Chapter 2601: Cooperation and Transaction

The primary purpose for these councilors from the Tianshui Three Planes to collectively come to Daxia Territory was not because they were invited by Xia Duo, nor to see something novel, but because they wanted to purchase Mythallar!

In the process of meeting these people one by one, Xia Duo learned of their needs, and this was no exception even for Lamani and Grien, who had arrived the earliest.

Currently, in all of Netheril, only Xia Duo and the Seven Towers accept Mythallar orders; some people will choose the Seven Towers, while others will choose Xia Duo.

However, during the talks, these councilors from the Tianshui Three Planes mentioned a fact almost unanimously: they did not have sufficient funds to purchase Mythallar.

Previously, the three planes had been controlled by the Seven Towers, and even if other Great Arcanists could save up some resources, their gains were ultimately limited because they were not connected to the Main Plane.

Let alone a Mythallar, some councilors might not even be able to afford to build a decent Mage Tower!

When the three planes became independent, the Mage Towers and other magical buildings or inventory resources originally constructed by the Seven Towers were not divided up on the spot; these councilors from the three planes arrived at the Main Plane in a state of almost "leaving with nothing."

"Councilor Xia Duo, when I was previously in the Golden Plain Plane, I participated in the Seven Towers' Magic Web Origin Tracing Project. If Councilor Xia Duo does not mind, perhaps we could cooperate in this regard."

This was what one of the councilors from the Golden Plain Plane said when meeting with Xia Duo; other councilors also had their own proposals, mostly using cooperation to exchange for Mythallar, whether it was cooperation on magic projects or cooperation in secular territories.

Through those talks, Xia Duo also sketched out a preliminary layout of the Seven Towers' magic research in his mind; those research projects were all concentrated on the exploration of frontier domains or the development of War Spells.

It was more in-depth than I had expected, and Xia Duo could almost be certain that those councilors (Great Arcanists) from the three planes must have been the core strength of various projects in the past.

Of course, in Xia Duo's plan, it was basically that the more storage units purchased, the later the position in the future distribution queue, until all storage units for sale were filled.

Especially in the future, regarding the issue of leadership over Netheril, the two sides inevitably had conflicts; giving an original version was already not bad, how could he give mature technology.

If either party could not complete the delivery within the time limit, the voting rights would temporarily belong to the other party until the transaction was completed.

By the time Xia Duo returned from his "study abroad" at the Red Heart Alliance, that portion of original Yinaole technology was no longer anything; he had already mastered the more advanced Arcane String technology, and the material properties were already very close to Magic Net String.

However, the Tower of Time currently really could not spare the manpower to engage in those projects, and he was also a bit suspicious of whether those projects were intentionally brought out by the Seven Towers, just to distract or even mislead the research direction of the Tower of Time.

As for the Seven Towers side, the early Yinaole manufacturing technology had long been handed over to them, but it was estimated that it was still insufficient to be used to manufacture Mythallar, which was also one of the previous transactions.

Currently, in all of Netheril, perhaps only Xia Duo and Davitham could produce usable Yinaole materials, but Davitham had long ago abandoned commercial plans in this regard.

But also because it was mature technology, even if he wanted to improve it in the short term, there was no way to start, and this kind of material was also the key to manufacturing small Mythallar, so it was even more impossible to let it leak out.

And the price of a storage unit was 200,000; building a Mythallar only required buying about ten storage units, and upon the first purchase, it would come with a full storage unit of Yinaole.

Moreover, it could be paid for with Gold Coins; compared to the 100,000 pounds of Standard Mithril that Weide paid when bidding for a finished Mythallar, a mere 2 million was completely negligible.

It was just that upon splitting up, they took their former employer's projects out to sell.

But even so, there was still a considerable number of councilors from the three planes who could not afford it, so they naturally used Council voting rights to guarantee the transaction.

So he never thought about fully taking over the projects brought out by those councilors; those projects either involved the frontier or belonged to key technologies in key domains.

Xia Duo needed to deliver the storage units filled with Yinaole, while those councilors needed to deliver the amount of Gold Coins or other equivalent precious metals (limited to Standard Mithril) agreed upon in the transaction, with the consideration referenced to the Standard Mithril transaction price on the day the agreement was signed. As for now, for those councilors, compared to the finished Mythallar devices starting at ten million, spending a mere 2 million to buy a Mythallar prototype was simply too profitable!

Those councilors purchased a certain amount of Yinaole storage units from Xia Duo; as long as they purchased enough storage units at once, Mythallar construction technology would be gifted.

As for future replenishment, it was free, but the production capacity of the Tower of Time was uncertain; perhaps there would be a situation where queuing was required, but the Tower of Time guaranteed that it could be replenished at least once within a year.

However, Xia Duo also realized that the connection between those councilors from the three planes and the Seven Towers might be much closer than he imagined; perhaps there were already people privately maintaining an alliance relationship with the Seven Towers, or they were simply people from the Seven Towers, just following the general trend of the planes' independence to come out and perform, while their actual interests were still highly consistent with the Seven Towers.

The reason for not providing mature technology sufficient to manufacture Mythallar was, of course, because although Xia Duo and the Seven Towers had cooperation in individual fields, there was a competitive relationship in more fields.

The Seven Towers could not accept the status quo of being completely throttled in this strategic field, and Xia Duo also needed an ally with common interests in this field to deal with the pressure from others, so he handed the Yinaole technology to the Seven Towers.

But in terms of cooperation in secular territories, Xia Duo showed sufficient interest; he and the councilors reached a preliminary intention of cooperation, which was that no obstacles would be artificially set for normal commercial exchanges.

Due to the smooth talks, Xia Duo signed an agreement with the councilors at Hengchun Square of the Floating City that same day, which involved agreements on commercial cooperation in secular territories.

According to his guess—there was a high probability that there would be people from the Seven Towers among those councilors from the three planes; those cooperation projects might all be real, but there was also a high probability that there could be huge traps.

Of course, because the Yinaole material Xia Duo was currently selling was improved through the hands of Davitham, he would give Davitham a share of the profits from his sales here.

In addition, regarding the Mythallar part, a separate transaction agreement was also signed.

Therefore, Xia Duo did not respond to any councilor's intention for project cooperation, but only silently recorded the names of those projects and the slight content revealed during the talks, preparing to use them as a reference after the Tower of Time developed and grew stronger in the future.

As for the Mythallar, the biggest cost was actually labor, so Xia Duo agreed to sell Yinaole materials; as long as one purchased enough quantity to build a Mythallar at once, the Mythallar construction technology would be gifted.

One must know that at that time, he had not yet gone to the Red Heart Alliance Projection Plane, and the Yinaole technology he mastered at that time was only one generation faster than the technology that could be used to manufacture Mythallar; if the latter were handed out, the Seven Towers would very likely quickly catch up with the gap.