"The 52nd secondary magic stone vein has been opened up."
In the study, Liz's cold voice echoed.
"The apprentices we sent out over the years have searched the entire continent and found a total of seventy-three earth vein nodes, of which only fifty-two have energy richness that meets the standard for cultivating secondary magic stone veins."
"If nothing unexpected happens, fifty-two secondary magic stone veins will be the limit of the continent."
Su Nan asked, "What about the scale?"
"One small, two medium, and the rest are large."
"It will take time to fully popularize and promote secondary magic energy technology. In the early stage, the output of one small and two medium-sized secondary magic stone veins is enough. When the large veins are cultivated and mature, the output will increase dramatically, just in time for the explosion of secondary magic energy technology."
Su Nan nodded in satisfaction, and then asked, "What about the transmission network plan?"
“This progress is a little slow.”
Liz stretched out her hand and swept across the void. Countless thin rays of light intertwined to form a map of the Starlight Continent. The map was covered with densely packed light spots, which were intertwined and connected to each other to form a huge network.
Immediately afterwards, a map of the surface world appeared next to it. There was only a light spot in the center, and the rest was blank.
"The teleportation network for the surface world has been completed, and we are now working on the construction of the teleportation network for the underground world."
“How long will it take to complete?”
"The secondary magic stone mine project has come to an end. The freed-up manpower can be transferred to the teleportation network project, which will slightly alleviate the problem of insufficient manpower. At the current speed, it will take about 60 to 70 years."
Sunan frowned slightly.
According to this calculation, the entire teleportation network would take more than a hundred years! But he could understand it, after all, the number of wizard apprentices who accepted the task of setting up the teleportation array at the same time was at most thousands.
Compared with the vast Starlight Continent, this amount of manpower is not even a drop in the bucket.
Slow progress is certain.
"The number of students enrolled in Starlight Academy has been gradually increasing in recent years, and the transmission network project will have more and more manpower available in the future. Perhaps it will not take 60 years." Su Nan said after thinking for a while.
"About this, I have something to discuss with you." Liz suddenly said.
"you say."
"Do you remember the star core you got in Falling Star City?"
Su Nan nodded slightly.
After obtaining the star core, he studied it for a while and found that this thing was actually an energy supply device, and its effect was roughly equivalent to a medium-sized element pool.
If it were any other wizard, they would definitely regard the star core as a treasure.
But Sunan is different. He has a way to synthesize a large element pool, so naturally he doesn't care about the star core.
The most important thing is that the star core cannot be moved after it is placed. Otherwise, if it is a movable energy supply device, it is equivalent to carrying an element pool with you, and Su Nan would think more highly of it.
After that, Liz took the star core from him, saying that she wanted to do an experiment, and Sunan gave it to her.
"I used the star core to make a magic device and commissioned the academy's instructor to create the finished product, called the Eye of the Star. It is now being used in the Starlight Academy to collect experimental data."
Liz waved her hand and a document floated towards Sunan.
Su Nan reached out to take it, opened it and read it carefully, his eyes gradually brightened.
I have to say, this magic item called Star Eye is quite interesting. It can actually sense and record all energy particle fluctuations that exceed a certain standard. It is really a powerful tool for monitoring supernatural powers! But the range is a bit small.
"Is this something designed by the Xingyue Society?"
"That's right."
"Can the sensing range of this thing be expanded?" Su Nan asked with interest.
Liz groaned and said, "On the premise of ensuring that the effect is not affected, the maximum expansion can be to a circular area with a diameter of 300 kilometers. If the range is larger, the precision of sensing energy particle fluctuations will be affected."
Three hundred kilometers in radius? Sunan was a little disappointed.
This range is only enough to cover a city, so it can't be considered big.
A star core that is equivalent to a medium-sized element pool is used to monitor the movement trajectory of supernatural forces in a city. This is a waste of talent.
It seems that this Star Eye is not very practical.
etc!
Sunan suddenly reacted.
There is no way Liz didn't know about this. If the Star Eye only had this much effect, Liz wouldn't have specifically brought it up in front of him.
Since she did this, there must be a follow-up.
The thoughts flashed through his mind, and Su Nan glanced at Li Ze with a half-smile, and said, "What other plans do you have? Tell me all at once."
