Arcane Lord

Zenith.

In the spiritual link, Shaduo constantly patrolled this important trading town through the perspective of Rodit and others. Compared to Harbor Harbor, which was only in name, Zenis truly lived up to its reputation.

The entire town probably exists for trade. Even though the climate has begun to warm up, it is still in the cold winter, and the frozen roads and snow have not yet begun to thaw.

But the place is still bustling with people, and there are busy businessmen everywhere, especially at the entrance of the underground passage, where there are two long queues.

There were not only caravans wanting to go to Ascor, but also those returning from Ascor.

Most of these businessmen's faces were filled with bright smiles, and only a few looked sad, as if they had suffered huge losses.

Perhaps Shado's desire to observe was so strong that it was reflected in the spiritual link and was sensed by Rodit and others. After leaving the Crescent Tower, they made a special trip around Zenis City.

However, Zenis was neither too small nor too big. Soon Rodit and others left the town and entered the southern peninsula corridor.

Zenis is located on the edge of a peninsula that goes deep into the Western Narrow Sea. The ruins that Rodit and others are going to are still deep in the forest south of the Zenis Peninsula.

When the [Scroll of Neserite] was first discovered, it was kept in Zenis. At that time, spellcasters from all over Netheril gathered here and began to study the scroll of Netherese.

A single peninsula obviously cannot meet the needs of all kinds of weird experiments, especially for some large-scale experiments, such as demiplanes, and a safe place must be chosen.

Before the Mage Tower was even invented, the only option was to do it in the wild.

To this day, there are still many undiscovered relics from the Discovery Era in the forests south of the Zenis Peninsula, and this has also attracted many adventurers and professional relic hunters.

The era of the ruins discovered by Rodit's ruin hunters may have been a long time after the discovery of the Nese Scroll. At least there was already something similar to a mage tower there.

If you want to build a mage tower in the wild, if you don't want to mobilize a large number of troops, you must have multiple high-level mages working together.

But in the elven magic system, there were not many elite mages in Netheril who were similar to the high-level mages of the Netherese magic system before the Netherese scroll was discovered!

This can only be said that in the era where the target ruins are located this time, the Nese magic system has begun to take shape, and at least many high-level mages can be born. (Man-made tower-shaped construction will leave many traces. In this case, the ruins may have been discovered long ago and would not wait until now)

…

In terms of traveling, there was no need for Sha Duo to command. After entering the forest, Rodit naturally took out the group flight scroll from the dimensional bag and blessed everyone. At the same time, he explained to Sha Duo in the spiritual link:

"Zhenis' Crescent Tower can monitor a large area. There is too much movement here, so it's better to stay away to be on the safe side."

Sha Duo knew in his heart that Rodit was probably somewhat on guard against him, otherwise they could have used the teleportation circle of the watch tower to teleport to the vicinity of the ruins.

The teleportation array is not just a teleportation device used to pair with other teleportation arrays. It can also directly set specific coordinates for transmission, and can also receive individual transmissions from non-teleportation arrays.

The transmission with the help of the teleportation circle is much more reliable than the caster's own casting. Of course, the maintenance cost of such a good thing must be high. On average, the maintenance cost is at least 5 or 600 gold coins every time it is used.

The teleportation circle on the Arcane Federation's side costs 1,000 gold coins to be used once.

But it is obvious that Rodit and others cannot afford the usage fee of the teleportation circle. Instead, they use the teleportation circle, which will expose the location of the ruins.

Shado even thought about what method of transmission Rodit would use later, and thought that Rodit's invitation to command through the spiritual link was partly due to confidentiality considerations.

Sure enough, after Rodit and his team flew in the forest for a while, they landed on the ground. Then Rodit took out a scroll from the dimensional bag.

Expanding and stimulating in front of everyone, a circular portal that shimmers like a hazy mirror appears around everyone.

Through the portal, everyone could vaguely see a fog and the shadow of tall buildings in the fog, and Sha Duo also saw all this through the spiritual link.

Indeed, as he expected, Rodit did not cast spells to teleport directly, but used teleportation props prepared in advance.

At this time, whether it was Xia Duo who was far away on Watch Island, or the five people present, including Rodit, they were all in the same spiritual link.

So when we get to the ruins, no matter who wants to detect the coordinates, they can't hide it from Xia Duo. Of course, others will also notice it.

At least it will be easier to expose than without a spiritual link.

As for Xia Duo, although he was the behind-the-scenes commander of this exploration operation, he was actually beyond his reach, and he was unable to spy on the specific location of the ruins.

At least it is difficult to obtain the location of the ruins through pure magic.

Shado has no doubt that if he casts a detection spell on Rodit and others now, it is very likely that he will fall into the hands of Rodit's father, the thunder mage Myne Collins.

As a senior arcanist, Shado didn't think that he would be able to surpass Rodit's father in terms of magic, especially in the fields of detection and counter-detection.

Sure enough, the second generation is great!

If it were Sha Duo himself, when he was still a high-level mage, he would definitely not dare to invite a senior arcanist to explore the ruins together in this way.

It doesn’t matter that there are no good things in the ruins. If there really is something good that can make even a senior arcanist’s heart beat, isn’t it because life and death depend on other people’s thoughts?

…

"This is the portal my father prepared for our exploration." For this reason, Rodit also specially explained.

"Is the ruins located behind the portal?" Xia Duo asked through the spiritual link.

"Yes, after passing through the portal, you will directly enter the fog outside the ruins. The ruins are more like a three-layer world. If you enter from outside the ruins, it will take time to walk through the fog to the mage tower. a long time."

As if to support this statement, Rodit revealed some information about this ruins, "Outside this ruins is a small Langas tribe.

"Many Langas people have entered the fog in the past, but few people can come out alive. This is because the space in the fog seems to have been greatly expanded, and the fog itself blocks the vision, and it has become that small tribe. In the forbidden land, some Langas who made big mistakes were often exiled into the mist by the tribal elders.

“Around the Midsummer Festival last year, when my team of ruin hunters were searching for ruins near here, they accidentally encountered a Langas man who escaped from the fog. After questioning, he learned about the existence of the ruins.

"But it is a pity that even if ordinary people carry many magic props, it is difficult to fully explore such ruins, so we have this exploration."

This was the first time that Rodit introduced the discovery process of the ruins in more detail, which made Sha Duo unable to help but waver in his previous guesses.

Maybe Rodit didn't deliberately hide the location of the ruins. After all, "Langas Tribe + Mist" can easily find out a lot of information.

Furthermore, the characteristics of the mist are difficult to conceal, as long as everyone passes through the portal.

Xia Duo reminded everyone in the spiritual link, "Now that the portal has been opened, hurry up and enter the ruins!"

"good."

Several active consciousness messages were given in succession.