Chapter 745: Humanoid Intelligent Brain, Verification of Results

Tower of Time, Xia Duo's residence, inside the Spell Laboratory.

A bright flash of Magic Aura suddenly erupted, and at the same time, a perfectly spherical Magic field appeared for an instant, only to vanish immediately.

Only a trace of Magic Aura remained at the source of the Spell eruption, but it, too, quickly disappeared under the effect of the Suppression Field within the Spell Laboratory.

Xia Duo watched this entire process from occurrence to disappearance with joy, his heart calm; the recent burst of inspiration had allowed him to quickly break through the Mist shrouding the Petrification Magic and complete it rapidly.

For the first time, he deeply realized the important role Memory plays in Magic research; the feeling was truly wonderful.

First, he reproduced all relevant Knowledge in his mind, then constructed countless associations; however, these associations were not mechanically fixed pairings, but rather, based on Xia Duo's cognition, he processed existing information from a transcendent perspective, even reasonably creating something out of nothing.

All of this happened almost simultaneously; those combinations among countless thoughts that possessed a special internal logic were what is known as inspiration.

What Xia Duo had to do was record these inspirations and verify them one by one; while verifying, he could simultaneously revise subsequent verification plans or propose new ones.

This research process was something Xia Duo had never experienced before.

In the past, he would first record some ideas in a notebook, and while thinking, he would also record key information simultaneously to avoid forgetting.

And when it came to proposing verification plans, it was common to have biases or omissions.

How could it be like now, where he was practically a human-shaped computer, first loading information, then processing it, and finally arriving at a verification plan.

In the past, the information he first loaded was incomplete, at least not as convenient and swift as it was now, and then the processing process, due to the possibility of forgetting, could even occur during the thinking process.

Thus, regrets such as thinking patterns and research characteristics appeared, and the final verification plans would have tendencies and gaps.

But now, his research would almost never have any blind spots in thinking; everything was handled clearly.

The reason for saying "almost" was because of Xia Duo's own subjective influence; for example, a certain direction might be directly excluded based on his judgment, but in reality, it was the correct direction.

In addition, there were fields Xia Duo was not interested in or considered unimportant; these fields would also lead to a lack of thinking due to a lack of Knowledge.

Theoretically, Xia Duo could completely achieve absorbing any Knowledge and become a near-omniscient existence.

This was truly a bit terrifying, and this ability of Memory Retrospection, similar to a cheat-like brain, also forced Xia Duo to adjust many of his future plans.

He would adjust to increase the proportion of collecting Knowledge; although it was somewhat unrealistic to bloom in all fields, it was very realistic to go deep into the fields he was interested in.

Choosing the Plane as a future research direction at the beginning was actually a helpless move; after all, human energy is limited, not to mention anything else, memory alone would take up a large chunk.

Furthermore, to prevent forgetting, one had to constantly review and practice, which was another huge waste.

Now it was better; with the "cheat-like brain," he could take slightly larger steps. As for how large, it would depend on how important this "cheat-like brain" could be in future learning and research practice.

Today was just a trial, and his research on Petrification Magic had been going on for quite some time, plus there was the assistance of some 【Mud-Stone】 Transformation Magic data from the Tower of Time.

Now that he could quickly complete the Petrification Magic emitted by the Statue from the ruins, it was merely moving a result that would inevitably be obtained in the future slightly closer to the present, and it was nothing to be proud of.

However, he truly fell in love with this brand-new ability.

If he had been somewhat annoyed when his bloodline first awakened at the beginning of the month, then after nearly a month and discovering this new ability, he was no longer annoyed in the slightest.

If the bloodline could still be awakened, then Xia Duo's expectation for it was to have more of it, and to have it come faster!

He couldn't wait to know to what extent this bloodline could reach!

……

In the following two days, Xia Duo almost forgot to eat and sleep, and achieved good results in the Earth Element Domain again.

In addition to making improvements to the original 【Mud-Stone】 Transformation Magic of the Tower of Time, he also transformed the regional 【Petrification Field】 emitted by the Statue from the ruins into a directional single-target Petrification Spell.

Of course, the results Xia Duo cared about most were not these specific Spells; in fact, whether it was regional Petrification, single-target Petrification, or the improved 【Mud-Stone】 Transformation Magic, they were still only at the level of Application.

As long as he wanted, he could arbitrarily concoct countless new Spells based on these Spells.

Compared to Spells, he cared more about the accumulation and breakthroughs at the theoretical level.

Like this Petrification Magic project, it verified a guess he had before, which was that as long as the ratio of elements within matter is adjusted, matter can be transformed into another type of matter.

This meant that expensive materials like Mithril could all be artificially produced; combined with the potential future appearance of the Mythallar, Xia Duo seemed to see an incomparably prosperous era of mass production.

At the same time, this project also verified a guess that had been verified long ago: this world is based on energy and elements, somewhat similar to how all things on Earth are built on the basis of atoms.

As for whether there is a deeper structure similar to sub-atomic levels beneath elements and energy, that is another question.

In addition, through this project, Xia Duo had a better understanding of the Elemental Plane; such a Plane is less of a Plane and more of some kind of conceptual energy source, almost impossible to become a field for humans to set foot in.

Anyone who enters it will inevitably encounter Elemental assimilation more severe than 【Petrification Spell】; whether Spells like 【Plane Attunement】 or 【Elemental Avatar】 can resist this kind of assimilation, Xia Duo could not verify for the time being, but he hoped they could.

Of course, even if there were a way to verify it, he would not go there personally; it was simply too risky.

……

Opening the door of the Spell Laboratory, Xia Duo came to the desk, brewed himself a nice cup of tea, watched the tea leaves slowly drift down in the water, smiled, and began to organize his research records.

Although the appearance of the Memory Retrospection ability gave him a memory capacity that ordinary people could not reach, keeping physical records was already Xia Duo's habitual practice.

And with outstanding memory, he no longer needed to manually transcribe them to deepen his impression as he did in the past; now he could just record them by casting a Spell directly.

Isn't 【Transcription】 just prepared for this moment!