The task is not very difficult, but it seems to be not much different from the first tower task Duke received. They are all about the role of spiritual materials in the structure of the spell model.

So after receiving the project, Duke asked Mulali to recruit spiritual apprentices.

"Only five spiritual apprentices are enough."

"Yes, sir."

Duke doesn’t plan to recruit too many people into this research group, just enough to maintain the group’s normal experiments.

If it weren't for the purpose of learning card-making knowledge, he would have just gone out and worked alone.

A good study of communication technology and film and television technology will be enough for him to gain both fame and fortune, and it will be more than enough for him to build his own mage tower.

Have some tea.

Read the newspaper.

In the past few days, local newspapers have reported endlessly on the insect invasion. Three arcane mages were killed at once, which was a huge blow to Shenjiao City.

The Cuihai Valley development war also suffered heavy losses. The appearance of the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon directly caused all fifteen safe camps to be evacuated.

Before hunting the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon, no arcane mage dared to station in a safe camp.

Various mercenary groups have also retreated to Sheshou Town, and they no longer dare to go hunting in Cuihai Valley privately. Without the protection of arcanists, the mercenaries go to Cuihai Valley to deliver food to high-level spiritual beasts.

"The invasion of insect waves is not always a bad thing. For this city, the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon relies on the pressure of its bloodline to gather a large number of spirit insects in the surrounding areas and drive them to die. This is equivalent to clearing out the threats around this city in advance and obtaining a large amount of arable land.

."

Commentators in newspapers always have new interpretations of the insect invasion.

Duke did not agree with this: "It is not difficult to hunt spiritual beasts. The reason why Shenjiao City does not expand outward is that the population cannot keep up."

The Heijiao River area is equivalent to the area of ​​a province, but its population is only the size of a city.

It cannot be developed at all.

In the final analysis, the Seven Towers Federation has expanded too fiercely in recent years. Although it has entered the rapid development of the industrial era, the abolition of the aristocratic exploitation system has only been short-lived, the lives of the people at the bottom have not improved for a long time, and the baby boom has not been enough.

The Seven Towers Federation originated from the Storm Empire.

At that time, the Storm Empire was still an empire based on knights, and arcane mages were suppressed, so several arcane mages left the empire and started businesses in the jungle.

Then the Seven Towers Federation was established, but at that time, the Seven Towers Federation only changed the ruler from knights to arcane mages. The system was no different from that of the Storm Empire - in the Storm Empire, knights enslaved civilians, while in the Seven Towers Federation, arcane mages enslaved people.

civilians.

In short, everyone did not regard civilians as human beings, killing them at will, and even using them as experimental subjects.

Until they go further and further on the path of spiritual arcane magic, the arcane mages' vision becomes higher and higher, and the territory they occupy becomes larger and larger.

Only then did he slowly reform the system, improve people's livelihood, and prohibit the exploitation of civilians by nobles.

Duke took a sip of green tea and thought in his mind: "It seems that the development of the spiritual and arcane field has been boiling with fire, and the flowers are blooming. The Seven Towers Federation has also become the most powerful human political power, but the progress of sinking to the bottom of society has

Still not fast enough."

"According to the history I know, the Erudite Tower was originally ranked last, and it was not until hundreds of years ago that it was promoted to the fifth position today."

"Except for the Offa Tower and the Star Tower, which only stand in the Offa Holy City, among the five local towers, the Erudite Tower ranks third, with a higher status than the Faling Tower and the Observation Tower."

The seven towers of the Seven Towers Federation are the power structure of the Federation.

The Offa Tower has the highest status, followed by the Union Tower, the Star Tower third, the Element Tower fourth, the Erudite Tower fifth, the Observation Tower sixth, and the Magical Tower last.

"As the most direct power institution connecting the top and bottom of society, the Erudite Tower is not doing a good enough job!"

Put down the newspaper.

Duke walked to his laboratory table and began to study the 1-ring slide card.

He has been studying the slide cards for a long time, and he can draw and carve out the spell models on the slide cards with his eyes closed.

"So the corresponding loop that the slide card can emit light is this part." Now he was going to analyze the function of each part of the loop, "Does the light-emitting structure in the Lingfeng Lamp also take advantage of the function of this part of the loop of the slide card?

”

Thinking of this, he immediately rang the bell.

