Chapter 1662: Military Procurement Mission: The Attached Mage Tower

Inside the study.

Xia Duo and Niya finished discussing what they had been doing during this period, including his observations from the trip to Evereska, the gains from the exchange meeting in Seventon, the business of custom-ordering Magic Items, and the Mithril supply agreement with Leisen Territory.

Immediately after, he asked about Niya's studies during this time; since he had been away for slightly longer than expected, the test papers he had left for Niya must have been completed.

He just didn't know if Niya would still study diligently without the pressure and guidance of the test papers.

"I've been very diligent during this time. After finishing the test papers, I reviewed all my previous error collections again. Don't be surprised later!"

Once the topic turned to her studies, Niya was as excited as a child in her twenties. She found the test papers and error collections she had completed during this period and presented them to Xia Duo as if showing off a treasure.

Xia Duo saw that every recent test paper had been graded; it seemed that even in his absence, Niya had not relaxed her studies.

It was just that without him, a master teacher capable of big data analysis and pinpointing weak links, Niya could only study mechanically and aimlessly as she had in the past.

Fortunately, now that Xia Duo had returned, he could once again tailor the latest study plan for her, truly achieving teaching according to aptitude.

……

In the following two days, besides designating a new study plan for Niya, Xia Duo also assigned Depake the task of going to Evereska to procure military equipment.

Of course, this task did not require him to deal with the Elves all by himself; Xia Duo had already spoken with the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce before returning to the Nan Jing.

Although the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce did not yet have much business in Evereska, their experience in dealing with Elves was far superior to Depake's, or even Xia Duo's own.

With the assistance of a manager from the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce, Xia Duo was not worried that Depake would fail the task.

Come to think of it, it was also thanks to the Northland Alliance placing its Headquarters in Evereska; otherwise, Evereska might not be as compliant as it was now, almost letting them take whatever they wanted.

Of course, during this period, Xia Duo also received a Sending from Beilaila. The 【Microscope】 he had previously made for Aoerdelin had received a strong response, and several Arcanists at Jilan Tower wanted to order the same.

Xia Duo would naturally not refuse a good thing where someone was rushing to send him money. In fact, he was more willing to accept ready-made designs; if everything had to be custom-designed from scratch, the design and testing phases would be too much of a waste of time.

……

On the fourth day of Xia Duo's return, time silently arrived at July. On this day, he came to the Blue Crystal Plane again, to the north of Murloc Island.

Having not come for a while, the Arcane Crystal Extractor had accumulated another batch of Arcane Crystals. Xia Duo roughly calculated the number of Arcane Crystals he currently possessed and knew that he could almost start building a new 【Mythallar】 device.

If there were no Magic Restriction Treaty, he would indeed do so, but with the Magic Restriction Treaty looming, Xia Duo needed to finish everything involving large-scale Magic activities in the Main Plane before the treaty took effect.

This was to avoid wasting precious super-magic quotas and to avoid being targeted by the Elves.

……

Returning to the water area, Xia Duo casually chose a quiet stretch of water far from Murloc Island and began marking the Spellcasting Nodes.

He had long since finished the design for the Traction Mage Tower attached to the Floating City. If not for the Magic Restriction Treaty, this should have been built only after the main body of the Floating City was completed.

Because the design of the Floating City's main body might still be adjusted later, moving the Traction Mage Tower forward was somewhat inappropriate.

Not to mention that he was rushing to complete all parts involving large-scale Magic activities before the Magic Restriction Treaty took effect, which would cause much unnecessary waste.

"Damn Elves!"

Xia Duo cursed inwardly, but cursing was one thing, and the work that had to be done still had to be done.

Soon, he had marked all the Spellcasting Nodes, and the subsequent Spellcasting did not encounter any accidents. He had even built a Floating City, so how could a small Mage Tower stump him!

As the Spell was completed, a sky-blue Mage Tower about sixty meters high suddenly appeared in the clear water. The bottom was square and relatively thick, becoming thinner as it went up, until it reached a pointed top.

It looked like an elongated Pyramid.

The material of this Mage Tower was the same as that of the Floating City's main body, both being "Constant Stone" with a special color transformed from pure water.

The reason it was called "Constant Stone" was that Xia Duo had seen those Sarrukh Statue relics in the Territory, which had not deteriorated at all after countless years, which could be called "eternal."

Of course, if you hit it with a hammer, it could still be destroyed. Constant Stone did not mean it was indestructible; it only referred to its natural attribute of not being easily deteriorated.

After the main body of the Mage Tower was completed, Xia Duo did not enter to visit. As the designer, he was all too familiar with the interior of the tower, and since Niya was not there, he had no interest in visiting.

After a simple check on the physical stability of the main material, Xia Duo found that the situation was not very ideal. If it were to "solidify" according to natural changes, it would take at least a week for the physical properties to be completely stabilized.

However, Xia Duo could not wait that long. He wanted to try manual stabilization. The Spellcasting for the transformation of the Floating City's main body was not easy, with Spellcasting durations measured in hours; if he messed it up, he would really feel like his mentality had collapsed.

But for this Mage Tower, although the Spellcasting was more cumbersome than ordinary Spells, it did not reach the point of measuring duration in hours. Even if he messed it up, it was just a matter of transforming another one.

Up to this point in the construction progress, no important materials had been used, nothing more than some pure water, of which the Blue Crystal Plane had plenty—enough to build dozens more Floating Cities, let alone a mere Mage Tower.

Single functionality, low cost, and simple construction were the main characteristics of the Traction Mage Tower attached to the Floating City.

Among them, simple construction was not only manifested in the transformation of the main body, but also in the arrangement of the internal Mithril Components!

Of course, before that, Xia Duo still needed to stabilize it first.

……

Spell creations are generally just for show, waiting for the Spell to naturally dissipate, and then they return to what they were. If one wants to completely stabilize them, there is only the path of deep transformation.

Specifically for this Traction Mage Tower of Xia Duo's, it was nothing more than repeating the transformation process just performed.

If he was lucky, he would succeed in one go; if he was slightly less lucky, he might succeed after two or three, or at most three to five attempts.

After all, this transformation Spell obtained from ancient ruins performed better in terms of stabilizing physical properties compared to ordinary transformation Spells.

Of course, if he were even unluckier, repeating it once might cause the stone to deform, which would mean all previous efforts were wasted.

This reminded Xia Duo of an online game he played on Earth before transmigrating, which had a gameplay of strengthening items with Gemstones: succeed once and it's "Strengthen +1," fail once, and everything is scrapped.

But fortunately, the actual Spellcasting was basically still under Xia Duo's control, whereas in the game, the Gemstone strengthening was purely a matter of how sharp the game developer's sickle was at harvesting leeks.

"Hope it succeeds in one go!"