Since he had chosen the Hard Level challenge, the next step would be to think about how to engrave the three complex magic arrays on a small ring.
None of the smithing methods that a certain someone knew could achieve such a feat, so Lin brought up this problem during dinner to discuss it with everyone and brainstorm for their own benefit. Even if it was a bad idea, there might be one or two bright spots that would be enough to trigger inspiration and find a real solution.
Kaya, who was quick-witted, turned her head and looked at the long sword soaking in the warm wine barrel next to her. She said, "Can Cassette Cutting do something like this? Just knock one or two pieces off it and make the corresponding changes according to the requirements. "
"Ah, you can do that." Someone, who had been reminded, also looked at the long sword that was now silent.
Because no changes could be seen from its appearance, others had no way of knowing whether Cassette Cutting was asleep or awake. Although it was silent, it was still concerned about everything that was happening around it. So when it was called, Cassette Cutting still reacted and said, "What are you going to do with my children? Isn't it a waste to make them into rings? "
"Children?" Lin asked in confusion, "Where did you get children?"
"Aren't you going to knock a few pieces off of me? Those are my children. "
"You... you are a female?"
"That's the only thing you're surprised about."
Lin asked again, "But I heard that breaking Cassette Cutting is equivalent to ending your life. What's going on here? "
"Because the things that are cut off don't have enough energy to maintain their original form and the parts that are separated from them. If the energy supply is cut off, it means complete death for us. There's nothing wrong with that saying. "
"Then what did you say about your children?" Lin asked in confusion.
"I'm not a female or a female in your sense. Cassette Cutting doesn't have a gender distinction. The parts that are separated from us will become independent as long as they have enough energy to support them. "
"The point is to have enough energy." Lin heard the key to everything.
"Yes. With your help, although my energy isn't abundant enough to transform into something similar to a peaceful armor, it's not a problem for me to split a few children into the shape of a ring. You don't have to worry about the magic array runes, either. Even if you can't reach a state where I have 99 magic arrays protecting you, I'll still give you the important and commonly used functions. "
"Not bad." But Lin tilted his head and said, "But I seem to have something that I haven't figured out yet." Looking up and down at Cassette Cutting, Lin suddenly asked, "You said that those are your children. What are their personalities like?"
"It's exactly the same as me. Don't worry, my children don't need to be educated like you humans. My child knows what I know. I don't need you to teach me all the necessary knowledge and cooperation methods. "
A certain someone seemed to have understood what he was worried about. He asked tentatively, "Then what do you think is the difference between your child's ability and yours?"
"Apart from the size, everything else is the same. If I want to turn them into swords, I'll have to take them with Blink often and absorb more energy from the dimensional gaps. One day, they will become as tall and big as me. "
What would happen when the soul of a talkative person was actually in a ring that he carried with him? Lin didn't even have to say it out loud. He saw the two girls shaking their heads like a rattle drum and rejecting the proposal. Cassette Cutting couldn't help but click his tongue.
The one who continued speaking was, of course, Jermaine, the silver-bearded dwarf, who was always excited when talking about technology. "Using the miniature sculpting function of the peaceful armor, —"
This function was developed earlier. It used the peaceful armor as a mechanical arm to reduce the operator's range of motion to complete some delicate tasks.
"— Although you didn't participate in the later development, we've already made it possible to use the magnification function of the Eyes of Arcana to control the strokes within 0.1 millimeters. The realization of this technology gave me a lot of ideas. We can make some parts of the peaceful armor smaller and lighter, and we can add more functions to them. So, if you help me repair the peaceful armor, I'll take care of the miniature sculpting work. "
"Oh, 0.1 millimeters? That's really good progress." Although Jermaine's intention was obvious, which was to help him repair the peaceful armor as soon as possible, Lin didn't agree immediately. Instead, he carefully calculated the parameters to see if it was feasible in his own design.
It was fine before he calculated, but after he did, he was shocked. If he wanted to use the miniature sculpting method to complete the three enchantments of the ring, the strokes must be less than one micrometer, which meant that this was a technology at the nanometer level.
After discussing the parameters of the peaceful armor with Jermaine, he confirmed that the omnipotent power armor that the silver-bearded dwarf said could not replace the lithography machine on Earth at all. This was forcing him to travel back in time and rob the company that made the lithography machine.
If he gave up the two spells, Voice and Barrier, and relied on the miniature sculpting function of the peaceful armor, he could barely engrave the magic array of the marking points on a ring. But why did he feel that if he gave in to reality, he would lose something?
"Isn't this kind of thing very simple?" Black Dragon Augustus rarely spoke.
Lin asked in surprise, "Can dragons also make magic items?"
