"What are we making, boss?" Ram asked.
He had no idea what kind of phantom to make.
He rarely watched phantoms. On the occasional times he did, he usually watched forging phantoms left behind by Dwarf masters.
The audience here probably wouldn't be interested in forging, right?
Ram had clearly underestimated how bored people could get. Huge crowds watched with rapt attention as people squeezed pimples, trimmed hooves, and washed carpets. Master smiths' forging phantoms would be even more popular.
But Jia Xiu didn't plan to win with brainwashing shorts. He wanted to make something with broader appeal.
"We'll make a short, coherent story about a mage growing stronger. I'll start writing up the general plot and storyboards now."
"Storyboards?"
"Important scenes that appear at key moments. They'll help you understand the phantom's overall structure, then you can fill in what happens between them."
Jia Xiu was sure that the Phantom World, as a field of study, had a similar concept, but he didn't know what it was called.
"Here's what we'll do. I'll put together a list of the illusion resources we need. Ram, go to the illusion team provided by the academy and get our requests in their queue. We mainly need background environments. As soon as they finish some, start assembling those parts. Mia, you handle the basic illusion circuits the phantom needs."
Jia Xiu quickly assigned everyone their tasks.
He expected the workload to be heavy. The deadline was tight, and there was a lot to do.
The biggest advantage of teaming up with people you knew and trusted was that everyone could get straight to work.
Jia Xiu pulled out his Magic Grimoire. The Devil Pact was incredibly useful: it could record spells, but you could also write anything you wanted in it and erase