Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1600 Income and expenditure problem mobile phone plan
The last item is the legacy of the old system, which is used to purchase various magic items from the members of the Tower of Time. If this item disappears, the income from sales of other magic items will also disappear simultaneously.

In the past, the capital flow of the Tower of Time basically flowed on this line, but now it is just replaced by the sales income and salary expenditure of mass-produced magic items.

As for the maintenance fee, it belongs to the internal maintenance cost of the Tower of Time. Although it has been steadily rising, it is also a relatively fixed silent cost, and Xia Duo did not include it in the overall income and expenditure items.

If you really want to calculate carefully, the production consumption of mass-produced magic items can also be counted in it.

Here, Xia Duo only counts the income and expenditure relationship between the Tower of Time itself and the outside, and temporarily ignores the inside of it.

After all, the Tower of Time has now entered a stable period after transformation, and it is not appropriate to make too many internal changes.

In addition, Xia Duo did not count the income from smuggling with Lord Collins, after all, it has nothing to do with the Tower of Time itself.

Similar to the difference between personal funds and company funds.

And when he listed all the relationships on the paper, everything became very clear. Xia Duo found that there was almost only one choice before him, and that was——

Increase sales of mass-produced magic items!
At present, there are four kinds of magic items that have been mass-produced in the Tower of Time-communication magic weapon, warning talisman (named talisman is actually a statue form), missile wand, and demon-slaying talisman (true talisman, high-end goods).

Among them, the demon-slaying talisman, although there are still sales after the end of the underground war, it is not a concept at all compared to before the end of the war.

In addition, although the missile magic wand has also achieved mass production, because it is an offensive consumable, the actual sales are very unstable, and the total sales are not even as good as the warning amulet.

The warning talisman is generally only purchased by adventurers who are not spellcasters. From the very beginning to the present, sales have become weaker and weaker.

If you look at it over a longer period of time, sooner or later it will be caught up by the missile wand.

What really supports the operation of the Tower of Time is actually the magic weapon of communication, which is also a commodity that Xia Duo places the most high hopes on. Niya even changed her original research direction because of this.

It's just that the market for communication instruments in Netheril is far from saturated, which can be seen from the fact that they can sell as many as they produce every month.

If possible, Xia Duo really didn't want to mention any upgrades at this time.

But if you don't upgrade, how can you increase your income all of a sudden?
It is possible to expand production, but on the one hand, the market is not saturated, and other mage tower organizations are also hurrying to ship goods. Once the Tower of Time expands production, it can indeed increase income in a short period of time, but in the long run, it is vulnerable to other mage tower organizations. boycott.

The Tower of Time has earned all the money, so what else do other people earn?
It is not the same for upgrading and entering the high-end market. On the one hand, the market is huge, and the high-end and low-end do not affect each other. On the other hand, this can be regarded as opening up a new high-end market for other mage tower organizations in advance.

In fact, what Xia Duo wants to do is to directly upgrade to the communication fan lock, so that it is not a one-shot deal, and the subsequent various fan lock services are the most expensive.

Unlike now, even if it is a high-end communication magic weapon with a high premium, if someone else buys it back, the transaction will come to an end, and there is no need to give the Tower of Time even a coin in the future.

It's just that Niya's communication fan lock, she hasn't even seen the horoscope, so she won't be able to use it this time.

Xia Duosi thought about it, and if he wanted to increase his income by normal means, then the only way to do so was to release high-end communication instruments in advance.

For other mass-produced magic items, on the one hand, it takes time to mass-produce, and on the other hand, they are not as easy to cut leeks as communication instruments, which almost everyone has potential needs.

Of course, in addition to this, you can also make some extra money, such as doing some private customization of high-quality magic items, or increasing the smuggling of Cormanthor.

He even hid his identity and sold a batch of arcane energy crystals quickly, but after [Mythra] was made public in the future, others would be able to lock the identity without guessing.

Xia Duo just thought about it and dismissed this idea, and shot high-grade mithril, although he was also cutting leeks, but because Netheril's current mithril refining technology is limited, it is actually still a good character. !

But this approach also has hidden dangers, which can easily attract the attention, vigilance, hostility, and even direct investigation and intervention of the elves, especially the Yeerlan Moonhorn family, which monopolizes most of the high-quality mithril trade in Netheril.

Xia Duo has already reached a certain cooperation intention with Hilda Lanna of the Yuejiao family. If there are no special accidents, he is not going to over-irritate the other party.

Of course, in addition to the above means of making money, Xia Duo can also choose to hug Iolum's thigh.

It's just that money is easy to repay, but favors are hard to repay. He will definitely seek help from Iolum, but it is certainly impossible to completely rely on him.

……

After making a decision, Xia Duo immediately returned to the Tower of Time. After discussing with Niya, it was no surprise that he received Niya's full support.

At the same time, this incident also stimulated Niya to complete the design of the communication fan lock as soon as possible. Of course, before that, she must first complete the "Promotion Compendium" tailor-made for her by Xia Duo.

In front of the projection window of the study on the top floor, Niya was immersed in her work, while Xia Duo began to re-examine the details of the upgrade plan of the communication magic weapon in the past memory from the perspective of a great arcanist.

At that time, what he thought was to refer to the Penguin communication in his hometown, so that the function would be easier to implement, and there would be traces to follow for the upgrade.

But now, Xia Duo wants to use the upgrade route of mobile phones in his hometown as a reference, from a mobile phone that can only make calls to a feature phone with simple functions, and then to a smart phone.

The main reason is that he found that if only communication is used as a selling point, even if there are upgrades in functions and experience, it is not so easy to sell at a high price.

The Naithers have never used or heard of communication software on Earth before, and the Naithers may not necessarily buy it just for the upgrade of communication.

And Xia Duo doesn't have much time to discipline consumers, so he has to upgrade the communication magic weapon with the attitude of making a mobile phone from zero to one.

In addition to communication, there should be at least one new feature that Nether mages can't put it down, so that they are willing to pay a high price.

As for the shape or something, it can only be regarded as an extra bonus item, not a core element.

As he thought deeply, a vague idea appeared in Xia Duo's mind, but it could not be fully formed for a while, so he simply picked out the communication function first, and redesigned it from the current perspective.

(End of this chapter)