Arcane Linguist

Chapter 241 A new specialty of the Seris School: Magic Card Printing!
Xishan Manor, in the office.

Roland was holding a newly made Seris card in his hand, but regrettably found that it had not turned into a magic card.

This means that it is just an ordinary card used for game entertainment, not a practical spell item.

"Failed again, this time I deliberately chose a relatively high-value magic crystal, and it cost hundreds of gold coins for just one piece!
If it weren't for the success and fame now, the freedom of wealth has already been realized, and I really can't afford it.

Fortunately, this is the right path.

Once the direction is found, all that is left is to accumulate steps day by day. "

Putting down the cards, Roland played with another thing, but it was a square seal.

This is a jade seal carved by himself in his spare time.

The words engraved on it are the four seal characters of "Roland's Seal".

The overall structure is multiplied by two, square and square.

It just occupies the four quadrants of the coordinate system, forming a "Tian"-shaped structure.

The word "田" can also be regarded as the word "口".

Can form a new, larger "Tian" character again with other "Tian" characters.

Holding the seal in his hand, he used the spiritual power guided by meditation to inject magic power and stamped it on a piece of paper along with the writing.

Sure enough, there are already some faint imprints left in it.

Getting closer to the goal.

"Wait, the seals of the ancients, shouldn't they also come from this way?

What kind of mood did the ancients have when they inscribed words on stone or wood to make them into seals?
Could it be that they also want to cast some magical spells? "

Roland was suddenly startled, and an inexplicable strangeness appeared on his face.

After recovering, Roland continued to try to make cards.

Now he is completely studying this kind of thing as a spell scroll, but it is not realized by using traditional copying techniques, but seals and printing.

He understood the seal as a single type, and movable type printing is based on this typesetting.

This also touches on the fundamentals of installing fonts on your computer.

Bitmap fonts are also called bitmap fonts, and each glyph is represented by a set of two-dimensional pixel information, that is, coordinate points.

This text display method was commonly used in earlier computer systems (such as the DOS operating system without a graphical interface). (Note: Internet information)

The same goes for images.

An image is composed of pixels one after another. As long as there are enough pixels and the colors are rich enough, theoretically, patterns on any plane can be drawn.

Another day passed.

In the office, there was a cheer of surprise.

"Finally successful!"

On the card is an angel of holy light with back body and wings, with beautiful appearance and gentle posture, as if stretching his arms forward.

This is the pattern on the card.

But as Roland put the card under the microscope and observed it carefully, he saw that the lines, including the pattern, were full of various words.

All kinds of "positive" characters...

No, no, it's "fair and fair"!
Fingertips and palms are "shine".

The surrounding rendered space is "illuminated in all directions".

There are rough waves ahead...

No, no, skip this one.

Text dots formed by micro-carving technology one after another constitute the basic pixels.

It is through these special points, different color combinations and magic power distribution that the patterns visible to the naked eye are formed.

The lifelike patterns seem to come alive, and there is also some kind of magical power like life between the words and images.

With the magic power Roland currently possesses, it is certainly not difficult to achieve this step through traditional copying techniques. Even if he has to draw the pattern, it is only several times the workload.

But completely different from traditional transcription, the technology used this time can be simulated and reproduced by machines.

One piece of success is equivalent to the master, which means thousands of successes.

In addition, it also opened the door for him to create other card masters.

"Selling this master copy to the Church of Light can earn at least tens of millions of gold coins! But with my current status, I can hold it in my hands and only sell the printed finished product to the Church.

A specially blessed "Holy Light", which is equivalent to a level 1 spell scroll, wouldn't it be too much to sell for tens or hundreds of gold coins?
After deducting materials, channels, taxes, and various expenses, the profit is also considerable. "

After some more careful testing, Roland found that the dot matrix font used here was also difficult to scale.

Specific bitmap fonts can only be clearly displayed at the corresponding font size. Once the text is forcibly enlarged, it will be distorted and produce mosaic-like jagged edges.

He had expected this.

But because the size of the cards is fixed, in the standard 88*54 format, the font size used here is completely fixed.

In addition, the number of secret imprints required to be used in the image dot matrix is ​​less, and they can be arranged in a dispersed manner.

Text can also be hidden in the pattern on the back of the card.

The amount of information contained in it is already rich enough.

Its significance is no less than when Chinese characters entered the computer system.

For Roland, the significance of this achievement is also the entry of Chinese characters into the magic card system, which is an important node towards modernization.

With this start, subsequent optimization and improvement is only a matter of time, and he still has a lot of opportunities to do it.

……

“It’s really amazing, this design is simply perfect!

You completely solved the problem of difficulty in making magic cards. From then on, a new type of spell scroll was born.

The School of Seris will also officially be known for making cards! "

After some experiments, Lei and Blaise who heard the news came over and were overjoyed.

They fully affirmed the significance of this arcane achievement, and also believed that the movable type printing of the Seris School and the new spell cards formed by combining magic cards would eventually be a great success.

This is very meaningful for the promotion of magic cards.

Similarly, the Siris School can also take advantage of this shareholder wind and set sail.

Blaise said: "Both Moreira and I know some people in the Card Association, and they must be very interested in this kind of thing.

Perhaps, we can tell them the news and study how to cooperate and improve together. "

"Okay." Roland readily accepted.

At this time, Lei reminded: "The association of spell scrolls may resist this."

Modern mages often prefer to choose the former between cards and scrolls.

Before, it was because the production technology of magic cards was not good enough, so everyone had no choice.

After the new cards printed with movable type came out, this was even more verified.

