Chapter 2356: Great Selfishness Reaches Utmost Publicness

However, considering that the act of receiving the 【Multi-Child Amulet】 itself already carries a certain subconscious implantation effect, one would likely need true, great perseverance to refuse the amulet's efficacy.

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The subsequent Executive meeting went exactly as Xia Duo expected; the several Elders simply reviewed the design principles of the amulet and then passed the proposal.

As for the specific effects of the amulet announced to the public, they were not fully disclosed; instead, it was publicized with more generalized functions, such as promoting marital affection and blessing the prosperity of offspring.

After the news spread that the leader was preparing to manufacture amulets for everyone, the New Homeland once again welcomed a wave of support for the new policy, and for Xia Duo, the most arduous task ahead was manufacturing the amulets.

Currently, there are far too few usable Spellcasters in the New Homeland; besides manufacturing them himself, it was still manufacturing them himself, though he had already recorded all the spellcasting elements of the amulet.

Once there are more Spellcasters of the new system, he can let those new Mages do the manufacturing.

Of course, the ordinary Elves now are not completely unable to help; considering the current shortage of various magic materials in the New Homeland, Xia Duo only considered the method of Magic Constant from the very beginning of the design.

This manufacturing method does not have high requirements for materials; as long as it is a solid that does not easily deform, it can be used as the main body of the amulet, such as stone, wood, bone, and the like.

The basic material Xia Duo chose is wood; almost every Elf comes into contact with wood the most from childhood to adulthood, and most Elves could be called "wood carving artists" if placed in human society.

Carving an amulet at will is as simple as can be, and letting the public participate in it is also conducive to increasing the significance of the 【Multi-Child Amulet】 in their hearts.

Thus, within just a day or two, a small mountain-like pile of amulet carriers appeared beside Xia Duo's residence; of course, these were all without constant spells, and they were all left by the Elves when they passed by his place.

At first, Xia Duo very diligently kept these amulets inside his house, but he soon discovered that there was no more room in the house, so they could only be piled outside, and they kept piling up more and more.

By now, he was already numb; there were at least over a hundred thousand amulet carriers here, and if he really had to complete them all by himself, wouldn't he have to be busy until decades later? And this is only considering these; the ones added later are not even counted yet!

"I knew it, I knew it; if I had known earlier, I might as well have insisted on intervening directly with spells!"

Looking at the amulet carriers piling higher and higher in the courtyard, Xia Duo felt his whole person go numb; it could be said that since he transmigrated, there has never been a moment when he longed for automation as much as he does now!

The automated production of secret artifacts in the Creation Magic System is confirmed to be feasible, but how can the automated production of magic artifacts in the Arcane Magic System be realized?

Although the Tower of Time has already solved the automated design for most of the magic artifact production links, it is stuck solely on the link of linking the Magic Net, which is also the most critical link in magic artifact production.

As long as this difficulty is solved, the productivity of the Tower of Time will step into a brand-new realm that is hard to limit; it can be said that this is the final piece of the puzzle for the Magic Industry.

It is a pity that Xia Duo has absolutely no ideas for this part either; what he can think of for the time being is something like the 【Spirit Amulet】 of Calimshan, borrowing the spirituality of the Elemental Essence to achieve something close to full automation.

But in reality, that is impossible; utilizing Elemental Essence is essentially the same as utilizing Mages, it is nothing more than the fact that Elemental Essence has no human rights, does not need to rest, and is even less capable of resisting, so they can be directly oppressed until their spirituality is lost and they die a second time.

But the prerequisite for using Elemental Essence is having a large number of Elemental Creatures that can be killed to extract the essence, and at the same time, a general plan for manufacturing using the essence must be designed.

The latter, with the 【Spirit Amulet】 as a reference, is not too difficult to design, but the former is not easy; the Elemental Plane does not necessarily give birth to corresponding Elemental Creatures.

Furthermore, killing too much will inevitably lead to backlash; perhaps it will be senseless righteous people, perhaps the powerful ancestors of the Elemental Creatures, or perhaps the natural aversion of the laws of the Universe, and so on.

