Handmade Chip

"How is that possible!" the host exclaimed, as if somebody had stabbed his bottom.

"Master Dustless, although I'm not a refiner, I know that chips are the most essential components of modern magical equipment. At least ten thousand tiny spiritual energy circuits have to be carved on chips only the size of fingernails for more than ten different layers to form a complicated and yet functional framework!

"Carving a chip requires a precision at the micrometer level, or perhaps even the sub-micrometer level, which means a thousandth, or even smaller, the diameter of a hair.

"It was not until the crystal processors evolved exponentially and chip makers controlled by crystal processors such as 'Tiny Ray Etching Machine' appeared that the microchips really thrived!

"But right now, you are telling me that a refiner is attempting to create a chip with his bare hands? Master Dustless, is it not a joke?"