Midday.

When Shado and Nia returned to Linshui Village for lunch, Norman, the head of the guard, suddenly took Layton to the dining room on the first floor of the Lord's Villa, and then silently withdrew.

"My lord, I'll send you a recruitment plan."

"Oh? So fast? ”

Xia Duo quickly put down his chopsticks and took the plan from Leiden's hand, opened it to Leiden's neat handwriting, and after reading through it quickly, Xia Duo closed the plan, considered it for a while, and gave instructions:

"The plan is good, but there are two things that need to be adjusted -

"First, there are too many people assigned to the development department, and the focus should be on the territory and people's livelihood, food, clothing, housing and transportation, I hope to allocate at least half of the magic affairs officers, followed by the development department.

"Second, the territorial guards should also assign at least two magical affairs officers to cooperate with the guards in training new equipment and even further research on tactics."

Improving people's livelihood has always been what Xia Duo hopes to do, although the current people's livelihood situation in the Great Xia Territory is many times better than that of other territories, but the process of infiltrating magic into the field of people's livelihood is also a process of continuous penetration of the concept of the Society.

It's a good place to start, and Shado naturally cares about it.

Secondly, in the military field, the current territorial guard has drawn a new team of about 100 people, equipped with the latest standard magic equipment.

These include a fireball wand that fixes the direction of fire, a counter ring to negate the effects of common spells, a variety of restriction rings, a flying belt, and a communication device that fixes the target.

Xia Duo's original plan was to let this team of 100 people patrol the [Great Xia-Savile Passage], but until today, when he completed the equipment for nearly half a year, he failed to achieve the training goal he wanted.

Most people can't even become proficient in using these new equipment, let alone build up combat power.

It was also a helpless move to arrange two magic affairs officers for them, and Xia Duo admitted that he had underestimated the difficulty of ordinary people learning to use magic items.

Like the magic scroll, which has a fixed start port, learn one, and many others can be learned, which is nothing more than a matter of proficiency and choosing the right time.

But now the new equipment equipped with the 100-man team has a variety of different activation ports, which is mainly to facilitate ordinary people to distinguish between different magic items, so as not to use the same activation port to cause an increase in the chance of accidental touch and misstart.

In fact, Xia Duo was somewhat in a hurry, and the formed magic army would naturally be born after the proportion of popular mages reached a certain level, instead of being artificially piled up now.

But the reality also has realistic considerations, if you wait until the slow construction, I don't know how long it will take, and the most important thing is -

At this stage, spellcasters are more suitable for production, creation, than combat, and it is too much of a luxury to select soldiers directly from the casters.

At least for quite some time, Xia Duo still preferred to train and train the existing ordinary soldiers, rather than directly making the caster a magic warrior.

However, with the continuous advancement of the industrialization process of magic in the future, the further complexity and specialization of military equipment will inevitably require users to receive more professional magical education, rather than just pulling a few ordinary people to train to form combat power.

Similar to the earth, the requirements for the quality of high-precision military personnel (including combat, command, and research) in all aspects have become higher and higher with the development of science and technology.

……

Except for the two points mentioned by Xia Duo, there was generally no problem with the plan, and after giving his comments, Xia Duo asked Leiden to send the revised recruitment plan directly to the personnel department of the Tower of Time, without having to show it to him again.

After Layton left, lunch continued, and after the meal, Shado continued to supervise Niya in doing the papers, and it was like this until late in the evening, when Nia finally completed a third of the test papers.

The remaining two-thirds were quickly completed over the next two days, and that afternoon, Chado took back the last paper and told Nia:

"Next, you'll take two days off and go to the Azurite plane with me?"

"Azurite plane?"

At first hearing this somewhat familiar name, Nia's eyes were a little confused, in the past few days, her mind was almost occupied by endless topics except for eating and sleeping, and now she suddenly relaxed, she was really a little dazed.

"Azurite plane! Did you forget? We just went there the other day. Xia Duo reminded.

Niya came back to her senses at this time, her eyes became focused, and she said excitedly, "Of course I know, you are all ready, and you are going to start building the Floating City?" ”

"It's not quite ready yet, but it's okay to build the main body first, and it's necessary."

"And we'll leave now?" Nia said eagerly.

Xia Duo nodded, and said, "You go to the preparation hall first, and I'll take a few documents and go over." ”

"Well, I'll open the portal first, hurry up!"

With that, Nia vanished, and Xia Duo soon came to the sixth floor of the Tower of Time and obtained three design proposals from three independent research labs including Horst.

In the past few days, he has distributed four batches of nearly 100 design tasks to the three independent research labs, but only after a few days have passed, only one plan has been handed over from each research lab.

Of course, with the continuous familiarity of the side and the continuous feedback from Xia Duo's side, the efficiency of the three research laboratories will definitely continue to improve, and Xia Duo can wait for it.

……

Azurite plane.

Returning to this pure shimmering water again, Xia Duo's originally restless heart also calmed down at this moment.

A super-large strategic magic device such as Floating City will inevitably appear with the development of magic, but it happens to be born in his own hands at this moment, and there is nothing to be excited about.

"Want to start?" Nia asked.

"Don't worry, let's check the situation on the island first."

I didn't come for five or six days, Xia Duo was still very concerned about the [Mithera] device, and the other was the loss of air on the vacuum side, which was an important basis for the output power of the air factory, and it was also an important part of the plane transformation, so I had to pay attention to it.

Then, the two of them came to the back of Fish-Man Island, and the [Mithera] device in the center of the island was running smoothly without any abnormalities.

Xia Duo inspected the positioning detection beads at the edge of the suspended field, and in six days, the field changed slightly, so that the positioning detection beads were not in the same straight line.

However, the change was not significant, and he speculated that at least twice as many changes would be needed to actually affect the [Mithera] device.

The fact is that this change is not fixed in a certain direction, but fluctuates, and Xia Duo decided to observe for a while before deciding whether to restart the correction.

Speaking of which, if others don't have a portable space to temporarily store the [Mithera] device, it may not be very easy to restart the correction suspension field.

"Xia Duo, come on, there are so many arcane energy crystals!"

"It's coming!"

Xia Duo also wanted to see how many arcane energy crystals had been produced in the past six days.