Chapter 3079: Laruian's Invitation, Laws of Plane Projection

After finishing the latest applicant materials for the Pre-calculation Library Project, Xia Duo pointed out several Mages he favored and instructed Charles to hurry and notify them to come for an interview.

The Researchers at the Psionic Network Research Center had all been interviewed by Xia Duo personally, so as long as they met the application requirements for the Pre-calculation Library Project, he approved them directly.

For Mages recruited from the outside, it was still necessary to meet them in person first; this could preemptively eliminate some hidden risks.

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During the morning, Xia Duo spent nearly half his time handling official business, though this was also because he had taken a trip to the Kingdom of Radiance a while ago, in addition to recent organizational structure adjustments and new recruitment matters.

Once this period passed, he should be able to be much more at leisure.

In fact, Xia Duo had long anticipated his current workload; after all, as a research institution under the Alliance, matters large and small would always appear frequently, and if he were afraid of trouble, he wouldn't have come at all.

But even in the midst of being busy, he often paid attention to the key projects of the Tower of Time, especially the Plane Exploration Middle School.

Because the Ether Boundary Exploration method brought by the golden dragon caused the number of new Planes to climb continuously, this also greatly promoted the advancement of research in the direction of the Ether Interlayer.

Xia Duo was very expectant of this, so his attention was inevitably a bit closer.

"Only when reaching the scale of a small Plane is it possible to produce a Projection in other Planes—those of medium scale or above."

"No, it is at Elder Charles's Golden Maple Manor. Inviting Consultant Xia Duo to attend the founding banquet of the Psionic Magic Society was entirely Kalishi's private initiative; the Elder and the Council are all unaware. The specific situation will be explained personally by Elder Charles this evening."

"That—"

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"Just as predicted before, only when a Plane's scale is large enough can it produce a Projection in other Planes, which is also what we usually call stars."

Saville did indeed arrive somewhat coincidentally, but Xia Duo did not believe that the Secret Box he had repeatedly inspected many times had any hidden connection; not to mention that this Secret Box was manufactured through Arcane Magic, even if it were Psionic Magic, he was not entirely ignorant.

At the same time, he inquired about the recent research progress regarding the Plane Projection mechanism, the ultimate goal of which was to directly locate the corresponding Planes through the stars in the sky; this also included the exploration of the sun, moon, and other common stars.

It could only be said that Saville's arrival was indeed somewhat coincidental.

"Tonight? Is it that banquet for the Psionic Magic Society?"

Using a small Spell to open the door, Bulaide did not come in; the one who entered was another somewhat unfamiliar Elf. Xia Duo had a vague impression, but not much. It looked like it should be Saville.

"And correspondingly, only when the scale is large enough can it allow other Planes to produce a Projection."

Hurriedly returning his consciousness to store the Psionic Artifact properly, Xia Duo returned his consciousness to his avatar, and at this moment he heard the Magic Alarm triggered by Bulaide.

"In the process of research, we have summarized a preliminary standard for Plane scale: only when reaching the level of a medium scale is it possible for stars to exist, which are also Projections from other Planes."

Therefore, he valued the process more than the result. In fact, many things he was doing now might not necessarily have any results, but he still did them; that was growth.

Regarding what Xia Duo said, Laruian could understand, but the obsession was also very difficult to eliminate. After a moment of silence, he turned to introduce the specific results—

"Then I won't disturb Consultant Xia Duo."

"There is no need to be too obsessed with the Principles. As long as you summarize enough, sufficiently accurate laws that can be used to guide future Ether Interlayer exploration, that will suffice. As long as you explore continuously, there will always be a day in the future when you can understand the Principles."

It was also fortunate that it was just a normal Psionic Artifact, otherwise Xia Duo would still have to consider whether to accept it or not, and now, just accepting it was fine.

One must know that when he was in Calimshan before, he had "devoured" a Lingneng Ambassador!

When talking about this topic, Laruian's interest was obviously much higher. Data analysis and such were things he was truly not good at. He always heard Xia Duo talking about things like data dimensionality reduction and algorithm optimization; his head felt like it could grow twice as big!

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"This also produced a not-so-good inference, which is—it is probably very difficult to locate the corresponding Plane body solely through Plane Projections!"

"I know, I will go over later." Xia Duo accepted Charles's invitation.

"Additionally, whether it can project is unrelated to the distance between the two Planes, or rather, the influence of the space-time state of the two Planes in the Ether Interlayer on the production of the Projection is negligible."

By around noon, Xia Duo finally remembered to check the so-called big gift that Kalishi had someone send him earlier, which was contained in a Secret Box and looked quite mysterious.

But before he could return his consciousness to his main body, Bulaide suddenly came to ask, "Supervisor Saville from the intelligence department wants to see you; shall I arrange for him to go to the Reception Room?"

After simply playing with this Psionic Artifact that looked like a Crystal spire ornament, Xia Duo prepared to send it to the Tower of Time to be used as a research sample.

After closing the door, Xia Duo invited Saville to sit down and talk, but the other party refused, "Sitting is unnecessary. I learned of Consultant Xia Duo's encounter from Dumu and specifically asked the Council of Elders. The inside story of this matter is complex; the Council has entrusted Elder Charles to explain it to you personally. My coming here this time is to invite you to meet this evening on behalf of Elder Charles."

Xia Duo had long passed the age where he had to get to the bottom of everything. He knew deeply that there would always be a portion of Principles and laws in this world that were unknown to him, and that was the meaning of exploration and discovery.

After thinking carefully for a long while, he couldn't think of any possibilities, so he simply decided that he would be able to see Charles in the evening and hoped there would be a satisfactory explanation then.

Time flew by. Once Xia Duo got off work, he immediately returned his consciousness to his main body, first accompanied Niya to finish dinner, during which they chatted about the progress of Niya's Mythallar research, and afterwards went to see Laruian to exchange data analysis progress used for analyzing the space-time state of the Ether Interlayer.

"The number of confirmed new Planes is increasing, and we have already summarized many laws regarding the generation of Plane Projections, but the Principles within them are still unknown for the time being; it is speculated that it is related to the origin of the Universe's birth."

"Please ask him to come to my office!"

Before Xia Duo could be surprised, Laruian stated another inference that could be called explosive, "After this period of observation and research, we discovered that large Planes are probably not as few as Pulitatisi said, so few that there is only one in a region."

As a result, when he opened it to look, it was just a Psionic Artifact that looked relatively crude. As for its actual function, it required the user to set it themselves, which was also a characteristic of Psionic Artifacts.

Saville came abruptly and left in a hurry, which also made Xia Duo even more confused. How could the Evereska side allow Kalishi to establish the Psionic Magic Society, yet be so secretive and even say the inside story was complex? What exactly could be so complex about it?

Of course, if the user's requirements exceeded the upper limit that the Magic Artifact could support, then that would certainly be impossible to achieve; otherwise, wouldn't one be able to be omniscient and omnipotent just like that?

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