Arcane Lord

On this day, Chateau came to Sevington early. After asking Director Brundes and knowing that Congenio had dedicated a whole day to him, he immediately asked for a visit.

In response, Brundes quickly replied: "Lord Chateau, the president is in the study. He asked me to tell you that you can come over at any time."

Along with this message came the location of the president's study at the headquarters of the Austrian Law Association. After receiving the message, Sha Duo immediately rushed there.

Although it was morning, there were many mages coming and going from the library of the Arcane Federation headquarters to the president's study. This time, Xia Duo experienced unprecedented treatment.

When there is someone in front of him, often before he gets close, that person will step aside and salute respectfully. Xia Duo knows that his image is not a secret at all after the princess's ascension ceremony, but it is not that everyone will recognize it. he.

He guessed that either Brundes had greeted him in advance, or the iron stone above his head announced his identity from a distance.

Shado had never seen a few people in Severton with the Iron Stone on their heads, and it was only on formal occasions, and there were almost no normal situations.

Ioun stone is undoubtedly a status symbol. It means that the wearer is at least a high-level mage with a profound background, and in more cases is an archmage or senior arcanist.

After briefly sensing the irregular movements of the two ioun stones above his head, Sha Duo was still more inclined to think that it was more likely to be an ioun stone.

Generally speaking, the identity of a high-level mage is considered a secret. Unless the person involved needs it, no one will deliberately publicize it, let alone bring influence.

As far as Xia Duo knew, even if the Seven Pagodas used to spread his reputation for the princess's ascension ceremony, no video data was used, just his name and deeds.

Most of the people who knew him had only seen him in some public place.

As a director of the Austrian Law Association, it is even more impossible for Brundes to be so ignorant and disseminate his video materials to many people.

Of course, it might just be talking about some other features, such as crimson robe, pioneer scepter, iron stone, etc.

Xia Duo didn't think much about it. He walked through the library and came to the administrative office area of ​​the federation headquarters. The people and things here were much busier.

Different from the noisy busyness of the trade area outside, and also different from the idle state of ordinary offices, this place is really busy, and in a silent state, various matters are processed quickly and orderly.

Xia Duo was also here for the first time, so he couldn't help but take a few more glances. With his eyesight, he happened to see a document in front of the secret deacon (an internal rank of the federation) who was closest to him——

I saw it said "Survey on the continued decline in the price of magic network background communication instruments"!

Just seeing that line of text, Xia Duo had a bad feeling. Of course, it was not that the investigation by the Arcane Federation would be detrimental to him, but that "the price of communication instruments continued to fall" would definitely affect the Tower of Time. profit.

Communication prices continue to fall. There are investigation reports on this, so it should not be false, but there is no news from the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce.

I don’t know whether it’s because it’s insensitive to the market or because it doesn’t care about products that are not its own.

Perhaps the next step will be a price war, and a longer-term impact than the price war is that other magic items may also reduce their prices.

Of course, before then, the division of labor may become an open secret that each Mage Tower organization can see through but not tell.

As technology advances and output increases, it is almost foreseeable that the price of raw materials will rise.

There is no macro-control of modern society here in Netheril. Maybe the Alfa Federation will take care of it a little bit, but it does not have any law enforcement authority and what it can do is very limited.

In this case, there may be a group of mage towers that cannot adapt to the new situation and go bankrupt, but this is generally a good thing.

This will force various Mage Tower organizations to make technological progress. If they do not make progress, they will go bankrupt; or they will open up new territories, whether in the sub-plane or the main plane.

If technology is difficult to advance, then mastering resources becomes the best option to reduce costs.

Perhaps mithril refining technology will be "born" in due course, and the demand for talents will further increase. This may be the beginning of popularizing basic magic knowledge!

For a time, Xia Duo thought of many things, and even his steps subconsciously slowed down a lot.

At this moment, a young man wearing a deacon's robe trotted out from the inner room, stopped in front of Xia Duo, and carefully gave way to the road in front, saying respectfully:

"Lord Xia Duo, the president asked me to take you to his study!"

"okay!"

Xia Duo put away his racing thoughts and thought of the things he had prepared before coming, and his heart suddenly felt a little calmer.

…

Under the guidance of the young deacon, Chateau quickly arrived outside Congenio's study. Once there, the young deacon resigned first, leaving Chateau alone, who took a deep breath and walked in.

A rather simple study that can even be called a simple one!

This was Chateau's first impression of this study. In contrast, Congenio, who was sitting behind the dark brown desk, stood out even more.

Although he looks old, his spirit is quite strong, and his movements seem to be very flexible, without the stiffness of ordinary elderly people at all.

Of course, calling a great arcanist who is nearly 500 years old an old man, Xia Duo felt it was a bit inappropriate no matter how he thought about it.

Perhaps many young people today will not survive this "old man"!

"Master Congenio!"

Xado bowed respectfully. Even if he didn't bow for his strength, identity, status, or reputation, the fact that he was nearly 500 years old was enough to make him, a younger generation who respected the elderly and loved the young, bow.

After hearing Congenio's voice, Congenio didn't act like an elder or a high-ranking person. He put down the documents he was sorting and stood up to greet him:

"Sit down!"

He pointed to a chair near the door of the study and asked Xia Duo to sit down and talk. Xia Duo hesitated for a moment, but Congenio had already walked from behind the desk to his side. He sat down on another chair at the door and said again:

"Sit down. I don't have so many polite etiquette here. Just treat it as a meeting and a chat between friends."

Congenio's words were sincere, and there was no acting in them. So Xia Duo didn't refuse anymore, but accepted it compliantly.

After sitting down, Shado did not hide anything and came straight to the point, "Master, Shado's main purpose of visiting you this time is to get some advice from you about magic, about Netheril, and about elves."

In response, Congenio did not show any surprise. His long life was enough for him to meet all kinds of people and all kinds of situations.