight's dinner. This was a job that the two girls had fought for, so Lin had no reason to disagree.
The effective attack range of any Magic Tower within a range of X (10 km) naturally belonged to the Magic Tower. Unless the tower was built in the city, then it would be limited to the interior of the tower. Since the tower was responsible for suppressing the local magical beasts and uncivilized tribes, the output here naturally belonged to the tower owner.
Unfortunately, the Tower of the Great Sage's resources were of the lowest level in the Association's evaluation. The output was below the low standard, but the trouble level was above average. In addition, after a thousand years, the valuable things in the Magic Tower had been taken away or destroyed by the previous owner. Now, only the historical value was left. … This world could not be a tourist industry, so what was the use of the historical value!
It was for this reason that the Tower of the Great Sage had fallen into Lin's hands. Because no mage would want to come to this godforsaken place.
Even if this tower was a powerful war fortress a thousand years ago, there was a hole in the tower today, and most of the artifacts passed down were lost. The ability rating of the Tower of the Great Sage had long fallen to the last order, and it was no longer as powerful as it was in the past.
In addition, the environment was troublesome. Although it was rated as above average, the magical beasts that lived in this area were actually low-level creatures. The added value of crusading against magical beasts was not in the eyes of powerful mages, and the characteristics of moving in groups made low-level adventurers not dare to get close, which led to the awkward situation today.
But with so many shortcomings, it was not without its advantages. When the Association obtained the Tower of the Great Sage, the application for renovation was also approved. As a semi-public Magic Tower, it was not up to the tower master to do whatever he wanted. As for the changes to the overall structure, they also needed to be approved by the Association to prevent people from secretly dismantling the tower and selling it as magic materials. In fact, such things had happened before, so there were related regulations. … It could only be said that human greed was unlimited.
For the Association, the ideal situation would be for a spendthrift to fork out money to repair the tower. However, the reality was that the resources around the Tower of the Great Sage were not enough to cover the cost of renovation. Otherwise, the tower wouldn't still be in such a damaged state after such a long time.
Lin's plan, in a nutshell, was to rob Peter to pay Paul. Abandoning the severely damaged structure as a material, repairing the slightly damaged parts and trying to restore the structure as much as possible. This idea had been proposed in the previous application, but the actual method was to investigate the site before there was a way to repair it. There was no guarantee that the final result would be achieved.
Generally speaking, such a vague plan would not be approved. It was because this tower was too annoying. It had been empty for many years and no one was willing to move in. That was why the Society of Sorcerers had opened their doors and allowed Youlin to make his plan. The only condition was that it would still be a three-story tower in the end, and they could not raze the magic tower to the ground.
Although the loophole in the contract didn't restrict the magic tower from being slimmed down, Lin still conscientiously ignored this possibility.
He didn't know why the previous owners of the tower didn't think of similar repair ideas. Judging from the records, most people were worried that random modifications would damage the magic array of the magic tower, making it unusable even if it was still usable after being damaged. After all, it was rare for a tower to be damaged to such an extent and still function normally.
While investigating the site, a large open book floated beside him. It was the Magic Tower Log from the Association. It recorded the research and modifications done by the previous owners of the Magic Tower. Of course, there were also some insights and information about the addition and removal of items.
This book was the one that Lin had read the most recently. The accounts recorded in it could be said to be dry and uninteresting, and disorderly. The only fortunate thing was that the chronology wasn't out of order. It was just that it wasn't categorized. Looking at this record, Lin recalled the feeling of checking logs and debugs in the past.
After seeing the Tower of the Great Sage's condition and calculating the materials, Lin had a rough idea. The first floor could be completely repaired, six rooms on the second floor could be restored intact, and a large part of the damaged room on the third floor would be demolished to make a balcony. That was related to his next plan. If there were any materials left that could be used, it would be to repair the seventh room on the second floor.
After having an idea in his mind, he started to plan. In addition to deciding the order of construction, he also had to reconstruct the energy transmission channel of the entire Magic Tower. At the very least, he had to stop the energy supply for the wall structures that he planned to demolish. Otherwise, he wouldn't even be able to move a single piece of debris.
Maybe he wasn't an electrical engineer and couldn't afford to play with nanotechnology. But as a talent in the science and engineering department, he could still understand the huge circuit board of a three-story building. In Lin's eyes, the energy transmission structure of the entire Magic Tower was a circuit board.
Some magic arrays with special nodes were like capacitors or resistors, playing a similar role. And the energy transmission was just to ensure that it flowed through every brick to make the magic materials play out their characteristics.
This understanding had been tested on a small scale in the past years and was verified to be correct. Now, it was just on a scale dozens of times larger to do the same thing.
And to modify the energy transmission route, the traditional way to do it was to start with the control panel of the nuclear chamber first, and then make changes to the nearby nodes. However, based on the program that Lin had inputted in the special magic stone before, all the work could be done more easily. And with the help of the knowledge of the two worlds, the written program could form a more intuitive picture of the energy pool to assist his modification.
