Chapter 1283: Samuel, Repeating the Same Mistakes

Laboratory 003, Level B2 of the base.

After bringing Xia Duo here, Luo Zi left directly, leaving Xia Duo alone to wait foolishly in the Reception Room outside the laboratory.

About half an hour later, the laboratory door opened with a hiss; although this body of Xia Duo was not his true form, the influence of his bloodline still affected this body through his Soul.

He could vaguely perceive the sudden acceleration of gas inside and outside the laboratory, and immediately after, an old man with a head of silver hair and a trace of chaotic aura walked out from inside.

"Greetings, Vice Dean Samuel." Xia Duo hurriedly stepped forward to pay his respects.

While combing through the slightly chaotic Magic Net Strings around his body, the old man looked at Xia Duo with interest: "You are Maikade? The one who discovered the Underground Passage?"

"Yes."

"Hmm."

Samuel nodded and did not delve further into this question, "Where is the proposal? Let me see it!"

Xia Duo hurriedly handed over the two manuscripts and explained: "The one on top is a new Spell, which can support existing Communication and Teleportation Spells, and the one below is a little idea of my own; I ask for the Dean's correction."

"Two copies?"

Samuel took the manuscripts casually, and upon hearing Xia Duo's introduction, he could not help but look surprised, but his attitude subsequently became a bit colder, "In my place, there is no such thing as using quantity to make up the numbers!"

After speaking, he opened the manuscript. After looking at only the first page, Samuel once again showed an expression of surprise. At first, he had only held a "might as well take a look" attitude; in reality, he did not believe that a field operative who was not even an Arcanist could offer any improvement suggestions for long-established Positioning technology.

Even the reward of letting Maikade enter the Research Institute was merely due to the tradition from above of stuffing people into the Research Institute.

But when Samuel saw the first page of the manuscript, he knew he might have thought wrong; Maikade might truly be some overlooked talent.

On the first page of the manuscript, the handwriting was clear and the structure distinct. Just by looking at the summary, it resonated with the pain points of Teleportation Mages and aroused a deep anticipation for the so-called 【Communication and Teleportation Management Spell】.

Regardless of whether the Spell was feasible, at this moment, Samuel at least approved of Maikade's writing ability.

Continuing to read, concise and clear Arcane Geometry diagrams appeared in the manuscript.

These diagrams might be difficult for an average Mage to understand, but for Samuel, a Senior Arcanist, understanding these diagrams was as simple as eating or drinking water.

Even after finishing the Arcane Geometry diagram expression of the Spell, Samuel had already unconsciously begun to practice it in the Reception Room.

Seeing this, Xia Duo tactfully did not disturb the other party, but instead began to carefully observe the other party's Spellcasting process. Even in the Main Plane, no Senior Arcanist would be willing to demonstrate Spellcasting for him from such a close distance.

Xia Duo noticed that when Samuel was casting the Spell, the order of the Spell Elements was different from his own. After a moment of thought, he understood: to minimize Spellcasting time as much as possible, the other party did not start by shaping the energy circuit of the Spell itself, but by drawing energy directly from the Magic Net.

Afterward, he followed the flow of energy to cast the Spell in sequence, just like ignoring the steamroller when paving a road and only focusing on filling in materials at the front.

As for Xia Duo, he would fill the road material first, then drive the steamroller over it once.

Xia Duo's Spellcasting was undoubtedly more stable; even if there was a mistake, it was generally easier to control the consequences, and it would not lead to overly serious Spellcasting accidents.

Samuel was fast, but this placed extremely high demands on the Spellcaster's technique and understanding of the Spell. More importantly, once a mistake occurred, the consequences might be beyond even his own control.

Xia Duo compared the two styles of Spellcasting, which could be said to be diametrically opposed, and ultimately concluded that safety was more important.

He was more inclined to use Spellcasting tools to cast Spells, eliminating the probability of errors caused by human factors as much as possible; this should become the mainstream of magical civilization.

Sending Mages with research and production capabilities to the front line was simply too wasteful.

"Sure enough, dedicated War Mages are still needed!"

In fact, field operatives like "Maikade" were, in a sense, War Mages, but the current Empire Remnants simply could not organize a large-scale legion counterattack and could only use individual small teams to harass Keman.

If Xia Duo had not provided the Underground Passage to contact the Drow and open up the situation, even with the support of Ailintar, the current situation would have improved little. After all, no matter how much Ailintar supported them, it was unlikely they would directly dispatch a large number of troops to fight Keman.

It was nothing more than support in terms of materials and technology.

If the Empire Remnants really beat Keman to the ground, Ailintar might be ready to stab them in the back the next moment.

……

A moment later, Samuel had already verified the 【Teleportation and Communication Management Spell】 provided by Xia Duo. When he looked at the manuscript below, he had an extra layer of anticipation.

"What could it be?"

Opening the second manuscript, Samuel only flipped through two pages before falling silent. It was not that he could not understand the importance of the 【Teleportation and Communication Mythallar】.

It was that the current Empire simply lacked the strength to carry out such a massive project.

And more importantly, the lesson of the former Border Barrier was still fresh in his mind. The current Empire Remnants were extremely cautious about things like Mythallars that they did not fully understand.

Seeing this manuscript, Samuel thought of a piece of news brought by an Ailintar Envoy not long ago—

Ailintar intended to provide the Empire with Mythallar technology and transform the current chaotic Magic Net environment of the Empire ruins into a kind of Special Maze Lock, used to achieve a strategic balance with Keman.

If the higher-ups agreed, Ailintar would also send high-level Mages to participate in the Mythallar construction and assist in defending against and counterattacking Keman during the construction period.

"Sigh—"

Samuel suddenly shook his head, put away the two manuscripts, and then said to Xia Duo: "The 【Teleportation and Communication Management Spell】 is very practical; this is enough for you to complete your entry task and obtain the treatment of a Level 1 Researcher. Of course, since you have not yet advanced to an Arcanist, your rank can only be set as an Assistant Researcher; even I cannot change this point."

"As for that little idea of yours, just pretend you never thought of it. Do not mention it to anyone in the future; not everyone is as easy to talk to as I am!"

Hearing Samuel's words, Xia Duo was happy at first, but then he was startled. He never doubted that the 【Teleportation and Communication Management Spell】 would allow him to pass the task.

After all, in his view, that task was just to test whether "Maikade" possessed basic research capabilities. Did the higher-ups really expect a field operative like him to make any major improvements?

It was the matter of the Mythallar; the warning in Samuel's words was very strong. Xia Duo quickly realized that the Empire had perished because of a Mythallar (the Border Barrier), so how could they repeat the same mistakes now?

"It was my mistake!"

Xia Duo hurriedly expressed his gratitude to Samuel. Samuel did not take this to heart and summoned Luo Zi again, instructing: "Take Maikade to handle the laboratory Permission Level certification, Level 1 Researcher treatment."

"Yes."