Chapter 352: Search Efficiency

Afterward, seeing that Niya seemed to still have time, Xia Duo took the opportunity to ask some questions about the field of Magic, and Niya answered them one by one. One had to know that just over a month ago, she was still Xia Duo's mentor! However, this Q&A session did not last long. Soon, Niya suggested that it was time to leave, so Xia Duo escorted her to the Teleportation Room, where Aiboke and Saixili were already waiting.

The three watched as Niya disappeared on the Teleportation Array. Afterward, Xia Duo caught up with Aiboke and Saixili on the recent situation of the Tower of Time, then went alone to the hidden level of the Tower of Time—the Plane Exploration Layer.

Now that the Permission Level here had been opened to him, the first thing he saw after stepping out of the Elevator was a very long corridor, about two people wide. The light inside was not bright, and he could only see a glowing "small hole" at the far end.

After confirming with the Tower Spirit again that he could not teleport directly when coming here for the first time, Xia Duo had no choice but to use his strong legs to walk over.

In such a long corridor, in the dim environment, walking alone inside, he could not even hear his own footsteps, only his own breathing and the sound of his sleeves moving, which gave rise to a feeling of oppression and fear out of thin air.

Before long, the glowing "small hole" ahead grew larger and brighter. Through the light, Xia Duo saw that behind the door should be a hall, which looked quite spacious.

Soon, Xia Duo arrived there. It was very similar to the hall where he conducted Astral Projection at the Arcane Union—

On the dome above floated a glowing sphere that clearly did not look like a physical object, but rather a projection. Below was a circular hall, with some stone seats along the walls, as well as two opposing passages.

This was the place for conducting Astral Projection and heading to the Projection Plane for exploration.

At this moment, the corridor passage he had walked through when he came earlier could no longer be seen, but this was only visually; it still existed in reality.

In the future, if he wanted to come here again, besides taking the Elevator and walking through that corridor passage, he could also teleport over from the Teleportation Room on the Public Level.

The two opposing passages in the hall, one for entering and one for leaving, both led to the Teleportation Room on the Public Level.

Of course, this was for ordinary people. For Xia Duo, he could now have the Tower Spirit teleport him over at any time, and he still needed to go and "unlock the map" for the place where Sub-plane exploration was conducted.

However, before that, he had another plan, and one could even say he couldn't wait: "Tower Spirit, list the currently accessible Projection Planes!"

"Agent Xia Duo, currently accessible Projection Planes: None!"

"Wait!" Xia Duo suddenly discovered a blind spot. "When was the Plane Exploration Array activated? Hasn't it discovered a single usable Projection Plane?"

"Agent Xia Duo, the Plane Exploration Array has been active for 779 standard hours, number of Projection Planes discovered: 2."

It had already been active for 779 standard hours? Xia Duo calculated; wasn't that activated on the day of the Midsummer Festival? At such a sensitive point in time, combined with the sudden teleportation of the Tower of Time and Lord Aipusi "moving" into the Stasis Chamber, he had reason to believe that this Plane Exploration Array had some connection with the Mythallar.

Was it the Mythallar environment that triggered it? Or did Lord Aipusi obtain something from the Mythallar that caused it to start? Both were possible, but Xia Duo was more inclined toward the latter, because of that imprisoned Elf Mage.

However, this array had been active for over a month and only discovered two Projection Planes; that was too pathetic!

That was not the situation he saw when he was at the Arcane Union! Or was it that one must have an Astral Mage to truly bring out the function of the exploration array? From his own personal experience, the time in a Projection Plane might last a long time, but from the outside, it only appeared to be a very short time. And although there were not many people in that exploration hall at the time, almost anyone could conduct Astral Projection as soon as they went over.

This showed that Projection Planes were not rare, or rather, Projection Planes could be discovered almost at any moment, enough to satisfy the needs of all applicants.

If it really only discovered two per month, and it wasn't certain one could catch them, then what was the use of this exploration array! Thinking of this, he was already very pessimistic about the Sub-plane exploration side. Upon inquiry, the Tower Spirit told Xia Duo that in the month since the exploration array was activated, not even a single Sub-plane had been searched out.

Knowing this situation, Xia Duo no longer really wanted to go there to unlock the map. Anyway, Sub-planes were not like Projection Planes, which could only exist for a very short time. What Sub-plane searches yielded were Plane Coordinates; as long as they were searched out, they could exist forever.

It wouldn't be too late to go over after they were searched out.

Furthermore, Xia Duo did not intend to head to an Other Plane before becoming an Arcanist. After all, this was different from a Projection Plane. In a Projection Plane, as long as one wanted to leave, one could leave at any time; unless killed by a special Spell, one would also automatically leave if killed.

But Sub-planes were all real Planes. To leave, unless a Portal was opened from this side again, one could only perform Plane travel oneself, but this was not something an ordinary person could do.

Once an accident occurred, one would truly have "no road to heaven and no door to enter the earth"! Even if one became an Arcanist, wanting to conduct exploration of a real Plane was not something one could do casually; one must make full preparations.

The science fiction films Xia Duo had watched before he transmigrated provided him with a large amount of negative examples; he had already treated Sub-plane exploration as alien exploration.

And Projection Plane exploration, in his view, was somewhat similar to a virtual online game.

The two were almost incomparable.

Now that he couldn't go to a Projection Plane, for a moment, Xia Duo felt a bit dispirited. He called the Tower Spirit to teleport him to the Teleportation Room and walked into the Portal quite decisively.

Arriving at Savile Town once again, Xia Duo mainly wanted to invite one or two Clerics of the Lord of Death to his Territory. If Goblins could really be converted into Undead, then he would have a source of free labor that didn't need to eat, drink, or rest!

Even if their work efficiency was poor, with the compensation of time and quantity, they would surely be able to exert an incomparably huge effect!

At the thought of the scene of countless Goblins working in the forest, Xia Duo felt a surge of heat in his heart. He dismissed the Guard Soldiers who came to salute and walked toward the Temple in two or three steps.

Before long, Xia Duo arrived at the Temple. This was his second time at the Temple, and this time the feeling was different from the first; he was much more composed and much calmer.

If he came a few more times, perhaps the Temple would just be that!

"My Lord!"

"Lord Xia Duo!"

Several Commoners who were just about to leave saw Xia Duo, immediately saluted respectfully, and then left silently.

Now, this dark red 【Crimson Shelter Robe】 of his, plus the silver-glowing 【Pioneer Scepter】 in his hand, had become his trademarks.

And the acolyte who had just received those Commoners also entertained him very enthusiastically, "Lord Xia Duo, do you need to pray? I will take you to the prayer room!"

"No, not for now. I have an urgent matter and wish to see Bishop Anbulier. Go and announce me."

"This, this—" The acolyte was a bit at a loss, and his speech was a bit stuttering. Just as Xia Duo was getting a little impatient, another young person who looked only seventeen or eighteen and was wearing an acolyte robe came running over.

Seeing Xia Duo, he first saluted, then said, "Lord Xia Duo, the Bishop invites you to meet in the Study."

Xia Duo nodded, "Lead the way!"

(End of chapter)