Chapter 3359: Interrogating Maerdaweika

————Still rushing, it will take a while~

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As the source of the Magic Net riot, the Magic Net at the center of the ritual was even more dilapidated, in a near-paralyzed state. Outside the central area, although chaos reigned, the existence of Magic was still permitted, but in the central area—

The foundation of Magic's existence was already crumbling!

Maerdaweika could only use the limited Magic Net resources to attempt to regain control of the ritual, but certain key elements were missing, leaving him knowing exactly what to do to succeed, yet unable to do it.

Thus, he could only choose to further push the ritual toward destruction, from the perspective of a complete outsider.

It was precisely at the moment he made this decision that a group of Alliance Mages, looking disheveled but with exceptionally determined eyes, appeared abruptly near the golden liquid that the central altar had twisted into.

"Hmph!"

Maerdaweika had the intention to send a message to provoke them, only to find that the Magic Net here could no longer support the use of a Communication Spell, yet he still did not want to let the Alliance Mages have it easy.

He sublimated his Saint Form to the extreme, turning into a streak of light that rushed into the mass of golden liquid in the central area that was still constantly twisting and changing; for a moment, the Magic Net seemed to return to completeness.

The difference between the two is not small; both are mysteries that are almost impossible to crack.

If the other party had not come to the central area before, but had fled instead, the Alliance Mages arriving here would only be able to passively collect partial ritual information, and would very likely die due to the environment here before they could collect much.

The Darkness Society Mage's final move instead helped the Alliance, allowing the Alliance Mages to record more information about the ritual within a limited time.

For individual researchers, whether it is passively collected information or information exposed and released by the accelerated disintegration of the ritual, both are an incomparably huge collection of information.

In the Alliance Headquarters command hall, Xia Duo sensed the direction where those eighteen Alliance Mages' links were lost and could not help but feel a bit sorrowful; however, the present was not an occasion for sentimentality, so he quickly adjusted his emotions and threw himself into the next operation.

In other words, the existence of the Alliance Mages themselves is equivalent to individual detectors + recorders, and the recorded information can also be synchronized to the Mind Network in real-time.

But in the magic world, the most basic effect of Magic Vision is to see the essence of magic in operation; it is nothing more than a difference in depth and precision.

At the very beginning, the Alliance Mages' probing was like turning on an electronic device and trying the buttons one by one; later, when the Darkness Society Mage voluntarily gave up and destroyed the ritual, it was equivalent to smashing that electronic device with a hammer until it was completely cold.

And now, Xia Duo confirmed that the environment is not a water body, nor is it a physical vacuum, but a soup of Elemental Energy that is almost like a big stew; this is perhaps the initial form of magic, where order does not exist, only chaos.

As for the thoughts of that Darkness Society high-level Mage, Xia Duo can also guess them; it is nothing more than wanting to guard the secrets here, but the other party probably miscalculated.

This is just like conducting reverse engineering on an electronic device with unknown functions on Earth.

Fortunately, that senior Mage was not affected much, and the Psionic Detector he had been keeping with him was also not affected; this was already a stroke of luck amidst the misfortune.

Going a step further, in a state of high concentration, a Spellcaster can even directly "see" the Magic Net String, which shows that Magic Vision also exists in different levels.

And finally, that Darkness Society Mage merging into the ritual to push it toward further destruction is equivalent to the device completely disintegrating; although the process is very short, if there really were a reverse-engineering team nearby, they would probably not have time to record it.

Of the remaining eighteen, more than half permanently lost their upper limit of affinity with the Magic Net, which is to say their Spellcasting limit was permanently lowered, which also means their Magic Vision perception depth was weakened.

Within less than two seconds after Xia Duo sent the last thought, those remaining eighteen Alliance Mages "went offline" one after another; they did not even have time to send a final thought, and everything came to an abrupt end.

For example, humans can easily identify moving objects, and even key features on their surfaces, but if one wants to do it through artificial detectors, it is quite difficult.

Of course, what Xia Duo pins more hope on is the Psionic Detector; after all, the perception of individual organisms might be able to surpass artificially manufactured detectors in terms of perceptual dimensions.

They can only rely on their own Magic Vision to collect external information.

On the other side, Xia Duo could still link to the Alliance Mages on the front line, but regrettably, of the original sixteen Mages, three were unfortunately hit by chaotic magic exceeding the protection limit when crossing the area where the Magic Net riot was most intense, and had already gone to Arvandor a step early.

After all, conventional recording can only record images, and there is no way to record the most critical electronic circuits.

Perhaps this is the key to victory.

In such a situation, how could it possibly compare to a Psionic Detector specialized in the field of detection!

In the magic world, the Magic Vision possessed by a Spellcaster can see the spiritual light produced by the movement of Magic Net Strings; those with rich experience can even reverse-engineer the movement state of the Magic Net Strings through the spiritual light.

Perhaps some key components were destroyed, and it is almost impossible to reproduce all of its original functions, but for those doing reverse engineering, it can barely be considered a help, as one can very intuitively see the internal structure of the device.

Artificial detectors can easily reach the limits of a Spellcaster in specific directions; using multiple detectors for joint detection is enough to collect detection depth and precision that an individual Spellcaster could almost never reach on their own.

At present, in the center of the Magic Net Riot Zone, the Magic Net is broken, and with elements missing, even if the Alliance Mages have not lost their Spellcasting ability, they have no way to conduct Scrying of sufficient depth and high precision.

But for a collective, for a collective that can use the Spirit Thought Network for collaborative computing and thinking, the latter is undoubtedly more advantageous.

But the next moment was an even more tragic destruction.

"Everyone, see you in Arvandor!"

But the other party did a foolish thing, actually taking the initiative to merge into the ritual, letting the ritual undergo a more thorough destruction; this will accelerate the destruction of this central area, but at the same time, the speed at which the ritual information is exposed will also accelerate.

But within a predetermined detection field, the perception of individual organisms is far inferior to artificial detectors; for example, long-distance vision—no matter how sharp a human eye is, it cannot compare to a telescope; micro-vision is the same, as the structure of the human eye dictates that it cannot see the microscopic.

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Even through the multi-modal perception fusion characteristics inherent in individual organisms, it can exhibit effects far exceeding artificial detectors in certain specific scenarios.

Xia Duo did not see the figure of the Darkness Society Mage who entered this area a step earlier; only the feedback from the Psionic Detector told him that the other party was in the very central area, with their soul fire nearly extinguished.

"What a pity!"

If one could catch them alive, it would surely be a major blow to the Darkness Society, but the current result is not bad either; not letting the other party run away means the Darkness Society will have one less high-level Mage in the final decisive battle.