The Numerical Problem of Magical Items and the Lunch Menu

He put several design drafts he had prepared earlier into the Magical Loom, which would weave automatically according to the drafts.

Of course, it was not because Manus had added an Intelligent Core to the Magical Loom. Even Manus's Mage Tower had yet to manifest an Intelligent Core. The Magical Loom could only recognize design drafts in a specific format.

For now, this level of automation was enough for Manus's needs. Any further improvements could wait until he had more resources and energy to spare.

"I never noticed it before, but now that I've truly made a magical item of sufficiently high quality, I realize the quality of my previous magical items was still somewhat lacking."

It could not exactly be called low quality. The few magical items Manus had made in the past were, by any measure, unprecedented. However, their strength mainly lay in their respective special properties, which gave them extraordinarily powerful effects in specific situations.

Yet once removed from those specific situations, the practicality of those magical items dropped considerably, to the point that Manus had never had much use for them.

Simply put... their mechanics were strong, but their stats were too low.

One troubling point, however, was that the materials used for those magical items were far too fragile: ordinary elder wood, and dittany branches that held symbolic meaning but were still, in essence, ordinary plants.

Unicorn hair could at least be considered somewhat sturdy, but the Unicorn Cloak's properties meant that it could only achieve its best effect as a purely protective design.

That also made it unsuitable for having much in the way of stats. Even if it did, Manus would not wear it in his everyday life.

Yet these ordinary materials were precisely the core foundation of those magical items...

"Try infusing