Chapter 1752: Demons, Seeking Aid

Under normal circumstances, on the Main Plane, a single Fireball is enough to melt a gold coin.

Of course, silver coins and copper coins can also be melted.

But now, the Mingshui Gold Coin that Xia Duo threw remained unchanged after being subjected to the relatively concentrated Elemental Burst of the 【Fireball】, only becoming a bit hotter.

"How can this be?"

Xia Duo, refusing to believe it, cast another Fireball, and at the same time, he synchronized a measurement spell to detect the extreme temperature during the fire element burst.

But the result was even harder for him to accept than the previous two fruitless Fireballs—

The detected extreme temperature was exactly the same as that detected on the Main Plane!

Then, has the nature of the gold coin changed?

Or has the manifestation of magic changed as a whole?

Or perhaps both?

Regarding the former, Xia Duo was not quite sure, but for the latter, he could almost be certain that magic in the Outer Planes must differ from the Main Plane; he just hadn't expected the difference to be so great.

At first, he thought it was just a difference in spellcasting methods, and that as long as he unraveled the veil on the surface of the Outer Planes' Magic Net, he would be able to adapt as quickly as he did on the Material Plane.

But the facts told him that the difference was far greater than he had imagined!

Next, Xia Duo took out an Arcane Crystal and began to silently weave a new 9th Circle spell; perhaps there was a problem with the Outer Planes' Magic Net, making his spells nothing more than a mirage, closer to falsehood.

For this, he decided to use the "Reality" energy brought from the Main Plane.

To the current Xia Duo, one Arcane Crystal was not even a drop in the bucket; if the problem could be solved just by spending a few Arcane Crystals, it couldn't be more cost-effective for him.

Soon, as the Arcane Fire unfolded, a spell tentatively named 【Controllable Elemental Burst Field】 quickly took shape.

The next moment, the two mutated hyenas in front of Xia Duo's shield were enveloped by a translucent cubic field, and immediately after, a burst of bright light erupted within the field.

After flashing twice like this, even the ground within the field's coverage was thinned by a layer, and as for those two mutated hyenas, naturally, not even ash remained.

"This is the normal way to open magic!"

Xia Duo silently muttered to himself that the previous attempt didn't count and was about to deal with the remaining dozen or so mutated hyenas, but the next moment, his expression changed, and his gaze fixed on the smooth ground formed by the sweep of the 【Controllable Elemental Burst Field】.

A black-gray pattern had appeared there out of thin air, and one could vaguely make out two mutated hyenas twisted and entangled together.

This image was too abstract, to the point that it made Xia Duo feel truly disgusted, and beside him, Yalun and the others were already retching and looking away.

"Demons!"

Xia Duo coldly squeezed out a word from between his teeth that he did not want to say, but the current scene made it hard for him not to associate it with demons.

Just during last year's Snow Melting Competition, a Drow Mage had snuck in and summoned several demons, and after being killed, they had left behind similar traces.

These traces were the so-called "Demon Aura," and of course, they also contained other Perception information after contact with demons; this information included the Plane Coordinate of the demons' origin.

Like Xia Duo now, he was fully capable of using these existing patterns to descend directly into the lair of these demon-like mutated hyenas with the help of Soul Transition.

As for whether he could return safely after descending, that was another matter; Xia Duo was not stupid enough to go to the enemy's lair alone.

So how should these demons be dealt with next?

Killing them directly was clearly a poor strategy; without figuring out why these demons were targeting the Daxia Homeland, Xia Duo could never be at ease. From the fact that these hyena demons were even more frantic when facing him, he could almost judge that these demons were coming for him.

But Xia Duo considered that he had never provoked any demons, so why were they coming for him? And they even found the Daxia Homeland?

This was his designated Shenguo, and also an important part of the future Daxia Resurrection Department; it was something he could not give up no matter what.

While he was pondering, Mengte suddenly let out an exclamation, "Look! The ground is smoking!"

As soon as Xia Duo looked up, he saw the abstract demon pattern on the smooth ground left by the 【Controllable Elemental Burst Field】 slowly evaporating; at least that was what he saw.

At the same time, the pattern was also slowly disappearing, seemingly turning into a wisp of gray-black smoke rising in curls.

"Yalun, have you seen this before?"

"No."

Seeing this scene, Yalun also furrowed his brows and smiled bitterly: "We haven't been able to truly kill a mutated hyena before, so how could we have seen such a scene! Lord, what is going on?"

"Demons, have you heard of them?"

"No, but hearing this word, I have a vague, bad premonition, as if I've been targeted by some existence harboring malice."

"Hmm?"

Yalun's words surprised Xia Duo greatly. It wasn't the first or second time he had mentioned "demons," so why didn't he have such a feeling? Or were these Reincarnators like Yalun naturally sensitive to demons?

"What about you, Mengte? Have you heard of demons before? What do you feel about this word?"

"Lord, I hadn't heard of demons before today either, but like Yalun, hearing this word gives me a bad premonition, as if a heavy stone has suddenly pressed down on my heart, feeling heavy."

With Mengte speaking up, the nearby villagers, one by one, also expressed their thoughts, which were mostly the same as what Yalun and Mengte said—all bad premonitions.

If only one or two people said this, Xia Duo might have comforted himself that it was perhaps Yalun and Mengte's illusion, but since everyone said so, there was no doubt that these Reincarnators were exceptionally sensitive to demons.

Could this be the reason why the Daxia Homeland was targeted by this group of hyena-like demons?

"But how to explain myself?"

Xia Duo himself was not exceptionally sensitive to demons, yet these demons seemed more like they were coming for him, which made him somewhat uneasy.

After a brief thought, Xia Duo quickly made a decision—

"You all stay on alert for a while; I'm going to the Kingdom of Radiance, and we'll talk when I return!"

"Lord, let Peiluo go with you; he lived in the Kingdom of Radiance before and is more familiar with it, so he might be of some help."

Although Yalun trusted Xia Duo, the matter of the demons was truly too unusual, and he would rather prepare in advance than regret it when the time came.

"Peiluo? This name sounds a bit unfamiliar! Did he live in the Kingdom of Radiance before?"

"Yes, he has been here for a while."

As he spoke, Yalun pointed out Peiluo from the crowd and called him to Xia Duo's side. Seeing this, Xia Duo agreed, although he was quite puzzled as to why this guy had lived in the Kingdom of Radiance before but had now come to the Daxia Homeland.

But he also knew that now was not the time to get to the bottom of it; the most urgent matter was to deal with the hyena demons.