Lord of Arcane

Chapter 723 More Ruins Mysterious Existence
A moment later, a series of hurried footsteps sounded from far to near, Xia Duo put away his notes, and looked at the people who came, it was Jabas and Polk, the father and son.

"My lord! Jabas is late!"

"Not too late, just in time!" Xia Duo didn't care about the lateness of the two, he pointed to the raised hand of the scale creature on the statue and said to Jabas——

"Let me ask you, when you were digging, did you find anything in the statue's hand?"

"no!"

Jabas said with certainty, "My lord, all the things excavated from the ruins are here, except for some fragile and inconvenient clay tablets!"

"Just this statue?"

"Correct!"

Jabas' answer made Xia Duo a little silent. The ruins are really different from what he imagined. Could it really be academic archaeology?
After thinking about it, Xia Duo asked again:

"According to your experience, how big is the scope of this ruin?"

"this--"

Jabas suddenly looked up at Xia Duo, as if hesitating, Xia Duo couldn't help laughing when he saw this, "Jabas, just say, don't have any psychological burden, how could I blame you for this kind of thing!"

"My lord, it's all my fault. I shouldn't think so much about my lord!" Jabas suddenly became panicked again.

An old adventurer who has accumulated many years, even if he shows fear, how much truth can he have? Xia Duo doesn't want to go around like this, "Okay, I don't know you yet! Tell me about the ruins!"

"Yes Yes!"

Jabas nodded quickly, "My lord, judging from the existing excavations, this relic is at most about a hundred meters away, but based on my experience, there should be other relics nearby!"

"Oh?"

Finally, there are some dry things. Looking at the unattractive Jabas, Xia Duo nodded silently in his heart, and continued to ask, "Where did you see it?"

"My lord, I found traces of the trail in the depths of the ruins, but this area seems to have undergone serious geological changes in the past. One end of the trail went straight deep into the ground, while the other end twisted and turned diagonally to the southeast."

While explaining, Jabas also used a dagger to draw an imaginary map of the ruins on the ground. He pointed to the line in the southeast and gave a more conservative guess——

"You may not be able to find the ruins underground, but if there are no accidents in the southeast, you should still be able to find a ruin. As for what you can find in the ruins, I'm not sure."

That's it!
Xia Duo hesitated whether to continue digging the ruins. Obviously, these ruins are much older than the elves, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are ancient ruins.

However, are treasures guaranteed to be found in the ancient ruins?
Not to mention treasures, you may not be able to find anything of value. Now there is only one statue in this ruins, which is still worth a bit, and the rest are the clay tablets Jabas just mentioned.

Xia Duo had obtained a few pieces in the troll lair before, and apart from some long-lost characters, there were only some simple arcane geometric figures on them.

If those unknown texts were explaining the arcane geometry, it could almost be said that the clay tablets were of no value.

After all, if you want to find arcane geometry materials, there are ready-made ones in the Tower of Time library, which are much more advanced than those on the clay tablets.

If not, the value is actually not that great, the real value is the unknown text.

If that kind of writing can be deciphered, we may be able to find more records of that kind of unknown writing in the future, so as to translate some content that may be very advanced compared to the present.

But Xia Duo is not good at deciphering characters, this can only be regarded as an accumulation, and a suitable decipher may be found in the future.

After thinking about it, Xia Duo found that the so-called ancient ruins were somewhat tasteless, and now it depends on whether this statue can make him change his mind.

Thinking about it this way, Xia Duo made a decision:
"Let's clean up this ruin first. As for the southeast direction, we don't need to dig for now, but we can do some basic exploration first, and wait for my order!"

"Yes!"

……

After Jabas and his son left, Xia Duo circled the statue a few more times, then gritted his teeth, and put his hand on the surface of the statue.

Almost without warning, the three-meter-high statue disappeared instantly, and at this moment, Xia Duo breathed a sigh of relief.

Even if he knew that Bishop Ambrill could lift the petrification, and Jabas didn't experience any aftereffects after lifting the petrification, Xia Duo didn't want to experience the feeling of being petrified once.

The next step is to return to the Tower of Time and put down the statue for further research, but at this time Xia Duo can't avoid his footsteps!
The portable space exists in his consciousness, in other words, any changes in the portable space cannot escape his consciousness.

Objects in the original space need a little concentration to perceive, but after this statue was placed in the portable space, it immediately caused the portable space to expand!

If Xia Duo couldn't detect such a change, then his consciousness would be too dull!

In fact, Xia Duo not only discovered that the space was expanding, but also knew what caused the space to expand!

It wasn't the statue itself, but a mysterious existence hidden inside the statue. Even with Xia Duo's home field advantage, he couldn't detect what that thing was.

All he knew was that it was an intangible and insubstantial thing, and Xia Duo could only perceive its existence, but could not make further judgments, or it was too late to make further judgments.

After the existence flew out of the statue, it exploded in an instant. Literally, a prototype of a miniature plane was exploded, and then it was instantly annihilated.

At the same time, the portable space continues to expand, until it reaches about 35 cubic meters, which is almost halved compared to before!
At this time, the expression on Xia Duo's face was wonderful. On the one hand, he saw the process of plane creation and annihilation. Even though the time was very short, it might play a very important role in his research on planes in the future.

On the other hand, the expansion of the portable space, so far, the only thing Xia Duo has discovered that can expand the portable space is the Ao Neng Crystal.

Wouldn't it be more convenient if there was one more thing!
The most important thing is that the latter costs almost nothing, as long as you keep digging, maybe once you dig a large ruin, there will be hundreds of statues there, just waiting for him to collect it!

Thinking about it this way, Xia Duo didn't care about letting Jabas leave just now, and directly used the flying technique to stop Jabas when he was about to walk to the demonstration field:

"Jabbas, a new order. After the existing ruins are cleared, continue to excavate in the southeast direction. If you don't have enough manpower, just tell Jeff, I'll let him keep people for you!"

"Yes, Lord!"

Although he didn't understand why the lord suddenly became so anxious, Jabas had been an adventurer all his life and naturally knew what to ask and what not to ask.

(End of this chapter)