Soon, Xia Duo returned to reality again. Seeing that the color of the focusing crystal in his hand dissipated again, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious in his heart.
After hesitating for a moment, he still contacted Yin Oulem and asked for some spells from the Seven Towers Immortality Ceremony. Yin Oulem readily accepted the matter, but Xia Duo felt particularly complicated.
…
With the focusing gem, Sha Duo is not only able to perceive the soul, but his ability to resist the invasion of information storms on the consciousness level has also been significantly improved, and the speed of the gathering and reorganization of Mojave consciousness has also been slightly slowed down.
This also prevented him from entering the conscious world frequently, so Shado finally had time to consider his revenge against Zhamdas.
As the saying goes, "It is not a gentleman to retaliate if you have a grudge." Of course, Xia Duo is not the kind of person who only takes a beating without fighting back. What's more, he previously showed what the floating city is in the Sluvende War. In addition to disturbing the demon conspiracy, his main purpose is
Just to scare others!
Now it seems that Zhamdas doesn't care at all about the power displayed by the floating city!
Perhaps it was their location in the south and the internal political system that made them unwilling to receive information from the outside world, but now that they had offended themselves, Xia Duo would naturally retaliate!
The key to deterrence does not lie in having enough power. In many cases, having a qualified lower limit of power is enough. The key lies in whether you have the determination to use this power.
If not, what will happen even if you have the invincible power to destroy the world in your hands? Others still won’t take you seriously!
In a very famous novel from Xia Duo's hometown, there is such a character, who clearly has absolute deterrent power, but dare not use it at the critical moment, resulting in the loss of his family and country.
In other words, Cheng Xin gave the enemy the feeling that they did not dare to use her power from the very beginning. Even if she had the power to destroy the world in her hands, the enemy would not hesitate to attack and destroy that power.
Naturally, Xia Duo could not do what Cheng Xin did, so after regaining his energy a little, he began to plan his next act of revenge.
He wants to set an untouchable bottom line for everyone - I will retaliate at all costs against anyone who threatens my life with conspiracy.
If someone wants to plot against him in the future, they should carefully consider the consequences of not succeeding in plotting against him.
…
After walking out of the lounge, Niya rushed over after receiving the news and asked with concern: "How is the effect of the focus gem given by Master Yin Olem? Have the hidden dangers been solved?"
"Not yet, but it doesn't affect my next actions."
"Next action?"
Niya didn't react at first. She just thought that Shado was talking about the next travel plan or returning to Netheril or something. But when she saw Shado's deep eyes, she immediately understood——
Shado is going to take revenge on Jamdas.
As a pillow person, Niya naturally understands her husband. Although Xia Duo usually seems very peaceful, Niya knows that he has very strong bottom lines and principles in his heart.
As long as the bottom line and principles are not touched, everything is easy to talk about. But once the bottom line is touched, Niya has not seen it with her own eyes, but she has heard rumors about Xia Duo rushing to kill enemies on snowy nights when he was an apprentice.
The current situation is no different except that the enemy is stronger.
As a wife, Niya certainly cannot stop her husband's revenge, but Sha Duo's current state makes her particularly worried:
"How about we wait until the hidden dangers are resolved? How will you deal with it if you encounter that kind of illusion master again?"
"It's not like I didn't do anything when I was in coma these past few days. I almost understand why I was pulled into the world of mental images by an illusion master I've never met."
"Why?" Niya asked curiously.
"It's not that the opponent is so powerful that he can casually invade the soul of a great arcanist with multiple guardians. To put it bluntly, it's actually very simple. In order to plot Calimshan and Katemir, Zhamdas did something in Kalim
Out of preparation, the home court of illusion is one of them. If I had stayed in the Cloud Palace that day, or returned directly from the Cloud Palace to the Floating City, nothing would have happened."
What Sha Duo said was summed up by combining his thinking in the mental world and the Mojave memory fragments obtained by purifying his consciousness during his coma. There may be a certain gap between it and the facts, but it should be close to the truth.
If Zhamdas' master of illusion could really invade anyone's soul consciousness at will, then Zhamdas would have been able to unify the south, and even the entire main plane.
Xia Duo is sure to carry out revenge. At worst, he can use the etheric plane as a barrier.
Although the special world that is close to the founding prototype of the material world reacts particularly strongly to will and consciousness, it is precisely because of this that the role of consciousness is highlighted and easier to prevent.
If he were in a pure spiritual world like the star realm, I'm afraid even ten of them might not be a match for the master of psychic illusions.
As for how to use ether as a barrier, it is actually simple. You only need to completely overlap the space where he lives with the ether plane, similar to the ether overlap area of the Arcane Federation.
…
After comforting Nia, Xia Duo began to take action, but he did not let Nia avoid it. As his wife would inevitably experience similar incidents in the future, getting in touch with him in advance was a kind of exercise.
"Niya, you control [Wide Area Detection] to find the densely populated areas of Zhamdas."
"Um."
Niya responded and started to get busy.
Shado himself began to control the floating city to lower its height, and at the same time moved in the direction of Zhamdas in the East. Just attacking the population was not enough to let him vent his anger, let alone deter other conspirators.
Only by annihilating enough elite spellcasters can a country be heartbroken, and for Zhamdas, there are actually twelve artifacts that are more valuable than elite spellcasters.
It is precisely because of those twelve artifacts that almost every citizen of Zhamdas can undergo psychic enlightenment, and the vast majority of citizens can obtain psychic powers of varying strengths.
If people outside of Zhamdas want to obtain spiritual power, there is almost no other way except going to Zhamdas to receive the baptism of the artifact.
These were all what Shado heard while chatting with Taraf during his stay in Karim, and some of the information about psychic enlightenment were not far from what he had learned from Evereska before.
There are also psychic mages on Evereska's side, but without exception, all of them received their enlightenment in Zhamdas. Shado was also invited to Zhamdas when he was there before, but he was
He refused.
Not only did he refuse, but he also blocked Yin Orum's student Luo Wei's plan to go to Jamdas.