Chapter 3018: A Treasure Land Difficult to Replicate

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Two days later, upon learning the latest news from Seventon, Xia Duo could not help but let out a long sigh of relief. From his current perspective, he seemed to have made the most correct choice.

But before today, he truly had not expected this matter to have such a turn of events.

Hurriedly rushing to Seventon, with the Seven Towers having notified them in advance, the other councilors had also mostly arrived, and everyone met at the Ether Forward Base of the Arcane Union Headquarters.

The predecessor of the Ether Forward Base was actually a high-specification laboratory of the Arcane Union, which suffered an accident during an Elf raid, resulting in a large-scale, complete overlap with the Ether Plane.

In other words, it could be considered that the area was both a part of the Main Plane and a part of the Ether Plane.

And because in Netheril Magic, creating a Tower Spirit requires the use of Spirit Material from the Ether Plane, this special area created by the accident was treated as a bridgehead for delving into the Ether Plane, which is the so-called—

Ether Forward Base.

Furthermore, because the Arcane Union at that time was not a subordinate institution of the Seven Cities Council, but a neutral organization composed of Mage Towers from various regions and all Netherese Mages.

According to relevant personnel, that cloud-like creature was originally brought back by an Adventurer from the depths of the Ether Mist; it had no resemblance to an Elemental Creature, could not be divided into smaller parts, and then each grew independently.

This truly is a treasure land for creating an Ether Boundary!

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Pulita of the Verdant Tower looked left and right, did not find Seven Tons, and immediately could not help but complain to the people from the Seven Towers.

If the concentration of Ether Mist in the spellcasting environment of Nan Jing is 1, then this place has at least 30!

Under these circumstances, Huo En, as the person coordinating with Seven Tons, had to stand out and explain, "Previously, we only conducted temporary experiments here; in order to demonstrate more intuitively, Seven Tons prepared to move the permanent facilities from Xin Ke Luo Si over here."

If it were just Keluosi, perhaps one would still get lost; if it were in a place as far away as Nan Jing, it would be almost impossible to arrive as desired.

However, at the moment, wanting to verify the situation previously notified by the Seven Towers did not necessarily require waiting for Seven Tons to come. Xia Duo looked around, casually found a spot that was separated from the others and a bit more spacious, and attempted to create an Ether Boundary.

"Where is Seven Tons? We have all arrived; has he not come yet?"

Currently, the state of Xia Duo and the others was still the normal physical form; to enter the Ether Plane outside the plane overlap area, one still had to transform into a spirit form.

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"Pulita, don't make things difficult for others; I will explain it to you."

Speaking of which, it was because everyone was anxious and arrived early; including Xia Duo, they had rushed to Keluosi the moment they received the news, and there was almost no delay in between.

Very soon, the group arrived at the edge of the plane overlap area, got off the cloud beasts, landed on the ground, and continued walking outward; it was still land, but it was permeated with thin mist.

With Xia Duo taking the lead, the others also used their own methods to verify it; Pulita, who had just been complaining, was naturally no exception.

And Xia Duo was very happy at this moment; if the Seven Towers were not lying, then the existence of the Ether Advance Base would flatten the strength of all individual forces and regional organizations in one fell swoop.

When Xia Duo came, he had taken that path; after entering the Ether Advance Base, he appeared in another similar but more spacious square.

It was just that the mindsets of the group while verifying were completely different.

The people from the Seven Towers said with emotion.

In the spirit state, if one is in the Ether Plane area corresponding to the Keluosi urban district, dispelling the spirit state will directly appear in the corresponding urban district, rather than the Arcane Union Headquarters.

Around the square was an emerging town, but the "base" in the Ether Advance Base did not refer to that town, but to all the plane overlap areas.

As the spell proceeded, Xia Duo indeed discovered the difference. In the past, when creating an Ether Boundary in Nan Jing, the gathering speed of the Ether Mist was always very difficult to increase, as if there were some kind of plane protection mechanism; those Ether Mists always gathered at a relatively fixed speed and did not change due to the increase in Spell Energy Level.

In other words, one could actually come to the Ether Advance Base from places outside Keluosi, but that would require passing through the Ether area, and that was exactly where the greatest uncertainty lay.

Because the town only existed as an Adventurer trading post and a cross-plane customs checkpoint; outside the town, there were other outposts, such as Xia Duo's farm, or special laboratories built by other Mages, and so on.

"It's a pity that this kind of creature can only exist in the Material Plane in a spirit state, otherwise, if taken to the Main Plane, it would also be an excellent flying mount!"

If it were local councilors of the Main Plane like Pulita, they would likely be very disappointed. Even if the situation notified by the Seven Towers should actually be a good thing for Plane Exploration itself, it was a huge blow to their idea of wanting to occupy the new plane for themselves.

Even if Seven Tons were right here, everyone would inevitably have to verify it personally; one couldn't just believe whatever the Seven Towers said!

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Xia Duo stroked the soft body of the Ether Cloud beneath him, but what he was thinking was that it was fortunate it could not be used in the Material Plane, otherwise, would the newly emerging Airship freight not be hit hard?

Therefore, the Ether Forward Base was actually something everyone could utilize, and even Xia Duo had utilized the special environment here to open a Warp Beast Farm!

Entering from different directions of that small square of the Arcane Union would lead to appearing at different positions in the Ether Advance Base square; it seemed that the small square of the Union Headquarters was spatially averaged into the large square of the Advance Base.

The entrance to the Ether Forward Base was the original public laboratory area; the original buildings had all been demolished and transformed into the appearance of a large square.

But the dense mist only affected the initial state at most; the subsequent gathering speed was the key, and here, with the same spell, the mist gathering speed was at least five times that of Nan Jing!

The process of walking from the edge of the square to the center of the square was the process of entering the Ether Advance Base; there was no need to pass through any teleportation devices in between. Although it was a plane overlap area, it was still naturally connected to the space of the Main Plane.

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Most importantly, this creature named "Ether Cloud" had no aggressiveness at all, and usually did not even need to be fed, making it very suitable to be used as a mount.

But now, at the edge of the plane overlap area, it seemed to be a natural Ether Mist gathering area, and the initial state was already better than when in Nan Jing.

Under the guidance of the Seven Towers staff, Xia Duo and the other councilors rode the cloud-like Ether creatures toward the edge of the plane overlap area.

At this location, as long as one cast a simple perspective spell, one could see the dim and hazy scene of the Keluosi urban district in the mist; if one did not transform their form and passed directly through the edge, one would instantly return to the square at the Arcane Union Headquarters.

Utilizing the Ether Advance Base was the greatest advantage and the strongest bonus!