Chapter 1092: Organizing the Harvest and Different Methods of Energy Conduction

The days that followed were busy and fulfilling for Xia Duo.

The process of analyzing the Blazing Sun Array was, in fact, also a process of learning the 9th Circle Spell【Blazing Sun】. Although this did not align with his usual idea of leveling up through the【Ascension Trial】, he would not feel at ease until the Blazing Sun Array was fully inspected.

Furthermore, there was the issue of maintenance. Steven had not left behind a detailed maintenance manual during the handover; there were only some notes regarding maintenance in the library of the Watchtower.

If Xia Duo wanted to avoid coming to maintain the Blazing Sun Array every month in the future, as well as performing regular maintenance on the Watchtower, then besides needing to work hard to cultivate the reserve strength of the Tower of Time, he also needed to formulate a maintenance manual that would be easy for successors to learn and use as soon as possible.

The Blazing Sun spell itself was not particularly complex for Xia Duo; it could even be said to be quite simple. It was merely a 9th Circle Spell built up by energy levels.

It did not actually contain many unknown Element Units, and its difficulty lay solely in the fact that Xia Duo could not directly access the ninth layer of the Magic Net and needed to use lower-circle elements to provide a substitute expression.

The level of complexity in the calculations was roughly a dozen times greater than if he had studied it after accessing the ninth layer of the Magic Net.

This actually did not count for much; it was just a matter of consuming time.

However, through this method, Xia Duo could also gain a deeper understanding of this spell and the energy level characteristics of 9th Circle Spells, which held significant meaning for the future "9th-Circle-ization" of other spells.

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Besides analyzing the Blazing Sun Array, Xia Duo had also finished organizing all the books, research notes, experimental records, and scattered manuscripts he had brought back from the ruins of the Inosen Mage Tower over these past few days.

Bound books made up the largest portion. A small part of these were original Elf editions; although they contained some Magic and spell content, they were mainly related to art, such as poetry, musical scores, and so on.

The rest were all writings by members of the Inosen Mage Tower. They often started from a certain spell and expounded on its Principles, which had quite a modern flair.

It was just a pity that these were books from several hundred years ago. Apart from the methods and logic of conducting research contained within them, which were still worth a look, the rest generally did not have very high value, especially for Xia Duo himself.

Of course, for members of the Tower of Time, these could basically be considered advanced reading material for Apprentice and High Mage levels.

As for the research notes, experimental records, and scattered manuscripts, there were only two things of value to Xia Duo.

One was a portion of the research notes regarding "Plane Creation," and the other was the research on using Miscellaneous Crystal to replace Mithril.

However, the former did not even have a successful case and still required Xia Duo to further complete it; as for the latter, although there were successful cases, the conditions for realization were extremely harsh.

To want to use Miscellaneous Crystal to replace Mithril, one first needed to obtain extremely pure Miscellaneous Crystal (the "miscellaneous" here did not refer to impurities, but rather that it was distinct from other Crystals and could not serve as an Energy Buffering core). The difficulty of this step was almost no less than refining Mithril.

The Inosen Mage Tower's plan was to select purely transparent Miscellaneous Crystal and then remove the White Crystal contained within it.

White Crystal, apart from appearing slightly luminous due to being rich in Positive Energy, was almost identical in appearance to Miscellaneous Crystal.

But because of this luminous characteristic, it was possible to distinguish it from Miscellaneous Crystal; one just had to crush it and pick out the non-luminous parts, then melt and recast the Miscellaneous Crystal powder. (Energy Gemstone cannot be melted and recast.)

If it was non-transparent Miscellaneous Crystal, then it was basically very difficult to obtain a relatively pure experimental semi-finished product.

Xia Duo was not sure if the【Element Extraction】used to refine Mithril could refine pure transparent Miscellaneous Crystal, but even if it could, obtaining the semi-finished product was not an easy matter.

Not to mention that wanting to replace Mithril was not something that just these semi-finished Miscellaneous Crystals could achieve; it also required a series of transformations to turn the Miscellaneous Crystal into a material similar to metal.

Of course, the external characteristics of the material were not the key; the key was to construct a special Energy Channel inside.

Because Xia Duo's main energy during this period had been focused on analyzing the Blazing Sun Array, he had not yet been able to fully grasp how to construct the special Energy Channel and the Principles of this method.

But the experimental results were clear at a glance: the Inosen Mage Tower had very few successes in their experiments on replacing Mithril, and in those successful cases, the time the Miscellaneous Crystal conductor could maintain the energy pathway was extremely short. (It was longer in a Laboratory environment, but would quickly fail once removed.)

The transparent frame that Xia Duo and Niya had bought on Pulan Street in the Old City District of Seventon was the wreckage of one such experimental product.

The wreckage could also be reused; compared to Mithril, this point was quite advanced, as Mithril only utilized its own conductive properties.

Yet this type of Miscellaneous Crystal conductor utilized a special structure to conduct energy, so the requirement for purity could actually be lower, as long as an Energy Channel could be constructed initially.

It was easy to imagine that if the technology related to this Miscellaneous Crystal conductor were to fully mature, the only use for Mithril would probably be for certain high-end Magic Items with extremely high volume requirements, such as the Mithril chip Xia Duo had envisioned.

Whether future Magic Items and magic devices would exist in the form of large Crystal Matrixes or micro-chips was something very worth looking forward to.

Of course, it was also possible that artificial Mithril would appear; after all, the Principles were very simple. Elemental Transmutation could change the type of matter, and if one could directionally transmute it into Mithril, wouldn't that be artificial Mithril technology?

Or perhaps by figuring out the elemental essence of the substance Mithril, one might be able to directly create Mithril using elements.

Magic was always constantly developing; the difficult problems that troubled mages today might, in the future, be easily answered even by an Apprentice.

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Soon, the time arrived at the last day of February.

On this day, after sending off Luodite and Aibuna, who had come to transcribe the harvests from the ruins of the Inosen Mage Tower, Xia Duo prepared to maintain the Blazing Sun Array.

In fact, as early as the day before yesterday, he had completely analyzed the Blazing Sun Array, and during the day yesterday, he had gone to the sea area south of Shouwang Dao to test this spell, thereby accessing the ninth layer of the Magic Net.

If it weren't for the fact that Luodite and Aibuna were still at the Watchtower, and the Watchtower had no tower spirit to monitor the situation inside at any time, Xia Duo would have already started working on maintaining the Blazing Sun Array.

Today, those two had finally left, so Xia Duo immediately sealed the Watchtower and arrived at the triple Blazing Sun Array next to the Positive Energy Pool on the top floor.

The reason it was a triple array was precisely for this moment.

In order to ensure that the Blazing Sun "lightbulb" outside would not go out, Xia Duo first activated a brand-new backup array, and while it slowly increased its power, he lowered the operating power of the current array until it finally stopped.

This step would be unlikely to cause problems for any High Mage to operate, let alone Xia Duo. The reason why it was said that the maintenance of the Blazing Sun Array could be delayed for another two months was precisely because of this.

There were still two brand-new backup arrays!