Chapter 1924: Batch Materialization, Re-entry

Based on the speed of the space shrinking, Xia Duo roughly determined the space required for a set of Nether Scroll, which was about seventy thousand cubic units.

If it were the previous Personal Space, he would not even dare to imagine such a large consumption of space, but now, even if it wasn't a drop in the bucket, it wasn't far off; in any case, it certainly wouldn't hurt his foundation.

Materialization would only be completely finished after leaving the Astral Plane. After estimating the space consumption of the Nether Scroll, Xia Duo immediately chose the next materialization target—

Bright Treasure Mirror.

It should be said that it is worthy of being a treasure; it requires consuming nearly five thousand cubic units of space!

One Standard Arcane Crystal can only expand about 3 cubic units of space, so five thousand cubic units would require 1,700 Standard Arcane Crystals.

And if there is no 【Mythallar】 device, the market price of one Standard Arcane Crystal is about 5,000 Gold Coins.

That is to say, if it were before, if Xia Duo wanted to materialize this Bright Treasure Mirror, the cost would be at least over 8 million Gold Coins!

And now?

The experimental 【Mythallar】 device Xia Duo has in the Blue Crystal Plane, running at the lowest power of the first gear, can produce more than twenty thousand Standard Arcane Crystals a day.

A mere 1,700 is simply a drop in the bucket.

It is just that Xia Duo used up many Arcane Crystals to make a new 【Mythallar】 device previously, so there are not many that can be used to expand space right now.

But it is enough to materialize all the main gains from this Plane Exploration.

……

After simply confirming the space consumption for the materialization of the Nether Scroll and the Bright Treasure Mirror, Xia Duo waved his hand and put all the remaining items on the materialization list into the materialization process.

Watching the volume of his Personal Space shrink significantly, Xia Duo did not feel sad at all, because that pile of gains from the Projection Plane, which were gradually solidifying and about to move from virtual to reality, gave him a deep sense of satisfaction.

Once the remaining 【Mythallar】 devices of the Floating City are completed, the Arcane Crystals will likely be so abundant that Xia Duo can enter the Projection Plane to materialize ordinary supplies at will.

By then, he might be able to completely get rid of his dependence on the resources of the Main Plane.

He doesn't even need to wait for all the Mythallar devices of the Floating City to be completed; he already has two now. As long as he doesn't start new projects without restraint and plans well, Arcane Crystals will always be in an abundant state.

In fact, it is impossible for Xia Duo to start new projects without restraint. The mages of the Tower of Time have not grown up yet, and wanting to consume all the Arcane Energy produced by two Mythallar devices relying only on a limited number of High Mages is simply a fantasy.

Somehow, Xia Duo suddenly felt that "the era belonging to me has finally arrived," and only then did he realize the terrifying nature of his Golden Finger.

If one simply treats it as a storage space, then there are too many ways for a Spellcaster to obtain storage space, and Semi-planes are not that hard to come by.

Even for an ordinary Mage, as long as their family fortune is thick enough, what does buying a few Semi-plane Warehouses count for!

But materializing items from a Projection Plane is not something an ordinary Spellcaster can do.

So far, Xia Duo has only heard that an Eternal Holy Spirit can bring items out of a Projection Plane, but there are many restrictions, and it is not easily done.

As for how to do it specifically, Xia Duo does not know; he only knows one Eternal Holy Spirit, and the relationship between the two has not reached the point of sharing such secrets.

Perhaps the Giles Tower, where that Eternal Holy Spirit comes from, also possesses such technology, but obviously, Sikumu would certainly not be willing to open it to Xia Duo.

However, Xia Duo, who possesses a Personal Space, does not need the magic version of Projection Plane materialization technology for the time being. No matter how good that technology is, it is certainly not as convenient as his materialization using Arcane Crystals!

In the future, after Sikumu steps down, perhaps he can exchange insights on related technologies with Giles Tower under the banner of academic exchange.

……

As the bit of consciousness Xia Duo projected got closer and closer to the Main Plane, the materialization progress within the Personal Space also got closer and closer to completion.

Materializing so many things for the first time, in the process of materialization, Xia Duo gained another layer of vague understanding of the transformation between virtual and reality and the essence of the world.

Before he could even return to the Main Plane, he began to trace the source of this thought and understanding in his subconscious, and the result was that he found himself a bit too optimistic.

It was not anything extraordinary, but rather his subconscious lament that although the Projection Plane is virtual, it also possesses the possibility of becoming reality.

Secondly, it was a bit of association regarding the essential nature of the Personal Space; at this moment, the Personal Space might be called "existence," or perhaps it is space itself.

Upon realizing this, he felt that this might be the prototype of another world (Universe), and how it evolves next depends entirely on the choices he makes.

……

With various thoughts, Xia Duo woke up from the Tower of Time. The first thing he had to do after waking up was not to rest, nor to ask the Tower Spirit if the Projection Plane he had just visited still existed.

Instead, he tried to see if his main body could use the spell 【Xilin's Saint Form Avatar】, but unfortunately, before the spell was completed, he encountered a threshold during the Spellcasting stage.

His current human body's affinity with the Magic Net is insufficient, or rather, he cannot manipulate the Magic Net String as flexibly and variably as an Elf High Mage.

At least not until after a lot of practice.

"Sigh—"

Xia Duo let out a long sigh, and then, enduring his fatigue, he asked the Tower Spirit about the situation of 【Projection Plane: Evereska Independent】.

"The Projection Plane still exists."

"Really?!"

Xia Duo felt a jolt of spirit and immediately ordered the Tower Spirit, "Project immediately!"

The next moment, Xia Duo once again embarked on a journey to a Projection Plane; he had never visited the same Projection Plane twice!

Even for 【Projection Plane: Arcane Empire】 and 【Projection Plane: Empire Remnants】, the former was entered through a Plane Exploration Array, while the latter was accessed through the channel of the Astral Dream Ruins.

And the Astral Dream Ruins are not easy to find; they require an Eternal Holy Spirit to lead the way, and one might encounter various accidents on the road. Like the time Xia Duo went before, Kelifu died because of it.

It was just that he had a 【Resurrection Covenant】 and came back to life.

Xia Duo currently has no Eternal Holy Spirit, nor does he have a certain, reliable, and acceptable means of resurrection; clearly, the Dream Ruins are off-limits.

And if he travels through the Plane Exploration Array, he needs to pay attention to controlling the time. Relative to the Main Plane, the time that a Projection Plane exists is extremely short.

Added to the time consumed by the explorer returning from the Projection Plane to recover consciousness, the window of time for re-projection is actually extremely short.

In fact, a more reasonable approach is to use multiple explorers to enter the Projection Plane in batches, agreeing on a consistent code of conduct before entering.

The later entrants would find their companions appearing in the history of the current Projection Plane, and what they would need to do is inherit the various tangible and intangible legacies of their companions and bring them back.

The Pioneers who go first are the most precious!

It is just a pity that the time consumed within the Projection Plane is real. So-called explorers are actually more like consumables, which is why Xia Duo has been hesitating about whether to select Plane Explorers from the Tower of Time and what kind of exploration plan to adopt.

Of course, by Xia Duo's standards for explorers of Projection Plane exploration or social experiments, they must at least be High Mages; otherwise, if an ordinary person is thrown into history, it is not certain they could make much of a splash.

The current Tower of Time does not have the conditions to do these things.