Chapter 3492: Prototype of Time Domain Equation Spell, Restarting the Time Line

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Xia Duo originally had few advantages over the Illuminati, and he naturally needed to strive for every possible advantage. Just like how he created the Time Flow Regulator to collect Time Force, he originally only had the one Time Gem that Dafuni had handed to Dali.

Moreover, due to the nature of Time Force transcending the Time Line, the Time Force within that gem constantly decreased as Xia Duo reshaped the Time Line, which also meant there was an upper limit to the number of times he could reshape the Time Line.

Once he failed to defeat the Illuminati within that limit, it would mean the war was lost. Yet, Xia Duo did not have such certainty, so he could only find ways to seek other sources of Time Force to increase his odds of winning the war.

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After making up his mind, Xia Duo quietly left the Red River Valley. Of course, this was what he considered "quietly"; in reality, on the Illuminati's side, Dafuni still sensed it.

But Xia Duo was embedded in the world, almost equivalent to non-existent. Even if Dafuni could judge his existence from the perspective of prophecy and time, she could not stop Xia Duo from leaving.

After leaving the Red River Valley, Xia Duo did not immediately return to Yongle City, but instead found a random spot in the wild, cast a Spell to take a certain amount of soil and stone, and stored it in his Personal Space.

Only then did he return to Yongle City to begin reshaping the Time Line. While in the Astral Plane, he confirmed once again that the soil and stone in his Personal Space during this reshaping of the Time Line were Reality, and completely independent of the Main Plane.

"Then what kind of impact will there be?"

Carrying a trace of anticipation, Xia Duo finally completed the reshaping of the Time Line. In just an instant, his consciousness returned to the past.

Or rather, he had just completed a Prophecy Ritual and, from this prophecy, gained insight into many changes in the future.

Next, just like in the previous Time Line, he contacted the Ilfaren representative to ask them to help contact Xinnaliya, and eventually headed to Beilunuo.

In the previous Time Line, because he had confirmed in advance that the Time Flow Regulator could collect Time Force, Xia Duo did not anchor the event of going to Beilunuo to obtain the Time Gem.

Besides the reason of the Time Flow Regulator, the fact that the clash with Dafuni occurred before obtaining the Time Gem was also a very important reason.

It was just that at the very beginning, Xia Duo wanted to repeatedly "farm" Dafuni, this source of Time Force, to obtain more Time Force. Once he anchored the event of obtaining the Time Gem from Beilunuo, the event of clashing with Dafuni would also likely be anchored.

Of course, things changed later on. Xia Duo changed his original plan; he did not seek to defeat the Illuminati directly on the Time Line battlefield, but instead fought a war of attrition, using the Time Flow Regulator to collect Time Force.

Under these circumstances, clashing with Dafuni needed to be avoided even more, lest Dafuni use Time Force to transmit the news that he could collect Time Force to other Time Lines, thereby increasing the risks of the war.

Therefore, in the previous Time Line, although the reasons Xia Duo had at the beginning and the end regarding whether to anchor the trip to Beilunuo were not quite the same, fortunately, they both pointed to the same result, which was—

Do not anchor the trip to Beilunuo.

So this time, when reshaping the Time Line, Xia Duo returned to the starting point once again, which was the "that reality" he had anchored with the help of the previous Prophecy Ritual.

When the reshaping of the Time Line was completed, it was equivalent to the end of the Prophecy Ritual, except that in the very first Time Line, the information he obtained from the prophecy was very limited, merely some prophetic scenes for which he could not judge the truth or falsehood.

But now, including the previous Time Line, he had obtained the prophecy results from the very first Time Line, but with the added experience of the previous Time Line.

It was equivalent to having fully prophesied the future with the help of Time Force; all details, as long as he had personally experienced them, were clearly visible!

Of course, this was only Xia Duo's own experience. If it were Dafuni, her "observation" of the future might not be like this; after all, the two sides used Time Force in completely different ways.

But regardless, Dafuni, who mastered Time Force, was a formidable enemy.

It was just that the other party's ambition was too great, the scope of her operations was too wide, and she wanted too much. Otherwise, if she had told Xia Duo in advance that the enemy was a prophet who had mastered Time Force, he might have avoided the battle from the very beginning.

It was just that now he was already involved, and he was not without any chance of winning, so he could persist. For him now, it was impossible for him to fight a battle with no chance of winning.

One should retreat when one should, and yield when one should; only by preserving oneself is there a chance to launch a counterattack. If even he himself were finished, what would the people behind him do?

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Because the development of the first half of the previous Time Line was basically consistent with Xia Duo's expectations, he did not intend to change it. He still contacted the Ilfaren representative to ask them to help contact Beilunuo, or at least provide a channel to contact Beilunuo.

At the same time, he was also trying to find a way to perform a quantitative check on the Time Force stored in the Time Flow Regulator he had brought over from the previous Time Line.

Although Time Force was a power that was difficult to quantify, Xia Duo did not need it to be very precise; as long as he could roughly judge an amount, he could determine a standard himself through repeated comparisons.

Or rather, this was also a process of quantifying Time Force.

Previously, while in the Astral Plane, Xia Duo already had ideas in this regard, and only now, having returned to the normal Magic Net environment, could he truly conduct experiments.

In the process of the experiment, he basically determined that the Time Force that a specific Spell could store was limited, or more colloquially, the Time Force capacity of the Time Flow Regulator he designed was limited.

He defined the amount of Time Force that could be stored by the Spell for collecting Time Force, which he had simplified and improved from the Time-Involving Ritual at the beginning, as "1", then—

The capacity limit of the Time Flow Regulator was about five thousand or so!

As for the cost of reshaping the Time Line once, it could not be determined for the time being, because the Time Flow Regulator he currently held was stored in his Personal Space and had not been used to reshape the Time Line.

Previously, reshaping the Time Line was still done using the strange gemstone designed at the beginning, and all the Time Force stored inside came from the Time Gem obtained from Beilunuo.

That is to say, to determine the consumption of one Time Line reshaping, he still needed to obtain another Time Gem.

In addition, due to the increased number of times he used Time Force, or perhaps the increased number of times he had experienced the birth and death of Time Lines, Xia Duo's Perception of Time Force had improved.

This Perception even exceeded the Arcane means he currently used to quantify Time Force. In other words, he could directly perceive the amount of Time Force, and even the amount of its change.

And this Perception could also trace back previous perceptions; that is to say, as long as he obtained a Time Gem again, he could know the consumption of the several previous Time Line reshapings all at once.