The Tower: “It should be possible, but you'd need to learn those three prerequisite subjects first.”
The Star: “What if the other witches haven't learned them?”
The Tower: “Then it’s likely impossible. From my perspective, magic circles are strictly a result of accumulated knowledge, not a phenomenon like magic itself.”
The Tower: “However, with our correction talents, it might be easier for witches to learn. At least, researching magic circles has been relatively easy for me.”
Justice: “Can they be taught?”
The Tower: “Probably not. I'm not the type of teacher who knows how to instruct others.”
Lan Qingyou obviously knew what Chu Yuan meant by that.
There were over a hundred witches in the Witch race within the Supreme Council now. If they could also learn to use magic circles, it would be a massive power spike for the entire organization.
The Tower: “But this magic circle is still in the experimental stage. Once it's successful, I'll probably write a thesis. You can give it to them to study then.”
Justice: “That works.”
Although Lan Qingyou had no intention of teaching, the fact that she would write a thesis for his witches to study already achieved his original goal.
When others saw that it was possible to learn this, those who were ambitious or simply eager to learn began buying up books on the three prerequisite subjects.
Since they were all basic books, they were still fairly easy to purchase.
Although the world consciousness had only distributed a few hundred thousand copies, one should never underestimate humanity's ability to make a profit.
Ever since the first monthly grading ended, people had begun collecting these books and notebooks, transcribing them to sell for money.
They even sold them at exorbitant prices.
One could say they were making a fortune off of 'knowledge.'
The people copying these books now belonged to the same organization—the Library.
Back on Lan Qingyou's end.
After explaining the magic circle situation, finishing her dinner, and ordering a late-night snack from Gu Xiaobei, she immediately threw herself back into the digging work.
Indeed, Lan Qingyou no longer feared the monsters, even at night.
With over forty golems stationed there, no matter how many monsters came, they were just delivering themselves to their deaths.
Of course, that only applied to D-grade monsters. If a large number of high-level monsters appeared at once, she might not be able to hold them off.
Fortunately, perhaps because the spotlight projection from the magic circle was so massive it instinctively terrified the monsters, Lan Qingyou spent half the night working without any harassment.
Ultimately, through Lan Qingyou's day-and-night excavation, she finally finished all the digging four days later.
Just as some on the world channel had guessed, the diameter of the magic circle Lan Qingyou had been drawing in the sky was exactly one thousand meters.
Only a space that large was enough for her to work with.
Lan Qingyou didn't relax after finishing the excavation. Instead, she brought over the hundred tons of ingots and began refining them using an alchemy circle.
This time, she didn't look for Chariot to handle the materials; she planned to do it herself.
It wasn't that she had too much free time, but rather that to achieve the goal in her heart—one she herself felt was a bit crazy—she had to do it personally, controlling every detail from the source.
She refined alloy steel plates mixed with different minerals in specific proportions. These plates all shared a common trait: they were massive and thick.
And while they looked like long strips, each one actually had varying degrees of curvature or even right angles.
Furthermore, there were slots at the front and back of each steel plate, allowing them to be interconnected.
That’s right; these steel plates were all meant to be laid into the trenches Lan Qingyou had dug with her excavator.
One hundred tons of ingots were certainly not enough for the entire magic circle's pattern.
But she was currently hitched to a big spender like the Supreme Council.
Aside from her weekly share, buying on credit with potions was no problem at all.
Moreover, since she was conducting an experiment on magic circles, the Supreme Council didn't say much and directly allocated the funds.
And so.
After spending another two days refining and laying these steel plates, Lan Qingyou picked up her crystal pen and began 'connecting' the mana circuits and magic sigils from her shelter's outlet onto the steel plates.
By this point, some had likely figured out her plan.
Yes, what Lan Qingyou wanted to do was 'expand' her original shelter.
Previously, she had been thinking about building a new shelter.
But building a new one meant not only difficulty in choosing a site but also high consumption, as the magic shield wouldn't be an original component.
When she had returned that day and saw the ancient trees surrounding her shelter, the idea struck her to use an external connection to combine her shelter with a magic circle, forming a giant magic shield.
Magic circle theory already included introductions and methods for using barriers.
It just so happened that the outlet for the herb field in the shelter was an anti-pattern, which differed from the vast majority of patterns.
Didn't this perfectly satisfy the two conditions for expansion?
That was why she had drawn such a magic circle.
She had even used a steel plate to engrave a test circle and checked the connection at the outlet. Only after confirming it worked did she draw the spotlight-style magic circle blueprint in the sky.
Now that the base of the magic circle was laid, all that remained was the task of engraving the mana circuits.
With a few days left before the next mana tide, the time was perfectly sufficient for Lan Qingyou.
However, this was based on the premise of working overtime without any overtime pay.
But to Lan Qingyou, that was nothing.
Staying up late was already second nature to her.
In fact, because her spirit attribute had already reached over a hundred, there was absolutely no difference between sleeping and staying awake.
She could push through for several days without anything going wrong.
This was likely another benefit of evolution.
Like an innate overtime body?
Lan Qingyou chuckled to herself as she continued the engraving.
Clearly, she was amused by her own dry joke.
On the day before the fourth mana tide was due to arrive, Lan Qingyou finally completed the engraving of the entire magic circle.
The Tower: “@Justice, is the thing I wanted ready?”
Justice: “It's done. Just waiting for you to ask for it.”
The Tower: “Then send it over.”
Justice: “Is your side almost finished?”
The Tower: “Yes, just some finishing touches and it'll be over.”
Justice: “Will it work?”
The Tower: “I’m not sure.”
Lan Qingyou replied and then stopped looking at the chat.
The reason she said she wasn't sure was mainly that the scale this time was simply too massive; it was a completely different story from her previous experiment with a single steel plate.
There were no issues with the drawing or the composition of the magic circle.
What Lan Qingyou worried about was whether the energy would be enough to sustain such a large area and so many elemental symbols.
That was why she had ordered that specific item from Justice.
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