Arcane Lord

"If you come with me, you need to follow my instructions and perform auxiliary operations when I am trying. If you choose to retreat and wait outside, it will not affect the distribution of the final harvest, but it will be safer."

Xia Duo prefers Rodit and others to join him. After all, the situation here is very complicated, and having several high-level mages to assist him will be more conducive to his cracking work.

As for distribution, he had an agreement with Rodit, sharing text and knowledge between the two parties, and he would get half of the materials.

If he didn't come in person, this agreement would be more fair, but when he came in person, the situation changed.

Because the knowledge shared by both parties only includes the physical knowledge carriers obtained from the ruins, and does not include the knowledge that Xia Duo obtained by himself through knowledge and experience beyond their own.

Putting the strong and the weak on the playing field with the same rules may seem fair, but in fact, the strong always gain more. This situation is often called the "Matthew effect in which the strong get stronger" on earth.

Therefore, the strong are actually more willing to maintain order and fairness than the weak, because this order and fairness themselves are more beneficial to them. (There is no need to deliberately formulate rules that benefit the strong. As long as they are fair, the strong will become stronger and stronger. There are occasional exceptions, but they do not affect the general trend.)

Xia Duo was present in person, so he naturally didn't mind showing more tolerance and generosity. After all, no matter what treasures the ruins could eventually yield, he had already obtained almost everything he deserved.

…

After listening to Xia Duo's explanation, Rodit suddenly felt moved, but after all, he could not let go of the on-site teaching of a senior arcanist. Even though his father was also a senior arcanist, people sometimes care about people other than their relatives. Outsiders care more.

Rodit wanted to follow Sha Duo, and it was naturally difficult for others to refuse, especially Abner and Frank. They were basically nannies found for him by Rodit's father, and they would not be separated from Rodit at all.

After everyone made their decision, Xia Duo no longer delayed, quickly passed through the force field channel left by Rodit and others to isolate unknown etheric creatures, and headed to the next elemental pool fusion area.

In this way, one after another, Sha Duo quickly saw all six unexplored areas left by Rex and the others, and the fusion of element pools in four of them was normal.

For the other two, the protection systems there have become chaotic and collapsed, and their integration with the element pool is also in an unstable state. It seems that an element dumping accident may occur at any time.

In addition to the six unexplored areas left by Rex and other ruin hunters, this time Sha Duo came in person and discovered several areas hidden in the etheric mist.

And in those areas, the chaotic scene after the collapse of the fusion state of the element pool and the protection system was found.

It seems that after the experimental accident, the owner here also tried to save himself, integrating the elemental pool with the protection systems of several important areas through some unknown means to Shado.

But unfortunately, the owner here did not wait for rescue. Hundreds of years passed, and in the end, only four of those fusion areas were left.

Except for the suspected warehouse area integrated with the fire element pool and the suspected library area integrated with the water element pool, the remaining two areas are private residences.

Most of the other integrated areas that are close to collapse and have already collapsed are also private residences.

"I wonder if there are ancient Nese mages still alive in those two private residence areas?"

…

After some investigation, Xia Duo and others finally came to the fusion area suspected of being a library. The reason why they judged this area to be a library and not something else was naturally because it was semi-open.

After passing through a corridor that has nearly half collapsed, you have entered the library. A total of twelve bookshelves in six double rows are clearly visible.

But unfortunately, only the four bookshelves near the door were still intact. The further inside, the collapsed stones from above almost completely buried the eight bookshelves.

In addition to the piles of rocks further away, there was an increasingly thick ether fog. Under such circumstances, Xia Duo quickly judged whether there would be more bookshelves deeper down.

Of course, even if there is, it is actually difficult to discover.

However, the four bookshelves near the door can still be salvaged.

…

"Lord Shado, what do you need us to do?" Rodit asked.

"Let me think."

After seeing more than a dozen elemental pool fusion areas that were either relatively stable, nearly collapsed, or completely collapsed, Sha Duo became even more curious about this mage tower and its owner at the time.

He originally thought that the elemental pool was individually integrated with the protection system of a certain area, such as a single fire elemental pool that was individually integrated with the protection system of the warehouse area.

But looking at it in reality, he found that the truth was not what he thought.

The warehouse, library, and the other two areas of the mage tower and the mage's private residence do show certain elemental tendencies, but after comprehensively analyzing the status of the elemental pools and magic nets in these four areas, Xia Duo easily came up with a in conclusion--

The four-element pool of this mage tower is still very complete. The so-called relatively stable, nearly collapsed or complete collapse is only the fusion state, not the element pool itself.

If it is in a intact state, all fusion areas should not show any elemental tendencies, let alone any elements escaping.

And this also makes Xia Duo's previous speculation on the fusion state of the element pool more inclined to a special structure in space and some unknown energy transfer method to a certain extent.

Rather than a true projection of the element pool.

If it is just a single element pool projection fusion, it is difficult to explain the very close connection behind these four regions with stable fusion states.

Xia Duo can roughly infer——

After a serious demiplane experiment accident, the owner of the Mage Tower considered that the element pool itself was far away from the areas that needed to be protected, and there were more variables in the accident situation, so he used some means to move the location of the element pool to the ten elements at the same time. Multiple important areas are connected together, and the elemental pools directly power the protection systems of these areas.

This series of operations need to be completed within a short period of time after the experimental accident occurs.

Xia Duo was really curious as to who the owner of this mage tower was. His ability was definitely no less than that of a senior arcanist.

But why is there no record of him?

There is also the folding space inside the Mage Tower. Shado remembers seeing it in the Giles Tower Library. Folding space appeared earlier than the Mage Tower, but its application in the Mage Tower only happened in the last three to four hundred years.

And because it must continue to happen, this requires a more powerful and stable element pool to supply energy. Even in today's era, there are not many mage towers with large-scale folding spaces.

It’s more of an extension to certain rooms rather than everywhere.

Nowadays, the only mage towers that can have large-scale folding spaces are those left by the great arcanists.