Arcane Lord

The next day, Sha Duo and Niya met again. This time, it was Nia who introduced Sha Duo to the situation in Severton and the relationship between the various great arcanists.

Although it is just some general information, it depends on what circle it comes from. After Niya becomes a princess student, the information she has access to is far wider and deeper than Xia Duo.

This information was of great help to Sha Duo in judging the current situation. It was a pity that Niya was in a hurry to return to Severton, otherwise Sha Duo would definitely have to drag her to chat for a while.

After Niya left, Shado issued the first official order for the transformation of the Tower of Time - to reduce the price of paper and ink in the Tower of Time!

Although this order is very inconspicuous, Xia Duo, who has personally experienced the apprenticeship stage, knows very well that for apprentices, how much time is sometimes wasted for a blank notebook and a small bottle of ink!

It's okay for those with rich families, but the reality is that there are only a few rich families. Many people come here with the idea of ​​only staying for three years to enter the Tower of Time.

In three years, you will have food, housing, and a salary (albeit very low), you can learn writing, and if you are lucky, you can become a mage apprentice, or even an official mage.

Basically, unless the family is really short of people, no matter how poor the family is, they will send their newly grown children to live in the Tower of Time for three years.

These people work hard, but some things cannot be achieved by just hard work. The Tower of Time has set up many artificial obstacles for apprentices to acquire knowledge and acquire knowledge efficiently.

This is the current common situation in Netheril, and it cannot be changed overnight, but Shado can start with the Tower of Time, start with the details, and slowly change.

He believed that other mage towers undergoing transformation would not be as thorough as his. Not only must they change the way magic items are produced, but they must also change the existing mage training system.

Of course, in Xia Duo's eyes, the existing mage training system cannot be called a training system at all. It is more like a herding system and is very passive. What he wants is active training.

Or change to a few fancy words, it could be "comprehensively promote the reform of magic education, improve the mage training system, and vigorously develop magic productivity!"

In the next few days, Xia Duo stayed at the Tower of Time, constantly observing the status of the apprentices through the Tower Spirit Projection. The price reduction of consumables necessary for learning made the apprentices very happy, and even their enthusiasm for learning increased a lot.

At the same time, Xia Duo also paid attention to the performance of the official mages.

Most of the mid-level mages have mastered spells such as [Detection and Detection]. Xia Duo did not peek at them, but judging from the performance of other junior mages, the mages did not show any abnormality to the price reduction of ink and paper.

In other words, these are not the goals they are concerned about at all.

This also made Xia Duo breathe a sigh of relief, but the next step must directly touch the interests, or pain points, of the official mage.

Shado was not in a hurry to issue the next order, but was planning to consolidate it for a period of time, but privately, he asked Dean to expand the scope of the "Enter the Academy" propaganda to all apprentices.

If you set the tone first and then issue the order, it may not be so difficult to accept.

…

In mid-October of the year 835 of the Nese calendar, Xia Duo returned to Linshui Village in Daxia on the "Lucky Owen".

On the Tower of Time side, Xia Duo has put it aside for the time being, but he contacts the tower spirit every day to learn about the latest situation there. Now that the elemental passage in the Mystery Lock ruins has been built, the Tower of Time is under the pressure of the chaotic magic network from the outside world. Big reduction.

Not only are the energy reserves gradually becoming sufficient, but the rioting magic network situation has been calmed down, and the difficulty of communication has actually dropped a lot.

Perhaps it won't be long before Xia Duo can even pass directly through the ruins of the Magic Network and travel between the Tower of Time and Linshui Village.

It's a pity that during the year in Silver Light City in the projection plane, excluding Sword Singer training in the morning and sleeping time at night, nearly half of Sha Duo's available time was spent in the Silver Light Tower Library.

If he had spent all this year studying magic, maybe he would have become a high-level mage and learned [Long Distance Teleportation]. Then when he returned to Linshui Village, he would not need to take a boat back to his territory. With the help of the Time The tower's teleportation array makes teleportation much more convenient.

However, the temptation of mithril refining technology is too great. Although only some simple process descriptions were found in the end, they are still of considerable value.

Projection planes are common, but projection into elves is not common. Cases of Master Nese projecting into elves only exist in legends, and no one has ever come forward to say that he has projected elves.

Xia Duo projected three times and became an elf twice, which surprised him. He guessed that this might be related to him being an earthling, but without evidence, he could not make further judgments.

Therefore, he gave priority to the technology of searching for elves. Maybe he would never have the chance again in the future.

When he returned to the territory this time, a high-ranking official was already in sight, but Xia Duo was not in a hurry to invest in research, because there was always one thing hanging on his calendar with a very high priority, and it was almost time now.

For Xia Duo, Archmage Greta had reminded him a long time ago to spend more energy on developing territory, and later Niya told him clearly that the princess would come to the south to patrol.

Currently, he is the only pioneer in the south. Obviously, the princess wants to come to Daxia Territory!

Archmage Greta didn't say the time, but Niya just said that it was before winter, and it was already autumn. Calculating that the Time Princess was coming soon, and a great arcanist was personally patrolling, Shado was still under a lot of pressure.

But at the same time, he was also a little excited. People like the Great Arcanist were not easy to see. In their eyes, how much difference there was between a high-level mage and a low-level mage, or even an apprentice!

Perhaps only by becoming an Arcanist can they take a high look, but this cannot be achieved in a short time.

Therefore, Xia Duo could only put more effort into developing his territory, and this happened to be what the princess, the great arcanist, focused on.

…

In the Altar Square, Shado looked at a few isolated wooden houses in the north and asked Leiden about the progress of manufacturing the wooden houses: "Leiden, how many sets of standard wooden house parts are currently in stock in the territory?"

Unlike Shado, Leiden returns to the Tower of Time from time to time, and even performs astral projection, time travel, and the astral world. Since coming to Linshui Village, he has not left. He has been on the territory all day long. For these, The data is probably more familiar to the carpenter than the carpenter himself.

There was no need to check the records at all, and it was reported directly, "The latest recorded 33 sets, and 10 more sets can be added in three days."

Xia Duo nodded. The standard wooden house components are not made in sets, but in ten sets of modules. On average, not counting the time spent on construction, it takes about 20 man-days to manufacture a set of standard wooden house components.

That is, 20 carpenters for 1 day, or 10 carpenters for 2 days.

Xia Duo is still very satisfied with this speed. There are now more than 200 households in the territory. In total, there are at least 200 wooden houses.

There are currently 20 carpenters with decent skills in the territory (limited to making wooden houses). Even if there is no increase in manpower, they can all be manufactured in half a year.