Arcane Lord

Tower of Time, Arcane Garden.

Under Xia Duo's exclusive apple tree, the five-person study group took off their robes and sat in a circle.

Except for Edrich and Dean, because they had just arrived and were not used to the dense positive energy environment in the Arcane Garden, they were wiping sweat and fanning themselves with their hands.

Everyone else has long been accustomed to the environment here, especially Xia Duo. It only took a few months from being unsuitable at first to being at ease now.

After Edrich and Dean calmed down a bit, Shado took out the key points and recommended book list that he had compiled last night and passed them to the four of them to read.

"These are some of the key points I have listed, as well as some recommended books. Please note them down. In the morning, we will study magic theory here and exchange experiences in the afternoon. If you need to demonstrate, then stay in the magic experiment. room."

The four of them nodded in agreement.

Xia Duo saw them taking out paper and pen and starting to copy down the key points and recommended books, and continued, "Answer other apprentices' questions to earn the cost of renting the magic laboratory. Just leave some time in the morning. Let's start tomorrow. Forget it today. "

"Xia Duo, no!" Dean suddenly put down the quill in his hand, "I have just become a full-time employee, and I don't know many questions myself! How can I answer other people's questions?"

Others had similar thoughts, and Edrich even bluntly said that he had given up magic for more than a year and was not confident in answering other people's questions.

Xia Duo sighed:

"Edrich, Dean, you must be clear, it is the ordinary apprentices who are begging us, not us begging them. The cost for us to answer their questions is much less than that of others outside. Even if the quality is temporarily inferior, it doesn't matter. Just make progress slowly.

"I will allow all of them to attend and answer questions. I will only charge 5 gold coins for each question. For those who spend more, I will give them individual guidance at the end of the month. As long as the first apprentice becomes a regular apprentice, the price will increase later. We can’t drive them away.”

After saying that, Sha Duo saw the four people looking at him with strange eyes, especially Edrich's hesitant look, which was particularly awkward.

"Edrich, what do you have to say?"

"Xia Duo, I think you are really a natural businessman!" Edrich looked complicated. There are no so-called extra benefits for big customers in Savile Town, because most of the goods can be sold without any worries.

Sami and Devane have never seen such a method. Although their families are engaged in business, they are just small businessmen, just making ends meet.

"Don't say that, I am a man who wants to become a great arcanist!" Sha Duo immediately spoke righteously.

Being from the earth, he has seen countless tricks to get money from customers. He hasn't mentioned membership cards or coupons yet, for fear of scaring these natives.

Netheril seems to have been founded for more than 800 years, but its social structure is still similar to that of the Middle Ages in the West of Earth. Most of the commodity transactions are based on daily necessities, and commerce is very underdeveloped.

The so-called chamber of commerce here, in layman's terms, is actually a caravan that sells items from one place to another. A large chamber of commerce has multiple caravans, multiple trade routes, and even fixed strongholds.

Small chambers of commerce generally have few caravans and trade routes. The smallest ones are salesmen walking in the countryside, taking goods from large chambers of commerce and selling them to the countryside.

The business model is extremely plain and simple.

Xia Duo doesn't really think that he is some kind of business wizard. He just has one more worldly knowledge than others, just one.

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When the study group was discussing how to answer questions for other apprentices, Edrich and others also copied the magic theoretical context and recommended books that Shado had compiled for them.

Afterwards, Sha Duo will give them tutoring according to this teaching plan until they meet Sha Duo's requirements and become truly communicable objects.

About an hour before lunch, Chateau stopped teaching, walked out of the shade of the tree, and began physical training under the puzzled eyes of Edrich and others.

After two magical dreams, Xia Duo's physical fitness has long been much better than that of ordinary people. There is no reason to leave such a good body there and let it rust. It must be put to good use.

Xia Duo mainly trains on endurance, agility, and coordination. He has never thought about using a knife to cut people. These attributes are very practical even for a mage.

In particular, the productivity of mages basically comes from these aspects, such as making magic scrolls, because there is no scroll production machine and can only be made by hand.

If the hands and brain are not coordinated, I don’t know how much material will be wasted! It's like the brain has learned well, but the hands have not learned well. How miserable!

Agility refers to the ability to react and perceive. Being able to react quickly when encountering enemies or special situations. Sometimes a slightly faster response can mean the difference between life and death.

As for endurance, it is related to spell-casting ability. Although endurance is not equal to spell-casting ability, strong endurance means stronger spell-casting ability. When there is no alternative spell-casting tool, even being able to cast one more 0-level spell is good.

Sami and Devine couldn't sit still when Xia Duo was sweating like rain. Before the orc wave mission, they also conducted physical training with Xia Duo for a period of time.

During the mission, only Xia Duo behaved the most calmly, to a certain extent even as good as those professional soldiers and adventurers.

Sami and Devine looked at each other, took off their outer clothes in unison, and started training with Sha Duo.

The collective atmosphere is the most contagious. Then Dean also took off his coat and joined in the physical training. Only Edrich had not moved yet.

He has neither participated in the Orc Tide mission nor trained with Shado before. The environment of the Arcane Garden itself is hot enough, and there are meaningless consumption actions.

This was a little hard for him to accept.

But seeing everyone else in the study group walking out of the shade and sweating in the sun, Edrich felt more and more awkward, as if he had been abandoned.

After hesitating for a while, he finally followed the example of others and took off his coat to join in the training.

He imitated Xia Duo's movements clumsily, but couldn't figure it out. He scratched his head anxiously. Seeing this, Xia Duo quickly stopped his training and started to point out his movements.

Xia Duo suddenly discovered that he had inadvertently completed another collective attribute assimilation, and unknowingly he already had such influence.

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Soon, the other team members except Xia Duo were too tired to move. Only Xia Duo persisted for a full hour under their admiring gazes.

Finally, when the "end of work reminder" came from the tower spirit, Xia Duo stopped and went to the restaurant with them.