Chapter 946: Spatial Crushing, High Efficiency and Low Consumption

Xia Duo's method is actually very simple: he uses the overlap between his Personal Space and the Main Plane to send Murlocs within a large area into his Personal Space, and then he can handle them however he likes.

Although Xia Duo's current Personal Space is only about 1000 cubic meters, which seems incomparable to the massive capacity of a river like the Wofu Fort River, it looks different from another perspective.

The overlapping and subsequent separation of the Personal Space and the Main Plane is actually the same method used for Dimensional Bags, which are generally opened in the Ether Plane.

The use of a Dimensional Bag is convenient in itself, and Xia Duo's Personal Space is located within his own consciousness; he can complete the overlap and separation with almost a single thought.

Compared to a Dimension Space opened in the Ether Plane, it is countless times more convenient.

If Xia Duo's Personal Space were large enough, he could even eliminate all the Murlocs outside by himself in a very short time.

Instead of doing what he is doing now—just clearing them out a little to relieve the pressure on Savile Town.

Since the collection process is not what limits his clearing efficiency, the limitation naturally lies in the processing method after collection—

After taking the Murlocs from a section of the river in front of him into his Personal Space, Xia Duo quickly adjusts the shape of the Personal Space, turning it into an irregular space similar to a gourd, large at one end and small at the other.

The Murlocs that were taken in are positioned exactly within the larger space, connected to the smaller space by a passage only the size of an ordinary adult's fist.

Next, Xia Duo continues to adjust the spatial form, causing the larger space to shrink while the smaller space expands; the result thereafter is self-evident.

That passage, only the size of a fist, soon becomes a passage of flesh and blood; the crushed and pulverized Murloc flesh quickly gushes out from within, falling into the space that was originally smaller and is now larger.

The shape of the space is still gourd-like, only now the Murlocs, or more accurately "Murloc paste," are in the smaller space.

Moreover, this space continues to shrink until it completely merges into the larger space, causing the Personal Space to return to its original state.

Finally, he throws the crushed and pulverized Murloc paste back into the river, and thus a round of the clearing procedure is complete.

And after that, all Xia Duo has to do is repeat this process until the people sent by the Seventon Council to clear the Murlocs arrive.

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Even if Murlocs have awakened self-awareness and regained Wisdom due to some special reasons, the growth of Wisdom cannot be achieved overnight.

They might be smarter and more sensitive than ordinary beasts now, but to say they possess Wisdom similar to humans is completely laughable.

In fact, the same goes for Goblins; without a civilization to pass down, even if a so-called "Goblin Sage" occasionally appears with Wisdom comparable to or even exceeding that of humans, they cannot change the living conditions of the entire Goblin race within their short life cycle.

As for these Murlocs, even if they realize there might be a problem, they are still attracted by the Murloc paste Xia Duo throws out, swarming toward this side crazily.

This is entirely driven by the instincts of life!

Originally, within the Mythallar space, water plants could be provided infinitely with the support of the Mythallar, but once outside, the river channel stretching for hundreds of miles is full of Murlocs—what do they eat?

If it were before they awakened self-awareness, they naturally wouldn't care, nor would they understand whether to care; they would simply operate according to the behavioral patterns artificially set when they came out of the Mythallar—

Spread outward, and attack when encountering humans.

This is the action pattern of non-intelligent Murlocs that Xia Duo has currently determined, but once they awaken self-awareness, biological instincts will drive them to look for food.

Moving from Maihete Lake to here, how could it not consume anything? Even if they brought water plants outside, without the support of Magic, how fast could they grow?

Therefore, upon smelling the scent of flesh and blood, the nearby Murlocs that have awakened self-awareness are almost driven mad, moving desperately toward the section of the river dyed red by the "Murloc paste."

And because the upper reaches of the Wofu Fort River, Maihete Lake, were destroyed by a meteorite and the waterway was blocked, the current river water has almost no flow.

The "Murloc paste" Xia Duo drops into the river spreads slowly upstream and downstream, with little influence from the current.

Looking at the lively scene of "fish" heads bobbing on the water, Xia Duo cannot help but think of the times he fed koi in the park before he traveled here, only the "koi" he is feeding now are much larger and far more numerous than those in the park on Earth.

Whenever the Murlocs gather again, Xia Duo once again overlaps his Personal Space with the location of the river channel in the Main Plane to collect the Murlocs.

Afterward, he turns them into "paste" and throws it out, cycling like this.

He stands leisurely on a large rock on the bank, executing a highly efficient killing procedure on the Murlocs.

In fact, such a move is equally effective against creatures other than Murlocs, including humans; as long as the target is not a High Mage, they basically cannot escape the fate of being "turned into paste."

As for why it is a High Mage, that is naturally because High Mages have at least mastered Teleportation Spells, and the Principles of Teleportation Spells mostly originate from Plane Overlap.

Therefore, they are exceptionally sensitive to Plane Overlap; trying to "wrap them in a dumpling" right in front of them is almost no different from brandishing a knife at someone's throat.

Even if the opponent were stupid, they would know to dodge first, right!

Of course, if one were truly careless and got locked inside, then even a Great Arcanist would end up with the same fate as the Murlocs here—either "turned into paste" or subjected to other methods of torture Xia Duo might think of.

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And for Xia Duo, changing the shape of his Personal Space is not without cost; it comes at the price of the space shrinking, but the degree of this shrinkage is almost negligible compared to manifesting items from the Projection Plane.

In fact, if not for this frequent operation, he would have found it hard to discover that changing the spatial form also consumes energy, because the consumption is simply too small.

Even the Arcane Crystals Xia Duo manufactures daily could satisfy dozens or hundreds of spatial form adjustments.

If one were to compare work efficiency, then without a doubt, the efficiency of the Personal Space is extremely high; it only takes the energy required for one or two 7th Ring Spells (his daily Arcane Energy surplus) to crush and pulverize a large number of Murlocs into paste.

If one were to design a similar grinding and crushing Spell, it would be impossible to be this efficient—at least not within Xia Duo's current capabilities.

Even such high-efficiency crushing is not the most direct target of energy consumption; the place where energy is truly consumed is in changing the spatial form, and the high-efficiency crushing is just a small side effect brought about by the change in spatial form.

This also allowed Xia Duo to see the potential of the Plane Domain once again; today he is using his Personal Space to achieve such things, but in the future, he may not be unable to create related spatial Spells for a Plane Domain to achieve similar effects.

Or even more miraculous and sophisticated ones.