Chapter 469: Subconscious, Book-Copying Monster

Xia Duo has incarnated as an Elf twice, so he is quite familiar with Elven Meditation, and can even maintain a degree of conscious clarity to perform mental activities like thinking and taking stock.

Furthermore, there is a very important aspect in the Elven Magic System—that is, the sensing of the Magic Net; many Elves can stir the Magic Net with words, and this is where an attribute similar to "Magic Net Affinity" is at work.

Perhaps Elvish has also undergone targeted adjustments, but that is not the point; now that Xia Duo has obtained the *Empire Meditation Third Edition*, it synthesizes Elven Meditation and Magic Net sensing, extracting from them a training method suitable for humans.

When Elves perform Magic Net Perception training, they also need to deliberately enter a state of focus; only meditation is relaxation, equivalent to human sleep.

However, the meditation method developed by the Arcane Empire synthesizes the characteristics of both; it does not require one to be in a state of focus at all times, but rather to be extremely relaxed, which is not only similar to Elven Meditation but also similar to yoga meditation on Earth.

If it were only this, it would merely be a relaxing leisure method, but meditation is essentially a unique form of Focus Training, and since it is Focus Training, there must certainly be a component of focus.

In a hazy, relaxed, and extremely ethereal state, Xia Duo's consciousness gradually touched upon an incomparably magnificent and exquisite structure; he still had the thought of meditation in his mind and had not completely emptied it, so when he truly came into contact with the Magic Net, he woke up all at once.

In the room, Xia Duo revealed an expression of annoyance.

The intention of the meditation method lies in allowing one to contact and become familiar with the Magic Net while emptying the mind, aiming to raise the lower limit of focus ability; of course, the upper limit will also be raised.

In Xia Duo's view, this should be a form of Subconscious training; with a foundation of understanding the essence of the Magic Net, one lets the Subconscious analyze the essence of the Magic Net on its own, thereby ordering the Subconscious and avoiding the crisis of accidentally triggering the Magic Net due to chaos.

And emptying the mind should be what raises the upper limit of focus; on Earth, isn't that why people practice meditation, to improve focus!

"Subconscious?"

After continuing to try a few more times, Xia Duo was lost in thought; if one looks only at the intention, there are meditation methods that improve focus, and perhaps there are further ways to integrate consciousness.

It is just that the realms of consciousness, mind, and even the Soul are truly not his specialty, so he can only speculate based on existing Knowledge and some theories from Earth.

However, Xia Duo has already added this to his research plan. In his own understanding, to become transcendent, material transcendence should be relatively easy to solve; it is only in the metaphysical realm of consciousness that it might be very difficult.

Just as humans can always imagine the various means of gods, but cannot imagine the thinking of gods.

Perhaps this Empire Meditation Method is a ticket to God's Domain, who knows.

……

Continuing to meditate until he fell asleep, Xia Duo did not succeed even once; waking up in the morning, he recalled the final memory of last night as usual, then summarized and categorized it.

Afterward, he ate some breakfast and came to the Library of the Second Magic Academy again.

There were even more people here today than yesterday, most of them reading books related to Jieti; it seems everyone is very concerned about the improvement suggestions for the Border Barrier.

Xia Duo, following his own plan, began to compare the differences between the Main Plane version of the advanced book series and the Arcane Empire version; if this series of books points directly to the college entrance examination, then Xia Duo only lacks the final courses of the third year of high school.

He temporarily stopped looking at the parts before the third year of high school; based on his current progress, Xia Duo focused on comparing the remaining parts, because there was still a lot of unfamiliar Knowledge, and he could see the gap at once.

Clearly, the Arcane Empire's textbooks are more "scientific"—of course, in a magic world, one would say more "magical"!

The logic, continuity, and ease of learning of the Knowledge are all stronger, but compared to textbooks on Earth, there is still a big gap; after all, everything in the Arcane Empire is centered on war, and they have not developed specialized pedagogy to actively update textbooks.

It is just that from long practice, such textbooks slowly evolved, which belongs to passive updating.

Xia Duo did not spend too much time on these books; anyway, he himself would soon not need these textbooks, and when there is a need in the future, he can re-study them; active updating will certainly be much faster than passive updating.

He spent most of his time on key technologies, such as Mithril Refining, Border Barrier, War Spell, Joint Casting, and Node Teleportation—technologies that were almost unheard of on the Main Plane.

As for the frontier theories of the magic field, although these are of great importance in the long run, Xia Duo is not even an Arcanist yet, so he plans to organize and record them when he has time later; for now, he is prioritizing practical technologies.

However, while constantly searching for books and "copying books," Xia Duo also discovered the shortcomings of the Arcane Empire; most technologies are related to war.

In addition, no information related to the Mythallar was found here.

If the Arcane Empire possessed a 【Mythallar】, perhaps they would not have been in a stalemate with the Elves for nearly a thousand years; there are simply too many things one can imagine with infinite energy!

This made Xia Duo realize that perhaps the Arcane Empire does not possess something like the 【Nether Scroll】, and the source of everything should be those generations of Great Sages who never ceased to appear.

Looking at it this way, the possibility that the Great Sages came from the Main Plane has increased a bit more.

And the appearance of the 【Mythallar】 should not just be the effect of the 【Nether Scroll】; the role of its inventor, Iolum, absolutely cannot be ignored, otherwise why did no one else invent it, and it had to be Iolum?

One must know that even in the current Netheril of the Main Plane, after one set of 【Nether Scroll】 was stolen, the reading threshold for the remaining set was raised a lot, but this threshold is almost equal to nothing for a Great Arcanist.

This is enough to demonstrate Iolum's talent.

Thinking of the 【Nether Scroll】, Xia Duo remembered that this year's reading Permission Level for the Main Plane had not been used yet; last year's reading Permission Level was used by Niya, and this year it should be his turn.

After all, Niya can go through her teacher's connections to read.

"Nether Scroll, huh! I really don't know what kind of magical thing it is!"

After sighing with emotion, Xia Duo continued to "copy books."

Because he hadn't thought at all beforehand that there would be such a good thing as copying books in a library, although there were many Blank Notebooks in his Personal Space, they were still very limited compared to the books in the library, and things from the Projection Plane could not be brought back, so Xia Duo could only pick out the key points to organize.

……

And just as Xia Duo was busy being a Knowledge porter, the border city of Salanduo, far away in the southeast, was already overcast with clouds.

In the Military Camp operations room, more than a dozen commanders wearing light military uniforms were deep in thought facing the projected map on the table; until a few people walked in from outside the door, the people inside did not notice at all.

"Ahem—" The one wearing a military uniform among the few who had just entered coughed heavily, and only after all the subordinates came back to their senses did he begin to introduce, "These few are all from the Empire Research Institute."

Hearing "Empire Research Institute," those dozen or so commanders immediately perked up, and upon hearing the Legion Commander mention terms like "Vice Dean" and "Level 4 Researcher," they immediately stood up and saluted those people solemnly.

It was not just because of the individual strength of these Great Arcanists, but also their contributions to the Empire, and the sacrifices they might make in the future.