Lord of Arcane

Chapter 3224 Harvest Future Repair Vision
The next day, as the sun rose, the temporary camp on Elan's side had already begun to get busy. Humans, elves, and a smaller number of dwarves could be seen walking around everywhere.

Xia Duo turned around and realized that the avatar couldn't help but sigh when seeing this scene. It turned out that the elves were not really slow-tempered, but things did not affect their own interests. Once they did, they might be more impatient than humans.

The thing that elves despise most about humans is that they think humans do everything in a hurry, and that humans always like to ask questions, while elves are good at understanding things on their own after a long period of observation and listening.

But in Shaduo's opinion, these are more of a true reflection of the atmosphere of magical exchange between Netheril and the elven world in the past. At that time, Netheril was enterprising and did not shy away from communication. On the contrary, the elven world was rigid internally. Even the teaching between teachers and students adopted the method of long-term observation and letting students realize it on their own, which was actually the most conservative embodiment.

As for the leisure at other times, it was only because the ancestors had developed and accumulated some experience for the later generations of elves.

If these elves and humans were allowed to develop from scratch at the same time, Xia Duocai didn't believe that the elves could still be so leisurely!

From the perspective of individual intelligence, elves are not smarter than humans. Their so-called wisdom is more of the experience accumulated naturally from their extremely long lifespan. If humans could live that long, they would be no less than the elves.

In fact, due to their long lifespan, elves don't even care about the mental growth of the next generation, and rather let them grow on their own. As a result, generally speaking, an elf will have to be at least 25 years old to reach the mental level of a 16-year-old human child.

It's not that they can't give birth earlier, but the environment makes it impossible for them to give birth earlier. This can be supported by their underground relatives, the drow, who basically start giving birth to the next generation at the age of 25, and do so every 25 years until they die.

It is precisely because of this strategy, which seems extremely extreme to the surface elves, that the drow are able to occupy a dominant position as outsiders in the harsh Underdark.

If the surface elves also started giving birth every 25 years from the age of 25, then there might be no other intelligent races on the main plane.

But what about the actual situation?

Most elves give birth for the first time after they are 100 years old, and many only give birth once in their entire lives. Large families may have more children as they have inheritance, but the middle and lower classes do not have that need. Many elves even remain unmarried and childless throughout their lives.

This situation is somewhat similar to the continued decline in fertility rates in developed countries on Earth. If this trend continues, how can the elf world not decline!

The drow are similar to the underdeveloped human population in the Black Continent, maintaining their survival with an extremely high fertility rate. If they did not maintain such a high fertility rate, the harsh environment, wars, and killings in the Underdark would have caused the drow to become extinct long ago.

However, after the establishment of the Northern Alliance, exchanges between northern countries became more frequent, and correspondingly, healthy competition also increased. As a result, the elves began to change their past leisurely attitude and began to face up to their own development.

If we can maintain this state, it won't take a thousand years, but perhaps a few hundred years to reach the level before the Crown War. If we speed up a little bit, it is not impossible to surpass our ancestors.

Of course, in this process, human beings are also developing. According to Xia Duo's expectations, as long as he is given a hundred years, any crisis in the main plane can be easily resolved, and even exploring different planes and connecting with foreign lands is not impossible.

It’s a pity that time is still too tight.

Even if he wanted to speed up, it would be difficult to change the entire world. The fastest solution he had personally practiced was to find a projection plane with a longer duration and develop magic civilization in it.

After that, he jumped across a long time span by leaving and re-entering, and went directly to the future of the projection plane, just like what Xia Duo had done in the Red Heart Alliance before. He first established the Red Heart Alliance, arranged the development strategy, and then jumped through time to the future.

In this way, a large number of mature advanced technologies of this system can be obtained from the "future", such as the maze lock technology brought back by Shaduo, the elemental composition of refined gold, customized arcane fire, spiritual network improvement, arcane string improvement, demiplane transformation, and so on.

There are so many of them that they can be regarded as the essence of an entire civilization.

but--

This is not a conventional development option.

The reason is very simple. First of all, there is the uncertainty of the projection plane itself. Who can guarantee a stable projection plane that lasts long enough?

Secondly, there is the uncertainty of the development of civilization. The Red Heart Alliance was due to Xia Duo's good luck, and the special circumstances made the demons unacceptable in normal society and they could only develop independently. Therefore, the projected plane basically developed according to the future he had planned, but this might not be the case for other situations.

As long as there is communication with other forces, they will inevitably be affected. Changes in the ruling class itself (degeneration or change of path) are also uncertain factors.

Even Xia Duo himself could not guarantee that the situation of the Red Heart Alliance could be replicated next time.

In addition, the future of the projected plane will not exceed the current timeline of the main plane at most. This is determined by the nature of the plane. In simple terms, when the projected plane develops to the same level as the timeline of the main plane, it will inevitably come to an end.

The development ceiling was set from the beginning.

The last one is a non-external reason. Xia Duo couldn't bear to watch the civilization he had personally built up fall into ruin again and again. He felt that if he saw this situation too many times, he might become cold-blooded and indifferent to everything.

Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, he probably won't repeat the old story of the Red Heart Alliance.

However, Xia Duo did not have to worry about others overtaking him in this way. In fact, other people were using this method as well. He knew of Wade alone.

The method adopted by the other party is to let multiple experimenters enter the same projection plane at intervals. What actually happens in the projection plane is that these people will appear in different eras.

In this way, individual experimenters would not have to stay in it for too long and waste too much of their lifespan. All they needed to do was find the information left by experimenters before their own era and leave information for people in later eras.

During this process, you should also try to write down valuable information, and then after weighing the loss of life, you can consider leaving the projection plane, or simply stay. The latter is generally when your life is about to end, and you stay in the projection plane to live another life.

Compared with Xiaduo, the advantage of this exploration process is that it has no requirements for the projection plane, and you can try to explore any projection plane.

But the disadvantages are also obvious. It consumes too much time for experimental personnel! Moreover, the efficiency of collecting data and bringing back information is also very low. All the information needs to be written down by relevant personnel before it can be brought back.

Unlike Xia Duo, he can directly use the real carrier brought over from the main plane, record it on the projection plane, and then bring it back. It can be said that as long as Xia Duo can access as much information as possible, he can get as much information as he wants. His efficiency is much higher than Wade's people.

The portable space plays a huge role in this.

Even if you come across some special items, you can directly materialize them through the portable space and bring them back to the main plane, but Wade's exploration method can only gain information, no physical objects.

At the same time, Wade's method also meant that the people he sent out would not be spellcasters of too high a level, so as to prevent the experimenters from encountering something strange in the projection plane and threatening himself.

When a low-level wizard enters the projection plane, at most he can only play a role in guiding the development of civilization by providing some insights. He can never play a decisive role like Xia Duo did in the projection plane of the Red Heart Alliance. Therefore, the probability that a low-cost wizard can guide a powerful civilization is very low.

This method is not the right way. Although Xia Duo does not look down on it completely, he is not too worried that others will use this method to surpass him.