Lord of Arcane

Chapter 771 Scan the book to advance again
The library of Gilles Tower is divided into two floors, which actually separates the internal library from the public library. The reading permissions obtained by Xia Duo refer to the public library permissions and the reading permissions of some books in the internal library.

In addition to the Seven Towers, members of the other mage towers can directly obtain the authority of the public library, and ordinary mages in the Seven Towers camp also have the opportunity to obtain it. It is not difficult, as long as they have money.

Only the reading permission of the internal library is difficult for ordinary people to obtain, and it is basically impossible for people outside the Seven Towers to obtain it. The Arcane Federation is their best choice.

After registering and confirming the permissions at the management office, Xia Duo plunged into the public library. He didn't care how many books there were, and just flipped through them one by one.

Every time he flipped through a book, he would involuntarily say in his heart - 10 gold coins, 10 gold coins!

The protective measures here are similar to those of the Tower of Time. If it is within the scope of reading authority, as long as the book is removed from the shelf, Tower Spirit will start billing, and there will be no additional fee for returning it within one day.

Of course, Xia Duo doesn’t need to read it for a day, he just needs to pick up the book and flip through it, and the follow-up can be sorted out slowly in his consciousness. What he has to do now is to finish reading all the books within his authority as quickly as possible .

Most of the books in the public library only cost 10 gold coins once, but there are many exceptions, such as the "Stardew Epic" he is holding in his hand now.

Since there are books higher than 10 gold coins, naturally there are also books lower than 10 gold coins, but compared to the high ones, there are very few books with less than 10 gold coins.

Halfway through, Xia Duo also found a book called "Dwarf Recipe", which only costs 3 gold coins to borrow once. Judging from the author's name, the author of this book should be a human being.

The content is not so much a recipe as a travel diary, recounting the author's journey to the dwarven kingdom through the lowland trade routes.

During the period, in addition to introducing several simple methods of dwarf food, it is to crazily complain about the race of dwarves, from height, appearance, behavior and style, to racial habits, architectural styles, to food and drinks, and even forging skills.

The sharpness of the words, on the earth, it is not an exaggeration to call it a keyboard man.

After reading this book, what impressed Xia Duo the most was not the local conditions and customs of the dwarven kingdom recorded in it, but the vulgar judgmental sentences that almost filled the whole text.

This made him almost completely lose interest in recalling the second time. There are also many books introducing the kingdom of dwarves, why should he endure this one!
However, this author is really capricious. If he writes it casually, isn't he afraid of being seen by the dwarves and causing diplomatic disputes?
After the episode, Xia Duo continued to flip through the books, flipping through the books, and he found that there is a rule in the borrowing fees of the books here, that is——

As long as there is only a little bit of content related to magic, the borrowing fee starts at 10 gold coins and ranges from 100 gold coins.

Of course, having this discovery is useless. After all, there are too few books under 10 gold coins here, and even because there are too few, Xia Duo looks forward to it even more.

He wanted to see if there were any other wonderful things like "Dwarf Recipe".

……

I don't know how long it has passed, Xia Duo, who was flipping through the books in front of a bookshelf, felt someone approaching behind him, so he temporarily closed the book, turned around and looked over, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

It turned out to be Niya. He thought it was because the library found something abnormal and wanted to chase her away!

When Niya approached, Xia Duo asked in a low voice: "How is it? Have you made contact?"

"Well, we're all connected!"

"So fast?!"

Xia Duo was a little surprised. You must know that they invited at least high-level mages, and there are also arcanists among them, and the first exchange meeting is scheduled for tomorrow!

It is impossible for those high-level mages to wait to be invited at any time, and they can still contact people under such a tight schedule. This makes Xia Duo feel that he still underestimated Niya's influence in Gilles Tower.

Niya's explanation for this is——

"Not long ago Belera failed as an advanced arcanist, and is preparing to reapply for the advanced laboratory recently, and one of the application conditions is to organize at least five high-level mage exchange meetings with at least ten people.

"When I was in contact with Belera, she just mentioned this incident. Considering that she still cooperates with us, I agreed to give her the title of organizer."

After listening to Niya's explanation, Xia Duo couldn't help being a little stunned. During the previous snowmelt competition, he and Nya participated in the exchange meeting organized by Belera, and it was also because he wanted to apply for an advanced laboratory.

Unexpectedly, half a year later, she had already failed once and had to apply again.

Although Xia Duo didn't know the requirements for applying for an advanced laboratory in Gilles High Tower, it is definitely not something that can be obtained by organizing a few exchange meetings.

Judging from the situation of the advanced laboratory of the Tower of Time, every time it is used, in addition to the fixed maintenance cost, there is also the most important work of repairing the magic net, which only arcanists can do.

Not counting the labor of the arcanist, just the fixed maintenance cost, the number of gold coins is at least tens of thousands.

As far as the mage tower is concerned, of course it is not necessary for the advanced person to pay the money, but if the wool is paid for by the sheep, it will definitely not lose money.

For a high-level mage, even 1 gold coins is not a small expense, so how can they try again and again.

Not to mention, there is also the artificiality of the Arcanist.

It's just a fixed cost to advance without tens of thousands at a time. Normally, the Mage Tower is unlikely to allow a person to try repeatedly, especially the Giles Tower.

Last time, Xia Duo heard from Belleira that even if he applied, he still had to wait in line.

If you were an ordinary person, you might choose to give up after failing once. Sure enough, you must have a good background to play a mage!
In fact, if Belleira didn't want to go home and inherit the territory for the time being, she could definitely advance in her own mage tower.

Thinking about it is really enviable!

……

Thinking about it, Xia Duo's thinking couldn't help but spread. Obviously, the existence of the advanced laboratory is beneficial for the advanced to tear the magic net, but it is also because of its existence that the arcanists are almost completely monopolized by the mage tower.

The so-called wild mage, if you don't join a mage tower, it is almost impossible to become an arcanist.

In fact, the vast majority of wild mages are middle- and low-priced mages, not even high-level mages, and they are not advanced arcanists at all.

What Xia Duo wants is not to develop a method that can be advanced in a normal environment, but if the number of spellcasters expands rapidly in the future, the number of advanced laboratories may not be enough.

He must now consider how to lower the threshold and cost of advanced laboratory construction.

As for advancing in a normal environment, Xia Duo is not optimistic. There are many auxiliary facilities, why not use them? This is like a handmade iron pot on the earth. Is it really better than industrial production?
That's not necessarily true.

The upper limit of manual manufacturing is there, but the progress of industrial technology is endless. It is almost self-evident which is the right way.

While promoting magic education for all, the relevant infrastructure must also keep up with it in time, otherwise there may be troubles.

This also reminded Xia Duo that education for all should not be blindly promoted. It is best to link it with the development of industry and infrastructure and promote it together, so as to conform to the general law of development.

Otherwise, it would be too troublesome to forcibly educate a large number of mages but have nowhere to put them.

(End of this chapter)