Chapter 1488: Excited to Tears, Spell Completed

However, the waiting process was quite long; it took nearly two or three hours for the information exchange between Crown King Akaola and the targeted cloned heart material to reach its end, with only a trickle remaining.

Although he could have continued waiting, Xia Duo no longer wanted to; this was clearly similar to the law of diminishing returns—even if he waited for an entire day, it was unlikely to be as useful as the previous ten minutes.

This was not about extending his own life, so Xia Duo naturally had no need to be so dedicated; having persisted until the point of diminishing returns, he had already fulfilled his duty.

If it were someone else, they might not even be willing to persist for this long!

The subsequent spellcasting would no longer require the heart. Xia Duo glanced at it roughly; the heart, which had just been linked to a large number of Magic Net Strings either automatically or actively and had borne a massive flow of energy, still looked rosy on the outside, but its interior was likely no longer the same.

Xia Duo could clearly feel the decrease in the sensitivity of his control over the Mage Hand. With a casual flick, the heart dropped onto the floor of the Secret Ritual Chamber, collapsing into a lump.

If it were before the spell began, even if he had thrown it down hard a few times, it would not have become this rotten.

Although the spell required part of the heart's data, the spell itself would damage the heart; it was truly a one-time spellcasting material.

……

"How does the Crown King feel?"

"Very well. I have never felt so relaxed, as if I have returned to my childhood, returned to my mother's embrace!"

Watching the tears overflowing from the corners of the other's eyes, Xia Duo could not help but feel some sympathy; without hundreds of years of physical and mental suffering, one would not be so fragile in front of an outsider like him!

The spell continued, and Xia Duo did not speak again, but the spellcasting process became exceptionally careful. He who travels a hundred miles covers ninety as half the journey; if he were to make a mistake in the final stage, he would truly be furious to death.

The subsequent spellcasting was more about regulating and stabilizing the body's condition; Xia Duo understood the details of this part of the spell quite thoroughly.

As the spell continued, a virtual body formed by the convergence of Magic Net Strings appeared above Crown King Akaola, and every one of its reactions was identical to the original body.

Especially the feedback regarding the changes in the Magic Net Strings.

This was simply the culmination of Transmutation spells, and Xia Duo's subsequent operations were all performed on this virtual body.

He simulated various conditions to test the body's state, searched for the most ideal state among them, and finally performed stabilization and fixation.

This part of the spell could actually be extracted separately to regulate the body, and to a certain extent, it could also achieve the effect of disguised longevity.

However, no matter how much one regulates, the body will still gradually decline; only by combining it with the "Huanyuan" from the previous part can it be considered true longevity.

The time taken for the regulation process was about the same as before, also two or three hours, but because he was operating on a virtual body, the error tolerance was high, and Xia Duo still felt it was much easier than the "Huanyuan" stage.

As for the final stabilization and fixation, it was both critical and not critical.

If one only considers longevity itself, the completion of regulation can barely be considered the completion of longevity, because at this time, the target's lifespan has indeed been extended.

But this is like the 【Secret Flame Baptism】 of the Magic Temple and the 【Restoration Baptism】 of the Guang Hui Shen Dian; they can indeed restore youth and extend life, but the effects are very limited.

After restoring youth, one does not slowly grow from a normal young state, but rather grows at an accelerated rate until maintaining the same state as before the baptism.

Generally speaking, being able to extend one's lifespan by a dozen years is already quite good.

In Xia Duo's view, there are many ways to restore youth, but being able to delay aging should be considered the core competitiveness of the 【Extreme Longevity Technique】.

If it were merely to keep the body unchanged, then the most extreme case would be the 【Stasis】 effect; the body would not age at all, but consciousness would also be frozen, equivalent to a suspension of individual time.

This is clearly not the true intention of those seeking longevity.

Thus, one needs to be able to delay aging while ensuring the normal functions of the body, which requires a very deep understanding of the human body to make targeted changes.

In Xia Duo's understanding, the 【Extreme Longevity Technique】 merely changes some of the body's open Nodes to delay aging, which is simply a stroke of genius.

Generally speaking, the number of open Nodes formed by Magic Net Strings penetrating the human body is almost infinite; the key to Transmutation spells is to find the corresponding Nodes and change them.

Whether it is acceleration, slowing down, strengthening, weakening, or even changing into other forms, all are closely related to those countless Nodes.

Everyone knows the principle, but the key is how to find the corresponding Nodes?

This requires a great deal of research. The stabilization and fixation stages of Iolum's Extreme Longevity Technique can also be effective on Elves, which makes Xia Duo wonder whether Iolum's research process for the latter half also referenced certain Transmutation spells in Elven Magic.

However, this spell was ultimately prepared for humans; even if the latter half is effective for Elves, it is likely very limited.

Xia Duo could feel a clear sense of unsmoothness during the spellcasting process; this was not specific and clear data, but merely a kind of magical intuition.

Similar to things like mathematical intuition or physical intuition on Earth.

Although it was only a kind of intuition, Xia Duo did not reject it and trusted this intuition very much; after all, in the vast majority of cases, people rely on intuition to make judgments.

Tracing the source of the intuition, it was just that some spell elements made him feel awkward during spellcasting; perhaps that was where the crux lay.

However, Xia Duo was unwilling to do more research. Situations like today's, where he extends the life of an Elf, might not be encountered once in several hundred years; wasting time and energy for a situation that is rare in several hundred years is somewhat not worth it.

……

When the spell was completely finished, Xia Duo wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead, then notified Crown King Akaola and informed him of the precautions:

"The spell has been completed. According to expectations, it should be able to extend the Crown King's life by about 100 years, but be aware that from now on, it is best for the Crown King not to accept any more Transmutation spell enhancements, otherwise the longevity effect may be greatly reduced."

"In addition, please also ask the Crown King not to enter environments similar to the Magic Net Dead Zone, as that may also affect the longevity effect."

Although Xia Duo spoke with some exaggeration, it was indeed a major drawback of the 【Extreme Longevity Technique】; it succeeds through magic and naturally fails through magic.

This is magical longevity, not natural longevity like Xia Duo's Bloodline Awakening.

The only thing worth comforting is that even if the 【Extreme Longevity Technique】 is dispelled, it will not lead to immediate death; it is just equivalent to receiving a weak 【Secret Flame Ritual】.

At least there is still a dozen years of time that can be used for remediation; if it were an Elf, the time available for remediation would be even longer.

Of course, in terms of longevity effects, Elves are also significantly superior to humans. If a human were to use the 【Extreme Longevity Technique】, using only a heart, being able to extend life by ten years would already be considered incredibly lucky.

But Crown King Akaola extended his life by nearly a hundred years in one go, almost the limit of an ordinary human's lifespan, which forced Xia Duo to once again sigh at the racial advantages of the Elves!