Chapter 1973: The Floating City Sets Sail

Blue Crystal Plane.

The water was clear, resembling a void, and Xia Duo's Floating City floated silently in this void formed by the nameless waters like a tiny star.

In the Control Room, Xia Duo reached out and swiped across the external image presented by the Scrying spell before him; the image transformed into another abstract one, resembling a vortex of various pigments.

This was the status map of the external Magic Net. For the time being, Xia Duo had not yet had time to design a more intuitive, readable interface for it, so he had simply fed back the results detected by the Scrying spell in the form of an image.

To an ordinary person, this was no different from a mess of mixed paste, and even for most High Mages, it was difficult to directly interpret the parameters within.

But Xia Duo had long been accustomed to this method; although primitive, it would not miss a single bit of information. If he were to make a more intuitive, readable interface, he would need to extract certain key features, which would inevitably result in the loss of the remaining detected information.

After confirming that the surrounding Magic Net parameters were all normal, Xia Duo asked Niya, "Are you ready?"

Niya, sitting in the seat on the other side of the command room, also had a dazzling Magic Image before her. At this moment, her face was tense and her expression serious. Upon receiving Xia Duo's confirmation, she immediately said loudly:

"Ready."

"Then let's go, advance! Coordinates ******!"

Xia Duo's mood at this moment was also very excited; he wished he could shout, "Our journey is the sea of stars!"

The future was indeed that, but for now, there was only one destination: the Crimson Plane. As the order was given, Niya immediately took over the Floating City's Flight Control System.

At this time, Xia Duo reminded her, "The Magic Net environment of the Crimson Plane is poor; start the Redundant System first!"

"Understood!"

Niya's eyes were fixed on the status map of the Floating City's various systems on the Magic Image. This was also abstract and ever-changing, but Niya had participated in the construction of the Floating City almost from start to finish, so she was naturally no stranger to these.

Although she was not as proficient as Xia Duo, it was enough to support her in completing the subsequent operations, not to mention that Xia Duo was watching from the side.

……

As the Floating City's Redundant System started, the external Magic Net status map before Xia Duo immediately underwent changes. Originally, under the influence of the Adaptive Mythallar, the Floating City had seemed to merge with the external Magic Net.

But now, it was as if a behemoth were slowly emerging from the bottom of the water, stirring up huge waves. Represented on the Magic Net status map, it was a bright sphere that even an ordinary person could distinguish, with a large number of tentacles radiating densely from its surroundings, like a giant sea urchin.

And around this bright sphere, after experiencing an initial massive yet slight oscillation, the Magic Net remained that abstract, infinite vortex image of mixed colors.

Afterwards, Niya operated it again, but this time it did not cause much of a ripple in the external Magic Net. Only a small number of vortexes in the Magic Net status map began to flow slowly, and it was expected that it would soon return to balance.

"Plane Yaoyue ready!"

"Begin!"

Under Xia Duo's Indication, Niya decisively activated the Floating City's Plane Yaoyue function. At the same time, Xia Duo reopened a real-time image of the Floating City's exterior.

Judging solely from the image, or rather the detection results, there was nothing abnormal outside; the shimmering waters remained peaceful. However, Xia Duo knew that the huge void caused by the Floating City's sudden disappearance would inevitably trigger massive undercurrents in this area of the Blue Crystal Plane.

Fortunately, when he built the Floating City, he had considered that the movement would be relatively large when the Floating City left the Blue Crystal Plane, so he had chosen this area far away from Murloc Island.

This way, it would not disturb the Murloc Tribe on the island.

……

At the same time, although there was no change in the real-time image of the Floating City's exterior, signs of pigment vortex flow appeared again in the Magic Net status map, and the scope involved was becoming wider and wider, almost having the trend of completely surrounding the bright sphere.

If a Spellcaster were observing from outside the Floating City at this moment, they would find that the Floating City was erupting with intense Magic Aura. The strength of this light might even cause their Perception to become disordered, giving rise to unspeakable panic.

With such a big commotion, Xia Duo did not doubt that the Floating City would inevitably receive a Supermagic Ticket for performing a Plane Yaoyue in the Main Plane; in fact, the very existence of the Floating City was a large-scale Supermagic Event.

He could fully imagine that once he brought the Floating City back to the Main Plane, he would inevitably face various difficulties from the Northland Alliance, or rather, the Elven Nations.

It might not be direct hostility, but they would always find ways to make him uncomfortable, such as frequently initiating supermagic investigations, or questioning the progress of the investigation, and so on.

But by then, Xia Duo would no longer care about those things; this was the price one must pay to become a powerhouse in the public eye.

Having reached this step, it was already difficult to hide in the shadows or remain under someone's protection. Whether he was willing or not, he had been appearing more and more frequently in various major events in the Northland.

Or rather, his every move now could influence the landscape and development of the Northland.

……

The Yaoyue was still continuing. Although it was called Yaoyue, it was essentially teleportation—teleportation using the Ether Plane or the Astral Plane as a medium.

Of course, Xia Duo's current Floating City did not use the Astral Plane as a medium for teleportation. Astral teleportation involved the spiritual level and, compared to the Ether medium, had too many uncertainties.

Before reducing the risk to a level similar to the Ether medium, Xia Duo did not intend to apply Astral-medium teleportation to the Floating City.

"Ether Plane linked!" Niya was reporting the Yaoyue information.

Xia Duo did not say much, just nodded slightly and hummed. Soon, Niya reported the progress again, "Ether Plane overlapped!"

Just then, the real-time external image before Xia Duo suddenly changed. Roughly bounded by the edge of the Yaoyue influence, the water seemed to have distorted.

It looked like a giant water sphere with a slightly different refractive index for light was wrapping around the Floating City.

"Crimson Plane linked—" Niya reported again.

This time, Xia Duo had no reaction, just looking at the Magic Net status map before him. He knew that the key step of the Yaoyue was about to begin.

"Crimson Plane overlapped!"

"Yaoyue successful!"

Following Niya's crisp and excited broadcast, the Magic Net status map before Xia Duo suddenly underwent earth-shaking changes. The patterns that could originally be seen as vortex-shaped were now almost stirred into a pot of porridge, completely unrecognizable.

Seeing this scene, Xia Duo immediately reconstructed it in his mind into the true appearance of the external Magic Net—rioting, and even tearing!

The Magic Net of the Crimson Plane was indeed as he had expected; it could not withstand the appearance of the Floating City for even a moment, let alone doing anything inside it. I am afraid that just staying there quietly for a little longer would accelerate the speed of the Plane's collapse.