CHAPTER 518: CHAPTER 246 SOUL GATHERING TOWER (6K)

"Tsk, if I had known earlier that the Space Transfer Station didn’t have time flow, I would’ve sent my split soul from the territory...

The past three days directly wasted three weeks of time."

In the transfer zone, Bai Yi hadn’t felt it yet, but when her temporary body brought her soul back to the instance of the Empire, and she truly returned to her own body, she immediately felt a bit of heartache.

Regardless of whether the lost time would yield any results, the wasted time was still painful.

However, after the initial heartache, she had to continue dealing with various matters.

And in these lost three weeks, there was also good news. At least during this time, the witches Bai Yi brought into the instance of the Empire had solved most of the accumulated research tasks.

After all, these witches were the ones who originally represented the research capability limit within the territory, including Feyter and Bai Fa. They all came in together for the time flow of the instance.

So the current research progress was not surprising.

Moreover, this time, different research departments simultaneously produced results.

This included research related to the altar and research on her potion.

Especially the former, as it was knowledge applicable to the entire territory, strengthening various aspects!

Initially, researching the altar was just for studying how to create Magic Power artifacts, and there was already some progress, successfully improving the purity of the corresponding ore altar significantly.

It even once reached the level of pure ore.

Later, due to the need for Magic Power extraction, part of the Gathering Spirit Array besides creation on the altar was also added to the research roster, becoming a focus for the witches.

For this, Bai Yi not only invested a lot of Magic Power Crystals but also specifically traded numerous building upgrade permits. She intended to let the witches find ways to upgrade by enhancing obelisks and various altars within the territory.

And now, with sufficient time piled up, these investments finally began to bear fruit.

The first was the longstanding research on the altar’s Creation Runes. After the witches innovatively removed part of the runes, the entire Array astonishingly achieved a breakthrough.

The Magic Power simulation no longer required refined ores but could directly simulate pure metals!

Although the rate and ratio of converting Magic Power to matter couldn’t break through, the efficiency still improved significantly due to the increased active components!

At least it has completely met the needs of the Insect Swarm and Mechanical Brain Worm in daily combat, greatly reducing the logistical pressure on both.

Especially for the Insect Swarm, no longer needing to mine makes the self-sufficient model more concealed and its growth smoother.

Like this time when the Insect Swarm conquered the Empire, if the Insect Swarm were to do it again, with the current production efficiency, they could achieve basic alloying during the reproduction and expansion process.

Finding mining sites, of course, could speed up development, but not having them would no longer hinder development speed as it used to.

That said, the demand for Magic Power from groups like the Insect Swarm and Mechanical Brain Worm, which heavily rely on metals, also increased accordingly.

However, another technology related to the altar perfectly solved this problem.

By using the runes on the altar as a foundation, in combination with other buildings with Magic Power extraction functionality, they developed a Magic Power Extraction Array.

Although it’s a pity it can’t be fixed in the genes to become a permanent passive trait in organisms, in another direction, it possesses advantages even stronger than that of genes!

For species like the Insect Swarm and Mechanical Brain Worm that utilize alloyed bodies or witches with alloy-casted bones, having it engraved within them is no different from being permanent.

Moreover, with pure knowledge, it can in turn benefit the territory, enhancing it as territory constructions.

Given that after these few days and the conclusion of the research tasks, Feyter even took the lead to establish a giant building project, aiming to design a colossal structure from scratch all on her own.

If there’s a downside, it’s not without flaws.

The thing is, it can only extract Magic Power from the environment and not generate it by itself.

Although it seems a bit rogue to say so, for Bai Yi at the moment, not being able to "print money" truly becomes an important constraint.

Especially within the territory, with You around, the powerful Magic Power extraction ability has already strained the natural Magic Power generation efficiency of the environment a bit.

This results in the Magic Power extraction effect, regardless of how strong, easily hitting the ceiling.

After all, a planet is only so big, and there’s always a limit to how much can be extracted.

Fortunately, although there was originally no method to "print money," now there are ready paths to take, and there are two of them at once.

One is the "Spirit Vein" in Jun Lin’s Floating Island, and the other comes from the expeditionary army, the Magic Power version of the "chain reaction" discovered by Yun Dao.

Because Jun Lin took the Floating Island and ran away, despite wanting to research it, they have no means to start, so the witches currently chose the other path.

This is also a core part of the colossal structure that Feyter is currently researching, and Bai Yi is quite looking forward to this building.

On the other hand, the research on her potion started even earlier than on the altar. That was when she found out that her potion always seemed to be able to fortuitously create some brand new potion formulas out of peculiar combinations and methods.