Arcane Lord

The main energy center of the floating city.

Under the action of gravity, all the water flows converge here, are continuously transformed into water elements, and then discharged into the elemental plane.

This process is much faster than Xia Duo expected. After about two hours, the only water that has not been discharged is the main energy center and some in the outside channel.

Outside the water body, there is also a synchronous wind element channel, which uses fresh air to replenish the space after the water body disappears. At this point, Xia Duo was relieved.

However, he was not completely relieved. He kept watching the water in the main energy center drained away before coming to the vicinity of the floating city planting area.

There is still some water outside the gravity field, which has not flowed to the middle to be converted into water elements and discharged. This part of the water needs to be manually removed by Xia Duo. Compared with the previous work, this part is much more cumbersome.

Xia Duo's method is to use a portable space to pack it up and put it in the water environment outside. Due to the limited volume of the portable space, it is inevitable to run several times.

This also made him think of transforming the portable space again.

Logically speaking, since the arcane crystals can be mass-produced and can produce tens of thousands of standard arcane crystals per day, Xia Duo should have expanded his portable space.

However, considering that a large number of arcane crystals (Davy string automatic preparation machine) will be needed to build the new [Misera] device, Xia Duo did not give priority to expanding his portable space. After all, the current size is enough.

In addition, considering whether it will become more difficult to transform the plane after the portable space is expanded.

Of course, he can also reduce the portable space by materializing the projected plane items, but the arcane crystals used to expand the space before will not be transformed back.

…

After almost an hour of hard work, Xia Duo cleared all the water in the floating city. If there are any omissions, they can be dealt with later.

Then, Xia Duo took a short rest. After the gravity field disappeared, he began to arrange the Davy string components at many key nodes of the flight control system according to the planned plan.

The magic network environment of the blue crystal plane is different from that of the main plane. If you want to build a floating city here, you need to prepare many additional adapter components.

Similar to the cube adapter on the periphery of the [Misera] device.

This part was originally supposed to be automatically adapted by the maze lock, but Xia Duo has not yet designed the maze lock, so he can only manually adapt some key nodes.

Of course, this part of the adaptation components will not be wasted, and may be used when building the maze lock in the future, if the maze lock is also built on the blue crystal plane.

The complexity and importance of this part of the adaptation components are far less than the [Misera] device, and the microgravity environment of the plane itself is enough to maintain the stability of the David string material.

If you also have to build a suspension field generation base like the [Misera] device, it would be too troublesome. If that's the case, Xia Duo would rather put all the subsequent construction of the floating city on the main plane.

Of course, even if there is no need for a special suspension field to maintain, it is still many times more cumbersome to arrange the adaptation components than to drain water.

If the design of the adaptation components has not been completed on the main plane, Xia Duo estimates that it will take several days and nights to complete the temporary design and manufacturing.

What he is doing now is just the engineering part, which doesn't require much thought. He just needs to cast spells to create specific forms of David string components, and then simply connect them to the magic network.

...

I don't know how long it has been, Xia Duo has gradually blurred the concept of time, and only knows to cast spells mechanically according to the design plan.

"Huh? The last one?"

Xia Duo's spirit was immediately lifted, and he vowed that he must prepare a well-staffed and high-quality magic engineering team in advance for the next floating city!

After finishing the last adaptation component, Xia Duo was too lazy to check the time, and fell asleep in the Tower of Time.

When he woke up, he received a notice from the tower spirit-welcome to the fourth day. Of course, the tower spirit could not be so playful. Its original words were that three days had passed since Cecily applied for communication, and there were still two messages from Niya that had not been received.

Xia Duo could probably guess what Niya wanted to say, which was nothing more than asking about the 150,000 gold coins. Cecily must have gone to Niya to complain and complain.

However——

"Sisterly love is not as good as husband-wife love!"

Xia Duo believed that Nia would definitely support him, and there was no need to explain too much. Just one sentence, "I am useful," was enough.

But Xia Duo still decided to explain. He had watched many family ethics dramas before crossing over. Many rifts between couples often occurred after repeated lack of explanation.

The reason why conspiracies can succeed is often due to the information asymmetry between the two parties.

Compared with risky conspiracies, Xia Duo prefers open conspiracies. He thinks it is necessary to be open and honest between couples and transparent government affairs at the national level.

Of course, this is for one's own people. For enemies or potential enemies, there is no need to show everything. You only need to show your clear attitude so that both the enemy and us will not misjudge.

...

The study room on the top floor of the Tower of Time.

Xia Duo first checked Nia's study progress during his absence, and then explained the purpose of the 150,000 gold coins:

"I got a relatively reliable news that there is a potion that can inspire a lot of inspiration, which is also applicable to the field of magic research. The key is that there is no side effect. I plan to buy one to verify it. If it is true, I have to find a way to get the formula in advance."

"Potion that inspires inspiration? Is there really such a potion?"

As a brain worker, how could Niya not know the importance of inspiration? If she could inspire inspiration at will, wouldn't everything be possible?

Niya instinctively felt that the potion was unreliable, so she asked one more question: "Where did you get the news?"

"A high mage from Yeerlan. I don't know whether her name has been cast on magic, so I won't tell you her name. The other party has confirmed the efficacy of the medicine in person, which makes it difficult for me not to be curious and spend 150,000 gold coins. I think it’s worth it to satisfy your curiosity.”

"The gold coins are a trivial matter. I'm worried about the potion-" Niya hesitated, but when it came to the Elf High Mage, she didn't know how to speak.

"Don't worry, I know what's going on. I won't try that potion myself unless I'm fully prepared."

Although Sha Duo is greedy for the effect of the inspiration potion, he will not lose his mind. He has always regarded the elves as his imaginary enemy. How could he drink the potion he got from the elves without any precautions?

In fact, he was more inclined to think that the light of inspiration was some kind of corrupted forbidden drug, and he just threw away 150,000 gold coins in the hope that it was true.

Putting aside the second-generation communication magic weapon that has not yet been officially released, the Tower of Time can now earn at least 200,000 gold coins per month just from the first-generation communication magic weapon.

This is a net income. Xia Duo believes that it is very worthwhile to try an inspiration potion for only 150,000 gold coins.