Chapter 2585: Repulsion Limit, Plane Collapse

"There is actually a repulsive force between planes?!"

This discovery truly left Xia Duo feeling both shocked and delighted; shocked because his previous experimental design had not accounted for this factor, and this experiment would likely end in failure.

Delighted because this new discovery was a huge step forward in researching the nature of planes, and by correcting the experimental design based on this finding, the next experiment might just succeed!

Subsequently, Xia Duo tried everything, but could not make the two planes get any closer; they just kept sliding against each other at a certain distance, or rather, at their surfaces.

The experiment was a failure, but fortunately, the Demiplane was not destroyed and could still be used for the next experiment; coupled with the one currently being manufactured by the World Incubator, it should be enough to complete this part of the research.

Next, Xia Duo first changed direction to continue researching the plane-restraint methods parsed from the Arctic Magic Trace; he had a premonition that through this method, he should be able to break through the limit of plane repulsion.

During the research process, Xia Duo sighed from time to time that the contact of the Material Plane did not have to be like the Ether Plane and the Astral Plane; the latter two planes were in contact with the Material Plane almost all the time and everywhere, which is why Teleportation Spells had always used those two planes as a medium.

In addition to macroscopic contact outside the planes, the Material Plane could also perform plane overlap through the Ether Plane as a medium; the principle of plane Teleportation Spells was exactly this, but it was only a momentary event.

Long-term plane overlap could very likely lead to unforeseen consequences, either local collapse within the plane or the collision and fusion of the plane bodies themselves; Xia Duo was not very certain now about exactly what would happen.

After all, these were only analyses based on existing theories without actual experiments; if there weren't so many things going on, with the World Incubator in hand, he would have conducted relevant experiments long ago.

The Plane Domain had too many unknowns; to say nothing else, the recently discovered phenomenon of plane repulsion had never been discovered by anyone before, or perhaps it had been discovered but they chose not to make it public.

To be honest, Xia Duo still harbored doubts about the birth of the Create Demiplane spell to this day; with Netheril's current understanding of the Plane Domain, let alone inventing this spell, it might be very difficult to even touch the threshold of invention.

Of course, there might also be coincidences involved, where luck exploded and it was suddenly invented, or it simply came from a Nether Scroll or other ancient secret scrolls.

There was a set in the Nether Scrolls specifically for recording Plane Mechanisms, from which Xia Duo himself had benefited greatly, but there were very few specific spells among them; most were research records of ancient Spellcasters, and with multiple systems mixed together, just reading and understanding them was difficult, let alone further research.

If not for the Demon Descendant and the Dragon Madness Mythallar, these rotten things, he might now be holed up in a Floating City conducting plane research, and the fighting and killing outside would have nothing to do with him.

But the Demon Descendant wanted to subvert the Time Line, and the Dragon Madness Mythallar could destroy the Main Plane; Xia Duo found it truly difficult to stay out of it, and so he was dragged into this.

"Sigh! This world really doesn't let one have their way at all!" Xia Duo sighed from the bottom of his heart.

If he could find a way to navigate freely in the Ether Interlayer, he might choose to take his subjects and begin a true plane voyage, leaving this chaotic Main Plane.

Of course, Xia Duo knew very well in his heart that wherever there are people, there is conflict; what he wanted to find were also large Habitable Planes similar to the Main Plane. If the Main Plane had crises, wouldn't those planes have them too?

If he didn't look for a Habitable Plane, was he supposed to just keep wandering forever?

Xia Duo did not believe that a constantly wandering civilization could develop any great achievements; if possible, he still hoped to solve the problem on the Main Plane, and then use the Main Plane as a foundation to constantly explore and expand outward.

Before he knew it, another two days passed, and Xia Duo made a new breakthrough in his research on plane restraint, though he still could not perform restraint within the plane; he had only increased the precision of the restraint.

However, whether or not to perform restraint within the plane did not have much impact on the subsequent plane contact experiment, because he was mainly operating on the Main Plane, which was already outside the plane.

Plane contact experiment, Demiplane 1.

This time there was no need to install any new equipment, but Xia Duo still debugged the existing equipment, and in the process, he also adjusted his own emotions.

He strove to commit to the experiment in the best state, regardless of whether it was himself or this equipment.

Subsequently, while casting spells, Xia Duo divided part of his attention to keep an eye on the status and readings of each piece of equipment; what he was most concerned about now was, of course, the equipment monitoring the status of the Demiplane.

During the previous experiment, it was the status of the Demiplane that changed first, and afterwards, the Time Anchoring of the Demiplane also had problems.

But now, until his spell was more than halfway complete and he had already begun to truly exert force outside the plane, the Time Anchoring of the Demiplane remained intact, and the state of the Demiplane itself once again showed the previous unstable state.

This was caused by the Demiplane's meager volume being interfered with by the Main Plane's massive volume; at the same time, perhaps there was also the factor of internal compressive force triggered by the repulsive force when the two planes approached.

The Main Plane's massive volume certainly didn't care, but this Demiplane's volume probably couldn't even compare to a single leg hair of the Main Plane!

From the readings on those monitoring devices, Xia Duo could almost imagine the creaking sounds emitted by the Demiplane under his feet under the immense pressure, signaling its imminent collapse.

"Is this experiment going to end in failure again?"

Xia Duo couldn't help but be distracted, but the next moment, the readings of the Scrying equipment monitoring the Main Plane's status suddenly changed drastically; Xia Duo suppressed his inner excitement and continued casting, striving to obtain more readings.

At the same time, the equipment monitoring the Demiplane also sounded an alarm again, but this time Xia Duo didn't even look, still continuing to cast, forcing the Plane Barrier of the two planes to break through the limit of repulsion and approach constantly.

He didn't know how much time had passed when Xia Duo suddenly felt his body lighten, as if gravity had lost its effect, but fortunately, he was in his true form now; the Bloodline Ability of "Cloud-Treading" could ignore the influence of gravity, it was just that he didn't want to appear so special when usually on the Main Plane, so he would deliberately self-limit.

But now that the plane's gravity had suddenly changed, his Bloodline Ability was automatically activated as a matter of course, regaining control over his own state.

At the same time, because all the equipment he prepared operated based on independent Miniature Mythallars and his own Mythallar, they were minimally affected during this plane fluctuation.

It couldn't be said there was none, but it indeed did not affect the plane contact experiment Xia Duo was currently conducting.

However, the sudden change in plane gravity was clearly a collapse warning issued by this Demiplane as it was about to be unable to withstand the pressure of the Main Plane!

Out of safety considerations, Xia Duo hurriedly packed up the experimental equipment around him, leaving only the Mythallar there to maintain a certain inertia of plane restraint, while he himself quickly ran away!