Chapter 537: Mage, Coordinate Calculation

Returning to his temporary residence in Giles Tower, Xia Duo took out the Magic Scroll that Niya had left behind just now; of course, in reality, it was an invitation.

At the very top, two lines of text were written in a scrawled hand: one line in Netherese, one line in Elvish, but both meant the same thing—"Welcome to attend the arcane exchange meeting organized by Beilaila."

The Netherese text was nothing special, but the Elvish text clearly pointed out the organizer and some information about the exchange meeting.

A female Mage from Giles Tower, an exchange meeting in the format of lecture + Q&A.

This actually surprised Xia Duo a little; whether in the Tower of Time or in Seventon, female Mages were quite rare.

Due to the backwardness of the underlying social relations of production, even though female Mages could master powerful strength just like male Mages, they would still be constrained by secularity before mastering that strength.

Only if they possessed a deep background or astonishing talent that was displayed early on could women possibly embark on the Arcane Path; otherwise, they could only waste their time in worldly affairs.

Even with the existence of female Great Arcanists, it was very difficult to change this status quo.

This was probably the drawback of not having universal education!

Xia Duo thought of his hometown; even though it was enlightened to a considerable degree, in society, the professions women engaged in were still mostly influenced by gender, and the influence of gender had not been completely discarded.

Even a profession with high intellectual requirements like a scientist had not been able to completely shake off the shackles of gender; from family to society, there were shackles everywhere.

Compared to Xia Duo's hometown, the choices available to women in Netheril were far too few; of course, the choices available to men were not much better.

Ultimately, it was because the productivity at the bottom of society was too backward, and the relations of production resulting from it were also very backward.

Is it meaningful for Spellcasters to fence themselves off and amuse themselves?

Of course it is not!

Especially for Xia Duo, who had witnessed the scenes of a true civilization, how could he endure being in such a society?

Looking at this exchange meeting again, Xia Duo suddenly felt a bit listless; it was just an exchange meeting, not a broad exchange of the entire magical world. If it could develop into a form of open academic journal exchange like on Earth, that would be quite to his liking.

It was just that magic, no matter how theoretical, would involve practice, and practice was linked to tangible power. Who would be so generous as to share power with others?

Looking at this exchange meeting again, Xia Duo felt it was a bit interesting after all; at least the Seven Towers did not oppose holding such exchange meetings internally, and might even support them.

"An exchange meeting, huh!"

Xia Duo sighed softly, then took out a stack of blank Parchment and began to crack the teleportation coordinates for the exchange meeting on the invitation.

Magic Net String combination - Arcane Geometry mapping diagram.

The former could be called the basic elements of a Spell; from the former to the latter, it had to go through Arcane Geometry conversion, during which there might also be an encryption process, eventually becoming a graphic structure that a Spellcaster could view directly with the naked eye.

Of course, there were other theories for conversion, such as "Fuwu Studies" and the like.

But as of now, "Arcane Geometry" had become the universal standard in the field of element analysis.

The essence of teleportation coordinates was, of course, also some combination of Magic Net Strings, which could be embedded into 【Teleportation】 to serve as directional guidance for teleportation. Besides specific coordinates, they could also be fuzzy information.

This involved another theory; similar to wide-area searching, fuzzy Scrying and fuzzy communication were all applications of this theory. 【Fuzzy】 itself was also an Element Unit, which could likewise be combined with 【Teleportation】.

After some research, Xia Duo discovered that besides the main Arcane Geometry mapping diagram on this Magic Scroll, the patterns used as decoration on the corners of the scroll actually also implied some information about Fuzzy Teleportation.

Whether teleporting there precisely via coordinates or via Fuzzy Teleportation, both counted as having obtained the qualification to participate in the exchange meeting.

The cracking work proceeded quite smoothly; not even twelve o'clock at night, Xia Duo had already cracked both teleportation methods. Generally speaking, cracking encrypted Arcane Geometry mapping diagrams would not be this easy.

But the organization of the exchange meeting did not seem to have set up too many obstacles; the rules used for coordinate encryption were even hinted at directly in that line of Elvish text.

The information for Fuzzy Teleportation was not even encrypted, just placed there in plain sight for anyone to take.

If Xia Duo hadn't been worried that Fuzzy Teleportation might lead him into a ditch, he wouldn't even have needed to crack the teleportation coordinates.

"(Earth**, Fire***, Water***, Air***, Positive***, Negative***), let me see where this exchange meeting actually is!" While casting a spell to detect the Six-dimensional Coordinate of his current location, Xia Duo analyzed the partial information revealed by the coordinates of the exchange meeting.

Xia Duo knew the Six-dimensional Coordinates of quite a few locations, especially after understanding the essence of Six-dimensional Coordinates, so comparing and analyzing them was not difficult. The coordinates for this exchange meeting were normal in every other way, only the "Earth Element parameter" was abnormal.

Six-dimensional Coordinate positioning was determined by measuring the phase difference between the Spellcaster's current location and the Elemental Plane; the root theory behind this lay in elemental creation.

Six-dimensional Coordinates could also be seen as the Projection of Elemental Planes onto the Main Plane; any location had a uniquely corresponding Six-dimensional Coordinate. Even in an Other Plane, as long as the creation origin was consistent, one could use Six-dimensional Coordinates for positioning.

As far as Xia Duo currently knew, except for the Astral Plane, he had not yet encountered a situation where Six-dimensional Coordinates failed in the Material Plane.

Likewise, one could also see the natural elemental state of the location corresponding to the coordinates through the Six-dimensional Coordinates.

The location of the exchange meeting had a relatively small phase difference with the Earth Elemental Plane, and it was clearly small enough to exceed the normal range, which indicated that the natural earth element concentration at that location exceeded the normal environment.

Although Elemental Energy would flow within the Magic Net and rarely appeared as free-roaming Elemental Energy, even the enrichment of elements within the Magic Net would form materialized substances of elements.

For instance, the enrichment of water elements would form water, and the enrichment of earth elements would form earth.

Generally speaking, the deeper underground one went, the higher the degree of earth element enrichment. Could it be that the exchange meeting was underground? Wouldn't that make it an underground exchange meeting?

Xia Duo had been hoping for a hearty academic exchange in a bright, grand auditorium or a comfortable private club; if it really were underground, that would be truly strange.

Before long, Xia Duo's spell ended, and the Six-dimensional Coordinate of his current location was out. Of course, having just the coordinates was not enough; they had to be converted into the spatial distance in the Material Plane to roughly judge the relative position of the other coordinate to him.

It was just a small conversion, which could not stump Xia Duo at all. Very quickly, he obtained a precise location—

The Temple District?

No, that's not right; perhaps it was right beneath the Great Temple.

But, is it really okay to hold an exchange meeting beneath the Great Temple of the Lord of Radiance?