What Savile didn't know was that in Shado's plan, the Great Arcanist was not the ultimate goal of the mage, but rather the starting point of the true magic path.
Nowadays, the mainstream Nese mages focus on upgrading and ignore "technological advancement". This does have factors in the real environment. Upgrading is the fastest way to gain power, but it is also easy to fall into the vicious circle of blind pursuit of power.
Magic is knowledge, and knowledge can bring power, but it is not the same as power.
Shado knew that Savile was quite enlightened, after all, it was Iolum who brought him out, but the limitations of some eras were unavoidable.
In addition, Niya's test paper and the apprentice's test paper are completely different. This is not because they involve the depth of magic knowledge, but because the former was tailor-made for her by Shado analyzing Niya's mastery of "Encyclopedia of Promotion".
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The exam paper for apprentices is a general version, focusing on one aspect. This does not have much effect on the few elite apprentices with outstanding talents. It is more about helping them build their own knowledge system.
It can be said that Chateau's elite education for Niya was completely tailored to her aptitude, which was no worse than what Savile received from Iolum.
It's just that it's difficult for him to explain these questions to Savile. In the end, they will probably boil down to one sentence - "Don't you think your teacher is inferior to you?"
"A disciple does not have to be inferior to a teacher, and a teacher does not have to be better than a disciple." Xiaduo knew the truth, and it should not be difficult for Savile to understand it, but being able to understand does not mean that he can accept it.
Sha Duo didn't want to argue with him in this regard, so he simply called Niya over.
"Xia Duo, you're here!"
Niya had a book in her hand when she appeared, and she probably teleported immediately before she even had time to put it down.
"Saville said I abused you, please explain to me."
As soon as Xia Duo said these words, Savile's eyes suddenly widened, "Good boy, I didn't say you abused Niya!"
However, he also knew that when Niya appeared, anything he said would be superfluous. Without waiting for Niya to explain, Savile snorted coldly at Xia Duo, "Do you want to see the upper floors? If you don't, I will leave."
Already."
"Look, of course you have to look."
How could Sha Duo let Savile leave before he even got down to business? As for the subsequent acceptance work, with Niya accompanying him, Sha Duo slowed down a little and looked at it more carefully.
Going up from the public floor are the energy center, library, apprentice dormitory, private research room, control center, and the traction anchoring core at the top.
The energy center corresponds to the element pool of the Tower of Time, but Shado did not place the positive and negative energy pools at the upper and lower ends of the mage tower, but redesigned them and placed them together with the four element pools.
Of course, the biggest change doesn't stop there. The main energy source for Spire No. 1 will no longer come from the elemental pool array, but the array that Shado calls the [Arcanic Furnace].
The Tower of Time also exists similarly, but only as a supplement to the elemental pool.
In Spire No. 1, the element pool will exist as a large energy buffer core. Of course, it also has the basic functions of the element pool.
At least for now, before the floating city is completed, Shado is not ready to "burn" the arcane crystals to power Spire No. 1.
And after the floating city is completed, if Spire No. 1 is installed on the floating city, then the [Arcane Furnace] can directly obtain energy from [Mythra].
As for the traction anchoring core at the top of the spire, it is the main functional facility of the spire series and is used to control the functional platform outside the floating city.
One spire corresponds to one platform. They are all accessories of the floating city and can be flexibly added or removed as needed.
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After the acceptance inspection, Chateau was very satisfied with Savile's work, and basically all of his previous requirements were met.
After walking out of the mage tower, Shaduo saluted Savile and said solemnly: "Thank you so much for this time. Without your help, I don't know what I would have done!"
There is no performance element in this ceremony, it is completely from the heart.
But in Savile's view, that's not necessarily the case.
"I know what you are going to say, don't worry! I have left the construction manual for the expansion space in the blueprint room of the control center. If you had passed there just now, you would have gotten it by now."
After saying that, Savile stared closely at Xia Duo's expression, as if he wanted to see a trace of embarrassment, but unfortunately, Xia Duo did not.
He really wanted to expand space-related technologies, especially the technology of integrating demiplanes into different spaces, which he thought was impossible.
Before, he always thought that the space expansion of the Tower of Time was just a simple space expansion, and did not associate it with the direction of the demiplane. He thought that only the Arcane Garden was a demiplane.
In fact, the expansion of space outside the Arcane Garden is also transformed by the transformation of the demiplane.
There is no doubt that Xia Duo wants this kind of technology, but it is one thing for him to want it, and it is another thing to be grateful. This is the serious matter that he is going to discuss with Savile.
What he didn't expect was that Savile had already given him the stuff in advance, but he hadn't gotten it yet.
The control center is not a separate room, but an entire floor, consisting of a blueprint room, a detection room, a control room, a private research room, a study room and other areas.
Just now they only went to the most important control room and not to other places.
Seeing that Savile was still staring at him, Sha Duo quickly saluted again, "Thank you again. That construction manual is indeed what I need. If there is anything I can do for you, please let me know at any time."
"What can I ask you to do, just be nice to Niya."
After saying that, Savile turned around and left. He just took two steps, but as if he suddenly thought of something, he stopped and turned back to Shado and said:
"By the way, are you really not going to build a spell pool in Spire No. 1? I can also help if necessary."
"No need, the internal functions are basically all there. You can also use the spell pool of the Tower of Time externally, and you know - the blue crystal plane."
"Hmph, as long as you know what's going on."
After saying that, Savile left without looking back.
Of course, he did not go anywhere else when he left, but went to Spire No. 2. Sha Duo promised to give him a mage tower, but now it is just an empty tower without a magic network connection.
When Savile renovated the No. 1 Spire, he naturally obtained the design of the No. 1 Spire. Since he accepted Shado's invitation to stay in the South, he would have completed the mage tower by himself.
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On the other side, when Savile disappeared from their sight, Niya suddenly said, "I feel like my great-grandfather is a little lonely!"
"After being exiled for nearly a hundred years, I only know a handful of people when I come back. How can I not be lonely?"
It was hard for Chateau to imagine what Savile had experienced in the past few decades, but he could empathize with this feeling of loneliness and alienation. After all, he was also a man who had left home!
Thinking of this, Xia Duo couldn't help but hold Niya's hand and said, "Talk to him more when you have time and tell him that the South will always be his home."
The latter sentence was actually what Xia Duo said to himself.