Arcane Lord

What Xia Duo is thinking about at the moment is how to make full use of his qualifications to ask questions. Cooperation with Donald can be said to be downstream. If he really asks questions specifically for them, Xia Duo will be at a disadvantage.

The upper reaches should be some motivated ordinary apprentices who are close to formal apprentices. They want to ask questions to formal mages or excellent teaching apprentices, but they are not qualified, have no channels, or cannot afford the price. Now with Xia Duo, they don’t have to worry. .

If they were willing to answer questions for Xia Duo, then Xia Duo would naturally be willing to ask questions to capable people on their behalf.

The transaction contents of the upstream can naturally flow to the downstream, and Xia Duo is the middleman.

This can be regarded as Xia Duo's unique resource. Other formal apprentices either have no use for ordinary apprentices at all, or the cost of hiring them is too high for ordinary apprentices to accept.

The same qualifications for asking questions, the psychological price acceptable to Xia Duo is definitely much lower than that of other formal apprentices.

The appearance of Xia Duo forcibly opened up all levels in the mage tower——

New apprentice, ordinary apprentice, final apprentice, formal apprentice, formal mage.

Originally, ordinary apprentices just wanted to become formal apprentices, and there was basically no need for the lower level, or the price was too high; the situation of formal apprentices was similar, they all wanted to move up to the next level.

Xia Duo's demand for new apprentices is gold coins, and his demand for other classes is knowledge. He may not have much interaction with formal apprentices, but he can have intersections with other classes.

It's the middleman who can make the difference.

But then I thought about it, Xia Duo also wanted to become a real formal apprentice, or even a formal mage. Thinking about this, he suddenly calmed down after he was still a little complacent.

Still need to work hard!

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The basic process of being a middleman has been determined by Xia Duo, but in actual implementation, it is necessary to be able to obtain a certain price difference while trying to fit in with one's own learning progress so as not to delay oneself.

Obtaining knowledge for the upstream will inevitably affect his normal learning progress and needs to be retrieved from them. It is equivalent to the other party exchanging low-level knowledge for the key knowledge from Xia Duowen. This balance needs to be mastered.

Sell ​​it at a low price downstream to obtain low-level knowledge from the upstream, and obtain gold coins for daily consumption.

Xia Duo will not forget his goal. Obtaining enough power to protect himself is the first priority. Making money or making a profit difference are only auxiliary, and he cannot do things that are too small to make a big gain.

For the time being, Dean is still a good partner. The knowledge he needs does not necessarily require Xia Duo to find a formal mage. He only needs to find an apprentice who teaches.

As for the future, if Dean can successfully become an official apprentice, then Shado will have to find another ordinary apprentice who is in a bottleneck state. If not, he can continue to cooperate.

After returning to the dormitory floor, Sha Duo found Dean and promoted his cooperation plan. Dean happened to need Sha Duo's help over there, and the two hit it off.

After confirming the cooperation plan, Sha Duo immediately asked: "Dean, can you tell me how to practice casting spells?"

"Okay." Dean did not refuse, but in fact he was somewhat resistant in his heart, because the faster Xia Duo progressed, the less he would need him, and there would be no need to ask him for the knowledge he lacked.

But despite his inner resistance, Dean had no other choice. He knew that if he didn't want to, Shado could find someone else. He was not the only apprentice stuck on the threshold.

"Practicing spellcasting, or simply casting spells, is actually the same thing, but the spell may not be activated smoothly during practice. Spellcasting is prohibited in the dormitory area. Let's go to the spell practice room."

"Then I'll trouble you."

"It's not too troublesome, I just happened to have gained something, and I want to verify it."

Having said that, Dean was still a little distressed because he must have paid for the cost of renting the spell-casting practice room.

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On the way to the library floor, Xia Duo was not willing to give up this little time. He had a question during the enlightenment class, but that question was still far away from Xia Duo. In addition, the question was about selling, so Xia Duo kept asking. did not ask.

The cooperation between Sha Duo and Dean, if nothing unexpected happens, will continue until Dean becomes an official apprentice. Sha Duo doesn't care if Dean suffers a loss by asking one more question, as long as he doesn't suffer a loss anyway.

"Dean, do you know about psychic powers?"

"Spirit? Power [Biquge www.bequge.xyz]?" Dean was puzzled, "What kind of power is this?"

Sha Duo explained to Dean the concept of mental power, because this word was coined by Sha Duo in Nese language, and there is no term for mental power in Nese language.

After hearing Sha Duo's explanation, Dean also showed some interest, "There is definitely a soul, and the soul does have power. It is not a specific power, but a description."

"Oh? What power does the soul have?"

"I don't know about this, I just read it in books by chance, but I can tell you for sure that I don't have the kind of mental power you described, and all the apprentices and mages I know don't have that kind of power. "

Xia Duo pondered, it was impossible to say he was not interested in a world with magic, and what he cared about most was of course the principle of magic. Before time travel, he was writing online articles, so he was certainly no stranger to the concept of mental power.

Being able to cast spells, control the movement of objects, and even invade the brain and create hallucinations are all attributes of mental power in novels, but such mental power does not seem to exist in the real magical world.

Of course, it is impossible for Shado to think that what Dean said is definitely correct, but at present, even the mage may not have the kind of mental power that Shado thinks.

"Then what do you think the principle of spell casting is?"

"Focus! I should have already talked about it in the enlightenment class." Dean was puzzled.

"I know that there are three elements for casting spells: knowledge, magic network, and concentration. But what I want to know is, why can you cast spells by focusing? Why can't you cast spells just by thinking about it?"

This is what Sha Duo has always wondered. In Sha Duo's opinion, focus is just an adjective used to describe a state. Using concentration to cast spells is like filling your stomach with red. It is difficult for an earthling to understand.

But Dean didn't seem to find it difficult to understand at all, "Concentration is concentration. If you can cast a spell just by thinking about it, wouldn't the magic be out of control?"

After thinking for a while, Dean added: "Focus is the basis for us to contact and control the magic network. Just like throwing a stone, it will eventually fall. There is nothing difficult to understand."

Huh--

Sha Duo suddenly glanced at Dean. The example given by Dean was simply too direct to the point of gravitation. When thinking of the law of gravity, Sha Duo instantly understood that he was in over his head.

In the world before time travel, science and technology were prosperous, and people always liked to look for root problems, but in the end they would still end up at an unexplainable point, such as why the laws of the universe are like this and not like that?

Even the greatest scientists cannot explain such a problem. In the magical world, focusing can cast spells, which is the law of the world. It can summarize deeper laws, but it is really a bit confusing to ask why the laws are like this.

Looking back at his own psychology again, Xia Duo understood why he was so entangled in concepts such as principles and laws. This simply came from the uneasiness of being in another world.

Having seen the world before time travel, he is full of uneasiness about the world that he still cannot understand. It is precisely because of this that he can't wait to gain the power to protect himself.

It's not just the uneasiness about personal safety, but also the subconscious uneasiness about the world.

After understanding this psychology, Xia Duo stopped asking Dean any questions that were too far away. Instead, he focused on the present and set a small goal first——

Let the title of official apprentice be worthy of the name!