Arcane Lord

The library of Gilles Tower is divided into two floors. In fact, it separates the internal library and the public library. The reading permissions obtained by Chateau refer to the permissions of the public library and the reading permissions of some books in the internal library.

In addition to the members of other Mage Towers in the Seven Towers who can directly obtain the permissions of the public library, ordinary mages in the Seven Towers camp also have the opportunity to obtain it. This is not difficult, as long as you have money.

There is only reading permission in the internal library, which is difficult for ordinary people to obtain. It is basically impossible for people outside the Seven Towers to obtain it. The Austrian and French Federation is their best choice.

After registering and confirming the permissions at the management office, Xia Duo dove into the public library. He didn't care how many books there were and just flipped through them one by one.

Every time he opened a book, he could not help but think in his heart - 10 gold coins, 10 gold coins!

The protective measures here are similar to those of the Tower of Time. If the book is within the reading permission range, as long as the book is taken off the shelf, the tower spirit will start billing, and there will be no additional fees if returned within one day.

Of course, Xia Duo does not need to read for a day. He only needs to pick up the book and read it once. The follow-up can be sorted out slowly in his mind. What he has to do now is to read through all the books within his authority as quickly as possible. .

Most of the books in the public library only cost 10 gold coins each time, but there are many exceptions. For example, the "Stardew Epic" he is holding now is entirely written in elven text, and it costs 100 gold coins to borrow it once.

Since there are books with a price higher than 10 gold coins, there are also books with a price lower than 10 gold coins. However, compared to high books, there are very few books with a price of less than 10 gold coins.

Halfway through, Xia Duo also discovered a book called "The Dwarf Cookbook". It only cost 3 gold coins to borrow it. Judging from the author's name, the author of this book should be a human.

The content is more like a travel diary than a recipe, recounting the author's experience traveling to the dwarven kingdom via the lowland trade routes.

During this period, in addition to introducing some simple recipes for dwarf food, he also made crazy complaints about the dwarf race, covering everything from height and appearance, behavior, racial habits, architectural style, to food and drink, and even forging skills.

His words are so sharp that he would be called a keyboard warrior on earth.

After flipping through this book, what impressed Xia Duo most was not the customs and customs of the dwarf country recorded in it, but the vulgar judgmental sentences that almost filled the entire text.

This made him almost completely lose interest in recalling it for the second time? There are many books introducing the dwarf kingdom? Why should he endure this one?

However, this author is really willful? He wrote it so casually? Isn't he afraid of being seen by dwarves and causing diplomatic disputes?

After the little episode, Xia Duo continued to flip through the books. As he flipped through the books, he discovered that there was a pattern in the borrowing fees for the books here. That was——

As long as it involves magic-related content? Even if it is only a little bit, the borrowing fee starts from 10 gold coins and ranges from 100 gold coins.

Of course, it doesn't help with this discovery. After all, there are too few books under 10 gold coins here. Even because there are too few, Xia Duo is looking forward to it even more.

He wanted to see if there was anything weird like "The Dwarf Cookbook".

…

I don't know how much time passed, but Xia Duo, who was flipping through books in front of a bookshelf, felt someone approaching behind him, so he temporarily closed the book, turned around and looked over, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

It turned out to be Niya? He thought the library had discovered something unusual and wanted to expel the person!

When Niya came closer, Sha Duo asked in a low voice: "How are you? Have you contacted me?"

"Huh? We've all been contacted!"

"So fast?!"

Xia Duo was a little surprised. You must know that the people they invited were at least high-level mages. There were also arcanists among them, and the first exchange meeting was scheduled for tomorrow!

It was impossible for those high-level mages to wait to be invited at any time, and they could still contact people under such a tight schedule. This made Shado feel that he still underestimated Niya's influence in Giles Tower.

Niya’s explanation for this is——

"Not long ago, Belera's advanced arcanist failed, and he is currently preparing to reapply for the advanced laboratory. One of the application conditions is to organize at least five high-level mage exchange meetings with at least ten people.

"When I contacted Belera, she happened to mention this matter. Considering that she still has cooperation with us, I agreed to hand over the title of organizer to her."

After hearing Niya's explanation, Sha Duo couldn't help but feel a little enlightened. During the previous snow melting competition, the exchange meeting he and Niya attended was organized by Belera because they wanted to apply for the advanced laboratory.

Unexpectedly, half a year later, she had already failed once and had to apply again.

Although Xia Duo didn't know what the requirements were for applying for an advanced laboratory in Giles Tower, he certainly couldn't apply by organizing a few exchange meetings.

Judging from the situation of the Tower of Time Advanced Laboratory, every time it is used, in addition to fixed maintenance costs, there is also the most important magic network repair work, which only arcanists can do.

Not counting the labor of the arcanist, the fixed maintenance cost alone, the number of gold coins is at least in the tens of thousands.

As a mage tower, of course the advanced person does not have to pay this amount of money, but if the wool comes from the sheep, it will definitely not be a loss.

For a high-level mage, even 10,000 gold coins is considered a considerable expenditure, and there is no way to keep trying again and again.

Not to mention, there is also the artificiality of the Arcanist.

It’s impossible to upgrade without paying tens of thousands at a time. This is just a fixed cost. Normally, a mage tower is unlikely to allow a person to try again and again, especially the Giles Tower.

Last time, Xia Duo heard Belera mention that even if he applied, he still had to queue up.

If it were an ordinary person, maybe they would give up after failing once. Sure enough, a magician still needs to have a good background!

In fact, if Belera didn't want to go home and inherit the territory just yet, she could have advanced in her own mage tower.

It’s really enviable when you think about it!

…

As he thought about it, Xia Duo's thoughts couldn't help but spread. It was obvious that the existence of the advanced laboratory was helpful for advanced people to tear apart the magic network, but it was also because of its existence that the arcanists were almost monopolized by the mage tower.

The so-called wild mage, if you don't join a mage tower, it is almost impossible to become an arcanist.

In fact, the vast majority of wild mages are low- to medium-priced mages, not even high-level mages, nor can they be considered advanced arcanists at all.

What Xia Duo wants to do is not to develop a method that can be advanced in a normal environment, but if the number of spellcasters expands rapidly in the future, the number of advanced laboratories may not be enough.

He must now consider how to lower the construction threshold and cost of advanced laboratories.

As for advancing in a normal environment, Xia Duo is not optimistic. There are obviously many auxiliary facilities, why not use them? This is like a handmade iron pot on the earth. Is it really better than industrially produced ones?

That's not necessarily the case.

The upper limit of hand-made manufacturing is there, but the progress of industrial technology will never end. It is almost self-evident which is the right way.

While promoting magic education for all, the relevant infrastructure must also keep up in time, otherwise troubles are likely to occur.

This also reminds Xia Duo that education for all cannot be promoted blindly. It is best to link it with the development of industry and infrastructure and promote it together, which is in line with the general laws of development.

Otherwise, it would be a huge headache to forcibly educate a large number of mages but have nowhere to place them.