Chapter 2999: Differences in Technical Routes, Basic Research

Badijiaer did not quite understand Xia Duo's request, but he still agreed to convene a council meeting specifically for this purpose and propose it in the name of the Seven Towers.

Re-signing a more rigorous Confidentiality Agreement regarding the Mythallar also aligned with the interests of the Seven Towers; after all, they were now vested interests as well.

As for Iolum, he had actually realized it by this moment and had already sent a message privately to inquire, "Is Pulitatisi related to the Holy Golden Dragon Empire that Saville once visited?"

Xia Duo only replied with a "Yes," and Iolum knew what he should do, though Xia Duo also reminded him again, "Do not reveal the existence of the Holy Golden Dragon Empire; for Netheril at present, maintaining a certain information advantage is very important."

"I understand, wait for my news."

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Afterwards, Xia Duo interrupted the communication and met the inquisitive gaze of Saville opposite him, explaining: "The Mythallar has an extraordinary role in this method of exploring new Planes through the Ether Boundary. I reminded the teacher and the Seven Towers to convene everyone to re-sign a stricter Confidentiality Agreement."

"I only realized it after you said that; it should be this way. If the Holy Golden Dragon Empire obtained the Mythallar, then I am afraid we would have no choice but to join them!"

Whenever the Holy Golden Dragon Empire was mentioned, Saville's tone always carried a complex emotion mixed with awe, yearning, and a trace of resistance.

"Let's not talk about that. I have finished reading all the materials you brought back. To be honest, I stayed in the Holy Golden Dragon Empire for a full four years, yet I never came into contact with those materials. I really don't know if they suddenly emerged in those few years, or if the lower levels were hiding them deeply at the time."

As for what the threshold is, Xia Duo roughly knows there are these two aspects—

As an eyewitness who returned from a foreign land, Pulita was more inclined to believe the former was the truth.

Thus, in the process of rushing over, the extraterrestrials tried every means to obstruct Earth's technological progress, and in the end, the two sides only reached a brief peace through the threat of destruction.

But the opportunity for the Main Plane to develop independently might also no longer exist!

In the early stages, active detection might indeed have better results, but once passive data analysis crosses a certain threshold, it will be inexhaustible thereafter, far exceeding the effects of active detection.

If one wants to conduct in-depth research, I am afraid it will be difficult beyond measure.

The former is active, the latter is passive.

Therefore, Netheril's new Plane exploration route is closer to basic research, while the Holy Golden Dragon Empire's new Plane exploration route is closer to the in-depth development of some ready-made technology.

Or rather, would the other side try to obstruct the Main Plane's magic development in advance?

"It should be true, but it still needs to be verified. If it is confirmed to be true, then so much work we did to explore new Planes would have been in vain!"

But by performing dimensionality reduction analysis on those data, it is possible to discover the essence of the Ether Interlayer. As for new Planes, they might just be a small harvest picked up in the process of exploring the essence of the Ether Interlayer.

Either there is a huge difference in the flow of time between two domains with different space-time states, or the upper echelons of the Holy Golden Dragon Empire hide information related to cross-domain travel very deeply.

"Our current technical route is only lacking a bit of development time. Once we cross a certain threshold, our efficiency and accuracy in discovering new Planes will definitely far exceed that of the Holy Golden Dragon Empire."

And now, with the Cross-Domain Teleportation Link not yet built, time is temporarily still on the side of the Main Plane; this is the Main Plane's opportunity to overtake on a bend.

Since Xia Duo knows of the existence of the Ether Boundary, it is naturally possible for him to penetrate the essence of the Ether Boundary and even develop further spell applications based on it.

Improving perception precision is easy, but improving analysis methods is not. Taking the detection data collected by the Tower of Time as an example, the data dimension is as high as over a thousand, used to precisely describe the space-time state of the Ether Interlayer.

If there are no surprises, the other side should pay attention to the Main Plane's magic development. Once they discover that the Main Plane might surpass the Holy Golden Dragon Empire, what would they do?

Although this is just a story, it can also provide inspiration to Xia Duo, and that is the Sa Wei Er Ti Si currently stranded on the Main Plane.

The most pathetic thing is that most countries on the Main Plane are still in the classical period and have not formed a clear collective consciousness; being accepted and assimilated by an advanced civilization might actually be what they desperately hope for!

Of course, it is also possible that Sa Wei Er Ti Si has reservations and did not provide the relevant Principles regarding the Ether Boundary, having only a technical manual that can only teach the Netherese to use this means to discover new Planes.

"Do not easily deny yourself!"

When saying these things, Pulita himself had actually already obtained the answer. Even if he returned to the Main Plane a few years earlier than the arrival of Sa Wei Er Ti Si, a mere few years would likely not be enough for the Holy Golden Dragon Empire to develop such perfect technology.

But it is still the same point: the emergence of new fields and new technologies itself implies the existence of new theories, just as if Sa Wei Er Ti Si only knew of the existence of the Mythallar, it might be possible for him to develop a Mythallar similar to Dragon Magic on his own.

One is the perception precision of the Perception Field projected into the Ether Interlayer, and the other is the analysis method for the detection data.

Even if the Teleportation Link construction were truly completed and connected to the Holy Golden Dragon Empire, that would indeed be a retreat path when the Main Plane faces an extinction crisis, even if the Holy Golden Dragon Empire were truly willing to accept the living beings of the Main Plane—

Let alone building a Cross-Domain Teleportation Link to the Public Domain!

Xia Duo saw that Pulita's emotions were a bit off and immediately reminded him, "The Plane exploration method we chose before does indeed differ from the Holy Golden Dragon Empire's method, but that can only be said to be a difference in technical routes, not about the superiority or inferiority of the technology itself. Speaking of which, I am even more inclined to believe that our technical route is more brilliant and closer to the essence of the Plane!"

But Netheril's traditional Ether Interlayer route is like spreading an antenna array on Earth to receive electromagnetic signals from outer space, determining the position and attributes of a planet through signal analysis.

This reminded Xia Duo of a science fiction story from his hometown: extraterrestrials need hundreds of years to reach Earth, but if they really rushed over so foolishly, they might find not a backward Earth, but an Earth that had undergone several major technological explosions.

Of course, these thousand-plus dimensions are more of Xia Duo's artificial definition; it is not to say that one must use over a thousand states to define the Ether Interlayer. This is mainly because Xia Duo's understanding of the Ether Interlayer is still very shallow and he can only do it this way.

To describe it with an example from Earth, the Holy Golden Dragon Empire's Ether Boundary route is a bit like detecting targets in the outside world through sonar; the higher the sonar power, the wider the detection range.

"Then what do you think of this Ether Boundary theory?" Xia Duo asked.

From this perspective, the so-called Cross-Domain Teleportation Link Project might just be a smokescreen to paralyze the Main Plane, wasting a large amount of manpower and material resources on such a massive project, while other areas will inevitably have deficiencies.