Xia Duo took a general look and found nothing unusual. Generally speaking, Leonard, the former tower master's student, still maintained his share of the past.
But 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 Niya was now in charge of the Tower of Time, so he wanted to keep a low profile, but Shado was not a harsh person.
How could they embarrass him because of his identity?
Furthermore, it was Leonard who brought him into the Tower of Time and gave him ten learning scrolls that were very important for Sha Duo in the early stage. Even with Mu Yan's factor, Sha Duo still appreciated it.
Pulling out this document separately and putting it aside, Xia Duo continued to read the following documents.
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The following applications are interesting. There are many topics such as "Design of 3rd-level spells at the 1st level" and "Research on the materialization of the Magic Network String".
At first glance, even Xia Duo was frightened by the names of these topics, but if he thought about it seriously, could these mid-level mages understand something that even he couldn't understand?
For example, the description of the "3rd-level spell-like" is quite spiritual. The application report said it is similar to the 3rd-level spell effect, not the 3rd-level equivalent effect that Shado initially thought, the kind in the String of Magic Network. Equivalence at the element transformation level.
The report also said that as long as this is understood, level 1 spells can be used as level 3 spells in the future, and neither the difficulty of spell casting nor the difficulty of learning will increase, but will decrease.
Isn’t this nonsense!
There is also talk about the materialization of the Strings of the Magic Network, which is even more nonsense. Currently, any theory that Sha Duo has come into contact with, as well as his own personal research, do not support the so-called materialization of the Strings of the Magic Network.
Substantiation means that the strings of the magic network can come into contact with the material in reality. If it is feasible, all the magic network can be transformed into entities in some way, thereby destroying the world.
As one of the foundations of the world, the Magic Network cannot change its nature so easily!
Even if the arcane fire tears apart the magic web, it does not change the nature of the magic web string itself. Instead, it re-weaves a private miniature magic web, which converges and curls up to become the arcane fire.
Looking at these imaginative application reports, Xia Duo shook his head one after another, but if he were to completely deny it, he would not be able to do such a thing.
On the one hand, his own understanding may be different, and if he makes a misjudgment, he may miss an opportunity.
On the other hand, these mid-level mages can make such an application, whether it is for real research or to defraud funds, but in fact they are actively supporting the new system after the transformation of the Tower of Time.
In this way, as long as their story is well crafted and no obvious flaws can be seen, their application 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 that the attitudes of these mid-level mages would change so quickly!
It really tastes good when you have rice!
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In addition to some imaginative topics, there are also regular consumables for a normal mid-level mage to conduct magic experiments. Xia Duo only briefly browsed these and skipped them.
After reading all the documents, Xia Duo looked up and saw Cecily waiting for his reply. Xia Duo thought about it and revealed the idea of establishing a project approval department in advance.
"After the project approval group is established, there won't be so many people trying to defraud funds. As for the manufacturing of communication instruments, we can't stop it for the time being. I will find another way to find resources."
After finishing speaking, Xia Duo paused for a moment and continued: "Now it's my turn to ask you, based on the past month, how long can the current supply reserves of the Tower of Time be used?"
This time Cecily stopped looking for information and blurted out directly. It seemed that she had been thinking about it for a long time:
"Currently, the Tower of Time consumes materials directly related to magic, which mainly include five-color gems, mithril, gold, silver, iron, as well as various scroll inks, scroll paper, and ordinary parchment. Some special materials are not included. Also food doesn’t count.
"There are not many reserves of five-color gemstones and ordinary parchment. Based on the consumption in the past month, they will be used until June next year at most. This is still counting the various materials sent by various chambers of commerce in the first quarter of next year. If not If so, it may be exhausted in January or February.”
No shortage of mithril?
Chateau was a little surprised, and then he expressed his question, to which Cecily's answer was——
"There is indeed not much Mithril left, but next month is a new year, and a certain amount of Mithril can be purchased from the Arcane Federation. There will be no Mithril shortage crisis in a short period of time, but as long as the communication magic weapon continues If production continues, it will be a matter of time before mithril becomes scarce!"
It turns out that this is such an algorithm!
Xia Duo also remembered that he still had some Mithril purchase receipts here!
When he transferred the magic network background communication magic weapon patent, he received from Giles Tower, in addition to a large amount of gold coins and subsequent continued income, there were also some five-color gems, physical mithril, 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, we still need to find a more stable supply of mithril. It is best to directly find one or more mithril mines. This is the truly stable supply.
Then he asked Cecily:
"Didn't you make an advance payment for a communication instrument before? Didn't you use those gold coins to buy five-color gems? What about the parchment? Isn't there even enough paper?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xia Duo noticed that Cecily's expression was a little subtle, but after thinking about it, there seemed to be nothing wrong.
Seeing that Xia Duo hadn't reacted yet, Cecily had to say clearly: "Those advance payments have been used up long ago. In addition to paying the wages of the magic technicians you mentioned, there are also maintenance fees for the Tower of Time. It's so much all of a sudden. With so many apprentices and various facilities being used, how can we not pay any price at all!"
It turns out that it is true that people’s positions are different and their focus of attention is also different.
Like Sha Duo, what he is most concerned about is definitely the transformation of the Tower of Time and the effectiveness of the transformation. As for the expenses and prices, in his subconscious, the Tower of Time can bear it.
From Cecily's perspective, her identity is Niya's housekeeper and the person in charge of the Tower of Time's Materials Department. The financial problems of the Tower of Time are so obvious that she cannot help but pay attention to them.
"As for parchment, there are so many apprentices all of a sudden, and the amount of paper used is almost ten times more than that of the Tower of Time in the past. How can there be so many cattle and sheep to kill? Even if it is purchased through the Chamber of Commerce, there is a transit time difference problem. "
Cecily mentioned parchment again. In fact, Xia Duo had already realized that the raw material of parchment uses animal leather.
Whether it is cattle, sheep, or lizards, they all need time to grow, and the scale of breeding is also very limited, so they cannot be obtained unlimitedly.
Now that we are ready to refine mithril, it doesn't matter if we put the papermaking skills to use!
Thinking of this, Xia Duo immediately made a decision in his mind. There happened to be a large amount of logs piled up in his territory, and he didn't know how to consume them. The piles took up space, so he might as well make them into paper!
