Chapter 2711: The Porcelain Constraint Plan

Having understood the several major elements of managing an Element Ranch, Xia Duo's next goal became very clear: he must find a way to gather these elements.

Xia Duo already possessed an Elemental Plane, and obtaining an Element Elder was not difficult for him; the four Elder-level Elemental Essences the Mairide Family had gifted him previously could all be used to revive an Element Elder.

The difficult part was how to control it; he would likely have to find a way to do that through the Mairide Family or from Calimshan.

Furthermore, the specific process of breeding also needed to be obtained from the south, but considering his current status and position, as well as the fact that Spirit Automation had not yet been exposed, Calimshan should not completely refuse him.

In other words, these were all things that could potentially be obtained through trade with the Calimshan side, including using Arcane Crystal to directly manufacture Elemental Gemstone.

Of course, Xia Duo could potentially break through many of the difficulties involved here on his own, and there might even be ways to control the Element Elder, but fumbling for the entrance as an outsider is certainly not as fast as being led by an insider.

Currently, all affairs of the Tower of Time and the Territory were on the right track; what followed was using time to complete those established plans bit by bit.

Under these circumstances, settling the matter of elemental breeding appeared somewhat prominent and even urgent, because the progress of this matter was difficult to link directly to time.

Therefore, if there was no news from the Mairide Family, Xia Duo would need to consider personally making a trip to Calimshan.

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Linshui Village, the eastern workshop district.

Upon receiving the message from Laidun, Xia Duo came here immediately after sending off Talafu. Compared to half a month ago, the current workshop district was no longer a wasteland, but rather orderly planned with buildings standing in great numbers.

Of course, the planned area of the workshop district was originally very large, and the Territory workshops that had been relocated or rebuilt so far only used less than one-third of the total area.

But one could already preliminarily feel the vitality of future development.

The reason Laidun invited him to visit this time was the Mo Jiao Guai Yang Zhi Chang that had been urgently arranged for construction half a month ago; Xia Duo attached great importance to the Magic Glue industry and rushed over immediately after receiving the news.

When he arrived at the workshop district, Laidun, Yi Nu Wei Qi, Jieyi, and Kaide from the Logistics Department were already waiting at the entrance.

"Lord Territory Lord."

"Teacher."

"No need for formalities, quickly take me to see the Magic Glue breeding farm you have built!"

Relying on his memory, Xia Duo entered the workshop district first. The current Daxia Territory could not yet build factory buildings with large internal spans, so although the buildings here appeared neat and numerous, the deepest impression they left on Xia Duo was that they were small and cramped.

However, this was the inevitable path for the development of the Territory's architecture. Xia Duo did not intend to interfere much for the time being. Perhaps only after the New Wind Art Exhibition co-hosted with Evereska ended in a while and the Vidas Workshop was introduced to the Territory could a qualitative change occur.

Of course, Xia Duo introducing the Elf architectural workshop was not to copy the Elf architectural style, but to hope to keep advanced construction and design techniques in the Territory.

Architectural style concerns the spirit of the Territory, so it naturally needs to draw nourishment from the local area and be developed by the local people themselves.

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Soon, in the southeast corner of the workshop district, Xia Duo saw sixteen workshop buildings arranged like a matrix in four rows and four columns. A wooden sign was inserted outside the building closest to the main road of the workshop district, on which it was clearly written—

"Daxia Territory Linshui Town Mo Jiao Guai Yang Zhi Chang, Linshui Workshop District No. 21".

"Who will introduce it to me?" Xia Duo looked behind him, his gaze sweeping over everyone, and finally landing on Laidun.

"Yes, Lord Territory Lord."

Laidun responded and stepped out, pushing open the door to the first—factory building. The first thing that came into view was a square pool with a smooth, translucent bottom and four walls. Compared to the total area inside the building, only a two-foot walkway remained around the square pool.

As Laidun pointed to the pool inside the building, he introduced: "The pool inside here is the breeding pool for the Magic Glue monster. According to the research of Yi Nu Wei Qi and the others, the Magic Glue monster can devour metal, plants, meat, and even soil.

"Conventional means simply cannot make the Magic Glue monster stay in one place peacefully, so breeding was out of the question. But there is one thing the Magic Glue monster cannot devour, or rather, cannot digest even if it does."

"It's porcelain, right?" Xia Duo looked at the four walls of the square pool inside the building, which showed a clear glazed luster; it was obviously not constructed from ordinary stone.

"Correct, Lord Territory Lord has eyes like torches!"

Laidun continued to introduce: "During the construction process, we initially tried laying porcelain tiles, but the gaps between the tiles could not be completely filled, which would become a convenient passage for the Magic Glue monster to escape.

"So the square pool the Lord Territory Lord sees now is actually the most difficult part of the entire breeding farm to complete. It was not pieced together, but fired as a complete whole.

"Such a large piece of porcelain completely exceeded the limits of the Territory's past porcelain making, and the Porcelain Workshop had to redesign and build a special porcelain kiln for this."

Listening to Laidun's introduction, Xia Duo looked at the square pool inside the building again, and the feeling was completely different. Just a moment ago, he thought the pool might have been created using Magic, but he did not expect it to have been fired by a group of ordinary people in the Territory's Porcelain Workshop, relying entirely on the means of ordinary people.

Such craftsmanship could be called a miracle even in his hometown. Right now, the square pool he saw was nearly four meters wide and one meter deep.

Such a massive piece of porcelain, even taking into account the factors of the differences in porcelain-making Principles and techniques between this world and Earth, was definitely not easy to achieve.

It could be said that this was a crystallization of the hard work and Wisdom of all the members of the Territory's Porcelain Workshop!

For a moment, Xia Duo actually regretted his initial dismissal of this matter. He had originally thought that building a Magic Glue breeding farm might only require finding a Mage to come and set up a Constraint Array.

Laidun also had the Permission Level to issue tasks and even conscript Mages in the Tower of Time. The result that surprised him was that Laidun chose a more difficult, but perhaps more suitable, plan.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo could not help but ask: "Did you not try using Spells to limit the Magic Glue monster's range of activity?"

"Of course we tried, but it was fine for a short time. After a long time, various accidents would occur. The most frequent situation was the Magic Glue monster devouring the Constraint Array. Secondly, the constraint loopholes that appeared when the array operated for a long time or during maintenance would allow the Magic Glue monster to escape."

What Laidun did not say was that if the Spell restriction plan were adopted, the Magic Glue breeding farm would have to be equipped with a certain number of Mages to check and regularly maintain the status of the Constraint Array at all times, as well as to deal with emergencies.

But if the porcelain constraint plan were adopted, judging by the current scale of the breeding farm, it could be looked after by ordinary people paired with only two or three Mages, thereby saving more precious Mage resources.