Chapter 2330: Re-entering the Projection Plane

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The Tower of Time's current Plane Exploration Array is still the semi-finished product built before Saville was exiled; it was only fully completed after two generations of effort, yet it still lacks the most critical part—the Plane Crystal.

It was not until the generation of Niya's father, Aipusi, that the Plane Crystal was found, truly activating the Plane Exploration Array. Of course, the price paid for this was that Aipusi suffered heavy injuries and remains lying in the Stasis Chamber to this day, unable to find relief.

Although a huge price was paid and it took several generations to fully complete, this does not mean the Tower of Time's Plane Exploration Array is particularly advanced.

On the contrary, perhaps in the era when Saville lived, this Plane Exploration Array could be considered relatively advanced, but after nearly a hundred years, the Seven Towers and the Arcane Union must have made significant progress.

Not to mention the Plane Scholars and Astral Mages that accompany the Plane Exploration Array; the Tower of Time had not begun training any of them at all until Xia Duo took over, and even then, it was limited to Astral Mages.

There is still no sign of Plane Scholars! He can only temporarily substitute himself or press people like LS Weier and Aiboke into service as laborers.

Therefore, in addition to the overt accumulation of detection data, Xia Duo will also secretly evaluate the interest and talent of the relevant personnel in the Plane Exploration Center regarding Plane Exploration.

This batch of twelve Advanced Rank or Quasi-High Mage individuals was directly conscripted rather than volunteering, but if he could discover a few, or even just one good seedling among them, Xia Duo would be overjoyed and would not be stingy with training them.

Or it could be said that as long as one of these twelve people catches his eye, he will fully support them in developing toward the path of a Plane Scholar.

Besides evaluating the relevant personnel, what Xia Duo needs to do next is to organize and analyze the massive amount of data that the Plane Exploration Center has rapidly accumulated during its continuous operation in a short period.

On one hand, it is to summarize new laws of the existence of Planes through this data; on the other hand, it is to discover areas for improvement in the Plane Exploration Array during the summarization process and make corresponding improvements.

Both points serve only one purpose: to continuously increase the discovery efficiency of new Planes. As long as one Habitable Plane can be discovered, his various actions in the Main Plane can be slightly bolder.

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Sub-planes, or rather the exploration of Material Planes other than the Main Plane, will be the primary task of the Plane Exploration Array, but besides Material Planes, the exploration of Projection Planes will not stop either.

It is just that in this regard, the role that the Astral Mage Dewan can play has already exceeded the data accumulation from the continuous detection of the Plane Exploration Array itself.

This is actually a reality in the field of Plane Exploration—before a key breakthrough in related technology appears, the influence of Astral Mages on Projection Plane exploration is far greater than the influence of Plane Scholars on Material Plane exploration.

The reason is simple: Projection Planes are located in the Astral Plane, and the Astral Plane is a purely spiritual world. The role of the Plane Exploration Array in this aspect is itself to amplify the user's Perception; otherwise, one can only use general Perception Magic Arrays.

The Tower of Time could not discover a few Projection Planes in the past year, but once they had Dewan, who was just a beginner Astral Mage at the time, they discovered over a hundred Projection Planes in just a year or two.

Exploring Projection Planes is essentially exploring the Astral Plane; no matter how advanced the equipment itself is, it belongs to the material level and has limited influence on the spiritual world.

Adding the human factor into it is the current mainstream exploration method, and Xia Duo also agrees with this. In exploring the Astral Plane, no matter how much the technology is improved, it may not compare to a single extraordinary performance by the explorer themselves.

But the exploration of Material Planes is different. The Ether Interlayer is more inclined toward material attributes (matter relative to spirit, rather than matter relative to energy), and can be detected twenty-four hours a day without interruption using the Exploration Array.

Experienced Plane Scholars can certainly play a very important role, but Plane Scholars also need to rest and cannot be in a state of detection twenty-four hours a day.

Not to mention that Plane Scholars are named "Scholars," and what they are likely more proficient in is not using their own power to detect Ether, but the analysis of the equipment's detection results.

From this perspective, the training of Plane Scholars is actually not the most urgent task at present, and it is difficult to be effective in a short time. After all, no matter how they are trained, they cannot surpass or even approach Xia Duo in a short time.

This should be considered a long-term task. Only when the number of people increases and the accumulated data grows will Xia Duo possibly be unable to keep up, or encounter blind spots in his thinking; if it is only a few people, it does not have much significance.

Astral Mages are the exact opposite; every additional one means the efficiency of exploring the Astral Plane is nearly doubled, and a few more means it doubles several times over.

It is just a pity that Astral Mages, despite being called Mages, cannot be trained quickly through an Inheritance Ritual like normal Mages, because the Inheritance Ritual can only allow the user to gain Knowledge, but cannot gain changes in physical Perception.

Like Dewan, he was also only spotted by Xia Duo to be trained as an Astral Mage after he first perceived Holy Power. Xia Duo cannot reverse this process and forcibly send someone who does not want to be a Priest to become one.

Instead, he can only select from Priests who perceive Holy Power. From this point, Aiboke is also a very perfect candidate for an Astral Mage, because he also perceives Holy Power.

It is just that between him and Dewan, one perceives the Holy Power of the Lady of Mysteries, and the other perceives the Holy Power of the Lord of Radiance.

"If only I could cut Aiboke into several pieces, that would be even better!" Xia Duo often sighs like this.

It can be said that if not for Aiboke, too many things would require him to do them personally, and in that case, no matter which plan it was, it would be delayed compared to now.

Considering that many of his plans are stuck at critical Nodes, the consequences of delay might be even more serious than Xia Duo imagines.

To say "I have Aiboke, like a fish in water," is truly not wrong at all!

It is just a pity that Aiboke is not a robot and cannot be copied and used directly. At the moment, Aiboke has more important things to do; the priority of the Creation Mythallar project is higher than Projection Plane exploration.

Speaking of Projection Planes, Xia Duo once again thought of the Demon-blood Crisis. Although news of Demon Descendants has often leaked from the Northland Alliance in the past few months, big news regarding Demon Descendants has not appeared for a long time.

Xia Duo absolutely does not believe that the Demon Descendants would be so well-behaved. This can also be seen from the recent actions of a "decoy" he obtained in Terminos; the Demon Descendants are acting crazily.

It is just that many activities are hidden in the dark, and the Northland Alliance cannot know everything. As for Xia Duo, because he needs to cast a long line to catch a big fish, he cannot reveal overly sensitive information to the Northland Alliance.

This makes him feel that the Demon Descendant problem has a hidden risk of spiraling out of control.