Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1432 Prince Pasteur's request declined
"Lord Xiaduo, as you know, I got all the orders for the demon-slaying amulets from Prince Pasteur of Danzo. Not long ago, Prince Pasteur knew that I used to deliver the orders. The demon-slaying talismans are all from the Tower of Time, from Lord Shaduo, so he made a request to me—”

Having said that, Charles Harlan deliberately paused, and took a tentative look at Xia Duo. Xia Duo didn't overreact to this, but just urged him lightly:
"What request? What does it have to do with me?"

Charles Harlan was shocked, and continued: "Prince Pasteur hopes to obtain the key to the rapid production of demon-slaying amulets from Lord Xiaduo through me!"

"The key to the rapid production of demon-slaying amulets? Is the underground situation so bad?"

Xia Duo was stunned for a moment. He had just heard from Iolum not long ago that the underground situation in Amarinda's second battlefield had stabilized, and the two sides were engaged in a tug-of-war and a war of attrition.

Iolum wouldn't lie to him on this kind of issue, so Lord Harlan could only be exaggerating.

However, strictly speaking, it cannot be regarded as an exaggeration. Lord Harlan represents the interests of Prince Pasteur to a certain extent, and Prince Pasteur undoubtedly hopes to end the war earlier than humans.

Prince Pasteur will probably be very interested in anything that can play a positive role in turning the balance of war, and will try hard to obtain it.

"The underground situation is not very good. Drow's offensive is very fierce. The demand for underground warriors for demon-slaying amulets is increasing day by day. If a large number of demon-slaying amulets can be obtained quickly, it may play a decisive role in the battle situation!"

Charles Harlan said so, but Xiaduo shook his head secretly. If the war is determined by only one weapon, maybe the Mithr energy core may be it, but it will definitely not be the demon-slaying amulet.

Inspired by the hatred of subjugation and genocide, even without the Demon Slayer Talisman, the dwarves may burst out with a strong will resistance that is not inferior to the Demon Slayer Talisman itself.

This kind of thing can only be used as icing on the cake, or even a timely help, but it will definitely not be the only decisive factor.

Perhaps the dwarves still hid the artifact at the bottom of the box, but they didn't use it because the cost of using it was too high.

Of course, the real reason why Xia Duo was resistant to what Lord Haran said was not because of this, but because——

Once the dwarves are informed of the production methods of mass production, or even standardized mass production, under the urging of the war pressure, the dwarves, which are not far behind Netheril, may quickly realize the industrialization of magic.

It's not that the dwarves don't have mages, but their magic system is different from that of Netheril and elves, or that the hammer warriors are actually their mages.

And once the dwarves quickly realize the industrialization of magic, they may be able to show an overwhelming advantage in the war against the drow. In this process, will the elf countries remain indifferent?

Even if there is no comprehensive transformation, at least a few pilot cities will be established.

But in this way, for Netheril who wants to develop, it is almost a disaster. In many cases, it does not mean that standing on the same starting line will definitely win.

Not to mention, Netheril is still far from being on the same starting line as the Elf kingdoms.

At present, Netheril is able to maintain the great national power in the North, largely because of the dozen or so on the bright side, and the unknown number of great arcanists hidden in the seven towers, supporting the great country with their individual strength. national power.

Once the industrialization of magic is realized, in the foreseeable future, individual power will be quickly wiped out by weapons and equipment. At that time, it will no longer be the number of individual powerhouses such as great arcanists or high-level mages that determine the power of a country, but rather It is how many over-limit weapons you have.

Xia Duo does not think that Netheril is ready to fully enter the industrial age and even compete with other industrial countries. Once the industrial revolution starts at an inappropriate time, the outcome may be worse than Xia Duo knew. Much worse.

It is difficult for Xia Duo to say whether standardized mass production is the key to the industrial revolution, but he will certainly not gamble on how low the probability is.

In fact, he himself believes that standardized mass production has a greater role in promoting the industrialization process than the improvement of productivity itself.

Productivity is indeed the foundation, but it is a qualitative change and it is not easy to happen; while standardized mass production is a relatively easy process to realize, which belongs to the category of liberating productivity.

And with a unified industrial standard, qualitative changes in productivity will be more likely to occur.

For example, now, it is probably not a big deal to let the dwarves hold back their big moves and kill all the drow directly, but it is certainly not difficult to let them change the production method, liberate the productivity, and produce a large amount of war materials.

After being able to improve combat effectiveness in a short period of time, whether it will continue to integrate production, or even research and innovation, it is definitely possible.

Therefore, even if it is only a little bit possible, Xia Duo will not transfer the concept of standardized mass production to the dwarves, at least not yet.

However, it would be inappropriate to directly reject Lord Harlan. After all, the other party now represents Prince Pasteur, and to a certain extent, represents the Kingdom of Danzo.

As an individual, it is obviously not wise for Xia Duo to directly confront a country.

"Lord Harlan, the Tower of Time is indeed faster than other mage tower organizations in producing demon-slaying amulets, but that's entirely because the Tower of Time is equipped with full-time production staff for the production of demon-slaying amulets, and all production staff are Dedicated all his personal time to those orders, if other mage towers can do this, it is not difficult to obtain the same or even better efficiency than the Tower of Time."

To a certain extent, Xia Duo is not lying, he has indeed equipped full-time magic technicians for the production line of demon-slaying amulets.

As for private time, it depends on how it is defined.

The magic mechanics of the Tower of Time can also be considered as full-time students and part-time mechanics, who just do odd jobs in their spare time to earn some living expenses, that's all.

As for the production efficiency of other mage tower organizations, if there is a mage tower that can recruit a large number of full-time alchemists, maybe it can be done.

It's just that the cost is much more expensive than the Tower of Time.

However, the production efficiency of the Tower of Time is far from enough. At this stage, Xia Duo only uses the relatively backward manual production line to allow more people to have a stable job and prevent them from causing trouble.

If it is a fully automatic assembly line, the efficiency will take off in place.

It's just that there is no need to tell outsiders like Lord Harlan about these things.

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(End of this chapter)