Chapter 3360: Raid Operation

————It will be later~~

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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 state of near-total dysfunction. 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 tottering!

Maerdaweika could only utilize 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 at the very moment he made this decision that a group of Alliance Mages, looking disheveled but with exceptionally determined gazes, appeared abruptly near the golden liquid that the altar in the central area had twisted into.

"Hmph!"

Maerdaweika had the mind to send a message to provoke them, only to discover 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 their way.

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

"What a pity!"

At the beginning, the Alliance Mages' probing was like powering on an electronic device and testing buttons one by one; later, the Darkness Society Mage voluntarily gave up and destroyed the ritual, which was equivalent to smashing that electronic device with a hammer until it was stone-cold.

But the opponent did a foolish thing, actually choosing to merge into the ritual, allowing the ritual to undergo an even more thorough destruction. This would accelerate the destruction of this central area, but at the same time, the speed at which the ritual's information was exposed would also accelerate.

Through the multi-modal perception fusion characteristics inherent to individual organisms, it could even, in certain specific scenarios, exhibit effects far exceeding those of artificial detectors.

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

Perhaps this was the key to victory.

Fortunately, that senior Mage was not affected much, and the Psionic Detector he had been keeping was also unaffected; this was already a blessing within a misfortune.

The difference between the two was not large; both were mysteries that were almost impossible to crack.

One could only rely on their own Magic Vision to collect information from the outside world.

Within less than two seconds after Xia Duo transmitted his final thought, the remaining thirteen Alliance Mages "went offline" one after another; they didn't even have time to transmit a final thought before everything came to an abrupt end.

But the next moment was an even more tragic destruction.

For an individual researcher, whether it was passively collected information or information accelerated and released by the ritual's disintegration, it was an incomparably massive collection of data.

Perhaps some key components were destroyed, making it almost impossible to reproduce all of its original functions, but for someone doing reverse engineering, it could barely be considered a helping hand, allowing one to see the internal structure of the device quite intuitively.

As for the Darkness Society Mage who had entered this area first, Xia Duo did not see the opponent's figure; only the feedback from the Psionic Detector told him that the opponent was in the very center, their soul fire nearly extinguished.

And as for the thoughts of that high-level Darkness Society Mage, Xia Duo could also guess them—it was nothing more than wanting to guard the secrets here, but the opponent had likely miscalculated.

But within a set detection domain, the perception of individual organisms was far inferior to artificial detectors; for example, long-distance vision—no matter how sharp a human eye was, it could never compare to a telescope, and the same went for micro-vision; the structure of the human eye destined it to be unable to see the microscopic.

"Everyone, goodbye Aifanshao!"

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In the Alliance Headquarters command hall, Xia Duo sensed the direction where the link to those thirteen Alliance Mages had been lost and couldn't help but feel a bit sorrowful. However, now was not the occasion for sentimentality; he quickly adjusted his emotions and threw himself into the next operation.

If the opponent hadn't come to the central area earlier but had instead fled, the Alliance Mages arriving here would only have been able to passively collect partial ritual information, and they likely would have died due to the environment here before collecting much.

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

And now, Xia Duo confirmed the environment: it was not a water body, nor was it a physical vacuum, but rather a pot of chaotic Elemental Energy soup. This was perhaps the original form of Magic—order did not exist, only chaos.

At present, in the center of the Magic Net Riot Zone, the Magic Net was broken, and with the missing elements, even if the Alliance Mages had not lost their Spellcasting ability, they could not conduct high-precision Scrying of sufficient depth.

In the magical world, Spellcasters possessed Magic Vision, which could see the spiritual light produced by the movement of Magic Net Strings; those with rich experience could even deduce the movement state of the Magic Net Strings through the spiritual light.

Going a step further, in a state of high concentration, a Spellcaster could even "see" the Magic Net Strings directly, which showed that Magic Vision also existed at different levels.

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

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

But for a collective, especially a collective capable of using the Spirit Thought Network for collaborative computing and thinking, the latter was undoubtedly more advantageous.

If they could have caught them alive, it would surely have dealt a major blow to the Darkness Society, but the current result was not bad either—not letting the opponent run away meant the Darkness Society would have one less high-level Mage in the final decisive battle.

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

Of the remaining thirteen, more than half permanently lost their upper limit of affinity with the Magic Net, which meant their Spellcasting limit was permanently lowered, and it also meant their Magic Vision perception depth was weakened.

For example, humans could easily identify moving objects, or even key features on their surfaces, but if one wanted to do that through artificial detectors, it would be quite difficult.

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

And finally, the Darkness Society Mage merging into the ritual to push it toward further destruction was equivalent to the device completely disintegrating. Although the process was very short, if there really were a reverse-engineering team nearby, they probably wouldn't have had time to record it.

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 struck by chaotic Magic exceeding the Protection limit while crossing the most intense zone of the Magic Net Riot to enter the central area, and had already gone to Arvandor a step early.

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

After all, conventional recording could only record images, and the most critical electronic circuits within could not be captured.