Chapter 31: The Dilemma
"Dawn, you said that even if you count the defense brought by the super magic stone inlay world barrier, we only have a year and a half?" Douglas confirmed to Dawn.
"Yes, Your Excellency. According to the calculations of the Institute of Parliament. We can set up to five anchor points on the world barriers, so that we only have a year and a half at most. Dawn responded.
"Is the search for other world civilizations going well through anchor points?" After a moment, Douglas asked.
"So far, the search has started yesterday. But it's hard to say when you'll find it. Dawn responded.
According to the calculations of the Parliamentary Research Institute, the Philosopher's Stone embedded in the World Barrier is consumed very quickly, and it is almost replaced every month, which makes many people think of hoarding Philosopher's Stone to make a fortune.
Douglas felt that Ryan had done a lot to face the Breath of Destruction. Transforming the Floating City, this is nothing, the Third Arcane Empire has done it before. Transforming the Elemental Plane into a Dimensional Elemental Pool has never been done before, and Douglas is the first time they have ever done it. The idea of exploring the dark side and searching for other civilizations through anchor points embedded in the world's walls is even crazier. Douglas estimated that this was something that the gods did not grasp either, and that perhaps only the civilization at the top of the world sequence would have the relevant technology. And the Demon Fighter and the Soul Master are not wrong, they are indeed a new class system proposed in the current situation, and the advantages are obvious.
So sometimes Douglas wonders what else Ryan can do. It seems that everything that can be thought of and what is not expected has been done, and even so, Ryan is still only a year and a half. But after so many actions, Ryan's position in the world sequence has not changed at all, and he has always been surrounded by the breath of destruction.
"Cohen, why do you say Ryan is still at the bottom of the world sequence, still surrounded by the Breath of Destruction?" Douglas borrowed the communication network to ask Cohen a question.
"Your Excellency, Ryan's achievements during this time are truly impressive. But even then Ryan didn't get out of the bottom of the world sequence, which is possible in two ways. After a while, Cohen responded: "First, the change in the position of the world in the sequence of worlds is a very abstract and late thing, and it takes a long time for us to observe a noticeable change, and when we do, the change in the position of the world has already begun. Second, Rena has already moved in some form. This is one of my conjectures, that the progress of civilization has brought the world to a higher level, and this may be just one manifestation of this. When the world can't move to higher levels, like Ryan, who is now surrounded. This power that pushes the world up may manifest itself in other ways. I suspect that Ryan's achievements during this time may be the result of Ryan's being trapped and the world not being able to rise, and the feedback being used by us for technological advancement. ”
"You mean we have to work hard now to get out of the Breath of Destruction, do you?" Douglas responded.
"Yes, I think you have received the report of the Institute of Parliamentary Studies, Your Excellency. We amplify our detection signal through the channels formed by the Philosopher's Stone, but the initial feedback reveals that the world around us is all dead and unable to pull us away from the Breath of Perdition. I suspect that under this kind of resistance, it is unlikely that Ryan will be able to escape from the Breath of Destruction through Ryan's own changes. Korn paused and continued: "As mentioned in the prediction of our Dark Side Pumping Report, draining the Dark Side is in a sense a process of reducing the burden on the world, and it stands to reason that the lighter the world, the more lift it should have. Especially with such sudden changes, we should be able to easily perceive the changes in the world. But neither the observation of the eye of the world nor the sensing of Nielsen by virtue of the privilege of the world have observed such changes. ”
In addition to Cohen, Douglas has had such exchanges with many people this day, such as Blair, such as Sean, such as Alvin, such as Sophia, as well as Andrell and Patrick, Orbis and Samodiel. All the Grand Arcanists knew that Douglas was running all over the place, lobbying the major forces to advise Ryan on his current predicament. Not to mention, Andrel and Patrick were satisfied, and their right to know was raised by one level, and now they had access to a lot of information that they had always wanted to know.
Douglas didn't know if it would work or not, but he had to do his best. He is the Speaker of the Fourth Arcane Empire, the most powerful and responsible person in Ryan right now, and he has his own responsibilities.
However, it is a pity that more than a month has passed, and the world search plan of the dark side has already been running at full power with the arrival of the five super magic stones, but all the worlds searched so far are dead or dying worlds. There wasn't a single one that could pull Ryan out of the quagmire. Fortunately, there has been no chaos in Ryan for more than a month, and the people of Ryan are satisfied with the solution of the safety problem of the Soul Master, and they are also full of hope that Ryan can get out of the predicament. And Ryan's efforts to repair the world's barriers against the breath of ruin are also progressing well. Although there were always some monsters or plants around the mended rift that had been eroded by the Breath of Perdition, there was not much difficulty under the leadership of the High Mage or even the Grand Arcanist. The second recorded case also occurred in the undersea area, where a nine-ring mage was nearly crushed by a large octopus.
Douglas is much more emaciated now than before, and this is an idea that often comes to the mind of people who meet Douglas. It was as if the magic transformation had failed on Douglas, and there was a deep tiredness in his expression. Even Dawn began to have to intervene in Douglas's routine to help him rest better. Many people are persuading Douglas to let go, although Ryan's time is running out, as long as he can find a civilized world that is enough to drive Ryan, Ryan can quickly get out of his current predicament.
Of course, there are many people who are quite pessimistic, and they think that after the technology breaks from 0 to 1, it is easy to go from 1 to 2 to 3. The hard part is from 4 to 10. They think that it is difficult for Ryan to make a very big breakthrough in Ryan's technology on the dark side now, and if Ryan can't find the traction world in the short term, Ryan will be in danger.
At the same time, the Institute of Parliamentary Studies brought another piece of bad news. They found that Ryan's dark side was now a percentage point brighter than before. They speculate that this may be the result of the dual result of the lack of replenishment of the Ryan world and the erosion of the Breath of Destruction. So now they have to pump water on the Dark Side every 5 times to go deep into the depths of Ryan's Dark Side to keep Ryan Darkside healthy. The Institute of Parliamentary Studies has also used this to study whether it can expand Ryan's dark side, but it has also yielded nothing.