Chapter 2564: Continuing the Search and Creating a Scanner

All lords will attend the plenary meeting, and there are certainly turncoats among them, so there is not much need for confidentiality for this meeting.

This is actually the advantage of the new system: discussing everything on the table as much as possible, with nothing that cannot be said to others; even if the Elven Nations find out, what can they do?

To some extent, this is also one of the important ways to eliminate misjudgment in the process of international exchanges.

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Xia Duo did not interfere too much in how the remote meeting plan should be designed; handing it over to Niya was partly to reduce his own workload, but also to train Niya.

Leading and presiding over the completion of a new project is the best way to train someone; Xia Duo is very clear about whether he is exploiting or cultivating her.

Regarding members of the Tower of Time, Xia Duo more or less harbors some thoughts of exploitation; after all, in the starting stage of a new era, it is impossible for things to be too easy. It is not just others; Xia Duo is also exploiting himself, otherwise he could have lived much more easily.

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His consciousness returned to the Arctic, and his avatar remained in the same place. After these days of searching, Xia Duo has become quite familiar with this region of the Arctic that was originally very unfamiliar.

It is just that this is still not enough for him to quickly find the location of the Mythallar Control Center.

If things go slightly against their wishes, they threaten with world-destruction; that is not impossible, but highly likely.

As long as he finds the target, Xia Duo can use his Personal Space to conduct a further inspection, instead of using the Personal Space to check everything from beginning to end; that is reality. The latter would almost require Xia Duo to check inch by inch, and it is under the ice, so the search difficulty is far greater than in a normal environment.

What he worries about most is that the Main Plane, like the Projection Plane of the Red Heart Alliance, has had its Mythallar Control Center controlled by the Elven Nations. If the Elves master such a weapon of mass destruction, they will truly be impossible to appease and impossible to cross.

Therefore, Xia Duo also needs to scan for Rare Element Abundance in that area. Although from the surface, there are no ancient fortresses in this area, if there were, it would be highly likely to affect the proportion of rare elements in this area.

Xia Duo first made a single-core Independent Arcane Fire Device, which is also a small Mythallar based on the new technology from the Red Heart Alliance. He will be searching the Arctic region frequently from now on, and having a Mythallar will be much more convenient.

If a weapon of mass destruction like the Dragon Madness Mythallar were to fall into their hands, Xia Duo is afraid he would not be able to sleep peacefully.

Compared to the Elven Nations in the Red Heart Alliance's Projection Plane, no matter how high his personal search efficiency is, it cannot compare to them deploying a massive number of searchers to search everywhere.

The avatar remains motionless, and his consciousness returns to his main body in the Floating City Level 3 Laboratory.

The "rare elements" here are different from the rare gases on Earth; they differ from normal elements in nature, but are defined purely from the perspective of existence proportion, or they can also be called "Rare Element Abundance."

The only thing to be thankful for is that because it is under the ice, he does not need to worry about being discovered even if he makes a slightly larger commotion, unless someone is truly dim-witted enough to set up a fixed monitoring point hundreds of meters under the ice.

In other words, unless ancient elven fortresses are evenly distributed on all cliff walls, there is a high probability that there are no elven fortresses here; in fact, it can be said that there are no non-natural magical phenomena.

Its main function is to detect the proportion of elements within a certain range; in fact, what it searches is the physical ice layer, but it is represented by elements.

If that were really the case, Xia Duo might be even happier, because that might mean he is not far from discovering the Mythallar Control Center.

If he compares manpower with the Elves, he certainly cannot win, but as the old saying goes, "A gentleman's nature is not different, but he is good at using things"; he is going to make a specialized search device that will increase his efficiency by more than a hundredfold!

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As soon as this thought arose in Xia Duo's mind, he suppressed it. He would rather continue to make some noise himself than seek help from the Seventon Council.

"Should I let Niya bring it up at the councilor meeting in ten days?"

It is not that doing so is too energy-consuming; he even hopes to check the entire Arctic region this way.

Xia Duo is not disappointed; he has seen such results too many times these days, and there will be more later. He just sighed briefly and adjusted his previous spell-checking method based on the results of the Personal Space inspection.

This is an auxiliary tool specifically designed for Arctic searching, which Xia Duo calls the 【Small-Range High-Precision Element Detector】, or 【Element Scanning】 for short.

Bullying the weak is not an elven tradition, but judging from our past experience with Netheril, they have indeed done so.

After finishing these, he continued to search the next area. The Northland is so large that even searching only the edge of the continent cannot be completed in a short time.

Therefore, Xia Duo is very clear that what he needs to do now is not to search as quickly as possible, but to summarize experience during the search process and find a practical and efficient search plan.

After passing through a stretch of primitive tidal flat terrain, he encountered a stretch of cliff terrain again. Xia Duo cheered up and first used Element Perception to conduct a preliminary screening of this cliff terrain with the help of the large amount of ice in the environment.

And now, he has roughly figured out a plan. After two more days of searching and summarizing, he feels that the experience summary is almost enough, and he can truly exert his strength.

However, Xia Duo's scanning area does not include the continental part, only the ice part outside the continent in that area.

Even Xia Duo himself cannot prevent the psychology of bullying the weak and can only try his best to restrain it, let alone the Elven Nations who have a history of doing so.

Afterwards, he continued to use Arcane Strings to turn the series of search spells he summarized while searching for elven fortresses in the Arctic a while ago into Magic Items, and used a small Mythallar to power them separately.

And most importantly, despite his increasing search efficiency these days, the searched area still only accounts for a vast proportion compared to the unsearched edge of the continent.

The result had nothing special. If it were tidal flat terrain, Xia Duo could have gone to search the next section, but this is cliff terrain, which is the place most likely to have ancient elven fortresses.

After scanning, Xia Duo was disappointed again, because the Rare Element Abundance in this area was not significantly different from the cliff terrain searched before.

Of course, it is not over at this step. Xia Duo's "inch-by-inch search" is really not just talk, but he actually did it.

Fortunately, after these days of searching, Xia Duo has roughly summarized a search process: only search the original tidal flat terrain simply, and focus on searching the primitive cliff terrain.

Next, he began to completely overlap his Personal Space with this cliff area, using the perspective of the Personal Space to make the final check.

At present, he is the only one who knows the possible location of the Mythallar Control Center. Once he tells the Council, this secret will likely be difficult to keep.

"I can only suffer a bit myself!"

"Unfortunately, there is none again!"

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Under the ice, the elements with the highest abundance are undoubtedly water and wind; these are the two most important elements that make up ice. As for earth and fire, they are more the constituent elements of the continent.