Chapter 2059: Creating the First Farm of the Demiplane

This is also the reason why Xia Duo had to hand the design task of the Communication Mythallar to Niya.

Besides the fact that Niya had long ago chosen Magic Web Background Fluctuation as her research direction after becoming an Advanced Arcanist, the Communication Mythallar happened to fit the topic, and Xia Duo also intended to cultivate her, the more direct reason was actually that Xia Duo's personal time and energy were limited, and he could not undertake all the tasks.

……

After briefly communicating with Niya about the issue of the Communication Mythallar, Xia Duo soon left the conference room, or more accurately, left the Tower of Time.

Now that the Floating City was connected to the Territory, the residents could go to the Planting Area to reclaim and plant at any time, so as to solve the problem of the Territory's food self-sufficiency.

But before that, there was still a very urgent problem that needed Xia Duo to solve, which was that the Planting Area was still a bare board—literally, the surface was the cyan rock body of the main body of the Floating City, a smooth, bare expanse.

Now there were two paths in front of Xia Duo: one was to directly use Spellcasting to create soil or cut soil from the ground, spread it directly on the Planting Area, and then hand it over to the residents.

The other was to get one or more Semi-planes to the Planting Area, making an effect similar to the "Pot Heaven" of the Arcane Garden of the Tower of Time.

The advantage of the former was that it could be put into use very quickly, but the disadvantage was that the volume of the Floating City was limited, and without extra space for expansion, such a small Planting Area would ultimately be difficult to support the million-level population that the Floating City was scheduled to have in the future.

Even the current hundred thousand or so people in the Territory would probably be a struggle; after all, the area of a sphere is easy to calculate, and ideally, there was only so much land area, and after adding some field ridges, roads, and the like, the actual planting area would shrink quite a bit.

But if Semi-planes were used, these problems would no longer be problems; basically, the Planting Area could be as large as one's heart desired, and the only problem was that Semi-planes were not easy to create.

Xia Duo had actually struggled with these problems for a long time, and finally decided to open up his perspective and create a few Semi-planes.

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Ether Plane, the nameless forest south of the Projection of the Tower of Time.

After nearly a year, coming here again, Xia Duo discovered that compared to last time, this strangely shaped forest could not be said to have taken on a new look; it had simply become another forest entirely.

Besides the changes in the forest itself, what surprised him most was that traces of the development of Daxia Territory had begun to appear near the Projection of the Tower of Time.

Among them, the traces of the Linshui River were the most obvious, followed by some old wooden houses near the Wolfburg River.

Xia Duo walked into those old wooden houses, and he saw some seemingly familiar traces of life inside; such changes were actually not too strange when placed in the context of the whole Netheril, but it was only because this was the first change on the side of Daxia Territory that he felt surprised.

It should be said that this was just a certain characteristic of the Ether Plane, which would, either actively or passively, converge with the terrain and buildings of the Main Plane, but the details were seemingly familiar yet different.

Of course, if the differences were very large, it would not be an unacceptable thing, because the Ether Plane was just such a fickle plane.

……

Arriving at the Spellcasting location where he created the plane last time, this place was now completely occupied by tangled, strange plants, and Xia Duo could not see the appearance of last time here at all.

After a simple cleanup, Xia Duo summoned the Floating City to set up a perimeter around it; although it was a cross-plane effect, it was more reliable than Xia Duo's own Spellcasting.

Not only that, the Semi-plane he wanted to create this time was no longer a short-lived, aborted Semi-plane with only a single day of life like the last time.

Previously, when the No. 1 Spire was under construction, Xia Duo asked Saville to request two Semi-planes from Iolum to build the Arcane Garden, and as a result, Iolum directly had Saville bring back the Creation Blueprint of the Semi-planes.

That is to say, he was now able to create relatively stable, perfect, and practical Semi-planes!

It's just that—

Xia Duo recalled the details of the Creation Blueprint in Iolum's Magic Book, and a wry smile could not help but appear at the corner of his mouth; thinking back then, his imperfect, aborted Semi-plane took three or four hours just for the Spellcasting time.

