Chapter 1107: Ideological Transformation, Advanced Methodology

"Additionally, there is another matter you need to pay attention to. Nowadays, Daxia Territory has nearly ten thousand residents. As the Executive of the territory, you need to appear at various formal occasions, and wearing this old leather armor is somewhat inappropriate."

"In these next few days, go back to Savile Territory through the Tower of Time. I will have Saier Town Mayor arrange for someone to take your measurements and tailor a few sets of formal attire suitable for official occasions."

After Xia Duo finished speaking, Laidun suddenly let out an "Ah," then looked up and down at the old leather armor he had been wearing for a long time, and said quite vexedly:

"My Lord, I should have thought of this sooner. I will go to Savile Territory later."

"Hmm, this matter is not just about you alone. Officials from all departments of the territory also need to find time to go there. I won't say more; you notify them when the time comes!"

"Yes, My Lord!"

After thinking for a moment, Xia Duo still felt it wasn't enough, so he added: "The security officers of the Security Office and the soldiers of the Territory Guard have standard combat equipment for daily use. The administrative staff of all departments in the territory also need a neat and decent work uniform. Let the style be tentatively set as the Apprentice Mage Robe of the Tower of Time, with their respective names and positions embroidered on the chest."

In fact, the Apprentice Mage Robe of the Tower of Time is not considered very formal, neat, or decent, but compared to the motley attire of those people now, it is much neater, more decent, and more formal.

Moreover, Xia Duo's intention is not just to change the uniforms for those administrative staff, but to break down the certain high and mighty sanctity brought about by the status of a Spellcaster.

Of course, this cannot be changed by a set of clothing alone, but it can be subtly influenced over time. Today it might be "So this is the feeling of being a Mage Apprentice," and tomorrow it might become "Perhaps I can also become a Mage master."

And the day after, it might turn into "So this is what a Mage is like"!

The Tower of Time now has nearly a thousand Apprentices, and in two or three years, a large number of Official Mages will emerge. At that time, it will be inevitable to arrange some Mages to various departments of the territory.

Academic-style teaching can be called a crash course. The Mages cultivated in this way may no longer look down on ordinary people as they did in the past, because they know that their achievements are not as difficult as they previously thought; it only takes a few short years to go from an ordinary person to an Official Mage.

Coupled with the fact that they are all children of families in the territory, after breaking the high and mighty sanctity of Spellcasters within the territory, the ordinary people of the territory will also be able to get along with them better.

Of course, friction and even conflict will almost certainly appear, but in the initial stage, everything in the territory is under Xia Duo's control, and he has enough time to slowly grind and adjust.

To grind out the best distance and relationship for people of different identities to get along in the future magical civilization.

Although Xia Duo feels that Arcanists will definitely be able to become a mainstream in the future, similar to university students on Earth, as long as one is willing to cultivate, almost everyone can go to university.

But even in the most developed regions on Earth, not everyone can become a university student. Resources are limited, and it is certain that those who perform better must be cultivated first.

Below university, High School and Junior High School follow the same logic.

Applied to the magical world, unless there are infinite resources and infinite time to pile up, the simultaneous existence of ordinary people and Spellcasters will inevitably be a very long historical process. (Ordinary people have received Magic Education and even mastered some spellcasting abilities, but compared to true professionals, they appear amateur and ordinary.)

If the relationship between ordinary people and Spellcasters is not handled well now, by the time the number of people increases in the future and the various factions within become intertwined, although it may not be impossible to handle, the cost of handling it will be unknown how much higher than it is now.

Of course, the ordinary people of the future may not necessarily be the group of non-Spellcasters referred to now.

Future Magic Education will certainly be popularized, and ordinary people will also receive Magic Education and even skillfully master quite a lot of spellcasting abilities, but compared to true professionals, they will appear amateur and ordinary.

By the same token, Spellcasters will also be subdivided into various new professions that adapt to the needs of civilization development, completely unlike the current definition where a Spellcaster just refers to someone who can cast spells.

Perhaps the relationship between Spellcasters of different professions will be even harder to coordinate and handle!

On this point, Xia Duo has a practical realization. Before crossing over here, his two identities—Programmer and web writer—often suffered from various prejudices.

Even within Programmers and writers, there exist tangible or intangible chains of contempt.

The difficulty of wanting to create a brilliant magical civilization that does not belong to Earth civilization is imaginable.

Of course, Xia Duo does not need to handle everything personally, strictly control every variable, and shape the future magical civilization exactly according to what he thinks in his heart.

His ideas are largely influenced by Earth civilization and are not necessarily suitable for the development of the local magical civilization. He must combine reality and adapt to local conditions to truly cultivate the sweet and wonderful fruits of civilization, rather than foul and corrupt twisted fruits.

Fortunately, the education Xia Duo received lets him know that a correct methodology is far more important than countless concrete and specific methods.

The Scientific Development View can undoubtedly be used to guide the development of magical civilization.

And a harmonious society may not only appear in a technological world.

In fact, in Xia Duo's understanding, Magic is science; it is just a difference in terminology. Who can say that a knowledge system like Magic, which can be repeatedly verified within a certain range, is not science!

One must know that at the birth of science on Earth, it was also crowned with the name of "Witchcraft." It was only because it formed a verifiable system that it became "science."

If time is pushed forward by tens of thousands of years, the science of that time might also be called "Magic" by people of the era Xia Duo is in.

True science is by no means just the set of knowledge systems developed in a certain era on Earth, but should be the methodology for developing that set of verifiable knowledge systems.

Xia Duo has seen many Primitive Magic systems in the Nether Scroll that are completely different from Netheril Magic and Elven Magic. Those magics might be called "Witchcraft."

There are also many embryonic magic systems, but unfortunately, they failed to develop to the present and could only become a mark of an era recorded in the 【Nether Scroll】.

The reason for this can perhaps all be attributed to—being confused by various concrete and practical spells, thereby ignoring the principles and essence behind these spells.

After all, the magic of this world (as perceived by intelligent beings) often originated in the form of some practical technology, such as the Shaman Wizard who communicated with elemental will to cast elemental spells.

They often pay more attention to the phenomena of magic rather than the essence.

Or rather, they value technology over theory, and even less do they summarize a methodology specifically used to guide development.

This point is actually somewhat similar to the various "black technologies" in ancient times in Xia Duo's hometown. The technology was very powerful, but they just didn't summarize a scientific methodology, which led to true science being many years later than in the West.

As a relatively mature magic system, although Netherese Mages did not explicitly propose any methodology, they have in fact been unconsciously applying it in a simple way. (Elves are the same, but they are going downhill.)

If there were no intervention from Xia Duo, Netheril might also be able to stumble and develop a magical civilization, but if there is Xia Duo, its development speed will definitely increase significantly.

And it will be able to avoid many unnecessary drawbacks in the development process.

This is the confidence and foundation that mastering an advanced methodology brings to Xia Duo.