Chapter 932 932 Gem Arrangement
The Professor cleared the basic spells off the board, but left the one that Wolfe had written, just in case someone in the next seminar was dumb enough to try casting unknown magic.
What he replaced them with was far more detailed than Wolfe had expected. Instead of drawing diagrams on the chalkboard, he rolled down an overhead screen with a number of pages of diagrams attached to it.
“If you will all look at this first diagram, you will see the arrangement for a Fire Focus. This arrangement of gems can be used in most applications that require rapid heating or flame production. It is the core of most devices that enhance fire magic, as the positioning of the Gems around the spell sigil will increase its potency for a minimal cost.
Now, normally Sunstones are used, as they are cheap, abundant, and well attuned to the Element, but for those who are of higher Ranks and creating more powerful enchantments, it is often necessary to use rubies or red Diamonds.
Diamonds are, as most of you already know, quite versatile, as the inclusions that give them their elemental affinity do not significantly compromise their structure the way that often happens with quartz and many other minerals.
Now, you only need to have the gems properly cut, and then arrange them like so, with the points perfectly aligned at the central point, and then an infusion of mana will cause a small flame.
But if you put an unrelated spell there, what will happen?”
Most of the students here already knew these basics, as they were considered to be more in the realm of common sense than secret skills in this world, which ran on magical devices. However, Wolfe had to guess what would happen, and from what he could tell, the answer varied based on what he put there.
“Patriarch Noxus, I am told that you are completely unfamiliar with gem magic, but do you have any guesses?” The Professor asked.
“With the sunstones you used, if I were to put a mental charm there that affects the mind, it should cause lustfulness. If it was a higher level lightning spell, it could be used to create plasma, or if it was a water spell, I could create steam for a nice sauna.” Wolfe suggested, as he went through the most obvious uses at home.
The rest of the room stared at him like he had grown an extra head.
“I was expecting to hear it would fail to produce the desired effect, but you are right. If the spell used is attuned to the gems, it would create a complementary secondary effect. This one is one of the most common arrays, as it is used for greenhouse lamps.
A light spell creates no heat, but combined with the Sunstones, it will give off a warm glow like the sun, and keep either a room or the plants in the greenhouse warm on a cold day.” The Professor agreed.
“We need a student text on this subject.” Ella whispered.
They could all use Earth Magic, and as they could create the stones perfectly cut to the shape they needed, it would be incredibly simple to enhance their spells with these gems.
“This is the introduction to Artificer Crafting course, so we won’t get into the ability to imbue spell effects on the gems today, and instead we will go over the various basic patterns that will help your gems create the effects that you want.
There are seven basic forms, four of which are two-dimensional, three of which are three-dimensional. There are far more possible options, but they require much more advance crafting skills and fine control of your magic.”
The classroom was almost all older teens and young adults, with only a few curious older adults thrown in for the basic course, so they would lack the skills to effectively control the mana needed to activate a device too complex for the first time.
“We’ve all seen the basics, can you show us what we’re working towards? The sort of thing that we might learn if we take it up as a trade?” One of the younger girls asked.
The Professor smiled. “If you have the materials, I certainly could. If you have properly shaped clear diamonds for each of the twelve vertices and a piece of gold wire, we can create a twenty inscription mana focusing wand.”
That was clearly intended as a joke, but Wolfe really wanted to know how that worked.
The Professor drew it out on the board, first, with the twenty sided polygon, and then with a mark for how the gems should be set into the vertices. As before, they all focused on the centre, while set into a cage of gold that created what Wolfe would recognize as a twenty – sided die.
“The diamonds are shaped like this, and the twenty inscriptions are as such.” The Professor continued as Wolfe and the Witches made notes.
The Noble in front of Wolfe looked back with a smirk. “Do you think that you will be able to get it on the first day of training?”
The professor finished drawing the object, and Wolfe activated Earth Magic, letting the boy watch him form the device in front of him, then set the runes on it, one rune per face to create a three-dimensional spell.
“I think I can get it.” Wolfe agreed.
“Saint Noxus, did I just see you make one with nothing but magic?” The Professor asked.
“A quirk of my magic. I am somewhat accomplished at creating solid items when they are well enough described. Your diagrams are immaculate, and if I’ve gotten the shape of the diamonds correct, it should work, as I know all the runes.” Wolfe agreed, then tossed the hollow object to the old man, who caught it with magic, not trusting his hands.
He set it on top of a small stick from his storage device, then screwed a glass cap over the top, holding the magical device against the base of the wand.
“Impressive. I need a Rank One volunteer. Miss Bunny, would you please come to the front of the room?” The old man asked with a gentle smile.
Lula was concerned, as she wasn’t much of a mage, but she ran down to the front, and reverently took the wand from the Professor.
“Please focus energy through the wand and into the storage crystal on my desk. Can you do that?” He asked.
She nodded along with a grim look on her face and her features scrunched up in focus, while her ears twitched.
The adorable sight made half the class want to hire one of the beastkin, just so they could see it every day, but that was overcome with shock at the amount of mana that was flowing from the wand to the crystal.
It was far more than she should be able to handle, nearly to the Rank Three standard, but it wasn’t coming through her, it was entirely from the wand.
“Wonderful. So, with that understood, why don’t we start with the basics of basics? The three sided pyramid formation, and the basic magician’s wand. Saint Noxus, I will return this precious device to you.”Wolfe waved him off. “You can keep that one. Now that I know how to do it, I can make more. The little advantages of being a Saint.”
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