Chapter 2426: Preliminary Preparations, Late-Blooming Genius

In the end, Xia Duo only managed to persuade everyone after promising that building the new Floating City would not require much in the way of resources. The Tower of Time was not his personal fiefdom; although he had many plans and much foresight, he would also earnestly listen to the opinions of others.

Assessing the situation and acting accordingly is something a qualified leader should be able to do.

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After convincing everyone to support the plan to build the new Floating City, Xia Duo did not stop the construction of Chang'an City. Although Saville's suggestion to sell Chang'an City may have been born of spite, it was nonetheless a good way to recoup costs.

As he had promised before, the new Floating City applied many advanced technologies from the Red Heart Alliance, especially the latest version of the Arcane String that had only come out shortly before Xia Duo left, which could completely replace Mithril in the Floating City.

The bulk of the cost for constructing magical buildings lies in the energy-conducting materials. To build Chang'an City, Xia Duo had purchased over ten million in finished Mithril from Leisen Territory, not to mention countless other materials.

Of course, the more expensive part was the spellcasters; after all, even if all the materials were gathered, it would be a waste without users.

As for the new city, the energy-conducting materials could use the Arcane String—the latest research from the Red Heart Alliance, which is similar to the Magic Net String (known as the David String in the Red Heart Alliance). With Mithril removed, the material cost was very limited.

As for labor, Chang'an City was already undergoing infrastructure construction, so others were merely changing their place of work; the one who was truly tired was Xia Duo himself.

He had to personally preside over the spells and rituals, unable to delegate them to others. Thinking about a city built almost entirely of magic made his scalp tingle.

Regarding whether he could develop civilization to a near-god level in the future, Xia Duo had absolutely no doubt. Of course, the road still had to be walked one step at a time, otherwise, he would become a typical example of "having high ambitions but a thin fate"! That saved a favor, but he was a bit confused about the reason for the Secret Flame Baptism. Aiboke was not some late-blooming genius, nor did he have any amazing magical achievements; why would the Lady of Mysteries be willing to give Aiboke a baptism?

This feeling was like a modern person returning to ancient times. Previously, when Xia Duo traveled from Earth to the Main Plane, he still used the novelty of magic to alleviate the feeling of the era regressing, but having experienced the modern civilization of the magic world, it was very hard to endure.

But the brain-computer was purely better at repetitive labor. It was essentially a combination of countless Depake; it could not surpass Depake in terms of creative Wisdom, but countless Depake united together were equivalent to countless free laborers.

Xia Duo wanted people to come to be his own, not to recruit potential enemies. But at the same time, recruitment was a two-way choice; he proposed the conditions, and if the other party was unwilling, they could simply not come.

The spellcaster asked if it was possible to relax the conditions and wait for those high-level Mages to stabilize at the Tower of Time before considering moving their families.

Xia Duo was not arrogant enough to think that the Lady of Mysteries would give Aiboke a baptism for his sake. If the Red Heart Alliance appeared on the Main Plane, it might attract the attention of the Lady of Mysteries, but that was in the Astral Plane, in a Projection Plane.

Three days later, the spellcaster sent word back from Iolorum that the recruitment work was proceeding in an orderly fashion. Many high-level Mages had already shown a tendency to join the Tower of Time, only hesitating at the requirement to move their families.

Xia Duo had already begun preparing the new city plan during the later stages of the 【Projection Plane: Red Heart Alliance】. Although there was still a certain distance to completion, that was only relative to the entire project.

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Of course, limited by Spirit Material, the individual components of Xia Duo's brain-computer were limited and could not be used to replace spellcasting; they could only do some work to save on calculations.

Unless the Lady of Mysteries happened to be inside at the time, there was no way to obtain everything that happened inside; after all, even gods are not omnipotent.

As for the reason for the Secret Flame Baptism, if there was an opportunity in the future, he could ask the Lady of Mysteries directly.

To this, Xia Duo replied, "Students who have been registered by teachers can have their conditions relaxed. Everyone else needs to move and join at the time of employment. However, you can bring them to Great Xia Territory to understand the situation first before making a decision."

Under normal circumstances, whether a Secret Flame Baptism occurs is decided by the Lady of Mysteries, but if a Temple Priest has enough Divine Grace, they can also actively perform it, just like that time with Aiboke.

However, the Main Plane also has the benefits of the Main Plane, which is the existence of the brain-computer. The Spirit Thought Network can gather the Wisdom of different individuals; it is essentially more inclined to do creative work, but limited by the level of technological development, it is not yet doing well enough.

It was just that from Aiboke's description, it seemed that without the Priest having to pay Divine Grace, Blue-White Secret Flame appeared in the ritual, and Aiboke was restored to Youth because of it.

To put it more bluntly, simplify as much as possible while ensuring it does not affect the spellcasting results.

And this also made him increasingly thirsty for the development of the Main Plane, while at the same time increasingly hating the Demon Descendant from the divergent Time Line that hindered development.

Furthermore, although the origin of the Red Heart Alliance was related to Xia Duo, those magical achievements were not completed by him alone, but by countless Red Heart Alliance researchers together.

Xia Duo himself had not even noticed any increase in the Divine Grace of the Lady of Mysteries, let alone the migration benefiting Aiboke. There must be some inside story he did not understand.

Xia Duo shook his head and stopped thinking about this problem. Regardless, Aiboke could not have changed his personality drastically because of one Secret Flame Baptism. He was still a person of the Tower of Time, so why worry so much?

For another example, in the design of the spellcasting ritual, Xia Duo's Subconscious was considering using Arcanists from the Red Heart Alliance as assistants. After returning to the Main Plane, he naturally needed to make some adjustments specifically for those currently at the Tower of Time.

The Arcane Temple would conduct a Star-Leaping Ritual for every newly advanced Arcanist. If that newly promoted Arcanist was lucky enough, they could also receive the baptism of the Blue-White Secret Flame during the ritual and be restored to Youth from then on.

Compared to the current Floating City Chang'an, this plan was already as perfect as it could be.

The reason Xia Duo let Aiboke go over was that he hoped the Priest of the Arcane Temple in Iolorum would give Aiboke a Secret Flame Baptism for his sake.

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Although he had only been back to the Main Plane for two or three days, Xia Duo felt increasingly restricted everywhere. He needed infrastructure, but there was no infrastructure; he needed educated talent, but there was not enough educated talent.

With the help of the brain-computer in the design of the spellcasting ritual, Xia Duo felt his state was not at all inferior to using the Spirit Thought Network for assistance in the Red Heart Alliance.

It is just a pity that the brain-computer is only good at the field of calculation, and as for when the Spirit Thought Network of the Main Plane will develop to be like the Red Heart Alliance, who knows!

Not long after replying, Xia Duo received another message from the spellcaster. This time it was not about the recruitment work, but about the newly promoted Arcanist Aiboke who went to Iolorum together.

However, before truly starting construction, some preliminary preparations were needed, such as enough Semi-planes. These needed to be connected during the Mythallar construction phase of the new city, similar to how Xia Duo transformed the practice base at the Red Heart Primary School, but more fundamental.

First of all, Aiboke had no amazing background, which was a certainty. So, did that mean he might be a hidden late-blooming genius?

But whether he could succeed, he did not have one hundred percent certainty.

"Did I misjudge the person?"