Chapter 545: Development Direction and Energy Consumption Testing

After the exchange meeting ended, Xia Duo and the others continued to chat for a while; naturally, it was still about Magic, as everyone had gained quite a bit from the meeting and were very satisfied, which led to thoughts of taking things further.

However, such idle chatter was ultimately somewhat superficial and not as in-depth as the previous exchanges. After chatting for a short while, the group dispersed. Before leaving, Beilaila suggested that she wanted to organize another exchange meeting in a few days.

It was just a pity that with the theme undecided, only a few people who were well-acquainted with Beilaila agreed.

On the way back, the evening breeze was slightly cool, but through the Element Balance Field of his Mage Robe, it did not bring much chill, instead adding a touch of freshness.

Seventon in the dead of night was very quiet, and Xia Duo and Niya could not help but slow their pace. When the two were about to reach Giles Tower, Niya suddenly asked, "Just now, Beilaila invited you to participate in the next exchange meeting; why didn't you agree?"

"Didn't you also not agree?" Xia Duo smiled. Feeling that saying this was a bit perfunctory, he added another sentence, "The Snow Melting Competition is still ongoing; how could I have much free time to attend an exchange meeting!"

This was no lie. If it remained in this format of "speech + questions," not only would preparing the speech content require a lot of effort, but listening to others speak was also very time-consuming.

Of course, the most critical point was that one might not necessarily encounter a theme one liked. Because of his Personal Space, Xia Duo had already determined that his future development would mainly be in the "Plane" Domain.

This might involve branching fields such as space, teleportation, energy, and the Magic Net, but ultimately, it fell under the grand Domain of "Plane."

If one happened to run into a Fireball exchange meeting, it would really be better not to go.

"Indeed, just watching the competition, then organizing and recording it, takes a long time. This time, if it weren't for—" Just halfway through her sentence, Niya suddenly froze, and her footsteps stopped as well.

"What's wrong?" Xia Duo also stopped. Seeing Niya's expression was unusual, he felt a bit worried inside.

"It's nothing, the teacher just sent me a Sending."

As she spoke, Niya continued to walk forward, while not forgetting to tell Xia Duo the news she had just received, "The teacher told us not to mention Archmage Sandro outside, especially that Longevity Ritual."

"Hm? Why?" Xia Duo was a bit strange. Since they had invited people to observe the ceremony, why couldn't it be mentioned?

According to his thinking, Archmage Sandro had the strength and the background; since he had attained eternal life, it would be best to hold some "Eternal Life Conference" and publicize it widely. If he remained obscure, wouldn't that be like "wearing silk robes and walking in the dark"?

"The teacher didn't say." Niya shook her head, her tone somewhat cold. She was also very confused inside; if it needed to be kept secret, they shouldn't have been invited, and if it didn't need to be kept secret, then what was this post-event lockdown all about?

There were only a few steps left on the road. The two had confusion in their hearts, so the conversation did not continue. After returning to the Mage Tower, they parted ways.

Returning to his temporary residence in Giles Tower, according to Xia Duo's original plan, he was going to continue manufacturing Arcane Crystals and then throw them into his Personal Space.

It was just that his current Arcane Energy limit was truly too low; each time he could only manufacture an Arcane Crystal not even the size of a grain of rice, which made him prepare to adjust his plan.

—First, study the energy consumption of Arcane Spellcasting, as well as the quantitative analysis of Arcane Fire containing Arcane Energy.

As for directly transferring Arcane Energy from the Arcane Fire to the Personal Space, Xia Duo already knew the result—it wouldn't work for the time being.

The main reason was that to place an item into the Personal Space, the item must exist independently, whereas Arcane Energy was connected to the Arcane Fire, and the Arcane Fire was connected to his will. For now, he could not find a method to split Arcane Energy other than 【Manufacturing Arcane Crystals】.

Of course, Xia Duo could also enter the Personal Space himself and then release Arcane Energy.

But this had another problem: the Personal Space existed within his consciousness, equivalent to existing within Xia Duo's body. Could he still enter the Personal Space then?

Or perhaps he could enter, but would this contradiction of "you are inside me, I am inside you" trigger any accidents?

If this were someone else, he would certainly suggest they try it out; it wouldn't cost him a piece of flesh anyway. But if it were himself, he would have to carefully consider it.

Although the size of the Personal Space was now sufficient to accommodate his body, it ultimately hadn't reached the point where he absolutely had to enter.

Customizing a 【Light】, Xia Duo used all his Arcane Energy to cast 【Light】. By recording the number of spellcasts, he obtained a customized Arcane Energy parameter.

Afterwards, the consumption of other Spells was also deduced by progressing sequentially based on this standard.

The reason for choosing 【Light】 had no other cause; it was mainly because it was the first Spell Xia Duo learned. Choosing other Spells would have been perfectly fine too.

After all, the specific energy consumption was only related to the specific Spell, and had nothing to do with what was chosen as the reference frame or what the value was named.

Assuming one 【Light】 consumed 1 Joule of energy, then calling it 1 Ear-Joule or 2 Ear-Joules didn't matter, as long as it was that much energy.

Of course, the current Xia Duo still couldn't link Arcane Energy to the "Joule" used on Earth. The worlds were different, the parameters were different, and forcibly linking them was meaningless.

It was enough to just know this set of definitions, standards, and derivation procedures.

The essence of science, or rather Magic, did not lie in the names or definitions of concepts, but in creating a relatively complete and verifiable Knowledge system.

As long as it was relatively complete and systematic, what it was named actually didn't affect it at all.

Currently, Xia Duo had only tested the 【Light: Standard Version】, as well as the energy consumption of several other Ring 0 Spells' standard versions.

For the time being, the energy consumption of a Spell did not have an absolute relationship with the number of elements it involved. It was possible that a Spell with higher consumption had fewer elements, and of course, it could also have more.

However, one thing was certain: the energy consumption of a Spell had a positive correlation with the level of the Spell Circle.

In layman's terms, the higher the Spell Circle, the higher the energy consumption.

What could be known at present was that all the Arcane Energy he possessed could probably only cast one Ring 5 【Manufacturing Arcane Crystals】 before being completely exhausted.

Every time Xia Duo manufactured an Arcane Crystal, he did so by borrowing the Magic Net to cast the Spell; otherwise, the Arcane Crystal manufactured by the Spell would probably not be enough to cover the consumption of the Spell itself.

In fact, if he really used Arcane Energy to cast 【Manufacturing Arcane Crystals】, there wouldn't be much Arcane Energy left to be crystallized at all.

What qualitative and quantitative relationships existed between the energy consumption of specific Spells, their elements, and their Spell Circles would only be known after a large amount of extensive testing and analysis.

Having recorded the entire experimental process of the night, Xia Duo planned out the experimental content for the next few stages, and only then did he put away the experimental notes related to Arcane Energy testing.

It was just that he was currently a guest in a foreign land, and things were somewhat inconvenient in every aspect. Many experiments and research could not be carried out freely. For a moment, Xia Duo had already begun to look forward to the end of the Snow Melting Competition.

Because once the Snow Melting Competition ended, he could go back. Even without counting the various conveniences of the Tower of Time, even just staying in Linshui Village would be better than now; at the very least, he wouldn't have to worry about being monitored.

Of course, if he could become the Princess's student, then it wouldn't matter where he was.