The miniature nebula in this strange crystal is the restrained and embodied power of time, which is about half of the total power of time carried by the previous time stone.
This is inevitable. After all, Xia Duo didn't know how to restrain the power of time at the beginning, and the research process itself would cause waste.
Later, I knew how to restrain it, but I still needed to study how to use the power of time. This part of the consumption could not be generated out of thin air. It still came from the time gem obtained previously.
In the end, being able to keep half of it was the limit of what Xia Duo could do. If he had to do it all over again, he couldn't guarantee that he could still keep so much.
This strange crystal is a purely artificial creation. The complicated mithril threads in the crystal are the carrier of spells used to restrain the power of time. The crystal itself is just an encapsulated object, taking its transparent quality.
If you don't care about transparency, you can use other materials.
In fact, mithril is not the best spell carrier material. Even if it is a high-grade mithril with a purity of nine to nine, elements will still undergo transmutation, making the spells it carries invalid.
The best material is actually arcane strings, but for the time being, magic items made using arcane strings have a characteristic that cannot be said to be good or bad, and that is their huge size.
If it is used to make a permanent portal, it doesn't matter if it is larger, but if it is used to make a small portable magic weapon, it is actually impossible to do it at all.
In addition, although arcane strings almost never wear out or deteriorate, they are, after all, a material-like material created by magic, and their stability is not as stable as real matter.
In the end, after comprehensive consideration, Xia Duo decided to use mithril to make the spell carrier for the power of restraining time, which is what is usually called the "mithril component" in the process of making magic weapons.
After all, this part of the time power that was restrained and preserved by him is very limited, and will be used next, and he doesn't care about the shelf life of the mithril components.
After all, it is high-grade mithril with a purity of ninety-nine. Even Xia Duo can only prepare a small amount in the laboratory (the cost is too high and cannot be consumed). Even if it is used as a war weapon, it can be used frequently.
Several years.
Under normal circumstances, it shouldn't be a problem to preserve this strange crystal for one or two hundred years.
The actual situation is that this strange crystal may become useless in the next day or two. If the source of Daphne's time power can be obtained in the future, it may still be useful.
If not, then how likely is it that Xia will recycle it for reuse? After all, it is high-grade mithril with a purity of ninety-nine. Even if the purity after recycling has dropped, it is still among high-grade mithril.
This level of high-grade mithril is not used in daily life, but some cutting-edge research is indispensable, such as the universal magic computer. Shado still has thoughts in this regard!
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After closing the time-accelerating array, Xia Duo took another look at the strange crystal in his hand, and saw that the microscopic nebula that could still be seen in the geometric center of the crystal had all shrunk and turned into a tiny point of light.
Although it is the aggregation of countless starlights, this light spot is not intense, and it can even be said that there is no significant change in brightness from the previously dispersed starlight.
This process of nebulae converging into light points, and the process of entering the time acceleration region and then diffusing into nebulae again, is not unfamiliar to Chateau. He has experimented many times before.
Otherwise, he would not dare to store this strange crystal that preserves the only power of time in the time acceleration zone for a long time. From this perspective, at least in terms of preserving the power of time, he is already ahead of the Illuminati.
Of course, it is also possible that the time gem does not have the function of restraining the power of time that he thinks, but judging from the only phenomena, he has indeed surpassed the Illuminati in this regard.
Xia Duo encouraged himself in his heart. There is actually no evidence that the Illuminati has any excellence in preserving the power of time. If you always think that the Illuminati has a backhand, then simply surrender.
Putting away the strange crystal that preserved the power of time, Xia Duo immediately connected to the alliance command network to obtain the latest information from the outside world.
Before mastering the method to effectively restrain the power of time, in order to prevent the power of time from being accelerated and dissipated, the acceleration multiplier of the time acceleration array cannot be increased too high.
This also made Xia Duo unable to ignore the passage of time in the outside world. In the past year or so that he perceived, two days had actually passed in the outside world!
It depends on the continuous improvement of the proficiency of the reinforcement mages in Yongle City in manipulating the war spell system, as well as the great support of various countries on the battlefield where domestic time-related signals originate.
Today's local battlefield has not collapsed, at least there is no scene like "Xia Duo just stepped out of the time acceleration circle, and the Illuminati completed the ultimate ritual."
As long as the final ceremony has not been completed, the alliance will always have the possibility of complete victory.
Of course, once the Illuminati's ultimate ritual is completed, even if Shado has now mastered how to use the power of time, it will be impossible to turn the tables.
Theoretically, it is possible to make a comeback, but that requires him to fully master the means of conducting a timeline war without resorting to the power of time, or possess enough power of time.
He does not possess these two conditions. In fact, as long as he has enough power of time, he can naturally develop a method to conduct a timeline war without relying on the power of time. But what he lacks most now is the power of time.
So after coming out of the time acceleration circle, Sha Duo was really overjoyed to learn that the Illuminati had not yet completed the final ritual and that the local battlefield had not yet collapsed.
As for Elam, there is a follow-up investigation derived from the line of radiation from the Underdark.
After Xia Duo came out, he immediately asked about Tara Fu, and Tara Fu's answer also made Xia Duo particularly satisfied——
"All the underground fissures in the Elam region have been found, but whether they are connected to the Dark Territory and whether they are connected to the ceremonial location of the Illuminati requires further investigation. Currently, Uta is investigating the most likely fissures. I believe they will be found soon.
There are results.”
Utta is the Calishan who was transformed into the earth element by the wind element lord during the Wind Chasing War. Before entering the time acceleration zone, Shado had already learned the other party's identity.
Hearing the other person's name again at this moment, it really felt like a world away, and it was true. He felt that more than a year had passed, but the outside world only felt that it had been two days.
Of course, two days is already a long time for the current war between the Illuminati and the Alliance. If it is delayed any longer, it is very likely that everything will be lost.
Now this is the best result we have seen so far. Next, Xia Duo will strive for the best result in the future.