Chapter 396: Trend, Discovery

"There is no direct contact!"
"No direct contact?" De Parker frowned. He didn't think that Chardonnay would waste time to amuse him, but he couldn't figure out how the price of magic items was related to the ‘study group’.
The purpose of Xia Duo's coming here is to find out, to ventilate, not to guess a riddle, the logical chain of thinking flashed through his mind, and then he said:
"Times have changed, Master De Parker! I wonder if you have ever thought that one day, the price of magic items might be cheaper than the raw materials?"
"It's impossible!" De Parker retorted immediately.
Xia Duo shook his head. In fact, it's easier to understand "market price" and "cost". The situation of "market price
The "market price" is relatively stable, but for production entities that master different technologies, the "cost" is a variable.
The more you sell, the more you lose, not a joke, but a possible reality.
In the magical world, the current manufacturing of magic items is inseparable from the caster, so the actual pricing is largely determined by the mage, and the material is relatively small.
Cost = Master's labor + materials.
And the labor cost of the master is largely proportional to the time consumed by the master in production, so in qualitative analysis
Cost = Master Time + Materials
Improving production relations is actually reducing the labor time of the masters, and handing over some tasks that do not need to be completed by high-level masters to lower-level masters, or even ordinary people.
Once there is a sudden change in productivity, and the Master may even be separated from the specific production link, then the cost is limited to materials.
Of course, Xia Duo did not state the conjecture that future magical items might not need to be made by the wizard himself, but only talked about the benefits of improving production relations, and the speculation that other wizard towers may have been transformed.
The "study group" is a pilot for the transformation of the Tower of Time.
Xia Duo will not only try more advanced production methods, but also try more advanced organizational methods to lay the foundation for the next comprehensive transformation.
After speaking, he looked at De Parker and waited for the other's response.
"Master Xia Duo, I think what you said is very reasonable, but there is a problem. Doing so will inevitably lead to a large spread of related knowledge. This—"
Seeing De Parker's still suspicious expression, Xia Duo sighed deeply in his heart. The prosperity of science and technology and manufacturing on the earth actually allowed a considerable degree of public knowledge to exist.
The secret method and recipe have been replaced by patents.
However, in the magical world, the boundary between theory and technology is actually not clear. Theory can be directly transformed into technology (spell), and technology is still technology (spell).
To a certain extent, knowledge is equivalent to strength, and it is also the strength of an individual, so most of the color resistance mages are relatively conservative.
In particular, the lower you go, the more conservative you are, and you can't wait to let others know at all. It's best to only be a mage and everyone else is ordinary.
This is like on the earth. It is against humanity to get rich first and get rich later. Only people with firm beliefs can really do it. Most of the rich people, the purpose of their existence is to make more money and prevent others. People become rich.
In the magical world, visionary people do not exist.
The birth of the Austrian Law Federation is actually a consensus and compromise reached by a powerful spellcaster. From it, Xia Duo faintly saw the prototype of a magical community similar to a scientific community.
It was only a matter of replacing the Sevinton Parliament and becoming the official legal system of Netheril.
The will of the country and organization is not shifted by the will of the individual, even if it is as strong as the great arcanist, as long as the number exceeds one person, they must seek common ground while reserving differences.
Regardless of the external environment, "Netheril" itself actually has a strong desire for development, but is limited by the current backward production relations, unable to fully liberate the productive forces and vigorously develop the magic civilization.
What Xia Duo is doing now is in line with the development trend of the current era to some extent, and the real era is calling!
For De Parker's concerns, Chateau did not explain too much, he felt the bottom, and breathed, let him think about it next.
Going against the trend will inevitably be swallowed by the trend.
Of course, even if you follow the trend, you may encounter an undercurrent, the so-called darkness before dawn, in general.
After leaving De Parker, the time was not too early. After a set of focused training, Xia Duo took a rest early, but before going to bed, he asked Taring to make an appointment with the other supervisors of the Tower of Time and the mid-level wizards. Meeting the next day.
The mages are all busy people, especially the middle-level mages. Of course, Xia Duo can go directly, but if the other party has something important, then he may have gone for nothing.
Appointment is actually a reminder, reminding them to make time in advance.
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the next day.
There is still no news from Niya. On the side of Savill, Derrick has been instructed by Chardonnay to start negotiations with the Savill branch presidents of the raw material supplier associations, trying to re-sign a fixed share supply contract. .
In the Tower of Time, Chateau interviewed all the mid-level mages. Of course, unlike the "informers" like De Parker, for these mid-level mages, Chateau did not directly talk about the "study group" or something.
It's like a daily communication, asking them whether they are satisfied with the current environment and what improvements the Tower of Time needs, just like chatting with the boss and employees.
The mid-level mages are not a closed circle. There will be exchanges between them ~EbookFREE.me~ and there will be cooperation. The transformation of the Tower of Time is not a secret.
But Xia Duo hoped to arouse extensive discussion, rather than let him notify them all, without any feedback later, and when the real transformation came, he would run away a group of people.
In the next few days, Xia Duo did not return to Linshui Village, and stayed in the Tower of Time. While waiting for Niya's news, he used the spell laboratory to increase the intensity of spell practice.
At the same time, he is always paying attention to Tilak's permanent magic project and Derrick's negotiation process outside, of course, there is no progress for both of them.
...
The fifth day that Chateau returned to the Tower of Time was also the eighth day that Chateau expelled the priest of Cole.
On this day, Xia Duo was doing the first [Detection] practice in the spell laboratory. He was very interested in this kind of prophecy-like spell, so he only ranked it after [Short Teleport].
Of course, the first practice can't talk about a complete cast or a successful one. Instead, as usual, split the element units and wait until all element units are proficient in practice before proceeding to the complete cast.
Splitting the element units requires the caster to have a good understanding of the principles of the spell and be able to recognize the internal logic. Otherwise, the splitting alone does not actually make much sense.
After all, the elements are essentially just operations on the strings of the magic net, with limited types, but the element combination units at different levels of the magic net are almost infinite.
According to the principle of spells, the element units that are separated are actually the decomposition of the specific casting steps. There is no need to practice individual elements at all, Xia Duo is already familiar with it.
While practicing in Xia Duo, Ta Ling suddenly sent a prompt, "Xia Duo, the master has returned to the Tower of Time, please come to the study to meet."