Chapter 3442: Peering into Secrets

————It will be later~~

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Inside the Yongle City Laboratory.

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 crystals.

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

Furthermore, 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 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 new experiment that is more aggressive but will not completely consume this gem.

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

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 longer the time this spell needs to take effect.

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 when needed on the front-line battlefield to anchor the past of a battlefield where the Alliance has achieved victory; at other times, he uses it as little as possible.

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There is nothing wrong with this spell that changes the deflection degree of the Time Line itself, and one only needs to give a heads-up to the Alliance Monitoring Center; what Xia Duo is truly worried about is whether it will trigger some reaction mechanism of the Time Gem.

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

To use other environmental parameters as an analogy, it is roughly that this Time Gem can exist stably in a deep-sea environment, so bringing it to land will likely not cause any overly severe changes.

After making up his mind, Xia Duo quickly took action; the situation outside did not allow him to overthink. Since the laboratory was not prepared in advance with instruments related to Time-Involving Spells, this required Xia Duo to perform the Spellcasting himself, which is not within the standard procedure.

According to standard procedure, one needs 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 via 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 laboratory bench; his laboratory 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 here in 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 very 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 that was faster than before!

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

If this is the case, then the Illuminati creating so many 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 there were no such materialized Time Force, let alone the Illuminati's history of only over 1,400 years, even if 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!

It is just that, 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, and 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 Dafuni was born with?

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

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

One can imagine how much a materialized Time Force would drive researchers in the Domain of time crazy.

The main research Domain Xia Duo chose is not time; is it because he doesn't 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 Domain of time.

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 were willing to let me study it, joining the Illuminati wouldn't be a problem."

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 impossible to exhaust 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.

Saying Knowledge might be 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 is to say, it is impossible to deduce all unknown laws through the existing Magic system.

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

Thinking about it this way, Time Force doesn't seem like such a big deal; with so many unknowns, what does time count for?

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