Chapter 2981 Dishonorable Descendants: Exploring and Pursuing
After the signing of the new covenant, one of the long-term tasks of the Austrian Law Federation was to promote the sharing of monitoring data on transmission signals by Mage Tower organizations in various places, thereby establishing a territory-wide monitoring system for transmission.
It's just that many mages like to run around and don't want their whereabouts to be monitored at all times, so this work has a tendency to come to an end.
Like Xia Duo and Horn, people with real power can easily sneak into almost every magic tower registered in the federation, but the reality is that not all master tower controllers can obtain such real power.
It can even be said that the vast majority of people cannot have such real power.
In this case, how many Mage Tower controllers are willing to share their data! This is essentially transferring part of the power to the Arcane Federation to form a situation that is beneficial to the public.
It's a pity that what is good for the public may not be good for individuals.
This is probably the conflict between personal interests and collective interests.
At the moment, the Drak Territory that Shado and Horn have come to doesn't even have warning magic at the territory's borders. It's actually a bit redundant to ask them to share transmission signal monitoring data.
This is a typical territory that rests on its laurels. The lord may not even be able to achieve the achievements of an archmage. This situation is actually very rare in the mainland where there is only stock competition.
Shado wasn't sure whether this was the influence of the mysterious dragon's arrival, or whether Lord Drak was originally an idiot with great ambitions and little talent, but it was indeed mentioned in the information on Drak's territory that Horn gave him -
Lord Drac borrowed money to rent the advancement laboratory of the Arcane Federation twelve years ago and tried to advance to become an arcanist, but the result was a failure.
After that, very little news came out about the Drak Territory. It was only now that a mysterious dragon suddenly appeared, attracting the attention of the Seven Towers again.
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After entering the Drak Territory invisibly, Shado and Horn headed straight for Drak City in the center of the territory.
"stop!"
In front of a stone bridge near the town, Sha Duo suddenly stopped. Horn was a little confused, but the leader of this action was Sha Duo, so he stopped quickly.
"What's wrong? Did you find anything?" Horn asked.
"There is a gem of true knowledge hanging on the bridge ahead."
"Really? Why didn't I notice it?"
Horn didn't doubt that Xia Duo had lied to him, but he was a little surprised by Xia Duo's insight. At the same time, he was also very confused about how Xia Duo found out that he didn't even notice it!
"A small trick is not worth mentioning."
Xia Duo didn't want to go any further on this topic, because he almost didn't notice it himself, and only discovered the anomaly on the bridge with the help of his personal space.
However, this method is obviously not something that the contemporary Lord Drak can come up with. It should be something that was created by the first generation or previous generations of lords.
There was one hidden above the bridge in front of him. Sha Duo also found two gems of true knowledge on a ring around Drak City. One of them was damaged, and the other was still intact, but it was not taken by Drak.
Take advantage of it.
Xia Duo guessed that the first Lord Drac built a true knowledge barrier based on multiple true knowledge gems to cover the core area of the territory in order to prevent assassins, but later generations were unscrupulous and failed to maintain it properly.
So that whether the true knowledge barrier can cover a large area, only a few true knowledge gems that cover a very small range are left, and their function is limited to making the invisible and camouflage effects of those who enter the gem's range ineffective.
It's hard to say how much actual effect it will have.
However, there is no need for Xia Duo to take risks. It is obvious that the original true knowledge barrier has failed, and the remaining gems can only cover a very small area. It is enough to go around it. There is no need to rush through it head-on.
If it weren't for the gem of true knowledge in front of them that happened to be blocking their flight path, Shado wouldn't even mention it to Horn.
"Let's take a detour."
Next, the two of them changed from Horn leading the way to Shaduo leading the way. After all, the town was already in front of them. Shaduo estimated the monitoring distance of the magic tower in Drak City for flying spells and stopped in advance.
After such a pause, Horn asked again: "Are we going to take another detour?"
"No, we may be within the surveillance range of Mage Drak's Tower ahead, so let's stay here!"
The Drake Territory has nothing to say in the past ten years. Like the Savile Territory before it, it has declined, but the ancestral foundation may not have been completely lost.
Although the Savil Territory could not even recruit a single high-level mage at the beginning, it still had the highest-standard mage tower in Netheril. This was the advantage of having a good ancestor.
The first generation lord of the Drak Territory was not a Grand Arcanist, and his activities were even much earlier than Savile's. But again, who knows what his ancestors left behind.
Flying is only a third-level spell. Even the Tower of Time has a monitoring range of only about one mile around. The teleportation spell has a larger monitoring range.
It basically follows the rule that the higher the spell level, the larger the monitoring range. If it reaches level 10, ordinary mages dozens of miles away may be able to detect it through the magic network, let alone a specialized mage tower.
The Mage Tower in the Drak Territory is most likely not as good as the Tower of Time, so Shado stopped about a mile away from the Mage Tower.
It's not that you can't monitor farther, and you can extend your perception in a specific direction when necessary, but this is not the norm, and the norm is about one new mile at most.
Or build more magical facilities for surveillance, but this is not the tradition of Netheril. The tradition of Netheril is that the mage tower integrates everything.
As for the mysterious dragon, Shado has never let down his guard since he entered the Drak Territory, but until now, he has not found any active detection spells.
As for passive detection, it may or may not exist. Xia Duo treats it as if it exists and tries to simulate the normal environment as much as possible. If they are discovered in this way, there is really nothing they can do.
"Give me the blood sample!"
"Um."
This was the final step. Horn still hesitated, but under the urging of Sha Duo's eyes, he still handed over the blood sample of the mysterious dragon, which was a small drop of red sealed in the arcane crystal.
blood.
Judging from the quantity, I'm afraid Seven Towers doesn't know everything. After all, Xia Duo doesn't know how much blood was collected for a comprehensive test. Even if the consumption of the test process is deducted, it's more than that.
"Okay, this is enough for positioning."
Xia Duo showed the starlight glove on his left hand and grabbed the arcane crystal in his hand. Compared with ordinary detection spells, the war spell [Wide Area Detection] would obviously be more effective.
Of course, before the official exploration and pursuit, Xia Duo first activated the [Wide Area Restriction] but limited its effect to the size of the area, so that once the target is determined, the opponent can be restrained as soon as possible.
Next, Shado granted Horn some authority over war spells, then gave the other party a look and said, "I'm starting."