Chapter 1527: Investigating Moonshadow, Dead Silence Environment

Xierdalanna knew she might have said something wrong again, but Bulin's silence also made her feel irritated, so she stopped questioning and instead said in a business-like tone:

"I want you to go and investigate what the Moonshadow Family has been doing lately!"

"Understood, I will give you an answer later."

Bulin replied, broke free from Xierdalanna's arm, and was about to leave. Xierdalanna subconsciously wanted to reach out to stop him, but in the end, she only waved her hand powerlessly and said:

"Take care of yourself."

"Understood."

After Bulin left, Xierdalanna stood silently in place for a long time, watching the direction Bulin had left in, and shed tears quietly.

……

Seventon, Arcane Union.

Just after coming out of the Teleportation Room, Xia Duo headed straight for Iolum's Study without a moment's rest, but halfway there, he ran into Buluode.

"No need to go to the Study. The teacher is in the Laboratory. He knows you've arrived and asked me to bring you over."

"Uh—alright!"

Xia Duo was quite puzzled in his heart; such a matter could have been handled with a Sending, there was absolutely no need to make a trip in person. With a trace of doubt, Xia Duo followed Buluode toward the area where they had previously conducted the Independent Arcane Fire Device experiment.

"The teacher said before that he found a way to deal with the Elf's Monitoring Divine Art; what exactly is the method?"

"You'll know in a moment!"

Like Iolum, Buluode was also being evasive and mysterious about this, refusing to reveal a single word. Xia Duo simply disabled the effect of the 【Walking Ring】 for the time being, and his passive 【Cloud-Riding】 immediately took effect.

Enveloped in wisps of Cloud Qi, he flew rapidly toward the Laboratory.

"Wait, Xia Duo, don't be in such a rush! The Laboratory has just been renovated; it's very dangerous if you aren't familiar with it!"

Buluode's words had some effect; Xia Duo slowed down, and only after Buluode caught up did they fly over together.

But when they were about ten meters away from the Laboratory, Xia Duo stopped on his own. At this moment, the Magic Net environment ahead was vastly different from normal; it had become sluggish, fragile, and had lost its vitality, as if it would collapse at any moment.

At this time, Buluode also stopped and said to Xia Duo quite proudly: "How about it? Did you guess what plan we used?"

"Yes, I think I don't need to guess anymore!"

Looking at the large area of artificially created Magic Net Dead Zone ahead, Xia Duo really didn't know what to say. Regarding how to shield against Monitoring Divine Art, he had previously envisioned quite a few plans.

The most effective one was probably to wrap the entire experimental area with a Magic Net Dead Zone, conducting experiments in the normal Magic Net area inside, where it would be absolutely impossible for the outside to monitor.

But this plan had a fatal flaw: the normal Magic Net environment wrapped by the Dead Zone would be rapidly assimilated by the Dead Zone.

Without solving this problem, this plan would always be a castle in the air.

Additionally, how to create a Magic Net Dead Zone that was just right was also a very thorny problem.

Magic Net Dead Zones were generally caused by the collapse of a Mythallar, and one couldn't say that a specific shape was formed just when it collapsed.

Most importantly, the Magic Net itself possessed self-healing capabilities, and they were very powerful. To make the Magic Net unable to heal itself showed how severe the destruction was and how strong the power required was; the uncertain factors involved were great.

Even for Xia Duo, with the methods he could think of to create a Magic Net Dead Zone, he would only be able to create a Mythallar first and then destroy it, and there was no guarantee the result would be what he wanted.

"Xia Duo, follow me."

Buluode's voice awakened Xia Duo from his deep thought. Looking at Buluode again, he had already started walking toward the Magic Net Dead Zone ahead.

Thus, Xia Duo hurriedly followed. Only when he truly approached the Dead Zone did he feel the powerful force hidden beneath the sluggishness and fragility, eager to burst forth.

This was not a true Magic Net Dead Zone!

Having had multiple experiences with Dead Zones, Xia Duo immediately reached this conclusion. In a true Dead Zone, the Magic Net was as if it had truly died, without the slightest fluctuation.

But here, even a superficial Perception could tell that the Magic Net here, although its activity was very low, was indeed active.

Xia Duo attempted to cast a spell, but just as he "grasped" a Magic Net String, he was interrupted by Buluode: "It's not very stable here yet, don't try to cast spells, follow behind me, walk slowly!"

Buluode's cautious demeanor gave Xia Duo some guesses. He did not continue to insist on trying, but instead followed behind Buluode, walking slowly.

At this time, they were not walking along the familiar 【Laboratory-Corridor-Laboratory】 corridor of this area, but rather a winding, temporary passage that sometimes passed through corridors and sometimes went through laboratories.

The reason it was called "temporary" was because this passage did not exist originally, but was newly opened up by someone during the time Xia Duo was away, destroying the original architectural structure.

While walking through the passage, Xia Duo could clearly see the remains of Mithril Components on the cross-sections of the walls, many of which were still dissipating elements and energy outward even now.

Although it was an incomplete version of a Magic Net Dead Zone, it was still related to "dead," and these dissipated elements and energy could not re-enter the Magic Net cycle and could only remain in reality, constantly accumulating.

In some places where energy dissipation was severe, elemental anomalies had already formed. Whenever Buluode passed by them, he would slightly expand his Arcane Fire to absorb all the elements and energy in those places.

The further they went toward the Core Area, the more Magic equipment and facilities there were, especially those directly linked to the Arcane Union's energy pool, a significant portion of which had suffered severe damage.

As Xia Duo walked along, the more he saw, the more puzzled he became. This looked more like a ruin after a battle than an experimental area that was still in use and intended to continue being used.

There were many laboratories here, not just the seven used by the previous Independent Arcane Fire Device project; many laboratories were almost completely scrapped in their entirety.

"How much longer?"

As he walked, Xia Duo felt something was wrong. Even with many detours, the total area of this region should be fixed; wouldn't this much time be enough to walk through the whole thing?

"We had already conducted two rounds of experiments before you arrived. The process went quite smoothly, it's just that there was an accident with the Semi-plane; it uncontrollably merged with the Laboratory."

"There's such a thing?"

Such an outrageous thing, Xia Duo had only seen it before when exploring the Inosen Mage Tower; he didn't expect such an accident to happen here at Iolum's place too.

No wonder he said before that this was only an expedient measure for an emergency and not worth promoting; now it seemed that was indeed the case!

Once the Independent Arcane Fire Device project was over, the pile of messes left here would probably take some cleaning up!