Chapter 1086: First Clear the Bookshelves, Then Clear the Warehouse

This was the first time he had discovered an item in the Main Plane that was exactly the same as one in a Projection Plane. Perhaps the 【Nether Scroll】 was the same, but he had never seen a 【Nether Scroll】 in a Projection Plane.

As for the 【Sword of Ruling】, he had indeed seen it in the Projection Plane, but he had not seen the one in the Main Plane, so it was difficult to judge whether they were exactly the same.

As for other things, there were even fewer.

Xia Duo opened this book, "Sixteen Variant Forms of Poetic Structure in the Fourth Lisar Period of Maiyelita," with some disbelief, while simultaneously tracing his relevant memories from the 【Projection Plane: Yinguang City of Yierlan】.

From the paper used in this book to the internal text, layout, and even the details of the content, they were almost identical.

The only difference was probably that the book in the Projection Plane was newer and had few signs of being read, while this one here not only looked ancient, but the signs of it having been read were very obvious.

It seemed that the owner of this Mage Tower was quite interested in Elf culture; otherwise, could it be that this Tower Master could also manifest items from the Projection Plane?

Looking at the bookshelf again, there were quite a few others that looked very similar to this "Sixteen Variant Forms of Poetic Structure in the Fourth Lisar Period of Maiyelita."

So Xia Duo simply took another one down from the bookshelf. He saw "Anstasa: Movement of Joy" written on the cover. He flipped through it roughly; the main content was a record of a banquet piece played by the Elven instrument, the Anstasa Harp.

Xia Duo had no impression of this book; it must have been a new book he had not seen before.

Afterwards, he took several more in succession and flipped through them roughly. Except for the first book he got about the poetic structure of Maiyelita, he had not seen the other books before.

Such a discovery made Xia Duo feel much more at ease. In fact, he had already guessed some possibilities. When he was in the 【Projection Plane: Yinguang City】, he saw that many Elven books had signs of mass printing, and the material of the book paper was mostly so-called "Elven Paper," which was what Xia Duo remembered as wood pulp paper.

Since Yierlan had the ability to mass-print books hundreds of years ago, with so many books printed, it was not impossible for one or two books to be exactly the same in the Main Plane and the Projection Plane.

……

Next, Xia Duo did not check and collect them one by one. Luodite and the others were still maintaining the combing and guidance of the Element Pool's energy. If he continued to look, Luodite and the others would probably jump in anger.

In the ruins area, the Ether Plane completely overlapped with the Main Plane, and ordinary Dimensional Bags were useless. Semi-planes could be used, but Xia Duo had not yet created a storage device connected to the 【Yellow Sand Semi-Plane】.

After thinking about it, he simply made his Personal Space completely overlap with the Main Plane and then separated it. Thus, four bookshelves that might have required others to move manually for a long time instantly disappeared from the Main Plane and appeared in his Personal Space.

The principles and effects of this were the same as using a semi-plane to collect them, and there was no fear of Luodite and the others seeing anything unusual.

Next, Xia Duo checked several bookshelves covered by falling rocks. Most of the books had been destroyed by the Library's protection system, and some had been destroyed by the passage of time; only a few survived.

Following the previous method, Xia Duo collected the damaged bookshelves along with the falling rocks on them into his Personal Space. As for the deeper parts of the Library, even denser Ether Mist had appeared there, so Xia Duo did not continue to go deeper.

Better to quit while ahead!

Afterwards, Xia Duo withdrew from the Library area and expanded the 【Anti-Magic Domain】 to block the entrance of the Library. Then, he instructed Luodite and the others:

"You can stop controlling it. Luodite first, then Sidier and Weiji, hurry!"

Upon hearing this, the three of Luodite reacted immediately. As the elemental energy continuously output by the Element Pool lost its guidance, and the Library's protection system originally connected to it was also destroyed by Xia Duo, a large amount of elemental energy with nowhere to go began to surge wantonly.

Relying solely on the combing and guidance of the Magic Net itself, it was still not enough to face an Element Pool that was almost at full vitality.

Within a few seconds after Luodite and the others stopped, the elemental concentration in the Library was growing crazily at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Perhaps an Elemental Channel connected to the Inner Plane will appear here soon. We must hurry!" Xia Duo reminded them, while urging Luodite and the others to head to the warehouse area.

There were still three relatively stable Element Pool fusion areas; in any case, the warehouse had to be taken!

As for those two private residence areas, it would depend on the situation. If there was time, he would go take a look; if not, then forget it.

……

Soon, the five of them arrived at the warehouse area. Following the method used at the Library, they first detached the link between the Element Pool and the protection system of this area, and then used the 【Anti-Magic Domain】 to forcibly break the protection system here.

Finally, calling over the idle Fulanke and Aibuna, the three of them worked together to push open the warehouse door. What appeared before Xia Duo were two rows of storage racks against the walls, similar in appearance to bookshelves.

Or rather, like parcel lockers without doors, except the compartments were much larger than parcel lockers.

"Are you coming in with me, or waiting outside?"

"We'll stay outside!"

Aibuna and Fulanke said almost in unison. After speaking, they returned to Luodite's side and stood there.

Xia Duo didn't care about them. It was just a casual remark anyway. With his Personal Space, if he really needed to pack something up, where would he need their help!

Similar to the Library, the latter part of the warehouse was also occupied by falling rocks and Ether Mist, with only less than half the space at the entrance still intact.

Since there were no doors on the storage racks, Xia Duo took a rough look at the things stored on them. The most abundant were actually paper and ink, followed by Five-Colored Gems, among which the quantity of Crystal was the largest.

As for precious metals like Mithril and gold, there were quite a few, but from Xia Duo's current perspective, their quantity was very mismatched with this Mage Tower.

However, who would complain about getting things for free!

After looting the warehouse, Xia Duo did not let Luodite, Sidier, and Weiji stop combing and guiding the energy output by the Element Pool. He first cast a spell to investigate the Library he had just visited.

Determining that although the elements there were surging and chaotic, no Elemental Channel had formed, nor had it triggered further collapse of the Mage Tower, he then let Luodite and the others release control and continued to the next Element Pool fusion area.

It seems that today he should be able to solve the remaining two areas together.

However, Xia Duo was not very optimistic about the harvest from the remaining two areas. In fact, thinking about himself, he knew that most of his important items were carried with him and were rarely placed in his residence.

At worst, he would set up a Secret Chamber or something; a residence was indeed not a very good storage place.

Of course, it was also possible to find some discarded manuscripts, private books, and the like belonging to the residents in the residence, so it could not be said to be completely worthless.