Chapter 3441: Visitors from the South

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Xia Duo quickly completed two rounds of standard elemental impact experiments; the results were as expected, not much different from performing elemental impacts on ordinary Crystal.

The only difference was that the elemental infection rate was slightly lower than that of ordinary Crystal, and that was all.

Additionally, the elemental impact did not cause any effect on the mysterious starlight inside this Time Gem, as if they did not exist at all; but since they could be seen with the naked eye, how could they not exist?

There is only one explanation: that mysterious starlight does not react with the standard elemental impacts in the Laboratory.

Perhaps there are other Spells that can affect that mysterious starlight; in fact, this is also an inevitability, otherwise, how could Dafuni control this mysterious power?

It is just that Xia Duo no longer has the time to try and rule them out one by one; he needs to conduct a more radical new experiment that will not completely consume this Gem.

So he immediately thought of the Time-Involving Ritual; the Illuminati can use it, and of course, he can too, but he will not use the complete Time-Involving Ritual, but only the Time-Involving Spell developed by the Alliance Time-Related Magic Research Laboratory to change the Time Line deflection degree.

This Spell can be used to create a Time-Involving Signal, and because it is a positive and negative offset, it will not cause damage to the Time Line itself; after all, the Time Line is already fluctuating, just with a smaller amplitude.

However, once the past closer to the present is anchored, the time required for this Spell to take effect becomes longer.

Fortunately, Xia Duo does not currently have the habit of anchoring the past at any time; that requires the power of a Divine Envoy, and a Divine Envoy is not an item he can use at will, but a living, breathing Wisdom being, and one must consider their feelings.

Xia Duo only communicates with a Divine Envoy to anchor the past of a battlefield where the Alliance has achieved victory when needed on the front lines; at other times, he avoids it as much as possible.

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There is no problem with this Spell that changes the Time Line deflection degree itself, and one only needs to notify the Alliance Monitoring Center in advance; what Xia Duo is truly worried about is whether it will trigger some reaction mechanism of the Time Gem.

However, this was his goal to begin with; after all, being radical means one must take some risks, but overall, the risk is relatively small, since Time Line Fluctuation is a normal phenomenon anyway.

Using other environmental parameters as an analogy, it is roughly like this Time Gem being able to exist stably in a deep-sea environment, so if it is brought to land, it is highly unlikely that any overly severe changes will occur.

After making up his mind, Xia Duo quickly took action; the situation outside did not allow him to consider too much. Since the Laboratory did not prepare instruments related to the Time-Involving Spell in advance, this required Xia Duo to perform the Spellcasting himself, which is not within the standard procedure.

According to the standard procedure, it is necessary to prepare relevant instruments in advance, and one should try to avoid the experimenter performing the Spellcasting personally, but the current time does not allow him to be stubborn about standard procedures.

After reporting to the Alliance Monitoring Center through the Command Network, Xia Duo began the experiment.

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When the Spell was completed, Xia Duo stared intently at the strange Gem on the experimental table. This Laboratory of his cannot detect Time Line Fluctuation, but the Alliance can, and he had already communicated with them in advance.

About two minutes later, he received news from the Alliance saying that they had detected a Time-Involving Signal from Yongle City.

Almost at the same time, Xia Duo finally saw the Time Gem manifest an anomaly that had never appeared before; of course, it could not be considered a particularly obvious anomaly, at least none of the various instruments in his Laboratory recorded it, only he saw it with his naked eye——

The mysterious starlight inside the Time Gem appeared in a state of flow faster than before!

In other words, Time Line Fluctuation can have an effect on the mysterious starlight; then, changing the line of thought, does the mysterious starlight naturally possess the ability to affect the Time Line?

If this is the case, then the Illuminati creating these Time-Involving Magic spells has a relatively reasonable explanation.

It did not come from an alien Time Line, nor was it suddenly researched from scratch by two generations of leaders; rather, the mysterious starlight, this materialized Time Force, existed first, and then various Time-Involving Magic spells were researched based on this Time Force.

If this materialized Time Force did not exist, let alone the Illuminati's history of only over 1,400 years, even if they were given 14,000 years, it is estimated that it would be very difficult to create Time Magic.

This materialized Time Force is the shortcut to researching Time Magic!

But where does this power come from?

Xia Duo immediately thought of Dafuni's eyes, which were like stars; he had only met the other party twice, but both times left an extremely deep impression on him. That materialized Time Force clearly emanated from Dafuni's eyes!

But why is this?

Is it some unknown Time Artifact? Or is it a Time ability that Dafuni was born with?

But regardless of which one it is, Xia Duo was jealous; to be honest, he really could not help but be jealous. Even if that power is not the essence of time, the mere fact that it can affect the Time Line is enough to prove its value.

Time is something or a phenomenon that is invisible and intangible but truly exists; to study time, one can only study it indirectly through other objects and phenomena affected by time.

It is conceivable how much a materialized Time Force would drive researchers in the Time Domain crazy.

The main research field Xia Duo chose is not time; is it because he does not want to? No, if he could, he would also hope to choose time, but in fact, the previous him might not have even touched the threshold of the Time Domain.

And now, he has actually seen materialized Time Force; no matter what others think, he himself is green with envy, so envious that he even had the thought, "If Dafuni is willing to let him research it, joining the Illuminati would be fine."

Of course, he is not yet that crazy. The subtext of "learning is endless" is actually not that human life cannot be eternal, but that Knowledge is likely inexhaustible and needs to be pursued with infinite time.

There are too many unknowns in this world, too much Knowledge he wants to understand; in the foreseeable future, it is almost absolutely impossible for him to know all Knowledge.

Perhaps saying Knowledge is too broad; just take the laws of Nature, he cannot know them all either. This is by no means judged from the difficulty of exploring Nature, but a rational judgment based on logic.

Because the Magic system is incomplete, and theoretically it can never be complete, which means it is impossible to deduce all unknown laws through the existing Magic system forever.

In this situation, only the process of exploration is eternal; only the unknown is eternal.

Thinking about it this way, Time Force does not seem to be anything special either; with so many unknowns, what does time count for?

By comparison, destroying the Illuminati is more important, otherwise, one might really have to go wander in the Ether Interlayer!