I can optimize spell code

Chapter 22 Hand-Crafted Grand Array

"Miss Elena."

"I can help you build a fire-gathering array in Silver Town, how about that?"

Elena was taken aback when she heard this.

She then smiled and shook her head: "I know you are a disciple of Master Hamelin, and the Fire Gathering Array is one of your signature spells."

However, Luo Mu, those small fire-gathering arrays are suitable for stone fortresses or small houses, but Silver Town is so big that if you want to warm the whole town, you would probably need to draw hundreds or thousands of array plates.

Even if you have immense magical power, this is still impossible.

Luo Mu stood up from the stone block, stretched his fingers which were stiff from the cold, and smiled confidently, "Whether it works or not, we'll only know by trying."

He paused, his tone becoming somewhat serious: "However, there's no such thing as a free lunch. If I manage to do it, I need you to promise me one thing."

Elena looked at him suspiciously: "What is it?"

Rom didn't answer, but smiled mysteriously, turned around and kicked Jack, who was dozing off against the wall, in the butt: "Wake up, get up and get to work."

Afterwards, Rom and the guards led several horses, along with Jack, straight to the central square of Silver Town.

The town center is a square, which is very spacious.

In the center of the square stands a two-story white tower.

The tower is carved from pure white plaster and covered with sacred cross patterns, but at this moment, the light emanating from the top of the tower is extremely dim.

The accompanying guards explained, "Two mages, this is the Holy Light Tower of our Silver Town, used to ward off the aura of magical beasts."

But recently, the Tower of Light has become increasingly dim, and even with Archmage Cassius personally maintaining it, he has been unable to keep it bright.

Jack circled the light tower once, stroking his chin as he analyzed:

"Romu, I've seen this kind of light tower defense array before. In my opinion, it's not a problem with the tower itself, but rather that the concentration of free light elements in the vicinity is too low, and the light tower itself has poor gathering efficiency, which is why it's getting dimmer and dimmer."

During the harsh winter, towns typically employ fire-gathering arrays to defend against monsters, as fire element is more abundant in the underground rock veins.

Rom looked at Jack, a half-smile on his face, and said approvingly:

"Not bad. It seems you have quite a bit of insight into this kind of defensive formation."

Jack chuckled, somewhat smug.

"That's for sure. I did a lot of research when I was at the academy..."

"Alright, I bet you've been studying the loopholes in these formations all this time so you can cause chaos and rob other people's resources in the countryside, right?" Luo Mu exposed him mercilessly.

Jack's heart skipped a beat, and his face instantly flushed red. He knew that Romulus had seen through his sordid deeds in Blackrock Town that day. He quickly coughed twice to change the subject:

"Ahem, Rom, look at this light tower... can it be repaired too?"

Rom shook his head.

He currently lacks the complete language library for the light-based code, making it impossible for him to begin parsing it.

Why repair it?

Luo Mu looked at the ground of the square and said calmly:

"Since you suspect that the inability to function is due to insufficient light elements, why don't we use the abundant fire elements underground to build a large-scale fire-gathering array?"

It can also provide real warmth, isn't that much better than the light tower?

"You...you want to rebuild a large magic circle like the one in Blackrock Town here?!"

Upon hearing this, Jack was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped.

When he was in Blackrock Town last time, he thought that Luo Mu had just repaired the damaged formation.

But now, he actually has to rebuild a large magic circle out of thin air in the square of Silver Town without any spell blueprints or base.

Fixing and building from scratch are two completely different things!

To guide and suppress elemental forces from the environment... this requires not only extremely profound strength but also highly skilled techniques.

"That's right. Get to work."

Rombe, not wanting to waste any more words, immediately ordered Jack and several accompanying guards to begin their operation.

"Jack, cut the stone slabs at these coordinates. Guards, go and bring over some bluestone slabs that can withstand the high temperatures. Yes, carve these grooves in the ground."

Under Rom's precise instructions, the group worked with great enthusiasm.

More than an hour later, on the open space in the center of the square, a roughly formed array, five meters in diameter with rough but extremely regular lines, took shape.

The pattern of the array was exactly the same as the large array in Blackstone Town.

Looking at the nascent magic array, Luo Mu opened the system panel.

[[Large-scale Fire Array - Optimized Version 2.0] Program File.]

[System Assessment: No preheating with Magic Pulse is required; full-power cold run is necessary.]

[Estimated mental computing power consumption: 60 points.]

"Last time in Blackrock Town, it was just repair and reactivation, which only cost 18 computing power points. This time, rebuilding it will consume a whopping 60 points?"

Luo Mu looked at the panel and frowned slightly.

I just set up a firewall and a hurricane, and my computing power is already stretched thin.

Without hesitation, he took out the small cloth bag filled with first-tier magic crystals that he had just received from the guard.

Eight murky magic crystals lay in his palm.

"absorb."

As the magic crystal turned into powder, pure energy surged into his mind.

[Absorption successful. Current mental computing power: 98 points.]

That's enough.

Luo Mu took a deep breath, stepped forward, squatted down, and placed his right palm directly on the cold rune stone slab.

[Large-scale Fire Array 2.0]

Run!

As Rom gave the command in his mind, the air around the entire square instantly became restless.

Standing to the side, Jack was extremely sensitive to the flow of wind elements. He immediately sensed the drastic changes in the surrounding air pressure and could even feel the elemental energy underground awakening.

"They're here! Back off!"

Jack roared excitedly and pulled the guards back.

"boom!"

A deep, muffled thud came from underground.

Immediately afterwards, a crimson flame, like an awakened underground fountain, burst forth directly from the center of the magic circle.

Flames shot into the sky, instantly illuminating the entire dark square in a fiery red, as bright as day.

Immediately afterwards, those active and frenzied fire elements were quickly suppressed into the carved trenches under the constraints of the program written by Rom.

The towering pillar of fire slowly descended, eventually forming a perfectly stable and intensely hot ring of fire five meters in diameter on the plaza.

A replica of the [Large-scale Fire Gathering Array], running perfectly on the first try!

Luo Mu slowly stood up, looked at the masterpiece that had consumed most of his computing power, and clapped his hands in satisfaction.

In an instant, a warm current spread rapidly from the square to the surrounding areas.

The guards present were so surprised that they gaped open as they felt the sweltering heat that had dispelled the freezing cold.

"This...how is this possible? Such a large and extremely hot fire array!"

"Good heavens! This is much bigger than the fire-gathering array at the mayor's mansion!"

"So warm... Is this the flame of magic?"

The guards, who had been frozen all night, were overjoyed and stretched out their hands to warm them in the firelight.

...

at the same time.

The towering city walls of Baiyin Town.

The patrolling guard suddenly shouted, "Lady Elena! Look over there!"

Upon hearing this, Elena, who was resting against the wall, turned her head.

She first felt a strange, extremely comfortable warmth mixed in with the cold wind and snow.

Meanwhile, in the dark central square of Baiyin Town, a huge flame suddenly shot into the sky.

The firelight was steady and intense, melting the snowflakes falling from the sky.

"Lady Elena! It seems there's a fire in the town?" the guard asked anxiously.

"No…"

"That's a large magic circle...!"

Elena's heart pounded as she recalled Rom's confident smile.