Chapter 3127: Myth Lock Interaction Protocol Get!

As for what difficult problem to pose to stump Kalishi, Xia Duo had actually already decided during Kalishi's spellcasting, and after a final consideration, he stated the topic:

"I want to know the interaction protocol between a Unified Mythallar and a Subordinate Mythallar; this should be answerable, right?"

If Kalishi could answer it, Xia Duo could directly obtain a Unified Mythallar scheme. He had long planned to upgrade the Tower of Time's Communication Mythallar into a Unified Mythallar; there were limits to updating the Communication Mythallar itself, and only by structuring it as a Unified Mythallar could more expansion possibilities be gained.

Like Yierlan, which originally had Mythallars scattered throughout the country, they began to unify the various Mythallars after their centralized reform. However, their choice was not to dismantle the existing Mythallars and build new ones, but to establish an entirely new Mythallar and bring all local Mythallars under its unified management.

This is a Unified Mythallar.

Keman was also such a scheme—unified after the fact. The only difference was Yierfalan, which had been planned from the very beginning as a Unified Mythallar covering the entire territory.

The Tower of Time's Communication Mythallar had great potential to be a Unified Mythallar, but the various Elf nations kept Unified Mythallar technology very strictly hidden. The reason Xia Duo knew about Unified Mythallars was thanks to his experiences in the Projection Plane.

But none of the Projection Planes he experienced had reached the era of building Unified Mythallars; only the Projection Plane Red Heart Alliance had taken the other path of Adaptive Mythallars—brute-forcing functional components.

This could also be called a Unified Mythallar, but every Mythallar update was a massive project. Xia Duo did not want to abandon the Red Heart Alliance's Mythallar component route, but at the same time, he also wanted to follow the Unified Mythallar route.

Those two were mutually regressive and mutually reinforcing. Just like in this Projection Plane, the Red Heart Alliance and the Evereska Alliance were hostile to each other, making technical exchange difficult, which was why so few applications could be produced.

The trace of trust that had just risen immediately withered away.

The result left Xia Duo somewhat disappointed; it was the latter. Kalishi asked him to supplement the details of the question, at least providing the types and characteristics of the Mythallar's open interfaces, so that Psionics could be used to skip the "calculation and design" process and directly arrive at the answer to the problem.

In his view, while building a Cross-Domain Teleportation Link could be profitable, it brought more responsibility, and Netheril alone really could not bear such a responsibility.

Should he provide a general, low-efficiency interaction protocol, or should he supplement the details of the question?

This couldn't help but make Xia Duo suspicious; wasn't it said that a result could be obtained immediately?

The so-called interaction protocol is actually an automated response mechanism; the superior Mythallar controlling the subordinate Mythallar, and the subordinate Mythallar responding to the superior Mythallar, are both realized through this mechanism.

During the wait, a rare feeling of apprehension arose in Xia Duo's heart. On one hand, he hoped that Kalishi could use Psionics to make a very powerful Unified Mythallar interaction protocol emerge.

But how does that saying go? The more you don't want to see something, the more likely you are to see it.

Doing so would not only obtain a very critical strategic technology but also prove that Arcane-Psionic Fusion indeed had great prospects.

Yet on the other hand, he did not want Kalishi to succeed, because once it was proven that Arcane-Psionic Fusion had great prospects, the various nations might find it impossible to resist supporting Kalishi's Artifact Project.

Even if one wanted to study Psionics, the South had plenty of ready-made Artifacts that could be "rented" or "confiscated"; why risk one's own foundation?

He had studied Mythallar design during his "study abroad" in the Projection Plane Red Heart Alliance. If Kalishi could really design a complete interaction protocol according to the open interfaces he provided, it would inevitably be applicable to the vast majority of Mythallars.

However, Xia Duo also felt a trace of relief because of this; perhaps Arcane-Psionic Fusion really had great potential, but the present was not the best time to verify it.

Relevant authorized personnel only needed to possess the superior Mythallar permission to completely control the subordinate Mythallar; this was also the basis of unification.

Even if he couldn't obtain the relevant data on Unified Mythallars from Kalishi today, there would be opportunities to obtain it from Elf nations like Yierlan or Yierfalan in the future.

Therefore, even though Xia Duo was already somewhat convinced of the prospects of Psionic-Arcane fusion that Kalishi spoke of, he still did not want to support the other party's New Artifact Project.

Time passed bit by bit. Kalishi's expression was relatively relaxed, at least more relaxed than when he was just searching for Arcane spells capable of perceiving Psionics, but the time taken was no shorter than those seventeen spellcastings just now.

Xia Duo complied, but he provided almost all common Mythallar interfaces, covering the absolute majority of Mythallars he had ever seen. Since Kalishi was so confident, he naturally had to satisfy the other party.

For a moment, he couldn't figure out whether Kalishi was trying to pursue perfection, or if something had gone wrong in the process of arriving at the answer, or perhaps all of this was just a performance, and there was no such thing as an instantaneous answer to Arcane domain problems via Psionics.

Kalishi spread the Blank Notebook open on the table at his side, and the pen flew over automatically to write; the speed was not fast, not as good as Xia Duo's transcription spell, but it was more than twice as fast as manual writing by an ordinary Elf.

Therefore, regarding whether to build a Cross-Domain Teleportation Link, Xia Duo was supportive, but he hoped more that this matter would be done jointly by the countries of the Northland Alliance, rather than being borne by Netheril alone.

But in the Main Plane, there did not exist an Evereska Alliance hostile to him; there was only the Northland Alliance, which included all Northland countries.

"Consultant Xia Duo, the interaction protocol you wanted is finished. It is currently being organized into written material; please wait a moment."

But the latter, the risk already existed; even if Pulitatisi were killed, there might be another Mage from the Holy Golden Dragon Empire who would find the Main Plane.

Regardless of whether this project was led by Kalishi, it was not a good thing for the Northland, which urgently needed stable development at this stage. Rashly starting such a project was a bit like Netheril betting decades or a century of revenue to build some Cross-Domain Teleportation Link.

If one were to ask where the most difficult point of a Unified Mythallar scheme lay, it was undoubtedly the interaction protocol between the Unified Mythallar and the Subordinate Mythallar. For two originally unrelated Mythallars, there was clearly a logical basis for distinguishing between primary and secondary.

However, Xia Duo played a little trick here; he did not provide specific parameters for the superior and subordinate Mythallars, but rather a very general question. He wanted to see how Kalishi would answer.

After another half hour or so, Kalishi suddenly stopped the inexplicable spellcasting, then took out a Blank Notebook and a pen that looked like it was crafted from Crystal, suspected to be a Psionic Artifact.

Rather than passively welcoming conquest, it was better to be proactive; perhaps other opportunities could be found, and doing so could also stabilize Pulitatisi, avoiding the escalation of conflict.

But the Artifact Project was different; it was a risk that could be avoided, yet one was actively heading toward it. What kind of logic was that?

This was a solvable problem. Although there might be many solutions, he hadn't specified that it had to be the optimal solution; just taking any decent one would be enough to convince him.

Especially, he could not let Kalishi prove it.