Of course, the detailed input and output programs still had to be adjusted. Considering that this wouldn't be a normal job, Lin didn't intend to make the program perfect. He would use the habits he had before he transmigrated in whatever way was convenient and efficient. There would be plenty of time to perfect the interface of the main control later. After all, this was a place where he planned to live for the rest of his life.
The brown-skinned girl, Kaya, had already tidied up the Magic Tower from top to bottom. First, she blew the dust out with a wind spell, then washed everything with a water spell, mainly the blood, feces, and other dirt left by the goblins and other unknown animals. After a rough round, she was doing a detailed cleaning and layout of the nuclear chamber. This place would be the temporary residence of the three of them, the other rooms would be slowly tidied up in the future.
The more troublesome things were the wooden products, such as the bed, bookshelf, table, and so on. The previous Tower Master didn't have the luxury of using magic materials for these things, but processed them from nearby trees. As long as there was no one to take care of them, these things would quickly deteriorate. So Kaya's other task was to count what could be used, what had to be discarded, and remade.
The big box used to store things was sturdy, but a little dirty. After a little tidying up, she put the more expensive and less frequently used things in the luggage neatly into the box, changed the lock, and finished the work here.
Hallumi's shouts came from downstairs. She had just caught a few rabbits and was calling for help. Kaya gave the key to the box to her teacher and went down with a few pots. The two girls were familiar with doing these things. Sure enough, the environment made people grow. Living like a prince was called a happy childhood, but it would only spoil the child.
Just as the two girls cleaned up the rabbits and cooked them into a pot of rabbit soup, Lin finished the first modification of the magic circuit of the entire tower. He bypassed the structures that were scheduled to be dismantled, reserved the parts that were to be repaired, and improved the entire circuit system. It looked like he could start work in the afternoon.
"Teacher, it's time for lunch." Hallumi carried the pots by the ears and carefully walked into the nuclear chamber. Kaya followed behind with a few clean bowls and wooden spoons.
Actually, there was no habit of eating lunch in the Lost Earth World, but there was a reason why fat otakus were fat. The main reason was that they couldn't endure hunger. After breakfast, they would have to eat until dinner. How could Lin stand it, so he brought the habit of eating lunch to the Lost Earth World? As for why he could still maintain a balanced body without getting fat, it was because there was too much physical work in the Lost Earth World, and he just couldn't get fat.
Wild coriander and rabbit meat made for a delicious stew. As he listened to the two girls' vision for the future, Lin relaxed. He had finally settled down in a home that truly belonged to him.
After eating half full and taking a breather, Lin began to instruct his two little apprentices. First, they cleaned up the areas that were going to be repaired. The main thing was to remove the broken bricks and preserve the intact brick structure. After that, they just had to fill in the gaps with new magic bricks.
The removed bricks were gathered in the casting room, where new magic bricks would be made using the shaping spell and the magic flames in the furnace. This tedious task that didn't require any skills would be the work of the two girls.
With Potency and Lightness, the only part of the girls' work that could be considered labor was going up and down the stairs. They hadn't learned how to float or fly yet, and their apprentice-level control couldn't allow them to move their bodies accurately. It was more practical to walk on two feet.
Lin's job was another. He walked out of the Magic Tower and went to the surrounding woods to find suitable wood to make a few molds.
The traditional way to make magic bricks was to use a ruler to cut them out of the original stone. They were cuboids that were a little longer than XVI dil (about 16 centimeters), a little wider than XVI dil (about 10 centimeters), and a little taller than XVI dil (about 6 centimeters). Then, they were trimmed with shaping spells.
What the hell was that little bit? That was the only thought Lin had when he looked at the data. Some people said it was the width of a finger, while others said it was the thickness of a thumbnail. There were all kinds of different opinions. The level of skill of the producer depended on this' little bit 'of mastery to be able to achieve perfection.
This was because the quality of the magic brick's conduction of energy, as well as its performance after receiving energy, was inextricably related to the brick's shape and size. That data had long been recognized as the best size.
As for that little bit, it was because the measurement standards in the Lost Earth World were too rough and powerful. It was similar to the recipes on Earth: one spoonful of salt, two spoonfuls of sugar, and one spoonful of soy sauce. Most recipes wouldn't kindly remind beginners whether that spoonful was a spoonful or a teaspoon. One had to cook it to know whether it was too salty or too sweet …
Of course, there was also a saying that directly making the bricks with XVI dil, XVI dil, and XVI dil dimensions could also achieve a good result. But for a top student of science and engineering from Earth, how could he not see that it was exactly 1.618, followed by a bunch of decimals of the golden ratio constant?
Holding the standard ruler provided by the Association and considering the precision of his own processing, Lin wasn't sure if the golden ratio was the final answer. But it was imperative to make several molds of the same specifications to speed up the production of magic bricks. After all, as long as the size was within the range, the effect wouldn't be bad.
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