Chapter 3228: Harvesting the Future, Repairing Anomalies

The next day, as the sun first rose, the Temporary Camp here in Ailan had already begun to bustle with activity; humans, Elves, and a smaller number of Dwarves could be seen walking about everywhere.

Xia Duo, having shifted his consciousness to his avatar, could not help but sigh at the sight; it turned out that Elves were not truly slow-paced, but rather that matters had not yet touched upon their own interests. Once they did, they might prove even more impatient than humans.

The point Elves most despised about humans was the belief that humans were always in a rush to do everything, and that humans always liked to ask about this and that, whereas Elves were adept at gaining understanding on their own through long periods of observation and listening.

But in Xia Duo's view, these were more of a true reflection of the atmosphere of magical exchange between Netheril and the Elf World in the past. At that time, Netheril was forging ahead and did not shy away from exchange, while the Elf World was internally rigid; even in teacher-student instruction, they used that method of long-term observation and letting students self-realize, which was actually the most conservative embodiment.

As for their leisure at other times, it was merely that their ancestors had developed and accumulated for a period for these later generations of Elves.

If these Elves and humans were allowed to develop from zero at the same time, Xia Duo would never believe that the Elves could still be so leisurely!

From the perspective of individual Wisdom, Elves are not superior to humans; that so-called Wisdom is more of an experience accumulated naturally from their ultra-long lifespans. If humans could also live that long, they would not lose to the Elves either.

Even, due to their long lifespans, Elves do not care about the mental growth of the next generation at all, letting them grow on their own to such an extent that, strictly speaking, Elves only reach the mental maturity of a 16-year-old human child by the age of 25.

It is not that they cannot be earlier, but the environment gives them no motivation to do so; for evidence, one can refer to their relatives in the Underdark, the Drow, who basically begin to conceive the next generation at 25, and conceive once every 25 years until death.

It is also because of this strategy, which seems incomparably extreme to Surface Elves, that the Drow have been able to occupy a dominant position in the harsh Underdark as outsiders.

As long as one can communicate with other forces, one will inevitably be influenced, and the changes in the ruling class itself (degeneration or changing paths) are all uncertain factors.

It is just a pity that time is still too tight.

Additionally, there is the future of the Projection Plane; at most, it will not exceed the current Time Line of the Main Plane. This is determined by the nature of the Plane. Simply put, when the Projection Plane develops to be level with the Main Plane's Time Line, it will inevitably return to nothingness.

So, unless it is especially necessary, he should not repeat the old affairs of the Red Heart Alliance.

Furthermore, if he encounters certain special items, he can even materialize them directly through his Personal Space to bring them back to the Main Plane, whereas the only thing that can be harvested through Weide's method of exploration is information, not physical objects.

The vast majority of Elves do not give birth for the first time until after 100 years of age, and many only give birth once in their entire lives. Great families have property to inherit, so perhaps they will have a few more, but the middle and lower classes have no such need; many Elves even remain unmarried and childless for life.

Such a method is not the proper path. Although Xia Duo would not go so far as to look down on it entirely, he would not be overly worried about others using this method to surpass him.

In this, the Personal Space played a huge role.

The reason is very simple: first, there is the uncertainty of the Projection Plane itself. Who can guarantee to stably obtain a Projection Plane with a sufficiently long duration?

This situation is somewhat similar to the continuously declining birth rates in developed countries on Earth. If it continues to develop like this, how could the Elf World not decline!

Compared to Xia Duo, the advantage of this exploration process is that there are no requirements for the Projection Plane; one can enter any Projection Plane to explore and try.

However, Xia Duo does not need to worry about others using such a method to overtake him on a bend. In fact, others are not failing to use such methods; just the ones he knows of include Weide.

When an Advanced Rank Mage enters a Projection Plane, they can at most play a role in guiding the development of civilization with their insights; they cannot play a decisive role like Xia Duo did in the Red Heart Alliance Projection Plane, so the probability of an Advanced Rank Mage being able to guide a powerful civilization is very high.

If this state can be maintained, it won't take a thousand years; it might take only a few hundred years to reach the level before the Crown War. If it accelerates a bit more, surpassing the distant ancestors is not impossible.

Through this method, one can obtain a large amount of mature, advanced technology from the "future" of the original system, just like the Mythallar technology, the elemental composition of Adamantine, customized Arcane Fire, Spirit Thought Network improvements, Arcane String improvements, Semi-plane modifications, and so on, that Xia Duo brought back.

Secondly, there is the uncertainty of civilization development. The Red Heart Alliance was because Xia Duo was lucky, and the situation was special; the Demon Descendants were not tolerated by normal society and could only develop independently, so that Projection Plane basically developed according to the future he planned, but other situations might not be so.

In this way, individual experimenters do not need to stay in it for too long and lose too much of their own lifespan; what they need to do is find the information left by experimenters from before their own era and leave information for people of later eras.

Then, by jumping over long time spans through the method of leaving and re-entering, one goes directly to the future of the Projection Plane, just like what Xia Duo did before in the Red Heart Alliance; he first established the Red Heart Alliance, arranged the general development, and then jumped through time to the future.

But what is the actual situation?

But the drawbacks are also very obvious: the consumption of the experimenters is too great! And the efficiency of collecting data and bringing back information is also very low; it all requires the relevant personnel to memorize it in order to bring it back.

If Surface Elves also started at 25 and gave birth once every 25 years, then there might be nothing left for other intelligent races in the Main Plane.

Finally, there is a non-external reason: Xia Duo cannot bear to watch the civilization he fostered with his own hands return to nothingness time and time again. He feels that if he sees this kind of situation too much, he might become cold-blooded, ruthless, and indifferent to everything.

Even Xia Duo himself cannot guarantee that he can replicate the situation of the Red Heart Alliance next time.

But—

The method adopted by the other party is to have multiple experimenters enter the same Projection Plane at intervals; in reality, this manifests in the Projection Plane as these people appearing in different eras.

The upper limit of development is fixed from the very beginning.

As for the Drow, they are similar to the developed human ethnic groups of the Dark Continent, maintaining the survival of the group with an ultra-high birth rate, because if they did not maintain such a high birth rate, the harsh environment, wars, and slaughter of the Underdark would have long ago caused the Drow to go extinct.

At the same time, Weide's method also dictates that the people he sends out will basically not be very high-level Spellcasters, so as to avoid the experimenters obtaining fortuitous encounters in the Projection Plane that would threaten him.

There is too much, too much; it can be called the essence of an entire civilization.

Even if he wants to accelerate further, it is very difficult to change an entire world. Judging from the fastest plan he has personally practiced, it is to find Projection Planes with longer durations and develop magical civilization within them.

However, after the establishment of the Northland Alliance, the exchanges between the various countries of the Northland became more and more frequent, and correspondingly, benign competition also increased, which also caused the Elves to begin to change their past leisurely posture and begin to face their own development squarely.

Unlike Xia Duo, who can directly use the real carrier brought from the Main Plane, record it well in the Projection Plane, and then bring it back; it can be said that as long as Xia Duo can come into contact with information, he can bring back as much information as possible, and the efficiency is far higher than Weide's people.

This is not a conventional optional development plan.

In this process, one must also try to record valuable data, and then after weighing the loss of lifespan, one can consider leaving the Projection Plane, or simply stay behind; the latter is usually when one's lifespan is about to end, staying in the Projection Plane to live another life.

Of course, in this process, humans are also developing. According to Xia Duo's expectations, as long as he is given a hundred years, any crisis in the Main Plane can be easily resolved, and even exploring Other Planes, or even connecting to foreign realms, is not impossible.