Arcane Lord

"Before today, the Tower of Time already had nearly a thousand apprentices, and now it has to recruit 200 more people. This will undoubtedly put huge pressure on the internal space of the Tower of Time."

Niya's first consideration was the normal operation of the Tower of Time. The designers of the Tower of Time may have never thought that there would be so many people in the Tower of Time today!

In this regard, Xia Duo said that he fully understood that the Tower of Time had adjusted its internal rules many times before, largely because there were too many people.

The space problem mentioned by Niya is not the biggest problem. If it is crowded, the Tower of Time can still hold hundreds of people!

The biggest problem is energy!

The element pool of the Tower of Time may not have been used by so many people from the beginning of its design, and it would be very difficult to modify and expand it later.

Involving all aspects, especially the tower spirit.

The tower spirit is closely related to the state of the Tower of Time. It doesn't matter if you make small changes to the internal ancillary facilities, but once it involves the transformation of the core element pool, it will definitely affect the state of the tower spirit.

Currently, Xia Duo does not have the technology to create the Tower Spirit, and Savile has no information passed down. This means that if the Tower Spirit dies, the Tower of Time will enter the "fully manual" mode from "fully automatic".

That would strain Niya's energy greatly.

…

In addition to energy issues, there are actually maintenance issues. It’s not that there is no money for maintenance, but that the Tower of Time is running out of people who can perform maintenance work.

After the transformation and restructuring of the Tower of Time, every member has his or her own job, and maintenance work is considered extra overtime work. In the past, when there were few people, Aiboke could maintain it alone.

But now that there are so many people, almost every official mage has been assigned maintenance work, which has greatly affected their job, especially since the Academic Affairs Office now has almost full-time apprentice tutors.

In addition, personal time will also be affected. It doesn't matter if you work a few overtime shifts in a short period of time. If you work overtime for a long time, even if you are paid, you will still be dissatisfied.

Xia Duo himself hated working overtime, so how could he force the Tower of Time members to work overtime?

Even if they are magic technicians, Sha Duo gives them sufficient time to study and rest instead of using them as slave labor.

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The main reason why the shortage of maintenance personnel is not the biggest problem is that the first batch of new apprentices have gradually grown into formal mages. As long as they continue to train, they can always find enough qualified maintenance personnel.

It just takes a little time.

Together with the problem of the small number of arcanists that Niya mentioned to him the day before yesterday, and the problem of the small number of high-level magic technicians discovered by Sha Duo himself, they can all be attributed to a matter of time.

It is more difficult to recruit from outside, and you still have to train yourself.

The current stage can be said to be the most difficult stage of the Tower of Time. The relevant personnel are seriously disconnected and can only rely on time to slowly get through it.

Only energy issues cannot be overcome by time.

Unless we wait for Miser to become nuclear, but that time cannot be determined at all, the Tower of Time may not be able to hold on this year and the energy will go bankrupt.

…

The outside is prosperous, but the inside is lurking in crisis.

In the temple garden, Xia Duo and Niya sat opposite each other. Thinking of some of the problems the Tower of Time was facing now, both of them were a little silent.

First of all, it is impossible to stop recruiting new people, but the more new people are recruited, the greater the pressure the Tower of Time faces. Apart from money, there are problems everywhere.

"Niya, I think we might be able to build another mage tower!"

"Okay, you are now a great arcanist, and you really need a mage tower of your own!" Niya agreed without hesitation.

But Xia Duo was not very happy because——

There are so many resources required to build a mage tower!

If it were an ordinary mage tower like a watch tower, Sha Duo and Niya could barely put it together, but such a mage tower would have almost no effect on Sha Duo now.

It must be built at least at the same level as the Tower of Time!

The expenses here would be huge, but now that Shado is unwilling to reveal the fact that he has become a Grand Arcanist, it is difficult to get assistance from the Arcane Federation or the Seventon Council.

If you build it entirely with your own financial resources, the cost will start at least tens of millions of gold coins.

"Money, money, money! Where can I get the money?"

Although Shado can't afford the full cost of a Tower of Time-level mage tower now, there's nothing wrong with getting started. Just like the Tower of Time, it wasn't originally built by Savile.

It was completely built at the hands of Niya's father, Lord Epps.

Xia Duo can also choose to build it in stages, as long as it is built first enough to divert some new apprentices. In addition, the watch tower may also be able to divert a group of formal mages.

He thought about it for a while and then said to Niya: "Then let's start construction! But it may not be possible in a short time. After all, I haven't finished the design yet. As for now -"

Xia Duo took out a dozen standard arcane crystals from the dimensional bag he carried and placed them on the table in front of the two of them. "I remember that there are dozens of arcane crystals in the Tower of Time material warehouse. I also have some here. First, Use arcane crystals to hold it up, and I will send more arcana crystals back when we get to Severton."

Therefore, Shado had another reason to keep up with the progress of Iolum's experiment. Yes, he had decided to take advantage of the subsequent experiments.

Anyway, if the experiment fails and you don't fish it, it will be lost. If you fish it, you will make money.

Iolum collected more than 100,000 arcane crystals after only collecting them a few times. Shado didn't need more. Just a few thousand crystals would allow the Tower of Time to solve many problems.

However, this method is also an indicator that does not solve the root cause. What the Tower of Time really lacks is not energy, but the infrastructure that matches the existing number of people. Today, it is only short-term energy.

By tomorrow, it may be that the magic laboratory failed to receive timely maintenance and was shut down.

Under the premise that the Tower of Time itself is already difficult to transform, building a new magical building is almost the only option.

…

Looking at the blue-light arcana crystal on the table, Niya did not accept it, but stretched out her hand to push it in front of Sha Duo and said:

"You are no safer when you go out than I am in the Tower of Time, so you should take these with you! When the reserves of the Tower of Time are not enough, I will ask you for them again."

Niya knows very well that for arcanists, arcane energy is almost a life-like existence. As long as there is arcane energy, arcanists will never lack spells.

Almost every arcanist will try their best to accumulate arcane energy, but this is not the decision of the arcanist himself. The natural upper limit of arcane fire power is there, and even if he doesn't use it at all, he can't save much.

However, Shado also did not accept Niya's refusal. The arcane crystals he took out now were indeed his entire inventory, but when he returned to Sevington, he could get them from Iolum's laboratory first. Some spares.

Of the box of more than 100,000 arcane crystals that Iolum gave him before, when the laboratory was renovated, only a small part was used during the debugging process, and the rest was still in the laboratory.

Taking some backup is a temporary measure, and it does not violate Xia Duo's principles.

"Don't worry, I still have some here, you take these first."

With that said, Sha Duo pushed the arcane crystals on the table and urged Nia to put them away, but Nia still refused. Sha Duo had no choice but to pick up five crystals from the table before Nia gave up.

Five arcane crystals are approximately equivalent to five 10th-level spells, so there should be no problem in responding to emergencies in Severton.