Chapter 1395: Modification Complete, Age Restrictions

Xia Duo told Niya his thoughts. Niya was somewhat hesitant, but she did not oppose it, only saying, "This matter needs to be handled with caution. We don't know if the people who come will truly be of one mind with the Tower of Time."

"I know, I will screen them carefully!"

Xia Duo knew that what Niya was referring to was that almost all current members of the Tower of Time came from the Savile Territory; they knew each other's roots and had bonds of kinship, so they were naturally more trustworthy than people picked up randomly from the outside.

As the saying goes, fortresses are always captured from within.

Once a person with ulterior motives is recruited, even if they might end up on the black list of the Lord of Radiance for violating the Sacred Contract, the losses they cause would be irreparable.

Especially now, as the Tower of Time is in a critical stage of transformation, many internal secrets should not be exposed too early, making caution even more necessary.

However, Xia Duo only had this idea for now and had not yet taken any real action, but the basic direction was correct; at this stage, the Tower of Time indeed needed to introduce a group of High Mages.

After ending the communication with Niya, Xia Duo immediately contacted Aiwa, asking him to inquire in Seventon if there were any suitable wild High Mages.

There were no excessive requirements; as long as they were young enough and skilled in Spellcasting, meeting these two points was already enough for Xia Duo to consider them suitable candidates for Advanced Magic Technicians to cultivate.

As for their trustworthiness, he would "interview" them personally. Mind spells are not omnipotent, but they could rule out most people with ulterior motives.

In the following few days, Xia Duo spent his time modifying the Arcane Fire Device production workshop while waiting for news from Aiwa. During this period, he also took time to go to Shouwang Dao to maintain the Mage Tower.

However, with over a hundred thousand Standard Arcane Crystals in hand, Xia Duo no longer cared much about the subsidies the Blazing Sun Array could receive from the Seventon Council.

Maintaining the Blazing Sun Array on the top floor of the Watchtower now was more out of a desire to reciprocate the Princess's gift and to adhere to the principle of keeping a low profile.

As for the attraction of the hundred-thousand-plus Arcane Crystals to Xia Duo, it was indeed very strong. With these Arcane Crystals, it would be enough to expand his Personal Space to a great extent, perhaps enough to bring back a set of Nether Scrolls directly from the Projection Plane.

However, the more he craved the Arcane Crystals, the less Xia Duo would use these given by Iolum. Compared to the Mythallar with its infinite energy available at any time in the future, what were these few Arcane Crystals!

……

Just like that, time passed quietly amidst everyone's busyness, and soon it reached the end of the month.

Xia Duo's Arcane Fire Device production workshop was successfully completed. In the Levitation Field in the center of the Laboratory, he built a large, ring-shaped automatic production device for the David String.

Its diameter was a full 100 meters, and it could rotate freely in any direction and at any angle, centered on the center of the ring.

The sphere formed by the rotation trajectory of this large ring was the maximum diameter for the Independent Arcane Fire Device to be tested next.

Although the maximum diameter of the Arcane Fire Device designed by Iolum was only about 10 meters, a 10-meter-sized Arcane Fire Device had almost been proven unfeasible.

Among the known directions for improvement, increasing the Arcane Fire Sequence was one of the few highly feasible plans!

Of course, the price for this was naturally that the size of the device had to keep expanding.

But there was no need for it to exceed 100 meters; otherwise, it would be very unfriendly to subsequent protection and concealment work.

An ordinary Laboratory could not accommodate this 100-meter-diameter large ring, and it also had to be allowed to rotate freely, which would mean a sphere with a diameter of 100 meters.

Currently, the space where this large ring was located was formed by Iolum contributing a Demiplane that was completely overlapped with an area in the center of the Laboratory.

What Xia Duo regretted was that he did not see the process of Iolum creating the Demiplane. The other party directly took out a ready-made Demiplane and left after hurriedly completing the overlap with the Laboratory space.

The Arcane Union had many daily affairs. Although Iolum did not need to pay attention to every trivial matter, he still needed to show his face often.

Especially recently, a private Mage society from Ilphark was invited (ordered) to come to the Arcane Union to build a Permanent Teleportation Portal connecting to the Ilphark capital, Ailintar.

This matter was negotiated by Iolum personally, so naturally, he had to pay personal attention to it.

On the contrary, for the Evereska Portal, it was enough for a Councilor of the Union authorized by Iolum to come forward.

This resulted in Xia Duo having already completed the Laboratory modification and notifying Iolum to come for inspection, yet the other party could not spare the time.

And Xia Duo could not wait any longer. In two days it would be the Midsummer Festival. The Nan Jing side required him to go back, not only to attend the festival celebrations but also because that investigator Tuofu, who had been to the Savile Territory once before, had come again!

Niya was worried and had been urging him to go back these past two days.

Thus, Xia Duo did not go to see Iolum but left him a message and returned directly to Nan Jing.

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As for Aiwa, Xia Duo intended to take him back to Nan Jing for the festival, but he insisted on staying behind, preparing to take advantage of the crowds at the Seventon Midsummer Festival to contact a few more wild High Mages.

Speaking of this, Xia Duo was also a bit depressed. A few days ago, Aiwa brought him two High Mages, but he had clearly told Aiwa that they needed to be young enough.

Yet the hair of those two High Mages had clearly already turned gray!

The two had a discrepancy in their understanding of "young," or more accurately, a discrepancy in their understanding of young Mages. Xia Duo hoped that the High Mages coming to "apply" would preferably not be over 40 years old.

Otherwise, he really couldn't say whether these people were joining the Tower of Time to work or to retire!

The threshold for Life Extension Spells was very high; at least an Archmage was needed to cast them!

Moreover, in order to reduce the difficulty of Spellcasting, it was often necessary to use certain specific materials to replace the Spell Elements required for the Spell, and those specific materials were either very rare or very expensive.

This destined those High Mages who were too old to have no chance at longevity!

Not everyone could be a late bloomer; the case of Archmage Dasiruier was a minority after all. Even for the sake of recruiting Advanced Magic Technicians, Xia Duo preferred to use younger ones.

Regardless, youth meant more possibilities.

Later, Xia Duo explicitly told Aiwa: no one over 40. In addition, he left behind multiple Learning Scrolls for the 5th-circle mind spell involved in the Demon-Slaying Amulet; those who couldn't learn it were also not wanted.

After the establishment of the Northland Alliance, the design blueprints for the Demon-Slaying Amulet were no longer a secret, though of course, this was limited to organized Spellcasters. For wild Mages, they might not even be able to find a channel to obtain them.

The Arcane Union naturally sold the blueprints, but it was limited by membership level, and the price was not cheap. Ordinary wild Mages might not even be willing to pay the Arcane Union's membership fees, so where would they get a membership level?

Xia Duo's act of providing Learning Scrolls for all potential applicants had sparked quite a reaction!