my magic industry

Chapter 251 Magic Liquid

"But speaking of it, the magic power supply of the magic machine doesn't have to be attached to the standard magic stone, right?"

When thinking about the connection between the magic stone and the gemstone mine, Xia Lin had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly realized a place that he had neglected before, his eyes lit up, and he muttered excitedly to himself.

He immediately arranged for manpower to go to the warehouse of the R&D center to dispatch some basic magic materials to the magic machine test factory for new tests.

What Xia Lin thought of and neglected just now is that the magic motive actually has another cheaper source of magic power, and this source of magic power is actually closely related to the magic stone.

In a gem mine, the output is often a piece of raw gem ore and raw magic stone, and the raw magic stone needs to be simply cut by a gem craftsman before it can be processed into a finished standard magic stone, which is suitable for various rune disks .

During this process, there will naturally be many broken or even directly crushed broken magic stones. Generally speaking, these broken magic stones with a certain size will be processed into secondary magic stones, which are used to supply energy for some specially customized rune disks. .

The rest that have no grinding value will be crushed and processed into magic stone powder, which will be sold to mages and alchemists at a pound of 5 silver maar, which is about 3.57 grams, and used to prepare and draw spell scrolls. Rune ink and rune thread on the rune plate.

In fact, these magic stone powders have the same ability to store magic power as standard magic stones, but standard magic stones can recover part of their magic power after half a year to a year in the natural environment after the magic power is exhausted, while magic stone powder There is no such ability.

Xia Lin aimed at these magic stone powders, and wanted to use them to replace the standard magic stones currently used by the magic machine. For this reason, Xia Lin went to the gun factory to find the dwarf masters there to use the supporting foundation in the gun factory. A new type of magic stone switch is processed for the magic end of the new version of the 6MD4.2 magic machine.

This magic stone switch looks like a cylindrical sleeve that is a circle larger than the shaft end of the magic machine. The opening at the upper end can just fit on the shaft end of the magic machine. There is an opening through which a thin iron plate can be inserted, and on the same side there is a filling port similar to the opening in the lid of an oil drum.

After installing the magic stone switch made for magic stone powder into the energy supply end of the new version of the magic machine, Xia Lin filled it with about ten kilograms of magic stone powder through the filling port while weighing it, and waited until the filling was completed. After installation, start the magic machine again according to the startup steps.

What relieved Xia Lin was that this magic machine did not have any picky eating habits. Even the magic power provided by the magic stone powder made it run smoothly, but after running for about ten minutes, the magic machine was Suddenly, it seemed like a convulsion, and the speed began to become fast and slow, and sometimes the engine "stopped" directly.

"It's no wonder that generally speaking, people don't use cheaper magic stone powder as the magic power source of the rune disk... This is probably because magic stone powder is not as transmissive as standard magic stones, and can completely consume the overall magic power light?"

Xia Lin looked at this phenomenon and thought for a moment, and soon realized the crux of the problem.

No matter how fine the magic stone powder is, it is also independent of each other. It is thought that there should be no magic power transmission between them. The magic power provided by the magic stone powder will fall into an unstable state, and the amount of magic power that the magic supply end can obtain depends purely on how many magic power exists in the magic stone particles it touches.

This is probably why people in this world usually use standard magic stones instead of cheaper magic stone powder as rune disk energy.

It is actually quite simple to solve this problem. The first idea is to use some kind of mechanical structure to ensure that the magic stone particles that are in contact with the magic end are evenly possessed of magic power.

For example, design a device that regularly blows magic stone powder into a disc with a curved channel that is in contact with the end of the offering. By controlling the time for the magic stone powder to move forward in the disc, the supply of magic at the end of the offering is guaranteed to be stable and continuous. .

The second idea is to find a way to make magic power transfer between magic stone powder and turn it into a whole for offering magic. Xia Lin has a ready-made method for this, that is to add low-grade magic stone powder to the magic stone powder. Warcraft blood.

As the base material for blending rune ink, monster blood has the effect of channeling magic power. After mixing monster blood with magic stone powder, it should be able to achieve the effect of continuously supplying magic, but it is difficult for Xia Lin to predict how this effect will be. .

The low-end magic beast's blood conduction is not good, maybe this idea will not have much gain, otherwise there should be alchemists trying to use this method to replace the function of magic stones.

However, if it succeeds, it would be a good choice to prepare a suitable energy-supply liquid with monster blood and magic stone powder.

Thinking of this, Xia Lin immediately arranged for manpower to start manufacturing the envisioned energy supply disc, and at the same time began to deploy this energy supply liquid that he thought had some similarities with gasoline.

