Chapter 746: Field Interference, Low Consumption and High Efficiency

After finishing his organization, Xia Duo summoned the Tower Spirit, "In the past two days, has the energy reserve of the Tower of Time increased or decreased?"

"Agent Xia Duo, in the past two days, the overall energy reserve of the Tower of Time has increased by 0.5%!"

"Hoo—"

Xia Duo let out a slight sigh of relief. It seemed that the previous adjustments to the management methods of the Spell Practice Room were indeed effective, reversing the trend of negative growth in the Tower of Time's energy reserves in one fell swoop.

Of course, the situation was still not optimistic. A 0.5% increase in two days was indeed a bit slow. Even without considering the future, the renovation of the Spell Laboratory was still imperative.

Thinking of this, he did not rush to go out and take a look. Instead, he leaned back in his chair and began to recall the content of "Research on Constructive and Destructive Interference of Superposition State Spell Suppression Fields."

Almost at the same time he had the thought of recalling it, that paper from the library of the Second Magic Academy in the 【Projection Plane: Arcane Empire】 appeared in his mind.

Naturally, he did not need to go and look for his old notes now. Of course, those notes were currently lent to Niya, so even if he wanted to look, he couldn't.

But by tracing his memory, he could directly recall the original paper he had read in the Projection Plane. In fact, his later organized notes still contained quite a few errors and omissions; it was better to recall the original version directly.

It was more convenient and more comprehensive. After all, besides secretly recording it in his Personal Space at the time, he had only copied excerpts. In such a large library, how could he possibly have copied it all in such a short time?

In fact, what he mainly copied at the time were actually the book titles, not the content inside. Book titles or catalogs could provide many research directions, which was the main object of Xia Duo's copying.

Thinking about it now, he could almost regret his guts out. If he had known he would possess the ability of Memory Retrospection later, he should have disregarded everything and at least flipped through every single book.

If that were the case, he could now possess a Personal Space library with a collection far exceeding that of the Tower of Time.

It is just a pity that time cannot be reversed!

Of course, if he could really reverse time, a mere library would have long since been a trivial matter!

Considering his current abilities, Xia Duo included the Projection Plane in his plans once again. After all, just going there for a trip and scavenging for Knowledge would not take much time.

If he encountered another Projection Plane with certain basic research facilities like the 【Arcane Empire】, it would not be impossible to conduct research within the Projection Plane.

The only drawback was probably that a projection is a projection after all. If he could not reach the Deep Weave in the Main Plane, it would not manifest in the Projection Plane, and naturally, there would be no such thing as an upgrade.

Therefore, exiting in time appeared particularly important. Of course, if there were immense benefits, one could also consider staying a while longer.

……

The so-called "Superposition State Spell Suppression Field Interference" is a phenomenon discovered by Arcanists of the 【Projection Plane: Arcane Empire】, namely, that when two or more Spell Suppression Fields are in a superposition state, they will influence each other.

The so-called "Constructive and Destructive Interference" refers to the different results of this superposition influence, either strengthening the spell suppression effect in a certain area or weakening it; of course, it is also possible for it to remain unchanged.

The new type of Spell Laboratory born on this basis can dynamically adjust the suppression intensity by changing the interference state of the superposition state Spell Suppression Fields.

Like the current Spell Laboratory of the Tower of Time, although the Spell Suppression Fields inside are also multi-level, at any given moment, unless there are multiple spell sources in the laboratory, only one Spell Suppression Field will appear.

In other words, if multiple spell sources appear at the same time, in order to suppress the effects produced by these spells, multiple Spell Suppression Fields will overlap.

This seems more energy-efficient than the Arcane Empire version—you only exert as much force as there are spells—but the actual situation is not like that.

In the paper Xia Duo recalled, it was mentioned that the Arcane Empire initially also used a simpler version like the Tower of Time.

But later, almost all of them were replaced with the dynamically adjusted version.

The key to this lies in—

The energy consumption of two or more low-level Spell Suppression Fields is lower than the energy consumption of one high-level Spell Suppression Field.

The Arcane Empire version utilized "Field Interference Constructive" to achieve the effect of a high-level Spell Suppression Field through multiple low-level Spell Suppression Fields.

This is somewhat similar to how an original scale used one gold weight, but now uses several iron weights instead; the effect is almost the same as before, but the cost is much cheaper.

……

Regarding the research on field interference, Xia Duo had not been exposed to it before, but it did not hinder him from starting now; he even felt quite familiar with it:

"It has the same effect as 'low-circle expression of high-circle elements'!"

From the perspective of resource utilization alone, field interference is undoubtedly more worthy of research and more practical than the low-circle expression of high-circle that relies solely on piling up resources.

But "low-circle expression of high-circle" is like a bunker or air-raid shelter in peacetime; it is indeed impractical, simple, crude, and has low resource utilization, but it can exert a huge effect when the critical moment arrives.

For example, the Tower of Time once encountered an attack by an Elf High Mage. That Elf Mage modified the Mythallar ruins and forcibly blocked the Tower of Time's connection to the Deep Weave on a large scale.

If there had been no downgrade program to use low-circle expression of high-circle to maintain the highest combat power of the 11th Circle, the Tower of Time would likely have been breached long ago.

And the biggest difference between Field Interference Constructive and low-circle expression of high-circle is actually not at the application level or the resource consumption level, but in—

The latter is a higher circle, an equivalent relationship, relating to a deeper Magic Net, while the former is only similar to a higher circle and does not relate to a deeper Magic Net.

This also means that there exists a so-called "Spell Extremity," or in other words, the energy level limit that Xia Duo previously thought a spell could reach at a certain circle is not the true limit; it can be even higher.

This is a very interesting topic, but Xia Duo was not prepared to start researching it immediately.

Although the emergence of the Memory Retrospection ability caused him to make some adjustments to his future plans, those were mostly medium-to-long-term or global adjustments.

Specifically for the near term, apart from the sudden event of renovating the Spell Practice Room, there was no need to adjust the original plan.

……

After thinking for a moment, Xia Duo contacted Niya, "Have you read that notebook I gave you?"

Almost at the same time he sent the Sending, Niya's reply came, her tone filled with joy, surprise, and a hint of excitement:

"I read it. That research paper on field interference is truly wonderful, more than any Magic Book I have ever read in Giles Tower, more—"

Niya was at a loss for words for a moment and repeated it twice without saying the rest.

Xia Duo filled in the rest for her, "More concise and more rigorous, right?"

"Mm." Niya responded heavily.

Compared to the various travelogue-style, biography-style, and dialogue-style Magic Books in the Main Plane, research papers in the Projection Plane that have stripped away irrelevant information are undoubtedly more to an Arcanist's taste.

Xia Duo did not say much more about this. He contacted Niya just to supplement the missing parts of the paper for her; after all, when he copied it using his Personal Space at the time, he had omitted quite a bit of content.