Mana Communication System

That evening, the second day Iris had occupied Fran's house, she came over tonight to begin directing Fran's work.

"What? I have to throw all this stuff into every corner of the Floating City?" Fran asked in shock, because Iris had assigned her a new task.

She needs to randomly scatter objects, about the size of mung beans, throughout the Floating City, without being noticed by others, and in places that are well hidden.

Fran glanced at the small box on the table, which was filled with the light blue trinkets required for the mission; she was to scatter these things around the area.

"What is this?" Fran asked curiously.

Iris rolled her eyes at Fran and slowly said:

"Fran, do you think I need to explain everything to you before assigning each mission, given this kind of top-secret work?"

"Uh... okay, roughly when should it be completed?"

"You need to get this done within ten days, and remember not to let anyone see you sprinkling this obviously suspicious stuff."

"For the sake of secrecy, we won't communicate with the law enforcement on the Floating City over such trivial matters. You'll have to handle this yourself."

"Alright." Fran sighed. Taking on this job would definitely involve hard and tiring work, and she had no choice but to accept it.

"I need to find some time to explore the entire Floating City and scatter all my stuff outside."

After putting the small device away, Fran began to complete the task Iris had assigned her the day before: to build the sensor for detecting the Deity.

"By the way, Fran, you'll probably have to make this many times."

"Do we need a lot of them?" Fran asked.

"That's one way to understand it, but actually it's because what we make might not meet their requirements. After all, this manufacturing method doesn't always produce a stable finished product."

This refers to the paint that hasn't yet been optimized by Fran.

"So many mages accepted this task, all to see who would be lucky enough to come up with one that met the requirements."

Fran didn't react much to this. Although she had an optimized version of the paint, she had no reason to use this optimized method on the finished product she handed over.

Even if she gave it away, what reward would she get? No reward at all. Even if she wanted to publish a Paper on the subject, she not only failed to solve the problem of which aspect of the coating was affected by the Sacred Binding Word, but she also didn't know whether the production method of this coating was regulated.

At most, after making the paint, she would perform some directional treatments, which she guessed would make it more sensitive, and she thought that should meet the requirements.

After completing the above tasks, she would have to wait to see what kind of task Iris would be given.

Despite the conflict between the Sky Dragon and the Alchemy School, she still hoped to obtain as much information as possible.

Now, facing this top-secret mission, she can only wait for the task to be assigned from above, and then Iris will give her the task so that she can obtain more information.

With these thoughts in mind, Fran began quickly constructing the sensor's body and started assembling it.

Iris looked at Fran's skillful movements with some confusion.

"Has she done anything like this before? How can she get started so quickly without even looking at the blueprints?"

"That shouldn't be the case. Hasn't she only been Formal Mage for less than a year? Shouldn't she have made this kind of device?"

Fran's hands moved quickly and precisely. She rapidly made each of the small parts and then placed them one by one into their designated positions according to the blueprints in her mind.

A mage from a normal Alchemy School would definitely need to study the blueprints more, because simply memorizing them is not enough. If you don't understand them, you might forget to leave space for future parts or make mistakes in the assembly order.

Although Fran has neglected to Arts Alchemy, she has already reached a level of proficiency.

However, the "Mastery" stat on the Panel provides an equal bonus to every type of alchemical creation.

When a normal mage encounters a new blueprint, it may take several days to study it and understand the specific crafting techniques.

However, as soon as Fran memorized the blueprints, her body seemed to possess innate muscle memory, and a familiar feeling would surge in her mind, making her feel as if she had been creating this alchemical artifact for several years.

Before Iris left at 1 p. m. today, she had assembled the sensor with remarkable ease, which drew curious glances from Iris.

"You're done? Is this okay?"

Although Iris felt that Fran must have carefully studied the blueprints to have done it so quickly.

But this is too fast! She originally thought Fran would need at least a week to figure it out and create a prototype.

