Chapter 3128: Refusal and Invitation

————Still about half an hour left~~

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As for what difficult problem to pose to stump Kalishi, Xia Duo had actually already thought of it while Kalishi was casting spells; 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, then 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 one gain more possibilities for expansion.

Take Yierlan, for example; originally, the country was filled with Mythallars, but after centralizing reforms, they began to unify the Mythallars across various regions. However, their choice was not to dismantle the existing ones and build new ones, but to establish a brand-new Mythallar and bring all regional Mythallars under its unified management.

This is a Unified Mythallar.

Keman is also using such a scheme—unification after the fact. The only difference is Ilfaran, which was planned from the very beginning as a Unified Mythallar covering the entire territory.

The Tower of Time's Communication Mythallar has great potential to be a Unified Mythallar, but the various Elf nations keep Unified Mythallar technology very tightly guarded. The reason Xia Duo knows about Unified Mythallars is thanks to his experiences in the Projection Plane.

But the Projection Planes he experienced never reached the era of building Unified Mythallars; only the Projection Plane Red Heart Alliance took the other path of Adaptive Mythallars—hard-stacking functional components.

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

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The trace of trust that had just risen originally withered away significantly.

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

This was a solvable problem; although there might be many solutions, he hadn't limited it to the optimal one—just coming up with a decent one would be enough to convince him.

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

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

However, Xia Duo also felt a trace of relief because of this. Perhaps the fusion of Arcane and Psionic has great potential, but the present is not the best time to verify it.

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

These two promote and achieve each other. It was also in that Projection Plane that the Red Heart Alliance and the Evereska Alliance were hostile to each other, making technical exchange difficult, which is why not many applications were produced.

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

But the Artifact Project is different. It is clearly a risk that could be avoided, yet they insist on actively heading toward it. What is the logic in that?

But on the other hand, he did not hope for Kalishi to succeed, because once it is proven that the fusion of Arcane and Psionic has great prospects, then various countries might irresistibly support Kalishi's New Artifact Project.

Therefore, regarding whether to build a Cross-Domain Teleportation Link, Xia Duo is supportive, but he would rather have the countries of the Northland Alliance do it together, rather than having Netheril bear it alone.

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

But in the Main Plane, there does not exist an Evereska Alliance hostile to him; there is only the Northland Alliance, which encompasses all Northland countries.

Is he not going to provide a general, efficient interaction protocol, or is he asking me to supplement the details of the question?

Especially, he cannot let Kalishi prove it.

For a moment, he couldn't tell if Kalishi was trying to pursue perfection, or if some deviation occurred in the process of deriving the answer, or perhaps all of this was just a performance, and there was no such thing as an instantaneous answer to a problem in the Psionic-to-Arcane domain.

The so-called interaction protocol is actually an automated response mechanism. The higher-level Mythallar controls the lower-level Mythallar, and the lower-level Mythallar responds to the higher-level Mythallar; both are realized through this mechanism.

During his "study abroad" in the Projection Plane Red Heart Alliance, he learned Myth Lock Design. If Kalishi could really design a complete interaction protocol according to the open interfaces he provided, then it would inevitably be applicable to the vast majority of Mythallars.

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

Rather than passively welcoming conquest, it is better to be proactive oneself. Perhaps one could find other opportunities, and doing so could also stabilize Pulitatisi, avoiding the escalation of conflict.

This would not only obtain a very critical strategic technology but also prove that the fusion of Arcane and Psionic indeed has great prospects.

However, Xia Duo also played a little trick here. He did not provide specific parameters for the higher and lower-level Mythallars, but rather a very general question. He wanted to see how Kalishi would answer.

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

Therefore, even though Xia Duo is now somewhat suspicious of the prospects of Psionic-Arcane fusion that Kalishi spoke of, he still does not want to support the other party's New Artifact Project.

While waiting, a rare feeling of anxiety 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.

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

In his view, although building a Cross-Domain Teleportation Link could be profitable, it is more of a responsibility; it is truly difficult for Netheril alone to shoulder such a responsibility.

Kalishi spread the Blank Notebook open on the table at his side, and the pen automatically flew over to begin writing. 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.

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 the previous seventeen spellcasts.

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Those with relevant permissions only need to possess higher-level Mythallar Permission to completely control the lower-level Mythallar; this is also the foundation of unification.

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

If one were to ask where the most difficult point of a Unified Mythallar scheme lies, it is undoubtedly in the interaction protocol between the Unified Mythallar and the Subordinate Mythallar. Why should two originally unrelated Mythallars distinguish between primary and secondary? There is clearly a complete logic within it.