He actually wasn’t going to seek instructions from these people; he was going to hire them. He had been doing that for several restarts now, paying various spell formula experts to design or improve blueprints for him. Then he took the finished designs and gave them to the same people in the next
restart in order to further refine them. Sometimes he also gave them to different people, just to see what different takes they had on the problem.
He did the same with warding experts, golem makers, and alchemists.
All of those fields took a lot of thinking and testing, but the finished designs were fairly compact and could be used by anyone, making them really convenient to advance in this fashion. Eventually, he was probably going to hit a point of diminishing returns, but that was a long wa
