Lord of Arcane

Chapter 393 Liberating Productivity

Then, Xia Duo expressed his speculation about the transformation of other mages. Judging from the prices of magic items in the past, under the condition of a certain productivity, the more mature the production relationship is, the more mature the price will be.

Of course, maturity does not mean low price.

In fact, since last year, or even longer ago, the prices of magic items have been rising all the way, but Xia Duo only regards it as a small torrent in the long history.

The main reason, of course, is the pioneering wave led by the princess. From this, Xia Duo can even conclude that the pioneering movement started planning very early, and it certainly didn't start with the award of "pioneers".

But looking at the overall trend, it is almost inevitable that the price of magic items will gradually decrease. This can actually be compared with the industrial age on Earth. Magic is always developing, and the so-called cheap magic items are not far away.

Therefore, for now, Xia Duo feels that those mage towers that are transforming are using low-level towers to occupy more market share and thus gain more profits.

At the same time, it also attracts more mages to join, so as to form a positive cycle.

And Xia Duo’s idea of ​​transformation can be summed up in one sentence——

"Division of labor and cooperation, and even the introduction of ordinary people to participate, liberate mages from all types of work!"

Although this is only an improvement of production relations, and does not substantially improve the abilities of mages, this improvement frees mages from tedious labor.

This is actually liberating productivity.

The next step in liberating productivity is to develop productivity, which is gradual.

On Earth, science and technology are the primary productive forces.But in Netheril, magic spells are the primary productivity.

In Xia Duo's understanding, science and magic are conceptually consistent, and they are an orderly knowledge system based on testable explanations and predictions on the form and organization of objective things, which have been systematized and formulated Knowledge.

The concept is the same, whether the name and the specific form of expression are the same is actually not important.

Today's Netheril has not formed a complete scientific methodology, or a complete magical methodology.However, Xia Duo has already seen the basic prototype.

That is "Arcane Geometry". He actually doesn't care about the specific content at all. What he really likes is the consensus formed by the Nether mages in it——

A more standardized way of describing the nature of magic.

Of course, there are other explanations, such as "Arcane Rune Literature" and the like, but in the end, "Arcane Geometry" prevailed, and almost all mages agreed.

What the specific situation is, Xia Duo has no way of knowing, after all, there is only a simple mention in the relevant books - it has been recognized by all mages.

It is hard for Xia Duo to believe that the process will be smooth. Referring to the competition of various technical standards on the earth, Netheril's magic technical standards directly affect the improvement of its own strength.

It is related to power, status, and even life.

And once there is "Arcane Geometry", many theories can also be connected, similar to the role of mathematics in natural science, and a series of books about the nature of the magic net such as "Deep Magic Net" can actually be seen to be The Physics Book of the Wizarding World.

As for the specific spells, of course, they are based on the essence of the magic web, and even the essence of the plane, the essence of the universe, and a certain specific technology created through arcane geometry.

This is why Xia Duo believes that magic and science are conceptually consistent.

The so-called development of productivity, in layman's terms, is technological progress.

Of course, theoretical progress is also included.

As far as Netheril is concerned, it is actually the birth of a certain spell. What Xia Duo can confirm now is the eternal magic that Tilak, the tower of time mage, is researching.

Once the threshold for making magic items is lowered, and with the adjustment of the corresponding production relations, the impact it will have is almost no less than the popularity of industrial products.

In order to progress in technology, in addition to the frontier development of high-level mages, it also requires the continuous application of a large number of grassroots mages. The former determines the depth of technology, and the latter determines the breadth of technology.

Thinking about it carefully, Xia Duo felt that the phrase "the strength of a large number of people" is really useful everywhere. If all the people of Netheril are mages now, then the technological explosion may be a matter of minutes.

As far as the moment is concerned, he only did two things. One is to ask Derrick to negotiate with those complicated members of the chamber of commerce, hoping to re-sign the fixed share contract.

The second is to encourage childbearing. Xia Duo can't control the outside world for the time being, but he must do so in the Savile and Daxia territories that he can influence now.

As for the transformation of the Tower of Time, Xia Duo still felt that it was necessary to have an in-depth exchange with Niya face to face. It is not a good idea to change rashly.

However, he has disclosed the relevant ideas to Abeck and Cecily, and even renegotiating the supply contract is paving the way for this, but they did not strongly oppose it.

……

After leaving Eberke's reception room, Xia Duo came to Tilak's research room.

The moment the door opened, he almost felt that he had gone to the wrong place, not Tilak's research room, but the meeting place of his small organization——

The ones behind the door are very familiar to him. Dean, Sammy, Edric, Devine, and Donald are all members of the organization, and they are all gathered here at this moment.

"Shado!"

"Mage Xia Duo!"

"Master Xiaduo!"

……

Several greetings in succession brought Xia Duo's thoughts back to reality. This is indeed Tilak's laboratory, but how did Dean and others come here?
They didn't have any contact with Tilak before. Thinking of this, Xia Duo greeted him and asked directly:
"Dean, Sammy, what are you doing here?"

The two looked at each other, and didn't know how to answer. At this time, Tilak stood up and replied: "Master Xiaduo, because my current spellcasting level is low, the number of experiments I can perform every day is extremely limited, so I ask Time Zhita applied for two assistants, Sammy and Edric, and Dean and Donald were recommended by them."

Only then did Xia Duo understand, and quickly searched the records of Ta Ling, and sure enough, he saw the earlier records of Sammy and Edric's elevation of authority, as well as the recent records of their relationship being transferred to Tilak's laboratory.

Of course, some apprentices were also transferred in, but the only apprentices present today were Dean and Donald.

From Tilak's words, Shadou could tell that Tilak regarded Dean and Donald as assistants, not just "spell batteries".

It seems that the results of the organization are good, and Dean will not talk about it. Xia Duo already knew that he had already stood on the threshold of a formal mage. If he hadn't thought about creating a new spell by himself, he would have been able to increase his authority.

It was Donald, who surprised Xia Duo. At first, he was just a living sign that Xia Duo used to show his strength in organizing training.

Grow fast!
Xia Duo looked at the flowers he had watered with satisfaction, feeling very satisfied, but he did not forget the purpose of his visit this time.

"Tilak, how is the recent research progress? Are the relevant materials in place? Do you need other support?"

(End of this chapter)