"If there is a need, we can also make it," the black dragon said confidently.
"Then how do you make it?" Lin suddenly hesitated and asked again, "Are you willing to tell me?"
"Don't worry, after receiving so much help from you, the reason I brought up this topic is because I have plans to tell you." Augustus laughed heartily.
"Oh, that's great. Then how do you do it? "
"You just have to find a very rare metal, and while chanting at it, you want it to look like or have some functions, baptize it with dragon flames, and then hammer it repeatedly. As long as the metal doesn't completely disappear, one day it will become what you want it to look like. Although it takes some time to do this, it's probably amazing if every dragon can make one such magic item in their lifetime. "
… This kind of production method that is not scientific at all, nor is it magic, but instead sounds like a fairy tale, is the common method of the dragons?
And there is only one production in their lifetime, or even none. Considering the lazy and sleepy nature of these big lizards, it is estimated that it is the efficiency of fishing for three days and drying the net for two days.
Moreover, every time it is baptized with dragon flames, it must be impregnable. How special is the metal to be able to do this? In particular, the dragon flames of the black dragon are mainly acidic and corrosive, which is best at destroying equipment and items. To be able to resist the dragon flames of the black dragon, with the current known magic materials, all of them are rare and top-notch materials.
It seems that this method …
"Oh, the method you mentioned is a bit similar to another method I know." Fen pondered at the side, turned to look at a certain person and said, "Maybe we can try it?"
"So, what is the method you are talking about?" The person whose thoughts were interrupted asked doubtfully.
"If a necromancer wants to make powerful magic equipment or items, what method do you think we are best at and that others don't dare to use?"
"Sacrifice?" A certain person could only think of this to fulfill the conditions that Fen mentioned. "But I can't do that."
"Not being able to do it is secondary, the main thing is that it is not suitable. Because there are too many impurities in the soul and flesh, these will affect the item that is to be made. It could be said that most of the undead creations were cursed items. This was the key to it. But after hearing these two hints, do you think of anything? "
There seemed to be a flash of inspiration in his mind, but Lin could not grasp the content of that inspiration.
Fen did not keep him in suspense and directly said, "I know a very rare method of making items that very few people understand. One of them is called Divinity Forging."
"Divinity?"
"The Divinity here is not referring to the God of the gods, but to the item itself, which has an extraordinary and indescribable quality. Of course, any item that can produce this Divinity can be called a Divine Artifact, but it may not be something that a god once owned or personally made. "
That vague impression gradually formed into an outline, but it was still difficult to grasp.
Fen continued, "I once sacrificed the flesh and blood of many gods to make a bone scepter. That is the only item that I have ever owned that contains a trace of Divinity. But how did the scepter succeed? Why did it succeed? I couldn't figure it out back then. The scepter was destroyed in the battle later, I tried to make a second one or repair the original, but it all ended in failure. "
"At that time?" Lin keenly grasped the key words in Fen's words.
Lich smirked and said, "What kind of research do we have now that we can't see on the surface, but in reality, the nature of the research has changed?"
With this hint, the vague outline in Lin's mind became clearer. For example, what was the difference between carbon and diamond? A: the crystal structure of an atom.
The dragon flame and hammering that Augustus mentioned could actually be seen as a high-temperature and high-pressure processing process. As for the constant chanting to the item itself, if one tried to understand it from a human's point of view, of course, they would not be able to figure it out. But if the element of 'Draconic' was added, it would not be so difficult to understand.
What was Draconic? In the past few days, of course, Lin had taken the time to ask Augustus. He originally thought that it was a profound and unfathomable thing, but someone understood it immediately.
Anyone who had experienced the internet on Earth, who used a dial-up line or listened to the sound of a fax machine, would know that Draconic was a manifestation of converting analog signals into high-frequency sound signals. And analog signals, after being converted, could be converted into digital signals, which could then be converted into information that could be understood by computers. In the Land of Confusion, Draconic became magic.
No wonder there was a saying that it was very difficult for humans to learn Draconic. If a human's vocal cords wanted to make similar sounds, it did not rely on language talent, but on vocal skills.
What was the mechanism of the transformation? What did each frequency represent? Lin had not studied these in depth yet. But even if he did not fully understand the mystery, he knew that the sound waves of the high-frequency sound would affect the object itself. Especially when the object's state was unstable, the sound waves could be the main factor in the change.
At first, it sounded like a joke, but there was actually a scientific basis for the Draconic method of forging artifacts. But it was also conceivable that with such a rough level of craftsmanship, luck was more important than anything else.
In that case, the Dragon's method gave a certain someone a clue. What was the sacrificial ritual that the Lich was talking about?
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