Chapter 3470: Joint Efforts Under a New Situation

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Xia Duo had put a great deal of thought into the design, and even though he had finished manufacturing all the Mithril Components by this moment, the formation of this key item was only just beginning.

Thinking this, Xia Duo's expression became serious; if he had been focused to the tenth degree before, he was now focused to the twelfth.

He reached out a hand, and the smallest of the twelve Mithril Components automatically moved in front of him within the Levitation Field, while the others also moved slightly further away.

Next, he began to Link Magic Web to this smallest Hollow Mithril Sphere, or to put it another way—he was linking the Magic Net String to the Mithril Component in a specific form and state.

These two perspectives were completely equivalent, at least at the level of Magic Artifact manufacturing.

The Magic Net is not a fixed combination of Magic Net Strings, but rather remains stable at the macro level while being relatively free at the micro level; each Magic Net String is like a water molecule in a river, an independent individual.

But only within the river do these water molecules constitute a river; Magic Net Strings only form the Magic Net when they appear in large numbers, and because the Main Plane is currently a Magic Net environment, it is equivalent to being soaked in an ocean of Magic Net Strings.

Any Magic Artifact that gathers Magic Net Strings while in such an environment possesses various magical effects under the rules of the Magic Net by way of the Magic Net.

It is easy to imagine that once such a Magic Artifact leaves the Magic Net environment, it must lose its utility.

However, an Independent Arcane Fire Device is essentially a Spellcaster rebuilding a tiny, private Magic Net, and many Magic Artifacts designed based on the concept of Independent Arcane Fire, such as the Thought Robe or the Yongle City Mythallar, can exist independently of the Magic Net environment.

The Magic Net environment here refers to the external natural Magic Net environment; after all, the Independent Arcane Fire Device itself can be viewed as a micro Magic Net, only it is man-made.

The key item Xia Duo was experimenting with at the moment was, in terms of the broad category of Magic Artifacts, just a conventional Magic Artifact and could not function outside of a Magic Net environment.

But he was originally intending to use this key item in the Main Plane, so he did not care whether it could function outside of a Magic Net environment; furthermore, there was the consideration of cost.

Costs in every aspect, including research, experimentation, manufacturing, verification, and many other links.

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Soon, Xia Duo completed the link of the first Mithril Component to the Magic Net. At this time, this Hollow Mithril Sphere had already begun to reveal a hint of mysterious quality; under Magic Vision, one could see it continuously emitting a bright and stable spiritual light.

Next was the second one, but before linking the second Mithril Component to the Magic Net, there was an additional condition: using a Forbidden Spell to distort space, using the second, slightly larger Mithril Sphere to wrap around the first, smaller one.

Matter exists within space, and the distortion of space does not change the nature of the matter itself, so in Xia Duo's eyes, the second Mithril Component seemed to be made of an elastic substance, one of its hollow openings suddenly widening to "swallow" the smaller Mithril Sphere beside it.

Then the space recovered, and the smaller Mithril Sphere appeared steadily inside the second Mithril Sphere, their centers perfectly aligned without a flaw.

From this step on, the process of linking new Mithril Components to the Magic Net had to account for the preceding ones; just like building a house, with twelve nested spherical shells, the innermost one was like the foundation and had to be completed step by step.

Because he had simulated it many times beforehand, and given Xia Duo's highly stable experimental operations since he first started, there were no accidents whatsoever in the process of nesting the twelve Mithril Components and connecting them to the Magic Net itself.

Perfectly in line with expectations!

After nearly 48 hours, a multi-layered nested Hollow Mithril Sphere that could still spin and hover even after leaving the Levitation Field finally appeared before Xia Duo, the eleven concentric Mithril Spheres inside rotating rapidly around their common center.

Because the rotation speed was so fast, to the naked eye, it looked as if a solid Mithril Sphere were suspended inside a Hollow Mithril Sphere.

Yet the truth was that there were eleven other similar Hollow Mithril Spheres inside the Hollow Mithril Sphere.

"Two whole days, I'm absolutely exhausted!"

Xia Duo couldn't help but sigh. In truth, his body wasn't tired at all, and he even had enough energy to cast spells, but forty-eight hours of continuous, high-intensity tension was far more psychologically draining than it was physically or mentally taxing.

Fortunately, this was inside a Time Acceleration Array; for the outside world, less than a minute had passed, so Xia Duo chose to take a nap without any psychological burden.

Without using any spells to assist his sleep, he simply leaned back in a chair in the corner of the experimental site and fell asleep.

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He did not know how much time had passed when Xia Duo woke up leisurely. This sleep left him feeling refreshed and satisfied; at this moment, it felt as if the pressure brought by the Illuminati for so long had dissipated completely.

This was not because he was overly optimistic, but because he had found a true weapon for victory. If Dafuni could use the Time Force, could he, Xia Duo, not use it as well?

The subsequent experiments would continue, but that could not be done within the Time Acceleration Array, because the key item he had just completed was itself a portable Time Acceleration Array.

Two Time Acceleration Arrays cannot be nested like Russian dolls.

Moreover, the key item Xia Duo had just completed was not merely a portable Time Acceleration Array; more accurately, it should be a super-powerful item capable of regulating the flow of time in a given area.

Of course, his ultimate goal in making this item was not to regulate the flow of time; he already had a Time Acceleration Array at his No. 1 ritual site in Yongle City, so there was no need to build a new one just for that.

His true purpose was to use this Time Flow Regulator to collect Time Force!

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In his previous research, Xia Duo discovered that the Time Gem—or rather, that special item he had obtained from the Sea Elf Dali which had condensed Time Force—would naturally dissipate the condensed Time Force within it while in a Time Acceleration Zone.

And this Time Force could be collected again for his own use!

Only, after reshaping the Time Line twice in succession, he discovered that the Time Force transcends the Time Line; even though it was clearly the same Time Gem, the amount of Time Force he could collect was becoming less and less.

Even if he improved the collection and storage process to minimize loss, this could not change the fact that there was less and less Time Force.

And this also meant that the number of times he could reshape the Time Line was limited. To be honest, Xia Duo did not have the confidence to defeat the Illuminati, who could "restart" almost infinitely, within a limited number of "restarts."

Therefore, "throttling" alone was far from enough; he had to find a way to "open a source" for the Time Force!