Liz's eyes flashed with a smile when she heard this, and the corners of her lips curled up slightly as she said, "With only one star core, the monitoring range of the Star Eye will definitely not be that large. But if the Star Eye is the core and multiple secondary star cores are connected to form a network, the monitoring range can be expanded!"
"Secondary star core?"
"It means exactly what it says. An energy core that is second only to a star core in terms of effect."
Liz stretched out her hand and pointed in the air, and light and shadow slowly emerged. It was a crystal ball that was quite similar to a star core, but much smaller in size.
"The star core is the core creation of the Starfall Society. Only the wizard council members in the entire Starfall Society have mastered the manufacturing technology. However, as for the secondary star core, all official members can make it."
"The secondary star core does not have the effect of sensing energy particle fluctuations like the star core. It is just a pure energy core. However, when used together with the star core, it can resonate with the star core and thus amplify the star core's ability."
"I see." Sunan nodded in understanding, "How much can it be magnified?"
"If there are about two hundred secondary star cores, it can be magnified at least ten times."
"Ten times? A monitoring area of 3,000 kilometers in radius?" Sunan shook his head. "Not enough. This range is not even enough to cover the southeast region."
Liz said angrily and amusedly: "Don't be too greedy. Do you want to cover the entire Starlight Continent?"
To her surprise, Sunan actually nodded.
"It would be better."
Seeing that Sunan was not joking, Li Ze frowned and said, "The resonance amplification effect of the secondary star core is not infinite. After more than 200, the amplification effect will be sharply reduced, and the upper limit is about twelve times. If it exceeds this value, even if you place more secondary star cores, you can't improve the effect even a little bit."
“What if we improve the quality instead of the quantity?”
Liz was stunned for a moment, then reacted and frowned, saying, "The secondary star core is already a mature magic item. It was researched by the Falling Star Society at the cost of countless manpower and resources, and has been improved by countless wizards. On this basis, if you want to improve it further, the time and effort you spend will far exceed your imagination."
Sunan still insisted on his own opinion: "You don't have to worry about this. Just answer my question. If the effect of the secondary star core is improved, can the monitoring range be expanded?"
Liz hesitated and said, "It depends on the actual situation, but theoretically there should be no problem."
"That's fine."
A smile appeared on Sunan's lips.
Not to mention anything else, when it comes to enhancing the effect of a single item, all the wizards in the Falling Star Society combined cannot compare to him who owns the Rubik's Cube.
"Give me the design of the secondary star core, and I will improve it to a more effective secondary star core as soon as possible."
Seeing that Su Nan was so confident, Li Ze couldn't help but feel secretly puzzled.
But she knew that Su Nan was not the kind of person who would speak without thinking or being reckless. Since Su Nan dared to say such words, it meant that he was at least 70% to 80% sure.
Liz was curious whether Sunan could succeed.
She took a piece of parchment and used the magician's hand to control the rune pen to write and draw on it. It took her more than two hours to replicate the design.
Su Nan glanced at the design and asked, "Where is the design of the star core?"
Liz shook her head and said, "That is the highest core secret of the Falling Star Society. Only the members of the parliament know it."
Su Nan was slightly disappointed. He took the design and went straight to the laboratory, ready to start making the secondary star core.
When he arrived at the laboratory, Sunan directly unfolded the design drawing and placed it on the workbench.
"Taling 2, scan the secondary star core design."
[Received the instruction, started scanning. Scanning completed. ]
"Mobilize materials."
[Received instruction, total 138 materials, 133 materials have been mobilized from the warehouse, and the remaining five materials have not been retrieved. Do you want to search for materials with similar materials? ]
"Search."
[Search completed, the following are the materials with the highest material similarity, red cracked iron, Yin Nematode crystal.]
Tower Spirit No. 2 is the second Tower Spirit refined by Sunan, specially used for experiments.
Its core capabilities are its spiritual library and data analysis capabilities.
The former represents super recording ability, recording all the books, all experimental records and all the knowledge that Sunan currently owns.
In order to increase the amount of knowledge of Tower Spirit 2, Sunan even asked Liz to input all the knowledge she had mastered into the "Spiritual Library" of Tower Spirit 2.
