Arcane Lord

Thinking of this, Iolum put away the Leap Beast skeleton and said to Shado: "I agree to this matter, but if you want to persuade the Seven Towers to follow up, you need to hand over some information about the energy-conducting crystal to them. Do you want to?"

"I have no objection. I hope to see the breeding farm built as soon as possible. In addition, if they make any progress in studying the skeleton of the leap beast, I hope to be informed at the same time."

Although Shado is more inclined to build the breeding farm himself, or let Iolum come forward to build it by the Austrian and French Federation, the breeding farm is built in the ether overlap area after all, and there is no way around the Seven Towers.

Instead of all kinds of wrangling and even mental rifts later, it would be better to talk things out now. Judging from the current situation, the value of cooperation between him and Qita will be greater for a long time.

However, when he thought of the Green Tower Alliance in the south, Shado's heart suddenly cast a shadow again. This time, Iolum happened to be there, and he couldn't help but ask:

"Teacher, what do you think of the Green Tower Alliance? Is it possible that the Seven Towers are behind Cross?"

"Why do you think so?"

Iolum glanced at Sha Duo strangely, and then said: "I have also seen the recent changes in the Green Tower Alliance. It is absolutely impossible to be instigated by the Seven Towers. There is no secret in this world that can always be hidden. If so, Behind Cross is the Seven Towers, and the interior of the Seven Towers may fall apart immediately. "

"In other words, this possibility cannot be ruled out yet?" Xia Duo asked rhetorically.

"I understand what you want to say, but what I want to tell you is that the foundation of Netheril's existence is the Seventon Covenant. As long as there are no extreme circumstances, it is impossible for the Seven Towers to voluntarily abandon the covenant. This will not do anything to them. benefit."

After saying that, Iolum added, "You have to know that the Seven Towers are not just seven forces, but seven hills composed of many forces! Even if they really want to embark on the path of centralization, they will only start from the Seven Towers. It starts from the inside, not the outside, and it cannot be the Green Tower. In fact, from the moment Her Royal Highness successfully ascended to God, the road to centralization of the Seven Towers was completely blocked. "

After Iolum's incident, Xia Duo realized that he had indeed ignored the influence of the princess before. To a certain extent, the princess was the embodiment of the Seventon Covenant. As long as the princess did not fall, the covenant would naturally not fall. .

Naturally, Seven Towers cannot talk nonsense. To say the least, even if the Green Tower Alliance is some kind of attempt by Seven Towers, they will never dare to admit it publicly, let alone be implicated, and will even try their best to put aside the relationship.

"In this case, I can rest assured about some things."

"What are you worried about? Did Cross offend you?" Iolum asked curiously.

"It's not like it provoked me, it's just some business disputes. The Green Tower is copying the communication tools of the Tower of Time in the south. If it wasn't the Seven Towers instigating it, I think Cross should have expressed his opinion!"

"Imitation communication device?"

Iolum frowned as if he thought of something, "Although the magic network background communication spell is patented by Giles Tower, Cross obviously has the authorization. If it is just an imitation of the communication weapon, strictly speaking "Neither you nor Giles Tower has the right to pursue this matter. If we investigate this matter deeply, we will find stains on everyone."

"Then it can only be resolved privately in the name of personal grudges?" Xia Duo also frowned.

"I also don't recommend that you resolve it privately."

"Then am I going to let him take advantage of me?"

In fact, because of this incident, Xia Duo has repeatedly postponed the release plan of the second-generation communication magic weapon that has already been mass-produced. If it cannot be properly resolved, even if the second-generation communication magic weapon is released, it will only be cheaper for Cross's green land. Tower Alliance.

In particular, in order to facilitate ordinary individual users, the second-generation communication device does not actually have too complicated encryption measures.

Xia Duo can tolerate imitation by individual users for learning or research purposes, and it will not affect the sales of communication instruments anyway, but large-scale imitation and sales in the name of an organization would be disgusting.

Gu Chuan

In the final analysis, Netheril does not have a relatively complete patent law, and there are too few restrictions on grand arcanists.

As for Sha Duo himself, as long as no other great arcanist stands up and expresses his opposition, he can basically do whatever he wants!

Even if other great arcanists stand up and express their opposition, he can form a clique and continue to struggle. As long as he does not offend the public, it will not be difficult to pass.

This time, Cross was imitating the communication instrument of the Tower of Time. If it was imitated by the Seven Towers, Shado would not even have the idea of ​​​​countering it.

Even for Cross and Shado, they haven't figured out how to deal with it because they considered the seven towers that might exist behind it.

Even though it is now known that there is a high probability that there is no Seven Towers behind Cross, Iolum also said that it can only be resolved privately in the name of personal grudges, and he does not recommend resolving it privately.

"Teacher, what should I do now? Do nothing?"

"Of course not!" Iolum's eyes shone with determination, "Although this matter is very difficult, it may not be a rare opportunity!"

"what chance?"

"An opportunity to revolutionize the existing patent system!"

As soon as these words came out, Xia Duo immediately realized that he had no way to pursue Cross now, as long as there was no relevant consensus for everyone to support his pursuit.

At this stage, Netheril's patent system only guarantees registered spell patents, but not others, including unregistered spells and all magic item designs.

In fact, magic item designs cannot be patented at all. Only new unregistered spells can apply for patent registration.

This also creates a fact——

Although imitation does infringe on one party's interests, it is only a private interest, so it can only be dealt with in the form of private grudges.

If the counterfeiting party is more powerful and well-connected, the imitating party will be unable to stop it, let alone make the other party pay the price.

But if the scope of the patent is expanded to include the design of magic items, then the imitator will not only infringe on the private interests of the imitated party, but also the collective order maintained by all the great arcanists.

What is commonly referred to as "offending public anger" refers to this.

But the premise is that it really violates a certain resolution reached by all the great arcane masters, such as creating undead creatures on a large scale, and it will be recognized as a necromancer, and everyone can kill it.

A specific resolution does not require the approval of all the Grand Arcanists, it only requires that the minority obey the majority within the general framework of "collective order".

Because the collective order safeguards the common interests of all Grand Arcanists and even all Nese mages, it is not limited to the interests referred to by a specific resolution.

In other words, unless Cross opposes all common interests and becomes the public enemy of everyone, there is no way he can resist the new patent law.

But the premise is that most of the great arcane masters can be persuaded to support the new patent law.

"Then what the teacher means is——"