Although Xia Duo does not fear facing powerful enemies, he will not take the initiative to provoke them; he still cherishes his own feathers very much—if one can rise peacefully, why do some bloody looting?

As the creator and guide of a civilization, the future is not necessarily the master of the civilization; the future masters of the civilization can only be the people. If such bloody primitive accumulation is done now, it may not necessarily not be liquidated in the future, and even if it is not liquidated, it is still a dark history that is unbearable to look back on.

Xia Duo does not want the civilization he created to have such a dark history; everything should be as open and aboveboard as possible, walking the righteous path, and standing the test of history.

The sages of his hometown once said, "Because of its selflessness, it can achieve its own selfishness." Xia Duo is like this now; his greatest selfishness is to gather all the Wisdom of the civilization to climb to the peak of Magic, see the scenery at the summit, and see the realization of the Ziyou Wangguo in the process.

And such selfishness of his is undoubtedly selfless to the civilization he created, or rather, his desire has grown so large that it accommodates all desires and transcends all desires.

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However, even Xia Duo, who has already stepped onto the Sage Path, still has to do manual labor piece by piece at this moment, all day long, without sleep or rest.

After persisting like this for a few days, he did not want to go on like this anymore.

At the Zhengwuyuan, Elder Ma'aoshi looked straight at Xia Duo and couldn't help but complain: "Another population census? Even if there are Spellcasters to help, there's no need to be so frequent, right? Could it be that you want to see the effect of the 【Multi-Child Amulet】?"

"It's not just that I want to see the effect of the amulet; I also want to count the number of Spellcasters since the popularization of the new Magic."

Xia Duo stated the two main indicators he was preparing to count, and then further explained: "Elder, you should have seen that pile of amulet carriers in my courtyard, right? Just these few days, the quantity has increased by more than half again. Relying on me alone, I might never be able to finish it. I want to conscript new Mages to complete it with me."

Hearing Xia Duo say this, Ma'aoshi considered it and agreed, "That's fine, it's been almost half a month since the last count of Spellcasters, and I also really want to know everyone's learning progress."

"Then let's begin!"

"Hmm, I'll go arrange it now."

After Ma'aoshi left, Xia Duo did not follow him, but sat down on the bench against the wall on one side of the main hall of the Zhengwuyuan; he was afraid that if he went back and saw that pile of amulet carriers, he would vomit.

Actually, if it were in the human world, the learning progress of the new Magic would not be so easily displayed; the biggest difficulty in this is how to cross the spellcasting threshold.

Humans, except for those Sorcerers who awaken their bloodlines, rarely have the ability to cast spells naturally, but Elves are different; most Elves often only need to recite a few lines of poetry used to fit the Magic Net to easily cross the spellcasting threshold.

Although it is only a Trick, if one is walking the traditional Elven Magic path, it is almost not worth mentioning, and subsequent long-term training is still required.

But if one walks the Netheril Magic path, it is simple; as long as the Ascension Spell is handed to them, and they keep practicing this, they can directly upgrade, and then continue to practice the corresponding Ascension Spell.

They don't even need to learn the basics of Magic at all; just practice how to cast spells, and they can steadily upgrade all the way to Archmage. Although such an Archmage would only know a handful of spells that can be counted on one hand, they can barely be called an "Archmage."

Such a shoddy Archmage might not even be able to beat a normal low-level Mage in an actual battle, but with a little training, they can be completely used as a Magic Technician.

And if, in the process of upgrading, they choose offensive Ascension Spells, these shoddy Archmages can also be used as decent spell turrets.

Xia Duo did not use this super-fast-track plan that easily stifles a Mage's potential in his own Territory on the Main Plane, but on the Projection Plane, anything goes.

Moreover, with the longevity of Elves, they can completely make up for the basics missed in the early stages later on.

Currently, the plan Xia Duo is using here in the Demon Descendant New Homeland is not a complete fast-track plan, but combines a certain foundation of Magic; however, compared to the generalist education plan of the Tower of Time on the Main Plane, it is purely a fast-track.

But no matter what, having it is better than not having it. In fact, there is not a single Elf in the Demon Descendant New Homeland who does not appreciate Xia Duo's benevolence and open-mindedness, and they have no objections to the Magic popularization plan.