Chapter 231 Magical Version of the Spinning Machine Please give me a job! ...
Although it's called a spinning machine, it's more like a strange hourglass—
On the drawing in Shu Xin's hand, a delicate machine was drawn with fine strokes. After inputting magic into the magic circle in the corner of the drawing, accompanied by a faint magical glow, the flat drawing was transformed into a three-dimensional image.
At first glance, this alchemical machine looks like a transparent hourglass that is wider at the top and narrower at the bottom. Upon closer inspection, you can see that the top container is equipped with a complex array of transparent hinges and gears of varying sizes. The bottom container has a relatively simple structure, consisting of several layers of transparent partitions.
So what kind of textile machine is this?!
And this is just one of the blueprints for a textile machine. Ananka bought a total of five textile machine blueprints from the wind fairy Popsopo!
Besides the amazing hourglass shape, these looms also come in even more amazing shapes, such as donut, spiky ball, Möbius strip, and spiral.
These past two days, Shu Xin has been studying these bizarrely shaped spinning machines. It has to be said that these otherworldly spinning machines are really magical, and also really abstract. They have very successfully caused a conflict between Shu Xin's scientific common sense and magical understanding, who was formerly an ordinary person but is now a flower fairy.
However, she eventually managed to figure out their basic structure and function.
The drawings show that the machines are completely transparent from the inside out. This transparency is probably to make it easier to see the internal structure. It is with this complete transparency that Shu Xin discovered that no matter what shape the textile machine is, it is divided into two large parts. For example, the top and bottom containers of the hourglass textile machine, the inner and outer rings of the donut textile machine, the external spikes and internal space of the spiky ball textile machine, and so on.
These magical machines do indeed possess weaving capabilities, and even have different magical attributes. Among them, the donut-shaped weaving machine has both metal and earth attributes, the spiky ball-shaped weaving machine has both light and dark attributes, the spiral-shaped weaving machine has both fire and wood attributes, and the Möbius strip-shaped weaving machine has only wind attribute.
The hourglass-shaped weaving machine is a single water-attribute machine. To use this type of weaving machine, simply put the processed water-based magical materials into the top container, and then draw a magic circle on the partition of the bottom container to produce magical cloth with the corresponding function.
For example, by putting water-based magic materials into the top container and then drawing cleaning runes on the partition of the bottom container, you can produce water-based magic cloth with self-cleaning abilities.
Other textile machines also use this kind of foolproof method of operation. It sounds simple, and it should be simple to operate, but it is not simple to manufacture so many machines.
Let's take the hourglass-shaped spinning machine as an example again. The devices installed in the container at the top of the hourglass are all very complicated in structure, and each part has a relatively independent function. Therefore, different parts need to be made with different magical materials, and the specific refining methods used are naturally very different.
Although the Land of Sin has developed, it doesn't have any mineral resources. The only products that can be considered unique, besides the acorn wine and various dried fruits that Shu Xin produced after her arrival, are probably delicious mushrooms.
The magic gem mine that was accidentally discovered by the demons was only of the earth element. Putting aside whether it was usable, using magic gems to make machine parts was really a bit extravagant.
Even if we include all the family treasures that the wind fairy Qinqinlar hasn't brought yet, there are still many types of magical materials needed for the spinning machine that are missing. Shuxin has already asked the Tree of Life, and Qinqinlar's family mainly focuses on rare and precious materials when hoarding and collecting them, and common magical materials that are everywhere on the streets are not included.
Shu Xin understood this; after all, they were in business, and they would do whatever made money. But the problem was that magical materials, which were readily available to the wind sprites, were completely absent from the Land of Sin.
This is just the issue of materials; putting aside the materials, the refining process is also a major problem.
These spinning machines are all alchemical products. The only alchemist in the Land of Sin is the wind fairy Barbaria, who is still a novice alchemist. She herself said that it takes the level of an intermediate alchemist to make spinning machines.
Take the hourglass-shaped textile machine as an example again. Not only is the top container difficult to make, but the bottom container is also difficult to make. The structure inside is simple, but both the partitions and the magic circle diagrams drawn on the partitions are very special.
These partitions also require special materials to be crafted, and the Sinful Land does not have such magical materials. Furthermore, the magic circle diagrams drawn on them are not the magic circles used in daily life.
For example, a cleaning spell can be created by drawing a cleaning rune. To achieve a stronger cleaning effect, a magic circle can be drawn with this cleaning rune as the core. However, what needs to be drawn on this partition is more like a magic printing technique than a magic circle, because its purpose is to print the cleaning rune completely and correctly onto the raw fabric.
