Chapter 116 Two Ways to Copy Books
In a silver seal spell book, Feiqi found this spell that regulates the destructive power of the lightning magic. The name of the inventor of the spell was not recorded, only a cold record of the content and function of the spell. This is understandable. After all, in this world, thunder and lightning represents the power and will of the goddess. It is cast by the priest. How can it be changed by non-divine spellcasters at will?
Fortunately, there is still a requirement to retain knowledge in the doctrine of the same goddess, so this spell is still recorded. By analyzing the runes used in the spell, Fitch converts it into a version that can run in his own magic system. Continuous experiments and improvements, and finally chooses to implement it in the form of a rune array.
The mansion of "Mysterious Mist" has very complete caster supplies, and magic array consumables are one of them. As long as you input mana, you can open the warehouse door lock and take it directly from the inside. The smoke ghost mages here don't care about the more or less things in the warehouse. Anyway, if you don't have mana, you can't open the door, and the servants can't even steal things and sell them.
"Fortunately, these people have not sold the things inside and turned into cigarettes." Feiqi heard from Benny about the matter that Reitz was responsible for, and there was no emotional upset. In the past, he was a little disappointed, but now, he was busy copying magic tricks, maintaining books, special training, and creating magic items in the mansion. Those people just smoked leisurely. They lost their curiosity and vigilance to the outside world. How could they make progress?
He could only rely on himself first, and then go to find like-minded people. If he couldn't find them, he would train a group of smoke ghost mages. These smoke ghost mages were unsuccessful. Since they didn't use the things in the warehouse, Fitch could not watch them rot and waste them. He took a piece of brown thunderwood as thick as a bowl, two bottles of "double silver ink" containing silver and mercury. He had been lying in the corner for a long time, and signed his name on the warehouse registration book that had been rotten and half of it, and then began to make the "transformation socket".
Thunderwood is a subspecies of spruce, very high and straight, and is not afraid of lightning strikes. In the Scriptures of the Goddess of Truth, Thunderwood represents the transmission of the goddess' will from heaven to earth, which is the duty of the priests. Therefore, Thunderwood is often used as the border of the holy emblem to prevent the metal part of the holy emblem from being sharpened and hurting people. The grips of some priests' weapons, such as maces and wooden sticks, will also use Thunderwood.
Feiqi felt that this material is the best choice for making "transformed sockets". Shaping and engraving is easier, and writing runes upwards is also very convenient. The key is that it is very light. Make it simply into a four-story pyramid, then reserve a place for magic runes on each layer, and carefully depict it with ink. Finally, two sockets are left at the top of the pyramid, melt copper into pieces and stuff them in, and then connect it to the magic array - the "transformed socket" is done.
It is relatively simple to use: hold it in the palm of your hand and summon the power of thunder. Control the mana, do not let the power of thunder be too strong, and at the same time, it cannot be interrupted because it is too weak. Then the "transformer socket" can change, adjust, optimize the power of thunder, and send it out from the jack. Since there are no tools on the earth, Fitch cannot 100% sure that the output current is correct. However, the laptop power supply has a strong adaptability, its green light illuminates, and the machine is also showing it on charging.
If he focuses on outputting mana, Feiqi can charge it in two hours and then use it for more than four hours. If he provides mana while working, his efficiency will be greatly reduced, but he can barely keep the machine from being powered off. When the mana continues to increase, or Feiqi's spell casting skills are further proficient, he will definitely remove the word "barrel".
With cameras and image recognition software, who can use hand-written books?! High-definition pictures are taken, runes are recognized, and spell databases are ready-made and added directly to them. Spell retrieval has become unprecedentedly convenient.
Of course, this matter cannot be done in front of others, even Benny and Shani. So far, only midnight has seen his laptop. It occupied the warm area under the keyboard like a cat on earth, and lay down comfortably and happily.
"Don't be sloppy, stay at the door. If anyone comes, tell me quickly." Feiqi poked the black hairball with his finger, causing it to make a long "hair~~" sound. Midnight was a little unhappy, but it still stretched hard and hid near the door.
Open the book, turn the page, take photos, archive and enter the library. Feiqi is now very skilled in this process. The more available spells you collect, the more accurate the magic rune library will be, and the approximate model will become closer and closer to the reality. In this process, Feiqi discovered an interesting phenomenon: the three major sources of runes, the truth-Thunder magic rune, the original language rune of the Creator's master and the characteristic runes from different races and places, and the proportion of them is constantly changing. If a spell wants to make it as short as possible to meet the requirements of rapid casting, then the Creator's master's rune will have more runes; if you want to have a great power, a long range, and a prominent effect, the proportion of the goddess' magic rune will be larger; if you want to have outstanding functions or be stranger, you have to find them from the local runes of race. For example, the spell that changes the nature of the current uses the runes of the elves-style.
"After all, I have to thank the elves for their help."
Just as he was talking about this, he ran in midnight, shook his head and issued a warning message. Feiqi quickly closed the notebook and hid it in a hollowed-out book, and then hid it under the bookshelf. He used his entire vision to view a half-elf with a hood came over.
