Chapter 1820: Progress, Sending Back

After laughing heartily for a while, Iolum gradually reined in his smile and asked Xia Duo, "Did you encounter Demon Descendant Elves during this operation?"

"Yes, and they were extremely powerful! I wonder if Teacher is familiar with this type of existence?"

Facing Xia Duo's expectant gaze, Iolum merely shook his head. "I am not familiar with them; in fact, until today, I had never even heard of such an existence!"

"Sigh—"

In truth, Xia Duo had already prepared himself mentally before returning. He had once been to Akaola and discussed the hidden dangers of the Dragon Madness Mythallar with the Akaola Crown King, among which "Dragon Transformation" was one.

But for humans, this would merely be gaining the bloodline of a dragon, which strictly speaking should be a good thing; however, Elves have a different perspective.

In the Elven worldview, while dragons are powerful, they are merely mounts or pets. It is much like how, if humans were to possess the bloodline of pigs or dogs, even if there were certain benefits, it would be psychologically difficult to accept.

Furthermore, Elves place great importance on the inheritance of family and bloodline. There are already layers of resistance to unions with normal intelligent beings like humans, let alone with those demons who are practically synonymous with chaos!

Perhaps it is precisely because this is something no Elf can accept that even after a thousand years, few Elves know the name of the Demon Descendant Elves, let alone humans.

Xia Duo carefully recalled his memories from the 【Projection Plane: Cormanthor Birth】. Logically, at that point in time, Demon Descendant Elves had already appeared and been wiped out, at least on the surface.

Yet, in that projection plane, he had no memories whatsoever regarding Demon Descendant Elves.

He did not know if it had been deliberately concealed by someone, or if the development of that projection plane differed so greatly from the Main Plane that Demon Descendant Elves never appeared at all.

Xia Duo leaned toward the former, only regretting that at the time, he had valued Magic Knowledge more and lacked sufficient understanding of Elven history and secrets.

……

Inside Iolum's Study.

The teacher and student chatted for a long time about the topics of Demon Descendant Elves and the mysterious organization, but in the end, they could not reach any useful conclusion and could only wait and see for the time being.

"By the way, Teacher, is there any latest progress regarding War Spells?"

"Progress certainly exists, and it has already reached the verge of testing. It is just that I do not have a Mythallar device here for the moment; I need to wait for the device to be built before testing can begin."

A trace of exhaustion flashed in Iolum's eyes. He had barely rested recently, not entirely because he was buried in War Spells, but because too many things had happened lately, draining much of his energy.

"Wait for the Mythallar device to be built?"

Xia Duo thought of the device he had 'freeloaded' from the previous Mythallar project, though he had later built a new one in the 【Blue Crystal Plane】, meaning he currently had two Mythallar devices in total.

And for him, the significance of a Mythallar device was reflected more in time; as long as there was enough time, let alone one, he could build a hundred.

As long as he had one on hand to use, giving the other to Iolum was not an unacceptable thing at all.

Besides, he had already started a plan to build a third Mythallar device, but because two were already in use, the construction of the third was only done occasionally when he needed a change of pace.

Perhaps now he just needed to accelerate that construction plan slightly.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo said to Iolum, "Teacher, there is no need to wait. When the Ether Chongdie accident occurred earlier, I took the Mythallar device from the Laboratory with me. Since I just finished building a new Mythallar not long ago, I will go back now and bring the previous one to you, Teacher."

"You have two Mythallar devices there?!"

A light of surprise flashed in Iolum's eyes, though he did not ask about the previous one, but instead asked about the operational status of the newly built one.

Regarding this, Xia Duo did not hide anything and answered truthfully, "The previous design was very stable. I also made some fine-tuning and improvements to the newly built Mythallar device, and there have been no problems at all."

"That is good, that is good!" Iolum muttered.

Although the previous project had been completed, because of that Ether Chongdie accident, the conclusion was inevitably a bit rushed. In fact, it could not be considered completely finished, as many verification steps had been ignored.

Even though those results were predictable in a sense, they ultimately lacked actual experimental verification, always leaving a lack of confidence.

Hearing Xia Duo's feedback now, Iolum finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Xia Duo, however, was far less concerned with the Mythallar at this moment than he was thirsty for War Spells. "Teacher, I will head back first. I will send the device over later; you just need to have the installation site ready, Teacher."

"The site is ready-made; I just need to move the device I am currently building. I know you care about War Spells; since that is the case, will you come for the subsequent testing?"

"Testing?"

Xia Duo thought for a moment but still declined. "I won't come for the testing. There are still many things in Nan Jing that need to be handled. Just let me know once there are results, Teacher."

"As you wish. If you want to come, remember to notify me in advance."

"Understood, then I will head back."

After bidding farewell to Iolum, Xia Duo immediately returned to the Tower of Time.

……

Blue Crystal Plane, back of Murloc Island.

Watching the Air Factory working continuously within the Arcane Energy Field generated by the Mythallar device, Xia Duo sighed to himself that it was a pity.

The Air Factory was actually transforming the Plane using the method of 【Elemental Infection】, but it was truly a pity that this factory had to stop not long after it had just started running.

It was just that 【Elemental Infection】 transforming a Plane is a long-term process; a year or two counts for nothing, let alone the fact that this factory hadn't even been operating for a year!

Otherwise, it would not have been easy for Xia Duo to make up his mind to stop it!

Besides the Air Factory, there were also some Arcane Crystal Extractors in the Arcane Energy Field. Xia Duo didn't feel much about these; in any case, for the time being, his demand for Arcane Crystal was not high.

Moreover, there was the Mythallar at the Floating City side also producing continuously, so it was fine to lose them!

But then again, who would complain about having too much money?

After sighing once more, Xia Duo shut down all the 'electrical appliances' within the Arcane Energy Field, then followed the procedure to shut down the Mythallar one by one, and finally stored the entire device into his Personal Space.

If he did not have a Personal Space, moving a Mythallar would be no less difficult than building a new one.

……

After sending the device to Seventon, Xia Duo did not delay in the slightest and immediately returned to the Tower of Time. Seeing Xia Duo return and leave, then leave and return, Niya could not help but feel a bit worried.

Inside the Laboratory, Niya leaned on Xia Duo's shoulder, whispering her worries, and said, "If there is anything I can do, you must tell me. I also want to do something for you, for this home."