Chapter 2591: Exploration of Folded Space

Perhaps it is for this reason that the ancient Elves hid this Midi within a Folded Space; otherwise, if exposed in a space with many Spellcasters, abnormalities would easily be detected.

Combined with the fact that this Midi was likely built in an era when dragons had not yet faded from the stage, making such a choice must have been prudent and thorough.

It is just that now it is difficult for Xia Duo; intervening in another space outside the Main Plane is not easy to begin with. He must worry about triggering some protection mechanism that might still exist in the Midi and suffering losses, while also considering whether it would expose the Folded Space to the eyes of the various nations on the Main Plane.

Next, Xia Duo prepares to try sending his avatar into the Midi within the Folded Space first, before attempting to bypass the protection mechanism of the palace suspected to be the core.

If he cannot even reach the unactivated areas within the Midi, then there is no need to think about other places; it would almost certainly trigger the Midi's countermeasures.

If that is truly the case, then it would be better to discuss exploring it together with the Seven Towers early on, or submit it directly to the Northland Alliance. In any case, a place suspected to be a Dragon Madness Mythallar Control Center must be figured out.

Of course, whenever there is an opportunity, Xia Duo still hopes that this Midi remains under his own control.

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Following this, Xia Duo's main body continues to use the Detection Array to probe the magical protection situation of the small plaza in front of the core palace of the Midi, while his avatar quietly returns from the Arctic.

It didn't feel like much when the two bodies didn't meet, but once they met, it really felt a bit awkward, just like playing a game with two accounts open at once. Even if he could manage the operations, there was still an undeniable sense of incongruity.

Through the Subconscious Information at the moment he made the judgment by interpreting the regression, Xia Duo quickly discovered that his judgment of the magical Jieti being "agile" in front of him stemmed from his overall understanding of the Jieti's cycle period.

But people are different from inanimate magic arrays; unless a person's perception is aided by quantitative spells or some qualitative issues, it is generally more subjective under normal circumstances.

"Fortunately, this Folded Space is small. Even if it has gathered a massive amount of Magic Net Strings due to some unknown mechanism, it is ultimately no match for the vastness of the Main Plane's Magic Net!"

For instance, the Elemental Vision that Xia Duo first used in the Midi exploration can be used to perceive the state of elements.

Next, Xia Duo's main body continues to investigate the details of the Mythallar, while also using the brain's assistance to analyze the general composition of the Mythallar. Because he has already found 91 Dragon Madness Secret Scrolls, he believes that if this Midi is indeed Feres Fortress, there will inevitably be some similarities.

Very soon, he found the elements suspected of supporting the Jieti's self-regression within the macroscopic structure of the Magic Net in the Folded Space. This discovery made him unable to help laughing three times, and after laughing, he sighed:

As for his avatar, it retreated to the plaza he had first explored, which had a pierced dragon pattern on the ground; he wants to see what the situation is in the other three closed directions.

After all, the self is unique; two completely identical people facing each other, looking at oneself, is really a bit of a challenge to self-cognition.

From this point of view, the Elves of the current world and those ancient Elves are truly of the same lineage.

Just like the magical Jieti Xia Duo sees now through his avatar's eyes, "agile" is his judgment, yet it is not necessarily objective, but such a judgment is not without its necessity.

Midi.

Hidden in a Folded Space, people don't even know where the Midi is, let alone come to investigate the Mythallar situation.

But now, this has played into Xia Duo's hands.

Inside the blocked passage, Xia Duo finally saw the defensive magic in front of him with his own eyes, which was still somewhat different from what the Detection Array had checked. In the avatar's perception, the crystals in front were more "agile" than what had been detected.

However, Xia Duo soon stopped worrying about these trivial matters. With the precise Positioning of the Detection Array, the avatar teleported to the vicinity of the plaza in front of the core palace of the Midi in a way similar to cross-plane travel.

Since he had found the root of the "agile" judgment of the magical Jieti in his subjective perception, Xia Duo's main body, far away on the Main Plane, began to operate the Detection Array to conduct further investigation.

He first looked at the area similar to a living quarter between the two plazas. When he had just probed this side, because it was a remote exploration, he could only project a Perception Field, and a Perception Field is very difficult to penetrate through rock.

A magical Jieti is not a hollow outer shell, but a field covering all areas that need to be covered. A single field can of course maintain stability for a long time very easily, but a complex field cannot.

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The ocean is turbulent and naturally easier to hide in, while a small lake is quiet and serene, and any abnormality is not easy to hide.

The Main Plane's Magic Net is vast and mighty, like a boundless ocean, while the Magic Net within the Folded Space where this ancient Midi is located can at most be considered a small lake; they are completely on different orders of magnitude.

But if an individual does not cast spells, the level of perception is far behind that of a Detection Array. It is just like how many people on Earth have extremely strong color perception, but compared to specialized testing machines, it still cannot compare.

And Xia Duo happens to be someone who can recognize the source of subjective judgment!

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Subjective judgment can often detect some macro-level characteristics that are not easily discovered. If one can recognize the source of this subjective judgment, one can then use more precise detection tools for further testing.

If it were on the Main Plane, even with the "agile" judgment guidance provided by the avatar's perception, it would be extremely difficult to find the corresponding elements in the vast Magic Net of the Main Plane.

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In addition, besides the normal five senses, if one wants to obtain other levels of perception, one needs to use specific spells.

It is necessary to regularly eliminate the redundant information generated by the operation of the field. Generally speaking, the Elves' approach is to build a cyclic mode, allowing the Jieti to periodically return to its initial state.

Therefore, this time, he is prepared to go deep into the rock to see what is inside—whether it is a living space simply excavated, or a functional place built on purpose. For a Magic Net of small volume, Xia Duo's investigation is not exactly "viewing patterns on his palm," but at least it is simpler than investigating the same Magic Net structure on the Main Plane!

Of course, the field, or rather the Jieti, is only the appearance; deeper than that is the Mythallar that controls all of this.

Not to mention there are some detection items that exceed the senses, such as gravitational waves, electromagnetic waves, or the precise content of odorless and tasteless gases, and so on.

Searching for a needle in an ocean versus searching for a needle in a small lake—the difficulty is naturally not on the same order of magnitude.

Furthermore, the Elven Mythallar has another characteristic, which is the tendency to hide the Mythallar structure beneath normal Magic Net structures.

The ancient Elves who built this Midi might have considered this problem, but compared to the exposure of the Midi, they still chose this approach, which might be even more difficult for people to discern the secrets of the Mythallar.

A more sophisticated method among these is to keep the Jieti in a state of constant motion, continuously regressing to the initial state. If there is no external interference, it is equivalent to updating itself every single moment.

Of course, before teleporting, he changed his avatar into the appearance of an Elf, so that even if there were living Maintainers inside, they would not immediately clash.

It is the same in the magic world; a Spellcaster can see the Magic Net itself directly with their eyes in a focused state, and even if they close their eyes, they will have a vague perception. Basically, the closer the distance, the stronger the perception.