Chapter 3424 Time Acceleration The Coming Earth Elemental Lord
Although time-related spells can affect the mysterious starlight in the time stone, and it is judged that the mysterious starlight is probably the embodied power of time, there is only so much that time-related spells can do.
It's not that time-related spells can't do more, but that the time-related spells that Xia Duo masters can't do more. After all, this kind of spell comes from the Illuminati. Even though the alliance has done a lot of research, there is no guarantee of its existence.
There are still too many unknowns about the principles and mechanisms.
If you are too radical, it may be too late to regret if you fall into the trap of the Illuminati.
Xia Duo is willing to take risks, but the key is that the risks must be controllable. The risk of continuing to use unknown time-related spells to interfere with the time gems is very uncontrollable.
"We must find another way!"
But he also thinks in the field of time as much as possible. In addition to the time-related magic captured from the Illuminati, he actually also mastered a time spell, which came from the projection plane Everesca and was later improved and expanded by him.
Time acceleration circle.
If the Illuminati's time-related magic is the control of the timeline, then the time magic mastered by Sha Duo is the control of time itself. Although the fields involved by both parties can be classified into the category of time, they are obviously not in the same dimension.
To use a simple analogy, it's almost like the time spell that Shado mastered only interferes with a single timeline, while the Illuminati creates and destroys different timelines.
In addition, Chateau does not have any control over the power of time. Before understanding Daphne's concrete power of time, he believed that the power of time was more of an abstract concept than something concrete.
But rather than continue experimenting with spells from the Illuminati, Shado is more at ease with the time spells from his friend Evereska, a mage from the projection plane.
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The time-accelerating array is already available in Yongle City, so the next experimental site will be transferred to the time-accelerating array. Sha Duo has made a decision.
And the transfer work was quickly completed, and then there was some preparation work before the experiment, for example, making a timing device to control the switch of the array from within the time acceleration array.
The time acceleration circle cannot be closed normally from the outside. If it wants to be closed, it can only be cracked, but this is not what Sha Duo wants, nor is it required for the experiment.
In addition to the timing device, there is also the need to install external energy devices for temporarily taken out spare instruments and debug the instruments.
Once the time acceleration circle is activated, the flow of time within the affected area will be faster than outside the area, and the magic network will also be affected, just like the fence built when building the piers of a cross-sea bridge on Earth.
The only difference is that in order to build bridge piers on earth, the water in the fence will be diverted, but the time acceleration circle will circle the water - that is, that part of the magic network string - inside the acceleration area.
The power of the magic network inside the time acceleration area to draw energy from the inner plane is certain, but the flow rate of time is faster than the outside world. The power of the magic network in the acceleration area to absorb energy is diluted by how many times the time is accelerated.
times.
If the acceleration factor is small, it won't have much impact. After all, most experiments cannot reach the upper limit of the magic network's energy supply.
But if the acceleration multiplier is too high, it may not even be able to supply the energy for a single trick.
This is also the main reason why the time acceleration circle is generally not used for operating experiments or making magic items. If it must be done inside the acceleration circle, it can only be brought inside using self-prepared energy.
In addition, because that part of the magic network is trapped inside, it is completely different from the external magic network environment, which may interfere with the experimental results.
Xia Duo has not conducted detailed research on this aspect, so he basically never conducts operational experiments in the time acceleration array. It is usually used for thinking, calculation or analysis, and summarizing activities that do not require magic nets.
At the moment, this kind of temporary experiment with time-accelerating arrays is actually not in line with the process, but the situation is urgent and the purpose of the experiment is more qualitative than quantitative, so it doesn't matter.
As long as the Illuminati can be eliminated and this crisis resolved, Xia Duo is willing to pay the price of the entire destruction of Yongle City. If the matter can be solved so simply, it will be easier to handle.
The construction cost of Yongle City is considerable. If the crisis can be eliminated by sacrificing Yongle City to eliminate the Illuminati, all costs, including construction costs and reconstruction time costs, etc., can be paid for by the alliance.
Moreover, Xia Duo believes that compared to the current uncertain future, the Alliance would definitely rather pay ten times the cost of Yongle City to quickly resolve the crisis.
In any case, no matter how much the cost is, it will be shared equally among all countries, and there won't be much left after it is shared among all countries, not to mention the huge mine in the Huifeng Mountains that was still being developed during the war.
If it can be solved with money and specific resources, then things will be simpler.
But reality is not a simple cost swap game, and the Illuminati cannot let the alliance pass so easily. This is the most troublesome part.
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Yongle City, Ceremony Site No. 1.
Outside the time-accelerating circle, Xia Duo looked calm. He had just received the news from Tarafu from the south, and the result was far better than he expected.
With the help of the Demered family and the coordination of the Grand Vizier of Calimshan, Talaf successfully borrowed an earth elemental lord from a pasha family in Calimshan.
Of course, to say "borrow" is somewhat inappropriate, because the earth element lord is not a native earth element creature, but a member of the Pasha family who was accidentally transformed into an elemental creature during a wind-chasing war.
It is not that the bloodline has been infected and turned into the bloodline of the earth element, but that it has completely transformed from the essence of life into an elemental creature.
Similar to the Immortality Ritual in the Morien Tower of Netheril, transforming a mage into an undead creature is not as simple as being infected by negative energy, but a transformation of the essence of life.
No one knows why a wind lord has the ability to transform the earth element, but it just happened. During the Wind Chasing War, in the wind elemental plane, a Calishan with the blood of the wind element was killed by an air elemental lord.
Transformed into an earth elemental creature.
Therefore, the earth element lord is not the private property of a certain pasha family, but a meritorious member who has sacrificed for the family. Compared to "borrow", perhaps "please" is more appropriate.
An earth element lord is undoubtedly much more useful than the four earth element elders that Xia Duo currently has who cannot be controlled yet, not to mention that the earth element lord's predecessor was still a human being, although his temperament will inevitably be affected after the essence of life changes.
, but it is inevitable to be able to communicate, and it is still from Calimshan’s standpoint.
Just like the undead mage in Morien Tower (for example, Mage Sandro, whose immortality ritual Shado witnessed), although he has lost his normal human condition, there is no doubt that the opponent is on the side of Netheril.
At least within the scope of normal humans, there is no need to worry about the position of mages who have been transformed into inhuman beings.