A middle-aged mage with meticulously combed hair and wearing a gray robe walked out. That mage was restraining all his mana fluctuations, but the occasional mana fluctuations that appeared shocked everyone. Moreover, the Extraordinary Power contained within his body made everyone feel as if they couldn't resist it.
The scene immediately quieted down after that mage appeared. Even Albert, who had been busy with his own matters, stopped what he was doing and raised his head to look at that mage standing at the entrance of the mage tower.
"Hello everyone, I'm the host of this gathering. I believe everyone knows me, I'm one of the Starry Sky College's Vice Deans, Zeith. I'll take you to take a look at the things we'll be researching this time."
Zeith didn't talk much and was very familiar with the place. Many mages in the surroundings greeted Zeith, it was clearly not their first time meeting him.
Zeith turned around and entered the mage tower, followed by a group of Artisans.
Raphael and Lin Yun walked in the back, and Raphael kept using mana to tell Lin Yun about the things he hadn't finished explaining.
"Sir Mafa, this Sir Zeith didn't rely on alchemy to become the Vice Deans of the Starry Sky College. The three Deans of the Starry Sky College rarely manage the Starry Sky College's matters.
"As for the management of the Starry Sky College, it's the job of a few Vice Deans. This Sir Zeith is one of the Vice Deans overseeing the Starry Sky College. He is very powerful, he is at the 5th Rank of the Heaven realm, and it is said that he has already awakened an Ice Domain.
"Last year, there was a problem in a plane controlled by the Starry Sky College. A very powerful Heaven Rank Magic Beast appeared, and Sir Zeith went down to deal with it. It only took him a few minutes to freeze that Heaven Rank Magic Beast into an ice sculpture, and its corpse is still in that plane to intimidate other magic beasts.
If you meet Zeith in the Starry Sky Academy, especially if you violate the Starry Sky Academy's rules, you must not resist. Don't be fooled by Zeith's amiable demeanor, he is merciless in battle. If there is a problem, he will immediately freeze you into an ice sculpture, and then consider other problems … "
Raphael said a few words before stopping. After entering the mage tower, Raphael didn't dare to use mana to transmit his voice. This was Zeith's mage tower, just like a mage's Demiplane. It was a place that a mage could completely control. With Raphael's strength, the other side might hear him.
I followed everyone into the Mage tower, but to my surprise, I didn't go to the upper floors of the Mage tower. Instead, I went to a place on the first floor and went underground.
The entrance was guarded by two magic beast-shaped Heaven Puppets. When everyone appeared, the two puppets opened their eyes, and their crystalline eyes flickered, apparently confirming everyone's identity.
After stepping through the entrance covered in a layer of light, they saw a huge platform. Looking down from the platform, they could see the endless abyss and a passage leading underground. Both sides of the passage were inlaid with glowing crystals, but they still couldn't see how long or deep that passage was.
As everyone climbed onto that hundred-meter-big platform, Zeith walked to the center of the platform and took out his special imprint before putting it on the crystal table.
In an instant, numerous alchemy questions and runes appeared on the surface and inside of the crystal table. A layer of light shrouded the entire platform, wrapping it within. Then, the entire platform started sliding towards the depths of the passage.
The glowing crystals inlaid on both sides of the passage were rapidly thrown behind, and in less than a second, the platform's speed reached the point where only light could be seen.
But everyone standing on the platform couldn't feel any shaking, nor could they feel any sudden acceleration.
Amazement flashed in Lin Yun's eyes. He hadn't seen too many advanced alchemy techniques when he came to the Starry Sky College, but now that he was here, he saw a technique that could be widely used in the future.
Anti-Gravity Array, Spatial Solidification Array … Especially the latter, it simply didn't exist in this era, and he had never heard of it.
The Anti-Gravity Array already existed in this era, and the City in the Sky's floating fortresses all had this kind of array added to them. But that kind of array was very limited.
The City in the Sky's floating fortresses weren't very fast, and the most important reason was that if they were too fast, the Levitation Array would collapse.
As for the Levitation Array, it was the lower form of the Anti-Gravity Array. Only the higher form could be considered a true Anti-Gravity Array.
The Levitation Array used the power of the array to lift an object, but the Anti-Gravity Array used the gravity of the earth itself to remove the gravitational force of the earth on an object, or in other words, change the direction of the object.
The Levitation Array couldn't carry things that were too heavy, and the speed couldn't be too fast. There were many restrictions, but the Anti-Gravity Array didn't have these kinds of restrictions. Just like the main city of the City in the Sky, it definitely wouldn't use a Levitation Array, it would use an Anti-Gravity Array.
