Arcane Lord

In the next two days, Xia Duo was in charge of the transfer of the territory's residents. From the time the territory's government office issued a formal announcement, by the afternoon of the next day, more than 200,000 residents had moved into the floating city.

In terms of the speed of personnel movement alone, this speed is undoubtedly very slow, but considering the sudden announcement, even if there are territory officials who guide them openly or secretly, it is already very rare to reach this number.

Nearly half of the residents have moved into the floating city, which is not only a test for the residents, but also a huge test for the floating city itself.

The community infrastructure of the floating city's residential layer has never really experienced the load of so many people, and many people may not know how to use those infrastructures.

In the past two days, there have been many problems, such as someone accidentally opened the faucet but didn't know how to turn it off, and was embarrassed to report it to the community. It was not until the flood overflowed outside their home that they were discovered by the community security guard.

The most common problem is that many people don't know how to use the magic stove. Although the territory has been promoting various household magic items in the past year, only a few have been truly popularized to households.

Basically, only Linshui Town and the new villages that have been granted land have people using it. In other places, especially in Savile Territory, few people buy it.

After learning about these situations, Xia Duo urgently recruited a group of volunteers from the Institute of Advanced Studies to enter the community to serve as guidance on the use of household magic tools.

In addition to the various problems caused by the people in the territory, there are also some problems in the community itself, such as the failure of the Misera energy transmission line, etc.

The community infrastructure of the floating city residential area has indeed been repeatedly tested before it was declared completed, but the test at that time was only a few testers, and it was impossible to live in it for years and months to continue testing.

So when it comes to the use stage, various problems frequently occur. In fact, this is equivalent to 200,000 people in the territory conducting tests at the same time. If there is really no problem at all, it would be surprising.

In order to deal with this situation, Xia Duo asked the community security guards to organize the people to actively discover various problems, and on the other hand, he drew capable personnel from various research laboratories in the Tower of Time to focus on solving various problems found in the community.

Up to now, although new problems are constantly being discovered, the mages of the Tower of Time are constantly solving problems and roughly maintaining a balance or even a state where problems are gradually decreasing.

Such practice also made Xia Duo realize that if he wanted to build a highly developed magic civilization, the proportion of mages must not be low. Not to mention anything else, the infrastructure of magic civilization requires a large number of mages to maintain.

If there is a problem, mages are also needed to solve it. It is impossible for a small number of mages to build a magic civilization that includes most ordinary people. Instead, it should be the majority of mages who jointly build a magic civilization.

The proportion of mages in the territory is now much higher than that of other territories in Netheril, and even not much lower than that of the elven kingdoms, but this is far from enough and far from the state of universal education required by civilization.

Of course, what civilization needs is not that everyone must become the top mages, but that everyone must have the ability and opportunity to participate in the development of civilization.

Like in the past, ordinary farmers in various parts of Netheril, what ability and opportunity did they have to participate in the development of civilization? It was nothing more than farming according to the orders of the lord and their own survival needs.

But farming is not actually necessary for the lord. As long as the lord builds an arcane garden, it is more than enough to meet the daily needs of himself and his followers.

In this case, the once strongest connection between mages and ordinary people has also been interrupted, and mages and ordinary people have become two species.

In this case, unless the lord popularizes magic to the people, how can ordinary people turn over?

On the other hand, there are so many potential quasi-mages, but the upper class does not want to use them. Even if Netheril does not have opponents in the main plane, it still needs to absorb elites from the bottom. Ordinary people in Netheril are probably not far from being expelled from the human race.

The biggest obstacle to popularizing magic among all people is not whether the lower class has such talent, or whether there are so many resources to realize universal mages, but the selfishness of the vested interests.

As a lord now, Shado has full disposal power over his own territory, but he can do nothing about other territories in Netheril, or even other countries in the north.

For example, Evereska, if it wants to rise against the trend and overtake others, what it needs most at this moment is obviously a magic system that can be quickly mastered, and this magic system, Shado also provided them, is Nether magic.

But the correct answer is in front of them, and Evereska still did not write it right. They did relax some restrictions and allow some magic schools to recruit apprentices on their own, but there is still a long way to go before it can be popularized by the whole people.

You should know that the situation in Evereska is different from that in the Great Xia Territory. Almost all elves have a certain foundation in magic, instead of just hearing the name of magic like ordinary people in Netheril.

It is much easier for the Elf Kingdom to fully switch to the Nether magic system than Netheril, the birthplace of Nether magic. The question is whether they want to.

Obviously, at least at the moment, Evereska has not made up its mind to fully switch to the Nether magic system. In addition to the selfishness of the vested interests, the competition between different magic systems is also a major reason.

Choosing the Nether magic system means cutting off ties with the traditional elven kingdoms, and at the same time, it is likely to fall behind Netheril forever in the Nether magic camp.

Perhaps only a small country like Elan, which is in a state of extinction at any time, has such determination, but the saddest thing is that as a small country, determination alone is far from enough, and it also needs the permission of a big country.

For example, Elan, who is under the protection of Yeerlan, how can they all switch to the Nether magic system without Yeerlan's permission? Now they are lucky to be able to take the roundabout route of saving the country by training Nether magic technicians.

If they ask for more, Yeerlan may lose patience.

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In terms of how to expand the group of mages, Shado mainly takes two steps. On the one hand, in his own territory, he can popularize magic completely according to his own ideas, and outside his own territory, he can only guide other rulers to relax restrictions on the bottom through inducement.

For example, in Netheril, the emergence of mass-produced magic tools forced other magic tower organizations to follow suit in order to gain sufficient competitiveness, and the best way to follow up is of course to train specialized magic technicians.

This is somewhat similar to the technician route designed by Shado for Elan. As long as the number of technicians reaches a certain level, magic will naturally spread.

Of course, this requires Nether magic that can be quickly mastered, and elven magic is not very suitable for this.