Arcane Lord

the next day.

Xia Duo received "Several Suggestions on the Civilization of Territory Magic" from Territory Magic Affairs Officer Jay, and was deeply touched after reading it carefully.

In "Advice", Jay shared various situations he experienced on the first day he officially joined the company, from the busyness of his mother preparing breakfast for him in the morning to the hardships and even dangers of the development team working in the development department.

In this way, Jay put forward a number of practical suggestions on the civilian use of territory magic. Among them, Xia Duo believed that the application of magic stoves would be relatively easy to implement in the short term. Others, such as magic development, were not so easy to implement.

Putting down Jay's report, Shado continued to read the work reports of the other three of the first four magic affairs officers in the territory.

Compared with the detailed content of Jay's report, the reports of the other three were much simpler. They mainly talked about their experiences in the moral education class and their own views on the moral education class.

Xia Duo has his own requirements and expectations for magic affairs officers. Although the first four were only selected by the five-person committee of the academy, he believed that neither the five-person committee nor these four magic affairs officers would let them. He was disappointed.

It's only the first day of work now, so I can't actually see much of a difference.

After thinking about it, Xia Duo replied to each of the four people with a letter, mostly encouraging. For Jay, he first affirmed Jay's suggestion of a magic stove, and on this basis, he proposed a The concept and goals of “modernization of residents’ lives”.

You can have a magic stove, and you can also have other magic facilities in your life. He encouraged Jay to participate more in life and experience life. Creativity comes from life and will be applied to life.

After sending the letter to the Territory Government Affairs Office, Shado went to the Tower of Time supplies office again, checked the Tower of Time's recent supply consumption, and arranged for Cecily to reserve some supplies for the Magic Affairs Officer to research and apply for. .

Cecily promised well in person, but turned around and informed Nia of the incident.

At noon, when Sha Duo and Niya were having lunch at the lord's villa in Linshui Village, he learned about this from Niya.

Although Niya had no objection to this, she also expressed her concerns:

"Isn't it too fast to implement magic for civilian use now? Whether it is the magic literacy of the people or the material consumption of the Tower of Time, I am afraid that it is somewhat unsustainable!"

Niya's worries are not unreasonable. Xia Duo just went to the supplies department in the morning to see that the magic material reserves of the Tower of Time are still increasing at a small rate, but the total amount has never been increased.

As long as the Tower of Time undergoes a large-scale maintenance, it may be completely used up. However, the Tower of Time is now running under high load.

Xavier would never have imagined that Xia Duo could be so tormented, filling so many people into the tower at once, and with the large number of apprentices he had previously recruited, they would grow into official mages one after another.

The infrastructure maintenance pressure of the Tower of Time has also become increasing, and the fixed-cycle maintenance costs have also become higher and higher.

Although the floating city has always been a dream of Sha Duo, in a sense, it is probably also a choice that the Tower of Time has to make.

Even if it is not a floating city, it will be more comprehensive magic facilities such as mage towers.

Niya's worries also made Sha Duo think of another level, which is the construction of the floating city. Although the main construction has been completed, subsequent functional systems and internal equipment and facilities will require a large amount of magic materials.

It’s just that the clarion call of the new era has sounded. All development problems can only be solved through sustained development, and resource issues are one of them.

It is simply unrealistic to try to achieve development by cutting expenditures.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo felt deep pressure, and his silence also brought a lot of pressure to Niya. She tentatively mentioned:

"How about we mine the mithril mine we discovered in the Green Bead Forest?"

"no."

Xia Duo decisively refused. Now only the mithril mine has been discovered in the Green Pearl Forest, and the mine is the last strategic reserve. The most difficult time has not yet come! How can you easily use this last and only trump card!

"We can only postpone the transformation of civilian magic in the territory." Xia Duo sighed and made a difficult decision.

That is to say, the magic renovation plan for the territory's civilian facilities has not yet been formed, otherwise he may not be able to make such a determination.

Although the transformation of civilian magic in the territory is temporarily suspended, related research and related technical reserves cannot be stopped. On the contrary, they must be vigorously supported.

Nia expressed support for Shado's decision, saying: "I will ask Cecily to reserve enough research supplies for your magic affairs officer."

"Um."

Xia Duo nodded. In fact, this problem is not a big problem. It is more of a chat between the two of them during the meal. However, with a high-consumption project as big as the floating city, the resource issue is always a big problem that is difficult to avoid.

Regarding the specific material consumption for the construction of the floating city, Xia Duo has not mentioned it to Niya yet. He estimates that Niya will be furious if he mentions it.

In fact, after returning from the last visit to the main body of the floating city, Niya often asked him at night whether he needed the help of the Tower of Time for subsequent construction. This somewhat smelled of high consumption.

But how should he answer this?

Could it be said that filling in the entire Tower of Time would not be enough to fill such a big black hole?

During this period, in addition to studying with Niya, Xia Duo has been obsessed with the subsequent design of the floating city, which is somewhat escaping reality.

But now Cecily's "complaint" made him realize that there was no way to escape this problem. If he waited until all subsequent designs were completed before thinking about this problem, it would be too late.

"well--"

…

After lunch.

Xia Duo asked Niya to go back to the Tower of Time to continue the test papers, while he himself went to the study room on the second floor of the villa. Xia Duo did not use this study often, but every time he came, he could feel a heavy sense of responsibility.

The most intuitive source of this sense of responsibility is the bookshelf as big as one wall of the study room, which is almost full of copies of territorial documents.

However, today Xia Duo was not going to check the newly produced territorial documents. Instead, he sat directly behind the desk, took out a pen and paper and started writing and drawing.

Currently, the Tower of Time's income mainly comes from three aspects - income from the sales of mass-produced magic items, income from the sales of other magic items, and income from members' consumption.

However, after many reforms, the latter two incomes have actually been declining rapidly. Compared with the income from the sales of mass-produced magic items, they are almost negligible.

As for expenditures, there are three main categories -

The largest one is the expenditure on purchasing magic materials, which accounts for almost 90% of the total expenditure. The second is the salary paid to the official members after the transformation. This part is getting higher and higher as time goes by.