Lord of Arcane

Chapter 375 New Spell Ideal
In the library, Xia Duo's goal is very clear, that is, the 4th ring spell. In his understanding, the core of the mage's deterrence lies in mobility.

Or survivability.

As for harm or creativity, it is second.

Among the 4th ring spells, those linked to the core of mage strategy and tactics, Xia Duo believes that there are [short-distance teleportation], [dimension anchor], [detection], and [detection].

These four spells play an extremely important role both tactically and strategically.

The Tower of Time does not have the learning scrolls for these spells. Strictly speaking, the Tower of Time only has the learning scrolls for 0-level spells. No one will easily make more advanced learning scrolls. This is tantamount to betraying your core secrets.

But there are quite a few related spell books, and even if Xia Duo is the tower master's agent at this time, he must pay a certain price to borrow these spell books. Of course, some other people must meet the borrowing threshold, and Xia Duo will not needed.

There are 12 books in total. If someone else borrows them, it will cost 2400 gold coins per day. Calculated according to the level of the spell, spell books related to 4th-level spells will cost 200 gold coins per day.

This price is not high for an intermediate mage, and certainly not cheap.

As for Xia Duo, he doesn't need to pay every day, he only needs to pay once, which is the benefit brought by the agent's authority.

However, this time Xia Duo did not give real gold coins, but owed them first. Although he could take out so many gold coins, the authority "tells" him that he can owe them first.

Even the repayment date was not limited, which made Xia Duo sigh. At that time, Niya might be really anxious and didn't think about these details at all.

But no matter what, he and Niya are husband and wife now, and they have signed a sacred contract, so theoretically, the tower of this time should also have half of him. Do you still have to pay for reading your own books?

And through his own experience, Xia Duo even discovered the contract loopholes in the Tower of Time. If ordinary mages make good use of it, they can completely squeeze the wool of the Tower of Time.

Therefore, Xia Duo decisively notified Taling and Eberke to change the contract for the members of the Tower of Time. There are not many changes in the new contract, but a qualifier is added in front of the relevant rights and obligations——

"including but not limited to".

For example, members of the Tower of Time must not damage the interests of the Tower of Time, including but not limited to... and the like.

It is impossible for a contract to be completely free of loopholes, but by doing so, many loopholes can be plugged.

Of course, in order not to arouse the resentment of the members of the Tower of Time when changing the contract, Xia Duo increased the benefits of the middle-level mages, and correspondingly, "The Tower of Time will support the beginning-level mages to carry out special research projects" is also written in into the contract.

To a certain extent, Xia Duo used the excuse of the Tower of Time to make up for the loopholes, and promoted his own rudimentary mage development project. This is an attempt, and it may change the world in the future.

Before leaving the Savile Territory and returning to the Great Xia Territory, or shortly after changing the contracts for the members of the Tower of Time, Niya sent a message from Severton, saying that she agreed with his approach and asked him to spend more time with Eberke, Cecily communicated more.

Xia Duo was well aware of this, and it was inevitable that someone would tip the news, but Nya believed him and agreed with him so easily, maybe she really had a different vision in Severton.

This also made Xia Duo have a strong interest in Sevington, but he clearly knows that his stage is not in Sevington, at least not now.

In terms of general direction, he has only two goals now, and he only needs to do a good job of these two. One is to open up a good territory to cater to the pioneering movement that the princess is carrying out. This is a big thick leg and cannot be let go.

The other is the self. The advanced plan cannot be stopped. Only by becoming an arcanist can one truly gain a foothold in Netheril.

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After boarding the "Lucky Owen", Xia Duo stood at the bow, turned off the weak element calming ability of the [Crimson Robe of Protection], and let the river wind hit his face.

Now that it has entered September, the oncoming breeze carries the last sliver of summer heat and the slight coolness of autumn solstice. Looking at the monotonous forest scene on both sides of the river, Xia Duo can hardly stop thinking about those troublesome problems.

Just quietly gazing at the scenery on both sides of the river, occasionally a tree with a crooked neck tilted towards the river bank, making him smile knowingly, these familiar or novel "landmarks" made Xia Duo feel a little kind.

It's not Savile Town, it's not Daxialing, it's just these trees that can't talk or move.

Perhaps only at this moment, he is Xia Duo, the truest Xia Duo.

At other times, he is just the mage Shaduo in disguise, who seems to have blended into this world.But the longer he stayed in this world, the more he felt that he was out of place here.

Reason told him that this was the emotional and belonging needs that were born after he fulfilled the basic physiological and safety needs.

For Netheril, he didn't have any feelings, maybe when he was on Earth, he might often talk about it, but that was just because it came from a game he liked.

Being in the real Netheril, what kind of identity and belonging can he have as a human being on Earth!
Once the Three Views are formed, they will not be easily shaken. For him, magic is only a realistic result of the existing epistemology. Even if the Lord of Radiance stands in front of him one day, he will not be able to shake the Three Views.

Looking at the Wolfburg River, which seems to be his destiny, which flows to nowhere in front of him, Xia Duo fell into deep thought, and even a pragmatic person will inevitably feel melancholy for a while.

Having seen the "bloody breath" of the visiting mage Wilde before, and the "flowing and moist" "water element breath" from the Mysuo ruins, Xia Duo dared not let his mind accumulate negative emotions for a long time.

Who knows if there will be evil thoughts entangled in the situation!
Even on Earth, health is divided into two parts, physical and psychological. The only difference is that in this real magical world, psychological problems may affect the physical body.

This requires heightened vigilance.

After dispelling the negative emotions accumulated for a long time at the bow, Xia Duo returned to the captain's cabin, took out a brand new notebook, opened the inner page, and solemnly wrote eight Chinese characters on it——

"Create the world and recreate the universe!"

It is rare to use Chinese characters to write, and Xia Duo, on a whim, wrote out many plans hidden in his heart, pointing east and west, without any rules.

Although disorganized, it always points to a central idea——

change the world!

Between completely integrating into this world and changing the world, Xia Duo chose the latter without hesitation. As a time traveler, how could he have no pursuit at all!
In fact, he had revealed this idea intentionally or unintentionally in the past, but what really made him make up his mind was the growing sense of estrangement from the world.

Half a year before joining the Tower of Time;

Joined the Tower of Time (main plane), a little more than a year;
The first astral projection took a little over a year and a half;
The second astral projection, more than a year.

From the perspective of self-perception, it has been more than four years since he traveled to this world.If he didn't take any action, perhaps after a few years, he would have been assimilated to the point where he was no different from the natives here.

Maybe in the future he will agree with this kind of assimilation, but now he is still an earth person in self-awareness, and he cannot truly belong to this place.

In this way, it is better for him to assimilate this world and transform this world into what he wants.

　As stated in the article, Xia Duo has already fulfilled the basic physiological and safety needs, and the next step is the needs of emotion and belonging.

Of course, this is a relatively broad statement. Specifically, it is the development of the territory.

Shaping civilization, opening up the world, it is not in vain to go back and forth.

People can have desires, but they cannot be limited to desires.

If one simply pursues strength, then what is the difference between humans and machines, and monkeys? Simply pursuing strength cannot support a normal personality.

Of course, it is even more unable to support a normal "Godhead".

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