This was still because it was Spellcasting in the Ether Plane; if it were the Material Plane, the time would at least have to be doubled, and additionally, the extra assistance of a 【Plane Limiter】 would be needed.

And the richness of the details of Iolum's Creation Blueprint was simply not something that Xia Duo's crude Spell could be compared to; it was a difference in orders of magnitude.

And this also meant that if Xia Duo created a Semi-plane completely according to Iolum's Creation Blueprint, the time required would not only increase by an order of magnitude, but at least be several times longer than his own!

Creating a Semi-plane could be said to be a business without capital, and the only cost was the Spellcaster themselves, which was also the main reason why Xia Duo was struggling with whether to create a Semi-plane.

He really didn't want to do this kind of labor that could be called drudgery!

Of course, knowing the details of the Spellcasting of the Creation Blueprint, if Xia Duo were to go and ask Iolum for a Semi-plane again, he could not do such a heartless thing.

In the end, after struggling back and forth, he could only do it himself to have plenty of food and clothing.

However, Xia Duo was also considering whether he could design a Magic Item, or equipment, specifically for creating Semi-planes.

Considering the complexity of the Creation Blueprint and the element flux involved in the Spell, perhaps he needed to use the David String of the same model as the Mythallar to make the core functional components of the equipment's main body.

If he could succeed, making money would be secondary; at least he wouldn't have to tire himself out like this again.

"Sigh—"

Xia Duo let out a long sigh, gathered his distracting thoughts, and prepared to start; regardless of whether a Creation Machine could be born in the future, at least for now, he could not avoid this extremely grueling, long-duration Spellcasting.

——【Root Shaping】!

Just like the process of Xia Duo creating a Semi-plane, the plan given by Iolum was also to first shape the Plane Root of the Semi-plane, and then fill it with elements to make it finally take shape.

Or perhaps Xia Duo's idea of creating a Semi-plane came from Iolum and Kangjienio; when he first saw Iolum's Creation Blueprint, besides sighing at Iolum's attainments in shaping the Plane Root, he also actually felt a power coming from inheritance.

And the Plane Root he was shaping now, although it came from Iolum, also had a creation philosophy very similar to what he had researched himself back then—

Elemental balance, standard and regular.

The Plane Root is essentially the design blueprint of a plane, but it is also a concrete element; it is just that as the seed of a plane's birth, it does not have requirements for the volume of elements.

What it requires are the various characteristics of elemental circulation.

Iolum's plan was more complex than Xia Duo's own in this regard; the four major elements and the positive and negative energy conversion cycle designed by Xia Duo were relatively simple, with only the basic two-level positive-position conversion, and relied more on the self-evolution of the elemental torrents that constituted the Plane Root.

And this was also the main reason why the Semi-plane created by Xia Duo could not last long.

To use an example from Earth to describe it, it was similar to creating organisms by splicing bases, only gathering the first dozen or so pairs, and relying on luck for the remaining billions; wanting to create a normal organism like this was basically wishful thinking.

Or, to use natural selection to describe the process of a plane's natural birth, the planes Xia Duo saw now were all successful; he mostly didn't see the failed ones, but in reality, the failed ones accounted for the vast majority.

Naturally born Semi-planes were already considered the elite among failures; those that barely succeeded were those normal planes, and the most successful ones were, of course, large Habitable Planes.

And even a naturally born Semi-plane was much more successful (perfect) than an artificially created Semi-plane!

The only advantage of an artificial Semi-plane was probably that one could actively choose the Element Affinity of the plane, but unfortunately, Element Affinity was almost the least important attribute for a plane.

Although Iolum's Creation Blueprint was complex, Xia Duo knew that compared to those failed planes born naturally, it was still countless times cruder.

But even so, this Creation Blueprint, which was cruder than nature, still required Xia Duo to expend countless amounts of energy to complete!