61: Chapter 61 Execution Department

"Brother Zhou, these are the Magic Beast skins from this batch. Can you help me exchange them all for Fireball Technique magic scrolls?"

A player from the Dragon Soaring Guild handed five Magic Beast skins to Zhou Rin. Zhou Rin first took them to a mage by the lake to inspect them. After confirming they were indeed magic beast skins, he immediately nodded.

"No problem, thirty Fireball Technique magic scrolls, is that the correct number?"

Zhou Rin said to the player after counting.

"That's right, that's right."

The player nodded in satisfaction upon hearing the number, exactly as they had counted in the guild. Just as he was about to receive them, he heard Zhou Rin say,

"Alright, what type of Fireball Technique do you want for the thirty scrolls? Fireball Technique Modified One, Modified Two, or Modified Three, which one do you need?"

Seeing his confusion, Zhou Rin immediately smiled and explained.

"We've long since updated the Fireball Technique with several versions. Modified One focuses on high explosion, its disadvantage is a short range of only twenty meters, but its advantage is a large area of effect.

Modified Two focuses on long range, able to directly attack enemies a hundred meters away. Its area of effect is the same as Modified One, but it has no burst damage, only continuous flame scorching.

Modified Three possesses the attack power of Modified One and the range of Modified Two..."

The player's eyes lit up at the words, but then he heard Zhou Rin add.

"However, the price is three times that of a normal Fireball Technique."

Hiss.

The Dragon Soaring Guild player immediately became conflicted, unable to make a decision for a long time.

After a moment of hesitation, he said,

"Please wait a moment, I'll make a call to ask."

With that, the player directly lay down on the ground, motionless, clearly having gone offline to report.

After a while, the player's body stiffened, and he immediately came online and said,

"Five Modified Three, five Modified One, and twenty Modified Two."

"Alright."

Zhou Rin nodded, about to retrieve the magic scrolls, when he suddenly remembered something and spoke up.

"Oh right, I almost forgot, do you only want Fireball Technique?

Wind Blade Technique now has three versions: Wind Wall, Ultra-fine Sniper Wind Blade, and the short-range displacement Wind Push Technique.

Water Shield Technique has two versions: the original Water Shield Technique and Modified One's Unidirectional Water Shield.

Resist Fire Ring has Modified One's Topless Dead Angle version and the Highly Condensed Hand Pulse version.

Stone Skin Spell has Heavy Armor Stone Skin version, Area Stone Skin version, and Enemy Stone Skin version.

Do you want any of these?"

"Uh..."

The player, who had just finished communicating with Guild Leader Luo Long, paused and asked faintly.

"Why didn't you say anything earlier?"

"I forgot."

Zhou Rin scratched his head.

The next moment, he looked at the player who had once again collapsed to the ground, shrugged, and then, like playing with a new toy, fiddled with the 'bullet chain' draped over his shoulder and his belt, whose small pouches were packed full of magic scrolls.

They varied in size, the smallest barely longer than a pen.

They had shrunk too much.

After Mo Bai perfected the Magic Array technology, the drawing technique for magic scrolls also achieved a breakthrough.

After all, a magic scroll is nothing more than a Magic Array inscribed on a Magic Beast skin.

Miniaturizing it was not a huge problem; the only issue was finding the balance between drawing difficulty and miniaturization.

As for the various versions of spells, they were merely the product of Mo Bai leading people to improve different versions of spells previously.

During this period, the first division of technical copyrights also took place.

magic scroll Miniaturization Technology》

《Related Concepts and Methods for the First Improvement of Fireball Technique

《Second Improvement of Fireball Technique...》

《First Improvement of Water Shield Technique...》

Among these, Mo Bai accounted for 90% of the miniaturization technology, with others sharing 10% based on their contributions. As for the specific spell improvements, because the underlying theoretical assumptions, improvement formulas and methods, and even the hosting of the improvement activities were all by Mo Bai, he accounted for about 60-70%, with others accounting for about 30-40%.

The division ratios varied based on their different contributions and ideas.

It is worth mentioning that the ownership of these copyrights belonged to individual mages, not the guilds behind them.

Mo Bai only recognized individuals.

After the copyright division was completed, each time a technology was used, taking magic scrolls as an example, each magic scroll would generate a certain amount of 'technical points' based on its value. These technical points would then be allocated to the copyright-holding individuals based on the proportion of different technologies used and the copyright division of those technologies.

These technical points could be used to exchange for technical authorizations in the technical library, exchange for experimental materials, recruit other mages to join one's project team, and even apply for Mo Bai's assistance, and so on.

It can be said that technical points were the trading currency Mo Bai established for the Mage Association, a hard currency within the Mage Association.

Within the association, technical points could not be exchanged for any money, but technical points themselves had value.

Currencies issued by other countries relied on national credit for their value, or, in the past, the gold standard relied on gold.

The value of the Mage Association's technical points relied on the total value of all technologies owned by the Mage Association.

When the association issued a total of one thousand technical points, the total value of these one thousand technical points was equivalent to the total value of all technologies of the Mage Association.

Of course, the issuance amount of technical points and the value generated by each use were not completely fixed values.

They were relatively fixed in the short term, but would definitely be adjusted in an orderly manner in the long term based on the current situation.

This would be based on the collective assessment of the Mage Congress by the Mage Association's technical point evaluation, where every one percent of technical points held one vote.

A total of one hundred votes.

However, Mo Bai was still constantly trying to adjust the overall framework, and many things were still just his ideas.

Some were relatively mature, while others were endearingly naive.

Everything was still just a makeshift setup, taking one step at a time.

Slowly but surely.

But for now, the Mage Association was already taking shape and showing vigorous vitality.

Mo Bai pondered slightly, assigning technical points to Yang Hao, Fang Yun, and others who drew magic scrolls.

Working for the association and creating value for it would naturally result in a certain amount of technical points.

However...

"Currently, Yang Hao and Fang Yun's project teams each have their own research projects.

I also have my own things to do, and every day is packed. The production of magic scrolls often involves hundreds of them, taking up too much time and energy. It's fine for a short transitional period.

It definitely won't work in the long run. Drawing magic scrolls should be left to apprentices or a specialized production department.

Furthermore, Ye Qing and Zhou Rin must also be incorporated into the Mage Association; they need a formal identity.

Otherwise, it's unclear and ambiguous."

Mo Bai pondered slightly.

"But what kind of identity should I give them?"

"Experimental subjects?"

"Forget it, let's establish an Executive Department. All external personnel will be incorporated into the Executive Department, responsible for carrying out the Mage Association's security, material collection, experimental work, and so on."