Chapter 282: Slapping the Face

Chapter 282 Face-Slapping

On the second day, Li Wei continued his research.

On the third day, he continued researching, with no communication.

No one came to find him either.

Everyone ignored his existence, only complaining about Fionides behind closed doors, venting their resentment onto Li Wei.

On the fourth day, Koen stood by the door of the archive room, watching Li Wei buried in study inside.

He chuckled and said, "Why work so hard? What use is it?

Don't you understand what Fionides meant by sending you in here?

Do you really expect to make some contribution?

Just sit tight and wait for the credit, isn't that enough?

It's good to have connections; even the greatest achievements come easily without breaking a sweat."

Lux walked over, glanced at Koen, and said, "Don't stand there making snide remarks; go research something else if you're free."

Koen looked at Lux, curiously asking, "Why do you help him? What use is it?"

Lux did not pay him any mind.

She placed a stack of research drafts before Li Wei, saying, "These are the latest design drafts for the Glory Mago Cannon magic array."

Koen shook his head, "What use is giving them to him? He can't even understand them.

Do you really think just stuffing someone in allows them to participate in the Glory Mago Cannon research?

Even if Fionides came himself, he might not understand the principles involved."

Lux said, "If you have the guts, say it to his face."

Koen chuckled twice and turned to leave.

Lux looked at Li Wei, greatly surprised by his learning speed.

In just a few short days, he had nearly finished reading all the research materials on the Glory Mago Cannon.

It seemed only a few days had passed, but for Li Wei, he had been studying in the dream realm for over a month.

Through a period of study, Li Wei also understood that with his abilities, he could not participate in the Glory Mago Cannon research.

So, he focused on one point.

He ignored other aspects, concentrating solely on the Glory Mago Cannon's magic array.

In this aspect, he was relatively skilled.

Li Wei did not know how to cast magic arrays.

But he was skilled at deducing spell models.

Magic arrays evolved from spell models.

Both used mana circuits and mana nodes to construct form in the same way.

The essence was connected, though the forms of expression differed.

According to Fionides, the biggest flaw of the Glory Mago Cannon was its excessively high demand for the "Sunflare" core.

If the demand for the "Sunflare" core in the Glory Mago Cannon could be reduced.

Then the production capacity of the Glory Mago Cannon could be significantly improved.

With Lux's help, Li Wei learned the Glory Art and Holy Light Art.

He also gained a deeper understanding of the spell models and principles of both spells.

Lux helped Li Wei reduce the vast amount of time needed to familiarize himself with the two spells.

Li Wei already had preliminary ideas.

In the blink of an eye, eight days had passed since Li Wei joined the Glory Mago Cannon research team.

The undead army was also about to arrive at the Element Tower.

The Element Tower urged the Glory Mago Cannon research team to produce results quickly.

Everyone was nervously making final preparations, bringing out the final design blueprints for the Glory Mago Cannon.

Li Wei was forgotten by everyone.

"There is nothing left to improve, let's leave it at this."

"Unfortunately, according to this design, the Element Tower can manufacture at most twenty Glory Mago Cannons."

"No choice, we have done our best."

Bang!

The large door was opened by someone.

Fionides strode in, with Li Wei and Lux following behind him.

An expression of incredulity still lingered on Lux's face. Fionides took out a stack of brand new magic array design drafts and threw them before everyone.

"Look, this is the latest magic array deduced by Li Wei; it can save ninety percent of the Sunflare cores."

Upon hearing this, everyone's first reaction was impossibility.

"This is impossible!"

"What kind of joke is this?"

"Stop joking around."

Fionides scanned the crowd, speaking gravely, "Speak after you finish reading; you understand this better than I do, and after reading, you will know if it is truly possible?"

Under his strong demand, everyone very reluctantly picked up the new drafts.

At the first glance of the draft, Koen felt his eyes burning.

What kind of magic array diagram is this?

It completely failed to meet the drawing specifications for magic array diagrams.

In his eyes, it was no different from a child's scribbles.

He suppressed his discomfort and continued looking.

After finishing, he was somewhat surprised internally, taking other parts of the magic array diagram from others' hands to examine.

The more he looked, the more surprised he became, until shock inevitably appeared in his eyes.

Koen stared at Li Wei in disbelief, "Did you really design this yourself?"

Li Wei nodded, "Yes, I designed it.

I am not very familiar with magic arrays; there may be many errors inside, I hope you can correct them."

Koen couldn't help but say, "This train of thought is too far-fetched; it completely broke our original design concepts."

"How did you come up with this?"

Li Wei said, "Fuanlides told me he hopes to reduce the usage requirements for the Sun Core.

I have examined all your research data and found that, along your current trajectory, reaching this stage is already the limit.

Therefore, a new direction must be selected.

Thus, I considered the Luminous Glory spell model I have been deriving recently.

I attempted to merge the spell models of Luminous Art, Holy Light Art, Burst Flame Art, and Combustion Art to construct a spell model for the Luminous Art.

Yet progress was sluggish; the complexity of fusion was too great.

But if those four spell models were transformed into magic arrays, engraved upon a Magic Cannon, and the four forces fused through a Luminous Stone, it could generate a magic ray with effects identical to Luminous Glory.

Theoretically, it is viable."

In truth, the spell model for Luminous Art was not impossible to create.

It was merely that the resulting spell model was excessively complex, mismatched with its potency, sacrificing the greater for the lesser, thus meaningless.

However, once converted into a magic array etched onto a Magic Cannon, this flaw became far less significant.

The stringent requirements on the caster shifted to stringent requirements on the Magic Cannon artisan.

Most crucially, if Luminous Magic Cannons were mass-produced, one would not rely solely on manual labor to engrave incomprehensibly complex magic arrays.

Alchemical techniques could be employed to replicate the magic arrays.

In this manner, even the most intricate magic array would require completion only once.

The remainder would simply be a matter of duplication.

The difficulty would be negligible.

Fuanlides swept his gaze over everyone and asked, "How does it appear to you?"

Koen fell silent for a long while before speaking, "The feasibility is extremely high.

Our former logic involved extracting power from the Sun Core, then diluting it through a magic beam to attain the effect of Luminous Glory.

Li Wei provides a wholly new concept; perhaps we can directly forge a magic beam akin to Luminous Glory.

Consequently, we would only require a scant few Sun Cores, or even Luminous Stones to induce energy fusion, to reach the same objective.

The former regards the Sun Core as a power source, the latter regards the Sun Core as a conduit."

He pierced through to the essence in a single glance.

(End of Chapter)