Wouldn't it be a waste of his identity as a transmigrator with the ability to make money if he didn't make a hundred or eighty of them to play with?
Such an idea would be kicked out of his mind in front of the flaws of the Spy Eye.
In order to maintain secrecy, the size of the Spy Eye couldn't be too big. It wasn't that easy to complete the engraving of the two sets of magic patterns for the Arcane Eye and the long-range positioning on the limited size. At least until now, Lin hadn't thought of a suitable and easy way to achieve this.
It was also because the engraving of the two sets of magic patterns was quite compact that there was no way to send images and data over a long distance like the satellites in the sky. The materials captured by the Spy Eye had to be retrieved after the satellites were recovered.
In order to achieve a certain effect, the materials used as the carrier couldn't be too bad. In order to store the real images detected, the magic stones had to be of a high level.
However, there was still a problem that hadn't been solved yet, and that was the high-dimensional pollution caused by the Blink spell. In other words, Lin Li didn't know how many times the Spy Eye could be used.
If the problem could be solved by spending money, then it wouldn't be a big deal to treat it as a waste of money. However, the creation of the Spy Eye required a lot of effort. A magic tool that took a lot of effort to create was not only expensive, but it could also be a one-time toy. If it didn't have an extremely important and special purpose, no one would want to create this thing at all. This was also the reason why the Spy Eye had been left on the design draft and hadn't materialized.
The situation he was facing now seemed to be the "important and special" purpose. However, Lin Li regretted that he didn't create the Spy Eye and test it out before. Therefore, Marco Lin wasn't 100% sure that everything that was left on the blueprint would work as originally conceived.
However, there didn't seem to be any better options at the moment. After asking the two girls to take the necessary materials from the cart of belongings, Lin Li began to create the Spy Eye for the first time.
Because from the beginning, what he wanted to do was to hide from the few silver-bearded dwarves, Lin Li didn't want to rely on their exquisite craftsmanship.
Although there was a design draft, it was far from being finalized. There might be modifications and optimizations during the production process, so it was impossible to let the two girls do it for him. This was because time was tight. He had to explain his ideas to his apprentices and wait for them to understand and implement it. It was more practical to do it himself.
When it was time for Lin to start his homework, he stopped talking and focused on the materials in front of him that were only the size of a fingernail. When the others saw that someone was in the mood, they tactfully lowered their voices and went about their own business.
Because the man in this state was unshakable, and nothing could distract him. This was the patience and focus that he had honed from observing and recording the stars day after day, year after year.
By the time he was done, the birds outside were chirping and singing, and the sun was shining in through the gaps in the tent. Only then did Lin remember to yawn. When he stood up and stretched, he woke up the people who had fallen behind him.
The two girls rubbed their eyes and greeted him. As for a certain someone who had relaxed a little, sleepiness uncontrollably assaulted his eyelids. Back when he was in the Tower of the Great Sage, it was normal for him to stay up late for his stargazing assignments. Now was the time to catch up on sleep, but it was not yet time for him to sleep peacefully.
He forced his heavy eyelids open and used the cold well water that Halloumi had just fetched from the well outside to wash his face and wake himself up. The others looked curiously at the completed gadget on the temporary workbench.
Originally, he wanted to make a few more backups, but after staying up all night, this one was his limit. And to be able to make this one, Lin Xingzhi had already performed exceptionally well.
This efficiency was only possible with the help of a specially designed magic puppet arm. It could completely imitate the movements of the user's hands and reduce the distance that the arm could move. It could also correct the trembling of the hand. It was a special tool for a certain someone when it came to meticulous work.
"This, is the spy's eye you were talking about?" Compared to the others who were cautious, Fen directly used her index finger to pinch the little thing in front of her eyes and scrutinized it. This was a kind of craftsmanship that was often used when making magic tools or weapons. This spy's eye was like a yellow eyeball with a red pupil, but it was much smaller. "Can it be used?"
"It should be."
"It should be … You're not sure." As she spoke, Fen wanted to throw it away.
