Chapter 1081: Astral Plane Teleportation, Elemental Calling

Luodite and the others ultimately did not choose to give up, which avoided the messy accounts that would have been difficult for both sides to settle afterward.

And through the Mind Link, Xia Duo also knew the reason for Luodite's choice; he had notified his father, Lord Collins, of the situation at the ruins and his own decision.

It was similar to the behavior on Earth of sending a WeChat message to parents before getting into a taxi to inform them of the driver and vehicle information.

Luodite's actions left Xia Duo speechless; he still didn't trust him! Moreover, Lord Collins must have known about his participation beforehand, so making this extra move really felt like killing the heart after killing the person.

For a moment, Xia Duo actually regretted interpreting those messages from the Mind Link!

"By the way, Lord Xia Duo, the ruin area cannot be directly teleported into. Do you need me to come out and pick you up?"

"No need, I have my own ways!"

Afterward, Xia Duo activated the Teleportation Array, and after a violent vibration of the Magic Net Strings, the scene before his eyes changed its appearance.

Xia Duo carefully examined the surrounding environment; this was his first time teleporting to a non-preset location via a Teleportation Array, and he felt it was somewhat novel.

However, no matter how novel it was, it was just that; this was the location where Luodite had activated the Portal today, and it had only been two or three hours since the Portal disappeared.

There was still a faint remnant of spiritual light here.

If it were a Spellcaster proficient in Teleportation Spells, they might be able to find the target area linked by the Portal from this; of course, for Xia Duo, who already knew the location of the ruins, it could also help him determine more precise coordinates.

But just as Luodite had reminded him earlier, general Teleportation Spells cannot be directly cast into the ruin area; the reason, of course, is that most direct Teleportation Spells use the Ether Plane as a medium.

And in the ruin area, the Ether Plane and the Main Plane are completely overlapped, so it is impossible to borrow the Ether Plane for direct teleportation.

Of course, Portals are unaffected; the Principles of the two are not the same, even though both utilize the Ether Plane.

A Portal is more akin to folding the main space; as long as the departure location and the target location are not both completely overlapped with the Ether Plane at the same time, its use is not affected;

whereas direct teleportation, even if it appears to be an instantaneous arrival, actually requires consuming a certain amount of time and is relayed through the Ether Plane, or more accurately, the Ether Interlayer.

As long as one of the departure location or the target location is completely overlapped with the Ether Plane, it cannot be used.

Xia Duo naturally had mastered the Portal Spell; he had originally obtained this spell from Mage Xi Ge Si of the Morien Tower at an exchange meeting.

However, this time he did not intend to use a Portal, or more accurately, he did not intend to use a Portal that used the Ether Plane as a medium.

He prepared to try a new spell; it was the Portal Spell used by Archmage Wohuaide of the Giles Tower when he sent the participants to the Semi-plane during the rehearsal held shortly before the Princess Ascension Ceremony.

That Teleportation Spell did not use the common Ether Plane as a medium, but rather the Astral Plane.

In this way, even if the Magic Net String elements related to the Ether Plane were sealed, or if something went wrong with the Ether Plane itself—such as the Ether Plane and the Main Plane being completely overlapped at the ruins this time—using this spell would still allow for normal teleportation.

At the same time, compared to the Ether-mediated Teleportation Spell, which has two forms of expression—direct teleportation and Portal—the Astral-mediated Teleportation Spell also has these two forms of expression.

Archmage Wohuaide had demonstrated and used the Portal form at that time; direct teleportation was a more basic form, which Xia Duo had also mastered.

However, because direct teleportation is not instantaneous, the probability of accidents is much greater than with a Portal, so Xia Duo did not use the simpler direct teleportation here.

Instead, he chose the Portal.

Basically, as long as a Portal is successfully established, it is almost equivalent to a successful teleportation, equivalent to knowing the teleportation result in advance.

For Xia Duo, who was eager to try a new spell and unwilling to bear higher risks, this could not be more suitable.

"Now let me see if the abnormality of the Ether Plane will actually affect teleportation mediated by the Astral Plane!"

Xia Duo had an extraordinary memory and was very skilled in basic Spellcasting, so even for a new spell he hadn't used for a long time, he was not at all rusty.

He skillfully manipulated the Magic Net Strings in front of him to weave into a Spell Source Point according to a specific sequence and structure. As the energy circuit was completed, a rather strange Portal appeared from nothing, growing from small to large at the position set by the Spell Source Point.

This Portal was different from the blurry mirror-like form of an Ether Plane-mediated Portal; a Portal mediated by the Astral Plane was more like a mass of intangible Mist.

It looked exactly like the hazy light Mist that was primitive to the Ether Plane in the ruins!

But unlike that hazy light Mist—

The color distribution of the Astral-mediated Portal's light Mist was very uniform, not like the Ether Mist, where it often happened that a certain area was entirely the same color.

Moreover, the colors of the Astral Mist were more vivid and had a strong sense of presence!

Regarding this phenomenon, Xia Duo could not explain it for the time being; he estimated it could be regarded as a phenomenon where different paths lead to the same destination regarding the essence of the world.

Although this light Mist-shaped Portal looked very strange, just like a conventional Ether-mediated Portal, one could still see the blurry scene on the opposite side.

Even because of these uniformly distributed, bright, seven-colored light Mists, the scene on the opposite side of the Portal looked even clearer than a conventional Portal.

Of course, this was only the effect of direct naked-eye observation; if one cast a Scrying spell compatible with the Portal, one could see an even clearer scene on the opposite side, almost equivalent to being there in person.

Since he was trying a new spell, Xia Duo naturally wanted to go through the entire process.

He continued to cast Scrying to check the situation on the other side of the Portal; it was indeed very clear, almost no less than projecting his Perception Field directly to the opposite side.

This advantage was not obvious when the teleportation distance was short, but if it were Cross-Plane Teleportation where the Perception Field could not be directly projected, then this advantage would be very obvious.

The opposite side of the Portal was at the edge of the square in front of the Mage Tower in the center of the ruins, slightly deviating from the teleportation target Xia Duo had set, but this would not have much impact on his actions.

Stepping into the Portal and arriving at the ruin area, Xia Duo immediately experienced a feeling that was completely impossible to feel through the Mind Link—

It was like the calling of the Water Element and the Wind Element!

This feeling came from Xia Duo's own physical instinct; it was impossible to feel it just by relying on the sensory information of Luodite and the others in the Mind Link.

Or rather, compared to the low-precision observation and Perception of the ruin area by Luodite and the others, as soon as Xia Duo arrived, he discovered information that Luodite and the others had not discovered—

This area was not only completely overlapped with the Ether Plane, but its connection with the Inner Plane also seemed to be quite tight, far exceeding the normal state of the Main Plane.