Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1599 The unavoidable resource problem of modern life

the next day.

Xia Duo received "Several Suggestions on the Civilization of Territory Magic" from the Territory Magic Affairs Officer Jay, and he was deeply touched after reading it carefully.

In "Suggestions", Jay shared the various situations he experienced on the first day of his formal employment, from the busyness of his mother preparing breakfast for him in the morning, to the hardships and even dangers of the working group of the Development Department during development.

Based on this, Jay put forward a number of practical suggestions on the civilization of territorial magic. Among them, Xia Duo believes that the application of magic stoves is relatively easy to realize in the short term, while others, such as the development of magic, are not so easy to realize.

Putting down Jay's report, Xia Duo continued to read the work reports of the other three of the first four magical affairs officers in the territory.

Compared with the detailed content of Jay's report, the reports of the other three were much simpler. They mainly talked about what they had seen and heard in the moral education class and their own views on the moral education class.

For the Magic Affairs Officer, Xia Duo has his own requirements and expectations. Although the first four are only selected by the five-member committee of the Academy, he believes that neither the Five-member Committee nor the four Magic Affairs Officers will let them He is disappointed.

It's only the first day of work now, and I can't really see much difference.

After thinking for a while, Xia Duo replied to the four of them with a letter, mostly encouraging. Among them, to Jay, he first affirmed Jay's suggestion of the magic stove, and on this basis, he proposed a The concept and goal of "modernization of residents' life".

You can have a magic stove, as well as other magic facilities in your life. He encouraged Jay to participate in life and experience life more. Creativity comes from life and must be applied to life.

After sending the letter to the Territory Administration Office, Xia Duo went to the Tower of Time's Supplies Office to check the recent material consumption of the Tower of Time, and arranged for Cecily to reserve some of the supplies for the Magic Affairs Officer's research application .

Cecily promised well in person, but turned around and informed Niya about it.

At noon, when Xia Duo and Niya were having lunch at the lord's villa in Linshui Village, he only learned about this from Niya.

Although Niya did not object to this, she also expressed her concerns:
"Isn't it too fast to promote the civilian use of magic? Whether it's the magic literacy of the people or the material consumption of the Tower of Time, I'm afraid they can't support it!"

Niya's worry is not unreasonable. Xia Duo just went to the material department to check it this morning. Currently, the magic material reserves of the Tower of Time are still increasing slightly, but the total amount has not been increased.

As long as the Tower of Time undergoes a large-scale maintenance, it may be completely used up, but the Tower of Time is already running at a high load.

Savile probably would not have thought that Xia Duo could make such a fuss, so many people were sent to Talisman at once, and with the large number of apprentices recruited previously, they grew into official mages in batches.

The infrastructure maintenance pressure of the Tower of Time is also increasing, and the maintenance cost of the fixed cycle is also becoming higher and higher.

Although the Floating City has always been a dream of Xia Duo, in a sense, it is probably a choice that the Tower of Time has to make.

Even if it is not a floating city, it will be more comprehensive magic facilities such as mage towers.

And Niya's worries also made Xia Duo think of another layer, which is the construction of the floating city. Although the main construction has been completed now, the subsequent functional systems and internal equipment and facilities require a lot of magic materials.

It's just that the clarion call of the new era has sounded, and all development problems can only be solved through continuous development, resource problems are also one of them.

It is simply unrealistic to try to achieve development by throttling expenditure.

Thinking that Xia Duo felt deep pressure, and his silence also brought a lot of pressure to Niya, she tentatively mentioned:
"Why don't we mine the mithril mine we found in the Green Pearl Forest?"

"No."

Xia Duo resolutely expressed his refusal, and now only one mithril mine has been found in the Green Pearl Forest, and the mine is the last strategic reserve, and the most difficult time has not yet come!How can I use this last and only hole card so easily!
"We can only suspend the civilian magic transformation of the territory." Xia Duo sighed and made a difficult decision.

That is to say, the magic transformation plan for the civilian facilities in the territory has not yet been formed, otherwise he might not be able to make such a determination.

Although the civilian magic transformation of the territory is suspended, the relevant research and technical reserves cannot be stopped, on the contrary, they must be vigorously supported.

Niya expressed her support for Xia Duo's decision. She said, "I will ask Cecily to reserve enough research materials for your Magic Affairs Officer."

"Ah."

Xia Duo nodded. This problem is actually not a big problem. It is more of a chat between the two of them during the meal. But with a high-consumption project as big as the Floating Void City, the problem of resources is always a big problem that cannot be avoided.

Regarding the specific consumption of materials for the construction of the floating city, Xia Duo hasn't mentioned it to Niya yet. He estimates that Niya will explode if he mentions it.

In fact, after returning from the main body of the floating city last time, Niya often asked him at night whether the follow-up construction needed the help of the Tower of Time, which somewhat smelled of high consumption.

But how does this make him answer?
Could it be that filling in the entire Tower of Time would not even fill such a big black hole?
During this period of time, apart from studying with Niya, Xia Duo has been obsessed with the follow-up design of the floating city, which is somewhat escaping from reality.

But now Cecily's "complaint" made him realize that this problem can no longer be avoided. If he waits until all subsequent designs are completed before thinking about this problem, it will be somewhat too late.

"Ugh--"

……

After lunch.

Xia Duo asked Niya to go back to the Tower of Time to do the continuation of the test papers, while he went to the study on the second floor of the villa. Xia Duo didn't use this study very often, but every time he came, he could feel a heavy sense of responsibility.

The most intuitive source of this sense of responsibility is the copies of territorial documents that are almost full on a bookshelf as big as a wall in the study.

However, today Xia Duo was not going to check the newly produced territorial documents. Instead, he sat directly behind the desk, took out a pen and paper, and began to write and draw.

At present, there are three main sources of income for the Tower of Time—sales of mass-produced magic items, sales of other magic items, and member consumption.

However, after many reforms, the latter two incomes have actually been declining rapidly, and they are almost negligible compared to the sales income of mass-produced magic items.

As for expenses, there are three main items——

The largest of these is the expenditure on purchasing magic materials, which accounts for more than [-]% of the total expenditure. The second is the salary paid to the full-time members after the transformation. This part is getting higher and higher as time goes by.

(End of this chapter)