I became the slime toy of the evil dragon girl?

Chapter 110 Another Breakthrough in Magical Energy Channels

"Then next—" he looked at the workbench, "we need to study how to scale up production."

"Okay!" Vivian raised her little paw. "I want to help too!"

So, for the next few hours, the strange collaboration continued in the workshop.

Ian first established a simple manual production line.

Vivian was "supervising" from the sidelines.

"Your crushing is too slow! Take this punch!"

"Ingredients must be stored separately by color! They cannot be mixed together!"

"Couldn't you just arrange these things in a long strip? That would make things so much easier to handle!"

She was just playing house, but Ian discovered—

These suggestions are surprisingly similar to industrialized production in my previous life.

Although some of the suggestions she received were simply making things worse.

but----

"Separating glitter by color" can prevent powders with different properties from reacting prematurely.

"Arranged in a long strip" is roughly similar to the design of an assembly line.

Could it be that this kindergarten version of a dragon is actually a genius in industrial production?

Ian felt that Vivian was born in the wrong place.

If you were to go to a modern company, you could easily become a production manager, and you could go to any business and have any desserts you wanted.

Compared to that, what's so great about being the Black Dragon?

I'm craving things all day long—

"Is it too cold? Let me get some fresh air!"

She was about to spray dragon's breath onto the cement that was about to be made when Ian stopped her in time.

"No! Don't spit me out and kill me in the process!"

"Oh—" Vivian shrank back in a wronged manner, but soon found something new to amuse herself.

The workshop was filled with the mixed smell of mineral dust and cement.

Under the dragon's personal "guidance," Ian set up a simple new workshop.

"Let's test the intensity again and get the precise data first. By the way, should we make a table?" Ian muttered to himself.

Upon hearing that Ian was going to test the strength again, Vivian immediately picked up a cement sample and started biting into it.

"I'll take the test! Awoo!"

Her canine tooth pierced through the cement, and then she frowned and spat out the powder in her mouth.

"Pah! It doesn't taste good! And it's not strong at all."

"Huh? Is that how you test it?" Ian pulled the cement block out of her mouth. "Besides, how can this thing be compared to a dragon in terms of strength? Don't make things worse."

Ian muttered to himself about how good the dragon's teeth were, while using some magic to test the strength of the new cement.

After some simple tests, the data was recorded.

Now we just need to set up the magical network for the new cement workshop, and then we can hand it over to GuGu and the others to produce the cement.

Ian immediately began weaving new magical pathways.

Soon, he realized that something was wrong.

"Hmm? It's even smoother now?"

Ian immediately opened his personal panel.

My gaze fell on the words: [Magic Vein Weaving LV.3 (16/300)].

It's been upgraded again?

Ian recalled something.

During the defense against the demonic tide, I frantically wove together war strategies, activating dozens of strategies simultaneously, including Mud Swamp, Earth Spike, and Fireball.

He then knocked himself unconscious, but that experience should be taken into account.

Ian decided to conduct an experiment.

The slime looked up at the sky, where the entire Dragon Territory was filled with the veins it had woven. It randomly selected a few veins that had been temporarily abandoned.

[Magic Vein Weaving] activated.

Golden magic flowed through the tentacles into the nodes, beginning to flow along the pre-set path.

The node lights up, emitting a soft white light.

normal.

Ian tried to add features to it.

The previous LV.2 allowed a single vein to carry two spells simultaneously.

I want to try it myself and see if I can add another spell.

Infuse with magic.

The veins trembled slightly.

A few seconds later, they returned empty-handed.

"If we can't add any more, then what's the point of upgrading?" Ian wondered to himself.

"No." Ian withdrew his magic. "It seems it's not a simple matter of stacking quantities."

What is that?

He changed his approach.

If LV.2 is "one network with multiple functions", then could LV.3 be "multiple networks with one control point"?

Ian looked around.

In the void, the newly woven network of the level three talent looks no different from before.

Ian plans to actually generate a few more new ones to see if the upgraded features are present in the weaving process, and he just hasn't noticed them yet.

Just as Ian looked away—

At the point where the two veins meet in the void, there is a faint, tiny golden light.

However, the light was too dim, and even the [Analysis] vision failed to see it immediately.

He closed his eyes, his consciousness gently touching the ball of light.

The magical flow of the two veins is like silk threads of different colors, each independent and not interfering with the other.

But this ball of light.

Like a transit station between them?

At the point where golden magical veins converge in the void, a point purely composed of magical energy is constructed.

This point has no physical form, no carrier; it is simply a highly compressed aggregate of magical energy.

One end of it is connected to Ian's consciousness, and the other end branches out into two slender tentacles, each resting on one of the two veins.

Ian attempted to send a command to the network through this point, increasing the flow of magic by 10%.

The instruction has been issued.

The flow of magic in the two meridians immediately accelerated.

This is----

Batch control node?

Ian tried adding two more.

It can even control it simultaneously!

"Holy crap—" Ian's light points flashed wildly, "This thing—is it a node?"

A virtual, physical control node can manage multiple networks simultaneously and has an astonishingly fast response time.

The command was executed almost instantly upon my thought.

This is far more efficient than manually adjusting each vein one by one!

"Wait, that's not all." Ian's mind raced. "If a node can manage multiple networks, then—what about the relationships between nodes?"

Ian immediately built a second node on the other side of the workshop, creating several more lines responsible for lighting and ventilation.

Then, Ian began trying to get the first node to connect with the second node.

Two virtual magic points gently touched in the void, and the flow of information instantly connected.

Ian successfully read the network status managed by the second node through the first node.

It can even directly adjust the flow rate of the veins governed by the second node.

"Awesome!" Ian couldn't help but exclaim. "This is equivalent to—a local area network? If I fast-forwarded and upgraded twice more, I'd be playing CS 1.6 right away!"

One node governs a region, and multiple interconnected nodes can form a magical control network covering the entire Dragon Territory.

The most crucial thing is————

Nodes themselves have no physical form and do not require a carrier; they are purely constructed and maintained by their own magic.

This means that the deployment cost is almost zero. As long as you have enough magic power and mental strength, you can deploy as many as you want.