The half-elf is named Hennos. He has a small theater and a gallery in Santa Trinity Castle, and is also the owner of five or six performance teams. His more important identity is Diedlit's friend and Joe Duo's "agent". Due to the influence of the elves' blood in his body, he is already in his fifties, but he still looks like he is in his early twenties and is as young as Feich. His appearance is very ordinary, mostly because he never puts on makeup and dresses as simple and low-key as possible. In his words, it is "to better highlight those beautiful actors", but Feich thinks that he may be "the consciousness of a spy."
"Are it all done?" Feiqi walked up and asked. They met a week ago, and at that time Feiqi discovered that Heinos liked to get straight to the topic. "Can a half hundred thousand words stand the check?"
"Don't worry, the quantity will only be more or less, and the quality will be fine. I'll get you one." Hennos took out a thin and soft book from his slanted backpack. "Look, does it look like your font."
"Daily Prayer" is a very simple scripture, which contains a hundred prayers that can be used in daily life, including various situations such as wedding, funerals, food, clothing, housing and transportation, and is considered the simplest introductory book. The whole book has more than 20,000 words, one of which includes fourteen easily recognizable magic runes in the temple building, which can barely be regarded as this "runebook".
Feiqi was going to use this to hand over the file for copying 500,000 words. He asked Didrit for help, and Didrit introduced him to Heinos. The boss of this theater and gallery had several skilled craftsmen. He could easily handle the posters of the performances and the decorative paintings of the shop. It was even less difficult to copy 500,000 words.
"Your copying is very standard and has no special features, so it's easy to imitate." Heinos said: "In order to make these books look more real, I asked them to deliberately sloppy so that they can show signs of rushing to work. But don't worry, the sect will not pay attention to the font. They will randomly check a few books to see if there are any mistakes, and then they will release it."
"You know this too? Isn't it just that I was punished to copy books?"
Heinos shook his head: "Of course you are not the only one. The sect master uses this method to make many people copy books every year, which can save some of the funds. However, most of them will be designated to copy the "Catholic Code" and will be distributed to local branch churches. It is not like you who have no designated books. There are many people in the city who are engaged in this industry, after all, the profit of books is still very high."
"I hope the profits of books are smaller and the profits of creation are larger." Feiqi looked at his copybook, and the quality was indeed good. He could write the fonts inside, so he could handle the inspection no matter what. "How many books are there in total?"
"Ninety books, two hundred and seventy gold coins. Benny has paid half of the deposit." Henors took a small pocket from Feich's hand, weighed it gently, and then pushed the purse back. "It seems like there is too much."
"It doesn't seem like there are two hundred gold coins inside," Fitch said. "I want more "Daily Prayer."
"Also copy?" Heinos was stunned for a moment: "Although this is a good business, I really want to know why."
"Because the words inside are very simple, and everyone knows these prayers, it is appropriate to use them to teach people to read." Feiqi pushed his wallet back: "Benie told me that many people who sign up for the Knights' competition will not write their own names, and a large number of people cannot understand the content of the rules announcement, and it is even more impossible to calculate their own points. I don't think that the same is true for Minas Ishir. I need people who can recognize words and calculate."
"If it's for Minas Ishir, then I will only charge half of the money, or I will give you twice the product. Well... I'd better give you more books. Oh, I'll just help you transport the batch of "Daily Prayer" to the Chingshu for the transfer. I'm familiar with the whole process." Hennos put away his wallet and rubbed his face with his palms: "Feich, ask you something: What did Qiao Duo do?"
"Benny didn't tell you?"
"No. She said you didn't let her say it, so she wanted to keep it secret. Goddess blessed me, I knew her ten years ago, and I taught her to play drums, but she actually listened to you so much now."
"It has nothing to do with me, she is very high-quality." Feiqi replied with a smile: "Joduo and Anne are studying the simple basic teaching of magic, so they entrusted Benny and Shani to me. I guess they should be in Minas Ishir at this time."
"It seems that your magical simple basic teaching is very interesting, otherwise Qiao Duo would not have missed the martial arts competition and the Jiao Shu wedding." Hennos breathed a sigh of relief and said, "There is another thing I just heard about. Elf Island sent a team of guards to join Minas Ishir, which was opposed by the Jiao Shu. Now they have all abandoned their titles and signed up for the martial arts competition as free mercenaries, and used this method to win Minas Ishir to become an official."
"Ah? All the regular soldiers are here to join in the fun? Isn't it a mess now?"
"Yes. As far as I know, some knights choose to attend the conference incognito in order to find opportunities to teach these elves a lesson. I would like to ask, as the chief aide of Lord Minas Isir Didrit, what do you think about this?"
"The chief staff member can only speak to the lord, and I can't tell you that."
"Okay, let me change my question: I am a half-elf, and I'm very worried about a new conflict between the elves and humans. How do you think things will evolve next?"
Chapter completed!