Chapter 3279 New progress in the puzzle lock: life in exchange for results
Outside of Netheril, Shado is using computing pool subsidies to encourage countries to relax restrictions on new mages. For every new mage, the country can get more.
If you train them directly, you can choose to deduct all the subsidies from the computing pool to the new mage. Although it requires some initial investment, you don't need to train the new mage to a high level. It is enough to train him to a level where he can get subsidies from the computing pool.
Comparing the time it takes for an elf to become a new mage and the time it takes for an elf to receive subsidies after becoming a new mage, this deal is really worthwhile.
Once this kind of thing starts, it is difficult to stop. On the one hand, the high subsidies from the computing pool make it difficult to give up, and on the other hand, of course, the spread of basic magic knowledge.
Shado does not expect to popularize all levels of knowledge in the elf world to the bottom layer, which accounts for the absolute majority of the number, at one time. It can be popularized bit by bit.
For example, popularize basic magic knowledge including the advancement of new mages within ten years, and popularize it to the elite mage level within a hundred years. At this level, it is no longer up to the top to decide.
Unless there is a massacre, the process of popularizing magic will be difficult to interrupt, because one of the hallmarks of elite mages (high-level mages in the Nether magic system) is that they can conduct research independently.
In this case, even if the upper elves completely cut off the dissemination of all advanced knowledge, they can still develop from scratch with a large number of elite mages.
And the most important thing is that the elite mages have reached the threshold of operating war instruments, so even if the upper elves want to carry out a massacre, it is not that easy.
In this case, as long as foreign countries or Shado give a little assistance, it is enough to change the color of the country's flag.
As for whether the emergence of a large number of elite mages will make the Northland and even the entire main plane more chaotic, Shado believes that it will not. Whether it is humans or elves, they are essentially social animals, and most individuals yearn for order.
The key lies in whether there is such an order that can include so many elite mages. If it can, then even if there are more elite mages, there is no need to worry that they will cause the main plane to become more chaotic.
As for such an order, Xia Duo had already imagined it, and he was transforming and realizing it bit by bit. He believed that such an order would surely prevail.
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Tower of Time, Niya Laboratory.
The transfer of the people did not affect Niya's daily work. In fact, because she knew the truth in advance, Niya became more hardworking and almost did not miss any free time.
This time, Xia Duo was suddenly called to the laboratory because Niya had just completed the design of a communication maze with millions of nodes. Xia Duo was also very excited when he heard the news, and immediately put down his work and rushed over.
As soon as he arrived at the laboratory and found Niya, he couldn't wait to ask: "How many nodes are there? What are the test results? And weren't you studying the node mapping magic network array route before? Why did you go back to the original route?"
"I was indeed studying the mapping magic network array before, but didn't you say that there would be a chance to promote the communication maze lock to the elf world soon? The number of nodes in the current communication artifact should not be enough to support its expansion to the elf world, so-"
Niya didn't say the rest of the words, but Xia Duo couldn't help but understand. It was because he mentioned the expansion opportunity of the communication maze lock in front of Niya before, showing too much expectation, that made Niya temporarily stop the research on the mapping magic network array that was truly suitable for the future, and chose a plan that was destined to be eliminated, just to deal with the subsequent expansion of the communication maze lock.
Suddenly, Xia Duo seemed to have thought of something, staring at Niya's eyes, and said in a serious tone: "You went to the time acceleration array?"
He told Niya that the opportunity to expand the communication maze lock was not long ago, and this time was far from enough for Niya to complete the design of a million-level node, and the only possible way for Niya to complete this design was the time acceleration array.
"It's only two or three years, don't be so nervous." Niya took Xia Duo's hand and deliberately acted coquettishly.
Nia rarely behaved like this normally. After all, they were both mages and an old couple, but now Niya's behavior made Xia Duo even more worried.
"Tell me the truth, how long have you been in there?"
"It's really only two or three years. There is no high-energy experiment there. I went in and out many times. I can't remember how long I stayed there, but it must not be more than three years. You don't think it will take me more than three years to design such a backward plan with a certain idea?"
"That's not what I mean!" Xia Duo certainly wouldn't underestimate Niya, but he was really worried that Niya would consume too much life in the time acceleration array.
Nia does not have any special bloodline. Without the use of life extension spells, her life span is roughly the normal life span of an ordinary human. In the absence of a breakthrough in bloodline technology, Shado naturally does not want her to consume too much of her life span.
Life extension spells are not omnipotent. It is impossible to extend a person's life span indefinitely. There are very few people in Netheril who have lived for nearly three hundred years like Iorum. Most Nether mages do not live beyond two hundred years.
And Shado, after multiple bloodline awakenings, even after experiencing multiple projection plane journeys, his current perceptible life span is still more than a thousand years.
It's not that he only has a lifespan of a thousand years, but that it is difficult to perceive a thousand years later. In other words, without using any life extension spells, he can live for at least a thousand years.
Maybe after a thousand years, I will feel that I still have thousands of years of life.
In this case, of course he will be particularly concerned about Niya's abnormal consumption of life. He hopes that Niya can accompany him forever. Maybe in hundreds of thousands of years, the relationship between the two will naturally fade away, but at least not yet .
Xia Duo told Niya very seriously: "Don't go there again!"
He is even now considering whether to transfer all the time acceleration arrays in the Tower of Time to the Floating City. Niya has the first authority in the Tower of Time. If she really wants to hide something from him, he will never find out.
As for the Floating City, Xia Duo has the first authority. As long as the time acceleration circle is included in the control list, as long as Niya activates it, he will know it immediately and be able to stop it, without having to be as late as now.
"I see."
Xia Duo said it seriously, and Niya naturally knew why Xia Duo was so serious. Although she felt that she might still use the time acceleration circle in the future, at least for now, she still promised well.
"Stop talking about that, don't you want to know the number of new Mystery Lock nodes I designed? Let me tell you that this time there are a total of 1.2 million available nodes!"
"120 available nodes? Doesn't that mean a total of 3.6 million nodes?"
Xia Duo's eyes widened immediately, knowing that Niya might have underestimated her time in the time acceleration circle. You must know that the communication mystery lock currently in use has a total number of nodes of only 420,000.
The actual number of available nodes is only 140,000! (Leave two-thirds of the nodes in the Tower of Time to ensure the Tower of Time’s absolute control over the Mystery Lock)
Nearly ten times the expansion was completed in one go. Xia Duo also specialized in myth lock design at a university in the Heart Alliance. He was very aware of the difficulty span of the design.
This is not a matter of underestimating Niya, but with the number of nodes of this magnitude, testing alone may take two or three years, let alone design. Niya definitely did not tell the truth before.
But at the moment, he doesn't want to pursue anything anymore, but he has made up his mind to transfer the time acceleration circle in the Tower of Time to the floating city, and can no longer let Niya come into contact with such dangerous things.
It's really not worth exchanging one's lifespan for research results. At least Xia Duo doesn't want to exchange Niya's lifespan for anything.
Of course, if one day there is a breakthrough in bloodline technology that can make people live forever or even live forever, then he will not say anything if Niya uses such methods again, but not now!
