Arcane Lord

Xia Duo saw this very clearly. It was not in the interests of the empire for researchers to suppress the promotion of assistant researchers.

The current empire is not in its heyday, but in a state of hide-and-seek remnants after its collapse. No matter how bad the top management is, how can it be that the whole empire is still rotten?

In this case, anyone with any brains at the top would like to expend resources as quickly as possible to promote the development of magic, rather than get caught up in involution.

As for the development of magic, the institute is a top priority. The lack of promotion of assistant researchers does not seem to affect the normal operation of the institute, but in fact it makes the institute lifeless.

For example, Rhodes, Huck and others, they can save projects, but due to identity restrictions, they set up projects on their own. Perhaps these projects contain key technologies that can change the fate of the empire's survivors!

Once they can be successfully promoted, a large number of new projects will immediately emerge. Even if it is just to try their luck, the chance of hitting the candidate will be higher.

Now Xia Duo's existence is simply a weird thing. He doesn't care at all whether the institute is involved in the internal investigation. He only cares about whether his research project can be successfully outsourced.

As for what price to give to others, he doesn't care. Anyway, it's all in vain.

Maybe the higher-ups will give him some support and let him stir up the stagnant water of the institute!

…

Two days later, five new people were added to Sha Duo's laboratory, so Sha Duo took advantage of the situation and launched the "Resurrection Technique - Perfect Restoration of the Link between Body and Soul" project.

Related to the resurrection technique, it is not convenient to experiment in the main plane. After all, they are all living people. How can virtual people in the projection plane be easy to use and there is no psychological burden.

Anyway, when this projection plane dissolves in the star realm, everything will disappear.

With some existing research materials from the Empire survivors as a basis, Xia Duo believed that no matter how bad this project was, it would be able to eliminate some misunderstandings in the direction for him, making it easier for him to conduct further research in the future.

However, after the project was established, Xia Duo also received a notice from the Institute Management Center that the benefits for newcomers had ended, and future projects would have requirements, and their completion status would also be included in the review and inspection of future new projects.

Xia Duo deeply regretted this. The benefits from only three projects were too little. He even regretted giving the first project to Ross.

…

Two days later, five new people were added to Sha Duo's laboratory. At this time, including Sha Duo, there were already 15 high-level mages in the laboratory.

With such quality, placed in the main plane of Netheril, it is like a very strong Mage Tower organization. It is estimated that it will take about ten years for the Tower of Time to accumulate 15 high-level mages.

But ten years is only the normal upgrade time for an ordinary mage. With the academic training mechanism of the Tower of Time at that time, by then, there will never be only 15 high-level mages, but batches after batches, perhaps tens of thousands. Hundreds of tricks!

In fact, you can deduce the future development of the Tower of Time by looking at the Judgment Department base of the Empire's remnants. The total number of people in the Judgment Department base is only about the same as that of the Saville Territory, about 40,000 to 50,000 people.

But the proportion of high-level mages is simply ridiculously high, even higher than in the heyday of the empire. There are hundreds of them that Xia Duo has seen with his own eyes, and even more who have never seen them.

If the population of nearly 10 million at that time could still have such a high proportion of high-level mages, then the empire might not be destroyed.

High-level mages were still able to survive the destruction disaster at that time. As long as they could avoid the first wave of the most tragic impact of the almost complete collapse of the magic network structure (non-arcanists were unable to cast spells and protect themselves), there would be no problem in the future. .

In fact, as the proportion of high-level mages has increased, the proportion of arcane masters and great arcane masters will inevitably increase. This is a major change that can change the strategic landscape.

If the remnants of the current empire can still have more than forty great arcane masters like they did in the heyday of the empire, then even if they return to the ground, Cormanthor will most likely not dare to push too hard.

How can we be like now, determined to destroy all the remaining people of the empire?

…

certainly.

Whether it was the empire period or the current remnant period, the policies of forced birth and compulsory education were too harsh. It was only because of the huge external crisis that there was no internal collapse.

In the relatively peaceful environment of the main plane, this cannot be done.

It’s just compulsory education. That’s what Xia Duo’s hometown does. It’s not difficult to accept it and I’m happy to accept it.

But forced childbirth is so against human nature. Even if Xia Duo really wants the territory's population to grow rapidly, it is difficult to accept it in this way.

He preferred to encourage procreation rather than force it.

…

The addition of new people made Chateau's laboratory become crowded for a while, especially the most frequently used measurement equipment, which is used to accurately measure specific parameters, and must be used by several project teams in turn.

Among the four project groups, except for Rhodes, who was in a team of one person, the other three groups had an average of four or five people. Rhodes was the most affected, and almost got into a fight over equipment.

On the contrary, it is those fixed facilities that cannot be moved, such as alchemy circles, calming fields and other fixed facilities. Because the venue is spacious, there have been no disputes over its use for the time being.

After learning about this situation, Xia Duo was glad that he had only admitted more than ten people. If he had admitted a few more people, there would be no need for work in the laboratory, and the quarrel over equipment would be enough for a whole day.

After dinner, after the leaders of the four project teams reported the day's progress to Shado, Rhodes made an expected request:

"I would like to apply for a batch of materials to be exchanged for a batch of measurement equipment from the 'Kasher Laboratory'!"

"Okay, you can get as much as you need and just make a record of the shipment." Xia Duo said generously.

In fact, the current laboratory material warehouse is managed by Rhodes. The purchase of laboratory equipment is already within his authority, and there is no need to apply for it.

But respect is mutual, not to mention that Ross's promotion is still in Sha Duo's hands.

As for Casher Laboratory, it is actually good at making measurement equipment. Instead of wasting time, energy and materials by doing it yourself, it is better to exchange it directly.

Of course, if you use points, you can switch to one with better performance and higher accuracy, but Rhodes obviously won't ask for this.

Laboratory materials have a certain monthly quota and are public. If they are not used, it is a waste. On the contrary, the points are more like private property and will not be wasted easily.

…

There is no sun or moon in the laboratory.

On this day, Xia Duo had breakfast and was looking at the project document that Huck had brought over. After a brief review, he was ready to ask him to apply for project approval at the management center.

Just at this moment, he received a summons from his old boss Elise, asking him to meet at the academy square on the fourth floor.