Because no Levitation Array could lift the huge main city of the City in the Sky.
As for the Spatial Solidification Array, it simply didn't appear in this era. Just like the flying shuttle Raphael had remodeled, its biggest limitation was the sudden and powerful acceleration, which would generate huge pressure. Apart from Heaven Rank powerhouses, even Archmages might not necessarily be able to resist that kind of pressure.
Moreover, if the flying shuttle was too fast, it wouldn't be able to stop or dodge in a short time. Even if it was closed, the flying shuttle would still rush forward at its original speed.
But with the Spatial Solidification Array, this kind of problem wouldn't appear. No matter how the platform under their feet was, the people standing on it simply wouldn't feel that huge pressure, because the space itself was moving, and the people inside the space wouldn't feel the huge pressure from the outside.
If there wasn't such an array, most of the people on the platform would have been flung out the instant the platform accelerated.
Without the help of the Space Solidifying Spell Formation, it would take a very long time to stop at such a fast speed. Moreover, it would also create a massive pressure. At the very least, the people standing on the platform would be affected by tens of times the normal gravity.
Mages that weren't even Heaven Rank would instantly be crushed to death by that kind of pressure.
After a minute, the flowing light in the surroundings instantly dissipated and the platform appeared at the entrance of a huge underground square. It only took an instant for it to go from fast to calm.
As for the people standing on the platform, they didn't feel any pressure, they didn't even know how to get there.
But Lin Yun knew that even if the passage was slanted, they were at least three kilometers underground!
And this was thanks to the array on the platform. In the future, Noscent's number one magic battleships would be used to conquer the endless planes. Even the lowest magic battleship had to have these two arrays.
After all, it wasn't possible for only Heaven Rank powerhouses to conquer a plane. Most of the time, it would be those under the Heaven Rank completing the conquest, and most of the time, speed was the biggest limitation.
If there was a problem, they would need a month to rush over and the conquest wouldn't be completed. With these two arrays, the speed of the magic battleship only needed to be considered. There was no need to consider anything else.
As long as the magic battleship itself was strong enough, it could keep accelerating forever.
The other Artisans didn't seem to notice the array on the platform, and even if they did, they didn't know the significance of the array.
Their gazes were already attracted by the huge underground square in front of them.
A huge square appeared before their eyes. The ceiling and the ground were like a silver mirror. They were all made of metal and didn't have the slightest gap. It looked like a single entity.
There were all kinds of puppets and machines roaming around, and mages wearing magic robes were also in a hurry. But even though everything seemed to be in a hurry, it didn't give off a chaotic feeling. Everything was in order.
Everything was clean, not a single speck of dust could be seen. There was even a Dust Removal Array at the entrance. The huge square was divided into blocks using high-strength transparent glass, and every single block had an alchemist conducting some kind of experiment.
A small potioneering unit suddenly burst out with green smoke. The alchemy equipment within the small unit was rapidly corroded after coming in contact with the green smoke. And when that green smoke came in contact with the thick transparent glass wall, runes and complicated patterns appeared.
The poisonous smoke was completely locked within that small unit, and in less than two seconds, a special puppet with eight tentacles appeared at the entrance of that small unit. The eight tentacles stuck to the glass door and the poisonous smoke within the small unit was rapidly devoured by that puppet.
After four or five seconds, no poisonous smoke could be seen inside, only the corroded alchemy equipment could be seen. But then, two other puppets opened the door of the small unit and rapidly cleaned up the corroded alchemy equipment before replacing them with new ones.
Even the poisoned alchemist was woken up in less than ten seconds and was then taken away to be treated.
And all of this was done in less than ten seconds. And in those small units, no one's alchemy experiments seemed to have been affected. What happened here didn't affect anyone else. Even if someone saw it, they would only glance at it before continuing with their own work, not worried at all.
Zeith simply didn't care about the sudden situation. And in this huge square, none of the busy alchemists came over to greet Zeith. They only slightly nodded in greeting as they brushed past him before continuing with their own work.
No one would stop to curry favor with Zeith because of his status as the Starry Sky College's Vice Dean. Not only were there Heaven Rank powerhouses here, but there were also Great Mages. But here, they only had the status of alchemists. They even saw an Archmage asking a High Mage for guidance.
Amazement could be seen in Lin Yun's eyes. In a trance, he felt as if he was looking at a large-scale research center he had seen in his previous life. Regardless of who it was, technology was the most important thing.
