Arcane Lord

The energy that can be drawn from the Tower of Time's four element pools and the positive and negative energy pools every day is very limited. If converted into arcane points, it is about 10,000 points per day.

This income seems to be quite high, enough to cover the actual consumption of ten rounds of 10-level spells, but if you deduct what is needed to maintain the basic operation of the Tower of Time, as well as the real bulk - the daily consumption of the Tower of Time members, there will not be much left. .

Especially now, with the Tower of Time cultivating a large number of apprentices, Shado would be thankful to have a daily energy balance of 1,000 points.

And even these 1,000 points are just a conversion result on paper, and there are not really so many arcane powers.

In fact, the Tower of Time cannot convert the four elements, positive and negative energy into arcane energy, and the consumption of several energies is not always balanced.

Maybe today the fire element will be consumed more, and tomorrow the water element will be more consumed. Therefore, when considering the actual energy reserve, enough redundancy should be left.

Of course, arcane crystals can also be used as energy reserves, which is indeed what the Tower of Time does, but it can only be a final strategic reserve and not used for daily consumption.

The energy of a standard arcane crystal is almost 1,000 points, and it would take at least three or four months for a newly advanced arcanist to accumulate this arcana crystal.

If it were done today in summer, it would take at least 5 or 6 days.

This is still the case where I don't use anything and it is completely made into arcane crystals. If I use it again, it will be more difficult to accumulate.

For a standard arcane crystal like this, the Tower of Time consumes at least 8 or 9 crystals every day, which means——

If you want to use arcane crystals to maintain the normal operation of the Tower of Time, you need at least 40 senior arcanists like Sha Duo who have access to the ninth level of the magic network to provide all the arcane fire remaining arcane energy and do full-time human power generation. machine! (It’s just arcana, it can still do other things)

It can be seen that although the energy utilization efficiency of element pools and energy pools is somewhat low, they are indeed essential infrastructure for every mage tower.

Now, David alone consumes more than 1,000 energy points a month. This is already the consumption of a high-level mage, and it may be even higher.

Without him, the Tower of Time's monthly energy balance would have increased by at least one-tenth.

In other words, if there are a few more large energy consumers like David, the energy balance of the Tower of Time will be broken!

This is much more serious than lack of money!

For a moment, Xia Duo didn't know whether to continue supporting David's research, but this hesitation only stayed in his mind for less than a second before he abandoned it.

That kind of strange thread, whether it is a materialized magic network string or not, must continue to be studied. Perhaps the next energy breakthrough of the Tower of Time will fall on it.

As for the energy crisis in the Tower of Time, this is actually a commonplace issue. Sha Duo had foreseen it as early as when he decided to train a large number of apprentices.

During this period, he also implemented many cost-saving measures, such as regulating the use of magic laboratories, rectifying the waste of resources and redundant personnel in private research laboratories, etc.

The most important thing is to separate the production of the Tower of Time and establish the Magic Technology Department, which greatly improves the efficiency of energy use.

Of course, all this is just to reduce expenditures, not to increase revenue. As long as these new apprentices grow up, it will be a matter of time before the Tower of Time's energy balance collapses.

But how could Xia Duo watch Tower of Time Energy go bankrupt? It would not be difficult to ease the situation no matter whether it introduced a new energy restriction policy or opened a branch base.

And if we want to completely solve this problem, we must naturally rely on unlimited energy [Miser Energy Core].

But now, David's incident has reminded Xia Duo that some energy restriction policies can be formulated now. Personal energy limits and daily energy limits for the Tower of Time can be implemented, and gradually become stricter, forcing the members of the Tower of Time to provide Energy efficiency.

It is best to implement it now when there is still a surplus every day, lest these apprentices be raised after a large number of promotions, it would seem that the Tower of Time is deliberately targeting them.

With this idea in mind, Sha Duo immediately contacted Niya. After asking and learning that she was in the study on the top floor, he immediately teleported there.

…

In the study.

Niya did not sit behind the desk, but sat under the projection window. There was only an open book and a few scattered pieces of parchment on her lap. There was a steaming cup of wine on the table in front of her. "Bonu No. 4" looks quite leisurely.

Seeing Xia Duo's arrival, Niya simply closed the book, picked up the tea cup, took a slow sip, motioned to Xia Duo to come to the opposite side, and then slowly spoke:

"Were you in the territory just now? I saw several groups of people coming to the villa."

"Yes. The Yuanfang is back, no matter what, we have to see it."

Xia Duo glanced at the projection window and moved to the opposite side of Niya.

The scene displayed on the projection window at this moment is the altar square of Linshui Village. Chateau's elaborate code sculpture and the crowd around the sculpture are also clearly visible, and his lord's villa is on one side of the screen.

However, Sha Duo is almost always wearing the "avoid detection" spell, so he will not appear in the projection. It is not surprising that Niya did not see him.

"Did the communication lock look interesting again?" Xia Duo asked Niya while making tea for himself.

"It can't be that fast! All the experiments in the past few days have ended in failure, and I can't figure out what the problem is." Niya put down the teacup, her eyes quite confused.

But soon, as if she thought of something, she turned her gaze to Xia Duo, who was sipping tea, "How about you help me take a look?"

"Okay, but I can't guarantee that I can give you any useful advice."

The communication mystery lock that Niya is currently researching is not, strictly speaking, a mystery lock, or a regular mystery lock, but a communication network with a wide coverage and no physical nodes.

Although the information on the communication array and Elf Mystery Lock was given to Niya by Sha Duo, the Communication Mystery Lock was beyond the scope of these two. Even Sha Duo would find it difficult to give any constructive suggestions in a short period of time.

In this regard, his understanding is no longer as good as Niya's, and all he can give are some broad suggestions on a macro level. When it comes to specific problems, Niya still has to find a way to solve them herself.

…

"By the way, let me tell you something!"

"Well, tell me!" Niya responded, handing her research notes on communication mystery locks to Sha Duo.

Xia Duo took the note and put it on his lap. He didn't look through it. Instead, he briefly introduced what happened in the supplies department and David's research, and then said——