Farming in a Parallel World and Becoming a God-Chapter 1173 - 657: There are Many Paths in the Multiverse_3

"The bad news wouldn’t be that this spell has a duration, disappearing completely after a few minutes or a few hours, would it?" Gaven followed Philancy’s lead and guessed her next piece of bad news.

Most spells do have a duration, and the strength of the magic effects they produce varies - some are measured in seconds, others in rounds (six seconds per round), minutes, hours, days, or even years. Only a very few alterations are permanent. Such magic usually adheres more closely to the Laws of Physics, having minimal distortion on reality - for example, Stone Shaping Spell, Stone to Mud, and so on.

These spells are usually affected by external conditions. Take the Stone to Mud, for instance – without a consistent supply of water, the transformed area soon dries up becoming hard soil, sand, etc. It might also be manually removed and refilled elsewhere. Casting a Dispel Magic on it can revert it to stone indistinguishable from its original state. This method is most commonly applied during the construction of roads by the Conqueror Army along their path.

In the extraction process at the Blackwell Iron Mine, the frequency of application has begun to increase significantly, gradually surpassing the Stone Shaping Spell, as this approach kills two birds with one stone. It not only saves the use of Tremor Bombs for Demolition but also manages leftover and hazardous mining tailings which are unsuitable for the bombs; afterwards, the substance can be backfilled to reinforce the mine pits.

The reason for its use now is because Stone to Mud is a Fifth Circle Spell, only castable by Transcendents, while Stone Shaping Spell is a Third Level Spell, used only if the minimum requirements are met.

Actually, the largest scale application is in the construction of the City of Faith. With the help of numerous Transcendent Casters, they started up a quarry both to the left and right of the downstream riverbed of the Bridge of Faith. The tough Obsidian was turned into soft mud by Stone to Mud and then transported to the banks for construction.

This quality Obsidian mud will be shaped into houses.

Whereas the more inferior ones will either be used for paving the city grounds or as materials for constructing the city walls.

Once the construction is complete, casting a Dispel Magic on these mud houses or walls will revert them to their original form. Other spells like Dispel Magic won’t affect them since they are not built by magic, but merely reshaped and moved from their original location with the aid of magic - this is purely a physical effect, not a magical one.

If there are plenty of spellcasters available, and these tough stones have already turned into soft mud, why would they just settle for changing its physical form?

They will shape them into mud bricks and inscribe a multitude of Magic Runes on them. There’s not even a need for craftsmen to master the carving of Magic Runes; just engrave them onto the tools for making the mud bricks, and mud bricks marked with Magic Runes can then be rapidly produced in large batches.

A single magic mud brick doesn’t have any magical effect, but when thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, are arranged and combined in a unique order under the command of Transcendent Casters, various magic effects are born.

The specific effects will only be seen once the City of Faith is successfully built. Gaven believes that when the city is complete, it will once again shock the world. This method of city construction sprang from his original ideas after gaining control of massive resources, with no punctuation mark in parallel.

This magical stonework is the future direction of quarry development. However, having a large number of Transcendent spellcasters in every quarry is unrealistic. The Conqueror Army could move mountains in the City of Faith region because it was eating away at the benefits provided by Lady Strategy. All of her exclusive Sacrificers gathered here have yet to leave. Once the Conqueror Army departs, and these dedicated Sacrificers disperse, Gaven would not be able to replicate the building model of the City of Faith in the short term.

But Gaven, who had witnessed the industrial civilization of another world, has plenty of ways to adapt. Simply modifying and influencing the existing magic education system would do – focusing on training casters like Thacel who specialize in the use of Magic Wands like the Battlefield Spellcaster, cultivating their Magic Wand application skills first. When they reach the fifth or sixth level, they would be able to wield Transcendent Magic Wands. As for the magic wand source, as long as there’s high market demand, those specialized Transcendent Casters will naturally produce them in large quantities.

Don’t think that Transcendent Casters won’t bend to wealth. They just don’t bother for small gains. If the profit is large enough, they will flock to it, and magic wand production is lucrative enough, with each starting at tens of thousands of gold. The sole reason they don’t mass-produce is due to market demands.

Those capable of using Magic Wands usually have spellcasters matching the spellcasting abilities required by these wands. If they can resolve things with their own Spell Slots, they definitely won’t consider expensive wands. Most wands are kept as backups, to compensate for the unprepared spells or when daily Spell Slots are depleted; hence, the usage rate is naturally low.

It’s unlike Gaven’s approach, which plans to treat Magic Wands as infrastructure consumption items, used in large quantities and on a massive scale. Once this is implemented, it will thoroughly stir up the entire magic application market.

"Yes." Philancy nodded, confirming Gaven’s guess: "The deciphered Road Paving Spell indeed has a duration, lasting an hour per Spellcasting Level, and its coverage is ten times the magnitude of the spell you powered, one hundred meters per Spellcasting Level. The limitation is exactly as you infused, changing with the environment. To make it permanent, it must be fixed with a Fifth Circle Permanency Spell."