And looking at the alchemy experiments of those small units, most of them were very advanced for this era, and there were even some advanced concepts.
"Sir Mafa, what are you doing? This kind of array arrangement is simply whimsical. It's simply impossible to complete. Even the most basic runes can't be constructed …"
Raphael looked at Lin Yun, who was staring at a small unit. There was a two-layered platform inside, and two alchemists were constructing a miniature array.
Array experiments were sometimes even more dangerous than potioneering. Some powerful arrays would cause far more damage to the environment when they burst out than potioneering.
Thus, he could only first construct a miniature array and experiment with the various possibilities of the array. But miniature arrays had their own limitations.
Lin Yun ignored Raphael's words. The two alchemists here were at most Master Alchemists, and they had at most just advanced to the Archmage realm. It could be seen from the runes they were using.
Their experiments were bound to fail, but that didn't mean that their ideas were bad. This kind of two-layered array wasn't two arrays superimposed on top of each other. This kind of array's dual structure was already perfected by the current era.
And what they were experimenting with was an array!
Those two layers were two parts of an array. This required a new kind of energy transmission resonance method, and that was what they were experimenting with.
But they were bound to fail because this technology would only appear after 1800 years. Because of the materials, the current alchemy material science simply couldn't support this array. There was also the use of runes. Archmage runes simply couldn't support that kind of energy transmission and resonance.
What was needed were law runes, and a law rune formed from ten runes wasn't enough. At the very least, it needed a law rune formed from twelve runes like Lin Yun's to support this structure.
This also meant that most Heaven Mages of this era wouldn't be able to complete this research. This research was bound to fail, and there would be no progress.
But someone was already researching this thing in this era. This was enough to show how advanced this underground base was.
Apart from this, Lin Yun walked along the central avenue and saw many special researches. Many of them were in the right direction, but they were limited by materials and some basic concepts and couldn't be completed.
Lin Yun didn't say anything on the way. He walked at least a dozen kilometers before passing through this huge underground plaza. At the end of the plaza was a huge cylindrical alchemy machine.
The main body of the cylinder was silvery white, but it had a wisp of dark golden color. It was ten meters tall and ten meters deep.
There were eight such cylinders arranged in a row here. Three people walked into the leftmost cylinder. In an instant, the surface of the cylinder flickered with countless bolts of lightning and dense spatial fluctuations appeared. However, these fluctuations were all restrained in place, unable to spread out.
After three seconds, all the fluctuations and sparks on the cylinder collapsed towards the center. In an instant, the three people inside disappeared and the cylinder regained its calm.
Lin Yun's pupils suddenly shrank. 'Spatial Shuttle Device!'
That thing was recorded in history as having its first successful product five hundred years later, but he actually saw it in the Starry Sky College!
That thing's effect was similar to a Teleportation Array, but its operation was completely different. A Teleportation Array could teleport anything to another Teleportation Array.
But this thing had a single function. Only one was needed to complete the teleportation between two sides.
Most importantly, the place where this thing could be used could only mean one thing. The place they were teleported to was a completely enclosed space. There were no exits in it, and there were no spatial sensors either. The surroundings were sealed off by the strength of the Space Barrier.
And the only way to enter and exit was through that Spatial Shuttle Device. The space within that device resonated with a certain point in that sealed space. Every time it went through, it wasn't like a Teleportation Array.
Instead, it was a complete swap between the two spaces. That way, everything within that space would be brought over.
Unless it was a super powerhouse that could shatter spatial barriers, it would be impossible to forcibly attack from the inside. Even a Peak Heaven Rank powerhouse wouldn't be able to force their way in from the outside.
Because the coordinates of that sealed space simply didn't exist. Apart from the creator of that space, no one knew its coordinates. Even the Spatial Shuttling Device could only switch between two spaces at a fixed point.
At the peak of Noscent's development, this kind of Spatial Shuttle Device was used as a refuge or as a safe warehouse.
As Noscent's mana declined, who knew how many precious things were forever thrown into those sealed spaces.
This incomparably huge Spatial Shuttle Device was too crude and cumbersome in Lin Yun's eyes. It couldn't be moved, but it could definitely be considered one of the most advanced alchemy techniques of this era!
Just like Lin Yun's Natural Demiplane. After Lin Yun destroyed the Planar Path, besides Lin Yun, no one knew the coordinates of the Natural Demiplane. Or it could be said that the Natural Demiplane no longer had coordinates. Lin Yun himself was the coordinates, and only Lin Yun could open it. It was the same as a mage's Demiplane, the safest and most secretive place.
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