Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1559 Suppressing the three elements of backward development

If there are other choices, Xia Duo doesn't necessarily have to choose the blue crystal plane.

Like the green field plane of the Seven Towers, it is naturally a livable plane, which can allow ordinary people to survive without any additional transformation, and long-term residence has the effect of prolonging life.

But the blue crystal plane is not without advantages. On the one hand, it is a plane with poor innate attributes, and it won't feel too distressed if it breaks down.

On the other hand, it is because of the pure water area on the other half of the Azurite Plane, which is Xia Duonai's floating city manufacturing factory. In the future, the floating city will transform the water body in this water area.

If it is placed outside, whether it is cutting the mountain or transforming from the sea, the movement will not be too small. Before this kind of strategic facility is fully formed, it is better to keep a low profile.

Now Xia Duo is most concerned about two things, one is Iolum looking for the Goddess of Magic to "certify" [Mythra], and the other is the Northern Alliance's magic restriction treaty.

The former is all about luck, even if you can’t get the certification or endorsement, it’s still impossible to give up the [Mythra] device; as for the latter, there’s too much room for manipulation.

For the time being, the Seven Towers haven't officially acknowledged the Magic Restriction Treaty to the outside world, but rumors have already been released. Recently, it's the time of the snowmelt competition, and Severton may conduct a round of negotiations first.

Netheril's internal affairs are not a problem for the time being, and they will definitely stand on the same front in dealing with the Northland Alliance's magic restriction treaty. The key is how to distribute the "exceeding share" belonging to Netheril in the treaty.

First of all, one thing is certain, no matter what Cormanthor thinks and tries hard to promote, the so-called magic restriction treaty cannot completely prohibit all large-scale magic activities.

Then we can only draw an "exceeding share", which is similar to the "carbon emission standard" negotiated by various countries on the earth, but in a specific country, each company also has its own share, and these shares can even be traded with each other .

In Netheril, various mage tower organizations, and even powerful individual spellcasters, undoubtedly compete for the share of large-scale magic activities.

How to divide it, Xia Duo is not sure for the time being, after all, there is no confirmation from the Northland Alliance, and he doesn't even know what form this share exists in.

But there is one thing he is sure of, that is, the competition for this share within Netheril will not be too peaceful, or it may be the beginning of civil strife.

After all, everyone was safe before, and now there is a magic restriction treaty suddenly. Although most mage towers may not meet the standard of "large-scale magic activities", who would like to suddenly have an extra restriction on their heads? !

It may not be enough for a "big magical event" now, but what about the future?

Thinking of this, Xia Duo couldn't help but frowned. Having a private plane like him, although it is more troublesome, can also transfer some large-scale magic activities, but not all mage tower organizations have private planes.

Or to put it more bluntly, most mage towers don't even have plane exploration arrays, so how can they find sub-planes?
As for the half-plane, maybe you can buy it, but who can guarantee that it will not be "retrieved", and more importantly, the volume of the half-plane is too small, and the ability to withstand disasters is too weak. An accident may cause the half-plane to be damaged. How many people are worthless?

"What a tough time!"

Xia Duo couldn't help sighing that elf magic developed and matured tens of thousands of years ago. Although there are many lost traditions nowadays, the system is still complete and does not require too much exploration. Most of the technologies can be used as long as they are found.

As for the color-resistant magic, it took shape relatively late. Even if it catches up with the elf magic that has now declined, it will require a huge amount of manpower and material resources to study hard, let alone surpass it.

The restriction of large-scale magic activities is almost no less than cutting off the vigorous development of Nether magic.

This is like on earth, where advanced industrial countries cooperate to restrict the development of industries in non-industrial or backward industrial countries for various reasons.

The first-time bonus is full of mouth water, but the latecomers are not willing to share a piece of the pie.

In fact, apart from Xiaduo, the current development of Netheril, including the Seven Towers, is actually somewhat weak.

Conservatism is prevalent, and it is difficult to unify internal thinking and actions. We can only rely on a few "heavy men" to achieve explosive development at a certain stage, but cannot form an internal driving force for long-term stable development.

When the magic restriction treaty came again, if it wasn't for the variable Xia Duo, it might have collapsed.

Even if there is a "heavy man" like Iolum who can promote rapid development for a while, the end of internal friction and collapse will be inevitable in the end.

……

in a vacuum.

While Xia Duo maintained more than a dozen wind element plane passages to replenish air for the blue crystal plane, he thought about the future path.

Now that [Mythra] is practical, the industrial age is just around the corner, and the most important thing in the new era is people, and there is no doubt that efforts will be made to develop the population next.

Whether it is to encourage births or introduce foreign populations, in short, we must do everything possible to increase the population. At the same time, the work of integration and assimilation, or the new life movement must continue to be carried out simultaneously.

Put together with population are resources.

To maintain the operation of a complex society with a large population requires a lot of resources, involving food, clothing, housing, transportation, and even entertainment and development.

In this regard, Xia Duo is not too worried for the time being, mainly because the Great Xia Territory is still in the transition stage at this stage, and most of the citizens do not have much material needs.

Perhaps, there is, but what he, the lord, has provided has exceeded the imagination of the citizens.

Residents outside the Great Xia Territory, I am afraid that they will not be able to imagine what it would be like to have fixed days off every week, fixed working hours every day, and as long as they work, they will definitely be paid.

Not to mention ordinary citizens, even most spellcasters may not be able to imagine the scene of universal education.

There is even a special Ministry of Culture and Education, which creates poems and dramas for the citizens to meet their spiritual needs.

Compared with the almost serf-like life of the people in other territories, the people in Daxia Territory seem to be living in paradise.

For quite a period of time, Xia Duo didn't need to invest too much in the territory's conventional resources, and the people in the territory could create everything they needed.

The resources he cares about are more about the raw materials of magic items, which is related to the sustainable development of such a high-consumption "government-industry-university-research" system like [Tower of Time-Territory].

At present, the volume of [Tower of Time - Territory] is still too small to achieve a complete internal circulation, and needs to rely on external resources for development.

But even if the internal circulation can be achieved, if you want to grow faster, you still cannot do without the boost of external resources.

(End of this chapter)