Chapter 303: Mending, Outside the Tower

Before coming, Oulinsi had already made inquiries; the Tower of Time was a Mage Tower left behind by a Great Arcanist. Although the Tower of Time was not yet finished before Archmage Savil disappeared, he did not want to test exactly how much power this Tower of Time possessed.

Especially now, as the Tower of Time had just changed to a very young Tower Master, he was even less inclined to test the young person's temper.

The situation of the Hand of Secrecy within the Empire was not good. Although all members were Arcanists, they were far inferior to those peers who could constantly climb the Magic Path by relying on their own intelligence and talent.

But because of what might be called the "Arcanist's Pride," they could not make up their minds to completely surrender to the Magic Goddess.

Although Arcanists did not avoid having faith in gods, for those like the Hand of Secrecy who were not top-tier on either side, they might seem glorious in front of others, but only they themselves knew the taste of it.

Although Oulinsi still looked like a middle-aged man, his real age even exceeded that of Jielepu, who looked more decrepit on the side. He was already old and lacked the drive of "young people" like Aigeberde.

He hoped more to be able to safely and steadily mend a piece of the Magic Net, and then safely and steadily receive the Divine Grace of the Goddess into his arms, rather than stirring up trouble, which might not necessarily yield much benefit in the end.

After warning Aigeberde, Oulinsi led them to find a location on the edge of the Mythallar Ruins where the Magic Net was easier to mend, and after setting up a few Warning Magic, they began to get busy!

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Over here, after Xia Duo left Niya's Study, he immediately thought of going outside the Tower of Time to take a look. He only knew now that the Tower of Time had run into the Mythallar Ruins, but he did not know what the state of the Mythallar was now.

Did it explode? Or was it maintaining its original state?

The Tower of Time would be parked here for a long time to come, and Xia Duo also had to consider whether the original development plan needed to be adjusted; at the very least, it would be safer at the foot of the Mage Tower than in other places.

He even thought that if he wanted to develop further in the future, could he just have Niya drive the Mage Tower over!

Arriving at the First Floor Hall, more than a dozen Apprentices were distributed in every corner of the hall, casting Mending on stone pillars that had emerged from the walls at some unknown time.

Nearby, there were also several Mages checking the Magic Array patterns revealed on the walls. Xia Duo saw an acquaintance among them—the Intermediate Mage Xiaolei.

"Xia Duo!"

Xiaolei's sudden shout caused everyone in the hall to focus their gazes on him, but then they immediately turned to Xia Duo.

Xia Duo had suddenly become Niya's husband; those in the Mage Tower who knew him and those who didn't were all full of curiosity about him. Now, hearing the name Xia Duo, everyone subconsciously looked at him.

"Good afternoon, everyone!" Xia Duo bowed with a Mage's salute in a poised manner.

The Apprentices dared not speak, while the Mages bowed and greeted him one after another. Regardless of what they thought in their hearts, the surface formalities were all in place.

Seeing Xia Duo walking toward the direction of the tower exit, Xiaolei shouted again, "Mage Xia Duo, are you planning to go out? The Magic Net is rioting outside, make sure not to go too far from the Mage Tower!"

Magic Net riot? Xia Duo was a bit puzzled, but this was not important, because he would be able to see it with his own eyes immediately. "Thank you for the reminder, Mage Xiaolei. I'm just going out to take a look; I won't go too far!"

"That's good, that's good!" Xiaolei muttered twice and focused back on the Magic Array on the wall.

It was just a pity that the occasion was wrong; if it were a place with no one around, he would definitely have grabbed Xia Duo to ask him properly how he was chosen by Niya.

Examples of mentor-apprentice unions were not rare in Netheril, but they still made people unable to resist wanting to investigate, especially when it happened around oneself.

Xia Duo bypassed Xiaolei, arrived at the tower exit, and called out to the Tower Spirit, "Open the door!"

The gate opened in response. The pure black portal looked very different from the Portal Xia Duo had walked through several times before; of course, the actual experience was even more different!

After a sensation like being drowned in the lightless water of the deep sea, accompanied by feelings of dizziness and nausea, Xia Duo arrived outside the Tower of Time. Before he could complain about this terrible experience, he was already stunned by the scene before his eyes—

A few steps away from the Mage Tower, there seemed to be an invisible dividing line that completely separated space-time from the further periphery!

Inside the dividing line, it was peaceful, both in terms of the Magic Net environment and the Reality material environment;

While outside the dividing line, although the Reality material environment was still stable, the rioting Magic Net was twisting crazily, making one feel that danger was lurking everywhere at a glance.

And the miserable state on the ground also confirmed this point, with various traces of fire, freezing, electric shocks, shattering, and so on that one could identify.

More of it was unknown.

Looking at this apocalyptic scene before him, Xia Duo kept telling himself in his heart that this was not the Mythallar Ruins he wanted!

"I wonder how things are over at the Territory?"

Xia Duo took a deep breath and looked toward the distance. Although various Magic Effect blocked his vision, he could still vaguely discern that the scope of this Mythallar Ruins was much larger than what he had previously understood!

The previous Mythallar only had an area the size of a football field, and one could see the edge at a glance, but now, just on one side of the Mage Tower, he could not see the edge.

Perhaps there was the reason of his vision being blocked, but the range he could judge was definitely more than just a football field!

After the Mythallar collapsed, did it affect the further outer areas? Or was the scope of the Mythallar originally this large, and he just hadn't discovered it before?

If it were the former, the prototype of Linshui Village he had developed before was probably all for nothing; if it were the latter—

Xia Duo's first reaction was actually, "Then how many treasures must there be to excavate!"

Even if it were just some Mithril ornaments, searching such a large area, it probably wouldn't be a small number. If he happened to find a few more Magic Item, then he would really strike it rich!

Combined with the suggestion of excavating the river channel proposed by those three Arcanists from the Hand of Secrecy earlier, Xia Duo felt that the latter possibility was higher!

If the Magic Net Riot Zone covered the Wofu Fort River to the west, then it would be almost impossible to get ordinary people to dig the river.

This indicated that the Magic Net Riot Zone was still some distance away from the Wofu Fort River, perhaps just the distance from Linshui Village to the previous Mythallar.

Next, Xia Duo followed the dividing line and circled the Tower of Time a few times. He could not see the further range from any side. It looked like the Tower of Time was exactly in the middle of the Mythallar Ruins, rather than in the edge area.

In this case, he couldn't even determine the cardinal directions.

Because, except for the space occupied by the Tower of Time, the Magic Net outside was all in a riot, and he could only see a vast expanse of white overhead, with a "sky curtain" that occasionally flashed or suddenly dimmed.

He couldn't see the sun at all!