The second round was still in the grand hall as before, but the surrounding light became brighter, and the number of advisors under the throne also changed, with two more than before.
"King, after the promulgation of the relevant bill exempting druids from compulsory military service, the public responded enthusiastically. Some plantations have resumed operation, but the mages have complained about it."
"King, the Higher Magic Academy that you initiated has received support from many senior mages, but many have also expressed clear opposition."
"King, High Mage Taras is satisfied with your establishment of the High Magic Academy. Now he has found out the whole story behind the drow sacrifice in Yisi City, which has relieved the people's panic, and you have gained great reputation as a result."
"King, the border city of Mystic Lock rejected the inward relocation of surrounding towns and expelled them all. Some towns were attacked by orcs during the relocation process and suffered heavy losses. Due to this incident, the development order you issued has been questioned by the people.
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"King, after comprehensive renovation, the security of the capital has been greatly improved. However, during the process, conflicts have also occurred with many high-ranking families. Two of the investigators appointed by you have already disappeared."
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Through the simple statements of these consultants and the specific information perceived from the surrounding environment, Sha Duo also gained a relatively comprehensive understanding of the current situation of this virtual kingdom.
Especially after a round of issuing orders and getting feedback.
Generally speaking, in this virtual kingdom, there are only class conflicts between the upper and lower levels, and there are no internal conflicts between different ethnic groups like the main plane Cormanthor.
I don’t know if there was a problem in the history of the main plane thousands of years ago, or if it was the kind of environment that was deliberately created during the reign of King Iliselmian.
Xia Duo thought about it carefully. In fact, the virtual kingdom in this trial may be a little simplified. Although there are many problems, there are only two core problems -
One is the contradiction between the upper and lower classes, not only the low status of druids, but also the difficulty for ordinary civilians to get ahead and the difficulty for ordinary mages to rise.
This can be seen from the fact that although the mage community was dissatisfied with the newly promulgated Druid Law, in the end they only complained rather than explicitly opposed it. The magic academy did play a big role.
Most of the senior mages agreed, which was not beyond Xia Duo's expectation. After all, he had reached the pinnacle of power and strength, so he naturally had to think in a long-term direction when thinking about problems.
New high mages do not appear suddenly, they are also trained by them, or this is to give them the opportunity to cultivate their wings.
Of course, things in the world cannot be completely satisfactory. Many high-level mages object either because "higher magic is very harmful", or because of "protecting tradition", or simply because they "don't want others to become equal to themselves".
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But it's obvious that Xia Duo made the right bet. Although this was just a trial, it certainly reflected the reality (of the projection plane). The attitude of the senior mage of the virtual kingdom during the trial was, to a certain extent, the outside leading the Excalibur Trial.
The attitude of those high mages.
Most of the high-level mages outside have experienced drow wars, and naturally know the importance of training mages, especially high-level mages.
And this also corresponds to the second core issue in this virtual plane - the issue of development.
In addition to the development of magic, there is also the development of territory, and even people's lives. This is also one of the purposes of the merger of the countries in the Listal Forest to establish a unified Cormanthor.
After understanding these, Xia Duo can issue targeted orders.
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In the next few rounds, Xia Duo reconciled domestic conflicts while actively exploring externally.
Each round of the trial corresponds to the feedback from the mechanism behind the trial to the trialist's command. The specific time depends on what command is issued.
If it is daily government affairs handling disputes or something like that, the time flow will be very slow, but obviously, once or twice like this may be okay, but if it is too many, you will definitely be out of the game.
And if it is a major decision that involves all aspects, time will quickly move backward to show the consequences of such a decision.
As for Xia Duo, since many of his orders were very wide-ranging, time in the virtual kingdom also passed quickly. In just a few rounds, two hundred years passed.
During this period, the Magic Academy made the most outstanding achievements. In addition to six more high-ranking mages, a large number of elite mages with outstanding talents also emerged.
In terms of reconciling conflicts, the Druid Skills Competition held every ten years has made the Druid profession gain a lot of attention in the kingdom. Many small families no longer mind letting their second son or branch child become a Druid.
Yes.
As for the advancement paths for ordinary civilians, for the time being, the only options are to open up overseas, join the army, and become a mage.
Yes, although druids possess extraordinary power and control the country's food lifeline to a certain extent, they are still considered civilians.
This is already an improved status. Before, at best, they were called plantation workers, and at worst, they were slaves.
As for resistance, they have almost no other choice but to go on strike. As long as a priest comes forward, they can easily deprive them of their power.
Therefore, Shado values Atwood more in the territory of the main plane. Once he can become a true natural druid, not only to eliminate the heretical thoughts within Netheril, he can even be sold back to the elves.
go.
In fact, if he were on the main plane, Xia Duo would choose to popularize education and adjust the industrial structure so that common people can gain access to advancement, but here——
He had no doubt that if he dared to issue such an order, the trial would definitely fail.
Even the previous High School of Magic only recruited noble children. Of course, there were no nominal nobles among the elves, and the same was true for Netheril in the main plane.
But this does not mean that there are no de facto nobility. Lord Nese is considered one, and so is the Grand Arcanist. In elven society, nobility is also reflected in the possession of the means of production.
Specific to the virtual kingdom in the trial, nobles must at least have their own plantations and be able to be self-sufficient in food.
The state did provide food to the common people, but this was considered dishonorable, and the first step in breaking away from the common people was to obtain their own land.
Basically, there are only three paths: exploring the outside world, joining the army, and becoming a mage.
Becoming a druid can improve your life, but it does not help much in improving your class.
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Xia Duo did not make any fundamental changes to the elf society, but only fine-tuned it from a modern perspective so that it could develop better and faster.
This does not conflict with his purpose of verifying the assumptions related to magical civilization. Regarding magical civilization, he relies almost entirely on imagination, so how can he forcibly add some existing knowledge to it?
On the contrary, this gradual development process and the various problems in the process are more worthy of his attention, so that he can learn from it when he returns to the main plane.
If he wants to forcefully push a set of standards or theories, then Xia Duo can guarantee that he will fail the trial within a few rounds.
Failure is not terrible. In the worst case, you can return to the main plane. However, in doing so, you lose a rare opportunity to have many high-level mages help deduce the progress of civilization.