Mulali was still recruiting spiritual apprentices. The person who heard the bell was her attendant Andre. After knocking on the door and coming in, he asked: "Sir, what are your orders?"

"Go to the equipment department and get me some spiritual lanterns."

"Okay."

Not long after, Andre came back with five spiritual wind lanterns. After Duke got the spiritual wind lantern, he directly took apart one of them.

There is a special energy loop in the wick. When spiritual energy is injected, this energy loop can be activated.

"It's very interesting. The energy loop of the lamp wick is an incomplete loop, or a section of the loop is cut off. The remaining part is cut out an energy line in the most direct way, and is firmly welded to the core to ensure a

The successful operation of the cutting ring."

A formal ring has the ability to operate on its own.

Incomplete rings require manual intervention to operate.

The "core" of the spiritual weapon is an incomplete ring. Cut off the required parts of the complete ring and stimulate its operation through artificial means.

"If I slightly modify the loop of this core... No, no, no, I don't even need to modify the loop of the core. I just need to add a fixed reflector outside the lampshade and put a shell on it.

Isn’t it just a flashlight?”

Sometimes what restricts the emergence of a new thing is not technology, but a little inspiration.

The scholars of the Seven Towers Federation could easily invent spiritual wind lamps and various household lamps. However, they did not think of fixing the light path for them so that the light can be gathered to illuminate a small area and become a flashlight.

"A leaf blinds my eyesight. I'm so used to using the Spirit Wind Lamp that I almost forgot to invent a flashlight." Duke laughed at himself. There was a flashlight on his sand hawk.

But I rarely use it, so I forgot about the idea of ​​a flashlight.

Before he was promoted to Arcane Mage, he had thought about inventing a flashlight, but he had to wait until he was promoted to Arcane Mage before he could register a patent.

Otherwise, it is easy to be robbed.

Dangdangdang.

Mulali knocked on the door and came in: "Sir, five spiritual apprentices have been recruited, one of whom is the Dras leader of your previous research group. The laboratory and consumables have also been applied for you, Laboratory No. 3 on the fifth floor.

Cleaning up."

"Let Dras continue to be the team leader and lead the team to conduct experiments... I will go over after the laboratory is tidied up and the consumables are in place."

"Oh, okay."

"By the way, little Lili." Duke suddenly thought of something.

Mulali immediately responded: "Sir, what are your orders?"

"Invite your aunt and uncle over for dinner tomorrow night."

"Okay."

By the time the laboratory was cleaned up in the afternoon and the consumables application had been approved, Xiaoyi had already compiled an experimental plan for Duke.

According to the experimental plan, Duke quickly assigned tasks to the research team, and everything went on in an orderly manner.

"Dras, help me lead the team."

"Sir, please rest assured that Dras will strictly follow your arrangements and lead the team to carry out the test mission."

"Well, we have cooperated well before, and I believe it will be the same this time." After Duke arranged the tasks, Ben Ben became the boss.

Wait until the next day.

Duke has made a crude flashlight. He slightly modified the Lingfeng lamp and retained the card core and card machine interface.

The flashlight is as thick as a thigh.

But it is indeed a qualified flashlight, which can focus the light on one point, which is several times stronger than the light of the Lingfeng lamp.

Duke held it in his hand and bumped it, very satisfied: "Improve the appearance, then write a patent invention application, and then go to the Erudite Tower to apply for a patent."

Evening.

Aunt Virginie cooked a table of dishes.

Butler Morris and Murali were at the door of the villa, welcoming Eupils and Murusi, who were carrying red wine as souvenirs.

"Aunt, uncle, sir, you are waiting for you in the room."

"Mu Lali, you have grown taller again, and now you are even taller and more charming." Mulus put her hand on her niece's shoulder and said with a smile.

After speaking, he whispered in Mulali's ear: "Our Mulali is already a big girl, but she has not learned to show the charm of a mature woman. If you have time, go to your aunt's house and ask her to teach you how to become a mature woman."

More charming."

Mulali blushed immediately, but did not reject her aunt.

After the dinner started, Duke got down to business with Upears: "I plan to set up a company, but I don't have the right people to help me manage the company, so I would like to ask you to do a favor and support some of my managers. Of course, you are also welcome.

Invest."

"Of course it's no problem to support the management staff." Upears agreed, "I don't know, sir, what do you want to do when you open a company?"
To be continued...