Chapter 3258: Floating·Evereska

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Xia Duo gathered these Alliance Mages for no other reason than to assist him in completing a large-scale spell—【Peak-Cutting Spell】, a spell newly invented by the Seven Towers only in recent years.

When he originally created a War Spell Platform like a Floating City, the Seven Towers also wanted to follow up quickly, but the Seven Towers' approach to building a Floating City was not to transform materials, but to directly cut off a mountain peak and invert it to serve as the base for the Floating City.

Doing this can effectively save time, and there is no risk of the transformed materials being reversed; for instance, the azure-colored stone material transformed from pure water for Xia Duo's Chang'an City remained in an unstable physical state for at least several months.

During this period, anyone who cast 【Dispel Magic】 on the stone could potentially turn the stone back into water, and this was still an ancient Transmutation spell derived from Xia Duo's analysis of the 【Sarukh Mage-Serpent Statue】 (which was actually a fossil).

It was far more powerful than the spell effects of the current era; the vast majority of modern spells used for material transformation cannot achieve permanent transformation, and even if they could, it would require decades or even centuries of settling.

For example, the stone bridge on the west side of Savile Town was originally created through spell transformation; its seamless construction is proof of this. That bridge took nearly thirty years to truly stabilize and would no longer turn back into its initial raw transformation materials due to a single 【Dispel Magic】.

If it were just a bridge, thirty years would be nothing, as few people would be interested in a bridge and go out of their way to attack it, but if it were a Strategic Weapon like a Floating City, it would always be in the sights of various countries.

Naturally, that also includes enemies of the Netherese Mages or the Seven Towers.

In the most extreme cases, the leader coordinating the Spellcasting can distribute over forty percent of the Spellcasting tasks to assistants, while they themselves only perform the work of connection and synthesis, which can truly save a lot of energy, thereby allowing for more experiments.

What Xia Duo is preparing now is an equivalent 11th Circle Spell; the Magic Net cannot directly provide the Magic Net Strings used to construct an 11th Circle Spell, so it must be expressed equivalently through the tenth-layer elements.

And the synergy of this group of Elf Mages has truly exceeded my expectations; as long as no one deliberately sabotages it, this joint Spellcasting will surely succeed!

If one wants to increase the ratio, then the leader and the assistants must be very tacit.

Depending on the different spells, the difficulty might only be reduced by three times, while for others, it might exceed ten times.

Furthermore, during this period, I have no time to pay attention to matters outside of Spellcasting, which does not fit my plan, so I can only ask others for help.

Generally speaking, forty percent is already a state of relatively tacit cooperation between teacher and student, and the biggest shortcoming in this lies in the fact that the Apprentice's own Spellcasting ability is very limited.

And the 【Peak-Cutting Spell】 was also obtained at that time.

Therefore, Xia Duo can fully understand the Seven Towers' approach at the time, but the Seven Towers doing so would undoubtedly set a bad precedent; in the future, as Mythallar becomes popularized, I fear that every Great Arcanist will want to build their own Floating City.

By then, no matter how many mountains there are in the Netherese Mage territory, it won't be enough to cut, and this kind of damage to the natural environment is difficult, while restoration is exceptionally hard.

Xia Duo is not pursuing the absolute limit now, but he has still allocated over forty percent of the Spellcasting tasks to other mages, which is a relatively reasonable ratio, equivalent to reducing the Spellcasting difficulty by nearly half.

So Xia Duo at the time united with others to persuade the Seven Towers to stop, citing Sustainable Development; this matter is complicated and not just about hitting the Seven Towers or Sustainable Development, as it also involved the ownership of the Sweet Water Three Planes and even the legitimacy of the Seven Towers' Executive rule. In any case, the Seven Towers eventually compromised on this aspect, abandoned the mountain-cutting plan, and retreated to restore the cut mountain peaks.

It is just that Xia Duo is now asking Alliance Mages and Evereska Mages for help, whereas the vast majority of Netherese Mages provide unpaid help to their teachers from the Apprentice stage, and once they take on their own Apprentices, they begin to let the Apprentices provide unpaid help.

This is not a conventional spell; before today, Xia Duo had not even thought that he would one day use this spell, but such a need has indeed arisen.

This spell is undoubtedly a 10th Circle Spell, reaching the limit of the Magic Net, but this is not the limit of Spellcasting; above this, there can be equivalent 11th Circle or even higher spells.

But in the future, the equivalent Spell Circle will almost inevitably exceed the limit of manual Spellcasting, and by then, war may truly be decided by a single weapon.

It is just a matter of passing the torch.

In this situation, even if it is a War Spell triggered by a War Magic Artifact, as long as the opponent does not have an equivalent existence, it is no different from one cast manually; both are overwhelming existences.

For example, with War Spells, if it is manual Spellcasting, it is certainly more flexible, but the prerequisite is that a group of mages must first undergo long-term training, and the cost is extremely high.

As long as there are enough people helping, and the coordination work is done well, with redundancy arranged, he can focus on matters outside of Spellcasting; currently, most high-level Netherese Mages use this mode for their experiments.

Similar to how 11 can be written as 10+1, but raising a spell by one circle beyond the limit of the Magic Net makes the Spellcasting difficulty far harder than a normal 10th Circle Spell.

Coupled with the assistance of the Spirit Thought Network and Mind Link state, Xia Duo dared to set the outsourcing ratio at forty percent for his first Spellcasting; if it were a group of Netherese Mages, he would not have dared to do so.

And if triggered through a War Magic Artifact, although it is relatively rigid, the power of the War Spell itself exceeds what an individual Spellcaster can resist; generally speaking, one can only use a War Spell against a War Spell.

For Xia Duo, with his current Spellcasting ability, he could indeed complete this 【Peak-Cutting Spell】, which he had never even practiced before, by himself, but it would consume a massive amount of his energy.

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The 【Peak-Cutting Spell】 is the same; it can be upgraded according to need.

This also means that the equivalent Spell Circle cannot be raised without limit; at least at the level of manual Spellcasting, there exists an operational limit that can be roughly estimated.

And the Alliance Mages and Evereska Mages Xia Duo chose this time are each at least Elite Mages, and they are all mages under the Elven Magic System, making them easier to achieve a state of synergy than Netherese Mages.

However, if it were machine Spellcasting, then such a limitation would not exist.

Xia Duo certainly also made compromises, such as providing spells for transforming materials that are more advanced than the current Main Plane, so that the Seven Towers could complete the basic construction of the Floating City.

After testing the synergy effect, during this process, Xia Duo had already completed the decomposition of the 【Peak-Cutting Spell】 with the help of the Computing Power Pool and set up sufficient redundancy.

And now, 11th Circle and even 12th Circle are still not the limit of manual Spellcasting; even using the method of collaborative Spellcasting, it is possible for a single Spellcaster to complete these spells.

Therefore, just looking at how many Apprentices a Netherese Mage takes does not explain how open-minded that person is; perhaps their Apprentices are just their Spellcasting supply packs!