Chapter 2472: Newcomer Joins

After leaving the Xiu Xi Shi, Xia Duo did not remain at the Arcane Union, but instead transferred from Azure Manor back to the Floating City. As soon as he returned, Niya appeared before him, her eyes filled with worry as she said:

"Xia Duo, if you hadn't come back, I would have gone to Seventon to find you."

"What's wrong?" Xia Duo stepped forward to take Niya's hand, asking with concern, "Did something happen at home?"

"Nothing happened at home, I was just worried about you. You had previously ordered Chang'an City to head north, why did it suddenly stop?"

Niya tugged at Xia Duo's hand, her eyes fixed on his, seemingly wanting a reasonable explanation. Seeing this, Xia Duo told Niya about what had happened in Seventon.

"I realized that moving the Floating City to the north might intensify conflicts, so I stopped. Don't worry."

"Then how long do you plan to stay this time?" Niya asked again.

"I'm not going out for the time being, waiting for news from the teacher's side."

"Ah, that's great."

Niya was overjoyed. She pulled Xia Duo along and began telling him about her latest progress regarding the Communication Mythallar. Xia Duo listened attentively, occasionally interjecting a few words, and the atmosphere between the two quickly became gentle.

However, in his heart, Xia Duo knew that the current situation was not so easily resolved. The previous meeting had reached a stalemate, and now the uncertainty of the Princess had been dragged into it. He conservatively estimated that there might not be any good news within half a month.

But with Kangjienio's intervention, the Seven Towers shouldn't reach the worst-case scenario. The existence of those three planes had already been exposed; it would be easy for the Seven Towers to cross the bottom line, but the price would be one they could not afford.

Taking advantage of this stalemate, he planned to get the prototype of the New Floating City finished. Additionally, there was the first Art Festival of Daxia Territory that Lawrence was preparing. It was originally planned to start soon, but Yinaolem clearly hadn't had the time recently.

Then it would have to be postponed. Preparing for a longer time was also fine; the more thorough the preparation, the closer the effect would naturally be to expectations. Xia Duo still attached great importance to this Art Festival.

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Chang'an City, Research Zone.

The future Plane Exploration Center was currently just a prototype. Considering the new city plan, it would likely never be completed in the future. However, this did not hinder Xia Duo from building the World Incubator here.

It was a giant cubic device that was entirely transparent and shimmered with a faint blue glow. A piece was missing from the center of the device, where the normal space of the Main Plane completely overlapped with the Ether Plane, serving as an ideal location for Plane Creation.

Of course, theoretically, Plane Creation was most suitable in the Ether Interlayer, but Xia Duo currently had no way to directly control the environment within the Ether Interlayer. If Plane Creation were conducted there, the randomness would be too great.

Only the current fully controllable Laboratory environment could stably produce Semi-planes with relatively controllable quality.

Currently, Xia Duo had built a total of two Plane Incubators. The original plan was for one to be used for long-term goals, for true Plane Creation, and the other to be used for manufacturing Semi-planes.

But not long ago, he returned from "studying abroad" in the Red Heart Alliance's Projection Plane and no longer looked favorably upon the original design. Coupled with the fact that a new city was about to be built, he first used these two Plane Incubators to produce Semi-planes to meet the needs of the new city's construction.

Xia Duo came over this time mainly to take away the completed Semi-planes. Currently, there was no way to save them fully automatically. Although a Semi-plane could be created in the Main Plane or the Ether Plane, once it took shape, it would naturally slide into the Ether Interlayer.

It needed to be anchored via spells or Magic Arrays, or it would drift near the Main Plane. Of course, a more effortless approach was to "attach" it to the surface of the Main Plane, which allowed it to maintain a fixed coordinate for a long time without special maintenance means.

If Xia Duo did not come to collect them, the Semi-planes produced by the Plane Incubator would certainly not be lost, but they would occupy the key "manufacturing slot." Only by collecting them in time could space be cleared for the next one.

As for how to store the Semi-planes, Xia Duo did not adopt the effortless approach, because if they were naturally attached, they could easily be searched out by some Mages who specialized in searching for Semi-planes.

Only by placing them in the Ether Interlayer, separated from the Main Plane, could their safety be guaranteed. Of course, this was only relatively safe; after all, the items were still outside, it was merely hiding them more secretively.

Xia Duo's approach was different from the mainstream; he saved the Semi-planes directly to the Main Plane, or more figuratively, took the Semi-planes directly into his hands and stored them in the Tower of Time's warehouse.

This obviously required more advanced technology. If it were before his study abroad in the Red Heart Alliance, Xia Duo certainly would not have had such an idea. Even for someone as advanced as Yinaolem, the method used to store Semi-planes was to anchor them in the Ether Interlayer.

Previously, the few Semi-planes that Saville had requested back from Yinaolem could not actually be obtained as physical objects; what he brought back were merely the coordinates of the Semi-planes.

But now, Xia Duo expanded his Arcane Fire into a Micro Magic Net. Although the Micro Magic Net, which was entirely led by him, was far inferior to the Xianshi Mawang in terms of the total amount of Magic Net Strings, it was enough for him to quickly complete the weaving of any conventional Spell in a semi-automated form.

Only spells that operated directly at the macroscopic level of the Magic Net, like the Mythallar, did not count as conventional spells. Although Plane Sealing was a Ten-Ring Spell, it was still classified as a conventional spell.

As the spell was completed, the plane projection in the World Incubator, which was originally just an elemental anomaly, quickly converged and then gradually solidified, finally turning into a slightly turbid Crystal bead that fell into Xia Duo's hand.

Although a Semi-plane was more like a stillborn fetus among planes, in essence, it was already a plane, and it was no different from a large Habitable Plane like the Main Plane.

Something that could be completely called a "world" was held at Xia Duo's fingertips—actually, there was no special feeling, as this was already not the first time.

"The sixth one, just two more to meet the requirements of the first phase of the new city construction!"

Xia Duo sighed, then sent this Semi-plane Crystal bead into the Tower of Time's warehouse, placing it together with its five stillborn "brothers."

Next was to complete the design of the Ritual Spell. If nothing went wrong, the remaining two Semi-planes should be able to be manufactured before the spell design was completed.

As for the Ritual Spell used to build the Floating City, because it had already been mostly completed during his time in the Red Heart Alliance's Projection Plane, the current design was more about downward compatibility at the Spellcasting level, so that these High Mages of the Tower of Time could contribute.

It wasn't that Xia Duo couldn't do it alone, but it was just too troublesome. Once the Spellcasting began, it required at least fourteen hours of full devotion, and this was only for the first phase; every subsequent update of the Mythallar would require a similar amount of Spellcasting time.

How could he stand that? He could only find people to share the load!

Fortunately, he still had the Blue Crystal Plane as a construction base; otherwise, if he were to conduct it on the Main Plane, even if having others share the load could save time, he would still need to consider it carefully.

If someone were to cause trouble or interfere, even if he were lucky enough that no one was harmed, the time wasted would be something he could not accept.