Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1398
"Before today, the Tower of Time already had nearly a thousand apprentices, and now we have to recruit another 200. This will undoubtedly put a huge pressure on the internal space of the Tower of Time."

Niya's first consideration is the normal operation of the Tower of Time. The designers of the Tower of Time may have never imagined that there are so many people in the Tower of Time today!
In this regard, Xia Duo expressed his complete understanding. In fact, the Tower of Time has adjusted its internal regulations many times before, largely because there are too many people.

The space problem mentioned by Niya is not the biggest problem. If it is crowded, the Tower of Time can hold hundreds of people!

The biggest problem should be the energy problem!

The element pool of the Tower of Time may not have considered the scenario of so many people from the beginning of the design, and it is very difficult to modify and expand later.

It involves all aspects, especially Ta Ling.

The tower spirit is closely related to the state of the Tower of Time. It doesn't matter if you make small changes to the internal auxiliary facilities, but once it involves the transformation of the most core element pool, it will definitely affect the state of the tower spirit.

At present, Xia Duo has not created the technology of tower spirit, and Savile has no information handed down. This is equivalent to saying that if the tower spirit hangs up, the Tower of Time will enter the "full manual" mode from "automatic" mode.

That would greatly affect Niya's energy.

……

In addition to the energy problem, there is actually a maintenance problem. It's not that there is no money for maintenance, but that the Tower of Time is running out of people who can do maintenance work.

In the Tower of Time after the transformation, each member has his own job, and the maintenance work is regarded as extra overtime work. In the past, when there were few people, Eberke could maintain it by himself.

But now there are so many people, almost every official mage is assigned maintenance work, which greatly affects their own work, especially the teaching affairs office is now almost full-time apprentice tutor.

What's more, personal time will also be affected. It's okay to work overtime in a short period of time. If you work overtime for a long time, even if you are paid, it will still make people dissatisfied.

Xia Duo himself hated working overtime, so how could he force the members of the Tower of Time to work overtime!
Even for magic technicians, Xia Duo gave them enough time to study and rest, instead of using them as slave labor.

……

The shortage of maintenance personnel is not the biggest problem. The main reason is that the first batch of new apprentices have gradually grown into official mages. As long as they continue to train, they can always find enough qualified maintenance personnel.

It just takes a little time.

Together with the problem of the small number of arcanists that Niya mentioned to him the day before yesterday, and the problem of the lack of high-level magic technicians discovered by Xia Duo himself, it can all be attributed to the problem of time.

It is more difficult to hire outsiders, and you still have to train yourself.

The current stage can be said to be the most difficult stage for the Tower of Time, and the relevant personnel are severely disconnected, so we can only rely on time to get through it slowly.

Only the energy problem cannot be overcome by time.

Unless we wait for Miser to get nuclear power, but that time cannot be determined at all, maybe the Tower of Time will not be able to hold on this year and the energy will go bankrupt.

……

The outside is thriving, but inside there is a hidden crisis.

In the garden of the temple, Xia Duo and Niya sat opposite each other. Thinking of some problems facing the Tower of Time, both of them were a little silent.

First of all, it is impossible to stop recruiting new people, but the more new people are recruited, the more pressure the Tower of Time will face. Except for money, there are problems everywhere.

"Niya, I think we can build another mage tower!"

"Sure, you are now a Grand Arcanist, and you really need a mage tower that is completely your own!" Niya agreed without hesitation.

But Xia Duo was not very happy, because——

There are too many resources needed to build a mage tower!

If it was an ordinary mage tower like the watchtower, Xia Duo and Niya could barely make it together, but such a mage tower was almost useless to Xia Duo now.

To build it must be at least the same level as the Tower of Time!

Then the cost involved will be high, but now Xia Duo is unwilling to reveal the fact that he has become a great arcanist, and it is difficult to get assistance from the Arcane Federation or the Severton Council.

If you build it all with your own financial resources, the cost will start with at least tens of millions of gold coins.

"Money, money, money! Where can I get money!"

Although Shaduo can't afford the full cost of a Tower of Time-level mage tower now, there is no problem in getting started, just like the Tower of Time, which was not built by Savile in the first place.

But it was fully built in the hands of Niya's father, Lord Epps.

Xia Duo can also choose to build it in stages, as long as it can be built first enough to divert some new apprentices. In addition, the watchtower may also divert a group of formal mages.

He thought about it a few times, and then said to Niya: "Then start construction! But it may not be possible to start construction in a short time, after all, I haven't finished the design yet. As for now—"

Xia Duo took out a dozen standard arcane crystals from his dimensional bag and put them on the table in front of the two of them, "I remember there are dozens of arcane crystals in the material warehouse of the Tower of Time, and I have some here too. Use the arcane crystals to bear it, and I will send back more arcane crystals when we reach Severton."

So, Xia Duo had another reason to keep up with the progress of Iolum's experiment. Yes, he had already decided to get the wool out of the subsequent experiment.

Anyway, if the experiment fails, it will be dissipated if it is not caught, and it will be earned if it is caught.

Iolum collected more than [-] arcane crystals just by collecting them a few times, and Xia Duo didn't need too many. As long as a few thousand pieces came, the Tower of Time could solve many problems.

However, this method is also an indicator that does not cure the root cause. What the Tower of Time really lacks is not energy, but infrastructure that matches the existing number of people. Today, energy is only short-term.

Tomorrow, maybe the spell laboratory was not maintained in time and shut down.

Under the premise that the Tower of Time itself is already difficult to transform, building new magical buildings is almost the only option.

……

Looking at the bluish light on the arcane crystal on the table, Niya did not accept it, but stretched out her hand and pushed it in front of Xia Duo, and said:

"You are no safer than staying in the Tower of Time when you are away from home. You should take these with you! I will ask you for them when the Tower of Time's reserves are not enough."

Niya is very clear that to an arcanist, arcane energy is almost life-like existence. As long as there is arcane energy, an arcanist will never lack spells.

Almost every arcanist will desperately accumulate arcan energy, but this is not up to the arcanist himself. The natural upper limit of arcane fire power is there. Even if he doesn't use it at all, he can't save much.

However, Xia Duo also did not accept Niya's refusal. The arcane energy crystals he took out now are indeed his entire inventory, but when he returns to Sevington, he can first get them from the Iolum laboratory. some spares.

The box of more than [-] arcane energy crystals that Iolum gave him before, when transforming the laboratory, only a small part was used in the debugging process, and the rest remained in the laboratory.

It is an expedient policy to take some spares, but it does not violate Xia Duo's principles.

"Don't worry, I still have it here, you take these first."

As he said that, Xia Duo pushed the arcane crystals on the table over and urged Niya to put them away, but Niya still refused. Xia Duo had no choice but to pick up five crystals from the table, and then Niya gave up.

Five arcane energy crystals are approximately equal to five 10-level spells, so there should be no problem in an emergency in Severton.

(End of this chapter)