Arcane Lord

The etheric plane.

After constant investigation and confirmation, Sha Duo finally chose an unnamed wilderness. Compared with other places, the etheric mist in this area is extremely thin. Perhaps this is not a good place for native creatures in the etheric plane.

This is indeed the case. There is almost no living thing in this nameless wilderness. Only a few half-dead and strange-shaped dead trees exist alone, adding the last trace of life to this wilderness.

But because the etheric mist is thin, this area is very suitable for Shado to peek into the main plane. Of course, correspondingly, it is easier to see here from the main plane.

It's just that the area corresponding to the main plane of this area is on the sea. It has to be an intelligent creature with strong perception passing by there, in order to see the scene of Sha Duo summoning the floating city by chance.

Even if he was seen, it would be impossible to associate it with the Sluvende battlefield at that time, so Xia Duo simply did not do anything to cover it up, and the actual covering effect was not ideal.

It may be able to hide it from observers on the etheric plane, but for observers on the main plane, it is not observation and perception in the usual sense. There is also the role of planes, which is difficult to hide with ordinary magic.

Legends of ghosts are popular all over Netheril. Except for some that are indeed tricks caused by spellcasters, many are scenes from the ethereal plane seen by people with strong perception.

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After everything was ready, Xia Duo sent a signal directly to the [Azure Plane] without performing any special rituals, and at the same time passed on the real-time coordinates of this area.

The "fluidity" of the etheric plane far exceeds that of the material plane. If there are no anchor coordinates with the corresponding material plane, the coordinates in the actual plane will not be long-term.

In fact, Xia Duo has not studied it specifically how long it can exist and what the rules are for its changes. He just knows this and pays attention to it when he needs to use the coordinates in the etheric plane.

But for this kind of research involving the nature of planes, the Tower of Time will definitely set up related topics in the future.

For about half a minute, Xia Duo monitored the plane link signal, and what followed was the sharp ups and downs and oscillations of the magic network. This is far less attractive than the material plane in the etheric plane where perception itself is blocked by the etheric fog. Attention.

Even in this nameless wilderness with sparse fog, the interdimensional movement from the floating city did not bring much hustle and bustle to this long-silent wilderness.

No, there should still be some. Just as the floating city was about to "surface", Xia Duo noticed that a group of leap beasts had appeared in the wilderness at some point.

On a small hill below the place where the floating city was about to arrive, a short and exciting neighing sound was heard in the sky that was still empty for the time being.

"This this--"

Although some unexpected jump beasts arrived, what Sha Duo was thinking about at the moment was not the jump beasts themselves, but whether these delicious little guys regarded the floating city as a "super jump beast"!

It's not impossible. From the perspective of the process of entering the etheric plane, neither the spell caster nor the floating city is fundamentally different from the leap beast.

The reason why the casters failed to attract the leap beasts was probably because they were too small in size and completed the teleportation at once. Even if there were leap beasts at the scene at the time, the casters would instinctively sense something was wrong when they saw a leap beast that was different from themselves.

Unlike the floating city, which has a long preparatory work, and the movement is so loud, it is indeed possible to attract jump beasts that are sensitive to plane transmission signals.

However, Xia Duo believes that when the floating city appears, those little guys will find that they are not the same kind, but an "abyss maw" that will eat them.

Xia Duo loves the meat of warp beasts so much that he has long wanted to set up a breeding farm at the Ether Forward Base of the Arcane Federation. Unfortunately, he has been busy with various affairs recently and has forgotten about it. Now he sees warp beasts coming to his door on his own initiative. .

It would be a thunderbolt if I could miss this.

These little guys—according to their size, they should actually be big guys, but calling them little guys is more affectionate—are too flexible. If they were not in the special overlapping plane environment of the Aether Advance Base, even Shado would not be able to do it. I'm sure you'll be able to catch a few of them in a sudden encounter.

At the moment, Xia Duo is indeed not prepared for the relevant arrests. A rash attack at this time may scare these delicious little guys away, but when the floating city arrives, these little guys will not be able to escape even if they want to.

Thinking like this, the next moment the magic net in front of Xia Duo seemed to collapse, and it seemed as if the sea suddenly parted in all directions, and a huge azure spherical object appeared in the sky above the wilderness without warning.

Suspended silently, as if it had been there from the beginning.

Next, as Xia Duo expected, the group of jumping beasts screaming excitedly on the hills on the ground saw this scene, and they suddenly became silent, and then scattered and wanted to stay away.

Unfortunately, under the [Wide Area Restriction], none of them could escape. Xia Duo did not expect that the first time the Floating City went on a mission and the first time it used war spells externally, the target would be a group of leap beasts.

"The Sword Comes"

But no matter how high or low the method is, it only needs to be effective. The success of the war spell in the first battle also gave Xia Duo a little more confidence in the next "peacekeeping operation".

In the Arcane Garden of the Floating City, which is actually the planting area near the outermost layer, Xia Duo also used [Wide Area Restriction] to set up two temporary confinement areas here and threw the group of leap beasts in.

Of course, by the way, he also found a "temporary settlement" for Naris, who was kidnapped by him just now.

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Floating city, residential area.

After Xia Duo summoned the floating city, he remembered that the first student he had accepted not long ago, Jie Yin, was still here. In order to avoid sudden changes in the plane environment causing panic to the other party, he came here specially.

In a community square in a residential area, Xia Duo saw Jie Yin, who was immersed in a small desk and doing homework. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but laugh at himself. He was wasting his time worrying about this only student.

I didn't expect this guy to be completely unaware of the changes in the outside world, but now that he's here, Xia Duo naturally wants to check it out.

"Jie Yin!"

"ah?"

When Jie Yin heard the voice, he raised his head blankly and looked in the direction of the voice. He suddenly showed an expression of surprise, stood up and replied: "Teacher! Why are you here!"

"Come here to see you and check your study progress over the past two days."

"oh!"

Jie Yin responded, and quickly pulled out a thick stack of test papers from under the desk, and trotted over to Xia Duo. Counted.

"I will keep the test papers for now and wait for them to be approved. But I can tell you some things now!"

"Teacher, please tell me——"

"Arcane geometry and magic principles should be paid special attention to. This is related to how far you can go in the future. Of course, if you are only satisfied with tinkering with some gadgets, you can also simply learn it, but in the future you may It’s just another Siole.”

Siore is an intermediate mage from the Tower of Time. He is curious about all kinds of things, but he is curious about the things themselves, not the principles behind them.

Although Sha Duo promoted the transformation of the Tower of Time and began to replenish the foundation, many things are often lost and difficult to get back.

Today's Siole, it may not be difficult to become a high-level mage, but it may not be so easy to successfully advance to the level of arcanist, let alone reach the end of the magic network.

After all, late bloomers are still in the minority.