Chapter 1132: Strange String, Elemental Burst

Inside the office, Saixili suddenly disappeared, and at the same time, an unknown protective spell descended; even the Magic Net around the body faintly emitted a sense of resistance. Daiwei was immediately terrified and hurriedly explained:

"My Lord, this is the Entity Magic Web String I have researched! Look—"

As he spoke, Daiwei extended his right hand, which he had been keeping hidden, from his long sleeve and held it up before Xia Duo.

Upon seeing this hand, Xia Duo finally understood why he had been hiding it all along; the right hand was almost entirely enveloped in a deep blue glow, and as soon as it emerged from the sleeve, it bathed this not-so-small office in a deep blue light.

Observing closely, beneath that intense blue light, one could vaguely see a half-foot-long string, one end held in Daiwei's hand, while the other twisted and danced wantonly!

At this moment, Xia Duo felt his heartbeat pause for a few seconds; this was simply too far beyond his understanding. If a Magic Net String could be materialized, then every world covered by the Magic Net would be in grave danger!

If some world-destroying madman were to find a chain-reaction mechanism to convert a large area of the Magic Net into a physical entity, to say nothing of anything else, this phenomenon alone would bring a near-catastrophic disaster to all things in the world.

One must know that in areas covered by the Magic Net, both people and objects have links—whether tight or loose—to the Magic Net. Once the Magic Net is materialized, wouldn't the people and objects constantly within it be torn apart instantly?

Such consequences were truly too terrifying, but if the materialization of the Magic Net were feasible, then this technology would best be kept solely in his own hands.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo looked at Daiwei again, no longer as if looking at a funding fraudster, but as a living treasure of extraordinary significance!

It was just that a materialized Magic Net String could be so easily held in the hand by an Intermediate Mage, which was truly too incredible.

He stared fixedly into Daiwei's eyes and asked again: "Are you certain this is a materialized Magic Net String? How can you prove it?"

Once these words were out, Xia Duo felt his heart suddenly become much lighter for some reason; whether he was looking for an excuse for his own denial or for some other reason, he continued to question him:

"In the material subsidy application Document you submitted previously, there wasn't even a single decent verification experiment. How do you explain this?"

"My Lord, I—"

Daiwei was about to explain, but his expression suddenly changed drastically. While screaming "My Lord, save me," he cast a pleading gaze toward Xia Duo.

At the same time, as if he had touched something abnormally terrifying, he flung the thing in his right hand—the suspected materialized Magic Net String—toward a corner of the office.

"Hmph!"

Although dissatisfied with Daiwei's behavior of tossing dangerous goods around, considering that he himself could not fathom the object, Xia Duo still pulled him along.

While retreating rapidly toward the office door with a cloud-riding and mist-treading posture, he used his 【Wind Control】 ability to push away the air behind him.

Almost instantly, the two retreated outside the door, while the thing Daiwei had thrown—the suspected materialized Magic Net String—had not yet drifted to the corner of the office.

Under the gaze of Xia Duo and Daiwei, that strange string, less than half a foot long and twisting crazily, was moving slower and slower; at the same time, the amplitude and frequency of its twisting and dancing were becoming smaller and smaller, and its light reaction in Magic Vision was growing weaker and weaker.

Yet the deep blue light it emitted, visible to the naked eye, became increasingly intense, making its already difficult-to-see form even more obscure.

If Xia Duo had not been staring at it the whole time, it would have been almost impossible to distinguish a thin line less than half a foot long, with increasingly weak activity, from the intense blue light filling the entire office.

"My Lord, an Elemental Burst is about to occur, I fear—"

As he said this, Daiwei's footsteps actually shifted bit by bit in the direction away from the door, as if he were afraid of something.

However, Xia Duo did not move a single step. At this moment, the office had layers of protection descended by the Tower Spirit; if even this couldn't block it, then the Tower of Time might as well close its doors early.

Moreover, from his perspective, that thing suspected to be a materialized Magic Net String, while seemingly strange, did not appear to carry energy itself.

The surrounding Magic Net environment was still quite complete; to trigger any complex Spell, it would certainly have to go through the operation of the Great Magic Net environment, and the time taken for this process would be enough for Xia Duo to intervene.

The Elemental Burst that Daiwei spoke of might be difficult for an Intermediate Mage to handle, but for Xia Duo, or even most Arcanists, pure elements and energy were easier to resolve.

Seeing Daiwei still shifting his footsteps bit by bit, Xia Duo immediately said irritably: "What are you worried about? I'm still here! Could I possibly let you die?"

Hearing this, Daiwei squeezed out a sheepish, dry laugh and did not continue to flee.

And just as the two were speaking, the thing in the office suspected to be a materialized Magic Net String had stopped moving; naturally, at this moment, its form was completely hidden within the blue light.

Xia Duo only judged whether it was moving by the change in light intensity, and the moment that strange string stopped moving, the Magic Net at its location immediately overflowed with a large amount of elements and energy.

The quantity was so great that it fully deserved the description "Elemental Burst."

"It seems there is something I have overlooked?"

Xia Duo suddenly had a feeling, but he was quickly attracted by the scene of the Elemental Burst before his eyes. Could that strange string, less than half a foot long, actually erupt with such energy?

This was almost equivalent to an 8th Circle Elemental Spell!

If it could be mass-produced and stored, wouldn't it be a new type of energy storage method, almost not inferior to an Arcane Crystal?

One must know that the minimum requirement for creating an Arcane Crystal is to be an Arcanist, yet this was something produced by an Intermediate Mage; the low threshold was simply beyond imagination!

Regardless of whether this thing was a materialized Magic Net String, Xia Duo felt it could be studied in depth.

If in the future he could use a hundred or more of those strange strings to make a cluster bomb, the power would be such that even a Great Arcanist would have to take it seriously.

Although the Principles of Elemental Magic are simple and relatively easy to defend against, that is only when the quantity is small. If the quantity is large enough to destroy the world, then how could one defend against it?

Given that Daiwei, as an Intermediate Mage, could produce a strange string capable of erupting with an 8th Circle Elemental Spell, if the storage problem were solved and it were mass-produced, it would truly be capable of destroying the world!

Glancing at Daiwei from the corner of his eye, Xia Duo silently made a decision in his heart; looking at Daiwei again, he truly was looking at a peerless treasure!

"Daiwei, now you can give me an explanation! What was that previous subsidy application Document about? And what is this all about?"

Xia Duo pointed to the office where the Elemental Energy had not yet dissipated and said this to Daiwei.