On the cultivation and construction of the mage team, Dane and Easterling chatted for a long time.
Easterling is quite satisfied with Dane's repeated commitment to provide as much support as possible for the construction of the mage team. He even directly made a promise to Dane: "As long as the resource allocation is sufficient, I am confident that within three months to half a year, I can train a group of at least twenty or more excellent apprentices." Come out, at least half of them will be able to advance to the level of a formal mage."
"Pretty good." Dane nodded, quite satisfied with the data given by Easterling. Twenty outstanding mage apprentices can already be regarded as a decent force. Although the level of mage apprentice may not be as good as an ordinary warrior in battle, it plays an irreplaceable role in the development of the territory. Whether it is an alchemy studio, a rune workshop, an enchantment workshop, a blacksmith shop for magic equipment, etc. that may be built in the future, in addition to the corresponding talents, a large number of mage apprentices will be required to participate in the production.
After all, there are many jobs that ordinary people cannot participate in without a certain amount of magic knowledge and magical ability.
As for those more outstanding formal mages who have room for further improvement, they are a greater wealth. They are people who can really play a role in war, and the higher the level, the stronger the power of the mage in the war than the warrior-the high-level mage can wave a large piece of flame meteorite with a wave of his hand, and a large number of enemies will be killed. An army can easily be annihilated, but high-level fighters or high-level knights don't have such abilities.
The construction of the mage team must be very important. It is definitely wise enough for Dane to set the strengthening of the magic team as the top priority of the territory's next development.
After talking about the cultivation of mages, Dane said again: "Then what... Mage Easterling, in fact, I am also a spellcaster."
"Huh?" Easterling was stunned. He looked up and down Dane's well-developed muscles and the long knife behind him, then looked at his shy appearance, and said, "Your Excellency, you Don't make fun of me, and it's such a joke that can be exposed at a glance."
Dane felt that he had received ten thousand points of damage. He got angry and said, "I am indeed a mage!"
Easterlin said with a cold and serious face, "Please don't insult magic!"
After that, no matter what Dane said, he didn't believe the fact that Dane was a mage. He didn't dare to believe it until Dane actually released an angry missile in front of him.
And then Dane suffers. He didn't expect that Easterling was a very fanatical magic researcher. When he saw Dane's spell, which was obviously very different from normal magic missiles, he wanted to give birth to Dane. Clarify this matter.
At the beginning, Dane was willing to cooperate with Easterlin's research a little bit, but later, when Easterlin was about to show his fanaticism about giving Dane slices for research, Dane finally couldn't stand it anymore. .
"Stop, stop..." Dane stopped Easterlin's hand stroking his muscles, and said with a bit of a headache: "Stop messing around, enough is enough, Easterlin."
Easterlin stopped his actions with some regret, and said, "Your Excellency, I have never seen a spellcaster like you. Relying on perception and physical ability to release spells... To be honest, I can help You don’t have many things, but this mage tower should be fine. This is the most amazing mage tower I have ever seen, and you should be able to get what you want in it.”
He breathed a long sigh of relief, as long as this almost perverted guy was no longer interested in his body, Dane would be satisfied.
Leaving the vestibule of the mage tower where Professor Easterlin taught his apprentices, Dane walked into this tower that exudes a mysterious energy all the time with an inexplicable reverence.
The first time he stepped into the Mage Tower, Dane received a prompt from the Heart of Dynasty system.
"Enter the mage tower, check that the player has the ability to cast spells, and can learn spells in the mage tower."
"The first-level mage tower can provide two first-level spells and one second-level spell for learning. Normal learning is free, and direct access to this spell ability requires gold coins and mercury resources."
"The first-level mage tower can develop up to the second-level spells. The research and development needs to pay gold coins and mercury resources to fill the number of spells in the mage tower."
Three reminders in a row basically let Dane understand how he was going to study in the mage tower. He first looked at the price of resources needed to directly acquire spell abilities.
"One-ring spell, greasy spell, direct acquisition requires five hundred gold coins and one unit of mercury resources."
"Second-ring spells, arrow protection, direct acquisition requires 1,500 gold coins and three units of mercury resources."
"Hiss..." He took a breath, the price scared Dane a little. The cost of directly exchanging spells is surprisingly high. The acquisition price of a one-ring spell is almost the same as the price of building a moon well! The acquisition price of the second-ring spells is almost the same as the price of building a mage tower, which is too scary!
You know, spells are not the same as buildings, one basically meets the needs. He wanted to enhance his spellcasting ability and become a real mage, adding one or two spells would definitely not be enough. However, with such a high price, he had to face two choices: either spend money, or spend a lot of time learning.
However, it has to be said that he lacks such things as time right now. It's not long before he goes to the mainland and participates in Morno's Eastern Expedition plan. It is impossible for him to spend his time extravagantly studying spells.
No way, for his mage dream—of course, but also to enhance his combat ability, he had to grit his teeth and choose to directly spend gold coins and mercury to obtain spell ability.
As for studying, let's talk about it later if you have time and energy.
He had no choice but to learn the second-level spells, so he could only learn the protective arrows. This spell, after being released, will provide the subject with a long-lasting protective effect, specially dealing with long-range physical attacks, such as arrows, crossbow bolts, and projectiles. As long as the attack strength is not high, it can be directly deflected by the force field surrounding the subject. However, if the attacks are too intensive, or the penetration is too strong, or simply magic arrows and magical bows with attributes, the protective arrows cannot deal with them.
However, this alone is enough. For Dane, the most important function of this spell is that it can help him deal with some cold arrows and stray arrows shot in the chaos on the battlefield, so that it is not easy to cause any accidents.
After learning this second-level spell, there are still four first-level spells... He can only choose one. The price of the whole school is too high!