Chapter 1265: Clearing Contamination, Contacting the Organization

After landing on the ground, Xia Duo did not go looking for a more secluded location, but instead burrowed underground right where he was.

In any case, his teleportation out of that temporary shelter had been random; if it wasn't safe here, other places wouldn't necessarily be any safer.

Furthermore, reducing the traces and time spent active in the outside world was also beneficial for concealing himself.

Underground.

Xia Duo used his Personal Space to collect a pile of soil, then used Spellcasting to shape a stable single-person room. After placing a bed, Xia Duo began to examine his own memories.

(There are many ways to breathe underground, such as using a synchronization spell, connecting to the Wind Elemental Plane, or directly creating air.)

Examining memories has a fixed procedure; the first step is to check the backup Personality and then trace backward from the backup Personality.

Just after Xia Duo learned the fact that his avatar was "Maikade," the suggestive effect of the mind spell immediately failed, and he also knew what he needed to do next.

Just like that, Xia Duo stayed in the underground space for three full days. During these three days, he organized all the memories belonging to "Maikade" and completely got rid of the crisis of Personality pollution.

After establishing a brand-new Personality backup, Xia Duo then shifted his attention to his body.

The Negative Energy Erosion was spreading day by day, and more than half of his body had withered. He highly suspected that he might suddenly drop dead at any moment.

As for his Positive Energy nourishment and healing, it only served to provide a certain degree of relief and could not cure him completely.

In fact, Xia Duo had always been puzzled; there were quite a few Netheril Mages, but he had never heard of anyone specializing in the field of Positive Energy healing!

On the contrary, Necromancers who specialized in Negative Energy were often heard of.

However, Necromancers were the type who couldn't see the light of day at all; once discovered, they were basically dead for sure. But researching Positive Energy was not a taboo, so why did no one study it?

Or was it because, due to the existence of Priests, the Mages were all too lazy to study it?

Xia Duo felt this was possible; after all, a person's energy and time were always limited, and it was more appropriate to let professional people do professional things.

But there were other possibilities; perhaps this was a bit of private space retained after the Temple forces and the Arcane Spellcaster group compromised and submitted.

Regardless, after experiencing this, Xia Duo decided to return to the Main Plane. Even if he didn't research it himself, he would at least fund one or two full-time Arcane Spellcasters to engage in research in the field of Positive Energy healing.

To avoid encountering this situation again next time and only being able to wait in anxiety and stare helplessly.

Based on the current speed of the Negative Energy Erosion, Xia Duo estimated that his current body could only last for seven or eight days at most. Of course, it was also possible he would die suddenly in a day or two.

Therefore, in the current situation, Xia Duo had to find an organization, and he hadn't forgotten his true purpose for entering the Projection Plane—he wasn't here to go sightseeing or to indulge in sentimental reflections!

Rather, it was to find information related to resurrection spells, which was the so-called "Death Authority."

His current body, "Maikade," belonged to the resistance organization 【Vengeance Tribunal】, which was formed by survivors of the Arcane Empire's Judgment Division after the Empire's destruction.

If he could find the survivors of the 【Resurrection Department】, then perhaps he could find the resurrection spell!

However, in "Maikade's" memories, there was no concept of a 【Resurrection Department】; instead, there was a resurrection mechanism within the 【Vengeance Tribunal】.

It was just that the resurrection of the 【Vengeance Tribunal】 was listed as an absolute secret of the organization. Although Maikade himself could enjoy the benefits of resurrection, he could absolutely not reach the true secrets.

Climbing up in the organization to obtain the resurrection spell was not Xia Duo's first choice, because he did not know when this Projection Plane would cycle.

Even if there was no cycle and time could continue indefinitely, he was not prepared to do so. For a secret resistance organization, it was by no means an easy task to get promoted.

Perhaps it would take decades of grinding to become a core member of the organization and then gain access to the true secrets, but Xia Duo clearly could not stay in the Projection Plane for that long.

His plan was to first contact the 【Vengeance Tribunal】, and then, with the help of the organization's power, search for clues about the survivors of the 【Resurrection Department】, or clues to where the Resurrection Department was located in the ruins of the Empire.

Of course, if there was an opportunity during this time to directly obtain information about the resurrection spell from the organization, Xia Duo would not deliberately let it pass.

After setting the tone for his actions, Xia Duo returned to the Surface and sent a directional Sending toward the direction of the Empire's ruins. This spell contained traces of communicating with the Magic Web Background Communication Array, but it also looked like meaningless, aimless, random Spellcasting.

But this was a unique contact method of the 【Vengeance Tribunal】. From this point of view, after the destruction of the Arcane Empire, the Empire Remnants had not given up on Magic research, and in some fields, they had even made progress.

Not long after Xia Duo sent the message, he received a piece of information, which included a teleportation coordinate based on Magic Web Background Fluctuation Positioning, as well as a sentence—

Telling him to head to that coordinate location!

This coordinate was seen for the first time in "Maikade's" memories, but the form of the coordinate was not unfamiliar; on the contrary, it was very familiar.

And for Xia Duo, this form of teleportation coordinate was both familiar and unfamiliar. It was familiar because he had organized Maikade's memories and knew of such an existence; it was unfamiliar because he had not teleported even once using such a method.

The so-called teleportation coordinate based on Magic Web Background Fluctuation Positioning was actually an instant coordinate, similar to Magic Web Background Communication; it could only complete the teleportation when the other party accepted it.

In other words, this was a teleportation coordinate that did not contain target location information.

Xia Duo had never seen such technology in the 【Projection Plane: Arcane Empire】, and it was even less present in Netheril on the Main Plane.

General Teleportation Spells must have a coordinate corresponding to a real location. Even for Random Teleportation, there was actually a target, but the positioning method was fuzzy, and many constraints had been artificially reduced.

It looked like this was another new technology developed by the Empire Remnants.

But thinking about it, if there weren't this kind of relatively secret Teleportation Spell, how could these Empire Remnants avoid the Elves' searches?

It couldn't be that the Elves had wiped out nearly ten million people, yet specifically let go of a group of remnants who claimed they still wanted revenge?

Thinking about it, that was also unlikely. Since a deep hatred had already been forged and they held the upper hand, then hunting down the survivors to the last person was the most necessary thing for the victors to do.

This was also reflected in "Maikade's" memories.

The most important task of the 【Vengeance Tribunal】 was to attack the Elves. Whether it was a village, a town, or a single Elf Commoner, as long as there was an opportunity, they could kill them, and killing them could accumulate points.

Whether it was resurrection after death, obtaining new spells, new knowledge, or increasing Permission Level, it all depended on these points.

And on the Elves' side, they were also constantly searching for traces of the Empire Remnants. Once discovered, it was common for high-level Mages to take action directly.

Clearly, the hatred between the two sides had reached the point where it could only be dispelled if one side was completely wiped out.