Lord of Arcane

Chapter 231 Entering the Ruins
The next day, when Xia Duo woke up, the first thing he did was to run to the river and look to the other side.

Sure enough, the piece of wood still exists, so now it depends on the situation at the treasure house!

After arranging the tasks of everyone in the camp, and setting up magic alarms near the camp, Xia Duo sneaked into the forest with a shield and a golden sword.

It’s still the straight line from the camp to the treasure. I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but Xia Duo actually feels that there are suddenly more conceptual existences about “flow” and “moisturization” on this “road”.

"There should be a change over there!"

Thinking in this way, Xia Duo quickened his pace again, and arrived at the logging location yesterday in a short while.

Seeing a big tree with two people hugging each other fell in the forest, and even crushed some small trees nearby, Xia Duo rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

"This is the same as yesterday!"

There was really no change, the felled tree was still lying on the spot, the sword marks on it were clearly visible, even the branch he cut off yesterday didn't change in any way.

Except the leaves seem to be wilting a bit.

There was no restoration as expected, and there was no abnormal phenomenon. It was very ordinary, a tree was cut down, and there was no change.

But there is no change, it is already a change in Xia Duo.

"These trees are real trees, not illusions!" Turning around, Xia Duo carefully inspected with magic vision, trying to deduce the secret of this tree from the changes in the surrounding magic net environment.

It's just that there is no change in the magic net nearby, and it seems to be the most common logging site.

But Xia Duo knew that the tree that was cut down could indeed be restored before, and he didn't know whether it was because of too much damage or because a branch was taken away that made it unable to restore.

After walking around twice but still not finding it, Xia Duo walked towards the root of the tree, ready to dig up the root to see if there were any secrets underground.

At this time, Old Neil's secret treasure was no longer in his mind, and he found that this area itself was very interesting.

Xia Duo weighed the fine gold sword in his hand, walked towards the root of the tree, and at the same time muttered: "Today I will be sorry to you again."

Of course the Golden Sword would not respond to him, but the weird environment here did not necessarily.

Just when Xia Duo was less than two meters away from the root of the tree, and had already stepped on the exposed part of it, he suddenly felt the space around him change, and his vision blurred.

Although it was only for a moment, when Xia Duo saw the surrounding scene clearly again, everything around him changed -

At this moment, he seems to be in a ruin that has been abandoned for a long time. There are dead branches and leaves, broken walls and ruins everywhere, and there is a decayed and withered atmosphere in the air.

Almost subconsciously, Xia Duo was going to pull the magic net to block the smell, but what made him almost die was that the magic net here was not under his control.

The environment of the magic net here is completely different from the outside world. It is as calm as in the magic laboratory, but it also reveals a dead and mechanical taste.

You can clearly see and touch it, but you just can’t control it!

Once a mage leaves the magic net, he is just a slightly smarter ordinary person, and loses the magical power he has always been proud of. This psychological gap will even make the mage behave worse than ordinary people.

Xia Duo was not that unbearable, but he also subconsciously clenched the sword in his hand. At this moment, perhaps only this pure gold sword, which he had tortured for a long time, could bring him a sense of security.

It's too late to regret and reflect on my recklessness, the most important thing right now is to leave here alive!

This is an ordinary person, and it has only been a year since he acquired magical power. Xia Duo quickly adjusted his mentality. He first checked the items he carried with him.

Ordinary items are roughly - two swords (own sword spare), a shield, rope around the waist, spell notes, pen.

As for the magic item, I didn't notice it just now. The ring of concentration has become a dead thing here. Although it still looks like a magical aura, it has no effect at all.

Of course, even if it is useful, it doesn't make much sense now, because the concentration ring only passively enhances the user's concentration, and has no active ability.

As for the magic scrolls, Xia Duo looked at the magic scrolls whose aura was collapsing, not to mention how distressed they were, but luckily they were just some self-made low-level scrolls.

If it was a high-end product, it would be a blood loss!
The magic scroll itself has a shelf life, but in the normal magic net environment, the so-called shelf life is almost negligible, but here, the magic power on the scroll seems to be "volatile" at an accelerated rate.

Xia Duo activated a [Magic Alert] scroll. As he expected, the activation would make the scroll invalid quickly. The so-called alert effect was naturally gone.

Magic cannot be relied on, but he still has the ability of blood. Although the ability to cast spells is silenced because the magic net does not respond, his own strength and physique cannot be deprived.

Holding a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, Xia Duo carefully explored the ruins.

The ground is a thick carpet of mud mixed with decaying leaves and dust, which is soft when stepped on, and there is a slight hissing sound with every step.

The original shape of the surrounding buildings has long been unrecognizable, but based on the few remaining broken walls and the location of a large number of decayed trees around it, Xia Duo roughly speculates that this is an elf relic.

After all, apart from the elves, there are probably very few races that plant trees near buildings, and even some building wreckage itself is piled up with tree wreckage.

Xia Duo couldn't help but think of the elves' tree buildings.

As he walked, the overall appearance of the ruins gradually appeared in Xia Duo's mind. The area of ​​the ruins was not large, about the size of a football field.

Of course, this only refers to the relic area with buildings.

The location where he first appeared was on the edge of a collapsed and decayed stone wall.

And around the ruins of the building is a circle of decaying woods, some of which have collapsed, while some are still standing upright. Through the gaps in the woods, Xia Duo can see that there seems to be green in the outer periphery!

"plant?!"

Xia Duo lifted his spirits, what he was most afraid of was getting stuck in an unchanging ruins, some changes were better than no changes.

I chose a direction closer to the edge, passed through architectural ruins and tree wreckage, and what caught my eye was actually a plant, a living plant!
The thriving trees, together with the turf stones on the ground, made Xia Duo feel that the ruins just now were just a dream, and he is still in the Green Pearl Forest.

But when he looked back, not far away were dead trees that had decayed and collapsed, most of which were only half-remained, and farther away, the suspected elf ruins clearly reminded him——

This is not a dream!
There seems to be a clear dividing line between life and decay, and if you cross the dividing line, can you leave here?

Xia Duo is not sure, but searching from the architectural relics still faces the unknown, and now he can only gamble.

(End of this chapter)