In the end, Xia Duo convinced everyone by promising that building a new floating city would not cost much resources. The Tower of Time was not just his word. Although he had many plans and foresight, he would also listen carefully to everyone's opinions.
Assessing the situation should be what a qualified leader should do.
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After convincing everyone to support the plan to build a new floating city, Sha Duo did not stop the construction of Chang'an City. Although Savile's suggestion of selling Chang'an City was suspected of being out of pity, it was also a good way to recover costs.
As he promised before, the new floating city uses many advanced technologies from the Red Heart Alliance, especially the latest version of Arcane Strings, which came out not long before Shado left, and can completely replace mithril in the floating city.
Most of the cost of constructing magic buildings is in energy-guiding materials. In order to build Chang'an City, Xia Duo purchased tens of millions of finished Mithril from the Leisen Territory, as well as countless other materials.
Of course, the more expensive thing is the caster. After all, even if you gather all the materials, it will be in vain without a user.
As for New City, the energy-guiding material can be the newly developed Arcana String (the name of David String in the Red Heart Alliance) that is similar to the Magic Network String developed by the Red Heart Alliance. After deducting the mithril, the material cost is very limited.
As for labor, Chang'an City is already undergoing infrastructure construction, and everyone else is just moving to another place to work. The one who is really tired is Xia Duo himself.
He needs to personally preside over all the spells and rituals, and cannot rely on others. Thinking about a city that is almost made of pure magic makes you feel numb.
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Xia Duo has already begun preparations for the new city plan in the later stages of [Projection Plane·Red Heart Alliance]. Although there is still a certain distance from completion, that is relative to the complete completion.
Compared with the current floating city of Chang'an, this plan is already perfect.
However, before the actual construction begins, some preliminary preparations need to be made, such as enough demi-planes, which need to be connected to the New City Mystery Lock during the construction stage, similar to what Xia Duo did in the transformation practice base of Chixin University, but more Base.
For another example, when designing the spell-casting ritual, Shado subconsciously considered using arcanists from the Red Heart Alliance as assistants. After returning to the main plane, he would of course need to make some adjustments specifically for the existing people in the Tower of Time.
To put it more bluntly, simplify it as much as possible without affecting the casting results.
However, the main plane also has the advantages of the main plane, that is, the existence of the intelligent brain. The Lingsi network can bring together the wisdom of different individuals. In essence, it is more inclined to do creative work, but it is limited to the level of technological development and is not good enough.
But the intellectual brain is simply better at repetitive work. It essentially combines countless spell casters. It cannot surpass the casters in terms of creative intelligence, but countless spell casters combined are equivalent to countless free workers. .
Of course, limited to ectoplasm materials, Xia Duo's intelligence brain is limited in individual composition, and it cannot be used to replace spellcasting. It can only do work to save calculations.
The design of the spell-casting ritual was assisted by Intelligent Brain, and Xia Duo felt that his condition was not inferior to that of using the Lingsi Network in the Red Heart Alliance.
It's a pity that Zhi Nao is only good at the computing field, and we don't know how long it will take for the Lingsi Network on the main plane to develop like the Red Heart Alliance!
Although he had only returned to the main plane for two or three days, Xia Duo felt more and more constrained everywhere. He needed infrastructure, but there was no infrastructure, and he needed educated talents, but there were not enough educated talents.
This feeling is like a modern person returning to ancient times. Previously, Xia Duo traveled from the earth to the main plane. He could also use magic as a novelty to alleviate the feeling of retrogression. However, after experiencing the modern civilization of the magic world, This is unbearable.
And this also made him more and more eager for the development of the main plane, and at the same time he hated the demons from different timelines that hindered development.
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Three days later, Aiboke received news from the Iolum Territory that the recruitment work was proceeding in an orderly manner. Many high-level mages had expressed their willingness to join the Tower of Time, but they were hesitant about the request to relocate their families.
Aibo asked if the conditions could be relaxed and he would wait until the high-level mages were stable at the Tower of Time before considering moving their families.
In response to this, Xia Duo replied, "The conditions can be relaxed for students whose teachers have demerited them. Others need to migrate and join when they join the job. However, you can bring them to Daxia to learn about it first, and it is not too late to make a decision later."
Xia Duo wanted people to be his own people, not to attract potential enemies, but at the same time recruitment was also a two-way choice. He put forward conditions. If the other party was unwilling, they could not come.
Not long after replying, Shado received another message from Aiboke. This time it was not about recruitment, but about the newly promoted arcanist Depak who also went to Iolum.
The Mystic Temple will perform a star leaping ceremony for every newly advanced arcanist. If the new arcanist is lucky enough, he can receive the baptism of the blue and white secret flame during the ceremony and regain his youth.
Under normal circumstances, whether the secret flame baptism appears is decided by the mysterious lady, but if the temple priest has enough divine grace, he can also take the initiative to perform it, just like the time in Aiboke before.
The reason why Shado asked Depak to follow him was because he hoped that the priest of the Iolum Temple of Mystery would give Depak a baptism of secret flame for his sake.
But he wasn't 100% sure whether it would work or not.
Judging from Aibo's description, it seems that the blue and white mithril appeared in the ceremony without the priest having to pay any divine favor, and Depak was restored to his youth as a result.
This saved him a favor, but he didn't understand why the baptism of secret flame appeared. Depak was not a late-blooming genius, nor did he have any outstanding magical achievements. Why was Ms. Mystery willing to baptize Depak?
Xia Duo is not so arrogant that Ms. Mystery would baptize Depak for his sake. If the Red Heart Alliance appears in the main plane, it may attract Ms. Mystery's attention, but that is in the astral realm and in the projection position. noodle.
Unless Ms. Mystery happens to be inside at the time, there is no way to obtain everything that happens inside. After all, God is not omnipotent.
Furthermore, although the origin of the Red Heart Alliance is related to Sha Duo, those magical achievements were not accomplished by him alone, but by countless researchers of the Red Heart Alliance.
Xia Duo himself was not aware of the mysterious lady's grace, let alone the transfer benefiting Depak. There must be something inside that he didn't know.
First of all, it is certain that De Park has no outstanding achievements. Does that mean that he may be a hidden late-blooming genius?
"Have you misjudged the person?"
Sha Duo shook his head and stopped thinking about this problem. No matter what, it was impossible for Depak to change his temperament because of a secret flame baptism. The people around him were still from the Tower of Time, and they didn't care what he did.
As for the reason for the appearance of Secret Flame Baptism, if you have the opportunity in the future, you can ask Ms. Mystery in person.
Xia Duo has absolutely no doubts about whether he can develop civilization to a god-like level in the future. Of course, the road must be taken step by step, otherwise he will become a typical example of "a heart higher than the sky and a life thinner than paper"!
(End of chapter)
