Arcane Lord

"It's confirmed."

Dean first gave an affirmative answer, and then changed the topic, "However, many of them are preparing to take the intermediate assessment at the end of the month. If they are allowed to accept the inheritance now, will it damage their self-confidence?"

"Did you add the fourth-level mage to the list?" Xia Duo frowned.

Dean immediately explained: "The evaluation of fourth-level mages has just been completed in the past two days. We didn't know before that they could be rated as fourth-level mages."

Upon hearing this explanation, Sha Duo immediately understood Dean's selection criteria, which were generally based on the previous selection criteria, giving priority to new mages with more outstanding talents.

But there have been two periods before, with a total of more than 100 people receiving the inheritance. Although these people have not all completed the training, as long as the training is completed, the lack of backbone of the Tower of Time will be effectively alleviated immediately.

In other words, the Tower of Time no longer needs to spawn the most high-level mages in the shortest time. It can take its time according to needs and plans.

The candidates for the third phase of the inheritance ceremony that Sha Duo plans to select are mainly to supplement his own manpower and that of several newly opened projects at the Plane Exploration Center, and are not intended for any purpose.

There is no need to sacrifice the best batch of new mages.

Being able to become a high-level mage in the shortest possible time is indeed a rare opportunity for people with ordinary talents. Although they grow slowly and have a high probability of becoming high-level mage, but——

In the early days of the Tower of Time's rapid development, becoming a high-level mage one day earlier would have led to a completely different situation. For people with ordinary talents, this might be an opportunity to change their lives.

For those with outstanding talents, their growth and development limits are higher. Even if they become high-level mages later, it will not affect their final achievements in the Tower of Time where everything is booming.

However, accepting the inheritance ceremony and becoming a high-level mage in a short period of time may consume their potential in advance, making it difficult for them to reach the limit that they can reach under normal development conditions.

Xia Duo did not want to stifle real geniuses. In fact, even in the previous two rounds of inheritance ceremony candidates, he did not choose the best batch.

The first group was actually more of Chateau's friends from his childhood, such as Dean and Sammy, as well as the winners of the first Motorcycle Design Building.

The second batch is the one hundred people selected for targeted training.

The third batch also has one hundred places, and Sha Duo mainly fills these people into the second batch of projects where high-level mages are approved to join.

So he directly gave Dean a clearer instruction, "In the third phase of the inheritance ceremony, priority will be given to those with average talent, and priority will be given to third-year apprentices."

When selecting people for the second batch of inheritance ceremonies, they were also selected from among the apprentices, but they were the best among the third graders. This time, they were not selected that way. In fact, there were not so many outstanding people that he could choose at will.

At least not yet.

As for why they are not selected from second-year students, first-year students, or even ordinary citizens, the main consideration is from the perspective of accepting the concept of joining the academy.

Ordinary citizens, in fact, are adult citizens. Most of their ideas have been finalized and are far less easy to change than teenagers. The first and second years of apprenticeship are such a stage for laying the foundation.

Only those who have completed the first and second years of apprenticeship can be considered potential citizens of the future magical civilization, or pioneers of the new era.

It is impossible for Xia Duo to waste resources and energy on prioritizing the training of remnants of the old era. He must give priority to cultivating young people. This is one of the reasons why he has not really opened up enrollment for ordinary citizens.

The total population of the territory, including Savile Territory, now reaches more than half a million, and not all of the young people of school age have joined the Tower of Time!

He is now trying to increase enrollment as fast as possible to prevent sixteen-year-olds who are stuck at the right age from missing out on the opportunity to enter school. As for those who are older, they can only wait until truly universal education is rolled out.

Xia Duo predicts that with the current development speed, it will be possible to achieve the small goal of all school-age teenagers enrolling in school in one or two years at most, and the mid-term goal after that is universal education.

Then there is the big goal - the construction of higher education. In fact, these three small, medium and large goals are not completed before moving on to the next one, but are started simultaneously and gradually completed.

Regarding higher education, in fact, the new project that Xia Duo is planning to start now can be regarded as part of higher education, although it is not perfect.

To improve it, we need a certain population base and an education base for all the people. It is difficult to build an advanced higher education system with just 500,000 people today.

If nothing else, there is an extreme shortage of teachers.

Teachers in higher education must all be senior researchers who have made outstanding achievements in their own fields, right? Calculated into the current mainstream level of Netheril, he must be at least the best among the great arcanists.

Although there are currently three great arcanists in the Tower of Time, Xia Duo is probably the only one who is truly qualified for this job, and the reason why he is qualified is actually thanks to his experience studying abroad in the Red Heart Alliance.

If he wanted to teach in a university in the Heartless Alliance, he was actually a little bit out of luck.

However, Shado will not underestimate himself. Now he is undoubtedly a bug-level existence for Netheril and the entire main plane. As long as he is given time, he can create a new world.

…

After clarifying the selection criteria for the third phase of the list, Xia Duo is not ready to stay here anymore. There is still a lot of things waiting for him in the laboratory!

However, when he returned to the laboratory and had just adjusted the equipment, news came from Severington that the meeting of parliamentarians agreed at the beginning of the month was time.

Nowadays, the Sevington Parliament has a meeting of members every month, and a plenary meeting with the participation of lords once every six months. In the past month or two, because there have been too many things, Shado has entrusted the voting rights to Niya.

But this time, the notice from the Congressman’s Secretary’s Office mentioned that Badigal specially invited him to be present.

Of course, when there is a remote conference magic weapon, the so-called "presence" does not require Shado to go to Severton in person, but only needs to participate in the remote conference.

As for why Badigal specially invited him to be present, the notice also mentioned that it was about another human country in the Northern Alliance - the newly established Irusk.

There are two main things. One is to ask for help from Netheril, asking for help with cold-resistant seeds, winter food, clothing, etc.

Another thing is that Irusk intends to strengthen communication with Netheril. To put it bluntly, he wants to send more people to Netheril to learn magic.

Of these two things, the former is not that important. At least for Netheril, even if Irusk is destroyed, it will not have much impact on itself.

But the latter wants to send more people to Netheril to learn magic. This matter can be big or small, it all depends on Ilfaran's attitude. If Ilfaran doesn't care, then even if the whole country of Irusk is merged into Netheril It's not impossible.

But if Elfaran cares, and cares very much, then this matter will be more difficult to handle, which is almost equivalent to the impact that Netheril had on Ellan when it gave up elven magic.

But Irusk's absolute strength was completely inferior to that of Netheril at that time. If this matter was not handled properly, perhaps Irusk's short-lived national glory would come to an end.