Chapter 3493: Each Line Advances in Parallel, Newcomer Kleios

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In reality, Xia Duo can now determine the specific consumption of the previous time line resets, excluding the most recent one; if calculated by his own defined "1" unit of Time Force, it requires approximately fifty units.

As for the consumption of the last time line reset, he feels it shouldn't be much different; after all, he randomly chose a spot in the wilderness to collect soil and stones, and the impact on the entire world was minimal.

Moreover, he can be almost certain that the place where he collected the soil and stones must still be in its original state in this new time line, meaning there is no large pit where the soil and stones were collected.

If he were to take out the soil and stones stored in his Personal Space now, it would be equivalent to two identical piles of soil and stones existing in this world simultaneously.

But in reality, material resources are not nearly as precious as Time Force. Taking precious metals like Adamantine and Mithril as examples, although Xia Duo cannot yet artificially grow Mithril, he has long been able to mass-produce Adamantine.

Even his second Floating City, Yongle City, uses Adamantine as its main body.

It stands to reason that Mithril is not particularly special either; it just requires a large number of experiments to discover its specific elemental composition. Once found, mass production in a factory will not be far off.

It is nothing more than consuming a bit of energy. In this world of Magic, energy is the least valuable thing. Even the more special Positive Energy, while perhaps a very rare medical resource for ordinary people, is no more precious to a Mage than the water flowing in a river in a normal environment.

Not to mention, there are large energy devices like the Mythallar that reach deep into the Inner Plane to draw energy.

By comparison, Time Force, which currently has only Dafuni as its sole source, is the most precious resource. Using Time Force to exchange for material resources is even harder to accept than picking up sesame seeds while losing a watermelon.

But if it is used for experiments, the necessary consumption is acceptable.

After all, if a resource is not used at all and is only kept in a warehouse, it is effectively the same as not possessing it. Since he possesses it, he must find a way to make it exert its proper effect.

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Next, Xia Duo will proceed on two fronts: his avatar will continue to wait for a response from Ilfaren, and then he will head to Beilunuo to meet with the Tide Queen Taisi and invite her to join the Northland Alliance.

Obtaining the Time Gem will also be a matter of convenience.

As for Xia Duo's main body, he does not intend to go to Taiweimansa in this time line, and he must avoid meeting Dafuni as much as possible to prevent her from knowing of his existence as an "anomaly."

But this creates another problem: if he does not go to Taiweimansa to clash with Dafuni, the Illuminati will not fully show their hand.

And if he waits until those Time-Involving Signals cannot be hidden before responding, he worries it will be too late. Furthermore, the Battle of Tanzan Peak has already been anchored, and Xia Duo is unsure how things will evolve if he decides not to go to Taiweimansa now.

There are too many variables. As someone who has "returned to the past" to try to change the future, Xia Duo actually does not want variables to exist from the bottom of his heart. Even without resetting the time line, just based on his current status, he hopes to control variables as much as possible.

In fact, the reason why so much is considered for any plan, large or small, is largely to minimize variables as much as possible, so that the course of events conforms to the psychological expectations of the plan's creator.

Only those who have no plans in their hearts and just muddle along would not care about variables at all, or even take pleasure in them.

Of course, this does not mean that the role of variables is entirely negative; Xia Duo often needs the existence of variables as well.

For example, the emergence of a genius is a variable, but it is a positive variable that is sufficiently beneficial to him and can be controlled by him.

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After repeated consideration, Xia Duo still decided to make a trip to Taiweimansa, but in order to hide his identity and move through various key battlefields to collect Time Force later, he needs to avoid using certain special abilities as much as possible.

For example, using the Time Flow Regulator to collect Time Force, or using bloodline innate abilities to merge with the world and hide his figure.

The ideal situation is to capture Kalano and leave immediately. As long as such key evidence is in hand, there is no need to worry about the Illuminati not showing their hand. In this way, the subsequent course of events will continue to follow the previous development without too many variables.

Xia Duo must try his best to turn the war between the Alliance and the Illuminati into a war of attrition where both sides show their cards; of course, he himself (the fact that he can collect Time Force) needs to be hidden.

In this way, the scales of war will tilt greatly toward his side, and victory will be within reach.

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Popping champagne at halftime is not Xia Duo's habit, but having been entangled with the Illuminati until now, finally seeing a glimmer of dawn inevitably makes his heart flutter. However, he quickly adjusted his mindset and kept a tight grip on both lines.

Soon, good news came from Ilfaren: the Chief Executive of Ilfaren invited him to meet for discussions. Of course, before this news, the Alliance Monitoring Center had once again detected a large number of Time-Involving Signals.

It was about ten minutes earlier than the previous time line. This lead time looks unremarkable at first glance, but to Xia Duo, who has already experienced multiple time lines, it is undoubtedly a sign that Dafuni's speed in perceiving threats from the time line level has accelerated.

And he also developed a similar feeling; even because of his personal experience, he can now faintly perceive the invisible pressure, or threat, from the time line level—

Dafuni is using who knows how many time line resets to gradually narrow the time line down to the one most favorable to the Illuminati's ultimate ritual.

At this moment, the fact that the time the Alliance detected a large number of Time-Involving Signals has advanced is proof of this.

After all, Xia Duo has not yet had time to produce any particularly obvious influence on the outside world in this time line; the Illuminati suddenly accelerating their progress can only be due to Dafuni.

If the Illuminati's progress advances a little bit every time the time line is reset, it will undoubtedly compress the time for Xia Duo's actions and the space for his calculations.

It can be seen from this that even if Dafuni may not know of his existence as someone who can also manipulate the time line, she has still made actual responses, rather than blindly letting him engage in some small tricks.

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Xia Duo cannot directly interfere with the Illuminati's actions for the time being, but he has enough initiative on the Alliance side. Under his intentional promotion, the Alliance has "once again" established a Spirit Thought Network specifically serving this war.

The trips to Xinnaliya and Beilunuo were also very smooth. The Time Gem obtained again is already very different from the beginning, with most of the Time Force inside already consumed.

Calculating it, it is only enough for one or two more time line reset operations.