Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1066
jennis.

In the mind link, Xia Duo constantly inspected this important trading city through the perspective of Rodite and others. Compared with the port of Harper, which has only a name, Zenis is truly worthy of 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 on the road have not yet begun to thaw.

But here is still full of people, and there are businessmen busy everywhere, especially at the entrance of the underground passage, there are two long queues.

There are not only caravans who want to go to Ascor, but also those who return from Ascor.

Most of these businessmen also had bright smiles on their faces, and only a few had bad complexions, as if they had suffered a huge loss.

Perhaps Xia Duo's desire to observe was so strong that it was reflected in the spiritual link, which was felt by Rodite and others. After they left the Crescent Tower, they even made a special trip around the city of Zenith.

But Dennis said it was neither small nor big, and soon Rodit and the others left the town and entered the southern peninsula corridor.

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

[Natherian Scroll] When it was first discovered, it was kept in Zenith. At that time, spellcasters from all over Netheril gathered here to start research on the Netherese scroll.

A single peninsula obviously cannot meet the needs of all kinds of weird experiments, especially for some large-scale experiments, such as demiplanes and the like, it is even more necessary to choose a safe place.

Before the earliest mage tower was invented, it could only be done in the wild.

Up to now, in the forest south of the Denis Peninsula, there are still many undiscovered relics from the discovery era, and this has attracted many adventurers and professional relic hunters.

The era of the ruins discovered by the ruin hunters under Rodit may have been quite a long time after the discovery of the Nather scroll, at least there already existed a mage tower there.

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

But in the elven magic system, elite mages similar to the high-level mages of the Netherian magic system, before the Netherese scrolls were discovered, there were not many elite mages in the entire Netheril!
It can only be said that in the era of the target ruins this time, the Nether magic system has begun to emerge, at least many high-level mages can be born. (The artificial construction of the tower will leave many traces. In this case, the relic may have been discovered long ago, and it will not wait until now)

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In terms of traveling, since Xia Duo was not needed to command, after entering the forest, Rodit naturally took out the group flying scroll from the dimension bag, blessed everyone, and explained to Xia Duo in the soul link:

"Jennis's Crescent Tower can monitor quite a large area, and there is too much movement here, so it's better to stay away to be safe."

Xia Duo knew in his heart that Rodit probably still had some protection against him, otherwise they could use the teleportation circle of the watchtower to teleport to the vicinity of the ruins.

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

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

The teleportation circle on the side of the Arcane Federation costs 1000 gold coins once used.

However, Rodite and the others obviously couldn't afford the usage fee of the teleportation circle, but if they used the teleportation circle, the location of the ruins would be exposed.

Even Xia Duo thought about what kind of teleportation method Rodit would use later, and thought that Rodit invited him to command through the mind link, to a certain extent, it was also out of confidentiality considerations.

Sure enough, after flying in the forest for a while, Rodit and his party fell to the ground, and then Rodit took out a scroll from the dimensional bag.

Unfolding and activating in front of everyone, a round portal with shimmering light like a hazy mirror appeared beside them.

Through the portal, everyone could vaguely see a fog and the shadows of tall buildings in the fog, and Xia Duo also saw all this through the soul link.

Indeed, as he expected, Rodit didn't cast teleportation directly, but used teleportation items 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.

Then when it comes to the ruins, no matter who wants to detect the coordinates, they can't hide it from Xia Duo, and of course other people will also notice it.

At least it will be easier to expose than not having a mind link.

As for Xia Duo, although he is the behind-the-scenes commander of this exploration operation, he is actually beyond his reach, and he cannot spy on the specific location of the ruins.

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

Xia Duo has no doubts that if he casts a detection spell on Rodit and others now, it is very likely that he will hit Rodit's father, the thunder mage Mayne Collins.

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

Sure enough, the second generation is good!
If it were Xia 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’s fine if there’s nothing good in the ruins, if there’s something good that can make even a senior arcanist’s heart move, isn’t it because life and death depend on other people’s thoughts!

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

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

"Yes, through the portal, you will directly enter the fog around the ruins. The ruins are more like a triple world. If you enter from outside the ruins, you will need to spend a lot of money if you want to walk through the fog to the mage tower." a long time."

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

"In the past, many Langas people have entered the fog, but few of them can come out alive, because the space in the fog seems to be greatly expanded, and the fog itself blocks the vision, and there became that small tribe. Forbidden lands, some rangas who have committed blunders are often banished into the mist by the tribal elders.

"Around Midsummer's Day last year, when my team of relic hunters was searching for relics near here, they accidentally encountered a Langas escaped from the mist, and after inquiring, they learned of the existence of the relics.

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

This is the first time Rodit introduced the discovery process of the ruins in more detail, which made Xia Duo waver in his previous guess.

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

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

Xia Duo reminded everyone in the soul link, "Since the portal has been opened, let's hurry up and enter the ruins!"

"it is good."

A series of active awareness messages responded.

(End of this chapter)