110: Chapter 0110 Design Drawings

However, a letter arrived saying that Li Size should prepare himself, as he and Christine would be coming over in a while to see their good son-in-law and meet the in-laws!

This message put immense pressure on Li Size; this doting-son-in-law maniac was trying too hard on the path of spoiling his son-in-law!

Flora's efforts regarding the melancholy fruit had made further progress; her commission posted on the Dark Web had attracted two anonymous takers.

Although the respondents had not yet explicitly confirmed whether they would provide the actual melancholy fruit or just related intelligence about it, according to Dark Web customs, the result was expected to be revealed within the next couple of days.

With nothing pressing to do, Li Size immersed himself in a new idea. He had optimized five inferior potion formulas through Pay-to-Win means...

After repeated trials, these improved potions actually achieved nearly eighty percent of the medicinal effect of a Zero Ring potion, yet the cost was only about one percent of a Zero-Ring Sorcery potion.

This Breakthrough made him extremely excited; after all, under limited resources, obtaining highly effective potions at an extremely small cost was undoubtedly a huge advantage.

Li Size deeply understood the value of these formulas. Despite the risk of leakage, he had already weighed the pros and cons.

For this venture that yielded massive returns from minimal investment, even with the risk of leakage, Li Size found it hard not to be tempted.

When he subdued Flora, he had already planned to sell them in small batches through her on the Dark Web—selling a few dozen or a hundred of one type of potion every week or two. That wouldn't attract much attention, right?

He envisioned gradually accumulating resources through this cautious method while avoiding the notice of larger powers.

Flora's Dark Web channel became a crucial link. Li Size believed that as long as he controlled the quantity and frequency, he could steadily expand his influence in secret.

However, when he intended to put this plan into practice, he discovered he was spread too thin.

Burying himself in Potion Refining day after day, he gradually felt a dull sense of weariness. He truly did not want to be just a Potion Refining machine, or rather, he was simply lazy.

The mere thought of having to repeatedly complete those mechanical and tedious steps sapped his enthusiasm to even start.

Thus, he came up with a new train of thought.

No wonder some people say laziness is the driving force behind human progress; precisely because he didn't want to repeat the labor by hand, he started thinking about finding a smarter solution.

He suddenly remembered the sorcery machine tool manufacturing blueprints that Felin had sent him last time. After completing the Analysis, they had never been actually activated for use.

With his current knowledge and ability, although he couldn't yet manufacture an Advanced sorcery machine tool capable of automatically producing the little sorcerer donkey and the sorcery version of firearms, manufacturing a high-precision ordinary machine tool capable of producing regular firearms was no longer an issue.

But this time, he didn't plan to build a processing machine tool for manufacturing firearms; instead, he wanted to design a sorcery machine tool for himself that could automatically refine the optimized inferior potions.

The core of this machine tool lay in the precise control of potion formula parameters and refining process parameters. It didn't involve overly profound sorcery knowledge or energy guiding mechanisms. Li Size felt this was entirely within his range of capabilities.

However, when he truly began working on the design drawings for the machine tool, he realized he had been too simplistic in his thinking.

Although these several inferior potions, which were not even Ring-level, had simple structures and low refining thresholds, the actual refining process was subdivided into twelve steps.

And after his optimization, to further enhance the purity and effect of the potions, the operational procedure increased to twenty steps:

From material pretreatment, sequential feeding, segmented temperature control, to stirring rhythm, magic power injection timing, and finished product stabilization treatment...

Every single step could not afford any mistake.

This was much more complex than manufacturing a high-precision machine tool for ordinary firearms!

[Consume Energy Points 400, sorcery machine tool Manufacturing (Zero Ring) Entry-Level Proficiency + 100]

[Consume Energy Points 1000, sorcery machine tool Manufacturing (Zero Ring) Entry-Level Promoted to Skilled Level]

He had to Pay-to-Win to promote sorcery machine tool Manufacturing (Zero Ring) from Entry-Level to Skilled level.

As for promoting the higher Skilled level to Mastery level, he couldn't continue to Pay-to-Win; he could only gradually increase the proficiency to 100/100 before he could Pay-to-Win for promotion.

Li Size already speculated that to afford the Pay-to-Win promotion for the proficiency required to advance from Skilled level, he might need to achieve Breakthrough to Formal Wizard status.

Skilled level sorcery machine tool Manufacturing (Zero Ring) increased the upper limit of the automated machine tool production process count from fifteen to eighteen. This was indeed sufficient for manufacturing ordinary Master Rank inferior potions.

After all, the standard production process for Master Rank inferior potions only had sixteen steps, still within the machine tool's capacity.

However, Li Size was not satisfied with this. What he wanted was an automated production machine tool capable of optimizing the entire inferior Potion Refining process—not only increasing output but also approaching the theoretical limit of efficacy.

According to his deduction, to achieve this goal, sorcery machine tool Manufacturing (Zero Ring) needed to be promoted to at least Mastery level before it could potentially support the reorganization of twenty or more precise processes.

And if he wanted to build a fully automated production line capable of manufacturing the "Sorcery Version of Firearms"—those creations that fused alchemy and enchantment techniques, almost touching the level of rules—

He would even need to push machine tool manufacturing technology to the Master level, or even, on that foundation, spend a large amount of Energy Points to deduce and optimize the sorcery machine tool Manufacturing (Zero Ring) technology.

Presently, he had a clear plan:

For the next few days, all other projects would be suspended.

He planned to focus all his effort on rushing the production of one hundred units of the ordinary Master Rank inferior potion automated machine tool.

Although these machine tools would not be directly sold externally, they could be handed over to Flora and Lina to secretly cultivate the grassroots strength of the Miners Brotherhood.

For this gang organization, which primarily consisted of Knight Rank combat strength, the stable output of Master Rank potions, even the inferior versions, was enough to be considered revolutionary support.

Every single bottle of potion could potentially save one life, or secure one decisive victory.

But the automated production machine tool for ordinary Master Rank inferior potions wasn't simple either!

If Li Size had to design the machine tool blueprints himself from beginning to end, it would likely take a very long time. However, the Pay-to-Win Ability inherently possessed Analysis and Deduction functions:

[Consume 2000 Energy Points, Deduce "Master Rank Inferior Potion Automated Production Machine Tool Design Blueprint", Deduction in progress, Estimated duration: 1 hour 30 minutes]

A flood of inspiration rapidly surged into his mind, continuous like the bursting of sparks.

These were all concepts and ideas regarding the Master Rank inferior potion automated production machine tool.

They gradually took shape, step by step, bit by bit—from the transmission structure to the precise control of potion infusion, from energy guidance to the cyclical mechanism of component synthesis—gradually connecting into a complete System.

He foresaw that in about another hour, the entire design plan would be fully supplemented in his mind, so he quickly picked up his writing tool to rapidly record the concepts and sketch out rough drafts.