Chapter 3417 The value of intuition and the boundaries of material elements
There are two difficulties -
First, the Elam region itself is quite large, and no one knows the specific location of the Underdark Passage, so they can only investigate it one by one. Even with geological experience, the workload of investigation is still quite huge.
Secondly, the Illuminati will definitely not allow the Alliance to easily find their location, and they will definitely cover up or mislead the key passages in the Underdark.
When these two difficulties are combined, it becomes almost impossible to find the Underdark passage in the Elam region in a short time.
Now on the Elam ground, the Elam army originally stationed here is already searching inch by inch, but the efficiency is pitifully low and the progress is pitiful. The area of nearly two square meters cannot be filled by any number of soldiers.
What's more, not all soldiers are good at spells, let alone detecting spells.
So now, it is impossible for Xia Duo to come and challenge in person.
He used [Wide Area Detection] as soon as he came up. The Missing Robe was indeed more advanced than Yongle City, but the [Wide Area Detection] spell itself was no different. It was like writing 1+1 with atoms and directly unloading the paper.
1+1, there cannot be two different results.
As long as the specific implementation plan of the war spell [Wide Area Detection] does not change, no matter what carrier it is loaded on, the effect will be the same. However, because it is loaded on a single-player magic weapon, the actual operation will be more complicated than that of multiple people in Yongle City.
The operation is more complex.
But no matter what, as a war spell attached to a single-person magic weapon, it is still stronger than the spells cast by any individual spellcaster.
In terms of detection, although Xia Duo came here alone, the data fed back by [Wide Area Detection] can still be synchronized to the Lingsi network for other mages to analyze.
He himself plays more of a detector role. Originally, he could also control the robe of longing to detect the Elam area at the alliance headquarters. [Wide Area Detection] has an effective range of very large, enough to cover the Elam area.
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But he still came in person.
Mainly I want to feel it for myself. The subconscious mind of intelligent creatures has an almost miraculous ability to process sensory information, and thus things like [intuition] and [inspiration] were born.
Just looking at the feedback data of wide-area detection, this spell itself does not process the data, and still requires the caster to analyze and summarize.
Since spell feedback is different from the feedback of the caster's own perception ability, although the former contains more information, covers a wider range of dimensions, and has higher accuracy, it is still a machine after all.
Before a sufficiently good data analysis algorithm is established, the caster's own [intuition] may sometimes be more effective.
Chateau does not blindly believe in intuition. In many cases, he does not even believe in intuition at all. Instead, he will directly trace the subconscious information to the root, but he also has to admit the value of intuition.
Especially in the current situation, having intuition is better than not having any intuition. It feels like a dead horse being treated as a living horse doctor. This is the main reason why he came to Elam in person.
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After debugging various parameters of [Wide Area Detection], Xia Duo will no longer take care of it. All feedback data will be synchronized to the alliance mages behind, including experts in the field of geology and even elf mages who have personally been to the Underdark.
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Of course, this kind of work requires dwarves who work with the land and rocks all year round. In fact, in this analysis, dwarf mages are the main force. They can analyze the possible location of the Underdark passage from the geological trend.
Thereby breaking through the disguise or misinformation that the Illuminati may have set up.
After confirming that [Wide Area Detection] was in an activated state, Sha Duo found a suitable place in Elan based on his feeling, and used the [Stone Walking Technique] learned in the dark area of the projection plane to transform into earth and stone, and continue to dive underground.
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The total area of the Elam region is nearly 20,000 square miles, which can be roughly equal to a rectangle with a length of 200 new miles and a width of 100 new miles. It may not seem particularly large, but if this distance is placed underground, it is quite deep.
You must know that the deepest mine on earth is only more than 4,000 meters, and it is just a shaft that gets smaller and smaller as you go down.
As for the depth of the Underdark, the shallowest layer is generally several thousand meters underground (a new meter is approximately equal to a meter, and a new rio is approximately equal to a kilometer, and Chateau compared the unit of weights and measures established by comparing one meter in perception).
In other words, the smallest span of 100 new miles in the Elam region, if it goes down, is enough to reach the dark area, but can the detection difficulty of one thousand meters underground be equal to that of one thousand meters on the surface?
Obviously not.
Underground, there is not only the barrier of the earth itself, but also the ubiquitous earth vein radiation, which is mixed in the background fluctuations of the magic network. This radiation is different from the radiation in the dark area. Its characteristics are not obvious and ordinary people cannot sense it at all.
Especially on the surface, even in the area where the ley line nodes are located, you can hardly feel any ley line radiation. But underground, it is different. The deeper you go underground, the stronger the presence of ley line radiation is.
Perhaps this is why Archangel Rich believes that the radiation from the Underdark is a special type of leyline radiation.
It can be seen that the difficulty of detecting the underground world is definitely not comparable to that of the surface or high altitude. If underground detection can be fully understood, it may not be far from the magical civilization's ability to penetrate the essence of the plane.
There is a saying on earth, which is actually a fact, that is -
The so-called deepest mine on earth has not even penetrated the surface of the earth, and is said to have penetrated the earth's core.
This kind of thing is similar in the magical world. The Underdark is almost infinitely deep. Of course, this is just a description. The shallowest Underdark is about a few thousand meters below the surface, and the deepest one may not be able to reach hundreds of miles.
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So far, no mage has actually gone to the deepest part of the Underdark. Often, after reaching a certain depth, either the way forward is cut off or they fall into eternal silence. Not only is there a lack of survival supplies such as food, water, and light sources, but also
Even the magic network will change and become insignificant, but this is still not the limit of the Underdark.
Even if you reach the deepest part of the Underdark, which is equivalent to the entire underground world of the main plane, it may only be a superficial layer.
However, with Xia Duo's current research on the plane field, he can still make a certain judgment as to what the deepest state of the underground world is.
It is roughly similar to the extremely deep and even undetectable depths of ocean trenches. In those places, the form of elements is no longer limited to matter or energy, but is in an intermediate state.
In other words, it is the surface of the real elemental plane.
Just like flying from the surface to high altitude, after breaking through that layer of plane barrier, you will enter the "boundary between existence and non-existence", and continuing outward, you will reach pure nothingness, which is the so-called "ethereal layer".
Or the surface of the etheric plane.
In the same way, it can be inferred that if the boundary between matter and elements goes a little further toward the elements, it should be the surface of the elemental plane.