Lord of Arcane

Chapter 403 Change the initial southern patrol response
The next day, Xia Duo and Niya met again, this time as long as Niya introduced Xia Duo's situation in Sevington and the relationship between the various great arcanists.

Although it is just some general information, it also depends on what circle it comes from. After Niya becomes a princess student, the information she can get access to is far wider and deeper than that of Xia Duo.

This information is of great help to Xia Duo in judging the current situation, but it is a pity that Niya is in a hurry to return to Severton, otherwise Xia Duo will definitely drag her to chat for a while.

And after Niya left, Xia Duo issued the first official order for the transformation of the Tower of Time - reducing the price of paper and ink in the Tower of Time!

Although this order is very inconspicuous, Xia Duo, who has personally experienced the apprenticeship stage, knows very well how much time is sometimes wasted for an apprentice for a blank notebook or a small bottle of ink!
It's okay to say that the family is rich, but the reality is that rich people are a minority after all. Many people come to the Tower of Time with the idea of ​​only waiting for three years.

For three years, there is a salary (although it is very low) including food and housing, you can learn characters, and if you are lucky, you can become a mage apprentice or even a formal mage.

Basically, unless the family is really short of people, otherwise, no matter how poor the family is, they will send their newly grown children to live in the Tower of Time for three years.

These people are very hardworking, but some things cannot be achieved by hard work alone. The Tower of Time has artificially set up many obstacles in terms of apprentices acquiring knowledge and acquiring knowledge efficiently.

This is the current general situation in Netheril, and it cannot be changed overnight, but Shaduo can start with the Tower of Time, start from the subtleties, and gradually change.

He believes that other mage towers that are undergoing transformation must not be as thorough as he is, not only to change the production method of magic items, but also to change the existing mage training system.

Of course, in Xia Duo's eyes, the existing mage training system is not a training system at all, it is more like a stocking system, very passive, what he wants is active training.

Or to change a few high-level words, it can be "to comprehensively promote the reform of magic education, improve the mage training system, and vigorously develop magic productivity!"

In the next few days, Xia Duo stayed in the Tower of Time, constantly observing the status of the apprentices through the tower spirit projection. The price reduction of the necessary consumables for learning made the apprentices very happy, and even their enthusiasm for learning increased a lot.

At the same time, Xia Duo also paid attention to the performance of the official mages.

Most of the middle-level mages have mastered [detection] and other spells. Xia Duo didn't take a peek at them, but judging from the performance of other low-level mages, the mages didn't show any difference in the price reduction of ink and paper.

In other words, these are not the goals they are concerned about at all.

This also made Xia Duo breathe a sigh of relief, but the next step must directly touch the interests, or pain points, of official mages.

Xia Duo was not in a hurry to issue the next order, but was preparing to consolidate for a period of time, but in private, he asked Dean to expand the promotional scope of "Joining the Academy" to all apprentices.

It may not be so difficult to accept if the tone is set first and the order is issued later.

……

In the year 835 of the Nether calendar, in mid-October, Xia Duo took the "Lucky Owen" and returned to Linshui Village in Daxia.

On the Tower of Time, Xia Duo put it down for the time being, but he kept in touch with the Tower Spirit every day to learn about the latest situation there. Now that the element channel of the Mysterious Ruins has been completed, the Tower of Time is under the pressure of the chaotic magic net from the outside world. Great reduction.

Not only is the energy reserve gradually sufficient, but also the state of the riotous magic net has been calmed down, and the rarity of communication has actually dropped a lot.

Maybe it won't be long before Xia Duo can even go directly through the ruins of the magic net and travel between the Tower of Time and Linshui Village.

It's a pity that during the year of the projection plane Silver City, except for the swordsinger training in the morning and sleeping time at night, nearly half of Xia Duo's disposable time was spent in the Silver Light Tower library.

If all this year is spent studying magic, maybe he has become a high-level mage now and has learned [long-distance teleportation], then when he returns to Linshui Village, he will not need to return to the territory by boat. It is much more convenient to teleport with the teleportation circle of the tower.

However, the temptation of Mithril refining technology is too great. Although only some simple process descriptions were found in the end, it is also of considerable value.

There are often projection planes, but it is not common to be projected into an elf. The case of Nether mage projected into an elf only exists in legends, and no one has ever stood up and said that he has projected an elf.

Xia Duo projected three times and became an elf twice, which already surprised him. He speculated that this might have something to do with him being an Earthling, but without empirical evidence, he couldn't make a further judgment.

That's why he gave priority to the technology of finding elves, and maybe he will never have another chance in the future.

This time when he returned to the territory, the high-ranking officer was already in sight, but Xia Duo did not rush into the research, because in his calendar, there was always one thing on it, with a very high priority, and now it was almost time.

For Xia Duo, the Archmage Greta reminded him to spend more energy on territory development a long time ago, and later Niya told him clearly that the princess was coming to the south for inspection.

At present, he is the only pioneer in the south. Obviously, the princess is coming to Daxia!

Great Master Greta didn't say the time, but Niya just said that before the winter, it's already autumn, and the princess will be here soon, and a great arcanist will personally visit, and Xia Duo is still under a lot of pressure.

But at the same time, he was also a little excited. People like Grand Arcanists are not something you can meet casually. In their eyes, how much difference is there between high-level mages, low-level mages, and even apprentices!
Perhaps only by advancing to become an arcanist can they take a look at them, but this cannot be achieved in a short period of time.

Therefore, Xia Duo could only put more effort into the development of the territory, and this happened to be what the princess, the great arcanist, was concerned about.

……

On the altar square, Xia Duo looked at the lonely wooden houses in the north, and asked Layton about the progress of the wooden house manufacturing: "Layton, how many sets of standard wooden house parts are there in the territory's current reserves?"

Unlike Xia Duo who returns to the Tower of Time from time to time, Leiden even performs astral projection, time travel, and star realm. Since he came to Linshui Village, he has never left, and he has been on the territory all day long. Data may be more familiar than carpenters themselves.

There was no need to check the records at all, and it was reported directly, "The latest record is 33 sets, and there will be another 10 sets in three days."

Xia Duo nodded. The standard wooden house components are not made in one set, but in ten sets of ten sets of modular manufacturing.On average, not counting the time spent on construction, it takes about 20 man-days to manufacture a set of standard wooden house components.

That is, 20 carpenters for 1 day, or 10 carpenters for 2 days.

For this speed, Xia Duo is still very satisfied. There are more than [-] households in the territory now, and at least [-] wooden houses are needed.

And now there are 20 carpenters (limited to making wooden houses) with decent craftsmanship in the territory. Even if there is no increase in manpower, they can all be manufactured in half a year.

(End of this chapter)