In the library, Xia Duo's goal is very clear, that is, the 4-ring spell, and in his understanding, the core of a mage's deterrence is mobility.

Or survivability.

As for harmlessness or creativity, it's secondary.

Among the 4-ring spells, those linked to the strategic and tactical core of the mage, Xia Duo believes that there are [Short Teleportation], [Dimensional Anchor], as well as [Detection] and [Detection and Detection].

These four spells are extremely important both tactically and strategically.

The Tower of Time does not have a reserve of learning scrolls for these spells, strictly speaking, the Tower of Time only has a reserve of learning scrolls for 0 ring spells, and no one will easily make more advanced learning scrolls, which is tantamount to selling their core secrets.

But there are a lot of related spell books, and even if Xia Duo is the agent of the tower master at this time, he must pay a certain price to borrow them, of course, some other people must meet the borrowing threshold, Xia Duo does not need it.

There are a total of 12 books, and if others borrow it, it is 2400 gold coins per day, and according to the spell ring level, the spell book related to the 4 rings will cost 200 gold coins per day of borrowing.

This price is not too high for a mid-level mage, and it is certainly not cheap.

As for Xia Duo, he does not need to pay every day, he only needs to pay once, which is the benefit of the authority of the agent.

However, this time Xia Duo did not give the real gold coins, but owed them first, although he could take out so many gold coins, but the authority "told" him that he could owe them first.

There was not even a limit on the repayment date, which couldn't help but make Xia Duo sigh that Niya might have been really anxious at that time and hadn't thought about these details at all.

But anyway, he and Nia are now husband and wife, and they have made a sacred contract, so theoretically, at this time, the tower should also have half of him, and should he still pay for reading his own books?

And through his own experience, Xia Duo even discovered the contract loophole of the Tower of Time, and if ordinary mages make good use of it, they can completely collect the wool of the Tower of Time.

So, Xia Duo decisively notified Taling and Abbeck to change the contract for the members of the Tower of Time, and the new contract did not change much, but added a qualifier in front of the relevant rights and obligations-

"including but not limited to".

For example, Tower of Time members are not allowed to damage Tower of Time's interests, including but not limited to...... and so on.

Contracts can't be completely free of loopholes, but doing so can close a lot of loopholes.

Of course, in order not to arouse the disgust of the members of the Tower of Time when changing the contract, Xia Duo increased the benefits of mid-level mages, and correspondingly, the article "The Tower of Time will support beginner-level mages to carry out special research projects" was also written into the contract.

In a way, Xia Duo is using the excuse of closing the loopholes for the Tower of Time to promote his own beginner mage cultivation project, which is an attempt to change the world in the future.

Before leaving the Savile Territory and returning to the Great Xia Territory, or shortly after changing the contract for the members of the Tower of Time, Nia sent a message from Severton, saying that she agreed with his approach and asked him to communicate more with Alberk and Cecilido.

Xia Duo knew this, and it was inevitable that someone would report the news, but Nia believed him and agreed with him so easily, maybe she really had a different vision when she arrived in Severten.

This also made Xadow interested in Severington, but he knew very well that his stage was not in Severington, at least not yet.

In the general direction, he only has two goals now, and he only needs to do these two well, one is to open up a good territory to cater to the pioneering movement that the princess is promoting, which is a big thick leg and cannot be let go.

The other is itself, the advanced plan cannot be stopped, and only by becoming an Arcanist can it be regarded as a real foothold in Nesser.

……

After boarding the "Lucky Owen", Xia Duo stood at the bow of the ship, turned off the weak elemental calming ability of the [Crimson Shelter Robe], and let the river wind hit his face.

Now that the time has entered September, the breeze blowing in the face carries the last trace of summer heat, and the autumn solstice is a little cool, looking at the monotonous forest scene on both sides of the strait, Xia Duo is rare not to think about those nerve-wracking questions.

Just staring at the scenery on both sides of the river so quietly, occasionally a tree with a crooked neck tilted towards the riverbank, made him smile, these familiar or novel "landmarks", made Xia Duo feel a little kind.

It's not Savile Town, it's not the Great Xia Collar, it's just these trees that can't speak or move.

Perhaps only at this moment, he is Xia Duo, the most real Xia Duo.

Other times, he's just the mage of Shado in disguise, who seems to have blended into the world. But the longer he stayed in this world, the more he felt out of place.

Reason told him that this was the emotional and belonging needs that were born after he had completed his basic physiological and safety needs.

He didn't have any affection for Nessral, and maybe he talked about it a lot when he was on Earth, but only because it was from a game he loved.

Being in the real Nesser, what kind of identity and belonging can he give to an earthling!

Once the three views are formed, they will not be easily shaken, and magic and him are only a realistic result of epistemology, even if the Lord of Radiance stands in front of him one day, it is impossible for him to shake the three views.

Looking at the Wolfburg River in front of him, which flowed nowhere, as if it were his fate, Xia Duo fell into deep thought, and the pragmatic person could not help but be melancholy for a while.

After seeing the "bloody breath" on the previously visiting mage Wild, as well as the "flowing and moist" "water elemental breath" on the side of the misty ruins, Xia Duo did not dare to let his mind accumulate negative emotions for a long time.

Who knows if there will be a situation like evil thoughts!

Even on Earth, health is divided into two parts, physical and mental, the only difference is that in this real magical world, psychological problems may affect the physical body.

This necessitates increased vigilance.

After dissipating the negative emotions that had been accumulated for a long time in the bow of the ship, Xia Duo returned to the captain's room, took out a brand new notebook, opened the inner pages, and solemnly wrote eight Chinese characters on it-

"Open up the world and recreate the world!"

It is rare to use Chinese characters to write, and Xia Duo wrote out a lot of plans hidden in his heart on a whim, a little east and a little west, without any rules.

Although disorganized, it always points to a central idea -

Change the world!

Between completely integrating into this world and changing the world, Xia Duo chose the latter without hesitation, as a traverser, how could he not pursue it at all!

In fact, he has revealed this idea intentionally or unintentionally in the past, but what really made him determined was the growing sense of estrangement from the world.

Before joining the Tower of Time, most of the year;

Joined the Tower of Time (Main Plane), a little more than a year;

The first astral projection, a little more than a year and a half;

The second astral projection, more than a year.

From the point of view of self-perception, it has been more than four years since he crossed into this world. If he doesn't take action, maybe in a few years, he will have been assimilated to be no different from the natives here.

Maybe in the future, he will identify with this assimilation, but now, he still thinks that he is an earthling, and he can't really belong here.

In this way, it is better for him to assimilate the world and transform it into what he wants.