Chapter 1538: Changing Strategy, Discovering the Target

Next, Xia Duo hung the unstable restraint Amulet back inside his Mage Robe; as long as it was not affected by spells in the short term, there should not be any accidents.

The reason he did not put it into his Personal Space was mainly because Xia Duo was worried that this guy would be swallowed by the Personal Space, as this was not without precedent.

He had previously, either by accident or on purpose, stored Souls into his Personal Space several times, but almost the moment they were stored, the Souls would directly explode.

Literally explode, though the product of the explosion was not some unknown thing, but a micro Plane; these small Planes would not exist for long, but would quickly annihilate, adding some space to the Personal Space.

If the integration of Arcane Energy still had a process, then the integration of a Soul was too fast, so fast that Xia Duo could not stop it at all.

Although the Personal Space could expand a little after a Soul was integrated, he now had an Independent Arcane Fire Device and was not at all short of Arcane Crystals that could also expand the space; rather, a Soul was a non-renewable resource that was more precious.

With several lessons learned from experience, how could Xia Duo do such a foolish thing similar to "burning money directly to keep warm" again?

……

After dealing with the Phantom, Xia Duo continued to search forward, but for a considerable time afterward, he did not encounter that kind of strange creature again.

Of course, he also did not encounter Buluode or any other human.

During the search, Xia Duo sent a Sending to Buluode almost every time he walked a certain distance, and at the same time left a triggered message nearby; of course, there were also some for Iolum.

But from beginning to end, he did not receive any reply.

Continuing forward, the road ahead was already vastly different from the Laboratory area, and the differences were becoming greater and greater; it seemed that the Ether Plane was irresistibly merging into this area.

"This shouldn't be! What exactly happened over at Iolum's side?"

Xia Duo was completely baffled by this; theoretically, the Ether Plane could indeed complete the overlap of nearly infinite space with a small piece of space in the Main Plane.

But theory is theory, and it is very difficult to achieve in reality.

But now, this kind of nearly natural spatial expansion must have a source; Xia Duo realized that if he continued to search aimlessly like this, it was very likely he would never find the end.

It was just like an ant crawling along a ruler that was stretching; as long as the crawling speed did not exceed the speed at which the ruler was stretching, it would never reach the end.

A similar example was interstellar travel on Earth; as long as a place was receding from Earth at a speed exceeding the speed of light, humans would never be able to reach it.

And at the moment, Xia Duo was not sure how long this spatial expansion would last—would it be for a period of time, or permanent?

If it were the latter, then the impact of this matter would be almost endless, almost creating a "Dong Tian Shi Jie" out of thin air in Seventon.

"Must find Iolum as soon as possible!"

Searching until now, he had realized that if he could not find Iolum, he himself might get trapped here.

If there were no accidents, the road he came by should have already changed.

This further strengthened his idea of changing his search strategy; the environment was changing too fast, and he could not continue to search aimlessly.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo simply stopped and carefully observed the surrounding Magic Net; although the space in this area was expanding rapidly, the riotous Magic Net had not subsided because of this, but instead remained at a certain intensity.

Neither increasing nor decreasing.

This further indicated that an extremely tragic turmoil was occurring somewhere in this area; even if it was not the source, it was at least related to the source.

Adopting a macroscopic perspective, Xia Duo carefully observed the macroscopic Magic Net, which was like a mass of boiling and churning muddy water, trying hard to find suspicious points within it.

"Found it!"

A structural framework that did not have an obvious boundary with its surroundings suddenly appeared in Xia Duo's field of vision; logically speaking, the macroscopic Magic Net was already chaotic, and it was almost impossible for a regular Magic Net framework to form spontaneously within a piece of chaos.

It was like a monkey playing the piano and playing a Chopin sonata; it was not to say it was completely impossible, but it was almost impossible to happen in reality.

Although that piece of regular framework flashed and disappeared, Xia Duo could trace his memory, and he was very sure that he had not seen it wrong.

Because the distance was too far, he could not reach the microscopic Magic Net String structure, and relying only on the macroscopic framework, it was also difficult for Xia Duo to analyze anything useful.

The only thing that could be certain was that even if that side was not Iolum, it was definitely related to Iolum.

After a simple calculation of the distance, Xia Duo almost had a mental breakdown; from where he was to that side, it was at least more than ten New Li (kilometers), and this distance had already exceeded Seventon.

But he clearly knew that even if he ran over there, theoretically he was still in the Arcane Union Headquarters, or more accurately, within a part of the Headquarters' core Laboratory!

"How to deal with this unlucky matter, I'm afraid the Seven Towers will also have a headache for a long time!"

No matter what, Xia Duo still set off quickly, because with a relatively clear goal, his speed of advance this time was several times faster than before.

If it were not for guarding against possible sneak attacks, he could have been even faster.

And while moving, he also often observed the state of the macroscopic Magic Net; it was not until he had traveled halfway that he once again observed a regular framework whose edges were integrated with the chaos but could still be distinguished.

After a simple calculation, Xia Duo reached a conclusion: if the position observed now was the same as the one just observed, then the speed of spatial expansion in this area was about four or five hundred meters per minute.

That is to say, if he followed his initial search speed, he would indeed never reach the end.

Of course, one could not fully conclude that the spatial expansion speed here was like this based on only two observations, but at least it could serve as a certain reference.

……

On the rest of the way, Xia Duo did not observe any regular framework in the macroscopic Magic Net, but he did not need to anymore, because he soon saw intense Magic fluctuations ahead from a conventional microscopic perspective.

Its intensity was already able to stand out from the already very riotous Magic Net background, and it could completely be called a "riot within a riot."

Xia Duo temporarily slowed his pace, and at the same time retracted the Micro Magic Net that the Arcane Fire had expanded and extended; this action almost immediately triggered many induced triggered spells that sensed the changes here.

Most were mainly elemental impacts, which were not obvious hidden in the Magic Net environment that was already very riotous and randomly gave birth to various spells.

If the Magic Net calmed down a little, the induced triggered spells here would become obvious, but now, although the probability of random spells appearing here was indeed slightly greater than in ordinary areas, it would not be more eye-catching than the peaceful domain constructed by Arcane Fire.

The only troublesome point was—without the automatic elimination of the Micro Magic Net, Xia Duo had to resist all the random spells generated around him by himself.