But at this moment, Roland's invention will surely change this situation.

Roland said with a smile: "It's okay, most of the spell scrolls in the past were copied by hand, and the producers were scattered, and it was difficult to form a unified interest group.

The Spell Scroll Association is mostly organized by businessmen, but the real ones behind it are those who master the materials. "

The birth of a new thing often means the death of an old thing.

There is bound to be a struggle during this period.

But in the end, the one who wins must be himself.

……

Under Blaise's active leadership, Roland met with the special envoy of the Card Association and made a plan to promote and issue Siris magic cards in multiple worlds.

Seres, especially the vernacular version in simplified Chinese, will go out of the world of Arterine and Rainer in this way, and go to a broader stage.

People from all major planes and other worlds will soon discover that there is another magical language they must learn.

At the same time, Roland also notified Froya and began to register a patent with Alteraine.

This kind of thing is an invention based on the existing arcane achievements, combining "Words of Runes (Idiom Version)", "Movable Type Printing (Seris Version)", "Card-style Spell Cards (owned by the Card Association)" And other technologies and corresponding industry standards, the distribution of rights and interests will be somewhat complicated.

He has already agreed with the Card Association to share some of the results through exchange and cooperation. The members' industries can use a 5% lower royalty to distribute such things in large quantities.

And he got the privilege of joining the association, enjoying the status of director, and the great support of popular decks.

The Card Association will help him open a magic card workshop and provide a series of publicity and sales channels.

However, Roland never planned to enter business, and there was no need to get involved in such an industry himself.

Even in the world of magic, spell scroll = spell-casting props = spell-casting ability = money.

Printed scrolls = printed cards = printed money!

He still doesn't see the interests in it.

Because this equation is actually one-way, magic at any level, at any level, can be turned into money very smoothly, but money can only buy middle and low-level magic.

Perhaps at any cost, some high-level treasures such as high-level teleportation scrolls can be produced, but that's all.

Really powerful spells, as well as precious opportunities to cast spells, can never be replaced by foreign objects.

As a high-level mage with lofty ideals and great goals, Roland really doesn't have the leisure to do business on his own.

But he himself doesn't have that kind of leisure, others do.

In particular, Hilt Company, which has a deep root in this area, relied on its strong public relations service department to inquire about the cooperation between Roland and the Card Association at the first time.

Then Rick's email arrived, and Diahiri came to visit.

They hoped that Roland would lease the membership seats and corresponding channels obtained from the Card Association to them for professional management.

Roland himself cooperated with them, and signed a series of text copyright agreements, but he didn't care about continuing to cooperate, so he agreed.

But at the same time, he deliberately reserved an interest.

That is, the right to operate in Leiner World.

Because he had a vague hunch that Reiner's world was the foothold for his school to take root in another world, and he might have some students or disciples who needed support in the future.

At that time, most of the commercial interests will be occupied by these big companies, how can they support them?

Although according to the law of Arterine, it can be taken back after the expiration date, but if the cooperation is good, a rash replacement will definitely involve many things.

Instead of changing things over and over again, it’s better to plan from the beginning.

He not only deprived Hilt Company of this right, but even said to Diahiri: "I hope your company can allocate some manpower and resources to establish a localized card company...

For the time being, Mr. Mobron Capel is in charge. "

Diahiri was shocked: "Mr. Mauberne Capel?"

He suddenly remembered the news he had found out. Roland admired the Moblen father and son very much, especially the young man named Diego, who had the opportunity to translate and annotate his works.

It seems that Your Excellency Roland wants to support Reiner's agent!

"As you wish, Your Excellency."

Diahiri weighed the pros and cons, and finally readily agreed.

Because in this way, although they may lose something in the Reiner world, they can make up for it with gains from other different worlds.

After going back, Diahiri ordered this matter to go on, and the whole company immediately began to get busy with this matter.

Rick, who was far away in Arterine, was greatly moved when he learned about it.

"The ones who can really integrate into the mage circle are always the mages themselves.

The young man named Diego is the best example.

By the way, hurry up and invest in that Diego. His Excellency Roland's appreciation for him reminds me of His Excellency Orvisto and His Excellency Roland back then.

This young man is likely to become the archmage of Reiner's world! "

Diahiri was startled, and slapped his head in remorse: "How could I care so much about loss, I forgot all about it!"

As a businessman, this is simply an unforgivable mistake!

Although he kept saying that he weighed the pros and cons, in fact, his emotions influenced his judgment.

Fortunately, it was only a day or two before it was too late.

There are no other giant crocodiles competing with them here.

They quickly investigated the Capel family and tried to break the situation.

After some operations, the history of the Capel family, the social relations of the Moblen family, business interests, etc., were all found out by professional business investigators.

Key figures surfaced.

Ballina's dance training class, the first excellent member, Lacey!
Daughter of the Capel family, daughter of Moblen, sister of Diego!

"Father and younger brother are both appreciated and have their own careers, how can my sister be mediocre?"

Especially after seeing that the woman named Lacey is still a bit pretty, suitable for packaging to become a rising star, Diahiri is even more excited.

The whole family needs to be tidy and organized!
……

Roland didn't know the story behind this.

Because at this time, a lot of people's fates have been changed because of his every move, and some people have racked their brains to inquire and please, and he really can't care about it.

Moreover, with the passage of time, a day that is extremely important to all members of the Reiner Council is finally approaching.

That is, the day when the new mage tower was officially opened and all members settled in it.

On July 7, Roland and others were invited to participate in the ceremony, and entered it after the order of Master Watson.

(End of this chapter)