Chapter 2571: Space Folds

For various considerations, the ancient Elves concentrated the Mythallar control permissions into one place for unified management; this place is the location of the Mythallar Control Center mentioned in the Dragon Madness Secret Scroll.

Its formal name is—Feres Fortress.

For a moment, Xia Duo stopped the Calculator test experiment his main body was conducting and shifted most of his consciousness to his projection, first roughly determining the size of the anomaly based on the results of the 【Element Scanning】.

Looking at it from the surface alone, this area is not large; compared to a Control Center capable of controlling a Mythallar that covers the entire Main Plane, this area is pitifully small.

It is centered on a certain cliff face, spanning an area of one or two hundred new-meters around it.

Xia Duo cautiously approached that central zone, where the edge of the continent formed a nearly vertical fracture; below it was bottomless, with pale, deep, solid ice freezing everything.

Xia Duo moved through the ice, not feeling that this area was any different from the places he had experienced before; it seemed this was just a very ordinary frozen layer.

Yet, in the anomalous areas discovered previously, one could always find some unusual things, such as mineral veins, ruins, or traces left by the activities of Elemental Creatures.

But here there was nothing, only a dark cliff face and the solid ice wrapping the cliff, which was no different from the ice in the Seven Towers area.

"A cliff face?"

Suppressing these untimely thoughts in his heart, Xia Shao shifted his attention back to the magic existing in that area, observed for a moment, and then, unable to contain his wandering thoughts in the space, he separated his Personal Space from the Main Plane.

As long as he could figure out what the magic here actually was, perhaps he could find the hidden space!

If he hadn't detected the elemental anomaly earlier, he might have truly overlooked it, but now, knowing that an anomaly existed here, how could he turn a blind eye?

Although he judged it highly likely that Feres Fortress was right here, he did not rule out the possibility of it being a decoy; after all, the only thing he could conclude now was that the magical traces here were not naturally formed, but definitely man-made.

This kind of method of directly playing with a small Plane does not look like something a single-Plane civilization could develop.

If the Plane is the larger part of the bottom half of a gourd, then the fortress is likely located in the folded space of the upper half of the gourd.

But—

Thinking of this, Xia Shao could not help but let his thoughts wander: is the Eastern World operating the same way, using some kind of power to tie a "knot" in the middle of the Plane, with one half being the Xilu + Dong Bu Di Qu where Xia Shao is currently located, and the other half being the Eastern World?

Although it was impossible to determine yet that this was Feres Fortress, the magic here was already not the same concept as those discovered previously.

Continuing the search, if he could rule out all the suspicious points of the previous anomalous areas, then this place would not just be man-made traces, but Feres Fortress itself. At present, the magical traces here could only be produced by intelligent beings, not natural phenomena!

Xia Duo's gaze stared fixedly at the giant wall standing before him; from afar it looked very flat, but only up close did he discover rows of cracks on the surface, as well as fist-sized, neatly arranged rock protrusions.

Of course, this part could be carried out to a large extent through the brain-computer, and the few parts that could not be simulated by calculation would be verified through experiments once a certain amount was collected.

Subsequently, Xia Shao checked the Ether Plane and Shadow Plane that overlapped with this area, but could not find any direct clues related to the fortress, though there were many indirect ones.

The anomalies discovered previously could generally be classified as natural phenomena; even the traces of Elemental Creature activity could be seen as naturally occurring under the current freezing environment.

In the cliff areas he had searched before, he had also seen similar scenes; those here were merely more orderly.

It seemed there was no fundamental difference from other places; the rock protrusions on the cliff face looked like the erosion effects from water flow or the freezing process of seawater.

If it were an ordinary situation, Xia Shao's current Personal Space would already be extremely large; once it completely overlapped with the Main Plane, it would be enough to completely cover this area, including the fortress body within it.

But the memory from his previous observation remained, and he could still use the magical details observed earlier to try to find the true secret here.

But now, there was only a limited part of the cliff face, and the figure of the fortress could not be seen at all.

It was also in this state that Xia Shao could use the Personal Space to perceive the other layer of space overlapping with it, and this kind of perception between spaces is the most real.

Normally, one cannot contact that part of space through the method of Plane Overlap; only by finding the small opening constricted in the middle of the gourd can one find the hidden space.

And now, through the Personal Space, Xia Shao saw the real scene of the Main Plane; it was still the cliff face and solid ice, but the difference was—

And in this process, Xia Shao himself was also in the Plane Overlap area; this is a very special state where the Personal Space exists within his consciousness, yet his consciousness now exists within the Personal Space.

But the clearly regular magical traces here could absolutely not be naturally produced; if one insisted on saying they were naturally produced, the probability would be like a monkey randomly pressing keys on a typewriter and producing a world-class masterpiece.

……

Thinking of this, Xia Shao stepped back a distance, retreating to a place where he felt he would not be affected, still remaining in the cold ice, and as he did when checking the anomalous areas before, he completely overlapped the Personal Space with this area.

It gave people a contradictory yet harmonious feeling.

Simply put, it is very likely that this area is truly Feres Fortress; the reason the figure of the fortress cannot be seen might be the result of some setting of the fortress working together with the natural environment of this area.

And now, this elemental anomaly area is very likely where that small opening is; after all, folded space wouldn't be so flashy, and wanting to hide a space must involve magic.

At the very least, when he is in the Projection Plane, he can even discern its virtual essence within the Projection Plane through such a method, which is impossible with ordinary inspection means.

The traces of magic finally appeared!

It was as if a portion of the area had been carried along by the Main Plane and fallen into a space fold.

As for now, Xia Shao bypassed this area and continued the search work for the next area.

It was just that this speculation was too shocking; Xia Shao would rather believe that the Eastern World was hidden through order and laws, or perhaps some other power, such as the legendary "Nine Provinces Barrier" and so on.

This kind of effect caused the fortress body to disappear from the Main Plane in a way that was closer to reality.

Carefully distinguishing the many magical details appearing in the Personal Space, Xia Shao initially judged that they were not the root cause of the current state of this area, but merely a result.

Whether it was the Ether Plane or the Shadow Plane, it seemed as if a piece was missing in this area; the "missing" here did not mean the Plane was truly empty inside, but that in this area, the topographical and geomorphological features in those two Planes showed relatively obvious differences.

Although theoretically that possibility is not completely ruled out, in practice, that possibility must be ignored.