Chapter 242: New Project

Not long after, one by one, the spells Xia Duo had mastered appeared in the water 20 meters away, then on the surface, and later on, Xia Duo had already skillfully treated the river section as his own body, extending his spells to 20 meters away.

This was still while Xia Duo was at the center of the water domain he controlled; if he were to spread it in only one direction, Xia Duo could even extend his spells to 50 meters away!

This was something Xia Duo could not possibly achieve under normal circumstances!

Perhaps his spells could influence things 50 meters away, but that would only be an influence, not spellcasting at 50 meters; these are completely different concepts.

Never mind 50 meters; normally, the Magic Net is already very blurry beyond 10 meters, making precise manipulation impossible, and in pursuit of greater precision, Xia Duo would even keep the source of his spells close to his body.

For a 2nd Circle Spell like 【Imprisonment Sphere】, Xia Duo would place the spell source at his fingertip, and later, he would even use the suggestion of his finger pointing to enhance his focus and reduce the difficulty of spellcasting.

After the spell succeeds, a Force Sphere only the size of a pupil flies out rapidly, expanding continuously during the process, which is actually a sign of the spell gradually losing control.

Upon hitting the target, the Force Sphere immediately clings to and imprisons the target, after which it is no longer under Xia Duo's control.

To cast this spell, Xia Duo needs to concentrate and recall the spell structure, which is also a way to assist memory, then fill the spell structure with all the elements, and finally operate the Magic Net at his fingertip to release the spell.

The effective range of different spells varies.

An ordinary 【Magic Missile】 can fly over 50 meters, but once his 【Imprisonment Sphere】 exceeds 20 meters, it has almost no effect; the imprisonment force is nearly zero, and one doesn't even need to struggle deliberately to break free from the spell's influence.

But if he casts via Water Domain Spellcasting, the actual effective range of this 【Imprisonment Sphere】 becomes 50+20 meters, and the actual effective range of 【Magic Missile】 even reaches 50+50 meters.

It is easy to increase the effective range of a spell, but it is very difficult to increase the precise spellcasting distance.

Of course, being able to cast via Water Domain Spellcasting is indeed a significant advantage, but the water domain itself is also a significant weakness.

Moreover, Xia Duo does not believe that he is the only one in the world with the ability to increase spellcasting distance; just from the background of that game on Earth, Xia Duo knows that Mages can cast spells via 【Detection Spell】.

It is equivalent to casting a spell at a surveillance screen, and it can actually influence the target.

This is much more brilliant than Xia Duo's method, which is restricted by the water domain, but 【Detection Spell】 can also be blocked; as far as Xia Duo knows, a Spell Laboratory can block 【Detection Spell】.

If one is not in a Spell Laboratory, one can also research corresponding blocking, counter-measures, or even misleading spells via 【Detection Spell】.

Thinking about it this way, his Water Domain Spellcasting is actually a bit more brilliant after all.

……

After trying out the spells he was familiar with one by one, Xia Duo finally began to attempt the set of elements he had recorded from the Magic Arrow.

The Mithril structure of the arrow body connected multiple layers of the Magic Net, and Xia Duo only recorded one set from the surface layer of the Magic Net to the second layer; of course, this "one set" was also something he distinguished himself.

But whether it was truly a closely related set is hard to say.

In any case, he would try it first; this set of elements consisted of 9 in total—two 2nd Circle, three 1st Circle, and four 0-Ring elements, which looked smaller in quantity than 【Light】.

But from the surface layer of the Magic Net to the second layer, the Magic Net Strings were intertwined and coiled, which was much more complex than 【Light】, which only had 0-Ring elements.

Of course, the complexity here refers to the mechanism, not that the spellcasting difficulty was high.

The spellcasting difficulty was about the same as 【Light】; Xia Duo's current spellcasting technique was different from the past, not to mention being able to cast it at a glance, at least he could successfully cast it after trying a few more times.

But what the result would be was hard to judge in the short term.

"Hmm? What is this situation?"

Despite all the preparations Xia Duo had made, casting via the water domain and being on edge, he didn't expect that casting this set of elements would have no effect at all!

No, it couldn't be said that there was no effect at all, but any change to the Magic Net has a corresponding effect; it was just that this effect seemed fleeting and incomplete.

It was like a person walking, having just completed the neural interaction of lifting a leg, but from the outside, there was no movement at all.

It was similar to casting with a single element; it also had a corresponding Magic Effect, but it was a meaningless effect.

After brewing his mood for so long, the result didn't yield a single effect, so Xia Duo somewhat self-abandonedly repeated this set of elements, that is, superimposing it once more on the basis of the first set.

It is impossible for a normal spell to succeed by doing this, but if it is just elements that do not form a spell, it is much more open; by adding elements arbitrarily, perhaps a new spell could be formed!

Of course, it is more likely to result in a loss of control.

Whether the God of Magic heard Xia Duo's complaint, or it was just a coincidence that this set of elements really needed to be cast by superimposition, in any case—

The spell took effect; Xia Duo saw a cavity no larger than a fingertip suddenly appear in the water 20 meters away, but the next instant, the surrounding river water filled it back in.

There were no bubbles floating up!

At this time, the surrounding water domain was still under Xia Duo's control, and at the same time, his life instinct made him clearly feel a flash of Negative Energy.

Xia Duo didn't understand why, so he tried it again; it was still effective. It wasn't a blind cat hitting a dead mouse, but rather that there really was such a combination of elements corresponding to such an effect.

Regarding Negative Energy, Xia Duo was still quite cautious; he didn't want to touch this opposite side of life casually, as it would really shorten one's lifespan!

Although this amount was not as much as the Negative Energy released when a Goblin died, this was a pure spell; if he couldn't control his curiosity and kept doing it, how could one walk by the river often without getting their shoes wet?

Xia Duo immediately decided to stop; there was also that Magic Arrow in the Mythallar, which he had to handle even more cautiously. At least until he was sure, he wouldn't touch it easily, let alone move it.

Let it stay where it was for a while longer; it had already been there for hundreds or thousands of years, so a little longer wouldn't matter.

Returning to the camp, Xia Duo made two Magic Scrolls to relax and reconsidered the excavation of the ruins within the Mythallar. He would leave the Magic Arrow there for now and wait until he returned to the Tower of Time to check the data, or research a safe way to collect it himself.

If it were just a ring or a bracelet-shaped Magic Item, Xia Duo would never be so timid, but the arrow shape looked like an offensive item, and it still retained a Magic Aura; he didn't know if it was stock or an unactivated item after release.

In short, the danger coefficient of this thing was much higher than a magic ring or bracelet.

……

The next day, Xia Duo didn't bring a shovel, but brought his notebook; he prepared to first record all the elements he could "see" on the Magic Arrow.

This would become his long-term research project. Compared to all the known data obtained from the Tower of Time, researching these unknown things would surely enable him to understand the essence of the Magic Net and the Principles of spells more deeply.

Besides that, more importantly, it could broaden his horizons and exercise his ability to conduct independent research.

In a sense, this potentially very lethal Magic Arrow was Xia Duo's new mentor.

This new mentor might not be able to speak or answer questions, but it would fully display everything it possessed!