Chapter 1265 Entering the ruins of the empire and digging a grave for yourself
The so-called empire ruins are actually, more accurately, the areas where the magic network riots occurred after the border barrier collapsed.
After nearly a hundred years, it still has not calmed down, but a considerable part of the area has become a dead zone of magic net. When non-arcanist spellcasters enter it, they are like fish out of water, without any spellcasting ability.
Xia Duo is now a senior arcanist, so after entering the projection plane, he is just an ordinary archmage. It is basically impossible to create arcane fire.
Therefore, after entering the riot area of the Magic Network, he carefully flew close to the ground to avoid going too fast and accidentally rushing into the Dead Zone of the Magic Network and being unable to stop, causing him to fall to death.
But even so, he still felt deep resistance.
Different from the mysterious ruins in his territory on the main plane, a calm field of only five rings is enough to create an environment suitable for personal spellcasting. If you are very familiar with the operating mechanism of the Magic Network String, you can just
Directly calming down the rioting magic network with will, although it is only temporary, it is still useful.
And here——
He advanced with the 8-level [Anti-Magic Field]. This spell is essentially a field-suppressing spell, but in terms of energy level and adaptability, it far exceeds the 5-level spell to calm the field.
Without this spell, he would be unable to move.
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Not long after entering the magic network riot area, Xia Duo stopped. He found that in his current state, it was simply unrealistic to fly to Severnton within ten days.
What's more, it's impossible for him to spend all ten days on the road.
After thinking for a while, he chose to fly upwards. If he encountered the dead zone of the magic network, he could continue flying after falling down, but he would just change the direction.
And if he cannot encounter the Dead Zone of the Magic Network, he will keep flying out of the Magic Network riot area.
As he flew, Xia Duo discovered the pattern of the Magic Network riot area - the higher you go up, the lower the level of riots. Up to an altitude of nearly a thousand meters, the level of the Magic Network riot is only about the same as the background fluctuations of the Magic Network.
Once here, Xia Duo knew that he could reach Severington quickly.
He already knew the coordinates of Sevington. All he had to do was change the parameters a little and set the teleportation destination to be more than a kilometer above Sevington.
This was very simple and didn't even require much calculation. Xia Duo completed the transmission quickly.
When I lowered my head, I saw the stretching coastline below and the Strait Mountains that cut the Narrow Sea into two parts in the middle.
As for Severnton, under the cover of countless chaotic magics, it is not clearly visible from a high altitude, but the desolate appearance of its ruins can also be seen.
The process of descending is very slow in Xia Duo. Unlike when ascending, you don't need to worry about the Dead Zone of the Magic Network, but when descending, you must pay attention to it.
You know, right now, he has no way to deal with the Dead Silence Zone of the Magic Network. It would be too funny if he fails to slow down in time and falls directly to the ground.
It’s really like “die before you leave the army”!
In fact, Shado's caution was not wasted. Severton on the main plane has a large number of magic facilities, especially in the Arcane Empire. The resulting magic network riots were more serious than in other areas.
Correspondingly, the Magic Network Dead Zone here also appears more frequently than in other areas!
Of course, for spellcasters, it is almost not difficult to determine the dead zone of the magic net.
If the normal magic network environment is compared to water, then the magic network strings are the water molecules in it, and specific spells, magic items, or magic facilities are the ice crystals mixed in it.
The mystery lock is a large block of ice.
As long as you know the concepts of these things and master the skills of observation, it is not difficult to discover their existence and differences.
In Xia Duo's eyes (magic vision), the magic network glows with a faint water-like light blue light. The riot area of the magic network is darker, more chaotic, and changes faster, while the dead area has almost no light.
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After avoiding the last dead zone of the magic net, which was only more than 20 meters high, Xia Duo quickly reached the ground. The feeling of stepping on the earth made him feel very at ease.
But now is not the time to truly feel at ease, and this is not a safe place either.
Invisibility in the magic network riot area was useless. Sha Duo just disguised himself slightly, transformed into Leiden, and went directly to the Second Magic Academy, which he was most familiar with.
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Arriving outside the Second Magic Academy, some traces of the original place can be vaguely discerned. The magic facilities were most seriously damaged by the magic network riot. As for ordinary facilities, they can still be maintained if they are not hit by chaotic magic.
Xia Duo was standing in front of a stone tablet with only half of the text left. If the stone tablet was intact, it should have the words "Empire's Second Magic Academy" written on it, but now he could barely recognize the word "Second Magic Academy of the Empire".
"The Nese text.
Seeing this, Xia Duo really felt like he was in another world. Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something. Instead of exploring inside the academy, he walked away from the academy.
As he walked, he also traced back his past memories when he entered the [Projection Plane·Arcane Empire].
"This is where we are today, if nothing else happens——"
After passing a corner that had become ruins, Xia Duo stopped and performed a large-scale gravity reversal. In an instant, a large amount of dust and rocks began to slowly "fall" upward.
Seeing this scene, Xia Duo looked calm and unmoved, but the next moment, when he saw the familiar set of robes, his face suddenly showed a complex expression that seemed to be sighing or sad.
The next moment, the anti-gravity field disappeared, the dust, stones and the white bones wrapped in the familiar robe crashed down, and everything was buried again.
"It feels really weird to dig your own grave!"
Xia Duo shook his head, as if he wanted to get all those complicated emotions out of his mind. He really didn't expect that Eddie's remains would be found here.
Eddie is his incarnation when he last entered the [Projection Plane·Arcane Empire].
This also means that this projection plane is the continuation of the last one, and it is certain that the starting point of the time loop is after Eddie's death, not before.
If it had been before, Eddie's remains would not have appeared here, because this was the last place where Xia Duo's body stayed when he returned to the main plane.
In other words, after his consciousness left, Eddie died, or died from being stoned to death, or died from some chaotic magic, but these are not important anymore.
Chateau took one last look at Eddie's burial place, then quickly turned around and left.
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Arriving at the gate of the Second Academy again, Xia Duo entered directly and went straight to the library. Last time he was here, due to various reasons, he was not able to read all the books.
He was very sure that the books here contained knowledge that he valued very much even now.