Chapter 1338: Plane Root + Element Filling = Creation

The Plane Overlap was ready, but at this moment, Xia Duo did not immediately begin attempting to create the semi-plane; instead, he first activated a special cube-shaped Magic Item in the center of the Laboratory.

This was the 【Plane Limiter】 Xia Duo had specifically prepared for this experiment, or one could also call it a 【Stabilizer】.

He did not know how others went about such experiments, but based on his own understanding of the process of creating a semi-plane, he speculated that the time required would likely not be short.

He felt it was necessary to extend the duration of the 【Plane Overlap】 as much as possible and make it more stable.

If the Ether Plane and the Main Plane were to suddenly separate while the Spellcasting was halfway through, that would be quite interesting.

If things went wrong, next year's Tower of Time would become the ruins of the Tower of Time.

If the original Inosen Mage Tower had possessed something similar to a 【Plane Limiter】, perhaps it would not have been successfully destroyed by the Elves, or at the very least, it would have increased the cost for the other party to carry out the sabotage.

……

With the activation of the 【Plane Limiter】, Xia Duo felt—though he did not know if it was an illusion—that the surrounding Ether Mist seemed to have become even more pallid and thin.

However, he did not pay much attention to it; the Ether Mist was merely a special phenomenon inherent to the Ether Plane and would have no impact on this experiment.

With everything prepared, Xia Duo prepared to create the semi-plane.

——【Root Shaping】

Xia Duo had not obtained a specific spell for creating a semi-plane, but through the explanations of the two Masters, Kangjienio and Iolum, he knew that the most critical step in creating a semi-plane was shaping the Plane Root.

The so-called 【Root Shaping】 spell actually originated from 【Root Modification】; through his repeated ravaging of the 【Yellow Sand Semi-Plane】, Xia Duo had groped his way toward the essence of the Plane Root and the methods to create them.

When he lacked understanding in this area, Xia Duo felt this stuff was very complex and profound, but after he had a certain depth of understanding, he discovered that this stuff was actually quite simple!

In reality, it was just a blueprint for a plane design!

But unlike a general blueprint, the Plane Root itself was equivalent to a foundation, or a "frame"; without it, the plane could not be "built" at all!

The reason the 【Root Shaping】 spell was as high as an 8th Circle Spell was mainly due to the difficulty in shaping the "foundation"; if it were merely a blueprint or a piece of information, a 1st Circle Spell would suffice to cover it.

This spell itself was not difficult, but the operation was somewhat tedious, requiring the setting of all details for the subsequent Element Filling, and this also meant—

The semi-planes created through this method had no potential for growth; their fate was almost destined from the moment of their creation!

Likewise, such semi-planes could not exist permanently; this depended on the Spellcaster's detailed carving of the Plane Root. If the details were not handled well, it might collapse entirely during the Element Filling process.

Even if the Element Filling was completed smoothly, compared to a natural semi-plane, it had a very obvious shortcoming—insufficient detail in the Plane Root.

Unless a Spellcaster was willing to spend a large amount of time setting every evolutionary detail one by one, it would basically not be as long-lived as a natural semi-plane.

It required regular maintenance, and the method of maintenance was naturally to adjust the Plane Root through 【Root Modification】 based on the current state of the plane.

Xia Duo did not have high requirements for the semi-plane he was creating; as long as it could survive for 1 day, that would suffice. Compared to the long, endless lifespan of a plane, this was an extremely, extremely low requirement.

……

Soon, Xia Duo completed the 【Root Shaping】 within the Plane Overlap area in the Laboratory; the Plane Root he shaped was standard and balanced in elements.

Specifically, it consisted of six elemental torrents flowing continuously along specific trajectories.

Once the Element Filling was completed later, the Plane Root that could still specifically exist at this moment would cease to exist, becoming a "blueprint" in the conceptual sense, or becoming the semi-plane itself.

One could reverse-engineer the "blueprint" based on the state of the plane, but the specific thing known as the "Plane Root" would no longer exist.

The so-called 【Root Modification】 was not, in essence, directly operating on something like the 【Plane Root】, but rather, with knowledge of the "blueprint," operating on the semi-plane itself from a more macroscopic perspective.

It was similar to a country's macroeconomic regulation.

And 【Element Infusion】 was more like directly injecting a large amount of capital into an individual, relying on that individual's subsequent influence to gradually affect the overall development of the entire country (the plane's attributes or the Element Affinity of the Plane Root).

……

After admiring the Plane Root for a while—and of course, observing the trajectories of the elemental flow within it to ensure it matched his design without error—Xia Duo began the next step of work—

Element Filling.

This step was even simpler, not even worth calling tedious; it was just a matter of consuming time.

Linking to the Elemental Plane and utilizing the Magic Net as a natural energy transmission conduit, Xia Duo channeled a large amount of elements and energy from the Elemental Plane into the Plane Root in a balanced manner.

As the progress of the Element Filling continued, soon, the scene of elemental transformation that he had once shown off in front of Dien, Sami, and others during his time as an Apprentice was reproduced before Xia Duo.

Only, compared to when he had only used four elements to participate in the transformation, the evolution of the Plane Root now also included positive and negative energy, and the changes within were nearly infinite, worthy of being called a reproduction of a creation scene!

While maintaining the link with the Elemental Plane, Xia Duo placed almost all his attention on the elemental transformation scene.

It was just like the Brownian motion of suspended particles on Earth.

Xia Duo had indeed set the subsequent evolutionary direction of the Plane Root, but there were many details he could not set one by one; he could only let the four elements and the positive and negative energy evolve on their own.

Any accident occurring in the middle was possible.

Of course, Xia Duo could still determine the overall evolutionary trend, but to prevent accidents, he still needed to pay constant attention to the evolutionary process.

Even if no accidents occurred, he was very happy to observe the creation scene; after all, the process of Element Filling was very time-consuming and very boring.

If he didn't find something to do, he was truly worried he wouldn't be able to persist!

……

He did not know how much time had passed.

The Element Filling finally reached its end; Xia Duo had never maintained a Guidance spell for so long, and he felt as if several years had passed.

Although his reason knew this was impossible, he still could not suppress the feeling.

And under the precise timing of the 【Magic Moment】, the Guidance of the Element Filling had actually only taken Xia Duo 5 hours, 08 minutes, and 26 seconds.

Of course, this time was also very long, so long that Xia Duo had not even anticipated beforehand that the actual time to guide the Element Filling would be this long!

"Sigh, if others are all like this, and there is no better way, then creating a semi-plane is truly a labor-intensive task!"

Xia Duo could not help but complain.