Chapter 2226: News of Terminus

————This chapter will be made up tomorrow~

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The acceptance inspection of the Central Energy Conduction Network in the Time Acceleration Zone was completed, and new tasks were assigned. Jianaer also left quickly, leaving Xia Duo alone in the reserved Time Acceleration Zone to continue his inspection.

This time, he was mainly inspecting the design plan for Time Acceleration and the actual situation of this area. Of course, this area was not originally intended to be a Time Acceleration Zone, but rather a Rest Plaza within the Research District.

That it had become this way was part of the design plan being implemented; it was just that to ensure nothing went wrong, he had checked it once more before beginning the subsequent construction work.

Even though much of the preliminary work had already been completed by the Magic Technician Office, Xia Duo was still busy until late at night. Niya had urged him many times, but he kept saying "just a little longer," and later, Niya simply came to the construction site herself.

"Can't you come back tomorrow?"

"It's already finished. Let's retreat to the edge of the plaza first."

As he spoke, Xia Duo took Niya's hand and walked toward the outer perimeter of the Rest Plaza, only stopping after they had crossed a bright red line, two fingers wide, that encircled the entire plaza.

Niya looked back, pointed inside the red line, and asked curiously, "Is that the Time Acceleration Zone inside there?"

"Not entirely. There's about two meters inside the red line where time won't be accelerated."

Although there were markings, Xia Duo wouldn't be foolish enough to make the Time Acceleration Zone start immediately past the marking line; a little extra buffer was still needed. The true Time Acceleration Zone was only the circular area in the middle of the plaza with a diameter of one hundred meters.

It was just enough to fit one Mythallar device, but since it was only used for Mages of the Tower of Time to study and conduct research, it was barely sufficient.

Not everyone could accept Time Acceleration, especially those with families. Accelerate once and you're the same age as your parents; accelerate again and you're older than your parents—that was just too absurd.

Xia Duo speculated that for the short term, he would likely be the only one using it.

……

"I'm going to activate the Time Acceleration. You didn't make it to Master Eriwen's Ascension Ritual last time, but this time we can see the scene of Time Acceleration right here in our own home. Watch closely!"

After saying this, Xia Duo began to communicate with the Floating City's Adaptive Mythallar, and by linking the Mythallar with the Mythallar device in the Main Energy Control Center, he focused the Arcane Energy Field onto this area.

The Mythallar device previously in the Research District Sub-Energy Center had been sold to Kelifu by him. Of course, even if he hadn't sold it, it would still only be able to be powered by an Arcane Energy Field, since the Central Energy Conduction Network hadn't been fully built yet!

It only ensured that the energy Flow inside this Time Acceleration Zone was stable and orderly; it could not yet transmit the Arcane Energy generated by the Main Energy Center to this side.

For the time being, it could only be powered by a "wireless" Arcane Energy Field.

As for the focusing, it was because the intensity of the Arcane Energy Field naturally radiated by the Mythallar was insufficient to sustain the Time Acceleration of this area, requiring the energy density to be increased through focusing.

Theoretically, this kind of focusing could be precise to a single point, but in reality, it couldn't be done. If it could, wouldn't that be equivalent to shrinking the entire Mythallar, and being able to move it at will within a certain spatial range?

Additionally, there was the difficulty of real-world engineering implementation. Currently, Xia Duo could only complete the field focusing within a spherical range with a diameter of one hundred meters; a smaller range was not yet possible.

If he could improve this in the future and control the focusing range to a smaller area, then charging for the Arcane Energy Field would no longer be a problem.

Xia Duo had initially thought about charging through the Activator of quasi-Magic Items within the Arcane Energy Field; that was essentially letting the users record it themselves. But if field focusing could be developed, it would be possible to record it at the energy output end.

This way, even if the energy reception records on the Activator side were tampered with, the energy output records on the Mythallar side would still be preserved, so there would be no need to worry about being deceived.

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As the energy was ready, the Time Acceleration Zone quickly entered its state, though some initialization settings were inevitably required for the first activation.

It was already late at night, and Niya asked with some impatience, "Is it activated? Why is it no different from before?"

"It's activating; you'll see the phenomenon soon. However, since this is for the use of internal personnel of the Tower of Time, I was worried about accidents and placed certain limits on the Time Acceleration cap. The phenomenon might not be very obvious, so you need to look carefully!"

The more Time Acceleration there was, the more obvious the phenomenon would be; this was self-evident. A simple thought experiment would yield the answer—if there were no Time Acceleration, that area would be exactly the same as the outside!

"It's starting! It's at five times acceleration now!" Xia Duo whispered a reminder.

His keen Perception had already discovered that a self-luminous "glass cover" had appeared about two meters inside the red line of the plaza, shrouding the main body of the plaza within it.

At the same time, the interior of the Time Acceleration Zone had become slightly darker than before.

This change was so subtle that Niya was still trying to discover what was different about the scene before her. If an ordinary person didn't know what the phenomenon was beforehand, they probably wouldn't even think in that direction when seeing this extremely subtle phenomenon.

Next, Xia Duo did not continue to remind her, but instead increased the time Flow inside the acceleration zone bit by bit. The Change of Change soon appeared.

Seeing Niya point in surprise at the "luminous glass cover" in the center of the plaza, she asked Xia Duo, "Is the phenomenon that? It looks like a transparent yet luminous cover, and inside, it seems a bit darker than before, right?"

"Yes."

Xia Duo nodded and then introduced further, "The faster the time Flow inside the Time Acceleration Zone, the darker the interior will become. At the same time, the boundary line between the inside and outside will become more obvious. It looks like that transparent cover is getting brighter and brighter. After the acceleration reaches a certain level, from the outside, the acceleration zone will be completely black, and you won't be able to see anything at all, rather than a luminous cover."

"So magical?"

Niya couldn't help but exclaim, but then she seemed to think of something, "I understand. Even if the light elements received by the area are limited, and from our perspective they are spread out over a nearly infinite Time Line, for us, the light elements that can be observed or perceived at the same moment are also nearly non-existent!"

"Not bad. From the perspective of light elements, it can indeed be explained that way. However, this may also involve the Nature of space and time. If you don't believe me, try throwing something into the acceleration zone."

"Involving the Nature of space and time?"

Niya didn't understand what Xia Duo was talking about, but she understood the latter part of his sentence. So, she casually fished a Gold Coin from her pocket and threw it hard toward the center of the plaza.

At this moment, the time Flow inside the Time Acceleration Zone had reached the cap Xia Duo had deliberately set, which was about one hundred times that of the outside. Under this difference in time Flow, the interior of the acceleration zone had become quite dark due to the lack of a light source.