Chapter 340: Cold Aura

After a moment of thought, Xia Duo discovered the source of the problem—the Mithril structural components he had crafted were too large!

This is like glass shards of the same material and proportion but different sizes; when thrown onto the ground, the larger ones are more fragile than the smaller ones.

That is to say, the vulnerability of an object does not scale proportionally with its volume; on the contrary, the larger the volume, the easier it is to damage.

The same principle applies to spells.

The essence of a spell is the distortion and deformation of the Magic Net, and since the Magic Net has a tendency to recover autonomously, for a spell, this is equivalent to the spell being constantly eroded by the Magic Net's restorative tendency.

This is also the reason why the threshold for Magic Permanence is so high, because it relies solely on the spell itself to resist the restorative tendency of the Magic Net.

After the element projection is enlarged, the restorative resistance it bears also becomes greater, while its own load-bearing capacity has not only failed to increase, but has actually decreased due to the increase in size.

This is why this "Imprisonment Sphere" generator exploded after being used only once.

Without the strength to resist the Magic Net, yet insisting on continuously resisting it, the result can only be being "eliminated" by the Magic Net!

Because it was his first time practicing, Xia Duo had not considered this factor before; now that he has experienced it firsthand, he will know for next time.

Fortunately, the loss was not great; in fact, in Xia Duo's original plan, these materials were prepared as the cost of practice.

Now the Mithril structural components can be washed and melted down to be used again; only some Gemstones have completely disappeared, and then there is the time.

However, practice itself consumes time, and Xia Duo is already far more efficient than others, so there is nothing more to say about that.

Overall, Xia Duo gained a complete experience in crafting a Magic Item at a relatively minimal cost compared to others.

This advantage in efficiency and cost will also continue to accumulate and expand as time goes on.

After comforting himself, Xia Duo raised his hand and noted in his experimental log—

Magic Item Name: Imprisonment Sphere generator

Production Process: 1, 2, 3, recorded using self-created secret script, same below

Optimizable Links: Fully automated processing of pre-Magic Items before linking to the Magic Net (requires learning knowledge related to Alchemy Array, as well as other uncontrollable risks, not considered for now, listed in the long-term plan)

Follow-up Experimental Plan: Proportional reduction of element projection Mithril structural components, practical appearance design (referencing mature cases of other Magic Items), complex environment testing, determining standard specifications, re-testing, etc.

Others: Omitted

After finishing the recording, Xia Duo entered a state of Spellcasting Focus, using his shallow knowledge of Soul Studies to roughly judge that he could conduct one more experiment in his current state.

"Then let's begin!"

Xia Duo rubbed his hands together, preparing to strike while the iron was hot and do it again, but just as he activated the Alchemy Array, the Tower Spirit suddenly sent a message—

"Agent Xia Duo, a guest has arrived!"

"Let Aiboke go receive them!" These words slipped out of Xia Duo's mouth, but he quickly realized that Aiboke should still be in Seventon gathering information at this moment!

And the so-called visiting guest, if nothing unexpected happened, would be at least a High Mage.

Because this kind of prompt from the Tower Spirit means that someone outside the Tower of Time has triggered the visitation mechanism; this wouldn't have been anything in the past, but the Tower of Time is currently in the Mythallar Ruins!

In the riotous Magic Net environment, anyone who can walk up to the Tower of Time is at least a High Mage.

"Tower Spirit, has the visitor indicated their identity?"

The Tower Spirit replied, "The visitor claims to be 'Weierde Auguste'!"

"Is there no further information?"

"No!"

Xia Duo thought for a moment and shut down the Alchemy Array; regardless of who the visitor was, his status as a High Mage alone made him impossible to ignore; at the very least, he had to figure out the other party's intentions.

"Tower Spirit, notify Mage Depake and have him bring the visitor in; I will receive him in Reception Room No. 3 on the Public Level!"

Originally, a visit from a High Mage would at least require a mage of the same rank to receive them, but with Aiboke away, the Tower of Time was left with only a group of Intermediate Mages, which was truly somewhat inappropriate.

As for Xia Duo going personally, he had never considered it; after participating in the capture of Aquilain with his own hands, he had a deeper understanding of the power of the Tower of Time.

With strength comes status; how could a mere High Mage be worth his personal reception as an Acting Tower Master!

Within the sphere of influence of the Tower of Time, if it really came to a fight, Xia Duo could subdue the other party with words alone!

He tidied up the workshop briefly, then took the Pioneer Scepter and set off.

The workshop Xia Duo was currently in and Reception Room No. 3 were both on the Public Level of the Mage Tower; not to mention teleportation, even walking there was only a few steps away.

It was just that he had no need to go over and wait for the other party first.

He first inspected each workshop to see the progress of the repairs on the Alchemy Arrays there; this concerned the productivity of the Tower of Time and the subsequent continuous income, so Xia Duo was very concerned about it.

It was not until the Tower Spirit reminded him that the visitor had already arrived at Reception Room No. 3 that he walked over unhurriedly.

Inside Reception Room No. 3.

Depake was cautiously conversing with a tall, middle-aged mage; hearing footsteps outside the door, he hurriedly stood up and went to greet them at the door.

"Mage Xia Duo, the other party is from the August Territory in the Inner Land and is a sworn enemy of the Hawk Territory behind the Eagle Chamber of Commerce." Before they even met, Depake's Sending had already arrived.

After meeting, Depake pretended that nothing had happened, led Xia Duo into the reception room, first introduced this Weierde Auguste, whose name Xia Duo already knew, to Xia Duo, and then introduced Xia Duo:

"Lord August, this is the husband of Tower Master Niya, the current Acting Tower Master, and the lord of the Daxia Pioneering Territory where the Tower of Time is currently located, Intermediate Mage, Xia Duo."

"Nice to meet you!" *2

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Depake retreated to the side, and Xia Duo and this Mage Weierde each sat down.

Xia Duo scrutinized the other party; although he was tall and his appearance was relatively rugged, for some reason, Xia Duo vaguely "smelled" a cold aura mixed with the scent of blood.

This reminded him of the elemental path from the Mythallar Ruins to the Wolfburg River; there, Xia Duo could also perceive a conceptual existence of "moist" and "flow".

After the Midsummer Festival, Xia Duo's bloodline awakened again; this time, he perceived that kind of conceptual existence without even deliberately utilizing his bloodline.

A cold aura is generally used to describe a person's temperament, but can temperament be substantial?

On Earth, Xia Duo could say for sure that it could not, and even in this magic world, such a nearly substantial conceptual existence was extremely rare.

At least so far, Xia Duo had seen two cases, including this one before him.

Of course, strictly speaking, the Holy Power of the Lord of Radiance and Arcane Energy could all be considered conceptual existences; this was how Xia Duo described them from his limited cognition.

But regardless, this Weierde Auguste was not simple!