Chapter 1130 - Centuries (1) (1/2)
Dyon stared blankly at the array, clenching his fists. Even for him, at his best estimate, he would need at least half a century before his knowledge base reached the level necessary to manipulate a planet level array, and who knew how much longer than that it would take for his soul to reach the dao levels. Of course, this pace was insanely fast even in comparison to the entire cosmos, but right now, it was painstakingly slow.
It wasn't a simple matter of his soul talent, the question was how long it would take for his body to be powerful enough to withstand the power of his soul.
Considering the pace at which his body was improving, even Dyon couldn't estimate a proper amount of time.
It wasn't as though Dyon hadn't thought of this possibly happening. If the Soul Market wanted to steal talents from all 100 universes of its quadrant, it needed the ability to quickly travel between them all. It was just that Dyon hoped that this teleportation pad they used would be at the moon level at best, at least then, even if it was a slim chance, he'd still have one.
But now, it was all ruined.
'What do I do, what do I do?'
Dyon wasn't a person who became easily fl.u.s.tered. He had long since been able to stare down his own death without blinking an eye, but somehow fumbling around with the lives of others made his heartbeat quicken. He hadn't been this agitated in a long time…
'I have to try.' Dyon clenched his fists, raising his Perception to the limits and peering into the intricacies of the array.
By the time an array reached the planet level, it had long since left the realm of imitating wills and could actually evoke them on its own. Obviously, the most important will that a teleportation array evokes is spatial will.
That said, there were many other facets including protection, stabilization and optimization.
For a normal individual to withstand teleportation of large distances, an array had to have very few flaws, increasing its protective and stabilizing abilities. But, at the same time, it needs to be simple enough that the amount of energy needed per teleportation is kept to a minimum.
The concept is the same as comparing a genius vs average programmer. An ordinary programmer of computer code might take ten lines of code to program the same function a genius programmer only takes a single line to. Obviously, the latter is far more efficient both for himself and the future use of his code.
When Dyon first learned about arrays, there was a reason he immediately compared them to coding from his world. However, this knowledge was doing him little to no good right now.
It took Dyon 16 years to reach the peak of the comet level. During the monotonous 13 years he spent killing hundreds of thousands of beasts in his third trial, his mind was constantly reflecting upon the [Dao of Array Alchemy]. Still, he was simply too far from the planet level.
His first task should have been to find the location symbols of the array, but the moment he tried to, he realized that planet level arrays were organized very differently than what he was used to.
Every symbol was actually built upon each other like a complex, interconnected puzzle piece. To alter a single portion, one had to have enough knowledge to bypass the other layers without disrupting them.