Chapter 1078: Dazzling Light Orb, Impact of the Accident

Very quickly, two days passed in a flash, and Luodite and the others arrived once again at the Mage Tower ruins in the Southern Forest of Zhenisi.

For this exploration, they were even more thoroughly prepared; in addition to more and higher-quality Amulets of Mind, they also followed Xia Duo's suggestion and prepared multiple Magic Items for illumination.

As for Aibuna, who had been ambushed by a mysterious creature and fallen unconscious the day before yesterday, he was not absent this time. After an examination by a Priest of the Lord of Radiance from the Sewendun Dashendian, it was determined that Aibuna had only suffered a shock to his consciousness and no serious damage.

Of course, being able to have such a decent result was entirely due to the two Amulets of Mind hanging around Aibuna's neck; if he hadn't had them, the situation might have been completely different.

On the plaza in front of the Mage Tower.

As soon as Luodite and the others arrived, they consciously cast a Force Field spell with a wider range, starting from a single point and continuously expanding and pushing outward until a large area outside the Mage Tower entrance was completely enveloped.

Afterward, without needing a reminder from Xia Duo, Luodite activated a Crystal Ball-shaped Magic Item with hundreds of facets.

Almost instantly, the plaza, which had only been illuminated by hazy light mist, became bright. From the facets of the Crystal Ball, bright orbs of light flew out, dispersing in a matrix formation above everyone's heads.

Under these circumstances, there was naturally no space left for any shadows to exist.

"Lord Xia Duo, what do you think of this Dazzling Light Orb? I brought four of them! Even lighting up the entire interior of the Mage Tower wouldn't be a problem!"

"A fine Magic Artifact; it should be able to isolate the influence of the Shadow Plane." Through the information sharing of the Mind Link, Xia Duo couldn't help but offer a word of praise.

Among all the Other Planes, only the Shadow Plane exists within the Material Plane, or rather, it coexists with the Material Plane, with a connection far closer than that of the Ether Plane or the Astral Plane.

If it weren't for the fact that many great figures have a tacit understanding of keeping shadow assassins as pets, the Shadow Plane should have been the Other Plane most easily accessible and understood by Netherese Mages.

Most of Xia Duo's understanding of the Shadow Plane was learned from the 【Projection Plane: Underdark】; those Drow are the true experts at utilizing shadows.

Of course, Netherese Mages of the Main Plane, especially those with extraordinary backgrounds, certainly do not lack understanding of the Shadow Plane.

Otherwise, Luodite wouldn't have prepared multiple illumination Magic Artifacts with "shadowless lamp" effects just because Xia Duo mentioned bringing more light sources.

This clearly shows they know how to deal with shadow creatures!

Xia Duo even suspected that this special illumination Magic Artifact called the 【Dazzling Light Orb】 also possessed effects that could isolate more than just shadows, and even acted as a restraint against shadow creatures and shadow assassins!

One must know that ordinary shadow creatures can indeed only approach targets through connected shadows, but Xia Duo himself had learned the 【Shadow Jump】 spell in the Underdark.

Relying purely on "shadowless lamps" to isolate shadows to guard against shadow creatures is not foolproof. What if a shadow creature or shadow assassin can also perform a Shadow Jump and leap out directly from under one's feet to launch a sneak attack?

However, Xia Duo did not deliberately pry into anything. Not to mention that he himself possessed methods to guard against shadow assassins, just the fact that Luodite was still in a Mind Link with him meant that some inner thoughts would inevitably be leaked during the exploration.

As an illumination Magic Artifact that requires constant control, the relevant details of the 【Dazzling Light Orb】, as long as Luodite knew them, would almost certainly be made known to Xia Duo through the Mind Link.

In fact, if Xia Duo were not able to parse Subconscious Information and control his own subconscious from emitting information to a certain extent, he would absolutely never be willing to share a link with others for a spell like Mind Link.

It is simply too easy to leak secrets.

……

During the previous two visits to the Mage Tower, the entrance was a stone sliding door that was half-open, but it was even more of a presence like a dark vortex.

From the outside, one could only vaguely see some of the situation inside, but not in detail.

But this time, with the illumination from Luodite's 【Dazzling Light Orb】, the originally dark entrance became nearly transparent, and the situation inside the Mage Tower appeared at the entrance like a form of projection.

Xia Duo had already seen the situation inside the Mage Tower through the perspective of Luodite and the others the day before yesterday, and now, comparing it with the image displayed at the entrance, he suddenly had the feeling of controlling a game character entering a dungeon. (WoW dungeon door~)

That image was nothing else; it was merely the change in light and shadow caused by the connection or even overlap between the Shadow Plane and the interior of the Mage Tower, similar to the feeling of looking at the distance through the distorted hot air above a flame.

It was just that the image of the Shadow Plane did not cause the picture to distort; it only made the levels of light and dark more pronounced, to the point where a kind of illusory projection sensation appeared.

After entering the Mage Tower, the interior was just as it had been seen the day before yesterday: a large hall similar to a banquet hall.

Its size was about seven or eight times the cross-section of the Mage Tower itself, and there were walls and doorways around it, clearly possessing space-folding effects like those of the Tower of Time.

Scattered inside the hall were quite a few stone blocks that had clearly broken off from a whole, as well as the remains of wooden furniture that had long since decayed, leaving only a hint of their shape.

In one corner, Xia Duo even discovered a dust-covered dinner plate, pressed under a stone block; it was bent nearly 90 degrees, yet it still retained its general form.

Looking closely, there were quite a few objects made of metal like the dinner plate in the surrounding area.

Perhaps because the Dimensional Bag could not be used normally in this ruin that overlapped with the Ether Plane, they could not carry that many things.

Or perhaps the Relic Hunters under Luodite simply did not care for these items and only took away some of what they considered to be high-quality goods.

Xia Duo felt the latter was more likely, because there were traces of rummaging everywhere in this hall, and some things clearly looked like they had been picked up first and then thrown away.

A serious accident might have occurred in this Mage Tower, but the overall state of the Mage Tower was still relatively complete; whether it was the fact that it still looked like a tower from the outside (with damage) or the relatively stable state of the space-folding inside, both pointed to this.

Of course, the influence of the accident, suspected to be a failed Semi-plane experiment, had also almost permeated every corner of the ruins.

As for this hall at the entrance, although it looked dilapidated at first glance and was quite ordinary, one only had to look up to realize that the influence of the accident was everywhere.

Above the hall, there was no material dome, but rather a pale Giant Screen like the one at the edge of the Mist Region outside, occasionally flickering with a hint of iridescent shimmer.

The reason it was a pale Giant Screen was only because Luodite and the others were very far from the top; if they were closer, it would be the same as the hazy light mist that had little presence around Luodite and the others at this moment.