Arcane Lord

Regarding Horst's directness, Steele and Mark did not deliberately play with it. Coming from academic backgrounds, they actually did not like that approach. If possible, they would prefer to be more direct.

Therefore, they responded directly to Horst's proposal: "We have this intention as well. Does Master Horst have any specific suggestions for cooperation?"

"Specific suggestions?"

Horst did not answer directly this time, but asked a question first: "What difficulties did you encounter in completing this series of tasks?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Steele shook his head and sighed, "There are so many problems! We were just talking about it!"

"right!"

At this time, Mark also echoed: "What engineering design? How do we understand this? We were trying our luck before, and the result is as you can imagine, every plan submitted was rejected."

In response, Horst suddenly interjected, "I don't think there is any problem with this."

"No problem? Does Master Horst think so? Did you find something?" Mark asked quickly.

"During the time we received the mission, people in our research office have gradually worked out a set of design theories that just meet the above requirements. In practice, we have also found that if complex magic facilities and buildings have special engineering Design, then, in terms of stability during use, convenience and cost of later maintenance, is better than not having special design.”

"Huh--"

After Horst's reminder, Mark and Steele also seemed to realize something. Although in the past they only tried design by chance, they also did a lot of testing experiments.

Looking back now, it is true that as Horst said, specific engineering designs can play a positive role in complex magic facilities and buildings.

Thinking again about the requirements of the task, perhaps the above has already discovered this. At this time, assigning tasks to them may be to give them an opportunity to learn and practice!

Thinking of this, Mark and Steele became more interested in the cooperation proposed by Horst, so they asked again: "Master Horst, what suggestions do you have for our cooperation?"

The Academy values ​​cooperation. Although Horst joined the Academy later than Mark and Steele, he also knows and agrees with the philosophy of the Academy, so he said:

"It's very simple. We gather all the manpower, material resources, equipment, and facilities that the three research laboratories can mobilize to focus on solving key problems. In the end, the proceeds from the mission will be equally divided among the three of us!"

"That's it!"

Mark and Steele looked at each other and agreed without much hesitation, then asked: "What are the specific cooperation matters?"

"Didn't I just say that? Our research laboratory has initially explored a set of design theories. For the time being, we will focus on our methods. If you have any different opinions during this period, you can always bring them up for discussion and verification. If your The idea is better, and it’s natural to use yours.”

Horst doesn't mind whose method is used. Being able to complete the task and gain something from this task is what he cares about most. As for why Mark and Steele must be involved, of course -

“To complete this task, the number of people we currently have is far from enough, but not long ago, the Qianjin Society just issued a proposal to encourage members to reduce their membership and join the Academic Affairs Office.

"It's too difficult to recruit people in the research laboratory now. You have a good relationship with the five-person committee. Let's see if you can talk to them and ask them to reserve a group of people for us."

In fact, Horst didn't just ask Mark and Steele to recruit people. Even now, the research laboratories established by Mark and Steele later have more members than the first group established by him. .

Almost all new mages who have recently obtained formal ranks are members of the Institute. When choosing their employment direction, in addition to considering their own conditions and goals, they will also be greatly influenced by joining the Institute.

At the collective meeting of the Admissions Association not long ago, the suggestion to reduce part-time jobs was put forward. As a result, almost everyone gave up part-time jobs. When it was said that they wanted to support the Academic Affairs Office, most of the people who originally gave up part-time jobs directly chose to join the Academic Affairs Office.

In other words, after the recent group meeting, each independent research laboratory not only failed to benefit from the increasing wave of new mages, but also became overwhelmed with many things due to the lack of part-time staff.

In the past, Horst always thought that highly mobile part-time workers would only bring trouble. Those who leave today will have to be retaught tomorrow, but in fact, the number of new mages in the Tower of Time is not yet too large to be counted. degree.

Even if you are a part-time employee, after a long time, you can basically go through various departments once, and then you are a skilled worker!

Another important point is that the low wages of part-time workers can greatly reduce the operating costs of the research laboratory. For an independent research laboratory leader like Horst, part-time workers are actually not that bad.

"How many people does Master Horst think we need in total?" Steele asked.

"Of course, the more, the better!" Horst said without hesitation.

"This is impossible!"

Steele shook his head repeatedly, "It's not like you don't know that the Academic Affairs Office is short of people. Now it's mainly promoting moral education courses and magic affairs officers. Because it's in the president's territory, many people have submitted applications, leaving us There are even fewer people, so you’d better be accurate!”

"Alas -" Horst sighed, "When the new apprentices first came in, I thought there were too many people in the Tower of Time, but now I think there are too few people."

Of course, he was just sighing. In fact, if he is willing to wait, more and more new mages will obtain formal ranks as time goes by.

"Now I have a total of 9 people here, and your two research laboratories have a total of 26 people, so there are 35 people. I think we have to make up 50 people!"

"50 people! You are so rude!"

Having said that, Steele did not refute, because he also felt that there was a need to increase manpower, but the gap of 15 people was difficult to fill!

"By the way, Mark, I remember you just hired someone a few days ago. Do you know there are still unassigned files in the Human Resources Department?"

"No, and even if there is, it is reserved for others, and it is not our turn at all. If you expect the HR Department to allocate it, it is better to just go to the public floor and shout twice!" Mark complained a few times.

It is really not easy to recruit people, so what about an independent research laboratory? A research laboratory like his that has just been established and has no results at all. Under normal circumstances, it cannot attract full-time staff to join, so it can only find part-time employees.

The person he recruited before was a level 3 apprentice who was directly contacted by the trustee. He supported the person to pass the professional exam, and then allowed the person to join his research laboratory.

Hearing the conversation between Steele and Mark, Horst's heart couldn't help but sink, and he placed his last hope on Steele.