Chapter 2483: News from the North

Once Xia Duo operated the Mythallar to lock onto the Adamantine main body, he no longer needed to concern himself with it; over the next week, the Mythallar would reconstruct the main structure of the new city, similar to adding Adamantine material to a "3D" printer for the Mythallar.

Upon returning to the Main Plane, Xia Duo shared the form of the new city after its main body reconstruction in the Spirit Thought Network; it was still a sphere, just like Chang'an City, only Chang'an City had a sky-blue stone main body, while the new city had a deep-blue Adamantine main body.

"Why is it still a sphere? I heard that the New Seventon built by the Seven Towers is constructed on an inverted mountain peak!"

"Has news of New Seventon reached as far as Nan Jing?"

"Of course. Perhaps it wouldn't have spread so fast in the past, but now with the Portal at Code Plaza, and newcomers arriving from Iolorum, the news that this year's Snow Melting Competition is being held in New Seventon reached us long ago."

"I see!"

Xia Duo hadn't expected that while he had stopped the Seven Towers from utilizing a natural mountain peak in Seventon, his own home base seemed to have been "stolen"; these High Mages of the Tower of Time were clearly more interested in a Floating City built from an inverted mountain peak than one that was a sphere.

How to put it? Perhaps those massive mountain peaks naturally possess a powerful imagery, making people feel that it is harder for someone to chop off a section than to create a giant spherical structure from scratch using Magic.

In reality, the difficulty of the two is not on the same level at all; let alone the Adamantine main body, even the previous stone main body of Chang'an City had a technical content in its transformation Spell that was in no way inferior to directly intercepting a mountain peak.

It is just that people are always more inclined to identify with things they are familiar with and things they can see at a glance, while ignoring that the technology often hides in the details.

As for the doubts of the Tower of Time members regarding why the new city was still a sphere, Xia Duo once again provided his own explanation; unlike his previous explanation for Chang'an City about fully utilizing internal space, this time he explained it from the perspectives of aesthetics and Sustainable Development—

"With the development of Magic, we are able to do many things we wanted to do but couldn't in the past; the Floating City represents a concentrated manifestation of such ideas or capabilities.

"Because of this, many of our concepts have changed. In my view, every inch of our Floating City is shaped by Magic from nothing; doesn't this better embody the existence of Magic?

"And a perfect sphere is very rare in Nature, one could even say it basically doesn't exist. Only when Magic develops to a certain degree can one recognize the uniqueness of a sphere, and only then is it possible for such an existence, which previously only existed in concepts, to appear in reality.

"Isn't this the best embodiment of our Spellcasters' philosophy and abilities surpassing Nature?

"Furthermore, there is the more practical perspective. We live in reality; what is the purpose of learning Magic? To transform reality, right?

"But have you considered the consequences of transforming reality? In the long run, have you considered what is good and what is not?

"And intercepting a mountain peak, at least in my view, is of no use to the future; on the contrary, it greatly consumes the natural resource of mountain peaks, which take countless years to gestate.

"Additionally, if you are worried that the spherical structure is too monotonous, this new city actually possesses a transformation function, though it requires a week of preparation in advance; it can become whatever you want."

"After the new city is built, I will initiate a vote within the Tower of Time, and everyone will choose the city form they wish to live in. Such a vote will be held every six months from now on, and the new form will last for at least half a year.

"If there is one that everyone generally likes and yearns for, lasting for many years is not a problem."

Xia Duo painted a small picture for everyone; the new city's transformation is not actually as one pleases, as it depends on the internal infrastructure. It can be said that the more perfect the internal infrastructure, the more fixed the transformable forms are.

Although one can deliberately leave enough space for transformation, it is ultimately not entirely at will.

However, the groundwork from the previous few years is enough to let everyone choose the new city form they want. Once the education of the majority of the Territory's population improves in a few years, he will expand the voting scope to the entire Territory.

With the power to decide the form of the new city, not a single person envied the inverted mountain peak of New Seventon anymore. The inverted mountain peak looks very impactful, but can that be more anticipated than "customization"?

Returning to the Main Plane, Xia Duo did not ask everyone to keep the situation of the Blue Crystal Plane a secret. For him now, whether it was a Sub-plane, a new Floating City, or the secret method of transforming Adamantine, none of these were considered "transgressions" anymore.

However, whether it was people from Nan Jing like Aiboke and Jianaer, or those from the Inner Land like Andongni and Feishe'er, they all tacitly chose not to continue discussing the topic of the Blue Crystal Plane.

Regarding this, Xia Duo let them be; in any case, the new city would soon be brought to the Main Plane. With two consecutive Floating Cities appearing out of thin air without warning, I am afraid that even the dullest people outside would realize he had mastered a Sub-plane.

As for the secret method of transforming Adamantine, the new city's main body is right there; with such a massive volume, surely no one would still think he mined it bit by bit or found it in ruins!

Tower of Time.

Xia Duo did not see Niya in the Study, and he immediately understood that Niya's experiment had not ended. Niya had gone to the Laboratory when he went to the Blue Crystal Plane, and now that he had returned, Niya had not finished.

However, according to the progress estimate from three days ago, Niya would finish the final optimization of the Communication Mythallar in these few days. What worries Xia Duo now is how to explain to Niya that he had performed a "major version update" based on the Mythallar she designed.

Would Niya think she had done useless work, or feel that he had held back before? In fact, Xia Duo had thought about explaining the subsequent updates of the Communication Mythallar to Niya just after he returned from the Red Heart Alliance Projection Plane.

But at that time, he felt that once he spoke, Niya might abandon the plan she was currently working on. The current plan had reached its final stages and had condensed too much of Niya's hard work; it would be a pity to abandon it.

Thus, it dragged on until now, to the point where it was not easy to explain the matter.

Xia Duo thought left and right, but could not decide how to bring it up. Just at this moment, a call from Seventon interrupted his thinking, which also made him immediately make a decision: when the boat reaches the bridge, it will naturally go straight; he would tell her once Niya finished the project.

Thinking this, he had already stood up from the armchair and performed some operations on the Projection Window before connecting the communication from the north. When the image of Yinaole with a weary face appeared on the Projection Window, Xia Duo asked hurriedly:

"Teacher, is there a result from the consultations with the Seven Towers?"

"Still talking, but there are some situations I think you need to know about."

"What situation?" Xia Duo noticed Yinaole's expression was somewhat hesitant, and subconsciously felt that some unexpected situation might have occurred in the north.

Next, Yinaole's answer confirmed his guess, "The attitude of the Seven Towers has suddenly changed in the last two days; they have proposed a somewhat special plan."