Chapter 3297 Two major channels decompilation and cracking
If it were an underground passage discovered by accident in normal times, Xia Duo might not have such worries, but now this situation is obviously the Illuminati doing something wrong.
If the Illuminati and the drow collude, even if it is just a possibility, it will be enough to put the entire Northland into panic. The last drow war has only been a few years ago. Even if the drow were defeated the last time, they still had the chance to fight back.
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Otherwise, judging from the fear and hatred of the surface elven nations towards the drow, the drow must be completely eliminated. The reality is of course that the drow were not completely eliminated, and instead the drow were allowed to withdraw from the deeper regions of the underdark.
This is enough to show that the drow still have the power to fight. If they are instigated by the Illuminati, they may not rush out of the surface again, but this time they will rush out from that area, so it is hard to say.
There are also passages in Netheril that connect to the Underdark. Shado knows about two of them. One is east of the Great Xia Territory, but you have to go hundreds of meters underground to find it. However, this distance is not suitable for people who travel through the Underdark all year round.
For the regional drow, there is almost no such thing. The underground passage is also under the surface of the earth, so it took Xia Duo a long time to find it.
The other place is Basin Lake south of Daxia Territory and south of Wolf God Mountain. According to Xia Duo's actual exploration, it is connected to a dark sea. Compared with other passages, the passage with water is undoubtedly relatively safe.
Some.
At least, Xia Duo has not seen any records about the Dark Earth Sea from the archives on the Alliance side. In other words, the underground passage on the other side of Basin Lake is very likely to connect to a completely unfamiliar dark land.
But the fact that the Alliance didn't record it doesn't mean that the drow didn't record it either. If the drow chose to break out of the surface through the water channel, Netheril would be the first to bear the brunt.
To be more specific, it is the Southern Territory, the Bactria Territory. If the drow really burst out of the surface of the basin lake, judging from the situation of the last drow battlefield, the entire Southern Territory may be destroyed in the flames of war.
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After learning that a new underground passage had been discovered, Xia Duo's alertness and sense of crisis were almost at their peak. After hesitating for a moment, he transformed into another and went back to his territory to repeatedly check the two nearby passages.
Fortunately, no trace of drow was found for the time being. This made him relieved, but also gave him a stronger sense of urgency. After placing warning magic on the two passages, he allowed the avatar to return to Everesca.
Originally, he did not deploy any warning magic in the two underground passages. After all, warning magic itself was a flaw. When there were no other insiders, it was best to pretend that nothing happened.
But now, he really can't bet that the Illuminati doesn't know about it, so he can only arrange warning magic there. Even if this behavior may make the Illuminati aware, it is at least a warning measure.
If something happens, he will know it in time.
The most troublesome thing now is not what the Illuminati has done specifically, but that they have been hiding. As long as they dare to show their faces, the alliance itself can handle it without even having to take action from Xia Duo.
And this also made Xia Duo look forward to the arrival of Divine Envoy Rich.
If we can really find the core of the Illuminati through the Moon Shadow family, or at least deal a major blow to their core members, then at least half of the final battle will be won.
The remaining half is still in the time-related ceremony, and since this does not involve the abyss, the divine envoy may not be able to help, and mortals in the main plane need to deal with it on their own.
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Yongle City.
Sha Duo, who was meditating with his eyes closed in the Time Acceleration Array, suddenly relaxed his eyebrows and thought of a way to crack the last chain encryption element of the Illuminati's excited state weapon.
Since the time acceleration array can only affect a limited area, and the energy density of the magic network is also limited, most spell experiments cannot be conducted in the time acceleration array, because the acceleration time will reduce the energy density of the magic network.
Of course, this is when only the Magic Network function is used. If the researchers can provide energy by themselves, or even conduct experiments without the help of the Magic Network, there will be no impact at all.
However, Xia Duo still chose to leave the time acceleration circle. No matter how he avoided it, there were differences between the environment inside and outside the circle. In the end, he still had to return to the normal environment for verification. Now he just went a step further and conducted experiments directly in the normal environment.
The accelerated development of time is more suitable for simple thinking or calculation. It is best to be cautious in all matters involving realistic elements.
Sha Duo prepared all the materials required for the experiment in the time acceleration array, then paused the array and returned to the real time and space of the laboratory.
Then, he carefully took out the excited state magic weapon that had been stripped down to only a small part of its core elements. Of course, it is somewhat inappropriate to call it an excited state magic weapon now.
Because the magic weapon at this moment is no longer in the excited state, Xia Duo analyzed it so far. If he can't even do this, it would be a failure. More than a year in the time acceleration circle is not idle talk.
There is only one last chain encryption element, which connects almost all the magic elements and affects the whole body. As long as this last lock is unlocked, the true face of this Illuminati magic weapon will be revealed.
When he thought that he could use this magic weapon to find a way to counter the Illuminati's time-related rituals, Xia Duo's breathing became a little rapid, but the more critical the moment, the more he had to deal with it calmly.
He took a deep breath and exhaled it slowly. His eyes had become extremely calm. At the same time, he began to bridge the external elements of the last part of the magic weapon. This is a common method when cracking the magic weapon.
Sha Duo has used this method since he first came into contact with magic weapon cracking. The advantage is that he can find out all the magic elements involved in the target magic weapon just like peeling off the cocoon.
The shortcomings are also obvious. This is close to brute force cracking, similar to the decompilation process of programs on earth——
From the binary code that cannot be hidden at all under normal circumstances (the change of the magic network string), it is transformed into a readable instruction (spell element), and then the specific process of the program, variables, functions, etc. (combination of spell elements) are deduced from the instruction.
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Once restored, it is a complete program (spell or magic weapon).
This process may also involve encryption, which is even more complicated, but the idea is the same. As long as you work hard, you can always crack it.
There are almost no spells or magic weapons in this world that cannot be broken.
Of course, the Illuminati's magical weapons are no exception. The only drawback is that the sample size is too small. If Xia is given more than ten or twenty identical magical weapons, he can shorten the time by more than ten times.
The isolated sample limited too many available methods. Fortunately, everything has passed, and the true face of this magical weapon will eventually be exposed to Sha Duo.
As Xia Duo cast a spell to artificially remove an inconspicuous spell element in the magic weapon, without any surprise, the external bridge component successfully replaced that element!
"Exactly as I predicted!"
Having reached this point, Xia Duo can even say that he understands this magic weapon better than the Illuminati members who originally made it. Of course, this is limited to the elemental composition of the magic weapon, not its specific functions.
The specific functions need to be further tested to determine, but the most difficult work has been completed, and testing the functions is just a casual matter.