Chapter 748: Regular Meetings, Command Arrows, Earth Elements
Xia Duo allowed them to discuss for a while, then raised his hand to ask them to quiet down: "It seems that everyone is very accepting of such a meeting. Then I announce that from now on, such a meeting will be held every week.
Once, it becomes a rule!
"In addition to reporting on the current status of each department during the week, any suggestions, opinions, or difficult issues can be brought to the meeting for discussion. Leiden—"
Layton stopped writing and looked up, "Sir?"
"From next time on, you will preside over the territorial meeting. You will bring two secretaries and make minutes of the meeting for review."
Although it is very easy for Xia Duo to spend three days every month to host territorial meetings, his purpose is more than that. He wants to rule from the top.
He has decided that starting from the next meeting, he will not come in person and will just check the meeting minutes.
Even if he comes over, he won't say much and will let Layton and others do what they want. He will only bring it up when Layton and others make obvious mistakes.
The counterpart to the Carpenter Emperor is the Arcanist Lord!
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After announcing the new system, Xia Duo took out from his personal space the two command arrows that he had specially made before returning to the Tower of Time before returning to the conference room.
In fact, they are two small metal flags with arrows, one pure gold and one pure silver. They are not magic items, but they bear Shado's mark.
He let the two command arrows fly slowly in front of everyone, and finally stopped in front of Leiden, "I will let Leiden appoint a herald to be responsible for conveying orders. These two command arrows are proof of identity and the order comes from me."
In gold, Leiden’s orders in silver.”
For the time being, two command arrows are enough for one herald. When there are more affairs in the territory in the future, it will not be too late to add more.
Xia Duo signaled Leiden to take down the arrows, and then continued: "The use, handover, and storage of the arrows must be recorded. Use them with caution. Do you understand?"
"Yes, my lord"
Leiden took the two small command arrows with excitement in his eyes. In his eyes, these two command arrows were authority, order, and law.
For a moment, he seemed to see a series of laws and orders, weaving the Daxia Territory into an orderly whole, and everywhere was full of the power of order.
“That’s it for today!”
Xia Duo looked at the window. The sunlight was already getting dim. It was almost time to get off work and all departments would be very busy. He was not allowed to keep them any longer. Anyway, he had almost finished what he wanted to say.
"Let's all disperse, Cade, Layton will stay here for a while."
After hearing Xia Duo's words, the others quickly dispersed, but Cade felt a little panicked. He could understand why Leiden stayed behind, but he——
Is the lord going to punish me?
Seeing Cade's anxious look, Sha Duo smiled inwardly and said, "Cade, there is something I need you to do."
"Sir, please give me your instructions!" Cade breathed a sigh of relief.
"There are several stone buildings to the north of the Tower of Time. Starting from tomorrow, you will arrange for people to deliver meals there every day. The standard will be based on my recipe. Let's calculate it for ten people. Let Cook cook it himself. Tell me
He practices more and develops new dishes."
"Yes, Lord Lord!"
Cade was no stranger to the stone buildings that suddenly appeared on the north side of the Tower of Time. He had even seen with his own eyes the figures who occasionally came out for activities. He knew that those people were mages, but he did not expect that he would
One day I will connect with those people.
He decided to give Cook a good warning after returning to avoid causing trouble.
"Well, let's go back."
Xia Duo nodded with satisfaction and said to Cade, "By the way, there is still a long table missing in this conference room. It will be filled before the next meeting."
"yes."
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After Cade left, Chateau asked Layton to leave as well. The reason why he wanted to keep him until the end was not because he wanted to say anything, but to show his affection for him in front of others.
This may make Leiden's authority stronger and more dependent on him.
Although it may not be popular in Netheril to do this, Shado still did it according to his own habits, which can be regarded as a subtle cultural construction!
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The conference room was on the first floor of Chateau Villa. When Leiden also left, he returned to the study upstairs. He didn't come back for several days, and a thin layer of dust had accumulated on the desk.
Xia Duo's thoughts moved, and his bloodline power responded. A palm-sized tornado appeared in front of him, and followed his will and began to move back and forth in the study.
From the "small transparency" at the beginning, it turned into a turbid "black whirlwind". It squeezed open the window, flew under the tree outside the window, and suddenly disintegrated.
This is not a wind element, it is just a simple wind scroll, fully controlled by Sha Duo.
In fact, when he first obtained [Control of Wind], he tried to summon the wind element, but the actual situation was not as easy as summoning the [Pure Water Ball].
If you want to summon elements, you must be able to connect to the elemental plane and have a connection with the elemental spirits.
It is not difficult to connect to the elemental planes, but it is difficult to establish contact with the elemental spirits. [Pure Water Ball] is silly, has almost no self-awareness, and cannot move at all. Once you find it, you can establish contact.
However, the wind element is naturally agile and almost never stays at a specific location. Unless you are lucky and happen to meet it, it is possible to make a connection.
Xia Duo has tried many times to create strong winds at high altitudes to connect to the air elemental plane, but he has never been able to touch the wind element, so the so-called summoning is out of the question.
However, he doesn't care whether he has the water element or the wind element. He can do what the water element and wind element can do, but it's just a little troublesome to do it himself.
What Sha Duo really cares about is actually the earth element. He has seen the arcanist of [Hidden Hand] summon the earth element to clean up the roots of the trees before, and he has completely fallen in love with the earth element.
It's just that the arcanist of [Hidden Hand] is not willing to reveal the summoning method. If he can also summon the earth element, it will be very easy to level the land, which is the most troublesome part of territorial development.
Unfortunately, although his previous research on petrification magic had deepened Xia Duo's understanding of the earth elemental realm, it was still not enough to allow him to connect to the earth elemental plane.
It really goes with the old saying, you can never get what you want most!
Of course, Xia Duo also believed that it would be impossible for him to never be able to connect to the earth element plane and summon the earth element, but when that time comes, he might not need the earth element.
It's like growing up and being able to afford the toy you wanted most in childhood, but you don't want it anymore.
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After cleaning the study room, Chateau made himself a cup of Bonu tea. He sat leisurely behind the desk without taking out any notes, but directly recalled all the information he wanted in his mind.
Unknowingly, time passed quickly, and it was seen that the communication instrument had been mass-produced, and had even begun mass production.
Before the official sale, Xia Duo felt the need to do one more thing, and this was what he had written in his short-term plan before -