Arcane Lord

As the spell book on Xia Duo's waist stirred gently, an invisible field of perception quietly appeared in the sky outside the villa, causing Xia Duo's vision to spread.

Xia Duo came back in a hurry last night and didn't have time to take a good look at his territory. Of course, poor lighting was also an important factor.

Under dark vision, the originally colorful world under normal light becomes a grayscale world composed of only black and white.

Although Sha Duo has regarded dark vision as a natural ability, in fact, he did not acquire such an ability since he was a child, but acquired it suddenly after experiencing the awakening of his bloodline in this magical world.

Compared with those truly natural races that have had dark vision since childhood, such as dwarves, their adaptation to the dark is much worse.

At least Chateau has not yet been able to map a specific grayscale color to a specific color under normal light during the day, while Brotto can easily do it.

It can only take a long time to adapt, but Xia Duo has long been accustomed to activities during the day. If he switches to nighttime, he may be able to adapt to dark vision quickly, but it will bring more discomfort in other aspects.

So now Xia Duo only regards dark vision as an additional benefit. He only uses it occasionally and smiles knowingly, but does not think of it.

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Moving the perception to the sky, there is no interference from the wind noise when the body is flying. Occasionally, some wind noise can be heard, but it quickly dissipates.

Moreover, it is early in the morning, the light is just right, and the sunlight penetrates through the sensing field. Xia Duo even experiences a sense of transparency that cannot be felt by using the body to welcome the sunlight.

It was as if the Lord of Radiance had personally sent warmth into his heart. If it were on Earth, he would have liked this feeling, but here——

That round, infinitely radiant luminous body in the sky is a real and great existence. How could he accidentally avoid it?

However, for such beings, how much effect can the little thoughts of earthly creatures have?

Trying hard to stop himself from thinking about too lofty issues, Xia Duo quickly raised his perception field and moved slowly towards the east.

Today's Linshui Village can actually be regarded as a small town if you include the areas outside where the trees have been knocked down.

This is even more obvious when viewed from a high altitude.

The south-eastern Wolfburg River and the east-west artificial Linshui River meet. The southeastern corner where the two meet is now full of human traces.

The westernmost corner near the Wolfburg River is the altar square, residential area, canteen, warehouse, cemetery and other buildings. Next to the construction area, a small area of ​​golden wheat field waiting to be harvested is particularly eye-catching.

That was the demonstration field that Xia Duo showed to the princess in the past, and it was also the breeding base for the farmland in the future territory.

Further outside, on the charred ground, piles of logs of different lengths were neatly stacked. This area occupied almost half of the outer development area.

Seeing this, Xia Duo realized that these wood must be disposed of as soon as possible, otherwise with the subsequent development, it will only accumulate more and become more difficult to deal with.

In this era, the largest consumption of wood is probably for fuel. However, during the development process, all the scattered branches other than the main trunk are burned, so there is no need to break open the logs as the main trunk and burn them!

Xia Duo temporarily kept this question in mind, and his perception field moved to the east again with his sight.

Further east, there are few neat stacking areas. Instead, a large number of scattered wood are spread out and exploded. The autumn sun may no longer be scorching, but there is no problem in evaporating the excess moisture in these wood.

Further away, the charred ground has returned to its original appearance, either dark gray filled with decay, light gray with a few stones, or dark brown in the soil itself.

At this time, many territorial residents had already arrived. Under the arrangement of their respective working group leaders, they brought piles of dry wood from the rear, piled it on normal land, and then set it on fire.

According to what is highlighted in Chateau's "Standard Development Manual", after the trees are cleared, the ground needs to be burned to remove hidden dangers such as snakes and insects.

Judging from the vast expanses of charred land at the rear, this work has been well implemented.

Going forward, it’s time to truly open up the front line——

From the sky, Chateau could clearly see an uneven line, running from north to south, turning an arc and then heading west, all the way to the Wolfburg River.

On this line, the trees were felled by the locals who were divided into different areas, and then were divided by specialized cutting groups and transported by specialized transportation groups.

In the short period of time that Xia Duo observed, at least twenty big trees were knocked down by his subjects, and this process was still going on.

Although this kind of efficiency is far inferior to mechanical tools such as wood cutters on the earth, the highly organized group labor scene of thousands of people still gave Xia Duo a considerable shock.

I can’t remember the last time I saw such a collective labor scene.

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After looking around, Xia Duo is generally quite satisfied. As expected, there is still strength in numbers!

If there were only a few dozen people at the beginning, it would be impossible to open up such a large area of ​​land in just a few years.

And casualties must also be considered.

When Xia Duo just passed over the cemetery, he found that there were nearly twenty more new tombstones in the cemetery than the last time he went there.

Only with a large number of people can we have the energy to consider protective measures, but even so there are dozens of death cases. If there are few people, protection alone will be very difficult, and there will be no room for further development.

At the same time, the large number of people also provides confidence. The residents are no longer afraid of facing the terrifying forest alone, but have countless companions to support them together.

Of course, Xia Duo can see the good side, and naturally he can also see the bad side, but in the face of a relatively complete organization, it is difficult for a few lazy elements to affect the overall positive and enterprising atmosphere.

Of course, all this depends on whether the picture that Xia Duo gave them is real and can be realized. Without this, even if everyone is overseen by a mage, there may not be the atmosphere like now.

Of course, Xia Duo's painting is real and achievable, and has already been partially realized. Some minor citizens have been sent to the Tower of Time.

When they return from their studies, they will not only become a new force in the construction of the territory, but also a true manifestation of the lord's fulfillment of his promise.

This will increase Sha Duo's prestige again, not only the authority brought by his identity as a mage, but also the true dominance of the lord.

However, thinking of short-term incentives, Xia Duo thought about it, and finally contacted Talling and announced a new order——

Any new apprentice, as long as he completes the initiation course and learns to cast spells, will get a chance to go home to visit relatives!

Xia Duo's bowl of water has been settled. Whether he is a new apprentice from the Daxia Territory or a new apprentice from the Saville Territory, he will have such an opportunity.

What he is now worried about is whether those apprentices will give up the opportunity to visit their relatives in order to have more time to study.