Chapter 3303: Redshift Effect, News of Another Disaster

By the time Xia Duo heard the news about the newly discovered Underground Passage in Illefarn, the various nations of the Alliance had already reached a consensus to send explorers to investigate the passage.

This time, when he returned to reality, he still did not receive the entry permit from the Yierlan representative, but he no longer cared about such things; from the moment he learned that the other party had lost contact after returning home, he had decided to ignore the so-called entry rules.

This was only because his research into the Illuminati's Excited State Magic Artifact was at a critical breakthrough point, and if he hadn't happened to learn about it from Alanminuosi, he wouldn't even have bothered to ask.

After quickly grasping the reality of the situation and completing the scheduled verification experiments, Xia Duo dove back into the Time Acceleration Array; he now performed everything that did not involve practical operations inside the Time Acceleration Array to save time in reality.

The price was that his lifespan was consumed a bit more, but it had not yet reached a level he could perceive; in other words, this bit of lifespan was just a drop in the bucket.

……

Inside the Time Acceleration Array, based on the feedback from several reality verification experiments, Xia Duo gradually clarified the role provided by the Excited State Magic Artifact in the Time-Involving Ritual.

If his judgment was correct, there should be far more than one such Excited State Magic Artifact; together, they served to stretch and slow down the Time-Involving Signal generated by the Time-Involving Ritual on a time scale.

This was somewhat similar to the redshift phenomenon on Earth.

The greater the wavelength of light and the smaller the frequency, the smaller the energy actually becomes; the delay of the Time-Involving Signal had a similar effect, spreading out the impact that might have erupted in a short time over a longer time scale.

At the same time, Xia Shao discovered through in-depth research that once that delay effect ended, it had to be interrupted; otherwise, it was highly likely to produce an immeasurable Time-Involving effect, similar to the immense pressure suddenly generated when water outside a pipe is suddenly cut off.

Xia Shao was, of course, unable to sit by and watch the worst-case scenario happen, but now the thing he worried about most had appeared—the Darkness Society had mastered a major lethal weapon capable of threatening the Alliance!

After learning these circumstances, Xia Shao immediately realized two problems; one was that according to the delay characteristics of the Time-Involving Signal explored so far, the Darkness Society had likely already started the relevant ritual.

Leaving the Time Acceleration Array once again, Xia Shao learned the latest status of the Li Jie from Alanmidinuo; first of all, it was already January 17th, and another two days had passed.

It was also because the Darkness Society was still thinking about their so-called Ailan Rebirth Project; otherwise, they might have already destroyed the world by now!

The other problem was that this final decisive battle might far exceed everyone's imagination; the Alliance was unaware of these gaps and might think that stopping the Darkness Society's Time-Involving Ritual would be the end of it, but that was actually not the case.

The Yierlan representative still had not returned to the Alliance Headquarters, but they had finally restored contact with the headquarters; as for the entry permit Xia Shao wanted, it had already been sent to Evereska while Xia Shao was in "seclusion."

Xia Shao speculated that there was a high probability of generating a large-scale Space-Time Mist, and there was also a smaller probability that the ritual would be completed directly, or fail outright.

"Danzo discovered a gathering place formed by demons scattered after the Drow War in the Underdark; it has even formed a prototype of an Abyssal Land there, and the Alliance has currently sent relevant personnel to investigate and evaluate it."

Therefore, in the decisive battle with the Darkness Society, one must be careful; before having 100% or at least a high degree of certainty in eliminating the influence, it is best not to push too hard, lest the other side break the jar and fall with the Northland.

"After more than ten consecutive times, the field personnel have no impact because they can rotate, but the morale of those Mages on the rapid response list is being worn down very quickly."

And this, once again, made Xia Shao sigh—"Luckily, I'm here!"

At that time, an endless stream of demons would pour out from the Abyssal Land, and the number would very likely be so great that the vast majority of people could not imagine it; by then, the entire Plane would become an Abyss Battlefield.

Moreover, judging from the various situations currently encountered by the Northland Alliance, the Darkness Society seemed to want to keep the Alliance busy, thereby making them unable or even unwilling to attend to their Time-Involving Ritual.

"Additionally, the monitoring center at the Headquarters has recently detected Time-Involving Signals from various parts of the Northland for two consecutive days, and they have also sent people to investigate, but they haven't encountered any Darkness Society members."

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Therefore, whether it was the Darkness Society's side or the Alliance's side, both needed to avoid such things as much as possible.

And in this way, a power struggle where the information mastered by both sides was highly asymmetric was very likely to lead to the worst result, which was a double loss, with both sides together turning the Main Plane into a mess.

But now, the Darkness Society was able to cause damage that the vast majority of people could hardly imagine to the Main Plane, or at least the Northland, by actively abandoning the plan.

It was even highly likely that it had started before they attacked Ailan.

Hearing such news, Xia Shao's first reaction was—the Darkness Society has made another move!

Additionally, even if there was good news, it could not make the bad news disappear; this time, Alanmidinuo told Xia Shao two pieces of bad news directly—

Excluding the Magic Web Decay Zone created in Ailan earlier, there shouldn't be too many coincidences in this, otherwise the Darkness Society wouldn't have hidden such a method until now.

But such a mission was undoubtedly very heavy, especially under the current situation where the Alliance was still in a passive state.

The most serious of these was that demon gathering place; it had now formed a prototype of an Abyssal Land, and if it were delayed further, it might form a true Abyssal Land.

Perhaps the Darkness Society also sensed this possibility and revealed this situation to the Alliance, hoping the Alliance would eliminate the hidden danger, which would avoid the Main Plane becoming an Abyss Battlefield, and removing that possibility would also make their Time-Involving Ritual go more smoothly; it was simply using the Alliance as a hired thug.

Such news made Xia Shao feel slightly comforted; it wasn't that every time he came out, he heard bad news, there was still some good news, even though such news couldn't provide much emotional value.

At this moment, even if he didn't believe in fate anymore, he deeply felt an unprecedented sense of mission, as if the fate of the whole world was pressed into his hands, left for him to play out!

Decisions made based on this might backfire, and on the other hand, although the Darkness Society did not want to see such a situation happen, they were even less likely to expose their own weaknesses, and would instead exhaust all their strength to struggle with the Alliance.

The actual effect manifested as the signal strength monitored at a single moment becoming weaker, but the duration would be longer.

It was just that what the Darkness Society wanted to do was to let this stretching and delay effect continue until the end, while the Alliance needed to eliminate such long-term effects as safely as possible, rather than just stopping the Time-Involving Ritual that served as the source.

But the problems exposed by the Darkness Society were also objectively existing realities; for example, the Underground Passage discovered a few days ago, and the demon gathering place discovered by Danzo in the last two days—if the Darkness Society hadn't exposed them in advance, waiting for the Alliance to discover them on its own in the future might have resulted in even more serious consequences.

"Luckily, I'm here!"