Chapter 1072: Ether Cat, Cross-Plane Long-Term Vision

This time, Luodite accepted Xia Duo's suggestion; although there were signs of collapse in the ruins, it would not completely collapse within a day or two.

Since the decision was made, the group withdrew decisively, leaving through the portal opened by Luodite, just as they had arrived.

However, after the group arrived at Zhenisi, Xia Duo took the initiative to sever the Mind Link; regardless of whether the others would make preparations or what they might do, he had his own plans.

After leaving the Teleportation Room, Xia Duo did not rush to analyze the core functional Magic Array of the Watchtower, but instead came to the only Laboratory in the Watchtower equipped with a Spell Suppression Field.

Currently, the ruins at Zhenisi had already shown signs of the Ether Plane separating from the Main Plane, so Xia Duo had to consider the possibility of Luodite and the others encountering such a situation.

Of course, it was not just for this exploration; this type of research was inherently closely related to the future research direction he had already chosen—the Plane Domain.

The time was short, so Xia Duo did not intend to prepare anything too complex; he only wanted to make the 【Mind Link】 capable of maintaining contact across planes.

Specifically, it was just to span the Ether Plane and the Main Plane.

This way, in case Luodite and the others were lost in the Ether Plane, they would not lose contact.

However, Xia Duo speculated that people or objects from the material world were naturally incompatible with the Ether Plane; perhaps after Luodite and the others were lost in the Ether Plane, they would soon be repelled by it.

Just like items inside a Dimensional Bag, they are not stored directly in the Ether Plane; rather, a special Spell field is created first, and only then can normal matter be stored within it.

If the Spell field linked to the Dimensional Bag is destroyed, the matter stored within will also be repelled out, and usually, it will not be too far from the Dimensional Bag.

But this was only the case for Dimensional Bags; for a human body, Xia Duo had not verified it in practice, let alone the special situation of a ruin collapsing, so it was always good to make more preparations.

……

Soon.

Within the Spell Laboratory of the Watchtower, bursts of Mist appeared, just like the colorful yet faint, hazy light Mist that Xia Duo had seen in the ruins through the Mind Link not long ago.

But under the effect of the Spell Suppression Field, the Magic Net environment inside the Laboratory was quickly restored to its initial state, and the Mist disappeared without a trace, as if it had never appeared at all.

"Sigh—"

Xia Duo let out a long sigh, his expression somewhat gloomy; he was even able to briefly overlap the Main Plane area inside the Laboratory with the Ether Plane, yet the dawn of cross-plane Mind Link had not appeared at all.

However, this was also normal; between different planes, even between two planes that have a connection like the Main Plane and the Ether Plane, the actual distance is difficult to describe with distance.

It is a kind of closeness on the level of space-time, not a closeness in terms of internal spatial distance.

The Spell 【Mind Connection】 seems to be able to span vast spaces, but on the level of space-time, it is far from enough.

The solution Xia Duo thought of was to temporarily create an 【Ether Plane-Material Plane Link Point】 and pass the Mind Link effect through the relay of this link point.

But after many experiments, not one had succeeded, which could not help but make him feel a bit discouraged.

"The Principles are definitely fine; perhaps the problem lies in the 【Mind Link】 Spell itself!"

Xia Duo generally held the idea that Mind Spells were sufficient if they worked, and he had not studied them deeply; even the Spell 【Mind Link】 was obtained by him through integrating elements related to the Judgment Spell of the Projection Plane.

He only provided a creative idea for its Application, and he had not done much of the truly groundbreaking work.

And wanting to improve Mind Spells in a short time, Xia Duo felt this was not realistic, but if it was just to verify whether it was the reason for the Mind Spells, that would be very simple.

Having thought of it, Xia Duo acted immediately, not transmitting information via Mind Spells, but only transmitting information through the traditional Sending.

The result—traditional Sending successfully transmitted information across planes!

Next, Xia Duo also tried 【Magic Net Background Communication】, and the result was the same as the Mind Spells, ending in failure.

However, the reasons for the failure of Magic Net Background Communication and Mind Spells were still somewhat different.

Mind Spells were completely unable to transmit information across planes through a temporary link point, while Magic Net Background Communication could transmit, but what was transmitted was completely chaotic Magic Web Background Fluctuation information.

If one could figure out the Magic Web Background Fluctuation of the Ether Plane and the equivalent conversion between the information loaded by the two different background fluctuations, it would really be possible to create cross-plane Magic Net Background Communication!

By then, setting up relevant communication protocols in the temporary 【Ether Plane-Material Plane Link Point】 in advance might be the beginning of a magic version of a modem.

There are many Material Planes, but there is only one Ether Plane; perhaps it is not just cross-plane communication like 【Ether Plane-Material Plane】, but even between Material Planes, cross-plane communication is possible.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo suddenly hammered his palm, "I should have thought of this earlier!"

Among the knowledge contained in the 【Sword of Ruling】, there was a type of ultra-long-distance communication Spell that utilized the Astral Plane as a relay; it was just a pity that the high-level Mage who mastered that Spell had never been to other Material Planes, so the possibility of cross-plane communication was not mentioned.

But looking back now, wasn't this exactly the same as the relay through the Ether Plane he was envisioning now!

Since Teleportation Spells have two methods—utilizing the Astral Plane and the Ether Plane—then communication Spells can naturally do so as well!

However, these were all long-term prospects; specifically for the present, Xia Duo truly lacked a two-way communication Spell that could be used immediately and could connect with the Ether Plane.

Using the "Link Point + normal Sending" method might allow him to contact people in the Ether Plane, but it could not allow the other party to contact him as well.

After all, the link is only temporary and cannot exist continuously; furthermore, there was the problem of Positioning and searching for the communication target in the Ether Plane, which had not been solved either.

This was just a prototype of cross-plane communication, with too many details not yet perfected.

Xia Duo highly doubted whether he could get it done in these two days; in all likelihood, he could not. Just thinking about it, to perfect this communication scheme, one would at least have to go to the Ether Plane for actual testing.

And wanting to go to the Ether Plane for actual testing, Xia Duo had no way for the time being.

He could only briefly overlap the Ether Plane with the Main Plane now; perhaps he could do some experiments on the Ether Plane repelling matter, but under the condition that the relevant technology was not yet mature, he did not want to get himself involved.

Personally entering the Ether Plane or something, it was enough to just think about it; without sufficient certainty, he would absolutely never rashly enter the Ether Plane.