Chapter 2572: Interactive Reality Projection

Thus, Xia Duo split his attention three ways; a significant portion of his consciousness was used to maintain his physical body, while he simultaneously continued the calculator testing experiment and controlled his brain-computer to analyze the magic traces he had just discovered.

At the same time, his avatar also maintained a certain level of active consciousness, continuing to use the 【Element Scanning】 Magic Artifact to search the remaining unsearched areas at the edge of the continent.

Moving forward, regardless of which direction showed progress, it would be a breakthrough for him.

……

Two days later, Niya went to Seventon to attend a council meeting, while Xia Duo temporarily halted the calculator testing experiment, wanting to figure out how the magic effects triggered by calculations would evolve; it was difficult to achieve significant results in a short time.

This required accumulation through time and constant experimentation.

Xia Duo was now focusing his efforts on analyzing the magic traces in the area suspected to be the location of Feres Fortress; even the fact that he hadn't been able to find any suspicious abnormal areas in these two days made him feel a bit of slackness toward continuing the search.

Perhaps Feres Fortress was right there in the place he discovered two days ago!

Of course, although he felt a bit slack psychologically about continuing the search, he hadn't given up; after all, the search mainly relied on the 【Element Scanning】 Magic Artifact, and he only needed to rule out doubts if an abnormality was discovered.

The workload was not heavy, and could even be said to be extremely easy; on the contrary, the magic trace analysis side was fraught with difficulties.

……

That morning, in the Labyrinth Laboratory.

Those were two elven nations clearly capable of controlling dragons, and others possessing the Dragon Madness Secret Scroll likely had similar means.

If not for the influence of Xia Shao, the Crown War might have been their final glory.

Moreover, these past few days, through the study of all the magic traces in that abnormal area suspected to be Feres Fortress, Xia Shao was even more certain that it was Feres Fortress!

It shouldn't be a method of acting from outside the Plane like him, but rather a more ingenious means that could be folded from within the Plane.

And in the Projection Plane, driving dragons was even more common; the most ancient periods Xia Shao had experienced, Maiyelita and Ilythiiri, often drove dragons in war.

It was different from the Red Heart Alliance, which actually originated from Xia Shao's practical technical route, and instead had a more distinct ancient elven style—fitting to Nature, merging with Nature.

But as descendants of the rulers of the ancient era—even if they were overthrown rulers—they shouldn't be left with absolutely no family assets, right?

In front of him, in the experimental area, within an artificially created Ether environment, a gourd-shaped Semi-plane floated up and down, its surface dissipating wisps of Element Turbulence, looking as if it were about to disintegrate.

But Xia Shao was still very happy, because this experiment verified the feasibility of Plane-level spatial folding; what he wanted to know most now was how the ancient elves actually did it.

It was just that countless years had passed, and the giants of the Main Plane had long since disappeared; only a few bloodline descendants survived, but they lived lives like primitive people, and the great power that once enslaved them for life was reduced to only a few bloodline abilities.

Even if it wasn't Feres Fortress, it must be some important place of the ancient elves, otherwise, the existence of those magic traces would be hard to explain.

(Actually, there would still be an influence, but as long as it isn't direct interference, it doesn't count as an offense; it's similar to reading a book and being influenced by the scenes and narrative in the book, changing one's original thoughts.)

And correspondingly, the dragons and giants that were hostile to the elves (and dwarves) back then should have had similar power.

The previously guessed spatial folding might really exist!

Letting the viewer truly participate in the story instead of only being able to watch from a third-person perspective would greatly enhance the viewer's experience without worrying about their mind being affected.

But regardless, having no application is no different from being lost.

Because appearing in public might lead to being caught by the Elven Nations and raised as a wild beast, although Xia Shao hadn't seen elven dragon knights with his own eyes on the Main Plane, this wasn't some ancient legend; Yierlan had them!

Currently, he had only determined the natural blending effect in this part of the traces, which was the effect of natural changes based on the surrounding environment, and thus created a special interactive illusion that differed from the characteristics of current mainstream illusions.

Of course, this was only a partial harvest Xia Shao analyzed from the magic traces in that area; through the study of its natural blending with the surrounding environment, Xia Shao also found a brand-new improvement idea for the Adaptive Mythallar.

Xia Shao felt that dragons and giants had great potential to be tapped; it wasn't about them themselves, but the ancient heritage, just like that place suspected to be Feres Fortress.

The ancient elves couldn't have dug everything clean, right? If something could be left behind, and if it could be found, perhaps he could overturn the now-declined elves and then reproduce the ancient scene?

Through the analysis and research of those magic traces, Xia Shao not only had new ideas for improving the Adaptive Mythallar and obtained a brand-new Interactive Magic Image spell, but also had a deeper understanding of the Plane itself.

……

It was just a pity that such a sophisticated spatial operation method ultimately failed to be passed down; perhaps the secret scroll about it was now lying in some ruin on the Main Plane, or it might exist in the private collection of some family in the Elven Nations.

From this, one could also see that over countless years, the elves were indeed going downhill; perhaps some technologies had been innovated, but overall they were constantly declining.

"Almost there, at most three days and I can rule out the other doubts!"

It was also because of this that he was certain this place must be an important place of the ancient elves.

Unknowingly, another five days had passed; in these few days, Xia Shao had successively discovered many abnormal element areas, but each area was the same as those discovered at the beginning, having a clear cause.

As for dragons, they were even more miserable; because of the influence of the Dragon Madness Mythallar, they couldn't develop a civilization at all and could only hide in places like deep mountains, great marshes, deserts, and the Bingyuan, and even now they didn't dare to appear in public.

It could even be used as decoration for a Floating City, saving the complicated work of conventional decoration and even more so the consumption of materials, truly achieving what one thought is what one gets, and whenever one wanted to change it, it was nothing more than decorating with a spell again.

Xia Shao told himself this in his heart, while the avatar on that side also accelerated the search speed; as for the research on the physical body side, because he was focused on this one item now, the progress was also very rapid.

Truly nowhere to hide and be at peace!

Changing to a Netheril-style description, it was more or less that the energy flow was smoother, the concealment was better, and the stability was higher.

In the process of creating this illusion, Xia Shao almost arranged the future application scenarios for it, which was—Interactive Magic Image!

It did not act on the mind, yet it could interact with the contactee; it was a bit similar to a Reality Projection controlled in real-time by a Spellcaster, yet it did not require real-time control by a Spellcaster.

Thinking about it this way, perhaps there were dragons or giants looking for ancient ruins now? Just like the frost giant Xia Shao had seen with his own eyes in the Asikeer Jiaodouchang, who possessed frost abilities but was ignorant of Magic, and could only be reduced to a gladiator for people's entertainment; perhaps only in this way could he earn some rations for the tribe.

The Underdark environment was harsh, the elves were simply unwilling, and there should also be dragons hiding there, but presumably, the Drow should also be able to control dragons.

The Cormanthor Elf didn't ride dragons, but controlled dragons to act as thugs and cannon fodder; in the Drow War a few years ago, Cormanthor had driven dragons.

After completing a verification experiment, Xia Shao was suddenly overjoyed; he excitedly pounded the palm of his other hand with his fist, "It really is like this! Just as I speculated!"