Fran glanced at Iris and said slowly:

"I have no way of testing whether this will work or not. Doesn't the document say that it needs to be taken there to test whether the efficacy is up to standard?"

Iris smiled and didn't continue the conversation. Instead, she took the completed sensor at one o'clock in the morning.

Fran didn't have any Magic Duel on the second day, so she spent the whole day working on the Mana Communication System project.

At this moment Philly and Asher were busy making final adjustments to the Mana Communication System that they were selling to the Northern Lands Society. This was also hard work, even though Forrest had previously entrusted it to Asher and other apprentices trained by mages.

Meanwhile, Forrest was holding a plan that Fran had recently written, and he didn't quite understand it.

"Mage Lai, what do we need to do with these magic element pipes and localized wiring that you mentioned, that require such a large-scale configuration?"

Although most of the work of configuring these tasks will probably fall to Philly and Asher, the project is very busy right now, so we should plan our workforce properly.

"And why do we need to adapt to such long pipes? Can't we just lay the system inside the Mage Tower?"

Fran smiled and explained to Forrest:

"This is a new product I designed, besides the Mana Communication System, which is the only thing we can sell."

"Don't you think it would be too difficult for us to make a profit on the entire project if we only sell the Mana Communication System?"

"Even if we make the whole system as perfect as possible, those who learn it still have little incentive to buy our system."

Forrest was somewhat embarrassed. It was indeed true, just as Fran had said. He had initially held an almost stubborn prejudice that as long as the system was done well, those who had learned it would naturally come to buy it.

However, after Fran offered many suggestions for improvement, Forrest implemented the improvements but found it difficult to persuade students to buy the product.

The reason is simple: their products are not good.

Even though their system allows mages to break free from the limitations of books and store information via virtual characters on the Mana Communication System.

However, storage alone is a long-standing and major problem.

Their storage modules are made of magic essence, and only a portion of the magic essence can store information; Mental Power is also required to activate the magic essence.

In other words, the stored information in the system needs to occupy a certain amount of system power, otherwise it will be lost.

If these systems were actually installed in those long-established societies, he felt that the sheer volume of Paper alone would fill up their current largest Mental Power generators.

So it seems they can only install this system on primary schools, or on societies like the Northern Lands Society that haven't been established for many years.

"Our goal cannot stop at just those societies; otherwise, we might not recoup our costs even two hundred years from now..."

"So why don't we target those mages?"

"I recall there aren't any widely used Communication Device on the market yet, right?"

Fran handed Forrest a new document, which detailed Fran's modified communication methods.

Construct a massive magic pipeline that connects from one end to the other, and set up physical interfaces for Personal Terminal to connect via small cables.

"A message system, and real-time call creation..."

Forrest's eyes grew brighter and brighter as he calculated the costs of doing so, his expression becoming increasingly pleased.

But when he calculated the cost of maintaining the entire pipeline, he couldn't help but frown.

"If we were to do that, we would have to keep the magic element in constant motion, which would consume far too much Mental Power; we simply cannot sustain it."

Fran smiled and brought up an idea that Forrest had never considered before.

"You're still trying to do this by building a large system, which definitely requires a lot of Mental Power."

"But what if we let those mages provide their own Mental Power to keep the system running?"

Forrest hesitated, and before he could speak, Fran answered first:

"Shouldn't a Communication Device input its own Mental Power to provide power for its operations?"

The Communication Device created by the Alliance and many folk mages require the mage's own Mental Power to conduct long-distance communication.

Now, all they need to do is Communication Device, so it's not surprising that the mages need to expend their Mental Power.

Forrest still felt something was off about directly changing the way energy was supplied.

"We'll give those mages a unique number, and when they want to send a message to another mage, they'll dial that mage's number and spend extra Mental Power to maintain the system's magic activation."

"In this way, we don't need any additional Mental Power -driven devices to maintain the entire pipeline. As long as the mages communicate, the entire pipeline will flow naturally."

"We can also collect funds by charging a monthly service fee."