Chapter 1074: Conscious Manifestation, All Changes Stem from the Same Source

However, compared to constantly backtracking and strengthening memories, the time required to thoroughly integrate the subconscious and conscious mind might be unimaginably long.

One must know that the subconscious is not merely used for underlying thought; every action of the human body involves the participation, or even the dominance, of the subconscious.

For example, breathing, heartbeat, nerve impulses, and the like.

Before the conscious mind is strong enough to cover everything, rashly integrating and relegating it to the conscious mind would only be a disaster; one might even die from forgetting to breathe or forgetting to beat their heart.

Although Xia Duo yearns for the day he can completely control himself, including everything from instincts to the subconscious, he also knows the principle that haste makes waste.

Currently, his progress in integrating the subconscious and conscious mind has only reached the step of analyzing subconscious information; more will require long-term Meditation Training to act as a slow, grinding process.

This is a brand-new and relatively unknown domain, and Xia Duo has enough patience to wait.

……

In his consciousness, because the details of the Magic Array were not converted into true memory but were merely "recorded," in order to glimpse all the details of the array from a larger perspective, Xia Duo had to backtrack constantly, striving to manifest the more complete details of the array simultaneously.

Of course, in this process, he was also simultaneously analyzing the Spell Principles behind these Magic Array engineering details, as well as converting and organizing the Spell Elements corresponding to them.

The Four Elements Pool and the Positive and Negative Energy Pool, regardless of which Mage Tower they are in, can be said to be the core of the core; if a Mage Tower cannot assist a Spellcaster in energy acquisition efficiency, then there is no point in building this Mage Tower at all.

Therefore, these core Magic Arrays involving energy acquisition were placed by Xia Duo at the top of his Research Sequence.

Similar to the energy acquisition mechanism of the Tower of Time, that of the Watchtower also acquires energy from the Inner Plane, and the specific Psionic Creation that maintains this mechanism is the Four Elements and Positive and Negative Energy Pool Magic Array.

These Magic Arrays can deeply link to the Inner Plane, continuously drawing energy and storing it to maintain the consumption of the various functional systems of the Mage Tower.

As a Senior Arcanist who takes building Mage Towers as a career goal and has experience maintaining the Tower of Time, Xia Duo is quite familiar with the construction blueprints of the Tower of Time.

But it is only familiarity; to say he fully understands it, that is still lacking somewhat.

However, after obtaining the lifelong Knowledge and experience of multiple Elf High Mages in the Sword of Ruling, Xia Duo already has enough foundation to fully understand it.

It is just that he still lacks a bit of time.

And the current Watchtower, a very ordinary yet "fully equipped" Mage Tower, is perhaps the best shortcut for him to quickly follow up on knowledge and experience related to Mage Tower fields.

With the construction blueprints of the Tower of Time as a reference, Xia Duo's understanding of the Watchtower's Four Elements Pool and Positive and Negative Energy Pool Magic Array engineering details is increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Manifested in the conscious thinking process, it is—the Magic Array details he is simultaneously manifesting in his consciousness are rapidly expanding and being completed at a speed exceeding normal memory.

This is like how a string of random letters is not easy to memorize, but if it is a passage of text whose main idea is already known beforehand, it is much easier to memorize.

As the saying goes, "all changes stem from the same source"; the Watchtower's Element Pool and Energy Pool Magic Arrays are indeed different from those of the Tower of Time, but as long as one clarifies the essence of their drawing energy from the Inner Plane and then applies it consistently, the subsequent steps will not be a problem.

Soon, Xia Duo extracted a large number of Spell Elements related to Inner Plane Link, Guidance, and energy storage from these Magic Arrays.

If integrated, they would be Creation School Spells with different forms and involving different energies.

For example, 【Fireball】, its essence is to guide fire elements from the Inner Plane to converge at one point, and then explode within a certain range, causing instantaneous, ultra-high temperature damage.

Also, because it is an explosion of fire elements, it does not produce the shockwave of a normal material explosion; in fact, as long as one stands outside the range of the elemental explosion, one can be completely unaffected by it.

Within the range of the Elemental Burst, it might melt gold and iron, but outside that range, it might not even be able to ignite a piece of paper.

If one increases the efficiency of 【Fireball】 in guiding fire elements, that might be "Dahuojiushu."

As for how one wants to increase the efficiency of guiding fire elements, one must link more closely with the fire of the Inner Plane, and this is often related to the Deep Weave.

This is also the reason why the vast majority of Spells have greater power levels and higher circles, or rather, the higher the circle, the greater the power.

The Watchtower's Element Pool and Energy Pool Magic Arrays at most involve the Magic Net Eighth Layer, meaning the extraction efficiency is based on the 8th Circle, which cannot be compared to the Tower of Time at all.

But compared to the 5th Circle extraction efficiency benchmark of the lowest-tier Mage Tower Element Pool and Energy Pool, it is much higher.

It is just that Xia Duo really cannot imagine which Mage would build a Mage Tower with an energy extraction efficiency based on the 5th Circle.

Generally, Mages who have the money to build a private Mage Tower are at least Advanced Rank Mages; with an energy extraction efficiency based only on the 5th Circle, let alone satisfying the experimental needs of an Advanced Rank Mage, even maintaining the Mage Tower's own functions might be stretched thin.

If one has the money to build that kind of minimum-spec one, it would be better to find an organization and sell one's services!

Advanced Rank Mages are already the backbone of various Mage Tower organizations and certainly would not lack the standard treatment of a Spell Laboratory and Alchemy Laboratory.

If one built a minimum-spec Mage Tower, perhaps one would have to save up energy for a year or half a year just to use a Spell Laboratory once, let alone use it to recruit subordinates and Apprentices.

As soon as Xia Duo thought of that scenario, he felt it was miserable, miserable, miserable; even when the Tower of Time was previously restricted by the chaotic Magic Net environment of the Mythallar Ruins and its energy reserves were almost bottomed out, it had never been that miserable.

From this, it can be seen that while high-end Mage Towers like the Tower of Time may not be many, low-spec Mage Towers might be even fewer, or perhaps they do not exist at all.

Perhaps they only appeared at the birth of the Mage Tower!

……

The Watchtower's energy extraction efficiency is based on the 8th Circle, and the Magic Net level involved is at most the Magic Net Eighth Layer, which is completely within Xia Duo's direct reach.

If it involved the ninth layer of the Magic Net, like the Blazing Sun Array, then Xia Duo would need to first convert it into elements below the 9th Circle, and only on that basis could he proceed to the next step of research and understanding.

Fortunately, the Blazing Sun Array at most only involves the ninth layer of the Magic Net; if it were any more, spanning two major circles, the computational load of its conversion would increase geometrically, and at the same time, the probability of errors or omissions would also greatly increase.

Xia Duo postponed the ruins exploration mission in the morning and finished the 【Stabilization Amulet】 before noon, but it was not until late at night that he had just completed the "understanding-conversion-extraction-integration-understanding" process of the Watchtower's various Energy Core Magic Arrays.

As for the Blazing Sun Array, that had not even begun yet!