Arcane Lord

"It doesn't matter. I am very interested in the restaurant idea you just mentioned. Regardless of whether we can cooperate on this project this time, I am sure that we will have the opportunity to continue to cooperate on other projects."

Shaduo affirmed Ikejita's restaurant design, but was noncommittal about other aspects of the design. After hearing Shado's comments, Ikejita's face instantly turned pale.

"Lord Xia Duo, then this time——"

“If Ikegita designers don’t mind collaborating with other designers, then we can sign a contract now.”

Such a sudden reversal made Ikejita overjoyed and said quickly: "I don't mind, I don't mind. I am happy to cooperate with other designers. We can learn from each other and make progress together!"

To be honest, from the moment he accepted the interview invitation, Ikejita had already realized this. If he had always insisted on leading the design plan himself, he would not have agreed to Oripus' invitation at all.

As for Shado, after receiving Ikegita's affirmative answer, he immediately called Oripus to come over and take Ikegitah to sign the commission contract, and at the same time called the next interviewer in.

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In this way, Shado interviewed a total of fourteen designers, and only one local designer from Evereska flatly refused because he could not accept that his design needed to be completely subject to the guidance of a human being.

The other thirteen designers have signed commission contracts with Oripus. This certainly does not mean that all thirteen elves meet Sha Duo's requirements, but that one more is not too much and one less is not too much.

After all, they have been waiting for more than a month, and Xia Duo will not refuse as long as it is not too outrageous. What's more, when the construction actually starts later, it will be good to have one more supervisor.

Of course, these thirteen elf designers are not all mediocre people. There are still some eye-catching designs, such as Ikejita’s restaurant design ideas (not the design itself).

Then there is the design called [Mirror Forest], which completely transforms the landmark building into a forest made of mirrors. Visitors can travel through it and break through the limitations of time and space to go to different spaces.

The idea itself is very interesting, not to mention that the design itself is also very brilliant. Mirrors of different shapes form a forest of light and shadow. Just looking at the renderings makes you feel beautiful.

Unfortunately, the level of magic buildings allowed by Everesca is not enough, and a complete mirror forest cannot be built at all. Moreover, even if it is complete, the subsequent maintenance costs will be sky-high.

Moreover, it was designed specifically for exhibitions and would be difficult to use as a regular business venue. If built, the best fate of this building in the future is to become a spectacle in Everesca.

But even so, the mark of the Great Xia Territory on it will soon fade over time, turning it into a completely elven structure, which is something Xia Duo cannot accept.

He wants to build this landmark building into a frontier export base for Daxia culture. He allows it to have elven colors, but he will never allow it to lack Daxia characteristics.

Designs like Jinglin are too avant-garde and are difficult to be tolerated by Daxia culture in its current state. In other words, it will not represent Daxia culture, but the designer's personal characteristics, which is actually Elf culture.

If it were a human designer, Xia Duoxing might just decide to build this as soon as he was happy, but the elf designer couldn't.

Despite this, Shado still purchased this design plan from the designer named "Culuo" and decided that if there was a chance in the future, he would complete this wonder in his own territory.

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After signing all thirteen designers, Xia Duo began to further clarify his requirements. He needed elements from the five elven races. This requirement had not been mentioned before.

This is actually a bit sensitive. The concept of equality and co-prosperity among the five races is what Cormanthor says. Other elven countries have their own ideas about uniting elves from different ethnic groups.

For example, in Ilfarang, almost all the citizens are golden elves. In this situation, it would be somewhat hypocritical to shout "equality and common prosperity among the five races".

In Elfaran, the correct saying is that the golden elf is the eldest son in the Taquesir family and needs to shoulder heavier responsibilities, which of course requires more power and a higher status.

In Evereska, they are also brothers, but they don't distinguish who is the eldest son and who is the second son, because Everesca has all kinds of elves, and if they distinguish, there will be chaos within themselves.

But in fact, the Golden Elf has the advantage.

Of course, Xia Duo is not satisfied with this situation. It's not that he hopes that elves will be equal to each other, but that equality itself is also related to the equality between humans and elves.

If the five elves can truly achieve equality, then in this process, humans and elves must have achieved equality long ago.

But to be honest, Xia Duo is actually quite pessimistic about such a prospect, because he knows very well that in many cases, internal racial discrimination is often more serious than external discrimination and is difficult to eliminate.

However, many things must be done no matter how difficult they are. At this moment, Xia Duo is not considering this matter as a human being, but as the future leader of the Northland Alliance.

The future is very long, and humans and elves are indeed in a competitive relationship, but competition does not mean that they cannot cooperate, nor does it mean that they must be hostile. Healthy competition within the framework of the Northland Alliance is a win-win solution that is beneficial to both parties.

Based on this, Xia Duo is willing to make some efforts to promote equality among elves. After all, no matter what elves they are in the future, they will be "soldiers" that can be used by him.

Of course, from a selfish point of view, the macro narrative is too far away from him at this moment, but a human actively promoting the equality of elves will inevitably push this topic to the forefront.

In the long run, it will indeed help solve the racial problems within the elves, but in the short term, it will also cause a greater impact.

In other words, Xia Duo promotes the equality of elves and wins twice in the short and long term, which can be described as a win-win situation.

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In addition to adding the iconic elements of the five elven tribes, Xia Duo also requested that the plan have pragmatic considerations. Regardless of how much money will be made from this building in the future, at least the losses cannot be too outrageous!

The others are the main themes mentioned in the previous open recruitment of Oripus - "cooperation" and "future". Of course, as Xiaduo is the Party A, there is also a potential necessary condition for the design of this landmark building plan, which is to promote Daxia. culture.

Although he didn't say this explicitly, he hinted at it many times, and if the plan couldn't do this, there was no need to say anything more about going back and redoing it.

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In this way, Xia Duo left a one-month deadline for the submission of the manuscript, and then contacted the Yeerlan embassy. Accompanied by the other party's concierge, he walked through the portal directly to Taivimansa, the capital of Yeerland.