Chapter 1091 The impact of price cuts, respect the old and love the young
On this day, Chateau came to Severington early. After asking Director Brundes and knowing that Congenio had dedicated a whole day for him, he immediately asked to pay a visit.
In response, Brundes quickly replied: "Lord Chateau, the president is in the study. He asked me to tell you that you can come over at any time."
Along with this message came the location of the president's study at the headquarters of the Austrian Law Association. After receiving the message, Sha Duo immediately rushed there.
Although it was morning, there were many mages coming and going from the library of the Arcane Federation headquarters to the president's study. This time, Xia Duo experienced unprecedented treatment.
When there is someone in front of him, often before he gets close, the person will step aside and salute respectfully. Xia Duo knows that his image is not a secret at all after the princess's ascension ceremony, but it is not that everyone will recognize it.
he.
He guessed that either Brundes had greeted him in advance, or the iron stone above his head announced his identity from a distance.
Shado had never seen a few people in Severton with the Iron Stone on their heads, and it was only on formal occasions, and there were almost no such situations in normal times.
Ioun stone is undoubtedly a symbol of status. It means that the wearer is at least a high-level mage with a profound background, and in more cases is an archmage or senior arcanist.
After briefly sensing the irregular movements of the two ioun stones above his head, Xia Duo was still more inclined to think that they were more likely to be ioun stones.
Generally speaking, the identity of a high-level mage is considered a secret. Unless the person concerned needs it, no one will deliberately publicize it, let alone bring influence.
As far as Xia Duo knows, even when the Seven Pagodas used to spread his reputation for the princess's ascension ceremony, no video data was used, just his name and deeds.
Most of the people who knew him had only seen him in some public place.
As a director of the Austrian Law Association, it is even more impossible for Brundes to be so ignorant and disseminate his video materials to many people.
Of course, it might just be talking about some other features, such as crimson robe, pioneer scepter, iron stone, etc.
Xia Duo didn't think much about it. He walked through the library and came to the administrative office area of the federation headquarters. The people here were much busier.
Different from the noisy busyness of the trade area outside, and different from the idle state of ordinary offices, it is really busy here, and in a silent state, various affairs are processed quickly and orderly.
Xia Duo was also here for the first time, so he couldn't help but take a few more glances. With his eyesight, he happened to see a document in front of the secret deacon (an internal rank of the federation) who was closest to him——
I saw it said "Survey on the continued decline in the price of magic network background communication instruments"!
Just seeing that line of text, Xia Duo had a bad feeling. Of course, it was not that the investigation by the Arcane Federation would be detrimental to him, but that "the price of communication instruments continued to fall" would definitely affect the Tower of Time.
profit.
Communication prices continue to fall. There are investigation reports on this, so there should be no falsehoods. However, there is no news from the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce.
I don’t know if it’s because it’s insensitive to the market or because it doesn’t care about products that are not its own.
Perhaps the next step will be a price war, and a longer-term impact than the price war is that other magic items may also be reduced in price.
Of course, before then, the division of labor may become an open secret that each Mage Tower organization can see through but not tell.
As technology advances, production increases, and raw material prices rise, it is almost foreseeable.
There is no macro-control of modern society in Netheril. Maybe the Alfa Federation will take care of it a little bit, but it does not have any law enforcement authority and what it can do is very limited.
In this case, there may be a group of mage towers that cannot adapt to the new situation and go bankrupt, but this is generally a good thing.
This will force various Mage Tower organizations to make technological progress, otherwise they will go bankrupt; or they may open up new territories to the outside world, whether it is a sub-plane or a new territory in the main plane.
If technology is difficult to advance, then mastering resources becomes the best option to reduce costs.
Perhaps mithril refining technology will be "born" in due course, and the demand for talents will further increase. This may be the beginning of popularizing basic magic knowledge!
For a time, Xia Duo thought of many things, and even his steps subconsciously slowed down a lot.
At this moment, a young man wearing a deacon's robe trotted out from the inner room, stopped in front of Xia Duo, and carefully gave way to the road in front, saying respectfully:
"Lord Xia Duo, the president asked me to take you to his study!"
"okay!"
Xia Duo put away his racing thoughts and thought of the things he had prepared before coming, and his heart suddenly felt a little calmer.
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Under the guidance of the young deacon, Chateau quickly arrived outside Congenio's study. Once there, the young deacon resigned first, leaving Chateau alone, who took a deep breath and walked in.
A rather simple study that can even be called a simple one!
This was Chateau's first impression of this study. In contrast, Congenio, sitting behind the dark brown desk, stood out even more.
Although he looks old, his spirit is quite strong, and his movements seem to be very flexible, without the stiffness of ordinary elderly people at all.
Of course, calling a great arcanist who is nearly 500 years old an old man, Xia Duo felt it was a bit inappropriate no matter how he thought about it.
Perhaps many young people today will not survive this "old man"!
"Master Congenio!"
Xia Duo saluted respectfully. Even if he did not salute because of his strength, identity, status, or reputation, just because the other person was close to 500 years old, it was still worthy of Xia Duo, a junior who always respected the elderly and loved the young.
Hearing Xia Duo's voice, Congenio didn't put on the airs of an elder or a high-ranking person at all. He put down the documents and volumes he was sorting and stood up to say hello:
"sit!"
He pointed to a chair near the door of the study and motioned for Chateau to sit down and talk. Chateau hesitated for a moment, but Congenio had already walked to him from behind the desk. He sat down on another chair at the door and spoke again.
said:
"Sit down, I don't have so many polite etiquette here, just treat it as a meeting between friends and just chat."
Congenio's words were sincere and could not be seen as acting, so Chateau no longer pretended to refuse, but accepted it obediently.
After sitting down, Shado did not hide anything, but went straight to the point, "Master, Shado's main purpose of visiting this time is to get some advice from the master about magic, Netheril, and elves."
In this regard, Congenio did not show any surprise. His long life span allowed him to see all kinds of people and various situations.