Chapter 2063: Leading a Class, Startling News

Since he had laid his intentions bare, Xia Duo immediately "pushed his luck" and put forward a further request to Saville, "Currently, the Tower of Time has about two thousand apprentices, and there are quite a few low-level mages, but the number of Advanced Rank mages is relatively weak."

"I would like you to come to the Tower of Time to help lead a few Advanced Rank advanced study classes. I am preparing to conduct an Inheritance Ritual at the Tower of Time in the near future. If coordinated with your advanced study classes, perhaps it could increase the number of Advanced Rank mages in the Tower of Time by more than ten."

"Over two thousand apprentices? More than ten Advanced Rank mages?!"

Saville had long known that Xia Duo had spread his operations very wide, but he had not expected it to be this wide. More than ten Advanced Rank mages was a peak that the Tower of Time had never reached at any point in the past.

Or rather, from the day Xia Duo took over the Tower of Time, the Tower of Time had been at a new peak every day.

However, Saville quickly found a key point in Xia Duo's words, "The Inheritance Ritual you mentioned, could it be that Inheritance Ritual that has long been lost to the Elf World?"

"If you ask me that, I will answer you—yes, but I hold a skeptical opinion regarding the statement that the Inheritance Ritual has long been lost to the Elf World."

When Xia Duo was in the 【Projection Plane: Evereska Independent】, the Wuweilun Inheritance Ritual was indeed the most famous, but this did not mean that other Elf nations did not have Inheritance Rituals.

At the very least, Jielunsita at that time possessed this technology.

Then, isn't it a matter of course to speculate that Comanthar of the Main Plane also inherited the Inheritance Ritual of Jielunsita? If one adds the excavation of the Wuweilun ruins, the possibility of Comanthar having an Inheritance Ritual increases even further.

Xia Duo had never seen what Wuweilun of the Main Plane was like, but in the Projection Plane, many libraries possessing Inheritance Chambers were built underground, and Wuweilun was known as the "Land of Erudition." It is not to say that libraries were everywhere in the country, but at the very least, it was impossible for them all to have been destroyed in that natural disaster.

Basically, as long as one could obtain the Wuweilun Inheritance Ritual through "archaeological research and development," the difficulty was about equal to that. If it were the Inheritance Ritual of other countries that might have been lost, Xia Duo might believe it a little, but to say that Comanthar had also lost it, he would not believe it in a hundred years.

Regarding Saville's surprise, Xia Duo interpreted it as a difference in eras. After all, in the era Saville was most familiar with, Netheril and Comanthar did not have much intersection, let alone the later theft incidents.

Or rather, any Great Arcanist of the current era might have a better understanding of Elves than Saville.

"Whether the Inheritance Spell has been lost or not, let's put that aside for now. What do you think about my request for you to come to the Tower of Time to lead an advanced study class?"

After speaking, Xia Duo temporarily set aside the work of semi-plane synchronization at hand, his gaze fixed intently on Saville. If the other party did not agree, he would have to do it himself.

"No problem!"

Saville agreed very readily, but at the same time, he asked Xia Duo a question: "Do you still remember what I encountered when I first returned? Are you really at ease letting me stay in the Tower of Time for a long time?"

"Haha, I didn't expect you to still hold a grudge! At worst, I'll let you hit me once."

Xia Duo could naturally see that Saville was not angry, just joking, "The Tower of Time I mentioned actually refers more to the spellcaster organization known as the Tower of Time, rather than that Mage Tower. If nothing goes wrong, the advanced study class should be arranged on the Floating City."

After speaking, he seemed to think of something else and added: "You also saw it just now over in the Research Zone; I am having people carry out infrastructure construction, and I have also reserved a place for you."

"Is that so? Then I must bring out twelve percent of my ability to lead that advanced study class. I haven't had a chance to thank you for that Mage Tower you gave me last time!"

"There's no need to be so polite between our own people. Wait until I find a way to cure Aipusi, then you can thank me all at once!"

In fact, Xia Duo already had a certain degree of confidence that he could cure Aipusi now. At worst, he could just kill him and then resurrect him; in any case, his life could be preserved.

But Aipusi was different from Saville. Saville and Niya basically had little family affection, and he was also a student of Iolum, so Xia Duo could treat him with a completely normal mindset.

But Aipusi was Niya's biological father, and they had a very good relationship. Aipusi's awakening was indeed good news for Niya, but this also meant that Xia Duo would have an extra elder he couldn't shake off out of thin air. Although this elder might not get in his way, his very existence was quite awkward.

Or to put it more colloquially, Xia Duo did not want to see his father-in-law in the Tower of Time from time to time.

In addition, Aipusi's awakening might also lead to variables in some of Xia Duo's plans for the Savile Territory, especially with Saville also being there.

Coupled with the fact that Xia Duo did not have one hundred percent confidence in a cure, the best way at present was to drag it out. This was actually not a bad thing for Aipusi; lying motionless in the Stasis Chamber was also a disguised form of Longevity!

……

While chatting, the semi-plane synchronization quickly drew to a close. Compared to the process of creating a semi-plane, the synchronization process was practically negligible.

The so-called semi-plane synchronization is actually to completely overlap the semi-plane with the Main Plane to obtain a larger practical space than ordinary spatial expansion.

For the semi-plane, the overlapping area is undoubtedly the whole thing, while for the Main Plane, the smaller the better. It is just that the smaller the overlapping area of the Main Plane, the greater the difficulty of synchronization.

When the overlapping area is as large as the semi-plane, the difficulty is the lowest, but under normal circumstances, semi-plane synchronization is performed to obtain extra space. If one needs an overlapping area as large as the semi-plane, then what is the use of this semi-plane?

If the overlapping area is larger than the semi-plane, the usable space actually becomes smaller, which would be even more foolish.

The overlapping areas Xia Duo chose for the First, Second, and Third Farms of the Floating City were all about one square kilometer. Adding the height of the Planting Area, it was about one percent of the semi-plane's volume.

The actual usable area, however, was only a dozen square kilometers, because the height of the farm after synchronization was higher than the Planting Area, and there was deeper soil and even bedrock underground.

But this one farm alone was worth the entire original usable area of the Floating City's Planting Area, and then some!

And Xia Duo built three farms at once, so he wouldn't have to worry about agricultural land for quite some time in the future. Perhaps some of the Planting Area could be converted into industrial land!

……

First Farm.

Xia Duo stepped on the soft, fresh soil to check the semi-plane synchronization situation, while Saville looked around, occasionally sighing:

"Young people really have ideas. If I could have synchronized such a semi-plane in the Tower of Time back then, perhaps I could have brought all the territory residents in, and there would have been no need to endure the threat of the Orcs!"

Xia Duo was silent for a moment, then said: "Actually, protecting the residents too well is not necessarily a good thing. Look at the crop yields in the Arcane Garden; they are higher than outside, but if you take them outside, they might not even be able to grow, let alone yield."

"The semi-plane sanctuary is the same. The world is so vast; even without the threat of the Orcs, there are still Elves, and even various powerful forces from other realms. Only by recognizing the dangers of the world can one choose the path of development more correctly."

Saville was also silent for a moment, then said: "You are right!"

Afterwards, the two did not converse again. They quickly finished checking the First Farm, and then finished checking the Second and Third Farms. After confirming that there were no problems with the synchronization, they could proceed with the construction of the Growth Array.