Chapter 1271: Curriculum Sharing Directory of the Three Academies, Entering the Research Institute

Although that knowledge might be somewhat outdated relative to the Empire Remnants who have developed for nearly a hundred years since then, there must certainly be some that is not.

Moreover, this is already the easiest harvest Xia Duo can find in this Projection Plane; even if the resurrection spell is not found, having the harvest from here can be considered a trip not made in vain.

However, when he arrived at the library ruins and saw the scene that had been cleared out, he couldn't help but sigh, "Sure enough, I'm a step late."

The time line he is currently in is about a hundred years after the fall of the Empire. According to the memory of "Maikade," after the Great Cataclysm back then, more than twenty Great Arcanists survived, which was about half of the Empire's peak period.

Of course, the destruction of the Empire happened during its peak period.

With those twenty-plus Great Arcanists and nearly a hundred years of time, even if they had done it themselves, they should have recovered most of the resources and materials.

Fortunately, Xia Duo did not hold the mindset of having to find something before coming; he mostly harbored a sense of wishful thinking—if others had forgotten or failed to discover it, then he would have a chance.

Now that he has come up empty-handed, he won't be too disappointed.

Moreover, the Cormanthor Elf have been searching for the Empire Remnants, and even Great Arcanists could not openly conduct excavations in sensitive areas like Seventon; there must definitely be "fish" that slipped through the net here.

It is just a matter of visiting a few more places.

……

Following that, Xia Duo searched the interior of the academy again, focusing on the Laboratory and the principal's private residence.

In these places, he indeed found some "fish that slipped through the net." He skipped over supplies and the like; what was truly valuable were twelve piles of experimental records.

Yes, "piles," not volumes.

Those experimental record books had been pinned down by large stone blocks from the collapsed roof and were almost unaffected by chaotic Magic. Nearly a hundred years later, they were still well-preserved.

Besides that, he found a few books in the principal's private residence, among which Xia Duo considered the most important to be a Document of the Diguo Mofa Xueyuan curriculum sharing directory.

It was compiled jointly by the three Magic Academies in Seventon, mainly to avoid waste of resources caused by overlapping subjects, and also to a certain extent for cooperation and mutual benefit to cope with the pressure from out-of-town academies.

This book was named a "directory," but it actually included the actual progress of the three schools' subjects, though many details were missing.

But in matters of Magic research, ideas definitely account for a considerable proportion.

Before the destruction of the Empire, such a book would likely only be accessible to the principal and a few senior Teachers; ordinary Teachers, such as the Aidi whom Xia Duo was incarnated as at the time, even if transferred from a powerful department like the Judgment Division, were not allocated even one.

It is a pity that Xia Duo only found this one copy at the principal's residence this time, which was the latest issue at the time.

It is unknown whether the others were destroyed in the Magic Net riot or had already been taken by earlier excavators.

If he could find all the past sharing directories, perhaps he could have a more comprehensive and thorough understanding of the development context of the Arcane Empire's Magic.

Furthermore, these knowledge systems could allow Xia Duo to bring them back to the Main Plane and recreate them in the Tower of Time, which would be the prototype of an Arcane Empire.

In Xia Duo's view, these development contexts are more important than specific Magic and techniques.

……

After leaving the Magic Academy, Xia Duo immediately went to the Judgment Division, which he was more familiar with, but he did not find many valuable things in the Judgment Division because it had also been visited by predecessors.

Apart from some Judgment Documents, there was nothing else. He had originally thought he would find some profound mind-related Spells here, but he didn't expect there to be anything at all.

But thinking about it, an important place like the Judgment Division would definitely be searched heavily; if there really were Spell materials, they would have been taken away at the first opportunity.

Only those Judgment Documents were treated as worthless by the searchers after the Empire had already been destroyed, and were then discovered by Xia Duo.

But for Xia Duo, taking these things didn't have much significance; at most, it was to take them back for Laidun to see, providing him with some judgment cases from the magical society.

……

After the Judgment Division, Xia Duo went to the Disan Mofa Xueyuan, as well as the Resurrection Department, the Supervision Division, and the Selection Department, and even visited the Conservation Department, but the further he went, the fewer discoveries he made.

It is not that there were few written records to be found, but that there were fewer and fewer things of value.

Like the Conservation Department, the Headquarters of the Conservation Department in the capital Seventon naturally did not need to provide places for pregnant women and infants to recuperate and be raised; this place was more like a research department, researching subjects related to assisted reproduction and conservation.

But such a place could be called the top priority for the Empire Remnants who had Great Arcanists for strategic planning.

In order to avoid the search by the Cormanthor Elf, most of the Empire Remnants lived underground; if there were no conservation measures, the population would become smaller and smaller. With strong enemies outside and a population crisis inside, in the long run, the Empire would completely perish.

What Xia Duo could find here were just some lists of pregnant women and infants; there was nothing else.

There was also the Selection Department, which involved key figures in the rise of the Empire like the Great Sage; Xia Duo couldn't even find a scrap of paper here.

It is unknown whether it was the surviving Great Arcanists of the Empire or the Elves who came from Cormanthor; in short, this place had been searched extremely cleanly. It was the cleanest among the several key departments of the Empire that Xia Duo had visited, with almost no remnants.

"It looks like I can only go to the Research Institute to take a look!"

Actually, Xia Duo knew that the importance of the Research Institute was no less than that of the Conservation Department and the Selection Department. For such an important place, whether it was the Empire Remnants or the Cormanthor Elf, the priority of the search must have been extremely high.

Now, how many valuable things could be left for him there?

However, based on the idea of "since I'm already here," Xia Duo still decided to go to the Research Institute to take a look. He was betting that humans lacked the conditions for a detailed search, and that the Elves had omissions due to unfamiliarity.

……

The Empire Research Institute was located by the sea in the north of Seventon; if placed in the Seventon of the Main Plane, it would be about more than half of the Old City District.

Compared to the Empire departments Xia Duo had searched before, the area of the Research Institute was undoubtedly the largest, almost the sum of the areas occupied by those departments.

One must know that those previously included the three Magic Academies.

From this, one can see what kind of status the Research Institute held in the Arcane Empire!

But no matter how lofty its status was in the past, it is now just a ruin, and because it contained a higher proportion of magical buildings and facilities, the degree of damage here is more severe than in other areas.

However, when Xia Duo actually arrived here, he stopped in his tracks.

For no other reason than that there was a large Magic Net Dead Zone ahead, which almost encompassed nearly half of the Research Institute area.

After thinking about it, Xia Duo ultimately did not enter the Magic Net Dead Zone. Although the Dead Zone itself posed no threat to him at all, it would be too terrible if he encountered others.

If he encountered an Elf hunter, perhaps he could rely on the Sword Singer combat techniques he hadn't reviewed in a long time to fight a few rounds with the opponent, though in the end, a defeat would naturally be unavoidable; (ordinary Elf Mages also cannot cast Spells in the Dead Zone)

And if he encountered an Arcanist, he would have no room for resistance. (Unfolding Arcane Fire is a Micro Magic Net, which can cast Spells)

This is not the way he wants to leave the Projection Plane.