As for development time and technical difficulty, Meng Chao believed the former might not require centuries of such a long wait, while the latter could absolutely be overcome.
After all, Dragon City was not living through Earth's Age of Exploration.
During the Age of Exploration, Earth Civilization's technological progress had been linear. Everything had to proceed step by step, relying on one's own strength—from sailing battleships to steam ironclads, from the utilization of electricity to radio, then nuclear physics research and manned spaceflight. Every link had been chained together, and not a single step could be skipped. It would have been impossible without several centuries.
But in the Otherworld, not only Earthlings, but all manner of Carbon-Based Intelligent Races, including dwarves and elves, possessed technology trees in every conceivable form, some even bizarre and grotesque. Even ogres, who appeared to be fur-clad, blood-drinking savages steeped in darkness and ignorance, possessed "Divine Artifacts" that Earthlings could not decipher.
Combining the intelligence from both his current and previous lives, Meng Chao strongly suspected that the vast majority of Otherworld races were not natives of this planet, but transmigrators like humanity.
They had merely arrived several hundred, several thousand, or even tens of thousands of years before Earthlings.
Moreover, after transmigrating to the Otherworld, they had, just like Earthlings, discovered primordial treasures or received Primordial Summoning. This had allowed them, under conditions of extremely low civilization, to grasp productive power, technological power, and combat power that surpassed modern Earth in certain fields.
If they could gather together the "Divine Artifacts, magic, and profound arts" that the myriad races of the Otherworld were proudest of—
Meng Chao believed there was a strong chance that Dragon City Civilization could repair and activate the Transmigration Engine within several decades, or even within ten years.
He had