Chapter 748: Chapter 625: Elent 7 and High-Dinsional Matter
“Using an entire world as a ranch to breed magical beasts? Isn’t that a bit too wasteful?”
Although Lynn’s planetary ranch plan was shocking and could solve the most troubleso problem facing the council at the mont, Rafael and others still felt sowhat inappropriate.
That was a whole planet of life!
“A planet is nothing much…” Lynn naturally saw the doubts of the others and couldn’t help but say with a smile, “Don’t forget, the geotric civilization has given us three star systems, and there are at least two more planets with life like this!”
If they could master the corresponding ecological transformation technology or obtain the clergy of life or creation, they could transform and convert other planets in the system. Therefore, planets with life were actually in surplus for them, and the empire simply didn’t have enough population to colonize them.
“The kingdom’s population is still too small!” Lynn exclaid.
Over the past thousand years, under the rule of the Empire and the Church, the combined population of this continent was about twenty million.
Thanks to their lightning-fast end to the war that swept across the continent, the population didn’t decrease on a large scale, but rather increased significantly.
The increase in population was mainly due to the liberated slaves and the hidden households, who were not counted in the imperial census before, but now it was different, all those oppressed by the nobility and the Church were the kingdom’s most loyal subjects!
Plus the barbarians from the northern territories that had been annexed and the half-human refugees who had fled from other lands, the population increased by about another five million.
However, over these ten-plus years, childbirth was the main contributor to population growth!
With living standards skyrocketing and no protective asures, the birthrate soared like a rocket-propelled, causing a surge in population from twenty-five million to sixty million!
In just over a decade, the population nearly doubled, an undoubtedly frightening speed, but also quite normal. Roughly calculated, the average annual growth rate was only nine percent, in fact, if not for the tightly scheduled working hours, adding a few million more to the population wouldn’t have been a problem.
Under the Imperial system of child labour, the first batch of children over ten years old was already able to work, significantly filling the gap for technical workers with basic education.
Even so, in Lynn’s view, it was far from enough. To support a vast stellar civilization, a population of a hundred billion was not enough, and a trillion was barely passable.
“The speed of population growth still needs to accelerate, in fact, we could consider using so rewards or honors to encourage childbirth…” Lynn suggested to Harrov and others, combining policies from his previous world that encouraged childbirth.
If he rembered correctly, in a previous era when the agricultural civilization was stepping into the industrial age, so countries even achieved an annual natural population growth rate of more than twenty percent, going from sixty million to a billion in just sixteen years, such is the terror of exponential growth!
Anyway, they didn’t need to worry about the lack of resources now, the more people, the better. If they waited for the rise of humanitarianism, dreaming of such fertility would be absurd.
“By the way, Chairman Lynn…” Vittorio, who was beside him, seed to have thought of sothing and hurriedly spoke. “Just a month ago, those Geotricians sent two warships to hand over part of the compensation.”
At that ti, Lynn happened to be out of touch, and finding the geotric civilization’s fleet appearing within the star system scared them stiff.
Fortunately, it turned out to be a false alarm in the end.
“The seventh elent?” Lynn paused, quickly guessing what the compensation was, and imdiately beca interested.
He had seen this so-called seventh elent in so mories of the Geotricians, but because the brain he had accessed wasn’t of a scientific researcher, he only got so basic information.
However, the geotric civilization had always kept it very secret, and during the negotiations, they nearly fought over it, which was enough to prove the importance of the seventh elent – an item treasured even by stellar-level civilizations. This was also why he had specifically instructed Rafael to demand it during the negotiations.
“During this month, have you figured out anything?” Lynn asked curiously.
Vittorio’s expression beca sowhat strange. “This elent is very peculiar; it seems to have no fixed form. We tried many thods but were unable to precisely calculate its mass and volu, and even the Great Decomposition Technique couldn’t shatter it…”
Vittorio’s words made Lynn even more interested. He promptly postponed the original welcoming process and went to see the seventh elent first.
The council clearly knew the importance of this item, so after completing the handover with the fleet of the geotric civilization, they placed it in the lowest level of the Sky Do Tower, heavily guarded.
About half an hour later, Lynn, passing through a door engraved with runes, finally saw the long-anticipated seventh elent.
It was a fist-sized clump of material, faintly glowing, constantly changing shape just as Vittorio had described, and Lynn also noticed a subtle change in the surrounding space.
This wasn’t like the distortion caused by mass; it was a more profound influence.
Harrov, who had the most research on the seventh elent, couldn’t help speaking, “I found that this thing seems sowhat similar to Divinity. I suspect it might be a kind of…”
“High-dinsional material!” Lynn took over Harrov’s words and agreed with this assessnt, instantly understanding why the geotric civilization valued it so much.
Ordinary high-dinsional materials weren’t anything rare because microscopic particles all possess high-dinsional properties; in a sense, all matter has more than three dinsions. However, it’s as if the macrocosm has so kind of restriction, once these microscopic particles align and aggregate into macroscopic matter, they lose their original high-dinsional properties.
The seventh elent was different. Its volu was trillions upon trillions of tis that of a microscopic particle, yet it could still exist in a high-dinsional form. This uniqueness was where its value lay!
Lynn stretched out his hand, and with the guide of Magic Power, the seventh elent floating in the bottom of the tower hovered over and fell into his palm.
Then, a flood of Divine Power, wrapped in will, poured into it, and soon Lynn noticed sothing different. If Divine Power were compared to a flow of water, this palm-sized clump of matter was like a bottomless bucket, continuously taking in the flow without showing any sign of being filled…
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