Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1755 Consolation Regular Polyhedron
Of course, for Xia Duo, this kind of thing is all based on his own evidence, and no one would be so stupid as to do bad things and make it public everywhere.

As for self-checking, Xia Duo doesn't have the energy to do it for the time being. In addition, this matter involves demons and abysses, and he needs to act cautiously. The so-called "concern leads to chaos", maybe there are black hands behind the scenes waiting for him to show his flaws!
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After leaving from Iolum, Xia Duo immediately contacted Jenna, Cliff, Byron and the others. In addition to telling him that he had returned, he also expressed his apology for his sudden disappearance two days ago.

Of course, there is also Horn. When Schom made it clear that he was dissatisfied with him, Horn was still on his side. Although there are many interest factors involved in this, isn't that what human relationships are like!
In reality, there is no purely rational person who only calculates gains and losses. Xia Duo is also willing to maintain a relatively good and stable personal relationship with Horn, at least maintain such a personality.

After dealing with some trivial matters on Severton's side, Xia Duo didn't delay, and returned to the Tower of Time by the teleportation circle of the Arcane Federation.

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The Tower of Time, the teleportation room.

As soon as Xia Duo's vision recovered, he saw a light blue figure rushing towards him. Instead of avoiding it, he opened his arms and embraced Niya who was rushing towards him.

Nya leaned on Xia Duo's shoulder, forced her to calmly express her worries, "I thought something happened to you, if you don't come back, I will go to Severton to find you."

"This time it was indeed an accident, but fortunately there was no danger."

Xia Duo caressed Niya's back, and his tone was not so calm, "Do you still remember the Great Xia Homeland in the Outer Plane that I told you before? They are the ones calling me this time."

"What happened?" It seemed that Xia Duo had successfully diverted the topic, and Niya's voice became much calmer.

"There are some enemies tracking there, they are difficult to deal with, and they think of me."

Xia Duo didn't mention that the enemy is a demon. Mentioning the demon would inevitably explain the demon's aura and even the abyss, which made Niya too worried. If Niya asked, he would stop talking.

"Then have you dealt with those enemies this time?" Niya continued to ask.

"Of course it's resolved. Aaron and the others are just ordinary people. Although they are somewhat special, they have never mastered powerful magical abilities. For them, a powerful enemy is as difficult as moving a finger for me."

In front of his wife, Xia Duo couldn't help exaggerating his ability, but Niya immediately found the flaw in Xia Duo's words:

"If the enemy is not difficult to deal with, why two days?"

"The passage of time on the outer plane is completely different from the main plane. It may be fast or slow. This time I experienced an effect similar to the projection plane. My own perception time did not even last for half a day. I only knew it after two days when I came back. It's over."

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The topic became more and more intense, and Niya gradually relaxed. The two hugged each other in the teleportation room for a moment, and then went to Linshui Village for lunch together.

After lunch, Nya went to the blue crystal plane to build the floating city alone, while Xia Duo came to the top floor of the Tower of Time, which originally belonged to Nya, but now belongs to his laboratory most of the time.

Before the trip to Sevington, aside from the accident of calling from the outer plane, Xia Duo had already obtained [Blade of Spiritual Closure] from Iolum that could divide the core of spiritual matter.

And tomorrow is the joint meeting of the Grand Arcanists, which was postponed for three days. Apart from appeasing Niya, he came back this time, and of course it was the intellectual brain project that he had been thinking about.

in the laboratory.

Xia Duo took out all the spiritual cores, a total of 24, of which 16 are complete, although there are some big and small, but it can be seen at a glance that they are not of the same order as the remaining 8.

And the remaining eight pieces were obtained when Iolum and he tried [Spiritual Closure Blade] to cut the complete spiritual core.

Among them, three are larger, basically half of the complete core, and the remaining five are one level smaller.

Looking at the 24 multi-faceted crystal balls neatly arranged on the test bench, Xia Duo picked up the smallest one, about half the size of a little finger.

Whether it is the tower spirit or the spirit of other artifacts, it is essentially a partial consciousness copy of the caster's consciousness, which can basically be regarded as the caster himself.

Human strengths and shortcomings are obvious. They are good at abstract thinking, and it is difficult to quickly perform a large number of the same or different fixed tasks.

The intellectual brain that Xia Duo conceived is a multi-core, multi-level network structure——

The higher the level, the more complete the copy of consciousness in Qi Ling, and the higher the intelligence; the lower the level, the more streamlined it will become until it loses intelligence and becomes a "meta-program" or "meta-algorithm" with only a certain mode of thinking.

Therefore, in order to obtain more "meta-program" carriers, Xia Duo needs to divide the spiritual core into smaller parts as much as possible!
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With one cut or two cuts, Xia Duo cut directly in the center, and the spirit core, which was originally only half of the little finger, immediately became three smaller ones.

At this time, unlike in Iolum's study room before, it was more to verify the feasibility of [Spiritual Closure Blade]. He was still exploring the state before and after cutting the spiritual core.

After just a few cuts, Xia Duo discovered a pattern, that is——

The smaller the ectoplasmic core, the fewer the sections; before and after cutting, the total number of sections also decreases, and there seems to be some kind of unknown loss, and the smaller the cut, the faster the section loss.

Cutting in the center all the time, it is easy to cut to the limit.

Xia Duo made the last stab, and the psychic core on the test bench, which was only slightly larger than a grain of rice, did not condense into two smaller psychic cores after bursting out with a strong spiritual brilliance, but disappeared directly.

It's like it's evaporated.

"Is it a regular tetrahedron?"

Xia Duo was thoughtful, and then continued to cut the spiritual core of the previous higher level (big one). With one cut, it neither disappeared nor divided into two.

Instead, only a regular dodecahedron that is slightly larger than the spiritual core of the regular tetrahedron just now is left!
No, no, no!
Xia Duo suddenly felt a little absurd, and then cut the knife again without hesitation. As a result, the core of the dodecahedral spirit was cut off directly.

From this, Xia Duo came to a conclusion that the basic shape of the spiritual core is a regular polyhedron, and the types of regular polyhedrons are limited, that is to say——

There are only five basic forms of the spiritual core!

They are tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron.

Xia Duo realized that spirituality should be a concrete and realistic existence, and there may be some objective meaning in the root of psionic magic.

Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why the basic form of the ectoplasmic core exhibits such regular behavior.

Although Xia Duo has not yet cut into the basic form of the core of spiritual matter other than the regular tetrahedron and the regular dodecahedron, he has a strong hunch that the facts must be what he guessed!
(End of this chapter)