Lord of Arcane

Chapter 823 Earth Dungeon Infrasound Detection
Since it was already late at night, Xia Duo did not wake up Layton or Jabas, but came directly to the site of the ruins after meeting with the night patrol team.

Seeing the site of the ruins again, in Xia Duo's perception, time seemed to have passed for a long time, but from the perspective of the main plane, the last time he saw this place through the detection spell was a day ago.

It was a long time since I came here in person compared to the last time.

At present, in addition to the original passage extending downward from the troll cave, there are two large pits in the southeast direction.

As for the ruins below the troll cave, it has only been a day since the main plane, and there is no progress at all.

But now, maybe there is no need for Jabas to lead people to dig, and Xia Duo has a more convenient and quick method——

Stone Walking Technique!
A special spell from the Underdark!

Since he already had the experience of incarnation of water flow and gasification, when Xia Duo found this spell in Marusis's private library, he immediately understood that this was the "Earth Dungeon" he had been waiting for for a long time!
In addition to hollows, the Underdark is rock and soil, so the mages there have more and more in-depth research on media such as rocks and soil than surface mages.

[Stone Walking Technique] is a typical representative of them.

And the [Stone Walking Technique] is matched with the [Earth Vein Detector], or [Infrasound Detection].

Previously, in the projected plane, one of the tasks of Xia Duo incarnated as drow from the dark area to the surface was to use the [Leyline Detector] to search for weak points in the leylines, so as to facilitate the establishment of surface passages in the underground world.

Also because of this experience, he obtained a lot of feedback characteristics of [infrasound detection]. In addition to the characteristics of weak points in the ground veins, there are more characteristics of normal geological environments.

In other words, today's Xia Duo can really be said to have both water, land and air channels!

The analysis of [Stone Walking Technique] and the final work of transforming it into the color-resistant magic version have been completely completed in the last few days of the projected plane.

The only difference is to actually test it again.

After the previous study of [Petrochemical Magic], Xia Duo is quite accomplished in the field of earth elements. Even if he failed to get the spell [Stone Walk] in the dark area of ​​the projected plane, he still believes that he will be able to develop his own. 【Earth Dungeon】.

The relevant principles and details have long been understood, and Xia Duo can't worry about the "acclimatization" of this spell returning to the main plane.

"Then let's get started!"

Standing next to the pit in the original troll cave, he calmly cast [Stone Walk] or [Incarnation of Earth and Stone].

In an instant, Xia Duo's original flesh and blood form suddenly collapsed and turned into a pile of scattered soil. This soil is different from ordinary soil, but the elemental soil that has just been transformed by magic.

After being overwhelmed at the initial stage, he quickly regained the familiar feeling when he was transformed into water and gas. This pile of scattered soil began to seep into the ground.

Just like water seeps into sand, his current earth elemental body can also seep into ordinary soil and rocks, but compared to the smooth flow of water and the unrestrained air, the earth elemental body can be described as "difficult to move" in the soil.

Of course, this "difficulty in walking" is relative to the incarnation of water flow and incarnation of gaseous state, and the actual speed is only slightly slower than ordinary people's normal walking.

When he was just on the surface, he didn't feel anything, but once he went underground, Xia Duo was like a fish in the water, the deeper it went, the smoother it became.

Occasionally passing by some underground stones, he didn't evade, and rushed straight there, but his body seemed to stay on another level, passing the stones easily, as if there was nothing special about it.

"It's really an earth escape! It's just slower!"

Then, while quickly diving, Xia Duo continuously scanned the surrounding environment through [Infrasound Detection], and constructed a more vivid underground world in his mind based on the feedback characteristics of infrasound detection, which is also more suitable for ordinary human perspectives. Material distribution map.

After a while, Xia Duo found the narrow trail leading to the ruins deeper underground that Jabas had pointed out earlier.

Perhaps because of the geological changes in the past long years, this trail that should have been close to horizontal now extends almost vertically deeper into the ground.

But this is convenient for Xia Duo, this trail is his best signpost.

Following the trail all the way down, the feedback from the infrasound detection finally changed. In addition to discovering more narrow trails like ties, tall stone buildings were also discovered.

Perhaps this is the true face of the ruins.

Arriving here, Xia Duo also became more cautious. The petrification magic remained in those statues after a long time, so is there any magic left in this ruin?

……

Carefully circling around from the outside, Xia Duo found that the ruins as a whole looked like a small town that had been distorted and torn to pieces.

Most of the buildings are dilapidated, mixed in the soil, and after a long time of baptism, there is almost a tendency to melt and assimilate.

But there are still some buildings that are relatively intact, such as a stone building similar to a large auditorium that Xia Duo is going to at this moment.

He only asked to go to this auditorium-like building, mainly because he detected that there seemed to be a large number of Sarukh statues in this building.

Just like the three dug out before on his territory.

……

Coming to the entrance of the building, Xia Duo looked around carefully. If the surrounding soil was regarded as air, then the gate of this auditorium-like building was suspended not far above the building, which seemed a bit strange.

However, it is not surprising that this is underground after all, supported by soil.

After checking by various means, Xia Duo entered the interior of the building, and he took a "sight" on the hundreds of statues neatly arranged in the hall.

If every statue can expand his portable space, it will be a wave of fat!
I don't know how many arcane energy crystals to save for him!
But the more you get to this kind of moment, the more you have to be steady. According to the three statues unearthed before, Xia Duo knows that the petrified area of ​​the statue is about 10 meters around the statue.

But that is the petrified domain after triggering, it does not exist before triggering, and to trigger the petrified domain must touch the statue itself.

If ordinary people were to carry the statue, they could only use creatures to trigger the remaining magic of the statue, as Jabas had done with the last two statues, before moving them normally.

But for Xia Duo, it can be transported without touching, and he also wants to see how much expansion the space will bring when the more "original" statues are placed in the portable space!
(End of this chapter)