Chapter 2344: Civilization Experiment

"How long can the Suppression Field below be maintained?" Xia Duo asked.

"Even if the upper structure collapses, maintaining it for four to six hours is no problem. It depends on how long you need; if it's not enough, I can continue to maintain the upper structure."

"Continue to maintain it. Don't be surprised if you see any movement; I will explain it to you later."

After saying this, Xia Duo began the spellcasting he was already too familiar with. The so-called Suppression Field was essentially a Spell Suppression Field, but through clever design, this area had been isolated from the surrounding Magic Net environment.

Although it was not a complete separation, it was enough for Xia Duo to conduct various experiments within it without triggering a chain reaction in the surrounding Magic Net.

Yes, Xia Duo intended to create Arcane Fire here, because the resources of the Demon Descendants were far too scarce, and he could not bear to scrape together the last of the Elders' wealth to build a one-time Advanced Laboratory.

Thus, he had a spell-based, one-time advanced environment. Of course, this was merely Xia Duo's speculation; he would need to practice it himself to determine if it was truly feasible.

If it were feasible, the cost of using Advanced Laboratories in the Tower of Time in the future would be significantly reduced, which truly met the requirements of the great era of popularizing Magic and the explosive growth in the number of Arcanists.

This was not the first time Xia Duo had created Arcane Fire in a Projection Plane. In the previous 【Projection Plane: Evereska Independent】, he had created Arcane Fire and spread the Arcanist system throughout.

Unfortunately, due to the suppression by traditional Elven forces, the Arcanist system ultimately failed to grow and flourish, but because of the rapid-learning nature of this Magic system, it was not completely erased even a thousand years later.

Now that he was in a new Projection Plane, Xia Duo prepared to promote the Arcanist system among the Demon Descendants. He believed that the Demon Descendants, who were extremely lacking in a sense of security, would certainly not miss this straw to clutch at.

If one were to also count Yinerfalang, as well as the potential emulation by other Elven Kingdoms later on, the Arcanist system would definitely be able to develop significantly in the future.

One must know that it had not even been a thousand years since the Arcanist system was established in Netheril on the Main Plane!

Even in the other Projected Plane Arcane Empire, due to human interference, there had been nearly a thousand years of development, but whether it was the leader of it all—Weide—or the accidental participant Xia Duo, the final harvest was only a tiny fraction of that thousand years of development.

Now that another millennium lay before Xia Duo, how could he not plan it properly!

Establishing the Arcanist system was only the first step; next, he had to guide the Demon Descendants in the Bloodline Sequencing Project. This concerned the future of the Demon Descendants, and he believed they would not refuse it either.

As for the prophecy spell inheritance, the remaining parts of the Dragon Madness Secret Scroll, and the location of the Dragon Madness Mythallar control center that Xia Duo wanted to find in this Projection Plane, etc. —as the founder of the Demon Descendant civilization, the Demon Descendants should at least help him fulfill these wishes.

In the isolated Suppression Field, Xia Duo cast his spell calmly and unhurriedly. As the spell was completed, the surrounding Magic Net environment was no longer able to sustain the nearly black-hole-like Spell Source Point before him.

The next moment, the Magic Net shattered, but the Spell Source Point strangely did not disappear; or rather, it tenaciously survived by relying on the fragments of the Magic Net it had torn away.

Immediately after, a large number of torn, dissociated, and dissipating Magic Net Strings were attracted by the Spell Source Point and began to form a brand-new Magic Net structure according to the blueprint Xia Duo had preset.

At this step, Xia Duo finally breathed a sigh of relief. The next step depended on whether Yinsitedaoge's spell could maintain it. If it could be maintained, this Arcane Fire should be a success.

Afterward, it would simply be a matter of repairing the damaged Magic Net environment here.

If the following time were on the Main Plane, Xia Duo would be exceptionally relaxed, but here, due to the uncertainty of Yinstadaoge's spell, his heart was still left hanging in the air.

Just like this, until the Arcane Fire was completely formed, Xia Duo could no longer suppress the ecstasy in his heart. The birth of Arcane Fire not only meant that the Arcanist system had a very good start, but it also meant that the cost of using Advanced Laboratories could drop by a large margin!

The reason Xia Duo did not promote 【Negative Energy Downgrade】 to assist advancement in the Tower of Time was, on one hand, because the cost of using Advanced Laboratories was too high, and each time it required an Arcanist to maintain it; if advancement were not restricted, it was feared that everyone (Advanced Rank Mage) would want to give it a try.

Another reason was that the safety of 【Negative Energy Downgrade】 still needed to be verified, and this was what he prepared to research next. Of course, he would not research it himself, but rather add it to the Arcanist system, letting the Demon Descendants slowly research it over the next thousand years, while he himself would only need to come in later to enjoy the results.

This was also one of the greatest uses of the Projection Plane for him.

The Time Acceleration spell on the Main Plane could certainly allow him to split a bit of time into dozens or nearly a hundred times its value, but there was no civilization within a Time Acceleration Zone for him to experiment with at will.

Even if relevant arrangements could be made, the cost and risk of a civilization experiment were worth thinking twice about.

In fact, with the Projection Plane, Xia Duo would never consider conducting high-risk civilization experiments on the Main Plane. The only regret was that there were very few Projection Planes with a longer duration than the Main Plane, which made it impossible for him to keep starting "new games."

Correspondingly, under these circumstances, as long as he started a game, he would do his best to make it perfect, so as not to waste such a rare opportunity.

Demon Descendant camp.

When they were in the north just now, Yinstadaoge had patiently watched Xia Duo repair the Magic Net damage left behind by the creation of the Arcane Fire one by one, but now that they were back at the camp, he finally could not help but ask Xia Duo:

"That wasn't our race's Magic just now, was it? And that thing you created by tearing the Magic Net at the end, what exactly was it?"

"That was indeed not a spell of our race (the Taiquese Yizu, including branches like Gold Elf, Moon Elf, etc.; the Demon Descendants count now too, after all, no intelligent creatures other than Elves have transformed into Demon Descendants yet, perhaps there are, but they all died)!"

Xia Duo did not hide the existence of the new Magic system; this was one of his purposes for entering the Projection Plane this time. Even if Yinsitedaoge did not ask, he would have taken the initiative to introduce it:

"This is a new Magic I discovered by observing the Magic Net during the Bloodline Riot. It's very crude, isn't it? But precisely because it is crude, our clansmen can learn it very quickly. This is also the essence of the Magic Net, which is conducive to us pursuing the mysteries of our bloodline, thereby completely resolving the bloodline hidden dangers in the Demon Descendants."

When on the Main Plane, Netheril Magic had always been denounced by Elves as a simple imitation of Elven Magic, crude and unsightly, but in essence, it was another independent Magic system.

Elven Magic focused more on letting the Spellcaster conform to the Magic Net, which was conducive to controlling the Magic Net from a macro level; Xia Duo guessed that this might be the origin trajectory of the Mythallar.

And Netheril Magic, while called crude, was actually concise—the Great Dao is simple, after all.

It focused more on directly controlling the microscopic Magic Net Strings, which made it almost impossible for a Netherese Mage to discover and create a Mythallar. Of course, this was relative.

Xia Duo had long understood that the microscopic and macroscopic were essentially one. For example, the Equation Spell he created based on microscopic Magic had macroscopic manifestations similar to a Mythallar.

And some Advanced Rank Mythallars could, to a large extent, also control the microscopic.

Now, Xia Duo using "crude" to describe Netheril Magic was merely finding an excuse for the emergence of the new Magic system, making it easier for the Demon Descendants to accept it.