Arcane Lord

A moment later, a series of hurried footsteps came from far away. Xia Duo put away his notes and looked at the people who came. It was the father and son Jabbas and Bok.

"Lord! Jabas is late!"

"It's not too late, it's just in time!" Shado didn't care that the two of them were late. He pointed to the raised hand of the scale creature on the statue and said to Jabbas——

"Let me ask you, when you were digging, did you find anything in the statue's hand?"

"No!"

Jabas said with great certainty, "Sir, all the things that have been excavated in the ruins so far, except for some fragile clay tablets that are difficult to move, are all here!"

"Just this statue?"

"right!"

Jabas's answer made Shado a little silent. This ruins was really different from what he imagined. Could it really become academic archeology?

After thinking for a while, Xia Duo asked again:

"Based on your experience, how big is the scope of this ruins?"

"this--"

Jabas suddenly raised his head and looked at Xia Duo, seeming hesitant. Xia Duo couldn't help laughing when he saw this, "Jabas, just say it, don't have any psychological burden, how can I blame you for this kind of thing!"

"Sir, it's all my fault, I shouldn't worry about you so much!" Jabbas suddenly became frightened again.

Even if a long-time veteran adventurer expresses fear, how true can it be? Xia Duo doesn't want to go around like this, "Okay, I don't know you yet! Tell me about the situation of the ruins!"

"Yes Yes!"

Jabas nodded quickly, "Sir, judging from the current excavations, this ruins is only about a hundred meters wide at most, but based on my experience, I speculate that there should be other ruins nearby!"

"oh?"

Finally, he had some useful information. Looking at the unattractive Jabbas, Sha Duo nodded silently in his mind and continued to ask, "Where did you see it?"

"Sir, I found traces of a trail deep in the ruins, but this area seems to have undergone severe geological changes in the past. One end of the trail goes straight deep into the ground, while the other end twists diagonally to the southeast."

While explaining, Jabas also used a dagger to draw an imaginary map of the ruins on the ground. He pointed to the southeast line and gave a more conservative guess——

"You may not be able to find the ruins underground, but if nothing unexpected happens, you should still be able to find another ruins in the southeast. As for what can be found in the ruins, I'm not sure."

That's it!

Xia Duo was a little hesitant about whether to continue to excavate the ruins. Obviously, these ruins were much older than the elves. It was not an exaggeration to say they were ancient ruins.

But, can treasures be found in ancient ruins?

Not to mention treasures, valuable things may not be found. There is only one statue in this ruins that is of some value, and the others are like the clay tablets Jabbas just mentioned.

Shado had previously obtained several pieces from the Troll's Lair. Apart from some long-lost texts, there were only some simple arcane geometric figures on them.

If those unknown texts are explaining those arcane geometric figures, it can almost be said that those clay tablets have no value.

After all, if you are looking for arcane geometry information, there are ready-made ones in the Tower of Time Library, but they are much more advanced than those on those clay tablets.

If not, it is actually not of much value. What is really valuable is the unknown text.

If that kind of writing can be deciphered, we may be able to find more records of that unknown writing in the future, and thus translate some content that may be very advanced compared to now.

But Xia Duo is not good at deciphering words. This can only be regarded as an accumulation. In the future, he may be able to find a suitable decipherer.

After thinking about it, Xia Duo found that the so-called ancient ruins were somewhat useless. Now it was up to him to see if this statue could make him change his mind.

After thinking this way, Xia Duo made a decision:

"Let's completely clear out this ruins first. As for the southeast direction, there is no need to dig for the time being, but you can do some basic exploration first and wait for my order!"

"yes!"

…

After Jabas and his son left, Shado walked around the statue a few more times, then gritted his teeth and put his hand on the surface of the statue.

Almost without any warning, the three-meter-tall statue disappeared in an instant, and at this moment, Xia Duo breathed a sigh of relief.

Even if he knew that Bishop Ambril could lift the petrification and that Jabas had no side effects after lifting the petrification, Shado was not willing to experience the feeling of being petrified.

The next step was to return to the Tower of Time and put down the statue for further research, but at this time Shado couldn't avoid his footsteps!

The portable space exists in his consciousness. In other words, any changes in the portable space cannot escape his consciousness.

Originally, objects in the space required a little concentration to be perceived, but after this statue was placed in the portable space, it immediately caused the expansion of the portable space!

If Xia Duo cannot detect such a change, then his consciousness is too slow!

In fact, Xia Duo not only discovered that space is expanding, but also knew what caused space to expand!

It was not the statue itself, but a mysterious existence hidden inside the statue. Even with Xia Duo's home field advantage, he was unable to detect what that thing was.

I only know that it is an intangible and qualityless thing. Xia Duo can only perceive its existence and cannot make further judgments, or it is too late to make further judgments.

After the existence flew out of the statue, it exploded instantly. Literally, a miniature plane prototype was exploded, and then it was annihilated in an instant.

At the same time, the portable space continued to expand, until it expanded to about 35 cubic meters. Compared with before, it was almost half the size at once!

At this time, the expression on Xia Duo's face was extremely exciting. On the one hand, he saw the process of creation and annihilation of planes. Even if the time was very short, it might play a very important role in his research on planes in the future.

On the other hand, regarding the expansion of the portable space, so far, the only thing that Xia Duo has discovered that can expand the portable space is arcane crystals.

Wouldn't it be more convenient if there was one more thing?

The most important thing is that the latter costs almost nothing, as long as he keeps digging, maybe once he digs out a large ruins, hundreds of statues are placed there, waiting for him to collect them!

Thinking of this, Shado didn't care about letting Jabas leave just now, and directly used the flying technique. When Jabas was about to reach the demonstration field, he stopped him:

"Jabas, new order. After the existing ruins are cleared, continue digging in the southeast direction. If there are not enough manpower, just tell Jeff and I will ask him to leave someone for you!"

"Yes, Lord Lord!"

Although he didn’t understand why the lord suddenly became so eager, Jabas had been an adventurer all his life and naturally knew what to ask and what not to ask.