Arcane Lord

As noon approached, Xia Duo put away his notes.

In addition to meetings all morning, he only did some on-paper derivation of spell leveling. He hadn't even started designing the experiment yet, and it felt like time flew by so fast, which was very unpleasant.

However, when he saw the steaming hometown dishes sent by the logistics department, those unhappiness were instantly forgotten by Xia Duo.

Now the chef in the territory, Cook, has got his true inheritance, and he is even better than his previous master. He makes braised venison, stir-fried lettuce and egg custard. Just the smell of them makes people want to eat.

“It’s a pity that there is no rice!”

Xia Duo sighed while chewing the steamed buns. He can teach cooking methods, but if you don't have the staple food ingredient rice, you don't have it, and you can't change it.

The saying "It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice" refers to this situation.

If you can find the legendary Karatu, you may be able to find rice. However, the difficulty of finding Karatu may not be any less difficult than creating rice-like crops through magic.

Kara-atu is a name in the Netherese language, and the location of Kara-atu is referred to as "East" in Elvish language, which also means "Eastern Kingdom".

In elven legends, the eastern country is ancient and mysterious. It is magnificent and filled with gold after all.

It's a pity that, except for the ancient high mage "Saint Nodel" who went there and brought back the legend of the eastern country, no elves have ever been to Karatu since then.

After thousands of years, only people from Karatu came to the continent of Faerun, but no travelers from Lord Faerun went to Karatu, or in other words, they went but failed to come back.

Of course, it is impossible for Xia Duo to pursue the so-called Eastern legends at all costs just to eat some rice. This is really too stupid.

If it's for communication and trade, then maybe it's okay, but Xia Duo doesn't want to waste his energy on things that are too illusory just yet.

Karatu is like this.

Mu Yan has been unable to find any useful clues for half his life, so where does Xia Duo have the confidence to find them! I’ll probably look for it when I have free time in the future, but forget it now!

…

After lunch, Leiden personally delivered the minutes of the morning meeting. Sha Duo flipped through them and already had a rough idea of ​​everyone's thoughts.

"Leiden, I don't need you to deliver the meeting minutes in person, so tell me! What else can I do?"

Leiden hesitated for a moment, took out a stack of parchment from his arms, handed it to Shado's desk, and explained: "Sir, these are some of my rough thoughts on the territorial code, please identify it!"

"So fast!"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Xia Duo realized that Leiden must have been prepared before, otherwise how could he finish the meeting in the morning and submit the manuscript in the afternoon!

With a trace of curiosity, Chateau opened the manuscript handed over by Leiden. Leiden's handwriting was very neat, and it felt like he was reading printed text. This may also be a way to practice order.

Such thoughts flashed through Xia Duo's mind. The handwriting was not the focus of his attention, but the content was!

The first line of the manuscript reads "In the name of Lord Xia Duo of Great Xia, order is established", followed by words such as "Only order leads to everything" and "Witnessed by the Lord of Glory".

There are also praises for Xia Duo's act of establishing the Great Xia Territory below. Xia Duo is really satisfied with these decorative words, and he also thinks that these are necessary to exist.

But in his study, when examining the essence of the code, it was not his focus.

After flipping through two pages of text that had nothing to do with the law, Xia Duo finally came across the text of the law that he cared about most——

"Xia Duo, the pioneer of the Great Xia Territory, has irrefutable rule over the Great Xia Territory and will inherit it forever!"

"Those who hurt others will be punished, those who kill will die, and those who rebel will have their relatives implicated!"

“Private property is sacrosanct!”

…

Xia Duo looked at them one by one and found that most of them were general provisions of a framework nature, involving many aspects such as legal system, criminal justice, civil affairs, trade, marriage, inheritance, trial and so on.

Each one is closely related to the actual operation of the territory, and many of them are the original words that Sha Duo once said, which were directly quoted by Leiden.

At the end, Chateau was very satisfied. It could be said that this was a guiding legal principle specially written by Leiden according to his will, and there was no content that went against his opinions.

Shado was not good at the law, but his experience before traveling gave him insights far beyond those of the natives of Netheril.

After thinking about it carefully, he didn't find any contradictions, so he organized the manuscript, put it on the edge of the desk, and said to Leiden: "I don't think there is any problem. The specific provisions will be expanded according to this!"

"Yes, sir!"

Leiden looked happy, bowed immediately, and stepped forward to take back the manuscript.

"Then go and get busy!"

"yes."

Leiden responded and left on his own.

…

Xia Duo was once again left alone in the study. Recalling the summary legal document he had just seen, he suddenly felt something in his heart and took out a piece of loose parchment.

Then he used the [Transcription Technique] to print on it some of the legal provisions he saw before traveling. Of course, these were Chinese characters, but then, Xia Duo started to read them.

This was not difficult, he just translated it in the simplest Nese language combined with the actual situation of the Great Xia Territory.

The content is not important, the key is the form.

Shado had seen the specific laws of Netheril from Leiden. They were not bad, but they were mostly case-based, for example, someone was sentenced to what he did.

If there were differences in the details, such as someone stole 10 gold coins, but the law only said that stealing 9 gold coins would be sentenced to labor, then the judge or the superior could do too much during the actual trial.

And Shado would rather use a range instead of a specific number, such as "how much is the sentence for stealing money within a certain range".

This might weaken the authority of the judge, but it also makes the law clearer and conducive to stability.

...

Soon, Shado localized some of the laws of his hometown that he had seen, and then cast a spell to teleport to Leiden.

Of course, this was not his intention to show off a new use of teleportation. Shado was not so bored to show this to a non-magician.

He simply wanted to save time.

After doing this, he continued to study spell upgrades.

...

Just like that, time quickly came to three days later. On this day, Xia Duo was casting a spell in the study to patrol the territory, and suddenly someone reported that Atwood wanted to see him.

Xia Duo immediately thought of the task he had assigned to him before, so he quickly asked Atwood to come over.

"Elder Atwood, have you finished reading the book?"

"My lord, I just finished it. I didn't dare to delay, so I hurried to see you!"