Pour the turbid monster blood into a wooden barrel, and mix enough magic stone powder into it to form the energy supply liquid that Xia Lin needs. The production method is simple and rude.

Pour a barrel of energy supply liquid weighing almost ten kilograms into the slightly upgraded magic stone switch that was sealed with rubber before filling it to the brim. After careful inspection and found that there was no leakage, Xia Lin activated the magic stone switch. motivation.

To Xia Lin's surprise, the effect of this kind of energy supply liquid is quite good. The energy supply liquid prepared by 15 tubes of low-grade monster blood and magic stone powder weighing almost [-] grams keeps the magic machine going. It continued to run for several hours, but then the magic machine still had an unknown failure and shut down.

And this failure is not a small problem. By the way, the magic engine is completely destroyed, even if the magic stone is used as energy again, there is no way to restart it.

After carefully investigating the problem, Xia Lin found that the rune threads at the end of the magic machine's power supply had failed. He hurriedly found Sophia again and asked her to check what was going on.

When she came to the magic machine, Sophia leaned over and took a brief look, stretched out her slender fingers to wipe the traces of monster blood left on the end of the magic machine, turned around and asked Xia Lin:
"Is this using magic liquid mixed with magic beast blood and magic stone powder as a power source? This is a good idea to save costs. Many adventurers will use the same method to activate the rune disk when they are in distress.

However, this kind of magic energy liquid will have an erosive effect on the rune lines, because the inside of the rune lines of the magic circle also has the same ingredients. If you want to use this kind of magic energy liquid, you must use pure gold or mithril on the runes Make a protective cover on the line, which can not only transmit the magic power, but also isolate the influence of the magic liquid on the rune line. "

"Adamantine or mithril? Is there no other material that can make such a shield?"

Xia Lin looked at the complicated rune lines distributed on the end face of the magic machine, which was hundreds of square centimeters in size, and frowned.

Originally, the cost of the magic motor is relatively high. A 6MD4.2 magic motor needs to consume 25 kilograms of steel and almost [-] kilograms of magic copper as the base. Nearly sixteen gold runts, plus the labor cost of hiring an alchemist and other material consumption, the cost of a magic machine has reached twenty gold runts. If you add a protective cover made of mithril, no matter what It's going to be close to [-] Jinlunt one.

"If there are other materials, why do you still use magic stones as the energy source for the rune disk? At present, only adamantium and mithril can meet the needs of the rune disk."

Sophia rubbed away the blood on her index finger and clapped her hands.

"..."

"Then try it with Mithril!"

Xia Lin did some calculations, and 25 Gold Lunte is almost equivalent to the purchasing power of 33 RMB in the previous life. This price is actually not that expensive for the magic motive. Anyway, Mithril will not be lost, so I finally decided to adopt Sophia's suggestion.

Let Master Holkin make a few mithril shields that look like handicrafts, attach these shields to the end face of the magic machine and fix them with nails, Xia Lin restarted the test, this time, using magic energy The magic machine, which uses liquid as the energy source, runs quite smoothly, and the test results make Xia Lin quite satisfied.

A ten-kilogram magic energy liquid can run the magic machine for four days and five hours before completely consuming the magic power contained in it.

The current market price of low-grade Warcraft blood has not changed much. It is still 14 silver mals for a tube. The price of magic stone powder is 3.57 grams per pound for 5 silver mals, and 700 grams is almost 910 silver mals. Well, the cost of such an energy supply liquid is 28 silver maldos and 910.28 copper biss. After omitting this fraction, the cost of making the magic machine run for a unit hour is 101/9, and the result is almost [-] silver maldos.

It turned out that the hourly cost of running the magic engine with magic stones was 160 silver maars. Just by changing one energy supply method, the operating cost of the magic engine was reduced by almost 95%.

However, this is what Xia Lin expected. A small pound of magic stone powder is about 3.57 grams, and a standard magic stone is about 7 to 8 grams. The difference between the two is twice, and the price of the former is 1/40 of the latter. 1. In this way, the cost of using magic stone powder is 20/[-] of the standard magic stone, and the error is probably the impact of monster blood and other losses.

Afterwards, a test was conducted using the disk that allowed the magic stone particles to pass through evenly and consume all the magic power. The test result of this idea was not as good as Xia Lin imagined.

To make the magic stone powder stay in the disc for a proper time to provide enough magic power requires a lot of calculation and design. At the same time, the disc also needs to be precisely processed, and an external device for feeding and receiving the magic stone powder is required. The device is much more troublesome to use than the rough sleeve, and the effect is not as good as that method. Xia Lin gave up this idea after several experiments but failed to achieve the desired effect.

(End of this chapter)