Arcane Lord

The first phase of the Tower of Time's transformation seems to have only four small goals, but it involves more than just four things. It is multifaceted and intricate. Fortunately, Xia Duo has already been planning the transformation of the Tower of Time.

Now that he was doing it, he was somewhat mentally prepared. After leaving the town hall, Sha Duo went to four chambers of commerce including Liaton, Hans, Slavin, and Flash Gold.

The arcanist came to the house in person and borrowed a few stewards who were good at accounting and auditing. It took almost no effort. As soon as Xia Duo arrived, he just mentioned the request and the arrangements were already made.

Xia Duo hired two people from each chamber of commerce, a total of eight people, who can be regarded as the initial team of the Tower of Time Audit Office. As for why he didn't ask Derrick, the business director of Savile Territory, to ask for people, he naturally considered the Tower of Time. Intermediate mages have a close relationship with the territorial chamber of commerce.

Using those people means letting them investigate themselves!

It is better to find some unrelated people who are more reliable, which is similar to a third-party agency.

…

After a while, Xia Duo returned to the Tower of Time with eight Chamber of Commerce stewards. After notifying Cecily, he asked these people to settle in the Materials Department. After handing over the relevant documents and files, the work officially started.

The first target that Xia Duo chose for the Audit Office was the "Tilak Research Laboratory". On the one hand, he would check his direct lineage first, so that at least there would be no objections, which would allow the Audit Office to quickly accumulate experience.

On the other hand, it is due to the so-called "publicity produces justice, integrity produces prestige".

Tilak and others did not have any objections to this. All the people in their laboratory were junior mages. The establishment of the laboratory itself was strongly recommended by Shado, breaking the tradition that only mid-level mages could establish private laboratories.

There were many pairs of eyes staring at them, and they wouldn't dare to enrich themselves. This was why Xia Duo dared to choose them first.

…

In the next two days, Xia Duo did not return to the territory. Although a group of new citizens had just arrived in the territory and there were many things waiting for him to deal with when he returned, he still patiently organized two exchange meetings.

One is for a junior mage, and the other is for an intermediate mage.

One of the four small goals of the Tower of Time transformation is to organize formal exchange meetings and formulate standards.

Of course, it was said to be an exchange meeting, but it was actually more like Sha Duo giving lessons to those mages. The mages of the Tower of Time were very enthusiastic when listening to the lectures, but when it was their turn to speak, their attitude became a little cold.

Just two exchange meetings are not enough to change their ideas. Xia Duo plans to take time to organize exchange meetings every week to promote the atmosphere of exchange.

During the exchange meeting, the 300 new apprentices summoned by Mayor Shain had also completed their registration at the Tower of Time.

In order to allow these 300 people to enter the Tower of Time as quickly as possible, the fixed teleportation gate connecting Savile Town was almost collapsed. The continuous teleportation of 300 people was still too much of a burden for a teleportation gate that was originally only used as a single-person passage.

The fixed array here in Savile Town almost needs to be rebuilt, and the cost is very high. From this, we can also see that Shado attaches great importance to the transformation of the Tower of Time.

After that, when new apprentices were admitted and divided into classes, Xia Duo had to personally handle almost everything. In addition to new apprentices, the original apprentices of the Tower of Time also had to be re-divided into classes.

Excluding those apprentices who really want to give up the path of magic, there are a total of 685 apprentices in the Tower of Time under the new system.

Among them, level 3 apprentices: 5 (preparatory members to enter the society, quasi-mage);

Level 2 apprentices: 140 people;

Level 1 apprentices: 540 people.

The number of apprentices increased dramatically, the teaching plan was adjusted repeatedly, and Xia Duo's return to the territory was repeatedly postponed. Until the apprentice management office got on the right track, the time quietly came to the end of July.

Xia Duo is preparing to return to his territory, and will not come to the Tower of Time again in a short period of time. What will happen to the Tower of Time next will be tested by time.

…

However, before Shado could return to the territory, Niya returned to the Tower of Time from Severton.

Since the two of them communicated every day through tower spirits or communication instruments, Niya knew the current situation of the Tower of Time very well, and Shado was no stranger to Niya's daily life in Severton.

After meeting, Xia Duo suddenly remembered what Niya said before leaving last time, and couldn't help but joked: "Niya, do you want a child?"

"..."

Niya rolled her eyes at Xia Duo and decisively did not answer. Instead, she skillfully changed the subject, "Tomorrow is Midsommar, won't you stay?"

"Stay? Stay and have the baby?"

"You—" Niya was so angry, "I kindly asked you to spend the holidays together, but why do you always mention that!"

Well, Xia Duo knew that going too far is too much, so he put away his smile and said seriously: "Sorry, I won't say it next time. As for staying for the festival, forget it. There are a lot of things in the territory waiting for me to go back and deal with it. If not If there’s anything else, I’m leaving now.”

Xia Duo apologized so bluntly, which made Niya a little embarrassed, and her tone suddenly softened, "It's not too late!"

"Uh--" Sha Duo didn't expect Niya to say this, but think about last year's Midsummer Festival, the curse in Lord Epps entered the stasis space, which can be said to be almost dead, and Niya's mother, in She died at birth.

Now, she only has one relative like herself. Although it is more of a contractual relationship, it is still a relative. Maybe Niya feels lonely.

Even someone as powerful as an arcanist would have such mundane emotions. Thinking of this, Sha Duo couldn't help but feel a hint of pity in his eyes when he looked at Niya. At the same time, he also thought of his relatives in his hometown in another world.

Thinking that in this world, the one who will accompany him through the long road in the future may be Niya in front of him, Sha Duo still made a decision, "I will stay!"

Immediately afterwards, he clearly felt that Niya's mood was rising, but his matter was not just to agree to stay one more day, but also to inform the other side of the territory to prevent them from thinking that something unexpected happened here.

In front of Niya, he sent the message back to the territory that he would stay one more day, and then the two of them went to Niya's private laboratory together.

Although Xia Duo promised to stay and pass, Midsummer Festival is tomorrow, and what should be done today still has to be done. Although the progress of cracking Feld's spell book is not fast, it is always being carried out unswervingly.

After the last bridging experiment, Sha Duo contacted Niya every day to discuss the bridging plan. They had also found the reason for the abnormal oscillation of the earth element in the set of mithril components that was bridged last time, and were working on the subsequent bridging plan. Corrected.

This time the two are confident that they can bridge the three sets of mithril components. If everything goes well, they will be able to find the "lock" of the spell book after another seven or eight bridging experiments.

Targeted measures can then be taken to speed up the cracking process.

Xia Duo was very curious about the contents of this spell book!