Lord of Arcane

Chapter 3236 Smuggling Clues
Xia Duo has never been a self-righteous person. He would not deliberately miss the opportunity to make a fortune. Although this windfall came a little suddenly, he had not even thought about it beforehand.

But when this huge sum of money was really placed in front of him, after the initial shock and ecstasy, he chose to accept it very calmly. It would be simply unjust if he did not accept it.

Not only that, he also told the liaison officer of the Demonic Disaster Prevention Center that if the alliance had any more plans for sacrifices in the future, he could provide a batch of high-quality and low-cost sacrificial materials.

The "high quality" here can only be used for sacrifice, rather than referring to the quality of the students' assignments themselves. In fact, the practical assignments of the students of the Tower of Time have lost their value after completion.

Now it's just waste recycling.

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After the contact, the Demonic Disaster Prevention Center quickly conducted a sacrifice experiment, with Xia Duo also serving as the operator. However, compared to Yerlan's experiment, the alliance experiment had more things to verify.

For example, the actual effect of sacrificing different types of magic items is very important. It is related to the subsequent continuous investment evaluation and the settlement of funds previously invested in magic items by Xiaduo and Yeerlan.

In the end, the alliance experiment sacrificed nearly 80 million worth of various old magic tools, and the preliminary analysis of the experimental results soon appeared in front of Xia Duo. There are probably two points worth noting -

The first is the support effect on the self-healing of the magic network, which is similar to the previous estimates of Yerlan and Naesriel. The effect is directly related to the number of magic network strings invested, and has no direct relationship with the level of magic items invested.

Secondly, currently only magic net items that have condensed magic net strings can support the self-healing of the magic net in the decay area. Simply investing energy and matter is useless and may even contribute to the deterioration of the decay area.

This also led to another repair idea, which is to reduce the energy and matter density in the decay area. Since the matter in that area will automatically decay and disintegrate into energy, it is actually only necessary to reduce the energy density there.

And because the magic network is connected everywhere, the energy density in the decay area is only related to the state of the magic network in that area. No matter whether energy is invested or extracted, it will eventually reach an energy balance point that complies with the state of the magic network in that area.

But the difference between the magic net transferring energy to that area, or that area transferring energy to other areas of the magic net, is still very obvious.

Judging from the results of the Alliance's sacrifice experiment, if the excess energy in that area is transferred to other areas, it may cause the decay field to spread, but the opposite is not the case.

If the repair plan of sacrificing to support the self-healing of the magic network is adopted, then investing magic items is actually investing matter into the decay area. When matter decays and disintegrates into energy, it may cause the decay field to spread.

If no changes are made, the effect of sacrificing magic items to promote the self-healing of the magic network will be compromised and used to balance the spread of the decay field.

Therefore, this plan must be implemented in conjunction with another plan, which is to continuously extract energy from the decay area. Even regardless of whether the sacrifice plan is adopted, extracting energy will help alleviate the instability of the decay area.

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Due to time constraints, the previous Yerlan experiment did not take into account the impact of the input of material energy, and Nasirel's analysis was more of a piggyback ride on Yerlan's experiment. Yerlan had no experimental content, so it was almost impossible for them to analyze it out of thin air.

But based on the Yerlan experiment, the experimental plan designed by the alliance was much more perfect, and the cost was also much lower. As an operator, Xia Duo roughly calculated that the cost of the alliance's investment in this experiment was about 60 million.

In addition to the new conclusion of synchronous energy extraction, the Alliance Magic Disaster Prevention Center also conducted a preliminary assessment of the value of the magic items previously conducted by Yeerlan and Xiaduo's individual investment through this experiment.

It was not calculated based on the magic item with the highest cost-effectiveness, nor was it calculated based on the lowest cost-effectiveness. Instead, it was a comprehensive assessment based on the difficulty of the Alliance personally collecting old magic tools from Evereska before the experiment, as well as the cost-effectiveness of the magic tool sacrifice itself.

The final offer for Yeerlan was 6000 million, while the offer for Xia Duo was 3000 million.

For Yeerlan, this figure is undoubtedly lower than their actual investment, but considering that they had to pay all the money themselves, and now the league has subsidized them with 6000 million, what is there to be dissatisfied about?
For Xia Duo, the 3000 million is pure pie in the sky, so he would not be dissatisfied at all.

What he wants to do most and what he should do most now is not to bargain with the league, but to make this standard a reality as soon as possible. Even if this standard is lower, he can accept it.

After all, the student assignments of the Tower of Time have lost their greatest value after they are completed. Now that waste recycling and reuse can get such a high quote, Xia Duo is so happy that he must lock on the evaluation criteria as soon as possible.

If the bargaining led the alliance to discover that what he provided were nothing more than some student assignments that should have been scrapped and destroyed, then the subsequent evaluation standards would not be calculated based on waste recycling, but they would certainly plummet.

But this is what Xia Duo doesn't want to see.

Everyone says that the alliance is good and wonderful. Why is this? Of course, it is because these people can benefit from the alliance, and so is Xia Duo.

If the alliance is of no use to him, why should he get involved in all this trouble!
When it comes to taking advantage of the alliance, he will definitely not be polite. Not only himself, he also hopes that more people will come together to take advantage of the alliance.

Of course, such behavior must comply with the alliance charter and must be within the scope permitted by the rules. The process of everyone taking advantage of the situation together is actually the process of continuously making the alliance pie bigger.

The name of the alliance has a natural advantage, and this advantage also comes from all member states.

For example, the alliance's public computing power pool. If it were not established in the name of the alliance, how could it be put into use so quickly? If it was established in the name of Xia Duo alone, it might still be arguing with various countries over whether it could enter their markets!

Having enjoyed the advantages of the alliance, of course, one must give back to the source of this advantage. In the case of the public computing power pool, this means dividends given by the computing power pool to the countries in the alliance.

The reason why Xiaduo and Yerlan can obtain subsidies from the alliance this time, and even the subsidies are for expenses that they have previously applied for from the alliance, is that these expenses are not just for Xiaduo and Yerlan themselves, but also for all the countries in the alliance.

In addition, if the Alliance adopts the sacrifice plan next, it will have to collect unused magic items from more countries or even make them on the spot. If there are no subsidies, who would be willing to continue to invest?

This is actually a kind of encouragement.