The latter represents the computing power and data simulation capabilities of Talling 2.
The two complement each other.
The richer the knowledge reserve, the stronger the data analysis capability of Taling 2 will be.
Using Talling 2 as an experimental assistant can save a lot of time and energy in calculations and extrapolations.
With the assistance of Taling 2, Sunan spent two months developing five substitutes and then began to manufacture secondary star cores.
The secondary star core is not a particularly complicated magic item. At least for Su Nan, whose [Magic Item Manufacturing] skill has been upgraded to level 5, it is almost not difficult.
Soon, two secondary star cores were produced.
Sunan then immediately started the synthesis.
The result did not disappoint him. The synthesized secondary star core was indeed better.
In the end, Sunan used five secondary star cores to synthesize a brand new secondary star core.
When he placed the enhanced secondary star core in front of Liz, the latter's usually cold face showed a rare expression of dazed and astonished expression.
“You actually improved it?”
After a careful inspection and confirmation that the effect of the secondary star core had indeed been fully enhanced, Liz looked at Sunan with an expression of amazement that was difficult to conceal.
She never thought that Sunan actually completed the improvement in just over a month.
It's unbelievable! Where does this put the wizards of the Falling Star Society?
Compared to Sunan, the Starfall Society's previous improvements to the secondary star core were just like playing house! "Do you think this improvement is enough? Or do you want to continue to improve the effect?"
Sunan's words interrupted Liz's thoughts, and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly.
Can the effect be further improved?
After a moment of silence, Liz said, "I need to test it in practice to know."
Sunan immediately waved his hand and made arrangements.
The Eye of the Star, which was placed in the Starlight Academy, was moved to the laboratory in the Wizard Tower on the same day.
After conducting a series of tests and confirming that there was still room for improvement in the secondary star core, Sunan continued with synthetic strengthening.
Each time you reinforce, you conduct a test.
In the end, the number of synthesized enhanced secondary star cores was controlled at eight.
The effect of this number of secondary star cores synthesized is closest to the upper limit. If it is increased further, the effect of the star core serving as the core will not be able to keep up.
The result of overshadowing the main focus will lower the overall effect.
"The detection range of more than 7,000 kilometers is enough to cover the southeast region. Are you satisfied now?" Li Ze glanced at Sunan, "Or do you really want to cover the entire continent before you are satisfied?"
Su Nan was silent and thoughtful.
Although this result is not bad, there are always some shortcomings.
If possible, Sunan still hopes to cover the entire continent, which is extremely important for monitoring the invasion of foreign wizards after the elements are revived in the future.
But to achieve this, either the effect of the star core must be strengthened or a second star core must be created.
For Sunan, these two methods are actually one.
Unless he can synthesize a star core using secondary star cores, it will be impossible to achieve his goal.
But Sunan had already experimented with it before and found that it was impossible to synthesize a star core using secondary star cores.
Secondary star cores do not have the ability to sense energy fluctuations like star cores, which means that no matter how many secondary star cores are invested, a real star core cannot be synthesized.
But on the other hand, as long as the secondary star core has the same effect, even just a little bit, he can use the magic cube to synthesize something with a similar effect to the star core.
"The secondary star core and the star core can resonate with each other, which proves that they have similar properties to a certain extent. Therefore, there should still be a chance of success if we improve the secondary star core and give it a slight ability to sense energy particle fluctuations."
Sunan had an idea in mind and told Liz about it.
Of course, the synthesis was not explicitly mentioned, but it was mentioned that the secondary star core would be improved to have a weak energy sensing effect.
“It’s theoretically feasible, but what’s the point of doing it?”
Liz was puzzled.
"The secondary star core plays an auxiliary role in this sensing network. Even if it has a weak sensing ability, it will not greatly improve the overall effect. It is still impossible to achieve your goal of covering the entire continent."
Su Nan smiled and said, "I have my own plans. Just cooperate with me in the research experiment."
Liz also has extensive experience in manufacturing secondary star cores, and the improvement experiment will go much more smoothly with her help.
After staring at Su Nan for a long time, Li Ze curled her lips and snorted.
"Mysterious."
Despite all her complaints, she finally agreed. (End of this chapter)
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