Chapter 1566: Comrades Are Rare, Replenishing the Air

For the time being, Xia Duo's original plan will not change; he will still use the mass production of Magic Items to harvest external resources, thereby transforming them into the driving force for internal development.

Aside from population and resources, the most important thing to consider is the external environment.

Like now, suddenly coming up with a Magic Restriction Treaty is very headache-inducing; Xia Duo does not have many requirements for the external environment, as long as it is stable and no one comes to disturb him.

The greatest taboo in farming is having a pile of trouble come to one's door; as long as he is given enough stable development time, Xia Duo is confident he can flatten the Northland, or even a larger area.

After carefully considering many factors, Xia Duo decided to place the focus of development on the Sub-plane.

The Main Plane has too many restrictions and is prone to attracting prying eyes; it is better to find a blank Plane that no one is watching, where he can safely and boldly conduct whatever social experiments he wishes.

It is just that Sub-planes are hard to find, and Habitable Planes capable of accommodating a large population are even harder to find; for the time being, Xia Duo only has the Blue Crystal Plane as a normal Material Plane on hand.

Although it is a bit "sick" and the environment is not quite suitable, it is still salvageable and can be transformed.

As long as it is managed properly, accommodating several million or ten million people is absolutely no problem; the only things lacking are time and population.

To a certain extent, Xia Duo deciding to bet his future on the Plane Domain long ago was truly having foresight!

It is just that he still wants to work hard for the future; besides actively exploring and discovering new Sub-planes, Xia Duo looks forward even more to transforming his Personal Space into a portable Habitable Plane.

As for the Territory in the Main Plane, there is of course no need to abandon it; it is fine to treat it as a window for external display.

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Besides the objective reality, the external environment also includes various allies, partners, and even targets of cooperation.

At the current stage, Xia Duo's closest ally is probably Iolum, but this closeness is built more on personal relations; even with the 【Mythallar】 device layer, it is actually not considered very close.

Setting aside personal factors, his relationship with Iolum is probably not even as close as his relationship with the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce!

The Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce acts as an agent for the various mass-produced Magic Items of the Tower of Time, and the Tower of Time purchases large quantities of magic raw materials through the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce.

In addition, there is the recognition and promotion of the New Coin; they count as collaborators on the path to Ascension to Godhood.

As for Iolum, Xia Duo has not heard, let alone seen, any plans for Ascension to Godhood from him; he seems prepared to just be the president of the Arcane Union until he dies.

Being in that position, even if their personal friendship is good, it is very difficult for Iolum to provide support that exceeds what an ordinary person can obtain.

Xia Duo's most important ally right now is the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce; besides the tangible collusion of interests, the fact that Xia Duo once saved Saide also counts as a plus.

Besides the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce, there is Lord Collins.

Xia Duo operates smuggling businesses together with him, and of course, one must also count the Eaerlann Elf Xierdalanna, who has already exposed her identity; if this were discovered by Cormanthyr, all three parties would be in serious trouble.

Setting aside the Elf, Xia Duo and Lord Collins count as relatively firm interest partners.

And after that, they are either individual Spellcasters with whom he has little interaction, or they have been brought together by a common enemy.

Like Rodney Lord, the two sides should have been at odds, but back then Rodney Lord was also forced by "thieves," and with the Princess mediating, Rodney Lord later staged a rebellion and returned to the right side.

Since then, the two sides can be considered to have a rapport; other aspects aside, at least when facing the Weide Grand Arcanist, the two sides stand on the same front.

As for enemies, Xia Duo has always been kind to others, except for Lord Huo Ke, or rather the current Grand Arcanist Huo Ke, and the Weide Grand Arcanist, with whom previous grievances have been temporarily shelved through the mediation of others.

These two count as the most likely enemies.

As for potential enemies, there are plenty of those.

As the source of change and the flag-bearer of a new era, regardless of whether he accepts it, countless people will be hostile to him, and it is not impossible that even current allies or partners might become enemies in the future.

In this regard, the only person Xia Duo can be sure is not an enemy is Iolum, his nominal teacher with whom he has no conflict of interest.

Iolum also changes externally and agrees with universal education, but as for going further, Xia Duo cannot be sure.

In reality, the only ones he truly trusts are the new generation that has grown up under the new system of the Tower of Time; let everything of the old era pass.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo suddenly lost all interest in the so-called management of the external environment; intrigue and deceit are truly not his wish, he would rather crush them with the righteous path.

"Progress Society! Progress Society! I hope you do not disappoint me!"

After thinking carefully for a while, Xia Duo decided not to think about those annoying things for now; the future is changeable and overthinking is useless; at least before the Floating City appears, he can still grasp everything.

As for after the Floating City appears, it will be even simpler; perhaps he won't even need to rack his brains on how to handle the outside world, but rather the outside world will have to adapt to him!

……

I do not know how much time has passed.

In the vacuum, more than a dozen Wind Elemental Plane portals collapsed and disappeared only to reopen, consistently maintaining more than ten.

Gradually, Xia Duo felt wisps of breeze appear around him; the wild wind currents pouring out from the Plane portals were no longer immediately diluted by the vacuum environment as soon as they appeared, but became persistent.

The whistling gale can now spray nearly a hundred meters out of the Plane portals without dissipating; it is not that the airflow volume in the Plane portals has increased, but that the vacuum is being gradually filled.

Xia Duo performed a simple test; although the air in this space is still very thin, it is already enough for an ordinary person to barely breathe.

According to experience from Earth, the air density in this space is currently about one-fourth of that in a normal environment.

That is to say, if these dozen or so Plane portals are left open for four times as long, it should be enough for an ordinary person to breathe normally in this space.

Of course, this is just a simple calculation, and the actual situation might be more complex, but it is enough as a reference.

Based on the available time, Xia Duo opened nearly a hundred Plane portals in the deep space in one go; it is not that he could not open more, but that it is enough for now.

Even if he turned this place into a normal air environment all at once, the attrition from the elemental conversion process would still be unavoidable; anyway, there is no rush to immigrate in the short term, and coming to replenish a little each time makes it convenient to calculate the rate of air attrition.

Once the Air Factory is built, it will be able to automatically replenish habitable air according to the rate of attrition.

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Returning to the island, Niya was still making the Arcane Crystal Extractor; except for the first few that were still a bit off, most of the subsequent ones matched the blueprints.

However, this time, Niya kept those few that were a bit off, perhaps to remind herself.

Xia Duo felt very gratified.