Arcane Lord

In fact, if you think about it carefully, what Elise said is almost certain to happen.

The sage predicted that the golden scroll was the key to the empire's revival. The great arcanist above would definitely be very cautious about this. It was reasonable to block the news for the future when there was no guarantee that one would be able to obtain it.

If Xia Duo were the decision-maker above, he would also make such a choice. But in this way, it would be impossible for him to obtain the private version of Nese Scroll from this projection plane!

"well--"

What else could Xia Duo say!

…

After returning to the laboratory, Sha Duo suddenly thought that the Judgment Department would send Elise to think that the head of the headquarters was going to recruit people on site. So how many apprentices could the institute expect?

Obviously, the institute has added many new laboratories this year and requires a large number of apprentices (allocated on a laboratory basis), but the number of people who can graduate every year at the institute is indeed relatively stable.

Although it is also growing slowly, it is definitely not as good as the sudden arrival of the research institute.

The Judgment Department has received the news and sent people to recruit people on site. If the institute falls behind, the gap will be more than one or two. Especially those outstanding graduates who are ranked first may not be able to find any.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo suddenly had some bad premonitions. His own laboratory was full of twelve apprentices, but his collaborative laboratory had none yet, just waiting for this year's allocation!

Fortunately, Elise called him, otherwise, Xia Duo wouldn't realize that time has come to the graduation season unknowingly.

So, he quickly contacted the more than ten collaborators and informed them to go to various colleges to grab people. If necessary, they could borrow his name.

"Copy that, I'll go right away."

The first one to reply was Ross. After him, the replies from others came quickly one by one, and without exception they were all messages of immediate departure.

Although guiding apprentices will indeed have an impact on laboratory projects to a certain extent, having apprentices can not only be used as a spell battery to increase the number of experiments per day, but they can also be used to do some chores.

They are called "apprentices", but they are at least mid- to low-priced mages who have received college education. They can join the normal operation of the laboratory with just a little bit of running-in.

Overall, the advantages to the project progress outweigh the disadvantages.

…

In the evening, Xia Duo received a summons from Rhodes, "We just came back from the college. We have two pieces of news, one good news and one bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?"

As soon as he heard the bad news, Xia Duo knew something was wrong and hurriedly came out of the lounge. In the hall, Ross and others were already making a noise.

Seeing Xia Duo come out, everyone immediately became quiet. Ross separated everyone and came to Xia Duo, but Xia Duo did not see any disappointed expression on his face, but instead wore a smile.

"Roz, Ross, I didn't expect you to be bad at it too. Tell me, what is the good news and what is it?"

"Let me tell you the bad news first. We are late and the base has almost exhausted all the people!"

Xia Duo raised his eyebrows. He knew that the base mentioned by Rhodes refers to the Judgment Department, which includes the field department, production, planting, cultivation, and even the college itself, which were the bulk of the admissions in previous years.

In previous years, the institute only picked out the best and the best. This year, I went late, and I still don’t know what was left behind!

But especially if you can't even reach the level of a formal mage, that would be too funny.

However, looking at Ross's behavior, things seemed to be taking a turn for the better, but Xia Duo didn't reveal it, and deliberately pretended to be worried and asked: "What about the good news?"

"Good news——"

Ross also deliberately gave it a try, but the others couldn't help it anymore and said it for him, "The good news is that Dean Bernie had anticipated all this and booked a group of people in advance, although it was smaller than in previous years. A few, but now all those people have joined our laboratory!”

When he first heard about Dean Bernie's advance reservation, Xia Duo wasn't too surprised. It was a common understanding among the empire's survivors to gather the best talents for research.

He estimated that even if Dean Bernie didn't make reservations in advance, the college would reserve people for the research institute in advance. However, there are suddenly a large number of new laboratories in the research institute. Even if everyone has such a share, there will still not be enough people.

But after hearing the last sentence, "Everyone has joined their laboratory," only one word came to Sha Duo's mind - "eating alone"!

The people who were originally going to be divided equally among all the new laboratories were assigned to the dozen or so laboratories including Rhodes and Huck. (There are apprentices promoted in other laboratories, and the vacant places need to be filled, but those with more will not be taken away)

No wonder I didn't see any disappointed expressions on their faces.

It's just that eating alone can easily arouse public anger. Xia Duo himself didn't care. He was afraid that Ross and Huck wouldn't be able to survive, so he asked again:

"Have you contacted Vice Dean Samuel about this matter? What did he say?"

"After contacting me, Vice President Samuel said that as long as we arrive first, we will be served first. This is Dean Bernie's tacit approval. We don't need to do anything in the future. He said that he will help us handle it. "

"That's it!"

Xia Duo was silent for a moment, knowing that Vice President Samuel was showing kindness to him, and that Dean Bernie should also have the intention of supporting him, and this might even be a reward.

Reward him for his contribution to the improvement of the atmosphere of the institute.

"In that case, just keep it and do research in the future."

Having said that, Sha Duo has decided to personally visit Dean Bernie and Vice Dean Samuel tomorrow, and also go to the management center.

In the past six months, he has been mainly promoting his own research plan in the laboratory cooperation system. Except for a few project tenders posted above that could complement his own plan, he has not accepted any of the rest. .

In order to reciprocate the favor, perhaps we should take on more of the above projects.

Even if it has nothing to do with his research plan for the time being, returning to the main plane can also be used as an accumulation of the Tower of Time. In short, it is not a loss.

…

The next day, Xia Duo did not visit the second floor early in the morning, but waited until lunch time before setting off. As soon as he got there, he knew that he had chosen the right time to come.

Because he met seven or eight level 1 researchers who might have come to complain.

Xia Duo didn't have a good look on these people, and certainly didn't have a bad look on them either. When he passed by them, he treated them as if they were nothing and didn't even look at them.

Arriving at Dean Bernie's Laboratory No. 2, eight or nine people were crowded into the not-so-small reception room. The atmosphere was quite strange, but so far, those few people had not done anything particularly unfriendly.

At most, he cursed a few words in a low voice, and Xia Duo pretended not to hear them. For such people, the more you care about them, the prouder they will be. On the contrary, the more you don't care, the sadder they will be.

Until the dean's assistant came out and invited Xia Duo to a nearby lounge, the expressions on the faces of the seven or eight first-level researchers were wonderful.

Even two of them couldn't bear the blow and left the reception room on the spot. As for where they were going, Xia Duo naturally had no control over them.

Because at this moment, he had already met Dean Bernie again.