Back at the camp, Layton brought Xia Duo today's personnel evaluation, and Xia Duo looked through the pages one by one, with ordinary people in front and slaves in the back.

Perhaps because of the order just announced today, Jinzhong Rao performed quite well, and Leiden rated it for everyone

"Excellent" evaluation. At the end of the flip, there was another booklet, a roster of all personnel, including the soldiers, and Leiden sorted out all Rao's past experiences and skills, which Xia Duo had specifically told him to do.

At this time, he saw that the book was really the same as he wanted to see, and this roster was probably the first household registration information in the territory.

"Aren't there craftsmen on this, Leiden? This Stone's slave, a stonemason? He made the stone bowl at the altar? ”

"My lord, I chiseled that bowl with my own hands." Layton immediately explained,

"And this slave named Stone is indeed a stonemason, and the bowl was chiseled by my own hands under his direction." Although Leiden didn't like these slaves, it was simply because they had escaped from the conscription of the original lord, and he would not hide the abilities of the slaves.

The doctrine did not allow him to lie to his lord, and he himself did not want to lie.

"Well, and this carpenter, carpenter?"

"Yes." There are a lot of talents in this slave! There were two craftsmen among the twenty or so men, and there was only one leatherman among the fifty or sixty official lords he recruited in the Savile Territory.

That's a bit of a difference!

"These two men let them work with other slaves for the time being, but you have to keep an eye on them, and when the time comes, I will release them from slavery."

"Yes!"

"So be it." Xia Duo handed back the personnel roster and evaluation records, and for the time being, Leiden needed to do all these tasks first.

There are still too few people! He was now hoping that the Slevin Chamber of Commerce would get him more slaves from the interior, and as for recruiting from the Savile Order, he didn't have much hope of it.

It's already good to have this group of fifty or sixty people to build a foundation, and the follow-up may be sent over by two, which really can't satisfy his appetite.

…… After Layton left, Shado went to the bank of the river and walked into the river step by step, before he jotted down a set of elements from the magic arrows in the lock, but there was no magic laboratory here, he thought of a method that was not a method - to spread his consciousness into the body of water, and use this section of the river to conduct spell experiments, even if it failed, the Wolfburg River would bear the responsibility.

Of course, this is just an assumption, anyway, he is going to experiment, it is better to try it once.

If it succeeds, it will not only be more convenient to experiment with spells, but more importantly - once the waters he can control become wider, won't he be able to extend the spells to the far distances!

It's like if he casts a spell from his current position in the water, and the spell appears in Savile Town, which means that he can attack the enemy from the comfort of his home, and the enemy doesn't know about him.

And this is only the [Control of Water], there is also a part about wind and rain and thunder in the bloodline inheritance information, is it still possible to cast spells through wind and rain and thunder?

However, all this is just Xia Duo's brain, whether it is feasible or not depends on this attempt to cast a spell through the waters!

At the bottom of the Wolfburg River, Xia Duo lay quietly on the riverbed, his consciousness slowly spreading out of his body, as if the surrounding river had become his limbs and blood.

Xia Duo did not spread his consciousness to the limit of what he could control, and to the limit, although he could still think normally, it was like instinct, and it was impossible to cast spells in such a state.

He just extended his consciousness to both sides of Wolfburg, spreading about 20 meters upstream and downstream, and he felt that once he exceeded this range, he would not be able to cast spells.

It's a very strange feeling, and it's very simple, it's like a person can only lift 100 pounds of things, so he is very sensitive to the concept of 100 pounds, and he has a rough standard in his mind for what he can lift and what he can't lift.

The state of concentration is a state in which the mental will is very concentrated, which is equivalent to a person using all his strength, whether a person has used all his strength, and whether he is in a state of concentration, can be easily judged.

And a simpler way to judge is through the magic net, which can be in a state of concentration

"Seeing" the magic net, if the mind has distracting thoughts, or the consciousness is not concentrated enough, then naturally it will not be visible. In the same way, staying focused, like using full strength, requires physical strength or energy, in short, it cannot be non-consumption, and excessive consumption becomes impossible to maintain.

Casting is a more consuming act than staying focused, so you don't need to rest until after casting. Xia Duo maintains a state of concentration while controlling the waters, and can only affect the river section of about 50 meters at most, which is a starting and lifting state for those who want to hit the enemy's strategic targets from home.

In the end, whether you can cast spells through the water, the first step in trying is to pull the magic net, as long as you can interact with the magic net, it is a breakthrough of zero.

The follow-up is just an accumulation of complexity. In the first step, Xia Duo didn't do anything difficult, just like a mage apprentice practicing spell casting, just pulling a string of magic nets, twisting and winding them...... Anything he has at his disposal can be easily achieved, that is, he can cast spells through the waters!

Xia Duo was excited, what this meant, even if he thought about it with his toes, he didn't need it now, putting aside the expansion of the cast range, after all, he didn't need it now.

The mere fact that he could use the water to bear the backlash of a failed spell was enough to make him cheer.

The calming effect of the magic net in the spell laboratory is related to the strength of the spell experiment, 1 ring is 10 gold coins at a time, 2 rings are 20, and so on.

As a mage, I don't know how much time I have to spend on spell casting training and experimenting with spells in the future, and the money saved here is not a lot of money.

Of course, some spells that are very dangerous and have a huge range of influence also need to be carefully experimented, after all, the water area he can control is always limited.

However, this is only a shortcoming, even in the spell laboratory, there are many accidents, just like the last arcane competition, Palos was absent due to the teacher's experimental accident.

Caution is needed at all times. After trying a single-element spell that was simpler than the [Magic Trick], Xia Duo restrained his ecstasy and continued to try the [Light Technique], this spell only has twelve elements, and it is a relatively easy introductory spell.

Almost at the moment of his thoughts, a hazy ball of light appeared at the bottom of the river 20 meters away. The flow of the river itself, coupled with the ripples of the breeze, if someone were standing from a distance and looking this way, they could see the flickering sparks on the surface of the river, like starlight entering the water, and like the eyes of a monster underwater.