Lord of Arcane

Chapter 500 New Territories Preview
According to Layton’s report, excluding the dozen or so people who died during the transportation, a total of 504 people were able to reach Linshui Village alive, including men and women, old and young, some with families, and some single men.

At present, these people have all arranged their residences, and have broken up and joined various working groups in the previous territory. Currently, they are in a group of 20 people, which is relatively large.

For the time being, let's arrange it like this first, so that these new citizens are familiar with the unique pioneering model of Great Xia.

"Are there enough food and tools?"

"My lord, we have prepared a lot of tools, so we don't have to worry about shortages for the time being, but the food—" Layton spoke hesitantly.

"What happened to the food? Didn't someone send a boat just before I left? Why are you short of food now?"

"No, no, my lord, there is still no shortage, but more than 500 people have poured into the territory at once, and the food consumption rate has almost doubled. If this continues, it may not even last until June."

Layton had been looking forward to the return of the lord before, but he also knew that the lord had gone to Severton, and he could not contact the lord here, or the people of Savile. If the lord did not come back, he would wear I went back to Savile Town through the forest to borrow food.

Hearing this, Xia Duo couldn't help but rejoice that he came back early, otherwise, he would have stayed in Severton until after the game. If there was any delay, the people in the territory would drink the northwest wind.

Now the territory is not self-sufficient in food, and must rely on external input. This is a problem that any open territory will encounter, not Xia Duo's family.

In fact, it was convenient to transport grain from Savile Town, but those pioneers who pioneered in the Kangqi Plain were miserable. The nearest Kangqi City not only did not sell grain, but even imposed a toll tax on passing caravans.

This is simply trying to push people to a dead end, but not everyone can afford to transport people and goods through the teleportation circle. Xia Duo often heard news from the Kangqi Plain during his time at Gilles High Tower. .

It is said that the princess made a big fuss about this, but there was nothing she could do. After all, after many compromises, it was already not easy to open up the Kangqi Plain, which Kangqi City had already set eyes on.

However, Xia Duo also heard that Her Royal Highness the Princess intends to open up another road connecting the core area and the Kangqi Plain, but such rumors are just rumors and have not received a clear reply from the Princess.

Xia Duo speculates that this may be a means to force Kangqi City to make concessions. He has seen the map near Kangqi City. Although it is not very detailed, he can roughly tell that it is the closest to Kangqi Plain through Kangqi City. Detours and even open up new roads It's not worth it.

Of course, regardless of the troubles such as Kangqi City, beasts, gnolls, goblins, and trolls, it is much easier to open up farmland in the plains than in the forest.

Xia Duo was still somewhat envious of the plain environment there, but he was only envious of the environment, and he didn't want the trouble there at all.

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While contacting the Tower of Time to start the grain production increase plan, Xia Duo continued to listen to Layton's report, and finally he put forward two opinions:
"In the next period of time, I will be busy, and there are two things you need to do.

"One is that the population of the territory is increasing, and the speed of development will also be accelerated. In order to facilitate defense, the size of the territory guard also needs to be expanded. You, Gibb, Simon and the others are selecting four teams in the territory. And the people of the original Kadun tribe."

The four teams are forty soldiers, directly doubling the number of guards in the territory. At present, there are more than 500 newcomers in the territory, and there are only more than 1000 people in total. There is a territory guard of more than 80 people, which is enough for the time being.

When the next batch of leaders arrives, Xia Duo will select another batch of soldiers from this new batch of leaders.

Then, Xia Duo continued: "The second thing is to talk to the new citizens one by one, not only to inform them of the new policies of the Daxia Territory, but also to sort out information about themselves and their past locations, summarize them, and hand them over to them. Give me."

These new citizens did not come from the same place, but from several territories. From these lowest-level civilians, Xiaduo may be able to have a relatively basic understanding of other places in Netheril.

"Yes, my lord."

"Very well, let's go to work then."

"Yes."

When Leiden left, Xia Duo also had a general understanding of what happened in the territory during his absence. As for the more detailed ones, it would not be too late to understand after he advanced. Haven't seen it yet!
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In the following days, Xia Duo was obsessed with meditation every day and couldn't help himself. Of course, when he felt that the efficiency of meditation had dropped to a certain level, he would not force meditation to waste time, but began to familiarize himself with and even preview the advanced process.

The essence of meditation is actually a kind of concentration training, and the goal of concentration training is for the caster to perceive his own soul. The soul is only used in the last step in the entire advancement process.

If you put aside the advanced level, just to generate the Arcane Fire, Xia Duo can do it now, but when you don't perceive your own soul, you can't combine the Arcane Fire with your own will, so as to become a real arcanist .

Therefore, there is no problem in rehearsing the process of the birth of Austrian Fire.

However, Xia Duo must consider the actual situation of the Tower of Time. He will definitely preview it once, but just like the advanced arcanists of the Gilles Tower must apply, this is not entirely for the sake of making decisions, but for advanced The price is really high.

First of all, it is necessary to isolate the magic net in an area from the entire magic net environment, but because we don't know how many layers the magic net has, it is actually impossible to completely isolate it, but the higher the degree of isolation, the easier it will be to advance.

This is because if you want to generate Austrian Fire, you must capture the essence of the magic net. In the normal environment of the magic net outside, it will not be so easy for you to succeed. Even in a special advanced laboratory, it is not so easy.

And every time it is activated, it is expensive. Except for those who really hope to succeed in the advancement, or the tower owner himself, it is estimated that no one is willing to try it in advance. After all, once activated, for individuals, it is actually equivalent to bankruptcy. up.

Xia Duo is still very cautious about the rehearsal.

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On the fifth day after returning to the territory, Xia Duo felt that he was already familiar with the process. After all, he had been studying it for a long time, but the difference was in the perception of the soul.

On this day, he returned to the Tower of Time. However, he didn't go to the advanced laboratory immediately, but found Eberke, hoping to get some experience pointers.

In theory, Xia Duo is very sure about whether he can generate Austrian Fire, but advancement is not only about theory, but also practice, and practice requires experience.

When he was in Sevington before, he also asked Niya, but wouldn't it be better to have a little more experience?If it wasn't for worrying about the resentment of others for his shallow words, he would even want to ask the ten arcanists he trained before for their experience in this area.

Now is the time to "harvest" the "experience package" of Eberke.

(End of this chapter)