Arcane Lord

Fortunately, this kind of asset-heavy investment does not need to be done every year. Instead, an investment will benefit you for a lifetime and can even be passed on to future generations with almost no depreciation.

Similar to the spell book, there is a mage tower, but the mage tower is even more "heavy".

Even Xia Duo has not considered building his own mage tower at this stage. It is too expensive. Even with Niya's help, it is difficult to raise the down payment for the mage tower.

Just from the fact that a major overhaul of the Tower of Time costs nearly one million gold coins, we know how much it costs to build a mage tower.

Of course, the Tower of Time is somewhat special. Not counting the plane exploration array, multiple sets of equivalent backup arrays of different levels make its construction cost more than ten times higher than the normal version.

For an ordinary mage tower, one million gold coins can be used to start construction, which Qian Niya should be able to cobble together, but Xia Duo is not willing to make such excessive demands.

In reality, no matter how close Niya is to him, she must also consider the sustainable development of the Tower of Time. If she really wants to desperately raise money for Xia Duo, then Xia Duo really doesn't dare to ask for it.

God knows what unexpected actions such an irrational person will make in the future. If one day he turns dark, Xia Duo has no doubts at all.

Fortunately, although Niya is occasionally childish, she does not have yandere attributes. She is still a normal woman with normal thinking, normal rationality, and normal emotions. Well, she is also very beautiful.

Otherwise, Xia Duo would have been thinking about running away.

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Putting away the spell book, Sha Duo followed his body's instinct to summon a clean water ball. As soon as the water ball appeared, it trembled and moved towards Sha Duo, rolling back and forth on him.

After a while, Xia Duo's whole person was renewed and energetic, and the sloppiness of many days of "reclusion" was gone. Then he called the tower spirit to cancel the "no disturbance" status.

"Xia Duo, you are finally out!"

As soon as Sha Duo's authority status in the Tower of Time was restored, Niya came directly to the door and looked at Sha Duo nervously: "Is the spell book completed? Are there any materials missing?"

"No shortage, I'm done."

Shado comforted Niya and sat down first, then asked: "How many days has it been? Has Lord Rodney sent out an invitation?"

As long as there are no special operations, the sixth floor of the Tower of Time has constant temperature and constant light. During the "retreat" period, whenever Xia Duo feels a little tired, he will use [Deep Sleep] on himself.

At first, after he woke up, he would ask Talling for the current time and date, but later he didn't bother to ask. He wouldn't go out until he was done, so he lost the concept of time.

Out of respect for Sha Duo and the habit of high-level mages to avoid detection, Niya did not know the specific behavior of Sha Duo during this period.

After hearing Xia Duo's inquiry, Niya felt a little strange. She looked at Xia Duo carefully and did not find any signs of poor condition in Xia Duo that caused him to ignore the time. However, she still answered seriously:

"Four days have passed since Archmage Greta left, and Lord Rodney's invitation has not been sent."

As she was speaking, Niya suddenly seemed a little embarrassed. She quickly looked away from Sha Duo, lowered her head and explained softly: "I contacted the teacher, but the teacher did not reply."

Xia Duo was stunned for a moment, and then realized what Niya meant. He couldn't help but feel a little moved, "There's no need to disturb Her Royal Highness. I believe that since Archmage Greta said there is no danger, there will definitely be no danger. Besides, I will be fully prepared myself, so you don’t have to worry.”

Niya hummed and didn't speak, but she didn't leave either. She just looked at the ground not far away, wondering what she was thinking.

cough--

"Niya!"

Xia Duo shouted softly, and when Niya looked over, he said in a somewhat sinister tone: "Do you know of any silver or light gray dye that is not easy to fade?"

"ah--"

A surprised cry came from Niya's mouth. She obviously didn't expect Sha Duo to ask such a question, so she wanted to confirm again:

"Xia Duo, are you looking for dye?"

"right!"

Xia Duo took out the spell book he had made before from his personal space, and did not hand it to Niya. He just held it in his hand and shook it. The faint blue color of the original color of fine gold seemed more eye-catching at this moment than before:

"This is the spell book I made, but I don't like the color very much. I want to change it to a more low-key one."

Xia Duo didn't know much about the dyes in this world, including the dyes on the earth. At this time, he turned to Niya for help, and he just caught one person and asked.

Looking at Xia Duoyou's blue spell book with obvious metallic luster, Niya's expression was quite strange, "You use fine gold as the sealing material? Do you still want to use it to hit people?"

However, she did not want to interfere too much with such a personal item as the spell book. Instead, she carefully recalled which dye could last on the surface of fine gold for a long time.

After thinking for a moment, Niya gradually frowned. In her memory, there seemed to be no silver or light gray dye that could last long on the surface of fine gold.

"Sorry Xia Duo, I can't think of any dye that can last for a long time on the surface of fine gold. I'll ask other people for help, but I don't think there is much hope of finding it."

Hearing this answer, Xia Duo was still a little disappointed even though he had been mentally prepared before. However, the color of the equipment was secondary after all, as long as it functioned normally.

Just when Shado was about to give up painting the spell book, a sudden inspiration flashed in his mind, and he thought of a person - the dwarf Broto who had slayed the dragon with him not long ago.

You may not be able to find dyes that can color metal surfaces, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to change the color of metal surfaces.

The so-called coating is not simply adhesive dyeing, but also directly changes the color of the metal itself, such as the plating on the earth, which changes the color through chemical reactions.

Although chemical reactions of electromagnetic nature on Earth do not exist in this magical world, similar elemental reactions are very common.

For example, the transmutation of mithril means that different elements and energies are constantly circulating, hedging, and converting in mithril components, causing a small amount of mithril to become other substances, thereby reducing the purity of mithril, and thus affecting the content of mithril components. Energy moves.

As a master blacksmith in the magical world, the dwarf Broto should be quite familiar with the various reactions of these metals. Perhaps he has a way to coat the surface of fine gold with a heterochromatic film that can cover up its blue color.

You might also be able to choose a color, or even a custom pattern!

Thinking of this, Xia Duo couldn't help but look forward to it. Of course, there was no need to give up on Niya's side. If he could find a more convenient dye, he would still choose to use the dye.

After all, in many cases, convenience is enough to outweigh everything else.

Even if he can't find any way to change the color, he won't be unable to accept the current spell book, but if conditions permit, it would be more pleasing to the eye to change the color.

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