Arcane Lord

After determining the borrowing fee and whether copying is allowed, Chateau's "Principles" book will finally enter the library of the Austrian Law Federation.

"Sir, you need to provide at least two original copies, one for inventory and one for borrowing. If there is only one copy, you also need to pay a production fee of 200 gold coins."

Um?

Sha Duo suddenly thought that many libraries, including the Tower of Time and the Giles Tower, had copies of varying degrees. He originally thought they were set up for facade, but he didn't expect that there was this layer inside.

As long as there are more copies, the possibility of being borrowed will naturally be higher, and accordingly, the income will be higher.

Since the goal is to let more people see it, Xia Duo is naturally not satisfied with just releasing one or two books. In fact, he has prepared more than ten books before, but he just sent out 8 books yesterday, and now only 8 are left. Downloaded the last 6 books.

After thinking for a while, he asked: "Can I come and replenish the copies later? Or can you make more copies?"

"Sir, you can do it, but if we make it, you need to pay a production fee of 200 gold coins per copy." The administrator replied.

“Isn’t there a quantity discount?”

"Sorry, no!"

"..."

That’s really dark!

Xia Duo has produced more than ten books himself, so he naturally knows how much it costs. Although the "Principles" book is a magic-related book, it is indeed an ordinary item.

In other words, the biggest cost lies in raw materials, such as ink, paper, etc., which only cost a few dozen gold coins at most!

If it were to use magic to transcribe text like Xia Duo did, the labor cost might exceed 200, but just thinking about it for a moment will tell you that this is impossible.

Can a normal mage do this job?

As far as Sha Duo knows, he only obtained a [Transcription Technique] from the princess's teacher Byron. The principle is different from Sha Duo's own [Transcription Technique]. It controls the pen to write, while Sha Duo controls the ink. directly form text.

The efficiency of that [transcription technique] is extremely low. It can be imagined that if a mage really uses this method to make a copy, he will definitely lose 200 gold coins.

Obviously, only ordinary people are used to transcribe, and the salary of an ordinary scribe is only about 15 silver coins a day at most, that is, 1.5 gold coins/1 day.

Obviously, a book does not take that long to copy.

The Austrian Law Federation has to make such a large sum of money from copies of books. This is really good at making money!

Sha Duo was definitely not willing to make a copy for the Arcane Federation. He decided to let the apprentices of the Tower of Time copy the "Principles" book. Anyway, he was going to send it to them as a teaching material. Copying the book was just like getting familiar with it in advance!

Thinking of this, Xia Duo immediately took out the remaining 6 books from his portable space and handed them to the administrator, "Shall we use these first? I'll make up for them later!"

"No problem? Sir, I will handle it for you right now!"

…

The relevant details had been agreed upon before. Now that there was a copy, registration and storage took only a matter of minutes. Soon, Xia Duo got a standard contract.

The general idea is that Level 4 member Xia Duo voluntarily registered the book "Principles" in the Austrian Union Public Library. The borrowing fee and whether copying is allowed are also reflected in the contract.

One of the more important ones is that you can come to the Austrian Law Association once a year to check the number of borrowings and receive the income from borrowed books.

It doesn't say anything about sharing? In other words, by default, Xia Duo can get all the income, not even miscellaneous expenses such as management fees.

Maybe this is the treatment for level 4 members, but it’s really pretty good!

…

After completing the storage procedures and directly depositing 30,000 gold coins as the borrowing fee, Xia Duo turned around and got into the library to prepare for the book scanning plan.

Although the library of the Alfa Union seems to have more books than Giles Tower, but when Shado sees copies of books one after another, he knows that this place is actually not as good as Giles Tower.

Although the Arcane Federation has 15 great arcane masters, and almost every high-level mage and above is a member of the Arcane Federation.

But this kind of loose organization is obviously not as good as the Mage Tower run by the Grand Arcanist himself.

Except for those controversial things, such as [Scroll of Resistance]? Are they not suitable for the private collection of one or a few great arcanists? If there are other good things, how can you not put them in your own mage tower?

Sure enough, after really looking at it, Xia Duo found that many of the books here have been included in Giles Towers, and of course there must have been some that slipped through the net.

It may be that the mage responsible for this matter at Giles Tower doesn't like it, or it may be that he missed it. In short, this trip to Xia Duo will be much easier than at Giles Tower.

Of course, it will also be a lot easier on your wallet!

However, his speculation was quickly disproved after he finished sweeping the public area.

The Arcane Federation accepts "submissions" from mages, even in the public area. After all, it is still open to ordinary people, but the magic areas at all levels can simply be described as overflowing.

You can register to cheat money with a small and thin volume of "The Art of Fire" or "Northland Adventure Guide (Magic)", and it requires at least 100 gold coins to read once.

Xia Duo thought about it. If his thick "Principles" book was split into 10 books, it seemed possible, but he really couldn't bear to do such a thing.

He casually took out a copy of "The Art of Fire" and opened it, flipping through it in just a few flips. After reading it, Xia Duo felt a sense of emptiness, and his mind was filled with questions such as who am I and where am I.

This book only introduces some usage scenarios of the fireball technique. Some can be called exquisite, while others can only be said to be seeking death.

It cannot be said that it is useless. At least for novices, it provides many real-life cases for reference, but the content is too little, and there are no spell details related to fireball.

There is also a borrowing fee of 100 gold coins!

Sha Duo realized that the Arcane Law Federation Library might be different from what he imagined. There were too many books here that intermediate mages used to deceive fools.

Although Niya gave him sponsorship money, it was not used in this way. Besides, he and Niya were husband and wife, and he also had a share of the sponsorship money. It was really a waste to spend it on those mid-level mage books.

Then, Shado simply skipped the writings of mid-level mages. Unless the title of the book really inspired him, he would pick it up and read it. Fortunately, there are no headlines in Netheril now, otherwise it would be... Interesting.

His main goal is still to focus on the writings of high-level mages and above. Although mid-level mages can join the Arcane Law Federation, their income is low, and they also have to pay a lot of membership fees, so they are dedicated to making money. Books can also be understood.

But high-level mages basically don't have to worry about income. At the same time, there is also a problem of reputation. Even a bad person may not be willing to let others think that he is a bad person.

In today's more orderly environment, the overall image of high-level mages is still positive.

After reading several high-level mage writings, this conjecture was confirmed. It was indeed much more informative than the mid-level mage.

No longer just a thin volume to fool people, and even in the travel notes there are a lot of spell details, and all kinds of skills, experience, and knowledge are everywhere.

This is what a normal mage’s writings should look like!

The only regret is that Xia Duo has never seen a book that is pure magic. It always seems to have some storytelling mixed in. Most of the books with less storytelling are in the form of dialogues.

It does seem less boring, but it has also lost its academic rigor and magic.

"I hope that "Principles" book can bring a new trend!"