Arcane Lord

Niya didn't stay in the laboratory for long. After discussing the content of the next Mystery Lock update, she left, leaving Sha Duo and Ai Burke to continue the experiment.

In the next few days, Xia Duo's main body basically maintained the research rhythm of experiments in the morning and discussions in the afternoon. From time to time, he would go around the territory to inspect the construction progress of Linshui Town.

In Evereska, the Time-Related Magic Research Laboratory's research on the Sluvende Mist Area has also entered a bottleneck stage. It is now basically certain that the Mist Area is caused by the Time-Related Magic Ritual.

In fact, this conclusion is not as easy to confirm as imagined. After all, there is no way in or out of the foggy area, as if it is in another time and space.

And that's exactly what happened.

The current judgment of the Time-related Magic Research Laboratory on the nature of the foggy area is that it is an "area with a chaotic and uncertain timeline." Generally speaking, the deflection of the timeline in normal areas of the main plane is minimal.

All kinds of supernatural phenomena will occur if it exceeds 1 in 100,000, not to mention that it exceeds 1% in the periphery of the foggy area. This is already a huge gap in magnitude.

In the foggy area, the current time-related magic research laboratory has been unable to detect accurate results after many attempts, and can only estimate based on the peripheral situation.

But the reality may be far from ideal.

At present, the Northland Alliance has only discovered two foggy areas. According to the laboratory's research on time-related magic rituals, if you want to subvert the timeline, you need to at least increase the overall timeline deflection of the main plane to more than 10%, the higher it is. The better.

The current timeline deflection of the main plane is far from reaching this value. It seems to be very safe, but there is a very big misunderstanding here, and that is——

The increase in the foggy area does not have a linear relationship with the increase in the overall timeline deflection of the main plane.

Xia Duo had previously captured a demon-born high mage. In his memory, the demon-born did not need to perform rituals everywhere in the main plane to subvert the current timeline. He only needed to complete the correspondence before certain specific time points. The corresponding ritual may eventually turn the current timeline into the timeline where Elan dominates the main plane.

In other words, it is very likely that when the next foggy area is discovered, the overall timeline deflection of the main plane will increase to 1% at once, and then to 10% the next time. No one dares to bet.

So now, on the one hand, the Northland Alliance is frantically searching for demons, and on the other hand, it is constantly establishing observation posts throughout the Northland to monitor the deflection of the timeline at the corresponding location in real time.

Demon descendants spend most of their time active in the North. Many mages involved in the study of time-related magic rituals, including Xia Duo, speculate that the demon descendants' rituals will also be in the North.

Therefore, once a new ritual is completed, Northland will definitely be able to detect it immediately.

But so far, what the Northland Alliance has been able to do is only post-mortem detection, and there is no way to provide early warning. It can only increase patrols and detection efforts in various areas, and conduct investigation as soon as possible if an abnormality is discovered.

But this kind of response is far from enough. The demons are in the dark. Even if they do nothing, the pressure on the Northland Alliance will increase.

There is actually a question mark as to how long the Northland Alliance can maintain such a state of high vigilance during the recent period.

Pressure does not necessarily translate into action. This is a completely different matter. This is the normal situation, not to mention that there are demon elements lurking within the alliance.

Therefore, while Sha Duo was presiding over Lingsi network support research, he was also conducting secret inspections on members of the time-related research laboratory.

Due to the fruitless investigation of the demons and the slow progress of the research, the Time-Related Magic Research Laboratory has added nearly a hundred new members in just a few days.

Most of them are elite mages, but there are also senior mages, and there are no senior mages.

As the number of people continues to increase, Xia Duo is worried that the Northern Alliance's review intensity may be reduced, or the demons increase their infiltration intensity, and if no new members join, he will go through it again personally.

Not only that, he will also recheck all members based on their position importance and destructive power (subconsciously, through the Lingsi network).

Take senior mages as an example. Once they are penetrated or come in with bad intentions, they are extremely harmful. Xia Duo will check them twice every day. Fortunately, there are not many senior mages who have joined the time-related magic research laboratory. He did it easily.

However, there are more senior mages and elite mages, especially the latter. Many of them are in key positions, or there are basically no unimportant positions in the time-related magic research laboratory.

In the past few days, Xia Duo's incarnation has basically been busy with this. In comparison, hosting Lingsi Network is an easy job.

At least he might feel more relaxed until the staff at the Shiji Magic Research Laboratory stabilize.

But judging from the current situation, all countries have not stopped filling people in the Magic Research Laboratory of Time, and even Netheril is no exception.

It's just that this matter has been discussed at this month's council meeting, and the final decision was to let Seven Towers send people to check the situation first, and other council members can wait and see first.

In fact, in a research institution where elven mages make up the majority, a few more Nese mages are actually of no use at all.

At present, there is no suitable case reference for cross-magic system research cooperation, but if there is no cooperation now, it does not mean there will be no cooperation in the future. The inability to cooperate now does not mean that there will be no cooperation in the future.

It does not mean that we will not cooperate in the future.

Therefore, regardless of whether it is useful to send someone to join the Time-Related Magic Research Laboratory, they still have to be sent there to have a look. At least they can provide some reference experience for future cross-system cooperation.

You can even simply use this opportunity to explore the cross-system cooperation mode. Elf mages may be too busy to have time, so you can try it first with dwarf mages who are also unable to participate.

They are all cross-systems, no matter who they cross with, they are not cross-systems.

In fact, after the people from the Seven Towers arrived in Evereska, all the elven countries specially sent a group of mages to cooperate with the Nese mages to explore a cross-system cooperation model.

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Everesca, south of the city.

In an open space to the north between the Swordsmanship Academy and the Magic Academy, this originally relatively remote place now has a large group of elves and a construction site.

The individual humans among them were inconspicuous at all, except for Xia Duo, who was currently inspecting the construction site with Schneider, the current person in charge of Cole Construction, a strong golden elf.

"The preparation phase has been completed. If Sir Xia Duo has no other requirements, then I will arrange the construction."

"There are no other requirements. From now on, this place will be handed over to Cole Construction. I will check back after a while."

Xia Duo actually took the time to come here today, mainly because Jose told him that Clark and others did not dare to communicate with elves. He came here this time to increase the confidence of Clark and others, and of course to witness the groundbreaking ceremony.

Elder Larian just attended the ceremony as the representative of Everest Kafang, but he left after the ceremony, but Shado stayed for a while.

Now that he has already explained what he should explain, whether it is to Clark and others, or to Cole Construction, he can just wait.