Chapter 2516: Planning the Plane Exploration Center

It is just a pity that the Tower of Time is currently short on High Mages, so the Plane Exploration Center can never be fully staffed. Xia Duo feels quite helpless about this; even with the near-cheating Inheritance Ritual, he still needs to give those receiving the inheritance enough time to grow.

Plane Exploration Center.

Xia Duo checked the passive detection data from the last month. At first glance, there were no special changes compared to past data, but he firmly believed that a vast amount of plane information must exist within it.

This is like taking a casual look at space from Earth; one can collect a vast amount of information about stars. However, determining whether information exists is not the key; determining which star the information belongs to and what the attributes of that star are is what matters.

In the magic world, the information in the Ether Interlayer is even more complex, with a large number of things similar to noise. It is not that noise is mixed into the plane information, but that plane information is mixed into the noise!

This requires analyzing the data; relying solely on the automatic judgment of the Exploration Array is far from enough. This will likely be the main work of the Plane Exploration Center in the future.

Perform dimensionality reduction analysis on the state data of the Ether Interlayer, which reaches thousands of dimensions as detected passively by the Exploration Array, in order to extract more accurate plane characteristic models, and then use Active Detection to conduct further verification.

Of course, this can also enhance the efficiency of discoveries made by Active Detection.

Achieving this is not easy. On one hand, it requires improving data analysis capabilities; this must be done either by piling up computing power or optimizing algorithms—there is no other way.

Regarding algorithms, Xia Duo does not have any new ideas for the time being; he mainly relies on his experience from before he crossed over. However, he was never very good at this field to begin with, so being able to apply it is already not bad; optimizations and such still need more accumulation.

As for piling up computing power, that is also not easy to achieve. Currently, Xia Duo's strongest auxiliary computing device is the Wisdom Brain, but the essence of the Wisdom Brain is his Consciousness Copy, and the human brain—or rather, human consciousness—is actually not good at pure mathematical or graphical calculations. He still needs a real computer!

On the other hand, it is necessary to improve the detection precision of the Exploration Array. This is also not easy to achieve; the Red Heart Alliance has very little research in this area, and there is even less that can be used for reference.

Although Xia Duo has an improvement plan for the Exploration Array, the current improvements cannot bring about a qualitative leap in the detection precision of the Exploration Array.

【A novel app that has been running stably for many years, comparable to the old version of the book-chasing artifact, a source-changing app used by all old bookworms,】

If it weren't for the construction of the New Floating City, Xia Duo might not have planned to upgrade the Exploration Array at all!

But—

Algorithm optimization can also be achieved through slow accumulation, not to mention that the number of new Mages in the Tower of Time is growing, and geniuses in algorithms will always emerge.

As for computing power, the reason why a real magic-version computer could not be realized in the past was that the materials were not up to standard. Even the highest purity Mithril that Xia Duo possesses could hardly support the long-term operation of a Magic Computer, not to mention the cost issue.

Xia Duo previously conducted chip experiments in 【Projection Plane: Empire Remnants】. If that experiment were to be done in the Main Plane, the cost of a single experiment would be calculated in the millions at least. Who could afford that!

If one does not use chip experiments, then one must increase the volume, and the cost might not necessarily be lower than chips.

Let alone Xia Duo, even if Netheril used the power of the entire nation to do it, they could not afford it. The Magic Computer is inherently a thing that transcends the current era; it is very difficult to create at the current stage.

However, during his recent trip to the Projection Plane, Xia Duo brought back the latest Arcane String technology from the Red Heart Alliance. This type of pure spell-preparation material, which is already very close to the properties of a Magic Net String, not only has superior performance but also low cost.

It can be said that this material was born for the Magic Computer!

With a computer, even the most rudimentary prototype of a computer, as long as one piles up the quantity, it is easy to achieve a substantial increase in computing power!

As for the precision of the Exploration Array, Xia Duo previously discussed with the Seven Towers about using a Floating City for a trade, to have the Seven Towers return that mountain peak intercepted in the Strait Mountains.

A mere mountain peak could of course not be exchanged for a Floating City containing a Mythallar, so Xia Duo had other requirements, one of which was to demand that the Seven Towers provide plane exploration technology in exchange.

It is just a pity that the Seven Towers rejected this trade. The Seven Towers' refusal was more out of maintaining authority and face, unwilling to give up that mountain peak which had already served as the base for Xin Saiwendun, rather than anything else.

That is to say, this trade can still be continued, especially since one of the consensuses reached during the consultation of the New Covenant was that the Seven Towers needs to support sustainable development, although this initiative needs to be proposed by the Seven Towers.

Correspondingly, if they take the initiative to return the mountain peak to respond to their own initiative, this would not involve the issue of face, and then the previously failed trade could continue.

Moreover, because there are no factors other than the trade itself, the Seven Towers would need to pay a higher price to obtain the Floating City and its supporting Mythallar from Xia Duo.

It is expected that there will be no major problem in obtaining more advanced plane exploration technology this way. Then, after the Midsummer Festival, this year or at the latest next year, the Tower of Time's Plane Exploration Center will usher in a major innovation.

Perhaps in the near future, the Main Plane will usher in an era of great plane development.

……

Leaving the Plane Exploration Center, Xia Duo returned to the Laboratory to prepare for the Prophecy Ritual after the Midsummer Festival. This time, regardless of whether it will alert the enemy, he must thoroughly investigate the bottom of the Demon Descendants.

There are currently two things in the Main Plane that make him quite concerned: one is the collapse of the Dragon Madness Mythallar, and the other is the Demon Descendants.

For the former, he already knows the location of the Dragon Madness Mythallar Control Center in the Projection Plane. Such ancient facilities, he assumes, would not have too much deviation between the Main Plane and the Projection Plane; otherwise, that Projection Plane could not have developed to that stage at all.

History has inevitability, but contingency must never be ignored. Xia Duo believes that the change in the location of the Dragon Madness Mythallar Control Center would definitely lead to major changes in later history.

Because in Elf legends, the Dragon Madness Mythallar Control Center experienced many great wars, was attacked by dragons, and then protected by Elves, giving birth to a large number of legends until the end of the Dragon Era, thereby shaping the spiritual core of later Elves.

Once the location of such an important historical event changes, perhaps the continent disintegration event would not even have appeared later!

Therefore, Xia Duo believes that the Dragon Madness Mythallar Control Center of the Main Plane will also be in the Arctic. As long as that Control Center is found, there will be a very good fulcrum for repairing the Mythallar or safely dismantling it.

And the Demon Descendant problem is very troublesome. Even if he has mastered prophecy spells, Xia Duo is not sure if he can catch the Demon Descendants' tails, let alone that even if he finds the secrets of the Demon Descendants, he may not be able to solve the Demon Descendant problem.

On this issue, Xia Duo has very little confidence, because he knows too well how troublesome it is for a top Spellcaster to want to stir up trouble, not to mention that the Demon Descendants are far from being as simple as one or two top Spellcasters.

Whether they are invaders from different Time Lines, or Demon Descendants in the Main Plane who have awakened memories of different Time Lines, or if this was simply deliberately created by the Illuminati, none of this can change the fact that the Demon Descendants have mastered unconventional technology.

Even with the foundation of the Red Heart Alliance in his hands, Xia Duo does not dare to guarantee that he can properly solve the Demon Descendant problem. For the time being, he can only take it one step at a time and think of various ways to actively respond.