In fact, Xia Duo can now know the specific consumption of the previous times of reshaping the timeline except the last time. Calculated based on the power of "1" unit time defined by himself, it takes almost fifty units.
As for the consumption of the last reshaping of the timeline, he felt that it should not be much different. After all, he randomly selected a place in the wild to collect earth and rocks, and the impact on the entire world was minimal.
And he is almost certain that the place where he collected earth and rocks must still be the same as it was in the beginning in this new timeline, that is, there is no big pit where earth and rocks were collected.
If he takes out the earth and rocks stored in his portable space now, it will be equivalent to two identical piles of earth and rocks existing in this world at the same time.
In theory, it is entirely possible to obtain more resources by reshaping the timeline.
But in fact, material resources are not as precious as the power of time. Take precious metals such as fine gold and mithril as examples. Although Xia Duo is not currently able to artificially plant mithril, fine gold has long been mass-produced.
Even his second floating city, Yongle City, was made of fine gold as its main body.
Thinking about it, Mithril is not that special. It just requires a lot of experiments to find the specific elemental composition. Once found, it is not far from direct mass production in the factory.
It's nothing more than consuming a little energy. In this magical world, energy is the least valuable. Even special positive energy may be a very rare medical resource for ordinary people, but for mages, it is no more valuable than
How valuable is the river water flowing in a normal environment?
Not to mention, there are large-scale energy devices like Mythra that directly penetrate deep into the inner plane to absorb energy.
In contrast, Daphne, the only source of the power of time, is currently the most precious resource. Exchanging the power of time for material resources is even more unacceptable than picking up sesame seeds and losing melons.
But if it is used for experiments, the necessary consumption is acceptable.
After all, if you don't use a resource at all and just keep it in the warehouse, it is actually equivalent to not owning it. Now that you have it, you have to find a way to make it play its due role.
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Next, Xia Duo walked in two directions. The incarnation was still waiting for a response from Ilfaran, and then went to Belluno to meet with the Tide Queen Tess and invite her to join the Northland Alliance.
Obtaining the Time Stone is easy.
As for Shado's true form, he is not planning to go to Tevi Mansa in this timeline, and he wants to avoid meeting Daphne as much as possible to avoid letting the other party know about the existence of his "odd number".
But then another problem arises, that is, if he does not go to Tevimansa to fight Daphne, the Illuminati will not have a complete showdown.
And if he had to wait until those time-related signals could no longer be hidden before responding, he would worry that it would be too late, and the battle for Tanzania Peak had already been anchored. Shado was not sure what would happen if he decided not to go to Tevi Mansa now.
evolution.
There are too many variables. As a person who "goes back to the past" to try to change the future, Xia Duo actually does not want the variables to exist from the bottom of his heart. Even if he does not reshape the timeline, based on his current identity, he hopes to do everything possible.
control variables.
In fact, the reason why so many considerations are taken into account in any plan, large or small, is largely to reduce variables as much as possible so that the direction of events conforms to the psychological expectations of the planners.
Only people who have no plan in mind and are muddle along will not care about variables at all, and will even take pleasure in them.
Of course, this does not mean that the role of variables is completely negative. Xia Duo often needs the existence of variables.
For example, the emergence of a genius is a variable, but it is a positive variable that is beneficial enough to him and can be controlled by him.
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After repeated consideration, Shado decided to go to Taivi Mansa, but in order to be able to hide his identity and travel to various key battlefields to collect the power of time, he needed to avoid using some special abilities as much as possible.
For example, use the time flow regulator to collect the power of time, and use bloodline superpowers to inhabit the world and hide your body.
The most ideal situation is to just capture Carano and leave. As long as you have such key evidence in hand, you don't have to worry about whether the Illuminati will show its cards. In this way, the subsequent events will continue the previous development without too many variables.
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Shado wants to turn the war between the Alliance and the Illuminati into an open war of attrition as much as possible. Of course, he himself (being able to collect the power of time) needs to be hidden.
In this way, the balance of the war will tilt greatly towards his side, and victory is just around the corner.
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It was not Shado's habit to open champagne at halftime, but he had finally seen a glimmer of light after his entanglement with the Illuminati, which inevitably made him a little shaken, but he quickly adjusted his mentality and held on to the two lines without relaxing.
Soon, good news came from Ilfaran, and Chief Executive Ilfaran invited him to meet and discuss. Of course, before this news, the Alliance Monitoring Center once again monitored a large number of time-related signals.
It's about ten minutes ahead of the previous timeline. This amount of advance seems nothing special at first glance, but from the perspective of Xia Duo, a person who has experienced multiple timelines, it is undoubtedly Daphne who noticed it from the timeline level.
The speed at which threats are detected has accelerated.
And he also had a similar feeling. Even because of his personal experience, at this moment he could vaguely sense the invisible pressure, or threat, from the timeline level——
Daphne is reshaping the timeline countless times, gradually converging the timeline to the one most conducive to the ultimate ritual of the Illuminati.
At this moment, the alliance has detected a large number of time-related signals that have advanced in time, which is a clear proof.
After all, Sha Duo has not had time to have any particularly obvious impact on the outside world in this timeline. The Illuminati's sudden acceleration of progress can only be caused by Daphne.
If every time the timeline is recalculated, the progress of the Illuminati will advance a bit, which will undoubtedly shorten the time for Shado's actions and the space for calculations.
It can be seen that even though Daphne may not be aware of his existence that can also manipulate the timeline, she still made practical responses instead of just blankly letting him make some small moves.
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Sha Duo was unable to directly intervene in the Illuminati's actions for the time being, but he had enough initiative on the Alliance's side. Under his deliberate promotion, the Alliance "again" established the Lingsi Network specifically to serve this war.
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The trip to Cynaria and Belluno went very smoothly. The time gems obtained again were completely different from the first ones, and most of the time power in them had been consumed.