Xia Duo took a general look and found nothing unusual, and generally maintained the past share of Leonard, the former tower master's student.

However, this number is slightly insufficient compared to Leonard's Research Laboratory, one of the three private research laboratories officially supported by the Tower of Time.

Maybe Leonard felt that his teacher was gone, and that the Tower of Time was now headed by Nia, so he wanted to keep a low profile, but Xia Duo was not a demanding person.

How can he embarrass him because of his identity!

Moreover, it was Leonard who brought him into the Tower of Time in the first place, and also gave him ten study scrolls that were very important for Xia Duo in the early stage, even if there was a factor of wood and rock, but Xia Duo was also sincere.

Pulling out the document separately and putting it aside, Xia Duo continued to look at the document below.

……

The following applications are interesting, as there are many topics such as "Design of 3-ring spells at the level of 1 ring" and "Research on the materialization of the strings of the magic web".

At first glance, even Xia Duo was bluffed into the names of these topics, but when he thought about it seriously, what even he couldn't understand, could these middle-level mages understand?

For example, the description of the "3-ring spell" is quite spiritual, and the application report says that it is similar to the effect of the 3-ring spell, not the equivalent of the 3-ring spell that Xia Duo thought at the beginning, the equivalent at the level of the transformation of the elements of the String of the Magic Net.

The report also said that as long as you understand this, 1 ring spell can be used as a 3 ring spell in the future, and whether it is the difficulty of casting or learning, it will not increase, but will decrease.

Isn't that!

What else is the materialization of the string of the magic net, it is even more nonsense, at present, any doctrine that Xia Duo has come into contact with, as well as his own personal research, does not support the so-called materialization of the string of the magic net.

Materialization means that the strings of the web can come into contact with the matter of reality, and if possible, it will be able to somehow transform the entire web into a substance, and then destroy the world.

As one of the foundations of the world, how can the magic net be so easy to change its nature!

Even if it is the Aohuo and tears the magic net, it does not change the nature of the string of the magic net itself, but re-weaves a private miniature magic net, which converges and curls up to be the Aohuo.

Looking at the brain-opening application reports, Xia Duo shook his head one after another, but if he wanted to completely deny it, he couldn't do such a thing.

On the one hand, his own understanding may be different, and if he miscalculates, he may miss the opportunity.

On the other hand, these mid-level mages were able to make such an application, not because they were really researching or trying to cheat money, but because they were in fact actively supporting the new system after the transformation of the Tower of Time.

In this way, as long as their story is well written and no obvious flaws can be seen, their application cannot be denied.

However, this also gave Xia Duo a wake-up call, it was time to set up a special subject approval department, he really didn't expect the attitude of these middle-level mages to change so quickly!

It's really delicious!

……

In addition to some brain-opening topics, there are also the usual consumables for a normal mid-level mage to conduct spell experiments, and these Xia Duo just roughly flipped through them and skipped them.

After reading all the paperwork, Xia Duo looked up and saw that Cecily was waiting for his reply, Xia Duo thought about it and revealed some of the ideas of setting up a project approval department in advance.

"After the project approval team is established, there will not be so many people to cheat the funds, as for the manufacture of communication magic devices, it cannot be stopped for the time being, and I will find another way in terms of resources."

After speaking, Xia Duo paused for a moment, and then continued: "Now it's my turn to ask you, based on the past month, how long can the current material reserves of the Tower of Time last?" ”

This time, Cecily didn't look for any more information, and blurted out directly, it seems that she has been thinking about it in her heart for a long time:

"At present, the Tower of Time has a material consumption directly related to magic, mainly five-color gems, Mithril, gold, silver, iron, as well as various scroll inks, scroll paper, ordinary parchment, some special materials are not counted, and food is not counted.

"Among them, the reserves of five-color gems and ordinary parchment paper are not much, according to the consumption of the past month, at most until June next year, this is still counting the materials sent by the chambers of commerce in the first quarter of next year, if not, it may be exhausted in January and February."

Not short of Mithril?

Chado was a little surprised, and then he voiced his question, to which Cecily replied-

"Mithril is really running out, but next month is a new year, and a certain amount of Mithril can be purchased from the Arcane Federation, there is no crisis of Mithril shortage in a short period of time, but as long as the communication magic weapon continues to be produced, it will be a matter of time before Mithril is scarce!"

It turned out to be such an algorithm!

Xia Duo also remembered that he still had some Mithril purchase vouchers on his side!

At the beginning of the transfer of the patent of the magic network background communication magic weapon, what he got from the Gilles Tower, in addition to a large amount of gold coins and subsequent continuous income, also had a part of the five-color gems, the physical Mithril, and a certain share of the Mithril purchase certificate.

As long as you have money, you can buy it at any time.

In this way, Mithril is indeed not a problem in the short term, but in the long run, it is necessary to find a more stable supply of Mithril, and it is best to find one or more Mithril mines directly, which is a truly stable supply.

Then he asked Cecily:

"Didn't you have an advance payment for the communication device before? Didn't you use those gold coins to buy five-colored gems? And what about parchment? Don't even have enough paper? ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Xia Duo noticed that Cecily's expression was a little subtle, but he thought about it and it seemed that there was nothing wrong.

Seeing that Xia Duo hadn't reacted yet, Cecily had no choice but to say: "Those advances have long been used, in addition to paying the wages of the magic technicians you said, there is also the maintenance cost of the Tower of Time, there are so many apprentices at once, and all kinds of facilities are used, how can they not pay any price!" ”

I see, sure enough, people are in different positions, and the focus of attention is also different.

Like Xia Duo, what he is most concerned about is definitely the transformation of the Tower of Time and the effectiveness of the transformation, as for the cost and cost, in his subconscious, the Tower of Time can bear it.

From Cecily's point of view, her identity is Nia's butler and the head of the material department of the Tower of Time, and the financial problems of the Tower of Time are so obvious that she can't help but pay attention to it.

"As for parchment, there are so many apprentices at once, and the amount of paper used is almost ten times more than that of the Tower of Time in the past, how can there be so many cattle and sheep to kill, even if it is purchased through the Chamber of Commerce, there is also a problem of transit time difference."

Cecily spoke of parchment again, in fact, Xia Duo had already reacted, and the raw material of parchment paper was animal leather.

Whether it is cattle or sheep, or lizards, it takes time to grow, and the scale of breeding is also very limited, and it is not infinitely available.

Now that you're ready to refine Mithril, it's not a big deal to use papermaking!

Thinking about it like this, Xia Duo immediately made a decision in his heart, it just so happened that a large number of logs were piled up in his territory, and he didn't know how to consume them, and the piles there would also take up space, so it was better to make them into paper!