This was probably the first weapon Gale designed that didn't quite match its in-game appearance.
Previously, Gale had always tried to design weapons as close to in-game items as possible, to compensate for his lack of imagination.
But this time, the existence of nash's eye left Gale with nothing to copy.
There really wasn't any Frost Spell staff with a giant eyeball on top.
nash's eye was as big as a head, which was really unsuitable for a staff.
After much thought, Gale absolutely had to shrink it.
There were several ways to shrink it.
One was to use physical methods to reduce the volume of nash's eye.
However, this method would obviously damage the excellent magic-conducting circuits on nash's eye, turning nash's eye into a broken gem.
Another way was to use Arcane Energy to compress it, utilizing the Arcane's ability to alter reality, to shrink nash's eye.
This method could be attempted, but it would take a lot of time.
The last method was to place nash's eye into an inter-dimensional layer, allowing nash's eye to exist between 虛 and 實 .
This method was the best, but Gale had not yet explored this field.
Moreover, this method also had a hidden danger: breaking the boundary between Azeroth and other worlds might attract creatures from other worlds.
If it summoned creatures from other worlds, that would be fine, but if it summoned demons, then the Burning Legion might arrive early.
Before he had enough power, he didn't dare to touch the taboos of space.
Gale chose to use Arcane to change the volume of nash's eye.
He designed a new ether spirit model, then guided the power of the Well of Eternity through the eternal holy grail to continuously modify the real traces of nash's eye.
Isometrically compressing it was not realistic, because the density of nash's eye was not uniform.
It was precisely this non-uniformity that formed the ingenious magic-conducting circuits.
Without destroying the magic-conducting circuits, Gale could only carefully compress it.
Furthermore, he also needed to ensure that the shape of nash's eye did not change significantly.
If it became pitted and uneven, it wouldn't be called nash's eye, but Nash's Moon.
To clarify a bit, the White Lady and the Blue Child couldn't see meteorite craters.
After all, in legend, the White Lady was Elune, so what kind of meteorite could harm Elune?
Ultimately, nash's eye became an oval shape, embedded in the staff, looking no different from a sphere.
For the sake of the staff's aesthetics, Gale dyed the staff blue.
After engraving runes, filling them with mithril, adding some thorium to enhance the hardness of the runes, and connecting the magic circuits, the entire staff was completed.
He named the staff Ice Breath.
Ice Breath was only suitable for casting Frost Spells; casting other elemental spells would greatly reduce their power, and even casting Arcane spells wouldn't increase it much.
This was a single-spell-type staff, and its function would be very singular.
Fortunately, Gale made it specifically for casting Frost Spells.
In Gale's magical philosophy, Arcane spells were fundamental, possessing many mysteries.
Fire spells, being powerful, could be used for offense; Frost Spells, with their significant control effects, were suitable for defense; Storm spells, with their special functions, were used to deal with specific enemies and supplement damage; Earth spells, due to their insufficient number, needed to explore new development directions.
Because of Aggramar's Shield, Ice Breath was destined to remain in Gale's treasure trove for most of the time.
Gale felt it was a pity.
Although Ice Breath was an epic staff, its practical value was too small.
If a suitable wielder wasn't found in the future, it was destined to be lost in the river of history.
However, when he had nothing else to do, it was still good to use it as a prop for training Frost Spells.
Sethonis arrived unexpectedly, saying, "Is this the epic staff you made?"
Gale saw the disdain in his expression and couldn't help but find it amusing: "What? You don't think much of it?"
"It is indeed far inferior to your other works," Sethonis commented on Ice Breath.
"Although it's an epic staff, every Mage with a bit of strength in Sin'dorei has an epic staff.
Clearly, it's not competitive."
"Why don't you just say it won't sell!"
Sethonis laughed: "You know it too! I just don't understand, what were you thinking? Why make a staff that won't sell? And you don't even need it yourself anymore.
With that time, you might as well make a staff for me!"
"You're complaining that I'm wasting Hydra materials, aren't you!" Gale directly exposed him.
Sethonis put on a look that said, 'I don't know what you're talking about,' but then said, "That was a Hydra loa! Such precious material! It's enough to make an artifact, and you used it to make an epic staff?"
Gale rolled his eyes, "Is making an artifact that easy?"
Although he had experience making artifacts, that was making crowns.
How could it be so easy to make an artifact staff?
Making artifacts requires materials.
Not to mention the difficulty of obtaining eternal gold, even enchanted thorium ingots take a lot of time to produce.
In addition, it requires extremely clever design plans, every magic circuit needs careful research, and rune combinations also require a lot of experimental matching.
All of these require time and financial resources.
If artifacts could be made just by opening one's mouth, they would have been common long ago.
Having just gone through a major war, Gale also felt a bit exhausted.
Therefore, he would not spend a lot of time making artifacts when he had no mature ideas.
Making a few more epic weapons to relax his mind.
Perhaps with a better mood, he would find inspiration.
Then making an artifact would be twice as effective with half the effort.
Sethonis, seeing that persuasion was ineffective, couldn't help but feel a bit annoyed.
He recently felt that he had entered a bottleneck, and no matter how he studied or honed himself, he couldn't significantly improve his strength.
He originally thought that by following Gale to make an artifact, he could find the key to improvement, but he didn't expect Gale to be so "unmotivated."
Feeling irritable, he found Gale waving the staff to be very irritating, so he walked over and snatched Ice Breath.
"You don't need it anyway, I'll take it for testing."
"Didn't you look down on it?" Gale teased.
"I can't let you waste materials!" Sethonis said righteously.
If he couldn't study an artifact, studying an epic staff would be good too!
If he was lucky, he might even solve the problem of improving his strength.
Watching Sethonis leave, Gale couldn't help but shake his head.
This guy is really stubborn!
He clearly couldn't brutally improve his strength by relying on the Well of Eternity, yet he still wouldn't give up.
If he put this persistence into enchanting and engineering, he would have achieved results long ago.
His talent clearly wasn't here, yet he insisted on forcing his way through.
He truly wouldn't turn back until he hit a wall!
Anyway, there was still time, so Gale let him be.
However, Sethonis was right about one thing.
Instead of doing nothing, he might as well improve the strength of his subordinates.
The three Mages still needed a lot of learning and hadn't yet determined their direction, so it wasn't easy to make equipment for them.
But the Mage Tower guards could!
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