Arcane Lord

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 receptive to such a meeting. Then I declare that from now on, such a meeting will be held once a week. , becomes a routine!

"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 is not going to come in person and 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!

…

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 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." With gold, Leiden ordered with silver.”

For the time being, one herald and two command arrows are enough. 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: "Records must be kept of the use, handover, and storage of the arrows. 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 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 getting dim. As work was about to end, various departments would definitely 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 and Layton will stay here."

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 you need to do."

"Sir, please give me your instructions!" Cade suddenly 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 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 connect with those people.

He decided to give Cook a good warning after returning to avoid getting into trouble.

"Well, let's go back."

Sha 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."

…

After Cade left, Chateau asked Layton to leave as well. The reason why he kept 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 heavier 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!

…

The conference room was on the first floor of Chateau Villa. When Leiden also left, he returned to the study upstairs. He hadn't been 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, 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 contact 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. The [Pure Water Ball] is silly, has almost no self-awareness, and cannot move at all. Once you find it, you can establish a connection.

But 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 didn't care whether he had water or wind elements. He could do what water and wind elements could do, but it was a little troublesome to do it himself.

What Xia Duo really cared about was actually the earth element. He had seen the arcanist of [Hidden Hand] summon earth elements to clean up the roots of trees underground before, and he was completely attracted to earth elements.

But the arcanist of [Hidden Hand] was unwilling to reveal the summoning method. If he could also summon earth elements, the most troublesome land leveling in territory development would be very easy.

Unfortunately, although Xia Duo's previous research on petrification magic deepened his understanding of the earth element field, it was still not enough for him to connect to the earth element plane.

It really fulfilled the old saying that what you want most will never be obtained!

Of course, Xia Duo also believed that he would never be able to connect to the earth element plane and summon earth elements, but when that time came, he might not need earth elements.

It's like growing up and being able to afford the toys you wanted most in childhood, but not wanting them anymore.

...

After cleaning the study, Xia Duo made himself a cup of Bonu tea. He sat leisurely behind the desk without taking out any notes, but recalled all the information he wanted in his mind.

Unconsciously, time passed quickly, and the communication device had been mass-produced and even started mass production.

Before the official sale, Xia Duo felt that it was necessary to do one more thing, and this was what he had written in his short-term plan before -

Principle!