Calling it printing isn't quite accurate; perhaps "refining" would be a better term? Because the magical runes fuse with the raw fabric, resulting in a finished fabric with magical effects—that is, magic cloth.
Shu Xin studied the magical spinning machine over and over again, and the more she studied it, the more she realized that she had thought too simply. She thought that she could immediately set up a clothing workshop as soon as she got the spinning machine blueprints. But she never expected that this magical world was too magical and would suddenly hit her hard in an unexpected place.
Fortunately, there are always more solutions than problems!
Thanks again to the almighty Tree of Life! All the missing magical materials can be replaced with branches and leaves from the Tree of Life!
Although these branches and leaves still need to be carefully processed and are not as durable as the original magical materials, at least the textile machine can be tried to manufacture them.
This is not because the material of the Tree of Life itself is substandard, but because the material of the Tree of Life is too good. It will cause impact and wear to other parts during normal use, and the result will definitely be a shortened lifespan of the machine.
"Let's build the machine first and then think about everything else," Shu Xin thought calmly.
As for the manpower to craft the machines, we should also thank the all-powerful Tree of Life.
There are indeed no alchemists in the Land of Sin, but there are quite a few flower fairies with alchemical magical talents. For example, the Refinement Magic among the magical talents is a kind of alchemical magic.
Finding a skilled alchemist to craft the entire machine on their own is clearly unrealistic in the Land of Sin, but with the help of the Tree of Life, the complex and tedious alchemical process can be broken down into specific steps that the flower fairies can directly operate.
Shu Xin thought about it carefully and realized that this was just like an assembly line operation!
An alchemist can create an alchemical spinning machine, and hundreds of flower fairies can also create one. The latter does require more manpower and takes longer, but that's not a problem in the Land of Sin, as it means hundreds of new jobs are created.
In the early stages, the production of textile machinery can absorb a large number of workers through assembly lines. In the later stages, a cluster of garment workshops can still be built around textile machinery, thus increasing the employment rate in the Land of Sin.
The frustration she had felt from being tormented by the magical alchemical spinning machine vanished instantly. Shu Xin excitedly got up, tidied up her manuscript, and went to call her subordinates to the conference room to discuss how to arrange the details of the work.
Barbaria, being an alchemist, was the first to receive the job assignment notice.
The mushroom house located underground was a novelty for Whimsicott, and the bedding, which exuded the unique fragrance of mushrooms, was also very comfortable. Barbaria's sleep quality was okay, but the stuffy air in the underground cave made Whimsicott very uncomfortable.
Most importantly, there is neither wind nor sunlight underground!
Without getting any sun or wind, Barbaria knows her complexion is terrible without even looking in a mirror.
The meals provided to the field guards were also full of magic, and they could eat three meals a day. On the first day, Barbaria was extremely excited, feeling that life in the Land of Sin was really wonderful, and she could eat her fill of delicious magical food in one go!
On the second day, she was a little listless. On the third day, she became lethargic. On the fourth day, she couldn't even finish the delicious magical food. At night, she couldn't fall asleep on the soft mushroom bed.
The aura of the Darkmoon Elves was indeed bloody and terrifying. The Wind Fairy dared not stray too far from her dwelling. Watering the mushroom field was a very simple task. After watering, she could only return to the mushroom house and sit or lie down idly. When she could no longer sit or lie down, she would go out and fly around the mushroom house several times.
Today is the fifth day. Although she has only been in the dungeon for five days, Barbaria feels like she has been in a dungeon for five whole months. So when she saw the strange flower fairy appear outside the mushroom house, she rushed over without hesitation:
"Are you asking me to go to work? I want to work! Please give me a job on the ground!"
The flower fairy was startled and had already drawn her magic wand. Regaining her composure, she hurriedly put it away, looking quite flustered: "Oh! Good afternoon! Are you the wind fairy Barbaria?"
Barbara nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, that's me!"
The wind sprite with her long, messy hair looked very haggard. The antennae on her head were drooping, and not only were her wings dull, but the magic around her was also fluctuating wildly. Yet, the expression on her face was unusually excited, and her eyes were frighteningly bright.
Staring intently at the flower fairy, Barbaria's voice became somewhat shrill with excitement:
"Good afternoon! I am an alchemist! I can forge a spinning machine for you! Please take me to the surface! I will work hard! I swear to the wind god!"
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