Chapter 1002 Deception Punishment, Discovery Features
Seeing that he was about to find the projection plane, Shaduo was not willing to interrupt at this moment, but Niya's words also attracted his attention, and he couldn't help but ask:
"What happened in Sevington? Why did Ms. Greta have to be tested for so long?"
"She didn't say, but the teacher is not here. There should be a lot of things in Giles Tower that Ms. Greta needs to deal with. As you said, we can just wait for the result!"
After speaking, Niya revealed another situation, "Due to the high frequency of use of the plane exploration array these days, the energy reserve of the Tower of Time has been insufficient."
"Insufficient energy?" Xia Duo carefully recalled the number of uses in the past few days. In the early stage, because he did not have much experience, as long as there was any movement in the astral realm, he had to quit and start over.
But later, he has been able to exist stably in the star realm for a long time. Is it really that he has been used too many times?
Xia Duo couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face. Instead, he secretly asked the tower spirit. The tower spirit's answer was -
Not enough energy!
Ever since the elemental passage at the edge of the Mysterious Ruins was built, Shado hadn't heard the word "energy shortage" for a long time.
But for a while, he was unable to determine how often Devine had used the plane exploration array in the past, but his rational instinct told him that there was a problem here.
So he tentatively stared into Niya's eyes and said in a skeptical tone: "Really?"
"It's true!" Niya nodded vigorously, seeming to emphasize the authenticity of this matter.
But from the tips of Niya's ears gradually getting red, Xia Duo noticed the clues, so he joked: "I don't believe it, unless your ears are not red!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the tips of Niya's ears suddenly turned redder, her eyes were no longer firm and became wandering. At the same time, the blush on the tips of her ears gradually invaded her cheeks.
Seeing Niya's shy look, even though they were an old couple, Xia Duo's heart was still beating fast. He got closer to the protective force field that restrained Niya's robe from moving, and whispered in her ear:
"You lied to me, I will punish you tonight!"
The words were quite ambiguous, and Niya understood it immediately, her face suddenly became more rosy, she lowered her head, and almost did not dare to look directly at Xia Duo.
"Okay, I understand everything!" Xia Duo hugged Niya and gently caressed her back.
After this little episode, Xia Duo, whose rhythm was interrupted, had already realized what his problem was.
The state of astral perception requires not only the concentration of a non-mage, but also the need to relax as much as possible and diffuse the perception while concentrating. At the same time, the passage of time in the astral realm is also very difficult to grasp.
Although his exploration only lasted for more than ten days from the perspective of the main plane, in the star realm, he had already forgotten the specific time.
Especially after you gain more experience later on, you often have to stay in the astral realm until you are mentally exhausted before quitting.
Feeling Niya's soft body at this moment, Xia Duo relaxed and almost fell asleep standing up. He steeled himself, let go of Niya, and said to her:
"I'm going to rest, wake me up at night!"
"Um."
Niya lowered her head and answered, her voice like a gnat.
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Afterwards, Xia Duo adjusted the opening hours of the plane exploration layer, from the original non-stop opening to the current opening only during the daytime, and it is still open every other day.
After this adjustment, not only did it not affect his normal exploration progress, it actually allowed him to make more discoveries, and Devine's mental state also improved a lot.
In this regard, Xia Duo is almost 100% sure that the Seven Towers, which have been operating the plane exploration array for an unknown amount of time, may have accumulated a lot of experience in this area, but they will not let outsiders know easily.
Of course, compared to the Mage Tower (organization) which does not even have a plane exploration array, the Tower of Time is at the forefront.
On this day, as usual, Xia Duo and Devine discussed the possibility of suspected points in the projection plane in the locked area of the plane exploration array, and then started the first sensory projection of the day normally.
There is no need to elaborate on the process of entering the astral realm, it is just like usual. After entering the astral realm, Xia Duo habitually restrained his emotions to avoid stirring up the wind of the astral realm and causing his consciousness to move.
Then relax your mind and diffuse your perceptions.
At this time, the originally unchanging silver void gradually revealed its true appearance. It felt like an extremely smooth silver mirror. At first glance, you could not see anything but your own reflection.
But if you zoom in with precision down to the molecular and atomic levels, you can find that the mirror may not be as smooth and clear as you first saw it, as if it were nothing.
It is covered with uneven and irregular structures, and there are even adhesions from foreign objects, making it extremely dirty.
Nowadays, when Xia Duo looks at the star world, he doesn't feel dirty yet, but he feels it is extremely novel, as if he has discovered the inner world hidden under the surface world.
When the diffused perception spread, the star world gradually changed in Xia Duo's eyes. It was no longer the absolutely perfect, empty silver void that it was at the beginning.
Rather, it is a chaotic field filled with all kinds of primitive spiritual information, like a pot of turbid boiling water!
The spiritual information in it may not necessarily be emitted by life, but also includes non-life and even plane information, but all of this is expressed in spiritual form.
Xia Duo didn't worry too much about the nature of the star world. After all, he didn't even study the normal plane clearly, and he couldn't even start with a special plane like the star world.
Now, all he has to do is search for the projection plane.
Some basic but relatively reliable projection plane features have already been preset in the plane exploration array, otherwise there would be no automatic search.
However, compared with searching for sub-planes in the ethereal plane, searching for projection planes in the astral plane is more difficult.
This is determined by the nature of the star realm itself——
The rules of the etheric layer are relatively clear, basically one is one and two is two;
But the star world is a spiritual world, complex, changeable, and elusive. Even if it is explored one second and disappears the next, it is not surprising.
Similarly, since the astral world is a spiritual world, the will of the explorer can be more obviously manifested. If the astral mage is proficient in his profession, the speed of discovering the projected plane may be far faster than that of the sub-plane.
Of course, this does not mean that astral mages are more useful than planar scholars, but each has its own emphasis!
In the discovery of the projected plane, the bonus of human factors may be greater.
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Chateau's search is actually coming to an end. He and Devine have eliminated most of the suspicious points in this locked area.
However, the star world is full of surprises!
After checking the last batch of suspected points, Xia Duo had a whim. He didn't know the specific source of this inspiration, and he had no time to explore it at the moment.
I just followed my inner intuition and refocused my perception center on a suspected area that I had searched before and confirmed that there was no projection plane.
In the astral realm, intuition may be more useful than experience——
In that curled and ever-changing mass of information, he actually discovered that there were several characteristics of the projected plane!
"You've discovered it now?!"
Xia Duo felt a little unbelievable. If it was really that simple, then what had he been doing in the past ten or twenty days!
However, the process still had to be followed. Xia Duo quickly calmed down and repeatedly checked the special information group while sorting it out in his mind and waiting for the operation to return to the main plane.
After once again confirming the existence of the characteristics of the projection plane, he no longer hesitated and immediately chose to leave the star realm.