Lin quickly stopped her. "Don't, don't throw it away. It's very small, it's not easy to get it back. "
"If not, how do you test if you can really capture objects from outside your field of vision and turn them back? Or are you afraid of breaking it? "
Taking back the tool that he had painstakingly made from Fen, Lin said, "Whether it's the material itself or the way I inlaid the two stones, it's not that easy to break. But I can't say for sure how many times it can withstand the teleportation of the Blink spell. So don't waste this precious opportunity on it. It's fine to test its ability to monitor the surroundings. "
"Alright. Then how do I use it? "Fen readily followed his advice and asked about its other use.
Chanting a spell, Lin directly activated the secret order engraved on the spy's eye. This was one of the many ways to use magic tools. But whether it was activated or not, there was no sign of it being activated, nor was there a trace of power fluctuation. This was because the Arcane Eye, like the Earth's sonar, had two modes: passive reception and active detection. The former was hidden and difficult to detect, while the latter was just short of a loud announcement.
The spy's eye, on the other hand, was an improved version of the Arcane Eye, which did not have the active detection ability at all. On the one hand, the magic stone that supplied the power did not have enough power to do so. On the other hand, due to its small size and surface area, Lin simply castrated that function. As for the other settings, they were also removed when necessary to save space for engraving runes.
After activating the spy's eye, Lin placed it near the coffin. After some adjustments, the results of the spy's eye's detection were quickly displayed. It was a three-dimensional image of the scene, and all the details were quite clear, no matter what angle one looked at it from.
In fact, this was the original detection result of the Arcane Eye. Although the spell's name was' eye ', it did not have any direction. Instead, it used the tool or facility itself as the center point to collect all the environmental data within a certain range. It was just that in the past, the inventor of the Arcane Eye had used the simplest way to display these results.
And as Lin moved the spy's eye, the real scene displayed by the coffin would also move. After testing the movement, everyone had a rough idea of the spy's eye's detection range, which was only about five meters. It was not at the same level as the standard Arcane Eye, which could easily detect things within a few kilometers. But it was still much better than the detection ability of a certain someone, which only had a range of one or two meters.
The final test for the spy's eye was how long it could record the detection results. For this, Lin kept making different movements to prove that every second of the footage was not a repeated or paused image. When the detection function was stopped, everyone replayed the images on the coffin and confirmed that the spy's eye could only record images for less than a minute.
This was just like the surveillance system on Earth. In the case of limited hard disk capacity, the software program would actively delete the oldest data starting from the time series. The free hard disk capacity would, of course, be used to store the new surveillance images.
Although it was only a minute, Lin did not need to monitor the changes in a certain place or observe the people coming in and out. He only needed to know the environment of the target place, so one minute was more than enough.
After confirming that all the tests had been completed, Liena Titov, who was more anxious than anyone else, asked impatiently, "It seems that everything is ready. There are no major problems. When are you going to leave? "
"You're in such a hurry." Lin complained and said, "I can't even keep my eyelids open now. Can you let me sleep for a while? You don't think that I won't screw things up in this situation, do you? "
"Teacher, are you not going to eat breakfast?" asked Halloumi.
The man, who was already a little delirious, cursed directly, "Eat his ass. That thing is no different from shit. I'll starve it for a few meals. It's just right. I'm not eating! Whatever you want to do, wait until I wake up. " As soon as he finished speaking, Lin threw himself onto the self-made camp bed and immediately lost consciousness. Bursts of snoring could be heard.
In this regard, the others were also helpless. If they could do something for him, no one would refuse. But this human Magician's actions, other than himself, no one could do anything for him. Unless they completely overturned everything he had prepared and used their own methods to carry it out.
Just like the Lich, who could also use Blink, Liena could not ask her to cast the Spy's Eye on someone's behalf and then retrieve it. Regardless of whether Fen could understand how to use the Espionage Eye without the instruction manual, she wouldn't have to go through so much trouble if she was the one doing it. She wouldn't have to go through so much trouble to investigate and hide in fear of being discovered.
The Lich's style was always "I come magnificently, I leave magnificently, only leaving behind death and ashes." Looking for trouble, small things turning into big things, and big things becoming unmanageable. This was the Lich's aura. So, whether it was Lin or the two apprentices, they did their best not to let him do it, so that they would not have to spend more energy to deal with the aftermath.
Liena also understood this. So, no matter how anxious she was, she could only wait. Otherwise, what else could she do?
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