Arcane Lord

I don't know how much time has passed, but the number of Lingsi network users has not increased, and finally settled at 8472. This number did not surprise Xia Duo.

After all, Metril is also a large city in the south of Yeerland, with a permanent population of nearly one million. Looking at the number of 8,472, the proportion of spellcasters in Metril City is less than one percent.

This is obviously inconsistent with the facts. Although the elf society has solidified classes, the proportion of spellcasters is still quite high. It is just that the higher the level, the smallest number.

Those who can appear in the Lingsi Network are at least official mages. This number far exceeds that of the Daxia Territory. From this, we can also see Ye Erlan's strong development potential.

But population cannot be changed out of thin air, so Shado's choice of leading Netheril with the Great Xia Territory and leading the Northland Alliance with Netheril was also a choice based on reality.

Of course, he will not give up the population policy of Daxia Territory during this process. This is the cornerstone of everything and must not be ignored.

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At present, there are more than 8,000 spellcasters connected to the Lingsi network. Although they are all official mages, they are mixed in quality. Most of them can only serve as basic providers of subconscious computing power and cannot assume the more important role of computing nodes.

But in any case, a preliminary usable collaborative computing network was set up in this way. The "calculation" here does not only refer to the calculation between spell elements, but more to share the computing power requirements of Xia Duo's subconscious thinking.

If Xia Duo had to figure out a problem by himself, then all the factors related to the problem would have to be thought about in his own subconscious.

If it is completely decomposed, it will inevitably contain a large number of repeated and simple element judgments, and this is just a problem.

The entire ritual spell contains a large number of problems, and it would be too inefficient for Xia Duo to analyze it alone. He separated the problems as much as possible, and then set up corresponding ones based on the level of knowledge provided by each mage when they connected to the Lingsi network. Compute nodes to perform collaborative calculations.

It is actually equivalent to a larger-scale intelligent brain, but what is more powerful than the intelligent brain is that each of these individual nodes has its own unique consciousness characteristics.

In other words, problems involving inspiration can also be decomposed and handed over to this collaborative computing network for processing.

In addition, Sha Duo did not fully understand this ritual spell. Not only was it a matter of time, but also the many elements involved in this spell were beyond his knowledge.

But these unknown factors are not necessarily unknown to these eight thousand local mages. This is also an important reason why the Lingsi Network is far better than the prototype of the Intelligent Brain, which is equivalent to expanding the knowledge base.

The prototype of the intellectual brain that Sha Duo is currently using is essentially a cluster of copies of his consciousness. By deleting the thinking patterns, it has formed an auxiliary tool that focuses more on pure calculations.

No matter how many copies of consciousness are added to this prototype of an intellectual brain, the total knowledge base will not increase even a little bit, because the essence of this knowledge base is Xia Duo's memory.

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In the Lingsi Network, Xia Duo separated most of his consciousness to coordinate more than 8,000 elf mages to analyze the spells recorded in the ritual book, but he still left a small part of his consciousness in his body for contacting Badigal.

The actual thing is to contact the consultant Philifa sent by King Ye Erlan to deal with the unexpected incident in Metril.

The analysis of ritual spells is on the right track, and results will soon be available. However, there has been no response from Philifa regarding the original blueprint of the Metril Mystery Lock.

If the original blueprint cannot be obtained, then Xia Duo will need to organize manpower to crack it from scratch, which requires a huge amount of computing power. Even judging from the current efficiency of more than 8,000 mages cooperating with each other, it will not be possible in just one hour. It can definitely be done.

Only by obtaining the original blueprint can it be possible to formulate a plan to stop Paris and actually take action before he completes the ritual.

"Badigal, urge Yeerlan again. If there is the original blueprint of the Metril Mystery Lock, I am 60 to 70% sure to prevent this disaster. If not, then there will be nearly a million innocent Yeerlan people in this city. He may die because of this, and there are still the last twenty minutes. After this time, even if the original blueprint is provided, it may not be enough!"

Of course, the last twenty minutes are not alarmist, because it takes time to analyze the blueprint of the Mystery Lock and seize the modified Mystery Lock authority. Sha Duo does not want to be stuck at the last second to successfully prevent it.

So he also asked Badigal to tell Philipa that if the mystery lock blueprint was not provided within twenty minutes, he would take the members of the investigation team and evacuate early.

Every second that Erlan wastes now is actually wasting the chance of survival for the innocent people of Metril City.

After giving the ultimatum, Shado once again devoted himself to the analysis of ritual spells. If Yeerlan finally decided not to provide the mystery lock blueprint, then this would be the last twenty minutes.

Apart from the current life-and-death situation, what other opportunity is there to incorporate so many spellcasters into the Lingsi Network? And it’s also a state of depth perception.

If the analysis of ritual spells is completed, then the remaining time will naturally not be wasted. Xia Duo himself also has a lot of projects that need to be analyzed with the help of Lingsi Network!

In addition, you can also choose to peek into the privacy of people connected to the Lingsi network, whether it is related to magic or not. After all, there are at least four high mages, hundreds of elites, and senior mages in this network now!

If he doesn't take advantage of this, he will most likely regret it afterwards. Thinking about it from another angle, this is actually equivalent to the reward for saving Metril.

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Outside Metril.

The aura emitted by the blue sky curtain has become more and more terrifying. Philipfa and his party have retreated at least ten miles outside the sky curtain. Of course, there are still a certain number of observers near the sky curtain that covers the entire territory of Metril, so that they can be informed as soon as possible. Changes over there.

This is the fifth time that Badigal has come to Filifa to ask about Tevimansa's decision. If it is according to his original wishes, no matter how much the elf dies, it will not move him in the slightest.

But this matter also involves the demon descendant. I learned from Xia Duo that if the demon descendant succeeds this time, it will have a very bad impact. On the one hand, it will encourage the demon descendant's arrogance; The impact of the ceremony itself.

So when he learned that the investigation team could evacuate at any time, even if he was very reluctant, Badigal still forcibly controlled his emotions and urged Philipa over and over again.

In this regard, Philipfa's answer has always been, "The crown prince cannot make an arbitrary decision on this matter. The parliament is discussing it and there will be a result soon!"

But this time, Badigal did not say any more long words, but directly threw out the ultimatum given by Chateau——

"You still have the last twenty minutes to discuss. Once the time is up, this incident will be completely irreversible. This is also the last time I will come to inquire. When the time is up, I will leave here."