Chapter 1085: Four Ounces Deflecting a Thousand Pounds, A Surprising Discovery

In short, it means that not only is the Protection system about to collapse, but the massive surge of energy from the Element Pool will also trigger or destroy a large number of stress response mechanisms that were not originally activated.

The situation can be described as extremely tricky; compared to this, a little Element Turbulence is nothing at all.

Of course, the reason it is so tricky is because Xia Duo wants to preserve those few relatively intact bookshelves in the Library as much as possible.

If he didn't want to, he could just walk away; everything here would have nothing to do with him, and there would be no need to consider these troublesome matters.

Therefore, Xia Duo's top priority now is to detach the Element Pool to avoid triggering more stress response mechanisms of the Protection system.

As for the seemingly primary task of rescuing the bookshelves, it must be ranked second; after all, Xia Duo is not familiar with the Protection system here, and who knows if there are self-destruct programs or other measures completely beyond his capabilities.

This is like a mobile phone falling into water; while turning it off and cutting the power immediately might not necessarily save the data inside, if you don't turn it off and cut the power, the phone is highly likely to be ruined, and the data may also be damaged as a result.

"Luodite, immediately construct a Single-String Superimposed Structure; Sidier, Inter-Two-String Connection; Weiji, Single-String Standard Type I Bending!"

The essence of a Netherese Mage's Spellcasting lies in using willpower to forcibly twist the Magic Net Strings to construct specific structures; as for the Magic Effect, that is the result of the Spellcasting.

It can be said that even vibrating a single Magic Net String can count as a Spell; of course, such a Spell is extremely simple, not even as good as a Trick.

Its actual effect might just be to let the Magic Net String overflow a little bit of elements, not even enough for a Spellcaster to notice.

But this does not mean that simple operations are meaningless; if it appears in a relatively complex Magic Net environment, or during a larger Spellcasting ritual, if operated properly, it might achieve a result of "four ounces deflecting a thousand pounds."

In the Library area where Xia Duo and the others are now, the Magic Net environment cannot be said to be simple, and although Xia Duo is not performing Synergistic Resonance with Luodite and the others, with the existence of a Mind Link and Xia Duo's extraordinary control ability, it is not difficult to create a scenario approximating Joint Casting.

Within the Mind Link, information transmission is incredibly swift and efficient, and on top of that, this time Luodite and the others did not have the slightest hesitation in executing Xia Duo's instructions.

Consequently, almost the instant Xia Duo's instruction was issued, the Protection system in the general environment, which had been moving from chaos toward collapse, suddenly paused.

It was precisely this moment that Xia Duo cut almost perfectly into the energy transmission between the Element Pool and the Protection system; only then did he understand that the so-called unknown energy transmission method was actually through the Magic Net Strings!

In the past, Xia Duo had also thought about whether it was possible to perform long-distance energy transmission through natural energy transmission channels like Magic Net Strings, but in reality, Netheril had very little research in this area, and he himself had made no progress in this regard.

The main reason was that the motivation for research was not great; neither he nor other Netherese Mages had much demand for long-distance energy transmission.

The Magic Net is everywhere; small-power energy needs can be obtained directly from the Magic Net, and for high-power needs, there are Mage Towers that can be utilized.

Take the Mage Tower ruins Xia Duo is currently exploring; if not for that Semi-plane experimental accident, and if all functions of the Mage Tower remained intact, there would be no need at all for this kind of one-to-many spatial Element Pool fusion scheme.

Naturally, there would also be no need to use Magic Net Strings to transmit energy from the Element Pool.

Xia Duo guessed that this energy transmission method was either quite difficult to implement, or the cost might be higher than using energy conductors like Mithril.

Otherwise, such a convenient, easy-to-use, and low-cost energy transmission method should have been popularized long ago.

In the process of guiding the Element Pool energy to re-enter the Magic Net and detaching the link between the Element Pool and the Library area's Protection system, Xia Duo also gradually understood the various details of this energy transmission method.

It was indeed as he had guessed: it was very difficult to implement, and at the same time, the transmission efficiency was not high, as the Magic Net Strings were already filled with a large amount of energy.

The transmission efficiency of this energy varies with the depth of the Magic Net layers, but it is generally lower than the transmission efficiency from the Element Pool to various functional systems within a Mage Tower.

If one uses Magic Net Strings to transmit energy from the Element Pool, it is equivalent to driving a fast car on a crowded low-speed highway; the efficiency is very low, and it is also very dangerous, easily triggering element overflow accidents.

For a moment, Xia Duo could not think of where this energy transmission method could be used.

Perhaps only in a situation like this Mage Tower, where the internal energy channels are highly likely to be damaged and unable to be maintained, would transmission through Magic Net Strings be safer.

And right now, this scheme is about to be terminated by Xia Duo, and perhaps it will have no use in the future.

"Perhaps this was just a flash of inspiration from the Mage Tower's owner when the accident occurred!"

This speculation made Xia Duo even more curious about the identity of the owner of this Mage Tower; if the person were still alive, they would likely be another Master-level figure no less than Kangjienio, perhaps even more outstanding.

How could such a legendary figure not have left behind any records? Perhaps there are records, but they don't match up!

At this thought, Xia Duo became even more determined to obtain the four relatively intact bookshelves in the Library; perhaps he could find information related to the identity of this Mage Tower's owner from them.

He might even find the cause of the Mage Tower's experimental accident!

……

Soon, Xia Duo completely detached the Element Pool from the Library's Protection system, though he did not touch the spatial connection; if he moved that, the fusion states of the other Element Pools would lose control and collapse before he could detach and release them.

After instructing Luodite and the others to continue maintaining the guidance of the energy output from the Element Pool, Xia Duo began to dismantle the Protection system here.

Reaching this step, it would actually not be difficult for Luodite and the others to solve it; with just a little provocation, in the absence of additional energy supply from the Element Pool, the stress response of the Protection system is very limited.

And for Xia Duo, it was even simpler; he just expanded the range of the 【Anti-Magic Field】 enveloping his body, then walked over and directly broke the Magic Net String links on the bookshelves, disconnecting them from the Library area's Protection system.

Under the Suppression of the 【Anti-Magic Field】, Xia Duo took a book off the shelf without a ripple—"Sixteen Variant Forms of Poetic Structure in the Fourth Lisar Period of Maiyelita."

Huh?

Why does this book title seem familiar!

Almost instantly, his Memory Retrospection ability was triggered subconsciously, and Xia Duo immediately recalled that he had seen the exact same book in the 【Projection Plane · Yierlan · Yinguang City】.

This discovery made his state of mind almost impossible to maintain!