Chapter 1696: Plan Prioritization and Tower Spirit Generation

Progress has certainly been made, and it is not considered slow, but there is only one High Mage, Depake, here, so the manpower is truly stretched too thin.

Yet Depake happens to be the type of Traditional Mage who does not use spells unless absolutely necessary, so the progress can be imagined; it is still a long way from Xia Duo's expectations.

Although he felt stifled inside, Xia Duo still had to offer a few words of praise, "You've done well. Do not feel any pressure regarding time limits; prioritize quality above all else."

"My lord, the first Teleportation Array is nearing completion. Would you like to inspect it?"

"No need, I trust in your ability."

……

After leaving the Public Level, Xia Duo went straight up to the Control Center on the top floor of the spire (there is a migration anchoring core above, but the formal zoning only goes up to this level).

At present, most of the internal infrastructure of the Mage Tower is not yet complete, but this does not affect his creation of the Tower Spirit, as the Mage Tower's own functions are relatively sound.

More importantly, having mastered the relevant spells, he can update the Tower Spirit at any time to incorporate subsequently completed infrastructure into the Tower Spirit's control.

The Spirit Quality consumed during the first spellcasting remains as long as the connection between the Spellcaster and the Tower Spirit is not broken; updating the Tower Spirit in the future will not require additional consumption of Spirit Quality.

In fact, after deciphering the Enlightenment Scroll, Xia Duo even had certain guesses about how Tower Spirits are inherited; if nothing goes wrong, it should be a special form of updating the Tower Spirit.

Otherwise, there is simply no way to explain how later successors can still remain connected to the essence of the Tower Spirit.

Today, after the Tower of Time has undergone multiple major overhauls and renovations, Xia Duo should actually suggest that Niya update the Tower Spirit so that the Tower of Time can be used better.

……

Control Center, Blueprint Room.

Xia Duo indeed found the "Spatial Expansion: Construction Manual" left behind by Saville here, which contains detailed records on how to use a Semi-plane to expand space.

Xia Duo flipped through it briefly and then put it away. At the moment, he still does not have time to study this; after the Floating City Flight Control System and the Repair and Maintenance System, there are at least the Protection System and the Adaptive Mythallar yet to be designed. He needs to hurry and work on these.

Of course, if it weren't for waiting for Tilake and the others to "get off work" so he could create the Tower Spirit in peace, Xia Duo should actually be in the Blue Crystal Plane continuing to build the Mythallar right now.

If Xia Duo were to rank his recent plans, the Midsummer Festival recruitment would undoubtedly be in first place, followed by the Mythallar.

And for the Midsummer Festival recruitment, besides the hardware conditions of the No. 1 Spire itself, the Tower Spirit is also crucial.

The reason for ranking the Mythallar second is that the construction and testing of the Floating City Flight Control System cannot be separated from the Mythallar.

Furthermore, Xia Duo wants to obtain surplus Arcane Crystals to use for researching Personal Space, so naturally, the more Mythallar devices, the better.

Theoretically, as long as the Flight Control System is built, a super-super basic version of a Floating City is considered complete; pulling it to the Main Plane would still drop the jaws of a group of people.

It is just that Xia Duo does not want such a basic, even crude, Floating City. The Mythallar might be able to be pushed back slightly, but at least there must be a Protection System before it can be pulled to the Main Plane.

Additionally, Xia Duo does not have the energy to self-research the War Spells that go with the Mythallar; he has placed his hopes on Iolum.

Based on Xia Duo's understanding of Iolum, before he pulls the Floating City to the Main Plane, the War Spells will most likely be designed.

It is just that he does not know if they will meet his expectations.

……

Time quickly arrived at evening.

The construction personnel inside the No. 1 Spire left one after another, and Xia Duo also began to take action. He was seen solemnly taking out four Twisted Phantom Cores from his Personal Space and placing them into the No. 1 Spire blueprint in the middle of the Blueprint Room.

Although three portions of Spirit Quality are generally enough, to be safer, Xia Duo took out four directly. One must know that he only obtained seven Twisted Phantom Cores in the Ether Overlap Region in Seventon before.

Having taken out more than half, he could be said to have invested a huge fortune!

Fortunately, it doesn't matter if there are more of these; if he failed even with more, he would truly be vomiting blood. Even if he were given seventy portions of Spirit Quality, it probably wouldn't be enough to use for trial and error.

Of course, if that were the case, perhaps there would be various standard Tower Spirit schemes already tested by predecessors, but such schemes would inevitably require successors to share a large amount of trial-and-error costs, and the price would certainly be much higher than it is now.

Calming himself and clearing away all distracting thoughts, Xia Duo began casting the spell directly in the Blueprint Room.

Unlike using an Enlightenment Scroll, where you just click and it automatically completes without having to worry about anything, when casting the spell himself, every detail was extremely cumbersome.

However, Xia Duo had even completed Equation Spells; a mere creation of a Tower Spirit could not stump him. Before officially casting the spell, he had already anticipated all possible situations.

The spellcasting went smoothly; the only thing he felt somewhat indecisive about was the trade-off of projecting his consciousness, but these could also be edited after the Tower Spirit was generated.

At this very moment, Xia Duo's only thought was to complete the spell.

As the spell was completed, he felt his consciousness transform into a stream of water, overflowing from his mind. When it flowed past the Twisted Phantom Cores, it was like a stream of water flowing over salt, dissolving it completely.

Afterwards, this special consciousness, saturated with Spirit Quality, rapidly permeated and expanded under the influence of his will, until it encompassed all the targets Xia Duo deemed necessary to include.

At this moment, if a Spellcaster were observing from the outside, the No. 1 Spire would be completely enveloped in a strong white spiritual light.

If one could isolate their vision to only Magic Vision, then the No. 1 Spire at this moment would completely disappear from the observer's field of view, replaced by a white spiritual light so intense it was almost impossible to look at directly.

And for Xia Duo, the No. 1 Spire had already become an extension of his limbs at this time. At this moment, he could even clearly feel the oppressive sensation of the Alchemy Array in the center hall of the Public Level and the Mithril Ingots scattered on the ground.

Even though this was not the first time he had experienced this feeling, Xia Duo still felt it was very magical, but this feeling would only linger at this moment.

As the spell took effect, Xia Duo felt his consciousness, perception, and that novel sense of touch rapidly fading, and soon he returned to his own body.

But at this time, the Tower Spirit had already been generated!

Closing his eyes to perceive his soul, Xia Duo clearly saw that around his soul, besides the small light ball of the "Communication Artifact Spirit" that he had broken and repaired, there was now another light ball almost four times its size.

"I didn't expect the volume of this light ball to actually be related to the amount of Spirit Quality!"

Xia Duo sighed in his heart, feeling that he had discovered another subject that could be studied, but without a stable source of Spirit Quality, he could not study this subject.

Next was the "setting" of the Tower Spirit. Compared to "creation," this step of "setting" was even more important and absolutely could not be skipped.