On the second day, Li Wei continued his research.

On the third day, he continued his research without any communication.

No one came looking for him, either.

Everyone ignored his existence, only complaining about Fang Lide in private and venting their frustrations on Li Wei.

On the fourth day, Cohen stood by the door of the data room, watching Li Wei, who was inside with his head buried in his studies.

He chuckled and said, "What’s the point of working so hard? It’s useless, isn’t it?

Don’t you understand why Fang Lide sent you in here?

Did he really expect you to make some kind of contribution?

You should just quietly wait to take the credit. Isn’t that enough?

It must be nice to have connections. You can get your hands on a massive contribution without breaking a sweat."

Lux walked over, glanced at Cohen, and said, "Don’t stand here making cynical remarks. If you have nothing better to do, go research something else."

Cohen looked at Lux and asked curiously, "Why are you helping him? What’s the use in that?"

Lux ignored him.

She placed a stack of research drafts in front of Li Wei and said, "These are the latest design drafts for the Radiant Magic Cannon’s Magic Array."

Cohen shook his head. "What’s the use of giving those to him? He can’t even understand them.

Do you really think you can just shove anyone in here to participate in the research for the Radiant Magic Cannon?

Even if Fang Lide came himself, he might not be able to grasp the principles behind it."

Lux said, "If you’ve got the guts, say it to his face."

Cohen chuckled twice and turned to leave.

Lux looked at Li Wei, astonished by his learning speed.

In just a few short days, he had nearly finished reading all the research materials on the Radiant Magic Cannon.

Although it seemed like only a few days had passed, for Li Wei, he had already been studying for over a month in his dreams.

After studying for a while, Li Wei also understood that with his current abilities, he couldn’t participate in the research for the Radiant Magic Cannon as a whole.

So, he specialized in one area.

He ignored all other aspects and focused on the Magic Array of the Radiant Magic Cannon.

He was relatively skilled in this area.

Li Wei didn’t actually know how to create Magic Arrays.

But he was skilled at deducing Magic Models.

Magic Arrays evolved from Magic Models.

Both were constructed using Mana Circuits and Mana Nodes.

Their essence was the same, only their form of expression was different.

According to Fang Lide, the biggest flaw of the Radiant Magic Cannon was its overly high requirement for the "Sunshine" Core.

If the Radiant Magic Cannon’s demand for the "Sunshine" Core could be reduced,

then its production capacity could be drastically increased.

With Lux’s help, Li Wei learned the Radiance Skill and the Holy Light Technique.

He also gained a deeper understanding of the Magic Models and principles of both spells.

Lux helped Li Wei save a great deal of the time required to familiarize himself with the two spells.

Li Wei already had a preliminary idea.

In the blink of an eye, eight days had passed since Li Wei joined the Radiant Magic Cannon research group.

The Undead Army was also about to reach the Elemental Tower.

The Elemental Tower urged the Radiant Magic Cannon research group to produce results quickly.

Everyone was nervously making their final preparations, presenting the final design schematics for the Radiant Magic Cannon.

Li Wei had been forgotten by everyone.

"There’s nothing left to improve. This is it."

"It’s a shame. According to this design, the Elemental Tower can only manufacture twenty Radiant Magic Cannons at most."

"There’s nothing to be done. We’ve already done our best."

BANG!

The main door was thrown open.

Fang Lide strode in, followed by Li Wei and Lux.

A look of utter disbelief still lingered on Lux’s face.

Fang Lide took out a stack of design drafts for a brand-new Magic Array and tossed them in front of the group.

"Take a look. This is the new Magic Array that Li Wei deduced. It can save ninety percent of the Sunshine Cores."

When the group heard this, their first reaction was that it was impossible.

"That’s impossible!"

"Are you kidding?"

"Don’t be ridiculous."

Fang Lide scanned the crowd and said in a low voice, "Read them before you speak. You all understand this field better than I do. After you’ve read them, you’ll know whether it’s possible or not."

Forced by his insistent demand, the group very reluctantly picked up the new drafts.

The first glance at the drafts made Cohen’s eyes hurt.

What kind of Magic Array Map was this?

It didn’t conform to the standard specifications for drawing a Magic Array Map at all.

In his eyes, it was no different from a child’s scribble.

He suppressed his discomfort and continued to read.

After finishing, he felt a bit surprised. He took the other parts of the Magic Array Map from the hands of others to examine them.

The more he looked, the more surprised he became, until finally, a look of shock appeared in his eyes.

Cohen stared at Li Wei in disbelief. "Did you really design this?"

Li Wei nodded. "Yes, I designed it.

I’m not very familiar with Magic Arrays, so there might still be many mistakes. I hope you can point them out."

Cohen couldn’t help but say, "This line of thinking is just too unconventional. It completely shatters our original design philosophy."

"How did you think of it?"

Li Wei said, "Fang Lide told me that he hoped to reduce the demand for Sunshine Cores.

I studied all of your research materials and found that, following your research direction, what you’ve achieved is already the limit.

Therefore, a new direction was necessary.

So I thought of the Radiant Magic Model I was recently deducing.

I tried to merge the Magic Models for the Radiance Skill, Holy Light Technique, Blast Flame Skill, and Burning Skill to create a Radiant Magic Model.

However, progress was slow, and the difficulty of merging them was too high.

But if the four Magic Models were converted into a Magic Array, inscribed on the Magic Cannon, and then the four types of Power were fused using a Radiant Stone, it could produce a Magic Beam with the same effect as the Radiance Skill.

Theoretically, it’s feasible."

Ultimately, it wasn’t that a Magic Model for the Radiance Skill was impossible to create.

It was just that the resulting Magic Model was too complex for the Power it produced, making it not worth the effort and thus meaningless.

However, once converted into a Magic Array and inscribed on a Magic Cannon, this drawback became much smaller.

The high requirement for the caster became a high requirement for the Magic Cannon’s creator.

Most importantly, if the Radiant Magic Cannons were mass-produced, they wouldn’t have to rely solely on manual labor to inscribe the incredibly complex Magic Array.

Alchemy Technology could be used to replicate the Magic Array.

That way, no matter how complex the Magic Array was, it would only need to be completed once. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

The rest would just be a matter of replication.

There would be almost no difficulty.

Fang Lide scanned the group and asked, "Now that you’ve seen it, what do you think?"

Cohen was silent for a long time before saying, "The feasibility is very high.

Our previous line of thought was always to draw out the Power from the Sunshine Core and then dilute it with a Magic Beam to achieve the effect of a Radiance Spell.

Li Wei has provided a completely new approach. Perhaps we can directly create a Magic Beam similar to a Radiance Spell.

In that case, we would only need a minimal amount of the Sunshine Core—or even just a Radiant Stone—to induce the energy fusion and achieve the same purpose.

The former treats the Sunshine Core as an energy source, while the latter treats it as a converter."

He saw through to the essence of it in a single glance.