Arcane Lord

Soon, two days passed in a flash, and Rodit and others once again came to the ruins of the mage tower in the forest south of Zenis.

They were even more prepared for this exploration. In addition to more and more sophisticated spiritual talismans, they also followed Sha Duo's suggestions and prepared a number of magic items for lighting.

As for Abner, who was unconscious due to a sneak attack by a mysterious creature the day before yesterday, he was not absent this time. After inspection by the glorious chief priest of the Seventon Temple, Abner only had a shock to his consciousness and was not seriously injured.

Of course, such a pretty good result was possible thanks to the two spiritual amulets hanging around Abner's neck. If not, the situation might have been completely different.

In the square in front of the Mage Tower.

Rodit and others consciously cast force field spells to block a wider range here. Starting from one point, they continued to expand and advance toward the periphery, until they completely covered a large area outside the entrance of the mage tower.

Afterwards, without Shado's reminder, Rodit activated a crystal ball-shaped magic item with hundreds of facets.

Almost instantly, the square illuminated only by hazy light and mist became brighter, and bright light groups flew out from the surface of the crystal ball and dispersed in a matrix form above the heads of everyone.

In this case, there is naturally no space for shadows.

"Lord Shado, what do you think of this dazzling orb? I brought four of them! It can even completely illuminate the inside of the mage tower!"

"It's a good magic weapon. It should be able to isolate the influence of the shadow plane." Sharing information through the spiritual link, Sha Duo couldn't help but praise it.

Among all the alien planes, only the shadow plane exists within the material plane, or is symbiotic with the material plane, and its connection is much closer than that of the etheric plane or the astral plane.

If it weren't for the fact that many adults have a tacit understanding of supporting shadow assassins, the alien plane that Nese Mage is easiest to contact and understand should be the shadow plane.

Most of Sha Duo's understanding of the shadow plane came from the [Projection Plane·Dark Area], and those drow are the experts in using shadows.

Of course, the Nese mages in the main plane, especially those with extraordinary backgrounds, definitely have a good understanding of the shadow plane.

Otherwise, it would not be the case that Xia Duo only mentioned multiple light sources, and Rodit prepared multiple lighting instruments with the "shadowless lamp" effect.

This obviously means knowing how to deal with shadow creatures!

Xia Duo even suspected that this special lighting instrument called [Dazzling Sphere] also had the effect of isolating shadows and inhibiting shadow creatures and even shadow assassins!

You must know that ordinary shadow creatures can only approach the target through connected shadows, but Shado himself learned the [Shadow Jump] spell in the Underdark.

Simply using a "shadowless lamp" to isolate shadows and prevent shadow creatures is not safe. What if shadow creatures or shadow assassins can also perform shadow jumps and jump out directly from under their feet to attack?

However, Xia Duo did not deliberately inquire about anything, not to mention that he himself had mastered the method of guarding against the shadow assassins. Rodit was still in the spiritual link with him, and it was inevitable that some inner thoughts would be revealed during the exploration.

As a lighting instrument that requires constant control, the relevant details of the [Dazzling Artifact], as long as Rodit knows about it, will almost certainly be known to Sha Duo through a spiritual link.

In fact, if Sha Duo was not able to parse subconscious information and control his subconscious information to a certain extent, he would never be willing to share the link with others.

It’s just too easy to leak secrets.

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When I came to the Mage Tower twice before, the entrance was a stone sliding door that was half open, but it was almost like a dark vortex.

From the outside, you can only vaguely see some of the internal situation, but it is not detailed.

But this time, with Rodit's [Dazzling Sphere] lighting, the originally dark entrance became almost transparent, and the situation inside the Mage Tower was also revealed at the entrance in the form of a projection.

The day before yesterday, Shado had seen the situation inside the mage tower through the perspective of Rodit and others, and now comparing it with the image displayed at the entrance, he suddenly felt like operating a copy of the game character. (wow copy door~)

The image was nothing else, just the change of light and shadow caused by the internal connection or even overlap between the shadow plane and the mage tower, similar to the feeling of looking into the distance through the twisted hot air above the flames.

It's just that the image of the shadow plane does not cause the picture to be distorted, but the degree of light and darkness becomes more significant, so that a sense of illusory projection appears.

After entering the mage tower, the interior is just like what we saw the day before yesterday. It is a hall similar to a banquet hall.

The size is almost seven or eight times the cross-section of the Mage Tower. There are walls and portals around it, and it obviously has the same space folding effect as the Tower of Time.

There are many stones scattered in the hall that are obviously broken from a certain whole, as well as the remains of wooden furniture that have long decayed and only have a little shape left.

Xia Duo even found a dusty dinner plate in a corner. It was pressed under a stone and bent at almost 90 degrees, but it still retained its general shape.

Upon closer inspection, there are quite a few metal objects like dinner plates around.

Perhaps because the dimensional bag cannot be used normally in this ruins that overlaps with the etheric plane, it cannot carry so many things.

Or maybe the relic hunters under Rodit didn't look down on these things at all, and just took away some of what they considered to be fine products.

Xia Duo felt that the latter was more likely, because the hall was full of signs of rummaging, and some things were obviously picked up first and then thrown away.

A serious accident may have occurred in this mage tower, but the overall state of the mage tower is still relatively complete. Whether it still looks like a tower from the outside (with damage) or the internal space is still relatively stable in a folded state, this shows that point.

Of course, the impact of the accident that was suspected to be the failure of the demiplane experiment has penetrated into almost every corner of the ruins.

As for the entrance hall, although it looks dilapidated at first glance, it is ordinary. But as long as you look up, you can realize that the impact of the accident is everywhere.

There is no material dome above the hall, but a huge pale screen like the one at the edge of the foggy area outside, with occasional colorful shimmers.

The reason why it is a huge pale screen is just because Rodit and others are extremely far above. If they were close, it would be the same as the hazy haze around Rodit and others that does not have a strong sense of presence at the moment.