Chapter 2789: Standard Reception Procedure

Xia Duo met Talafu at Hengchun Square, after which the two walked toward the Tower of Time located in the Research Layer; during this process, Xia Duo also took the opportunity to introduce the basic situation of the Floating City to Talafu.

"We just passed through the Public Zone, which can also be called the Commercial Area; it mainly accommodates various commercial and public institutions. Now, we are heading to the Education Zone."

"As you know, Talafu, the Floating City itself is a massive sphere. The Education Zone is located further inside, but the vast majority of it is still empty right now. The current total population of Daxia Territory cannot yet support a school of such scale."

Xia Duo did not hide his emphasis on and expectations for education. After quickly walking through the Education Zone, they arrived at the destination of this trip—

The Research Zone.

This could be considered the area with the most popularity in the Floating City, aside from the Public Zone.

As the number of new Mages in the Tower of Time increased day by day, it had become very difficult for the Tower of Time, as a Mage Tower, to simultaneously support such a volume of new Mages in conducting various Magic activities.

Most of the larger Independent Research Labs had already relocated to the Research Zone of the Floating City, and the Tower of Time had replaced them with more standard Laboratories.

Spirit Thought Networks, Learning Machines, and the like were all used as usual, so there was really no one who didn't want to move; after all, even if spatial expansion was performed inside the Tower of Time, it was still somewhat cramped, far less spacious than the Floating City.

Not to mention some delicate Spell experiments; the conditions of the Laboratories built in the Tower of Time long ago were not as good as the standard Laboratories recently built in the Floating City.

Basically, as long as an Independent Research Lab wanted to pursue something in the field of Magic, not only would they not resist moving to the Floating City, but they would instead actively seek out opportunities to relocate.

After all, the number of Laboratories here in the Floating City was limited. Those who arrived first could choose their location first. There wasn't much difference in the standard Laboratories themselves, but it was very difficult for the locations of the Laboratories to be exactly the same.

Those closer to the Tower of Time could meet with old friends more conveniently and also conveniently travel to Savile Town through the Portal inside the Tower of Time.

And if one were closer to the Central Passage, it would be convenient to go to the Public Level to hang out or travel to the Code Plaza in Linshui Town through the Portal there.

Or, if one preferred it to be quieter, one could also choose a more secluded location, which could minimize being disturbed.

In addition, there were those who prioritized the surrounding environment or considered the distribution of future peers. In short, not everyone wanted to stay together.

Xia Duo satisfied these different choices as much as possible. Although the standard Laboratories were built in specific locations, the reason they were called standard Laboratories was that many standards were set during construction, one of which was that they were movable.

When the Floating City was built, many physical Mythallar interfaces were left in the Research Zone. In order to regulate and control the energy usage of the Research Zone, standard Laboratories were uniformly only allowed to link to these physical interfaces and did not have a direct connection with the external Magic Net.

This made these standard Laboratories themselves a relatively independent existence, similar to quasi-Magic Items that were not linked to the Magic Net.

Using an electricity meter as an analogy, it was roughly that the Tower of Time forbade Independent Research Labs from setting up private power grids; all consumption in the Laboratory had to go through the official circuits of the Tower of Time and use official meters.

This kind of design was certainly not something thought up on a whim, and its main purpose was not to place restrictions on the Laboratories. On the contrary, since it could serve as a standard for Laboratories, it naturally had its important significance as a standard.

Although the external Magic Net was convenient, it was also easily "cut off" by others, not to mention the influence between Laboratories; and what a Laboratory needed most was a stable environment.

If Magic Net abnormalities occurred at every turn, then how could this Laboratory be used?

This was the main reason. Regulating energy usage was another perspective. The Research Zone did not necessarily only have Laboratories; other Magic buildings also needed to use Mythallar functions, but there were no excessive restrictions on linking to the Magic Net—the Mythallar itself already had restrictions.

The benefits of standard Laboratories were not only for the users; for Xia Duo, it was the same. Once the decision was made to activate the New Floating City in the future, these standard Laboratories could be moved directly over in a nearly lossless state.

And there would be no need to repeat the construction process.

Therefore, even though most of the basic construction of Chang'an City had stopped now, the construction of standard Laboratories had not stopped; it had only slowed down slightly due to a shortage of manpower.

Xia Duo introduced the various settings of the Research Zone to Talafu along the way, and before he knew it, he had walked to the front of the Tower of Time. To be honest, with the Tower of Time's archaic design placed in a place with a more modern style like the Research Zone, there was somewhat of a sense of incongruity.

But it was not easy to renovate the Tower of Time. Repairing and patching the interior was fine, but if one wanted to renovate the exterior, it would be quite strenuous. Of course, changing the color was still possible, but even if the color were changed, this design would still allow people to see its alternative nature at a glance.

However, the Magic Aura it emitted was real and undeniable. Even from far away, one could feel it, and this aura was not just in the Main Plane, but extended to the Ether Plane and even the Shadow Plane, which could be called all-around, no-dead-angle Protection.

The time when the Tower of Time moved to the Floating City was even earlier than Xia Duo's visit to Calimshan. In the past, Talafu had also been to the Tower of Time, but he had never approached the Tower of Time from the outside.

With Talafu's knowledge, at this moment, he could not help but be surprised by this most powerful Magic Creation of Netheril before the birth of the Floating City.

Before the birth of the Floating City, the Tower of Time could indeed be called the highest-spec Mage Tower in Netheril. It might not have been the most powerful, but even if it were not the most powerful, its majestic and heavy aura still highlighted its powerful nature, which was completely different from ordinary million-level Mage Towers.

However, Talafu could be considered well-informed. Furthermore, he had already seen the Floating City, so he would not be shocked by a Mage Tower; being slightly surprised was already quite rare.

"Talafu, this can also be considered my home. Please!"

Following Xia Duo's invitation, a Portal with a stable Magic Aura appeared on the surface of the Tower of Time. Since he was hosting a guest, Xia Duo did not use the Tower of Time's own Portal, but instead had the Floating City open a Portal to connect the inside and outside of the Tower of Time.

After all, the experience of the Tower of Time's Portal, which felt like being soaked in the deep sea until nearly fainting, was really not suitable for Talafu to use. Of course, that kind of Portal itself had its own significance, which was being able to judge the threat level of the person passing through, whether they were carrying dangerous goods, and so on.

Now that the Tower of Time was parked inside the Floating City, there was no need to be overly nervous, and he also believed that Talafu would not be so unwise as to cause destruction in the lair of his lair.

Behind the Portal was not some other place, but the Xiu Xi Shi of the Tower of Time. Just now, on the way to the Tower of Time, Xia Duo saw that Talafu was in a poor state, so he temporarily changed the itinerary.

He changed the original meeting into a rest, and even thoughtfully created a rich Wind Element environment in the Xiu Xi Shi to accelerate Talafu's recovery speed.