Chapter 2180: Magic Shadow

The next two days were the most relaxing time Xia Duo had spent in Evereska; Niya's experiments had temporarily come to a pause and no longer required his cooperation, and his status as a representative for Badijiaer's side had also been settled.

As for the envoys from other countries, he had already said enough and made his stance clear enough in the previous days, so for these last two days, he simply declined visits from Elves or Dwarves, with the only exception being the envoy from Yi Lusi in the west.

They arrived fashionably late, only the day before the official opening of the assembly; Xia Duo was the second stop on their visit, while the first stop was undoubtedly Eaerlann, which provided them with multi-faceted protection.

The reason Xia Duo made an exception to meet with the Yi Lusi envoy, besides the fact that he hadn't actually met them in the previous days, was that the other party's human identity was also an important factor.

Although Yi Lusi was still very weak now, and might not even survive without Eaerlann's protection, because it was already a Formal Member of the Northland Alliance, it was hard to say what it might develop into in the future.

Xia Duo had no intention of engaging in racial confrontation with the Elves, but it could not be denied that humans and humans were naturally more likely to form an alliance than humans and Elves.

It was just a meeting, and he was not worried that Eaerlann would be suspicious; after all, the current Yi Lusi didn't even have the qualifications to make people suspicious.

During the rest of the two days, Xia Duo spent most of his time outside the manor. Since it was still winter, the Territory had suspended expansion. Although under his arrangements, the Territory already had quite a few cultural and recreational activities, compared to the total population of only 150,000, the people in the Territory Culture and Education Department were worked to death and still couldn't keep up, so some new entertainment covering more people was still needed.

Xia Duo first thought of movies, but that was too advanced. Many people in the Territory hadn't even seen or heard of plays, so jumping directly to the movie stage would likely be somewhat counterproductive.

In addition, movies, or "scene illusions professionally edited to serve the plot," required professional talent. Xia Duo could shoot a simple video himself, but asking him to edit a movie with a certain level of expressiveness was asking too much.

However, some Bards would use illusions to display parts of epic scenes while performing epic works, which could basically be seen as the prototype of movies in the magic world.

Xia Duo had once discussed related topics with Lawrence, who was still in Akaola for exchange and study. Lawrence believed that simple scene displays were not difficult to achieve during a performance, but more complex plots and the interaction of illusion characters were very difficult to complete in real-time.

Even if prepared in advance, it was not easy to do, because that already involved an extremely profound Domain of illusion. Even if one settled for the next best thing, just flat illusion graphics, it was still full of difficulties to display them shaped out of thin air.

Just from a technical level, there were of course simpler ways, such as setting up a film crew to build scenes for performance, and then having a Mage specifically for capturing images "follow and shoot" with the crew. As long as it was slightly edited, it could be called a relatively simple movie.

Now Daxia Territory already had something similar, but it wasn't specifically hiring people to perform and then following them to shoot; rather, it was recording those scenes when the Territory Culture and Education Department organized and performed various activities.

There were plays, songs, scenery, characters, and even scene distortions and light-transformations caused by Spellcasting errors. The residents watched them with great interest, and this was known in the Territory as "Magic Shadow."

It had no special meaning; it was just an abbreviation for "Magic Image."

If one looked at the two indicators of "number of plays" and "number of re-recordings," the most popular Magic Shadow in the Territory was undoubtedly the Night School courses.

Previously, except for a few more advanced residents, others would watch it once or twice out of curiosity and then not watch it again. But those new residents who came from the Inner Land and the original Grey Eagle Tribe, in order to quickly pass the formalization assessment for reserve residents, almost all had to watch the Night School courses dozens or hundreds of times.

Now, the main work of the Territory Magic Affairs Officers was no longer research on Magic Civilianization, but had become specialized "Magic Shadow projectionists" and "human photocopiers" for Magic Shadows.

For this reason, Xia Duo was already considering whether to recruit more Magic Affairs Officers. If there were new Mages in the Tower of Time willing to support the construction of their hometown, perhaps this part of the work could be handed over to them.

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What Xia Duo was doing in Evereska was of course not recording Magic Shadows; that didn't need him to do it at all, and sending a few Apprentices over could do it. He was doing a live broadcast.

When he walked in the city of Evereska, the surrounding scenes were synchronized to the Code Plaza and Altar Square in the Territory via communication Spells.

Countless residents brought their families, braved the cold wind, and sat in designated positions in the square with small stools. The reason they were so active, besides the official activities themselves, was more because the vast majority of them had never seen a real and vivid Elven city scene.

Not to mention the residents, even Xia Duo and Niya had hardly seen many real Elven city scenes before this trip, and the only ones they had were basically statically preserved Magic Images.

But now, anyone in the Territory had the opportunity to see the most vivid Elven city scenes, even at the same moment as them, just in a different location.

Basically, anyone who had curiosity or fantasies about Elves would not miss such an opportunity.

And it wasn't just watching; the residents could even participate in interactions. The security guards under Jibu would maintain order throughout the square while collecting the residents' questions or requests about the Elven city, and then report them to the Magic Affairs Officer team.

The Magic Affairs Officers would answer some relatively simple and shallow questions. Those they couldn't answer or deemed necessary for Xia Duo to answer personally were forwarded to Xia Duo by Aiboke and Depake, who maintained a communication connection with him.

As for the residents' requests, as long as they weren't too excessive, they were all forwarded to Xia Duo. This was something Xia Duo had specifically instructed, and the Magic Affairs Officers naturally would not disobey.

When seeing the residents' questions and requests, even though Xia Duo had been mentally prepared, he still felt ashamed for being out of touch with the masses.

Most of the residents' questions were doubts that arose when looking at Magic from the perspective of ordinary people. Some were curious why the Elves were not afraid of the cold and wore such thin clothes in the middle of winter.

Xia Duo replied that it was because the Evereska Mythallar contained elements of the 【Hengchun Barrier】, which could keep the climate in the most comfortable state for a long time.

Moreover, he added that he had been gifted the 【Everspring Barrier Book】 by the Evereska Council of Elders, and if conditions were right in the future, he would also build a Mythallar belonging to Daxia Territory in the Territory.

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In fact, he could build the Hengchun Barrier in the Territory now, but he knew very well where the boundary between tolerance and indulgence lay. Facilities like the Hengchun Barrier, which were purely for enjoyment, would only appear after the Territory had completely solved the problem of food and clothing; it was not urgent yet.