Arcane Lord

In the library, Xia Duo's goal is very clear, which is the fourth-level spell. In his understanding, the core of the mage's deterrence lies in mobility.

Or survivability.

As for harmfulness or creativity, that comes second.

Among the 4-level spells, those linked to the core of the mage's strategy and tactics, Xia Duo believes are [Short-distance Teleportation], [Dimensional Anchor], [Detection], and [Detection and Detection].

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

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

However, there are many 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, there are some borrowing thresholds that other people must meet, and Xia Duo will not be able to borrow them. Needed.

There are 12 books in total. If others borrow them, the cost is 2,400 gold coins per day. Calculated according to the spell level, spell books related to level 4 spells cost 200 gold coins per day to borrow.

This price is not high for a mid-level mage, and it is certainly not cheap either.

As for Xia Duo, he does not need to pay every day, he only needs to pay once. This is a benefit brought by the authority of the agent.

However, this time Xia Duo did not give out actual gold coins, but owed them first. Although he could come up with so many gold coins, his authority "told" him that he could owe them first.

There was not even a limit on the repayment date, which made Xia Duo lament that Niya might have been really anxious at the time and had not thought about these details at all.

But no matter what, he and Niya are now husband and wife, and they have made a sacred contract, so theoretically, the Tower of Time should also be half of his. Do you still have to pay to read his own books?

Through his own experience, Sha Duo even discovered the loopholes in the Tower of Time's contract. If ordinary mages make good use of it, they can completely steal the Tower of Time's wool.

Therefore, Xia Duo decisively informed Ta Ling and Ai Bok to replace the contracts for the Tower of Time members. There were not many changes in the new contract, except that a qualifier was 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...

The contract cannot be completely without loopholes, but by doing so, many loopholes can be plugged.

Of course, in order not to arouse the resentment of Tower of Time members when replacing the contract, Shado improved the benefits of intermediate mages, and correspondingly, "The Tower of Time will support junior mages to carry out special research projects" was also written into into the contract.

To a certain extent, Xia Duo is using the excuse to make up for the loopholes in the Tower of Time to promote his junior mage training project. This is an attempt that may change the world in the future.

Before leaving the Saville Territory and returning to the Daxia Territory, or shortly after changing the contracts for the Tower of Time members, Niya sent news from Severington, saying that she agreed with his approach and asked him to spend more time with Aibok and Aibo. Cecily communicate more.

Xia Duo knew this well, and it was inevitable for someone to tip off the news, but Niya believed him and agreed with him so easily, maybe she really had a different perspective when she arrived in Severton.

This also made Shado have a strong interest in Sevington, but he knew very clearly that his stage was not in Sevington, at least not now.

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

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

…

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

The time has now entered September, and the breeze blowing in the face carries the last traces of summer heat and a slight coolness of the autumn solstice. Looking at the monotonous forest scene on both sides of the river, it is difficult for Xia Duo not to think about those troublesome problems.

Just quietly gazing at the scenery on both sides of the river, occasionally a crooked-necked tree leaned towards the river bank, making him smile knowingly. These familiar or novel "landmarks" made Xia Duo feel a little familiar.

Not Savile Town, not Bactria, just these trees that can't talk or move.

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

Other times, he is just the disguised Master Shado, who seems to have blended into the world. But the longer he stayed in this world, the more out of place he felt.

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

He has no feelings for Netheril. Maybe he often talked about it when he was on Earth, but that was just because it came from a game he liked.

Being in the real Netheril, what kind of identity and belonging can it give him as an earthling!

Once the three views are formed, they will not be easily shaken. For him, magic is just a realistic result of epistemology. Even if the Lord of Glory stands in front of him one day, he will not be able to shake the three views.

Looking at the Wolfburg River in front of him, which flowed to an unknown direction and seemed to be his destiny, Chateau fell into deep thought. A pragmatic person would inevitably feel melancholy for a while.

Having seen the "bloody breath" of Master Wilder who visited before, as well as the "flowing and moist" "water element breath" at the Mystic Ruins, Sha Duo did not dare to let his mind accumulate negative emotions for a long time.

Who knows if there will be evil thoughts and the like!

Even on earth, health is divided into two parts: physical and mental. The only difference is that in this real magical world, psychological problems may affect the physical body.

This requires us to be more vigilant.

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

"Create the world and recreate the universe!"

It was rare to use Chinese characters to write. On a whim, Xia Duo wrote out many of the plans hidden in his heart, here and there, without any structure.

Although it is messy, 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 alienation from the world.

It was more than half a year before joining the Tower of Time;

Joined the Tower of Time (Main Plane), a little over a year;

The first astral projection, a little over a year and a half;

Second astral projection, over a year ago.

From the perspective of self-perception, it has been more than four years since he traveled to this world. If he doesn't take action, maybe in a few years, he will be assimilated to the point where he will be no different from the natives here.

Maybe he will agree with this assimilation in the future, but now he still thinks of himself as an earthling, and he cannot truly belong here.

In this case, it would be better for him to assimilate the world and transform it into what he wants.