Chapter 2907: Multi-Modal Fusion Perception

After synchronizing the current situation with the members of the action group, Xia Duo confirmed the situation with the two intelligence officers who were also in the action group's Spirit Thought Network:

"Has the Time-Involving Signal detected in the northwest by the monitoring center disappeared?"

"That's good!"

Although Xia Duo was more than ninety percent certain that the Time-Involving Signal to the northwest of Evereska originated from the Demon-born Secret Base in the Ansai Mountains where he was currently located, he only breathed a slight sigh of relief the moment it was truly confirmed.

Next was the signal source in the south.

"Has the precise location of the signal in the southwest been determined?" Xia Duo asked again.

"It will take a little more time, it will be ready immediately!"

"Synchronize it to the Spirit Thought Network the moment you have the precise location."

After replying, Xia Duo did not delay any further and issued spellcasting orders to the members of the action group. Although the precise location of the target had not yet been locked, relevant preparations could be made in advance, such as preparing for teleportation and pre-scrying.

At this stage, it was actually real combat, because the Time-Involving Ritual corresponding to the signal source in the south had likely already exceeded the critical point for casual intervention, requiring the contest of ritual control through spell confrontation before it could be safely eliminated.

"Teleport!"

The time difference for the corresponding ritual to end is roughly 10 to 20 minutes.

Currently, these Mages were only temporarily gathered and existed more as auxiliary spellcasting tools; without Xia Shao commanding from the center, even double the number of people would be useless.

That is the first critical point of the ritual; if it is passed, there is still a chance to stop it. Half an hour is also considered a critical point; beyond this time, it is impossible to stop it unless Xia Duo participates personally.

That time difference had already passed the first critical point; directly destroying the ritual would very likely cause unpredictable consequences, so War Spells were clearly no longer applicable.

Thus, Xia Shao quickly adjusted the orientation of the Scrying spell. The next moment, he indeed saw a scene similar to the one in the Ansai Mountains; it was a scene in the Watina Mountains on the border of Shaerwen—

This spell is essentially a Spell Suppression Field, capable of smoothing out the distorted state of the Magic Net Strings within a certain range and restoring them to their original state of flow.

The next moment, the scene before Xia Shao changed. In just an instant, he noticed an anomaly brought to him by the nearby Spirit Thought direction. Generally speaking, Scrying spells are far more effective than normal naked-eye viewing.

……

It belongs to a multi-modal fusion perception state.

But time is tight now, and the Demon Descendants will not give him time to slowly trace his memories, so he had almost no hesitation and issued spellcasting orders within the mountain wall network.

While synchronizing the construction of the spellcasting position, he sent the first probe to the nearby Spirit Thought—

Scrying might be done using War Spells, but can War Spells really be used to stop the Demon Descendants' Time-Involving Ritual next?

And at this time node, if Xia Shao directs the action, there will be at least two chances to try.

【Dispel Magic】!

It is just that human spellcasting is ultimately inferior to War Spells. Xia Shao switched through many types of spells, but in the end, he could not discover anything abnormal, only vaguely generating some inspiration.

But now is not the right time to trace the subconscious. Fortunately, the monitoring center had already locked onto the approximate location of the signal source at this time; it could not be called very precise, but it was already sufficient for use.

In other words, the task for Xia Shao's team next, besides stopping the Time-Involving Ritual, also requires first dispelling the protection of the Demon-born base!

Just like the situation Xia Shao is encountering now, clearly having determined through various Scrying spells that this place is just a perfectly normal primeval forest.

It is necessary for the action group members to coordinate spellcasting to confront the Demon-born Mages; Xia Shao alone will not work.

……

First is Wide-Area Detection, not the War Spell one, but referring to large-scale rough detection. It is not that War Spells cannot continue to be used, but Xia Shao has keenly sensed the subtle psychological changes of the action group members in the mountain wall network.

But that time is at most known to be one hour. Beyond one hour, even if Xia Duo copied multiple versions of himself to coordinate spellcasting with complete mental synchronization, it would be impossible to stop.

So although it has only been about two minutes since the signal was discovered, in reality, in about another minute, the ritual corresponding to the signal in the south will have crossed the first critical point.

At this time node, even without Xia Shao's participation, if the action group members had studied the Time-Involving Ritual beforehand, there would be a relatively high probability of successfully stopping it, but there is only one chance.

A place of Spirit Thought, and the seemingly primitive forest scene outside.

So even though Xia Shao could still use War Spells to scry distant information with the help of the Thought Robe, he did not continue to do so, choosing instead to look after his companions' emotions.

Illusion Barrier!

The next moment, the Spirit Thought that was originally very normal there suddenly showed signs of light and shadow distortion on the surface. Seeing this scene, not only Xia Shao, but the other Mages in the mountain wall network instantly reached a unanimous judgment—

For example, combining Magic Net fluctuations with life traces can detect spellcasters, but it requires two types of Scrying spells, and it also requires the spellcaster to be able to understand these two Scrying results and consciously perform a comprehensive analysis of them.

But the difference is that the Watina Mountains side does not have the disguised caravan guarding the outside like the Ansai Mountains side. Xia Shao guessed that perhaps because the Demon-born base there is still in a complete state, it does not need extra guard personnel.

Of course, the time here is all calculated from the start of the ritual, not from the discovery of the Time-Involving Signal.

But after coming here in person and seeing it for himself, a strange sense of disharmony arose, feeling that the scene seen before his eyes was not real, or at least had been artificially modified or disguised.

But Scrying spells each have their tendencies, such as detecting Magic Net fluctuations, life traces, lingering spiritual light, airflow direction, etc., while being there in person and viewing with the naked eye is essentially not just vision, but also includes all the body's senses.

Just as Xia Shao was casting this Scrying spell, the field personnel from the Demon-born Intelligence Office finally arrived near this destroyed Demon-born base, but Xia Shao did not negotiate with them, instead synchronizing the Scrying results in the Qiangde Network.

According to the location information synchronized by the monitoring center earlier, the signal source is roughly on the southern border of Qiangde Shu, which is to say it and the Ansai Mountains where Xia Shao is currently located happen to sandwich Qiangde Shu.

If it were normal, Xia Shao might trace his memories at this time, looking for the subconscious information from that moment of feeling abnormal, so he could know exactly what caused the feeling of abnormality.

But multi-modal fusion perception is to comprehensively analyze multiple perception states from the very beginning. Perhaps it is inferior to Scrying spells in the precision of a single item, but it can produce an extraordinary intuition far exceeding Scrying spells for complex situations.

So when Xia Shao chose the Scrying orientation, he consciously chose the mirror-symmetrical position of this Demon-born base with Shaerwen as the center.