Lord of Arcane

Chapter 320 Mithril Quota
"Ta Ling, send her here!" Xia Duo ordered casually.

And at the same time the order was issued, Cecily, who was in the elevator, received a prompt from Ta Ling: "Director Cecily, the agent Xia Duo wants to send you to the tower master's study, do you agree?"

Cecily took a deep breath, her destination was the main study of the tower, and she rushed over just after receiving the notification from Uncle Eberke that Xia Duo was in Niya's study.

"agree!"

The next moment, a white light flashed, and Cecily disappeared into the elevator, and the empty elevator also disintegrated in an instant and disappeared.

Niya's study.

After Xia Duo gave the order, Ta Ling didn't respond, he knew that Ta Ling could do it, and sure enough, the next moment, a white light appeared out of thin air——

Cecily appeared in front of him!
Xia Duo looked curiously at this girl who was about the same age as Niya, her appearance could only be considered ordinary, and there were even a few naughty freckles on her face.

But she has a generous demeanor and a calm face, just standing there gives people a calm and credible feeling.

As the only female mage in the Tower of Time besides Niya, Cecily is quite famous in the Tower of Time.

It's just that like Niya, before Niya's identity was officially disclosed, both of them were academics of Lord Epps, and they rarely showed up.

It wasn't until not long ago that after Niya inherited the Tower of Time, she immediately replaced the material supervisor from Eberke to her, and everyone really knew this supervisor with a spellcasting level of only level 2.

And when Xia Duo was observing Cecily, Cecily was also observing Xia Duo. As Niya's closest housekeeper, she had secretly observed Niya's two apprentices long ago.

It wasn't the first time she saw Xia Duo, even at the Midsummer Festival celebration not long ago, she had just met Xia Duo, and seeing him again today, Cecily felt a little more surprised in her heart.

After these days, Xia Duo's appearance has not changed much, but his temperament has become more lofty, with a little more majesty. Could the change of identity really bring about such a big change?
Cecily looked at and thought about it calmly, and at the same time, she was not lacking in etiquette, "I have seen Lord Xiaduo!"

"Director Cecily, what do you want from me? Is there any problem with the material department?" Xia Duo asked.

"Yes, although the material department has received some supplementary materials from Mr. Eberke, but in the long run, there is still a big gap in relevant materials."

Xia Duo knew what she meant by long time. Now that the Tower of Time is in his charge, he has to solve the problem!
"How much material is still missing?"

Cecily had been prepared for a long time, and immediately reported one by one, "According to the repair plan, except for those that can be solved by following the plan in the future, there are still missing mithril 500 pounds, topaz 300 pounds, peridot 100 pounds, white blue 50 pounds each of the five pure color crystals of yellow, red and purple, and 20 pounds of each of the five pure color gemstones of blue, yellow, red and purple—"

"Etc., etc!"

Hearing the series of numbers, Xia Duo couldn't help but gasped, and quickly interrupted Cecily. Leaving aside the various gemstones, Mithril alone needs 500 pounds.

The market transaction price of Mithril is not high, about a few hundred gold coins per pound, but there are two words, one is called "seller's market" and the other is called "strategic reserve"!
Whether Savile has Mithril mines, Xia Duo does not know yet, but there is a high probability that there are no Mithril mines. Even if there is, it is not easy to suddenly conjure 500 pounds of Mithril.

In the same way, the market is relatively stable, and it is not easy to suddenly produce 500 pounds of Mithril.

"How were these materials obtained in the past?"

"Gems are traded by the Territory Chamber of Commerce through the output of the Tower of Time. Among them, the high-yield ones can also be bought with gold coins. Only mithril can be refined by dwarves. As long as there are mithril mines in the empire, they can be mined. It can only be sold to the dwarves, and anyone who tried to refine it by themselves failed in the end, and the dwarves' mithril output has a quota every year! It is allocated to the Tower of Time, and it is only a little more than 100 pounds per year."

Speaking of this, Cecily's mood became a little depressed. 500 pounds of mithril seemed to cost little, but in fact it was the most troublesome to obtain.

The Mithril quota is allocated according to the Arcane Federation according to each mage tower and the number of mages in the mage tower, and it is allocated to you, which does not mean that it is free, but also requires money.

Whether it is gold coins, or equivalent gems, magic items are fine.

Hearing that the dwarves were even playing with export quotas, Xia Duo couldn't help but widen his eyes. He thought of the dwarf Broto he knew.

The image in his mind of the thick-browed, big-eyed, stubborn and cheerful dwarf suddenly became shrewd and cunning.

"What about the elves? Why don't you buy Mithril from the elves?" Xia Duo asked again.

He has led the elf city in the projection plane for more than a year. He knows that mithril is also widely used in elf society, but he has never heard that the mithril is bought from dwarves.

Elves should have the technology to refine Mithril.

However, after hearing Xia Duo's words, Cecily suddenly smiled, "My lord, you haven't been to Conifera, have you?"

"Yes what's the matter?"

"My lord, the elves will not sell Mithril to us directly, they will only shape Mithril into an image at will, and then put it in the store at a price several times or even dozens of times as a work of art, attracting human merchants to come Buy."

"..."

Xia Duo understands that Netheril has become a raw material producer and exporter. The dwarf kingdom may be better, but the elves are just cutting leeks.

But knowing this doesn't help him much in his current situation, no matter how much he knows, it is impossible to conjure Mithril out of thin air.

And there are those gems that need the Tower of Time to trade with food, gold coins, and even magic items.

First of all, the repair work cannot be stopped, which is fundamental.

So now throttling is no longer enough, we must open source!
Otherwise, once the Tower of Time and Savile go bankrupt, not to mention the repair work, whether the mage tower can be kept is a problem.

The current Xia Duo does not know the damage of the Tower of Time for the time being. It is just that there is a problem with some magic circles in the low-level state of the downgrade program, which does not affect the normal use of the current high-level state.

Even the energy acquisition is normal, but in the chaotic area of ​​the magic net, it is less than usual, and the consumption is more.

Niya left in a hurry, and only explained some important things. Although the restoration work is important, it is not urgently needed. If it can be carried out, it will be carried out. It doesn’t matter if it can’t be stopped for a while.

Instead, it is more important to maintain lower energy consumption to increase energy reserves.

If Niya was here, it would not be difficult to make a choice, but if it were Xia Duo, he would already be racking his brains to earn gold coins.

It has to be said that because of the two people's different perceptions of the current state of the Tower of Time, a big oolong happened.

(End of this chapter)