Chapter 1582: Recruitment Plan, Return to Blue Crystal

Noon.

When Xia Duo and Niya returned to Linshui Village for lunch, the Chief Guard Nuoman suddenly brought Laidun to the dining room on the first floor of the Lord's Villa, then silently retreated.

"My Lord, I have come to deliver the recruitment plan."

"Oh? So fast?"

Xia Duo hurriedly put down his chopsticks and took the plan from Laidun's hand. Opening it, he saw Laidun's neat handwriting. After a quick read-through, Xia Duo closed the plan, pondered for a moment, and gave his instructions:

"The plan is well-made, but there are two points that need adjustment—

"First, too many people are allocated to the Development Department. The focus should be on the Territory's livelihood sector, regarding food, clothing, housing, and transportation. I hope at least half of the Magic Affairs Officers will be allocated there, and only then to the development side.

"Second, the Territory Guard must also be allocated at least two Magic Affairs Officers to cooperate with the guard in training with new equipment, and even further research into combat tactics."

Improving livelihoods has always been something Xia Duo hoped to do. Although the livelihood situation in Daxia Territory is already many times better than other territories, the process of Magic permeating the livelihood sector is also the process of the Progress Society's philosophy continuously permeating.

This is a very good entry point, and Xia Duo is naturally particularly concerned.

Next is the military field. Currently, the Territory Guard has already pulled out a new team of about a hundred people, equipped with the latest standard Magic Equipment.

This includes Fireball Wands with fixed firing directions, Counter-Spell Rings used to negate common spell effects, various types of Restriction Rings, Flight Belts, and Communication Magic Tools for fixed targets.

Xia Duo's original plan was to have this hundred-man team patrol the 【Daxia-Saville Passage】, but even today, nearly half a year after completing the equipment, they have not reached the training goals he wanted.

Most people cannot even skillfully use these new pieces of equipment, let alone form combat power.

Assigning two Magic Affairs Officers to them is also a helpless move; Xia Duo admits that he underestimated the difficulty for ordinary people to learn how to use Magic Items.

For things like Magic Scrolls that have fixed activation ports, once you learn one, many others are considered learned; it is merely a matter of proficiency and choosing the right timing.

But the new equipment currently equipped by that hundred-man team has many different activation ports. This is mainly to facilitate ordinary people in distinguishing different Magic Items, so as to avoid the increased probability of misoperation or accidental activation caused by using the same activation port.

In fact, Xia Duo was somewhat overly eager for success. A formed Magic unit will naturally be born once the proportion of civilian Mages reaches a certain level, rather than being artificially piled up now.

But reality also has its realistic considerations. If one waits for slow construction, who knows how long it will take, and most importantly—

At the current stage, Spellcasters are more suitable for production and creation rather than combat. Selecting soldiers directly from Spellcasters is truly too extravagant.

At least for a considerable period of time, Xia Duo still prefers to train and cultivate existing ordinary soldiers rather than directly letting Spellcasters become Magic Warriors.

But with the continuous advancement of future Magic industrialization, the further complexity and specialization of military equipment will inevitably require users to have received more professional Magic Education, rather than just pulling a few ordinary people to train for a bit to form combat power.

Similar to Earth, the requirements for high-precision and cutting-edge military personnel (including combat, command, and research) in all aspects become increasingly high with the development of technology.

Except for the two points Xia Duo mentioned, the plan is generally fine. After giving his opinions, Xia Duo let Laidun send the revised recruitment plan directly to the Personnel Department of the Tower of Time, without needing to show it to him again.

After Laidun left, lunch continued. After the meal, Xia Duo continued to supervise Niya in doing test papers. Just like this, until evening, Niya finally completed all the diagnostic test papers—one-third of them.

And the remaining two-thirds were also quickly completed in the following two days. This afternoon, Xia Duo collected the last test paper and told Niya:

"I'll give you two days off next. Want to go to the Blue Crystal Plane with me for a tour?"

"Blue Crystal Plane?"

Hearing this somewhat familiar name suddenly, Niya's eyes were a bit dazed. For the past few days, besides eating and sleeping, her mind had been almost entirely occupied by endless questions. Now that she was suddenly relaxed, she was truly a bit bewildered and at a loss.

"The Blue Crystal Plane! Have you forgotten? We just went there a few days ago," Xia Duo reminded her.

Only then did Niya come back to her senses, her eyes becoming focused, and she said excitedly: "Of course I know. You've prepared everything; are you going to start building the Floating City?"

"Not fully prepared yet, but building the main body first is no problem, and it is very necessary."

"Then shall we set off now?" Niya said, eager to try.

Xia Duo nodded and said: "You go to the Preparation Teleportation Hall first, I'll grab a few documents and go over."

"Mm, I'll go open the Portal first, hurry up!"

After saying that, Niya disappeared, and Xia Duo also quickly arrived at the sixth floor of the Tower of Time, obtaining three design proposals from the three Independent Research Labs, including Huosite's.

In the past few days, he had distributed a total of nearly a hundred design tasks in four batches to these three Independent Research Labs, but after several days had passed, each research lab had only submitted one proposal.

Of course, as they become more familiar and with Xia Duo's continuous feedback, the efficiency of those three research labs will certainly continue to improve. Xia Duo can fully afford to wait.

Blue Crystal Plane.

Returning to this pure, shimmering water domain again, Xia Duo's originally somewhat restless heart became calm at this moment.

Ultra-large strategic Magic devices like the Floating City will inevitably appear with the development of Magic. It just happens that it is about to be born in his own hands at this very moment, so there is nothing to be excited about.

"Shall we start?" Niya asked.

"No rush, let's check the situation on the island first."

Having not come for five or six days, Xia Duo is still very concerned about the 【Mythallar】 device. In addition, there is the air loss situation on the vacuum side. This is an important basis for the output power of the Air Factory and also an important part of the Plane transformation, so it cannot be ignored.

Then, the two came to the back of Murloc Island. The 【Mythallar】 device in the center of the island was running steadily, without any abnormalities.

Xia Duo checked the Positioning Detection Beads at the edge of the Levitation Field. In six days, the field had undergone slight changes, which caused the Positioning Detection Beads to no longer be in a straight line.

But the change was not obvious. He estimated that it would take at least twice as much change to have an actual impact on the 【Mythallar】 device.

And the fact is, this kind of change is not fixed in one direction, but has fluctuations. Xia Duo decided to observe for a period of time before deciding whether to restart the calibration.

Come to think of it, if others did not have a Personal Space to temporarily store the 【Mythallar】 device, it would probably not be very easy to restart the calibration of the Levitation Field.

"Xia Duo, come quickly, there are so many Arcane Crystals!"

"Coming!"

Xia Duo also wanted to see how many Arcane Crystals had been produced after these six days.