Arcane Lord

In the Yongle City laboratory.

Xia Duo quickly completed two rounds of standard element impact experiments. As expected, the results were not much different from the element impact on ordinary crystals.

The only difference is that the element infection rate is lower than that of ordinary crystals, that's all.

In addition, the element impact did not have any effect on the mysterious starlight inside the time gem, as if they did not exist at all, but since they can be seen with the naked eye, how could they not exist?

There is only one explanation, that is, the mysterious starlight does not react to the standard element impact in the laboratory.

Perhaps there are other spells that can affect the mysterious starlight. In fact, this is also a necessity. Otherwise, how can Daphne control this mysterious power?

It's just that Xia Duo no longer has time to try to eliminate them one by one. He needs to conduct a new experiment that is more radical but will not completely consume the gem.

So he immediately thought of the time ritual. The Illuminati can use it, and of course he can use it, but he will not use the complete time ritual, but only the time spell that changes the deflection degree of the timeline developed by the Alliance Time Magic Research Laboratory.

This spell can be used to create time-related signals, and because it is a positive or negative offset, it will not cause damage to the timeline itself. After all, the timeline is already fluctuating, but the amplitude is small.

However, once the past closer to the present is anchored, the longer it will take for this spell to take effect.

Fortunately, Xia Duo does not have the habit of anchoring the past at any time. That requires the help of the power of the gods, and the gods are not items that he can use at will, but living intelligent creatures, and they need to consider their feelings.

Xia Duo will only communicate with the gods to anchor the past of the battlefield where the alliance won when the front battlefield needs it. At other times, try not to use it.

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There is nothing wrong with this spell that changes the deflection of the timeline. The Alliance Monitoring Center only needs to give a heads-up in advance. What Xia Duo is really worried about is whether it will trigger some reaction mechanisms of the time gem.

But this is his purpose. After all, being radical always takes some risks, but generally speaking, the risk is relatively small. After all, timeline fluctuations are normal.

Using other environmental parameters as an analogy, if this time gem can exist stably in the underwater environment, then it is highly likely that it will not undergo too severe changes when brought to land.

After making up his mind, Xia Duo quickly took action. He could not consider the external situation too much. Since the laboratory did not prepare instruments related to time-related spells in advance, Xia Duo needed to cast the spell himself, which was not within the standard process.

According to the standard process, it is necessary to prepare relevant instruments in advance, and try to avoid the experimenter casting the spell personally, but time does not allow him to stick to the standard process now.

After reporting to the Alliance Monitoring Center through the command network, Xia Duo began the experiment.

...

When the spell was completed, Xia Duo stared at the strange gem on the experimental table. His laboratory could not detect timeline fluctuations, but the Alliance could, and he had communicated in advance.

Almost two minutes later, he received a message from the Alliance, saying that the time-related signal from Yongle City was monitored.

Almost at the same time, Xia Duo finally saw the time gem showing a strange phenomenon that had never happened before. Of course, it was not a particularly obvious phenomenon. At least, the various instruments in his laboratory did not record it. Only his naked eyes saw it-

The mysterious starlight inside the time gem appeared to flow faster than before!

In other words, the fluctuation of the timeline can affect the mysterious starlight. So, in another way of thinking, does the mysterious starlight naturally have the ability to affect the timeline?

If so, then there is a more reasonable explanation for the Illuminati to come up with so many time-related magics.

It is not from a different timeline, nor is it that the two generations of leaders suddenly researched it from scratch. Instead, there was the concrete time power of the mysterious starlight first, and then various time-related magics were researched based on this time power.

If there is no such concrete time power, let alone the Illuminati’s history of only more than 1,400 years, even if they are given 14,000 years, it is estimated that it would be difficult to come up with time magic.

This concrete time power is a shortcut to studying time magic!

But where does this power come from?

The first thing that Xia Duo thought of was Daphne's star-like eyes. He had only met her twice, but both times left him with a very deep impression. The materialized power of time clearly emanated from Daphne's eyes!

But why is this?

Is it some unknown time artifact? Or is it Daphne's innate time ability?

But no matter which one it is, Xia Duo is jealous. To be honest, he really can't help but be jealous. Even if that power is not the essence of time, the fact that it can affect the timeline alone is enough to prove its value.

Time is an invisible and intangible thing or phenomenon that really exists. If you want to study time, you can only study it indirectly through other objects and phenomena affected by time.

It is conceivable that a materialized power of time will cause many researchers in the field of time to go crazy.

Xia Duo's main research field is not time. Does he not want to? No, if he can, he also hopes to choose time, but in fact, he may not even touch the threshold of the field of time before.

And now, he actually saw the materialized power of time. No matter what others think, he was jealous anyway. He was so jealous that he even thought, "If Daphne is willing to let him study, it's okay to join the Illuminati."

Of course, he was not really that crazy. The subtext of endless learning is not that human life cannot be eternal, but that knowledge is probably inexhaustible and needs infinite time to pursue.

There are too many unknowns in this world, too much knowledge he wants to know, and in the foreseeable future, it is almost impossible for him to know all the knowledge.

Saying that knowledge may be too broad, for example, he can't know all the laws of nature. This is not a judgment based on the difficulty of exploring nature, but a rational judgment based on logic.

Because the magic system is incomplete, and in theory it will never be complete, that is to say, it is impossible to deduce all unknown laws through the existing magic system.

In this case, only the exploration process is eternal, and only the unknown is eternal.

If you think about it this way, the power of time doesn't seem to be a big deal. With so many unknowns, what does time count for?

In comparison, it is more important to destroy the Illuminati, otherwise we might really have to wander in the etheric space!