Chapter 1347: Foreign Travel Invitation, Delivering the Order

At this moment, Iolum also spoke of Xia Duo's arrangements for that day, "You will come with me when the time comes; while you are still young, you should go out and see more of the world."

"Understood."

Xia Duo agreed immediately. In truth, he understood Iolum's real meaning: it would likely become troublesome to travel abroad after becoming a Great Arcanist, as others would suspect one's motives.

This was similar to Earth, where countries would deploy nuclear weapons or restrict the travel of important scientific researchers to ensure their safety.

A Great Arcanist possessed the attributes of both a nuclear weapon and an important scientific researcher!

In fact, a large part of why Xia Duo wanted to hide his current situation was because of this. The level of attention received by a Senior Arcanist and a Great Arcanist was completely different.

……

After leaving Iolum's side, Xia Duo went straight to Weilan Manor on the edge of the Old City District. During this time, he naturally did not forget to notify Lord Halan and Evans to head over.

By the time he walked outside Weilan Manor, Lord Halan had just arrived. Upon meeting, Charles Halan greeted him with a face full of anticipation:

"Lord Xia Duo, I've finally waited for you! That, about that order—"

"Lord Halan, you don't trust me, do you!"

Xia Duo shook his head, ignoring the anxious look in the other's eyes, and deliberately paused before saying, "Rest assured, the order is already complete. I called you over to let you inspect the goods! Let's go, let's go inside and talk!"

As he spoke, Xia Duo gestured toward the inside of the manor. At this moment, Aiwa, having heard the commotion, had already come out to greet them.

Although Charles Halan was very anxious inside, he was not so impatient that he couldn't wait even this little bit of time. Accompanied by Xia Duo, the two followed behind Aiwa, who had come out to welcome them, crossed a relatively shallow small grove, and arrived in front of the villa.

Once there, Aiwa excused himself and left. Next, Xia Duo led Lord Halan to the main Reception Room on the first floor of the villa.

Of course, Lord Halan himself was very familiar with this place; after all, it had previously belonged to him, though it now had a new owner.

……

After entering the Reception Room and taking their seats, Xia Duo did not continue to keep them in suspense. He immediately took three lidless small boxes from his Personal Space, used Magic to make them hover, and pushed them in front of Lord Halan:

"Inside here are the 100 Demon-Slaying Amulets we agreed upon. Lord Halan, feel free to inspect them."

The interior of the small wooden boxes was divided into 6x6 small compartments. 100 Demon-Slaying Amulets filled exactly two boxes, with the last box having 8 empty spaces.

Charles Halan only glanced at them to confirm that each of these 100 items radiated a bright and stable Magic Aura. He casually picked up a two-finger-sized Amulet from one of the boxes and began to inspect it carefully.

The surface of the Amulet was very plain, lacking the complex and intricate patterns common to Amulets; it was just a smooth, silver mirror-like surface.

Looking at the connection between the Amulet and the Magic Net, Charles Halan frowned. He didn't care about encryption or anything of the sort—the design drawings weren't his, and the goods were for the Dwarf anyway—but this connection seemed to have some issues.

Just as he was hesitating whether to ask, Xia Duo had already taken the initiative to speak, "Lord Halan, do you see any problems with these Demon-Slaying Amulets?"

"Lord Xia Duo, these Demon-Slaying Amulets are indeed Advanced Rank Magic Items, but they don't seem to have been manufactured according to the design drawings!"

Although Charles Halan had not managed to become an Arcanist, this did not mean his attainments in the field of Magic were low; he had just happened to fall slightly behind at that particular stage.

Even with a layer of encryption as a disguise, he could determine that the manufacturing method of this Amulet was entirely the Netheril Magic System, not the Elven Magic System from the design drawings.

To this, Xia Duo's explanation was, "To facilitate production by others in the Tower of Time, I converted the Elven Magic in the drawings into Netheril Magic. If Lord Halan has a need, I can also give you the Netheril Magic version of the design drawings."

"This, this—is it not troublesome?"

"Hehe, of course it is not troublesome."

Xia Duo smiled slightly and took out the already prepared Netheril version of the Demon-Slaying Amulet design drawings from his Personal Space. Of course, this design drawing was merely a translation and conversion of the Elven version, and it still had some differences from the mass-produced version currently used by the Tower of Time.

However, regarding the settings of the core functions, there was no essential difference from the current ones.

Naturally, due to the conversion between different Magic Systems, both the design drawings he had just taken out and the 100 finished products already completed had slight differences from the original Elven Demon-Slaying Amulets.

It was similar to the difference between √2 and 1.414.

Some Magic conversions might result in a gap from the original that could not be ignored, which required a Spellcaster proficient in both Magic Systems to perform targeted optimization.

However, the conversion of these Demon-Slaying Amulets this time was quite coincidental, and the differences were negligible; otherwise, Xia Duo would not have been able to produce the design drawings so easily.

Precisely because it was a literal translation, as long as one found a High Mage with some understanding of the Principles of Elven Magic, they could figure it out with some time.

As for the subsequent local optimization and even mass-production design, that would require more professional people to handle.

In fact, Lord Halan didn't even ask about the conversion differences. He just looked at the design drawings for a while, then used an Identify spell to test the functions of a few Amulets, and the inspection was considered complete.

"Lord Xia Duo, this is the Arcane Union Gold Coin Exchange Voucher, totaling one hundred thousand Gold Coins!"

After confirming the goods were correct, Charles Halan readily produced the processing fee, totaling one hundred thousand Gold Coins, averaging 1000 Gold Coins per Amulet.

This was indeed a significant expense, but compared to other Spellcasters, the Tower of Time's prices were already relatively low, and Charles Halan paid this money quite willingly.

As for Xia Duo, he simply checked it briefly, and after confirming the Exchange Voucher was in order, he put it away. In fact, even without these processing fees, the Tower of Time would not lose much.

One must know that the yield rate previously agreed upon by both parties was seventy percent, meaning that Lord Halan had provided 140 sets of materials, and the excess was the allowance for loss.

If the Tower of Time's yield rate was lower than seventy percent and the 140 sets of materials were not enough, then they would have to make up the materials needed for the 100 finished products themselves.

And if the yield rate was higher than seventy percent, the extra materials naturally could not be returned to Lord Halan and belonged to pure profit.

For this order, the Tower of Time's yield rate was close to ninety percent, so the profit could be imagined.

Added to this one hundred thousand in processing fees, even after deducting the wages of the Magic Technicians and the maintenance costs of the Tower of Time's facilities and equipment, they could still earn about eighty or ninety thousand!

And if the materials that should have been counted as loss but were saved were made into Demon-Slaying Amulets and sold at a price close to the market rate, they would earn even more.

Basically, Xia Duo could be certain that for this order, the Tower of Time, as the processing party, definitely earned more than Lord Halan, the original owner!