Lord of Arcane

Chapter 892
Xia Duo took a general look, and found nothing abnormal, and generally maintained the past share of Leonard, the former tower master student.

However, this number is slightly insufficient compared to the Leonard Research Laboratory, one of the three major private research laboratories officially supported by the Tower of Time.

Perhaps Leonard felt that his teacher was gone, and now the Tower of Time was headed by Niya, so he wanted to keep a low profile, but Xia Duo was not a harsh person.

How could he embarrass him because of his identity!
Furthermore, it was Leonard who brought him into the Tower of Time back then, and gave him ten copies of study scrolls that were very important to Xia Duo in the early stage. Even if there was Mu Yan's factor, Xia Duo was grateful.

Pulling out this document separately and putting it aside, Xia Duo continued to read the following documents.

……

The following applications are interesting. Topics such as "Design of 3rd-level spells at the 1st level" and "Research on the Materialization of Magic Strings" abound.

At first glance, even Xia Duo was taken aback by the titles of these topics, but when he thought about it seriously, could these middle-level mages understand things that even he couldn't understand?

For example, the description of "like a 3rd-level spell" is quite spiritual. The application report mentioned the effect similar to a 3rd-level spell, not the equivalent of a 3rd-level spell that Xia Duo initially thought was equivalent to a magic ring. Equivalence at the factor transformation level.

The report also said that as long as you understand this, the 1st-level spells can be used as 3rd-level spells in the future, and neither the difficulty of casting nor the difficulty of learning will increase, but will decrease.

Isn't this bullshit!

What is the materialization of the magic strings? It is even more nonsense. At present, any theory Xia Duo has come into contact with, as well as his own personal research, do not support the so-called materialization of the magic strings.

Materialization means that the strings of the magic net can be in contact with the real matter. If it is feasible, it must be possible to transform all the magic nets into entities in some way, and then destroy the world.

As one of the foundations of the world, the magic net is so easy to change its nature!
Even if it is the Austrian fire, tearing the magic net, it does not change the nature of the strings of the magic net, but re-weaves a private miniature magic net, and it is the Austrian fire when it is restrained and curled up.

Xia Duo shook his head one after another looking at the application reports that opened his mind, but he couldn't do such a thing if he was to completely deny it.

On the one hand, his own understanding may be different, and if he makes a wrong judgment, it may be a missed opportunity.

On the other hand, these mid-level mages are able to make such applications, whether they are not for real research, or for defrauding funds, they are in fact actively supporting the new system after the transformation of the Tower of Time.

In this way, as long as their stories are well written and no obvious flaws can be seen, their applications cannot be rejected.

But this also reminded Xia Duo that it was time to set up a special project approval department. He really didn't expect the attitude of these middle-level mages to change so quickly!

It really smells delicious when you have rice!

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In addition to some brain-opening topics, there are also regular consumables for a normal middle-level mage to conduct spell experiments. These Xia Duo just roughly flipped through them and skipped them.

After reading all the documents, Xia Duo looked up and saw that Cecily was waiting for his reply. Xia Duo thought for a while, and revealed some ideas of setting up a project approval department in advance.

"After the project approval team is established, there won't be so many people cheating on funds. As for the production of communication instruments, it can't be stopped for the time being. I will find another way in terms of resources."

After finishing speaking, Xiaduo paused for a moment, and then continued: "Now it's my turn to ask you, how long can the current material reserves of the Tower of Time be used in the past month?"

This time, Cecily didn't look for any more information, and just blurted it out, and it seemed that she had been thinking about it for a long time:

"At present, the Tower of Time has directly related material consumption to magic, mainly five-color gemstones, mithril, gold, silver, iron, and various scroll inks, scroll paper, and ordinary parchment, some special materials are not included. Also the food doesn't count.

"Among them, there are not many reserves of five-color gems and ordinary parchment. Based on the consumption in the past month, it will be used up to June next year. If not, it may be exhausted in January or February."

No shortage of Mithril?

Xia Duo was a little surprised, and then he articulated his question. Cecily's answer to this was——

"It is true that there are not many mithril, but next month is a new year, and a certain amount of mithril can be purchased from the Arcane Federation. There is no crisis of mithril shortage in a short time, but as long as the communication magic weapon keeps If the production continues, Mithril will be scarce sooner or later!"

It turned out to be such an algorithm!

Xia Duo also remembered that he still has some Mithril purchase certificates on his side!

When he transferred the magic network background communication magic device patent, what he got from Gilles High Tower, in addition to a large sum of gold coins and subsequent continuous income, there are also some five-color gems, mithril objects, and a certain share of mithril proof of purchase.

As long as you have money, you can buy it at any time.

From this point of view, Mithril is indeed not a problem in the short term, but in the long run, it is still necessary to find a more stable Mithril supply. It is best to find one or more Mithril mines directly, which is the truly stable supply.

Then he asked Cecily:
"Didn't you have an advance payment for a communication instrument before? Didn't you use those gold coins to buy five-color gemstones? What's the matter with the parchment? Isn't there even enough paper?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Xia Duo noticed that Cecily's expression was a bit subtle, but after thinking about it, there seemed to be nothing wrong.

Seeing that Xia Duo hadn't reacted yet, Cecily had no choice but to say: "Those advance payments have been used up a long time ago. In addition to paying the salary of the magic mechanic you mentioned, there is also the maintenance cost of the Tower of Time. It's so much more at once. There are many apprentices, and after using various facilities, how can it be possible to not pay any price!"

It turns out that people are in different positions, and the focus of attention is also different.

Like Xia Duo, he must be most concerned about the transformation of the Tower of Time and the effectiveness of the transformation. As for the cost and price, in his subconscious, the Tower of Time can bear it.

From Cecily's point of view, she is Niya's housekeeper and the person in charge of the Tower of Time's supplies department. The financial problems of the Tower of Time are so obvious that she can't help but pay attention to them.

"As for the parchment, there are so many apprentices all of a sudden, and the amount of paper used is almost ten times that of the tower of time in the past. How can there be so many cattle and sheep to kill? Even if you buy it through the chamber of commerce, there is still a problem of time difference in transit. "

Cecily mentioned parchment again, but Xia Duo had already realized that the raw material of parchment was animal leather.

Whether it is cattle, sheep, or lizards, it takes time to grow, and the scale of breeding is also very limited, and it cannot be obtained unlimitedly.

Now that they are all ready to refine Mithril, it is nothing to use the papermaking technique!

Thinking about it this way, Xia Duo immediately made a decision in his heart. It happened that there were a lot of logs piled up in his territory, and he didn't know how to consume them. They would take up space if they piled up there, so it might as well be made into paper!

(End of this chapter)