Arcane Lord

And Xia Duo is not lacking in proficiency. He has experienced enough practice in the projection plane. Now he only needs to maintain the stable spell-casting state before. There is no need to think or do anything more.

The spellcasting instructions issued by Zhinao were cold and precise, without any redundancy. All he had to do was follow them.

Soon, when the casting instructions were executed at 55:07, the Mystery Lock loop was in order, without any accidents. Everything was as expected by Sha Duo. In the last ten seconds——

10, 9, 8,…

It wasn't until the last spell-casting instruction came from Zhinao that Xia Duo's spirit suddenly relaxed, and his whole body was suspended half-paralyzed in the water. He had the blood characteristic of [Water Control] and gasped for air in the water.

But at this moment, he no longer had the intention to pay attention to the state of his body. All his attention was focused on the miraculous creation in front of him.

When the Mystery Lock was completely completed, its shape was completely highlighted from the macrostructure of the Magic Network, but only for a moment, and the next moment it was integrated into the grand trend of the Magic Network.

If the Mystery Lock authority had been obtained during the casting process, Xia Duo would have thought that the previous scene was an illusion, but it was not an illusion. He had really completed the New City Mystery Lock!

After roughly checking the status of the mystery lock, it was determined that it was in line with expectations. Xia Duo couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth. He finally succeeded. He succeeded for the twelfth time, completely exceeding expectations.

He originally thought he would try it at least dozens of times and delay it for several days, but he didn't expect that he succeeded on the first day!

Xia Duo was so excited that he wanted to share this good news with others. Thinking of this, Sha Duo turned into water and appeared near Niya and others with just one leap.

After returning to human form, Xia Duo announced to everyone:

"The first phase of the new city construction project has been successfully completed! Everyone will take the next three days off, and the second phase construction will continue in three days."

"Is this done?"

Niya and Savile were lucky enough to say that they had some understanding of the Mystery Lock, but the others were not sure whether it was successful. After all, Xia Duo was able to easily resolve the spell casting error before. Is it the same situation now?

Before Xia Duo's announcement, many people had speculated, but when Xia Duo announced that the first phase of construction was completed, no one doubted Xia Duo's statement.

Immediately afterwards, they fell into great joy. On the one hand, their previous training paid off, and on the other hand, they felt incredible that they actually participated in the construction of the floating city.

Especially those high-level mages who have received inheritance rituals and achieved achievements. You must know that not long ago, they were only mid-level mages, or even low-level mages, and now they are suddenly involved in such a major project.

They didn't think much of it before, but once the project actually produced results, even if it was just a phase, it would be enough to make them feel incredible.

"I never thought that I would one day participate in the construction of the floating city."

"What nonsense are you talking about? Haven't you ever worked in the Floating City before?"

"Can this be the same? Before, I was building infrastructure in the floating city, which had little to do with the floating city itself. Now I am participating in the construction of the floating city itself. Do you think this can be the same?"

"That's true! And it's the legendary Mystic Lock. This feels really dreamy."

…

Xia Duo saw the conversation between the mages. In fact, more people were still curious about the effect of this New City Mystery Lock and how it was different from the Mystery Lock in Chang'an City outside.

However, Xia Duo will not tell them this problem, let them experience it for themselves in their future life and study!

"Everyone, there is still some finishing work. If you want to see it, you can stay and watch it. If you don't want to see it and want to go back to rest, you can go back first."

Xia Duo said so, and even Savile, who was ready to return to the main plane, stayed to see what the so-called ending meant.

Niya even asked directly on the Lingsi network. Others immediately pricked up their ears when they saw this, and Xia Duo didn't hide it either:

"The current New City Mystery Lock is still in the state of no material nodes, but because the original design requirement is to have material nodes, what I need to do immediately is to place the material nodes to make it reach a truly complete state."

The current state can also exist independently. This is mainly to facilitate the future expansion, reconstruction or demolition of the new city. The current Mystery Lock can be retained and reused.

While explaining his design concept for the new floating city to everyone, Sha Duo had already taken out twelve ten-meter-diameter fine gold balls from his personal space.

Seeing these twelve huge spheres glowing with blue light, even the well-informed Savile couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and subconsciously asked:

"Don't tell me this is an adamantine ball?"

"Of course it's fine gold. If you don't believe me, you can check it!" Xia Duo said casually.

And Savile actually went over to check, but what Sha Duo brought out was real fine gold. Savile definitely couldn't find anything fishy in the examination, but because of this, Savile felt even more incredible.

"How many ancient ruins have you dug? How could there be so much fine gold! It's impossible, even if all the ancient ruins were dug up, there wouldn't be so much fine gold! This must be an illusion!"

But Savile knew who Sha Duo was, and if it was said to be fine gold, it must be fine gold. But with so much fine gold, he couldn't think of any other possibility besides using illusion to explain it.

One ball of fine gold alone weighs more than 10,000 tons, and there are twelve here. Saville doesn't know if so much fine gold has been mined in the past history of the main plane, but he is sure that Netheril must not have so much!

I really don’t know how Xia Duo got so much fine gold.

The adamantine is real, and it is definitely not an illusion. Savile's mind suddenly changed, thinking of the Plane Exploration Center that was just established in the Tower of Time not long ago. Could it be——

"You discovered a plane of adamantine?"

This is not impossible. In theory, it is completely possible. However, the probability is far smaller than that of discovering a habitable plane. Of course, it may also be an earth elemental plane rich in fine gold minerals, but this probability does not mean that a habitable plane is discovered. How big is the surface?

Moreover, mining from the earth elemental plane requires a lot of time and manpower, and it is impossible to mine so much in a short period of time.

"Just think that I have discovered a big treasure!"

Xia Duo did not say that these fine golds were directly transformed by him using elements. It is not unusual for elements to transform into substances, but it is strange to transform specific substances. It is not the time to disclose the [element-matter] equation to the public yet.

He didn’t say anything even to Niya, let alone Savile!

But the more he behaved like this, the more curious Savile became. Shado could clearly feel the curiosity and tingling emotions emanating from Savile's consciousness in the Lingsi Network.

"Ha ha!"

Seeing that Savile was awkward, Shado was actually quite happy, because Savile had always felt like he was not bothered by anything after returning to the Tower of Time, and could not really integrate into the current Tower of Time.

Now let’s see if you still haven’t taken the bait!