Arcane Lord

As for the funding issue, even the floating city is already under construction. Is Xia Duo still afraid of spending more?

What's more, if the first order is negotiated, it means that Daxia Ling has established a relationship with Evereska. He is spending money to import now, but he may not be able to make money from exports in the future.

Xia Duo has never forgotten what Said from the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce said when he visited the Tower of Time some time ago - there is a market for human magic items in the elven world!

Just make some modifications to the appearance according to the local cultural atmosphere to satisfy the elves' aesthetics.

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Thinking like this, Xia Duo has already arrived at the Sky Garden. If he takes another seven or eight steps, he can put his hand into the river. Of course, it is impossible for Xia Duo to do such a thing.

He walked a few more steps and stopped next to a white stone pillar. In fact, he could smell the rich fragrance of the sun rose from such a close distance.

If you look carefully, you can even smell the fragrance of jasmine in the night sky.

However, Xia Duo is already very familiar with the scent of night sky jasmine. He is now paying more attention to sun rose. Compared with the soothing effect of night sky jasmine scent, sun rose also has a magical effect.

Xia Duo just took a clear breath and felt a lot more energetic, and even inspiration was looming. Although he had not yet traded the [Light of Inspiration] potion from Hildalanna, at this moment, he was interested in that kind of The magic potion is a bit more believable.

After taking a few more deep breaths, the looming inspiration seemed to be separated by a layer of gauze and never emerged. Xia Duo couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, but he also looked forward to the [Light of Inspiration] potion.

"Could it be that the [Light of Inspiration] potion is made from sun roses?"

It’s not impossible!

For a while, Xia Duo had some thoughts about Sun Rose again, lamenting that the elves have a rich family background, and even if they decline, they still have so many good things!

He looked around and found a bookstore on the outside of the riverside trail to the north. He hadn't noticed it when he came in the evening, but now that he saw it, he couldn't miss it.

"Maybe we can find books about Sun Rose."

After making a decision, Xia Duo walked over there without hesitation. As soon as he reached the door, he saw a young elf wearing a light green robe staggering out.

Xia Duo dodged to avoid it, and at this moment, a stream of neat childish voices came from the bookstore——

"A druid, dirty, lives in the fields, has no wife!"

Accompanied by the chorus of chorus, seven or eight elf children rushed out from inside holding a thin bamboo branch each.

Xia Duo avoided it again, and then he saw these little brats jumping up and down chasing the young elf who was suspected to be a druid, beating and singing at the same time, acting out a scene of bullying.

The young elf dodged as much as possible while speeding up his pace and running towards the south without any resistance.

Seeing this scene, Xia Duo really didn't know what to say. He could see that the seven or eight elf children should also be from civilians, and if nothing unexpected happened, there would be at least one druid among them.

Not to mention that almost all of Evereska’s food is provided by druids. In Shado’s hometown, there are no well diggers for river water!

What is this called? It's simply "too hasty"!

At the same time, this also gave Sha Duo a clearer understanding of the situation and status of druids in the elf society of the main plane.

Obviously in the projection plane, the druid is not so bad, so why is it like this in the main plane?

Xia Duo had an answer in his mind, but he didn't dare to say it out loud. In the end, he could only sigh silently, and then turned around and entered the bookstore.

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"Humanity?"

The bookstore owner was a male moon elf. He might have been used to the arrival of humans. He didn't move at all. He just glanced at Xia Duo and reminded:

"All the books here are protected by mysterious locks. If you don't buy them, don't touch them, let alone hide them secretly. Tell me which one you need. Buy it and take it back to read."

Being regarded as a potential thief again, Xia Duo didn't take it seriously. He knew that this was a common prejudice among elves. Of course, there might have been humans stealing here some time ago.

He thought he was not in the same group as the Nese people, so he responded and walked straight inside. In the process, he used high-level permissions to inquire about the situation of this bookstore with Mysuo.

Although there was no information about the store owner, he still found the permission settings for related services in the store.

The books inside are indeed protected by a mysterious lock as the store owner said, but local residents can freely access and read them, or even borrow them.

As for humans, you can't even touch it. If you touch it, the alarm will be triggered. If you don't buy it, maybe the patrol will arrive next moment.

Of course, with the advanced authority that Xia Duo now has, he can read it at will, but he doesn't want to be so high-profile yet.

If the shopkeeper doesn't know what he's selling, he might even call a patrol, which would be even more troublesome.

Not wanting to cause trouble, Xia Duo did not reveal the fact that he had high-level permissions, but acted like an ordinary tourist.

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Looking at the rows of bookshelves, Xia Duo quickly noticed that this bookstore was more like a newsstand on the street in his hometown. Most of the books here had nothing to do with magic, or were not directly related.

And many of them are monthly or weekly publications. For example, "Mella Fashion Review" is placed in the most conspicuous place at the door of the bookstore. The cover is clearly marked "June Issue of the Year of the Museum".

Others include "Artisan Reference" for industry information, "High Style" for entertainment and gossip, "Yard Structure" for architecture, etc.

Of course, there are still many regular books in the bookstore, such as the druid's "Botany", the encyclopedia-like "Encyclopedia of Natural History", and even dictionaries.

It's just that the dictionaries here are not dictionaries in different languages, but dictionaries similar to the "Old Chinese Dictionary" in Xia Duo's hometown, which are based on ancient Elvish languages.

Although most of the books here have nothing to do with magic, Shado values ​​them more. It's not that he doesn't value magic, but that the magic of elves has only reference value for humans, and he already knows enough.

On the contrary, these books on humanities and social sciences can better demonstrate the inherent cultural and spiritual characteristics of a civilization.

Of course, valuing does not mean buying. Xia Duo's valuing is more focused on "valuing".

This bookstore once again reminded him that there was a huge gap between Netheril and the elven world, which could not be smoothed out by just one or two strategic magics at the bottom of the box.

If material civilization is to develop, spiritual civilization must also not fall behind. We must grasp it with both hands and be strong with both hands!

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After wandering around the bookstore twice, Xia Duo finally chose a druid-related "Sun Rose Seedling Cultivation Techniques" and several latest periodicals.

Among them, "Sun Rose Seedling Techniques" is the only book with "Sun Rose" in the name that Xia Duo found in this bookstore.

There may be others, but they are nearly impossible to find without digging through them.

Xia Duo felt that in the future, he could arrange for someone to go to the elf world regularly to collect books, especially journals, which would be very helpful for him to understand the latest trends in the elf world.