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Chapter 404 Success!

Swish!
Celia crumpled up a failed scroll and threw it into the trash can.

A new sheet is laid out again.

"We'll definitely succeed this time!"

The girl picked up her pen, and the tip emitted a faint glow due to the output of magic.

Where the pen tip passed, a faint blue light appeared and then disappeared.

Magic circles, scrolls, and magical artifacts are three types of objects that require runes. Magic circles do not have high requirements for details or magic power. The principle they adhere to is that bigger is stronger. The supply of magic power depends entirely on magic crystals and various materials that produce magic power with specific attributes. Even ordinary people can set them up. They only need to consider macro-control.

Magical devices, including magical puppets, flying machines, weapons, and armor, use runes only as an auxiliary tool. The focus is on the connection and communication between the various components and the efficiency of magic transmission. The key is the strength of the materials, not the runes. There are now machines that can draw runes in batches, specializing in drawing miniature rune arrays, to mass-produce magical devices.

Scrolls are the most demanding test of one's rune-drawing skills. They require the infusion of magic and mental energy. Magic is used to draw spell circuits and imprint the spells on the scroll, while mental energy serves as the interface, allowing the scroll caster to control the spells within.

"When will a machine that can draw scrolls appear...?"

Another error destroyed the scroll, and Celia rubbed her temples and sighed deeply.

Benovia, who was quietly reading a book nearby, laughed when she heard this: "Scrolls require the mage to infuse them with mental energy, and they need to be infused with magic power in conjunction with the magic power. Magical devices don't have mental energy, so they can't do it."

Celia put down her pen and stretched. "There must be a way. Like the magic puppet. Who would have known before that magic puppets could be stronger than sorcerers and could even store spells?"

She is trying to draw a combo scroll.

However, even with Rose's guidance, there were still many difficulties.

The four spells are combined, and each spell has a different magic input value, so you need to be careful at all times. Sometimes, when the patterns are transformed, the magic input value must be changed immediately.

For other patterns, the magic input value needs to be gradually reduced until it reaches 0 when you stop writing.

In such situations, one can easily become careless due to prolonged focus, and all previous efforts could be wasted.

Especially when trying a new type of reel for the first time, there will be more mistakes.

Even Celia, after failing 100 times, still hadn't managed to draw a single one successfully.

If there were no time limit for drawing the scroll, Celia would definitely choose to stop and rest for a while after completing each part before continuing.

Unfortunately, that won't work. If you stop for too long, the magic you initially input will dissipate. The scroll ink can only keep the magic in place for a short time, not forever. It needs to be completed and transformed into a full spell before a circuit is formed, locking the magic firmly within the scroll.

"Magic input control, pattern accuracy, ink volume... and so on, can all be completely replaced by manual operation by the magic device."

Celia picked up her pen again, absentmindedly touching her rosy lips as she pondered the feasibility of having machines replace humans in drawing scrolls.

"In other words, the only thing lacking now is a magical device that can store and output mental energy. Once that's solved, mass production of scrolls will be a reality."

Magical devices for storing spiritual energy have been a key research focus for major empires, guilds, and merchant societies, but unfortunately, no one has succeeded in creating one to date.

With her mind wandering to random thoughts, Celia was about to continue writing when she suddenly caught a glimpse of the magic circle record she had casually tossed aside.

That was sent by Blake's men. It was after they sent a formation master into the stronghold yesterday, the formation master recorded it, printed it on paper, and sent it back.

Today, not only the student group has suspended its attack, but the Knights of Law have also suspended their assault on the main camp.

However, instead of resting, they received orders to search the various strongholds that had been raided the previous day, looking for any hidden sacrificial arrays. The news that they found them underground in every stronghold was accurate.

After obtaining the record of the magic circle, Celia took some time to study it and told Blake about the magic circle, letting them know its function.

As they parted, Celia saw Blake's expression of sudden realization, as if it had answered some of his questions.

Upon accidentally seeing this pile of information about magic arrays, Celia thought about the function of magic arrays and suddenly had an idea.

"Absorbing souls... Souls and spiritual power seem to be somewhat related. If we absorb souls, could we find a way to absorb spiritual power from them?"

Celia looked at the pile of magic array data.

Unfortunately, the central altar was destroyed, so the structure of the core magic circle is unknown; all that is known is the structure that absorbs the souls of the inhabitants.

"These heretics use the bed as a medium; as long as a person lies on it, the magic circle will be activated, draining their soul energy while they sleep..."

Magic can be replenished through meditation, mental strength through sleep, but the soul... can only be slowly restored through daily nourishment.

News has come back of the ordinary heretics who were sent back. Almost all of them are in very poor physical and mental condition. Some have not even recovered their senses and are still in a state of madness.

Even those who regain their senses are confined to bed and need to recuperate for months or even years.

The thought of such an evil magic circle made Celia feel very uncomfortable.

Ross's voice entered his mind: "The evil is not the magic circle, it is people. This magic circle was modified from a magic circle that nourishes the soul. The magic circle is just a tool. Every spell can kill a large number of ordinary people. Can you say that magic is evil?"

Celia said, "I know... but I'm just feeling a bit unwell. Lord Ross, do you think it's possible to research a mental energy storage rune by referring to this magic circle?"

"Of course. The body and spirit are the carriers of the soul. A magic array targeting the soul is itself a magic array targeting the body and spirit. It's like a combination technique. It's just that after it matured, it became a new category and is no longer called a combination technique."

Ross chuckled, "Like this combination technique you're researching now, once you succeed, you can call it a multi-attribute spell and give it a unique name. Magic circles and magical artifacts can have multiple attributes simultaneously, so why can't scrolls?"

Celia nodded and refocused her attention on the scroll drawing.

We'll talk about fully automated scroll drawing magic devices later.

We don't have the time or resources to study this right now.

Celia picked up her pen, took a deep breath, drank the potion Anko had given her, and then cast a Clarity spell on herself to enhance her focus in all aspects before putting pen to paper again.

"Today's goal: Finish one task!"

In the evening, the pen fell.

Celia tossed aside the scroll pen, picked up the scroll, and watched the runes on it flow and gradually form a circuit, a look of joy on her face.

"Finally, it's done! Nearly 300 blank scrolls were used in total. The difficult start is over, verification successful! Next up—"

"Manual batch drawing time!"

　It suddenly started pouring rain and the power went out. I don't know when it will be back on. This message came from my phone... Should I ask for leave?
　　No! How can I take leave? Let me try writing this on my phone!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)