Arcane Lord

"Share transfer?"

The expression on Iolum's face changed from surprise to shock, but then returned to normal, almost at that moment. However, Shado, who was always paying attention, noticed it. Obviously Iolum also realized the seriousness of the problem.

"Can you tell me in detail?"

"It's probably the people who get shares in Netheril who sell their shares to other people who need it more, even elves. Once this happens, the situation may not be controllable by the Seven Towers."

Shado tried several possible scenarios of share transfer, such as Cormanthor deliberately increasing the price to purchase Netheril. Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, it will make it more difficult for people in Netheril who need shares to obtain shares.

What's more, in terms of financial resources, humans may not be as good as elves.

Or, even just the concentration of shares within the elven kingdoms will bring huge competitive pressure to Netheril.

Next, every time Xia Duo mentioned a possible situation, Iolum's eyebrows would furrow, and by the end it had turned into a solemn deep thought.

"Have you told anyone else about the share transfer?" Iolum asked.

"No, I only mentioned it to you, teacher, today."

"Don't mention it to other people for the time being. I want to discuss it with Qita first. If nothing unexpected happens, the situation should change in the near future. Wait for my notification."

Xia Duo couldn't help but frown when he heard this, and quickly confirmed to Iolum: "Teacher, what you mean is that the Seven Towers may adjust the previous distribution plan to gain more support?"

"Yes."

"Then where might they make adjustments?" Sha Duo continued to ask.

"You don't have to worry too much about this. I know them. They will probably propose to allocate the share only to the Grand Arcanist, while the others will obtain it from the Grand Arcanist."

"so?!"

Shado was very surprised by Iolum's answer. If it were divided like this, wouldn't it mean that the Seven Towers would give up more than half of their shares to others? And even if divided like this, it would be impossible to prevent someone from selling their shares to the elves, right?

Shado told Iolum his doubts, and Iolum’s explanation was——

"This is just my simple judgment on the adjustments that Seven Towers may make. The actual situation will definitely be more complicated. If Seven Towers proposes this new distribution plan, it will definitely impose restrictions on the transfer of shares.

"Also, don't expect that all the shares will be divided at once. I will ask the Arcane Federation to allocate a part first to apply for those who have no channels to obtain shares from the Grand Arcanist."

"I see."

Xia Duo nodded. Since Iolum said this, he was probably somewhat sure, but he didn't know how the Seven Towers would appease those Mage Tower organizations that did not have a great arcanist.

"It's getting late, so I won't delay the teacher's rest. See you next time."

…

After the communication was interrupted, Shado was still thinking about the content of the conversation he just had with Iolum.

If we follow the allocation plan that only allocates Grand Arcanists as Iolum mentioned last, in the long run, it may not be as beneficial to the Tower of Time as the current seven-tower plan, but it is not unacceptable.

As long as a certain share can be guaranteed and the share can fall into the hands of those who need it as much as possible, Xia Duo doesn't really care about the specific amount.

In the future, some of the so-called large-scale magic activities can be moved to the secondary plane. The Seven Towers may have already done so.

That's why Iolum just said with confidence that the Seven Towers might give up most of their share and only distribute it in units of great arcanists.

Of course, it is best to have sufficient shares to conduct various research on the main plane. After all, the environment of the secondary plane is different from that of the main plane. If you want to use the main plane, you must go through a round of conversion.

If there are fewer research projects, you won't see much trouble, but if there are more projects, then even if it is just a tiny bit of trouble every time, it will not be a small amount if accumulated over a long period of time.

But compared to the size of the share, Xia Duo is most worried about the problem of capitalizing on enemies.

No matter how the internal portions are divided, the meat will always rot in the pot, and you can always find a way to eat it. But if it is sold to foreign forces, it will fundamentally weaken its own development potential and at the same time enhance the enemy's potential.

To make up for it, the cost is not just a small profit from selling shares.

And this is the biggest reason why Shado wants to publicly support the Seven Towers. The interests of the Seven Towers and Netheril are generally consistent, but the same cannot be said for others.

Of course, it would be even better if you could gain long-term benefits for yourself while supporting the Seven Towers.

…

After thinking for a long time, Xia Duo walked out of the study and went to the bedroom next to him. Niya had already returned from the study on the top floor and was sitting on the bed, holding information in her hands, lost in thought.

Hearing Xia Duo's footsteps, Niya immediately put away the materials, pretended to be pitiful, and asked Xia Duo: "Can I not take the test paper tomorrow? I think I can learn by myself by reading the materials!"

"No!" Xia Duo flatly refused without hesitation, "How can you give up on something you promised!"

After saying that, he also packed up and climbed onto the bed. Feeling Niya's warm body, he couldn't help but feel a little distracted.

"But I didn't know beforehand that besides the basic test papers, there were other questions to be asked! Just do these test papers now, okay?"

Niya hugged Sha Duo's arm and shook it back and forth, constantly acting coquettishly. Even though Sha Duo had already made up her mind, she couldn't help but wonder if she was being too harsh on Niya.

"Then I'll give you less questions in the future?" Xia Duo said tentatively.

"snort!"

Niya simply let go of Xia Duo's arm, turned her head arrogantly, took out the information again and started reading. She knew that nothing she could say could change Xia Duo's mind, but at the same time, she could also feel that expectations for her.

It's just that there are some feelings that are too straightforward. Even though the two have been married for many years, she is a little embarrassed to say it out, so she can only cover it up with such childish behavior.

And Xia Duo actually saw through Niya at a glance. If he really didn't want to improve himself, he wouldn't have read the study materials before going to bed. It's just that Xia Duo was very confident in his teaching plan and shouldn't read it at this time. It's study time.

So he hugged Niya from behind, grabbed the information in Niya's hand, and threw it to the end of the bed: "Stop reading, you should do something you should do at night!"

…

the next day.

Sha Duo continued to accompany Niya to do the test papers. During this period, he did not forget to distribute the second batch of engineering design tasks to the independent research laboratory of the Tower of Time. It was still 26 tasks and was still sent to the three mass production design and research laboratories.

There is no way, who makes the current Tower of Time professional designers seriously lacking, we can only slowly exercise in practice.

However, Xia Duo also promised these three laboratories that after the Academic Affairs Office replenishes the number of teachers, they would give priority to selecting suitable personnel to add to the laboratories.