Arcane Lord

Under the leadership of Schneider, Chateau entered the interior from the bottom of the observation tower. The interior of the current observation tower is still very different from the design. From time to time, architects are seen pouring energy-guiding lines inside.

After walking to the top, Xia Duocai saw Jose, Clark and others. They were following a construction team composed of four elf mages to observe the magic version of the "bricklaying" site.

It's just that the "bricks" used here are not fired in caves, but made through magical stone shaping. There are many brick-making workshops in the northwest of Evereska.

These basic building materials do not need to be prepared by Cole Construction. You only need to order them from a specialized building materials provider.

What Xia Duo saw at this moment were brick building materials, neatly stacked on a floating platform specially used for construction. The four elf mages, Jose and others were also on it.

Noticing Xia Duo's gaze, Schneider introduced proudly: "That is the construction platform that our Cole Construction has been researching for many years. It can undertake most construction tasks, and it is considered advanced even in the entire Northland."

"Really advanced!"

Sha Duo noticed that the four elven construction mages were not actually casting spells to "lay bricks" themselves, but were manipulating the building platform to move the bricks and stones to where they were needed in a nearly standardized way, and then continued to control the building platform to cast spells to lay the bricks. Stone and architecture blend into one.

"Is your construction platform for sale?" Xia Duo suddenly asked.

"Of course for sale!"

Schneider gave an unexpected answer from Chateau, but then pointed out, "But this building platform has built-in construction methods of our Cole Building. If you purchase the platform, these plans will not come with it."

"The construction plan you are talking about refers to——"

"It is a fixed pattern of combining and utilizing these construction spells. Each construction workshop has its own spell-casting plan. This is the style and characteristics of each construction workshop, and it is also the absolute core competitiveness."

"I see."

When Schneider said this, Xia Duo's desire to buy immediately dropped a lot. This construction platform is actually somewhat similar to the industrial software on earth, but it is just a light board and omits many practical plug-ins.

But no matter what, this is an advanced thing that integrates most of the commonly used construction spells. This alone is worthy of Shado's purchase.

"So, how many Hilmers are needed for this construction platform?" Shado asked.

"If you only purchase this floating construction platform, it will cost 1.8 million Hilmers. If you also purchase other supporting tools, the total set will only cost 3 million Hilmers."

“The price is really not cheap!”

Even though Xia Duo had been mentally prepared, he couldn't help but be shocked by the price. A single building platform was worth the cost of two ordinary mage towers in Netheril. Although the cost may not be so much, the cost price is also Can't buy it!

However, considering the development of magic buildings in the territory, Sha Duo is still prepared to purchase a building platform for research, but not now.

Although the current income of the Tower of Time is not bad, the expenses are also high. Recently, a large sum of money has been spent to build an observation tower. 4.2 million Hillmel is not a small amount, and there is also Cong Mingshui in it. What about the loan portion from the Chamber of Commerce!

Now it is really impossible to spare more funds to purchase the construction platform.

…

At the observation tower construction site, Xia Duo did not comment too much on the behavior of the construction workers. He believed in the quality of professionals. However, after leaving the construction site, he still missed the construction platform.

"Half a penny really stumps a heroic man!"

Xia Duo couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but no matter how much he lamented, he couldn't directly change money. For quite some time, he was not prepared to exchange resources for money, which was very cheap for himself but very cheap for others. Precious arcane crystals.

Especially for the elves, dozens or millions of Hilmer's arcane crystals suddenly hit the market, not to mention causing the price to drop. This is a very important strategic resource.

Naturally, it has to be used in key areas, such as Calimshan's elemental ranch-related technology. The construction platform is somewhat uninteresting. If Cole Construction considers selling a construction spellcasting plan based on the construction platform, then Shado may still consider it.

But obviously, Cole Construction knows where its core competitiveness lies and cannot be sold easily.

…

After Schneider left, Shado asked Oripus about his progress in Metril during this period. Oripus was already prepared for this:

“Currently, the number of users in the Tower of Time Void Warehouse has increased again, but the big chambers of commerce in Yeerlan have also reacted and used price cuts and some non-commercial means to suppress us.

“But overall, the number of users is still growing steadily. After all, Metril is half of our home court. Of course, the more important thing is that our price is something that many small and medium-sized chambers of commerce cannot refuse.

"As long as you pass the trust barrier, the road ahead will be smooth."

At the end of the sentence, Oripus's tone became full of confidence, not at all as worried as when he first went to Metril.

Then Xia Duo asked: "What non-commercial methods did the Yeerlan Chamber of Commerce use? Have they approached you? Did Hildalanna give you any help?"

"It's nothing more than a threat to our potential users, but the small and medium-sized chambers of commerce in Yeerlan have long found their place in the ecosystem of large chambers of commerce. As long as their ambitions are not so big, they don't actually need to care too much about the threat of large chambers of commerce."

Oripus actually felt quite helpless when talking about the large chamber of commerce in Erlan. However, there are few businessmen who have no ambition, so the Void Warehouse business of the Tower of Time has still been affected.

"Those big chambers of commerce have not approached me directly, but the small and medium-sized chambers of commerce that have purchased our void warehouse service have reminded me. I asked Hildalana about this, and she told me not to worry and just do things normally."

"Um."

Xia Duo nodded, expressing understanding. He was actually not too worried about Oripus's personal safety in Ellan. He was most worried about the fact that Ellan banned the Void Warehouse of the Tower of Time.

Now it seems that there should be no problems in the short term. As for the long term, the void warehouse of the Tower of Time occupies a sufficient market, and many things cannot be unilaterally opposed by Erlan.

"How much coverage does projection advertising cover?" Xia Duo asked the question he was most concerned about.

"Currently, we have signed agreements with 18 cities in southern Yeerland to transform urban street lights based on the Evereska model. The first batch will be our advertisements, but in the long run, we will definitely not be able to occupy them all. "

"Just try to ensure exclusivity in the early stage. In addition, the number of contracted cities must be increased as soon as possible."

In fact, strictly speaking, Xia Duo does not need much projection coverage, as long as the area involved in his prediction is there, but the area involved in the prediction is difficult to determine, so he can only take the path of wide coverage.

If he could guarantee early-stage exclusivity, then he would only need to find the key information about the demon descendant within this period of time. There was no need for long-term exclusivity. That would be too expensive.