Arcane Lord

the next day.

Xia Duo finally waited until Ross had completed all the formalities and selected a laboratory. He did not ask him why he didn't come last night. Now that the two parties had equal status, it was natural for Ross to change.

"Rhodes, now that you have become a formal researcher, I will ask you the previous question again today. Are you willing to become a collaborator in the McCarde Laboratory?"

Chateau went straight to the point.

And Rhodes did not hesitate at all, and immediately replied sincerely: "I do! It is an honor for me to cooperate with Researcher McCard!"

"Very good, you made a very right choice! You will never regret today's choice in the future!"

Seeing that Rhodes still chose to cooperate with the McArdle Laboratory after becoming a formal researcher, Shado was very happy, and this was also the truest emotion in his heart at the moment.

There are a total of fourteen assistant researchers in the McCard Laboratory. Now Hacker and Rhodes have been successfully promoted and have agreed to continue to cooperate with the McCard Laboratory.

Others will be more or less influenced by them. They may have used this place as a springboard for promotion, but now they are also willing to cooperate.

Now Xia Duo's situation in the research institute is very delicate. If he is just a loner, he can easily be taken advantage of by the formal researchers who suppress the promotion of his subordinates.

As the saying goes, "people's anger is hard to offend", even Vice President Samuel could not insist on supporting him despite everyone's opposition.

But the so-called "people's anger is hard to offend" actually refers to those "vampire" researchers. It's just that no one has resisted in the past, which makes them coerce everyone and create an unrivaled and irresistible momentum.

Once there are spoilers and resisters, and as the number of resisters increases, when the unspoken rules are broken, they will immediately become weak.

In the final analysis, they are just taking advantage of the loopholes in the rules, and the upper echelons of the empire's remnants are not corrupt. Once the upper echelons wait for the right opportunity, they will not let these cancerous people go!

And Xia Duo, in a sense, is the existence of the bug that artificially contributed to this opportunity.

If it were any other Imperial researcher, they would probably not dare to be the first to stand up and speak out against it. It would be more likely that they would completely integrate into this system of unspoken rules.

If things continue like this, the base branch of the Trial Department of the Institute will be completely ruined.

…

After finalizing the basic cooperation framework with Rhodes, the next step was to discuss specific cooperation projects.

"I intend to hand over projects related to body repair to you. The institute has accumulated a lot in this area, which is suitable for you to open up the situation. What do you think?"

Although Shado believed that Rhodes would most likely not refuse his request, out of long-term considerations of win-win cooperation, he still gave Rhodes the opportunity to fully express or even refuse.

However, Rhodes did not refuse or put forward other conditions. Instead, he agreed and said: "I trust your judgment and I will complete this project well."

Next, the two quickly reached an agreement on the points that needed to be paid for project entrustment and the specific indicators for project completion.

After the agreement was signed, the laboratories of both parties officially became cooperative units.

…

In the following days, Sha Duo spent almost every day in anticipation and joy. After Hacker and Rhodes, two more assistant researchers were successfully promoted and agreed to join his laboratory cooperation system.

Every time one more assistant researcher is promoted, it means Xia Duo has three more assistants. How could he be unhappy?

The only regret is that after him, there were also researchers in the institute who did not suppress the promotion of their subordinates, which made it more difficult for his collaborative laboratory to recruit people.

But fortunately, there are many high-level mages in the institute. However, these assistant researchers found later do not have their own projects like the first batch. They can also advance to arcanist at any time. Once the project evaluation conditions for promotion are met, You can advance immediately and get new labs.

This caused Xia Duo's joint laboratory system to gradually fall into an expansion bottleneck, making it impossible for it to expand rapidly in a short period of time.

But as time passed, Shado eventually had more than 20 collaborative laboratories, which far exceeded his initial expectations.

This means that now he has a total of (20*4+3) = 83 high-level mages working for him.

If we wait until the graduation season of the base college next year, the skyrocketing number of laboratories will still cause the number of graduates admitted to skyrocket compared to previous years!

By then, there will be at least 252 low- and middle-level mages joining his work. Although these people are actually here to be apprentices, so many free spell batteries will not be used in vain.

Isn’t it great to combine education with action, teach while working, and learn while working?

Of course, by then, the number of collaborative laboratories will most likely continue to increase, and the number of people will be even greater.

…

Imperial calendar year 1103, June.

This is already the tenth month that Xia Duo has entered the projection plane. Except for wandering around outside for a few days in the first few days, and after joining the institute, he has never been out again.

This period of time almost set a new record for the longest time he has stayed in the same place since time travel!

Even in the Tower of Time on the main plane, he would go out from time to time, but here, in the past ten months, except for the occasional visit by Elise when he came to visit, he would go to the Academy Square on the fifth floor. Almost staying near the energy center on the third floor.

After Hacker, Rhodes and others chose their laboratory near the Energy Center, other formal researchers from the McCarde Laboratory or other cooperative laboratories will all choose to cooperate with Shado. Their own laboratory was chosen near the Energy Center.

For this reason, Vice President Samuel of the institute specially arranged for assistants to come forward to persuade several laboratories that were "intrusive" to leave. On the other hand, Xia Duo's cooperative laboratories were connected together.

In the past ten months, Xia Duo has almost given up on his research and focused on various projects. His daily task is to inspect various project teams in various laboratories.

Either to check the progress of the project, or to exchange a few words casually, or more often to solve some problems encountered during the project.

During this period, although Sha Duo has not advanced to the level of Arcanist, no one will doubt that he cannot advance.

Everyone, including Vice President Samuel, will be full of respect for "McArdle Researchers" after learning about the list of projects submitted and completed by the McCard Laboratory system in the past ten months!

If nothing else goes wrong, "Mecard" will be the fastest person to be promoted to a Level 2 researcher in the history of the Trial Division Base Branch of the Institute!

He will also be the youngest Level 2 researcher.

This is also the real reason why Vice Dean Samuel will also show respect!

Nothing more than the many contributions he has made within the institute system!