Chapter 3348: Aftermath of the Spacetime Oscillation

————It will be later~~

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Judging by the size of the crater that is Tear Drop Lake, the meteor that fell back then must have been extraordinary; regardless of whether it was a Plane Crystal, it could be called a massive fortune.

However, Xia Duo also knew that Tear Drop Lake was obscure in the Main Plane, and hardly anyone had even heard of the origin of this lake, which showed how long ago it was formed.

It was no wonder that the records of Yierlan only used words like "speculated" and "possibly," rather than "certainly."

It was just unclear whether the treasure that fell from the sky back then had been consumed, and if it hadn't, where it was now.

Xia Duo sighed slightly in his heart; Team 2 had already arrived near the Jieti, and this distance was within the Scrying range of Team 1, which could even be used to improve the precision of the Scrying, while the Scrying results could simultaneously provide a basis for Team 2's actions.

Under Xia Duo's command, the two teams acted efficiently; Team 1 performed real-time Scrying, while Team 2 conducted real-time probing based on the Scrying results—of course, they were merely executing Xia Duo's instructions.

Without the specific instructions provided by Xia Duo, even if a few more such teams came, it would be a waste of effort.

At the same time, Xia Duo was also using the Computing Power Pool to conduct real-time analysis of the situation detected by Team 1 and the feedback from Team 2's probing; it was fortunate that the construction of the Computing Power Pool had been completed long ago and that it possessed over two hundred thousand users.

After staying in the Underdark for a long time, one would naturally turn into a Drow; of course, there might not be any Magic involved in that, and it was not the curse Magic cast by that loser Yanlanwuda, but rather Magic that the Drow used to transform themselves to adapt to the radiation environment of the Underdark.

It didn't even take a few rounds of probing; in just an instant, Xia Shao had obtained enough clues from the existing information, and had even analyzed the specific constituent elements of that Jieti.

But with the crushing advantage of modern Magic, there were fewer and fewer young people willing to learn Witchcraft, not to mention Herbalism, which was under even greater crushing pressure from the Temple.

In Xia Shao's hometown, the average lifespan of ancient people was only around forty or fifty, and in times of turmoil, it was only thirty or forty, while in modern times, it could easily reach over 70.

The reason why Netheril's current Magic system could be created was largely due to having those prehistoric Magic systems as references. (Elven Magic can also be said to be prehistoric; from the moment the Gold Elf reached destruction, it had stopped developing, and the subsequent development of Elven nations basically relied entirely on archaeology, which was also the fundamental reason why major and minor Elven nations could not open up an absolute gap in technology.)

Only then was the new race of Drow born.

In Xia Shao's impression, this type of Jieti was something only Sea Elves possessed; the Elves had the so-called equality and common prosperity of the five races, and these five races included the Wing Elves of the sky, the Sea Elves of the ocean, and the Sun Elves on the earth, which were Airuifan, the Moon Elves, and the Wood Elves.

Of course, Xia Shao was not insisting on promoting something backward, but hoped to extract some useful things from the Langas Tribe wizard heritage; Primitive Sorcery was not entirely undesirable.

Of course, there were definitely more than these five types of Elves, for example, Yanlan, but the Drow were initially not defined by race, but by culture, region, or hatred.

Of course, many were mixed-blood now, especially between Airuifan and Moon Elves, and in ancient times, the situation of Moon Elves and Wood Elves intermarrying was also not rare.

In the Elf World, it was almost impossible for an Airuifan to die of illness; after all, there were so many Magic and Divine Magic, there was always one that could cure it.

If Herbalism could not be modernized, then its value was actually not high, just like the Wood Elves of the Elf World; even with Herbalism, their average age could not compare to the Airuifan who used Magic and Divine Magic to treat illnesses and achieve Longevity.

Before becoming Drow, most were Suri Elves, a type of Elf that looked like the current Moon Elves, with skin as fair or even fairer than Moon Elves, like white jade.

It was generally believed that Airuifan and Moon Elves were both foreign Elves, while Wood Elves, Suri Elves, and other more types of Elves were the native Elves.

So Xia Shao would not look down on those nascent Primitive Sorcery heritages; the existence of those Primitive Sorcery themselves provided a unique entry angle for Arcane Magic to a large extent.

There was a similar situation in Netheril; it was generally believed that only barbarians ate those bitter and astringent herbal soups, and ordinary people, as long as they had a little wealth, would find ways to treat illnesses through Divine Magic, or at the very least, go to the Temple to sponge off some free Holy Water or blessings.

Herbalism was the same; this skill was also a research field of Arcane Magic, just using the primitive and backward methods of wizards, rather than using more advanced modern methods and instruments.

If it weren't for Xia Shao specifically allocating funds to support and even organizing new Mages to study those primitive wizard heritages, it was estimated that once this generation of wizards all passed away, those heritages would likely be severed.

But many of those Primitive Sorcery were evolving toward more modern Arcane Magic; some evolutions succeeded, some failed, and some deviated from the Arcane route; in short, these were all very valuable for reference.

But in ancient times, it was "seventy is rare since ancient times," which showed the impact of the development of medical technology on average life expectancy.

Only the lowest-level Wood Elves were likely to die of illness, so among the bottom-level Elves, herbs were the most popular, and correspondingly, in the eyes of the upper-level Elves, herbs were the most unpresentable things.

Otherwise, the Spirit Thought Network temporarily assembled for calculation might not reach this effect at all——

A small portion were the Wood Elves and Moon Elves who led Ilisuri (an Elven nation with Suri Elves as the main body, which competed with Yanlanwuda for hegemony in the Elf World, and was destroyed) back then, as well as the even fewer Yanlanwu.

It could be said that except for the Wing Elves, who had long since disappeared, and the Sea Elves, from whom one could basically hear little news, the Elves living on the earth could basically be regarded as the same bloodline and the same race.

If there were some more unique Spells, that would simply be a huge treasure.

There was not too much difference in their maximum lifespan; the reason why Wood Elves could generally only live to half the age of Airuifan now was largely due to the oppression they suffered.

He had already known this point when he first read the Nether Scroll; the Nether Scroll recorded mostly ancient Magic systems, a considerable part of which were Primitive Sorcery, far from reaching the level of Arcane Magic.

It was just a Water Elemental Domain Barrier designed with some ingenuity, which could provide the creatures inside the barrier with an effect similar to Element Harmonization; it should have been left by the Mages of the Darkness Society for the convenience of Spellcasting.

For example, medical resources were far inferior to Airuifan, which was often the biggest factor affecting the maximum lifespan.

After all, a considerable part of the primitive wizard heritage was not written down but passed down by word of mouth; without the previous generation of wizards, there would basically be no next generation of wizards.

The current Great Xia Territory had completely accepted two Langas Tribes, one of which was a large tribe; they brought relatively complete primitive wizard heritages, which of course also included Herbalism, or Witch Doctor Art.