Chapter 1579: Special Training Begins, Distributing Tasks

The next day.

Xia Duo's original plan was to continue to the Blue Crystal Plane to begin demarcating areas for the construction of the main body of the first phase of the Floating City; of course, this was also to take the opportunity to inspect the operation of the 【Mythallar】 device.

However, in order not to miss the communication from Iolum, Xia Duo decided to postpone his trip to the Blue Crystal Plane by a few days.

Besides this, problems appearing in the engineering design of the Floating City construction project and the fact that he could not handle it all alone were also important reasons.

He prepared to outsource some engineering designs that did not involve key technical details to members of the Tower of Time, treating it as training for the team and also as a way to accumulate cases and experience for compiling the "Engineering Design Standards."

Morning.

While Niya was preparing breakfast, Xia Duo reprinted the "Promotion Compendium" he had promised her, and by the time he arrived at Linshui Village, breakfast was just ready.

Xia Duo placed a thick stack of materials on the dining table, then casually picked up a steamed bun, and while eating, said to Niya: "The materials are all here, but I have a suggestion that might speed up your learning progress. Do you want to hear it?"

Niya had one hand pressed on the materials; she discovered that this time the materials were much more numerous than what Xia Duo had given her last time, and because of this, she was full of curiosity about Xia Duo's suggestion:

"What suggestion? Let's hear it."

"It's very simple. I have numbered all these materials. You first read through them from the beginning, then take the few baseline assessment tests I have prepared for you. After that, I will tell you which parts of the materials to focus on learning."

Xia Duo told Niya his plan very readily. Since he was going to use big data analysis, he naturally needed to have relevant data first, and a baseline assessment was indispensable.

Moreover, it was not just at the beginning; in the plan he specified, taking tests—or rather, drilling questions—would be a very important part, running through the entire process!

If he could not understand Niya's current learning progress in real-time, how could he teach according to her aptitude?

It was just a pity that this teaching method was limited by personnel and technology, making it difficult to promote in the short term. Xia Duo could only use it for Niya for now; others would still have to attend large classes together for the time being.

Of course, if a student could actively perceive their own weak areas from repeated exams and then make up for them through self-reflection or asking classmates and teachers, it would be equivalent to indirectly enjoying "teaching according to aptitude."

And because the weekly and monthly exams at the Tower of Time were frequent and the competitive pressure was not small, Xia Duo believed that there were not a few Apprentices who could achieve active self-correction and self-inspection.

But the accuracy of discovering problems and obtaining guidance might have to be discounted quite a bit.

There was no help for it; who made the teaching staff of the Tower of Time so weak right now!

Regarding Xia Duo's arrangements, Niya, who did not yet know what she was about to face, agreed readily. It was just a few test papers; she had occasionally observed Apprentice exams before and was long since no stranger to taking tests.

And Xia Duo did not explain too much now, worried that Niya would be scared away by the mountain of questions.

In fact, considering the need for precise teaching, many questions could not be prepared in advance and needed to be written on the spot according to Niya's actual situation.

What he brought out now, besides the "Promotion Compendium," were only the baseline assessment test papers, and this alone was enough for Niya to write for several days.

After breakfast, Niya seized the time to study the textbooks, while Xia Duo accompanied her, converting the previously broken-down engineering projects into subcontracted tasks while waiting for Iolum's contact.

Originally, on the Floating City "test machine," Xia Duo had not prepared to carry out the encryption of Spell Elements, but when subcontracting the engineering design, this had to be considered.

Besides the encryption itself, Xia Duo also performed abstraction processing on the characteristics of the encrypted elements, deliberately erasing the detailed issues of the Spell Elements.

He only marked the general energy flow state of the energy transmission lines, such as attributes, direction, relative intensity, etc., used to distinguish interference, Resonance, and other effects between lines.

This made the engineering design just an engineering design problem, without mixing in too many specific Magic details.

Of course, this was just one of Xia Duo's attempts, an attempt made to establish engineering design standards.

If feasible, these outsourced tasks could not only be distributed to members of the Tower of Time, but could even be placed in the Arcane Union, letting more people "compete for orders" together.

Perhaps he could even discover some engineering design experts from it!

Near noon, Xia Duo uploaded the first batch of 26 tasks to the Task Management Office, but it was a pity that until he finished his lunch, no one had accepted even a single task.

When chatting with Niya, Xia Duo mentioned this matter, but Niya saw the problem at a glance: "Nowadays, all departments and all personnel in the Tower of Time have their own things to do; where would they have time to take on extra tasks."

Xia Duo thought about it, and it seemed to be true. In the past, the organization of the Tower of Time was relatively loose; almost every Official Mage had plenty of free time, and their time utilization rate was particularly low.

Even so, they did not often take on extra tasks, only finishing the mandatory monthly tasks and calling it a day. In fact, if calculated by quantity alone, most tasks in the Task Management Office were completed by Apprentices.

It was just that now Apprentices had almost no free time, and Official Mages also almost all had their own full-time jobs, rarely having time to spare to complete extra tasks.

Xia Duo asked the Tower Spirit and learned that the Task Management Office had not had any extra tasks for nearly half a year. In the past, the Savile Territory would occasionally release some tasks, and Xia Duo had once actively taken on such tasks.

But now the Tower of Time had resident Mages in the Savile Territory, and there were also people from the Tower of Time training new Mages in the Military Camp.

There was no need at all to come to the Tower of Time to issue tasks; finding people nearby to help was actually cheaper.

As for the interior of the Tower of Time, if there was any need, one would either apply directly to the Material Department or find a few friends to discuss and solve it together, which made the current Task Management Office almost a place that no one cared about.

"Sure enough, after the system is perfected, things like the Task Management Office that are out of step with the times will be eliminated."

With a sigh, Xia Duo thought that he should have sent tasks directly to the various Independent Research Labs of the Tower of Time, rather than posting them to the Task Management Office and waiting for people to take them.

Independent Research Labs were named independent, but in reality, their research funds all came from the Tower of Time, and their research content was also largely controlled by the Tower of Time.

Like the Tilake Research Lab, it mainly conducted exploration of low-circle new elements; of course, Permanent Magic was still their signature project.

And the Horst Research Lab mainly conducted mass production design of Magic Items. This was not Horst's own choice, but a "suggestion" Xia Duo gave him on behalf of the Tower of Time.

Other Independent Research Labs were in a similar situation. When the Tower of Time had no tasks, they would declare projects themselves and carry out related research; once the Tower of Time had a need, it would certainly have to satisfy the Tower of Time's needs first.