Wu Yao pulled out the notebook again, flipped to the table of contents, and slid her finger down the entries line by line.
Amplification arrays, conduction arrays, containment arrays, barrier arrays...
【Mana Storage Array: Basic Structures and Variants—Page 127.】
This was too much of a coincidence.
She happened to have the Moon-Silver Stones, the Moon Cocoon happened to be a "Portion of the Silver Moon," and the Mana Storage Array happened to be in the fragmented notebook she had received.
Three items, not one more, not one less—it was as if someone had calculated it all in advance for her.
In the notebook, a highly precise array diagram occupied two full pages. The surrounding dense annotations explained everything clearly, from material selection to rune pairings, and from mana flow paths to energy storage limit formulas.
Wu Yao focused on a line of small text in the bottom right corner of the page, which was the materials list.
【Materials Required for the Mana Storage Array】
【Base: Moon-Silver Wood × 10 units. Using Moon-Silver Wood as the array base can increase mana affinity.】
【Conduction Circuit: Mithril Wire × 3 units. Drawn mithril wire is embedded into the grooves of the base to form a closed loop. Copper wire can be used as a substitute, but the energy storage efficiency will drop by about forty percent.】
【Stabilizing Core: Niveya's Stone × 5 units. Placed at the array core to stabilize the flow of mana and prevent fluctuations during the energy storage process. Higher quality is better; low-grade crystals may cause the array to overload and be destroyed.】
【Energy Storage Core: Elemental Core. The energy storage core is the heart of the Mana Storage Array, determining its storage capacity and charging efficiency. The finest energy storage core is an Elemental Core, though any object capable of storing mana can be tried.】
She had plenty of Moon-Silver Wood, mithril wire could be drawn from mithril ore, and Niveya's Stones went without saying. As for the energy storage core...
Wu Yao subconsciously squeezed Xuanmiao's little paw. A Starfall Crystal should also work as an energy storage core.
Everything was ready!
Wu Yao looked up and saw that the two goblins were still standing by the table, their four eyes staring at her expectantly, as if waiting for her feedback.
“I basically agree with all the suggestions you two just made.” She pulled over the notebook that Tongque had laid out on the table and tapped her finger on the defensive perimeter Tiechui had drawn.
“An outer perimeter of Stone Walls, an inner wall of Moon-Silver Wood, with open ground left in between—we will keep this plan.”
Tiechui's ears immediately perked up.
“However, we can upgrade our defenses a bit more.” Wu Yao leaned back in her chair, crossed her legs, and lightly tapped her fingers on the table. “Do you know what a Moon Well is?”
Tiechui and Tongque exchanged a glance, their faces blank with confusion.
Tongque shook her head. “My Lady, we have never heard of such a thing.”
“It's a well that can convert moonlight into mana to power magic buildings,” Wu Yao explained briefly.
Tiechui and Tongque gasped in unison.
“Absorbs moonlight... and converts it into mana?” Tongque's voice was a bit airy. “Do you mean to say that as long as the moon is still there, this well can keep producing mana indefinitely?”
“Yes.” Wu Yao spread her hands in regret. “Unfortunately, it can only connect to a maximum of five magic buildings right now.”
Tiechui slammed the table in excitement, sending the pen tucked behind Tongque's ear flying.
What kind of talk was that from Lady Wu Yao? What did she mean by “unfortunately”?
To be able to replace Mana Crystals was such a grand invention!
And it could be used indefinitely!
Let alone powering five buildings, people would fight over it even if it could only power one!
To find a stable mana power supply for their lava smelting furnaces, the dwarves spent enough gold coins on Mana Crystals every year to pile into a small mountain.
The Mage Association consumed hundreds of Mana Crystals every year just to maintain a single elemental pool.
If they were to find out that something like the Moon Well existed in this world—
Tiechui propped both hands on the edge of the table and leaned her entire body forward, her brown eyes flashing with a near-fanatical light as she spoke as fast as a machine gun.
“Which means magic buildings can break free from the shackles of Mana Crystals! What does that mean? It means the operating cost is close to zero! By the Earth Mother, such a thing actually exists in this world?!”
Wu Yao looked at her excited state and pulled back the notebook that had been jarred away.
“I plan to use four of the magic buildings connected to the Moon Well as elemental turrets, one at each of the four corners. Combined with the sentry towers' field of vision, they should cover almost the entire territory. However, we won't be able to make the sentry towers too high-end.”
Tiechui nodded repeatedly. “Of course, defensive structures are the highest priority!”
Remembering the fierce battle they had just been through, Tongque naturally agreed with both hands and feet. “We can use Moon-Silver Wood for the main body of the sentry towers and reinforce them with a layer of sheet iron on the outside. As long as the positioning is planned well, there will definitely be no problem!”
“Yes, that works.” Wu Yao casually pulled out the array notebook, flipped to the seven or eight types of trigger-based arrays inside, and turned the pages to show the two goblins.
“When the time comes, we can bury a batch of these arrays in the outer wall and another batch in the inner wall. Look, as long as you pre-set the trigger conditions for this array, it doesn't require manual operation. Even if no one is in the territory, it will still be very safe.”
Although Wu Yao had not yet learned how to create magic arrays, she was already a master of theoretical tactics.
She turned the page and pointed to a relatively simple fire-trigger array, her tone confident. “This one is very simple. Look, the array core is here, and the trigger line runs from here. As long as you set the mana threshold, once a monster steps on it, boom—it explodes.”
Tiechui and Tongque leaned in together to look.
Drawn on the paper was a geometric figure woven from over a dozen curved lines. Six main trigger lines radiated outward from the central six-pointed star array core, with countless fine branches splitting off from each main line. Dense annotations crowded the margins of the page.
Tongque stared for a long time at the array diagram that Wu Yao had deemed “very simple,” deciding not to voice any opinion in this field.
Tiechui, on the other hand, had no mental burden at all, nodding and agreeing heartily. “My Lady is right! Since neither of us understands magic arrays anyway, if My Lady says it's simple, then it's simple.”
“That should about do it for the defenses.” Wu Yao flipped her notebook shut. “Next, let's talk about the processing of the Moon-Silver Wood.”
Hearing this, Tongque immediately retrieved another notebook from her bag. It contained the various Moon-Silver Wood products and processing methods she had recorded, with the sources of information and their reliability marked next to them.
“My Lady, after returning last time, I went through all the records regarding Moon-Silver Wood in the trading company's archives.” Tongque pushed the notebook in front of Wu Yao.
“At present, Moon-Silver Wood is almost entirely monopolized on the market by the Mage Association. They control the few known wild Moon-Silver Wood forests, strictly regulating the annual logging volume, so the finished products that reach the open market are pitifully scarce. However, regarding its processing methods, the trading company's old archives still retain quite a few records.”
Rate on N.U.
