Chapter 445: Projection and the Secret of Elemental Summoning

The situation of the Murloc Tribe introduced by Aiboke aroused Xia Duo's keen interest; until now, he had not yet seen any intelligent life capable of Spellcasting other than humans and Elves!

Although they were just some uncivilized Murlocs, possessing Bloodline Spell was enough to show their extraordinariness.

"What is the strength of those Murlocs?" Xia Duo asked, pointing at the large island overhead. Feeling that it was somewhat inconvenient to talk like this, he adjusted his body orientation again, making his body parallel to the ground of the large island.

There is no obvious direction of gravity in the Blue Crystal Plane; if one ignores the water, it could almost be considered weightless space. Now that Xia Duo had adjusted his posture, the large island stood in front like an incomparably huge wall.

Aiboke also adjusted his posture to follow Xia Duo, facing the large island, and gave his answer, "The strength of the Murlocs themselves is roughly equivalent to humans, and they are extremely agile in the water, but even counting their Bloodline Spell, they pose no threat to you or me."

Xia Duo nodded. He did not doubt the survival ability of an Advanced Rank Mage, but when facing an unknown magical race, caution was also very necessary.

Moreover, up to now, it had only been Aiboke speaking; he also wanted to see the situation on the island with his own eyes. If it were in the Main Plane, if it were on land, he could either go there personally while invisible or use a Scrying spell to peek from a distance.

But in the Blue Crystal Plane, invisibility was directly ruled out. Invisibility only makes one unseen visually, but the human body does not disappear; the body after becoming invisible still causes disturbances to the water, which could not possibly deceive a race like Murlocs that deals with water by nature.

As for Scrying, Xia Duo was not yet an Arcanist and would need to adjust the normal Scrying spell to a version adapted to the Blue Crystal Plane, which would take time.

Of course, he could also use his Bloodline Ability to Huashanshuiliu and go over directly, but with a living person like Aiboke here, why would Xia Duo need to do it himself!

"Aiboke, please cast a Scrying spell; I want to see the situation on the island."

"Alright!"

Aiboke was quite straightforward. Since they were in the water, no additional Magic Artifact for imaging was needed; he could project it directly into the water. Soon, Xia Duo saw the scene on the island—

At first, there were large swathes of plants like seaweed and kelp, with small creatures like swimming fish, crabs, and shellfish moving in between. When the perspective pulled back, it was even more lush green, looking exactly like a forest in the Main Plane.

Xia Duo could see with his naked eye that there were mainly two "forests" on the island, distributed at the two ends of this long island, with some blank areas in the middle.

The first thing Xia Duo saw moving was in this area, and through the Projection of the Scrying spell, Xia Duo clearly saw that a large number of Murlocs were slaughtering each other there.

They were truly fish-lipped, fish-eyed Murlocs with arms and legs!

When Xia Duo first transmigrated, while he was still at the Old Neil Inn, he often heard people talk about who had killed a Murloc, but he had never seen such a creature himself.

It wasn't that he doubted the existence of Murlocs; he had already seen Elves, Goblins, and Trolls, so what was there to doubt? It was just that there were indeed no Murlocs appearing near Savile Territory.

Now that he saw them, it was truly quite novel.

And these Murlocs who were slaughtering each other were mainly composed of two sides, which should be the two hostile tribes Aiboke mentioned earlier. One side had green skin, with a dark back and a light belly, while the other side had silver skin, with the color getting darker further down, finally turning into silver-blue.

Although the appearance and colors of these two types of Murlocs were different, their body structures were roughly the same; both had smooth skin, but scales gradually grew further down.

Even if one ignored their colors, it would be easy to mistake them for the same species.

Of course, this might just be Xia Duo's perspective as a human; perhaps in the eyes of Murlocs, humans, Elves, and even Orcs are the same species!

The slaughter between these Murlocs alone was not much; it was nothing more than primitive people fighting. They didn't even have formal weapons; the better ones used sharp blades ground from shells, while the worse ones just went into battle holding stones that had no sharp edges at all.

What interested Xia Duo were the large Elemental Creatures mixed in among the Murlocs. They beat each other up, occasionally casting Spells to restrict the hostile Murlocs to make it easier for their own summoners to attack. At the same time, they did not forget to purify the water polluted by Murloc blood and stirred-up silt.

It was precisely because of this purification characteristic that Xia Duo was able to distinguish them from the ambient water. Of course, it was also because of this characteristic that this not-so-small-scale slaughter did not make the environment even more turbid.

Seeing this characteristic, Xia Duo remembered the 【Pure Water Orb】 he had once summoned, that water element only the size of a fist, which also possessed the characteristic of purifying water, making it stand out clearly in the Wolfburg River.

Thinking of the tiny water element he had summoned, and then looking at the obviously huge water element summoned by the Murlocs in the Projection, Xia Duo felt a bit envious.

If he raised a team of water elements in the river between Savile Town and Linshui Village, perhaps they could serve as fully automatic, free boatmen.

However, the essence of Elemental Creatures does not belong to the material world after all. To summon them, the Spellcaster must maintain their existence, unless one can obtain the essence of the Elemental Creature, bring it back to the Main Plane, and then have long-term labor.

"These Murlocs might have a way!" Xia Duo felt a surge of joy in his heart.

To say that these Murlocs relied entirely on their own Bloodline Ability to summon large Elemental Creatures and could maintain long-term combat, Xia Duo was unwilling to believe it from the bottom of his heart.

Wouldn't that make his own bloodline seem too useless? And there was another problem: even with Bloodline Ability, summoning Elemental Creatures from the Elemental Plane was not guaranteed to succeed.

It also required the response of the Elemental Creature. Their essence is in the Elemental Plane, and the Spellcaster cannot threaten them, so why would they obediently listen and project themselves into the material world!

Previously, when the Arcanist of the Hand of Secrecy was building the Elemental Channel, he had summoned an Earth Element to help. He had wanted to learn it at the time, but was refused.

Now, these Murlocs likely mastered a method to communicate with water elements, reach an agreement, and even summon their essence to the material world to maintain long-term control. How could Xia Duo not be tempted!

Just seeing this, Xia Duo knew that the Blue Crystal Plane had great potential to be tapped; this trip was not in vain!

The Projection continued. The perspective passed through the battlefield of the two sides of Murlocs several times, but none of the nearly one hundred Murlocs present could discover it. Even when the image sometimes grazed past the bodies of the Murlocs, no one noticed anything wrong; they were all immersed in the emotion of slaughter.

Aiboke did not linger on this battlefield. The Projection perspective turned in another direction, swept over the "forest" on the island, and flew toward one end of the island.

Soon, Xia Duo saw the Murloc settlement hidden at the bottom of the seaweed and kelp. Unlike human settlements, even if Murloc settlements had a tendency to concentrate, they were still relatively scattered.

It seemed that no relatively centralized ruling rule had been formed here.

Similar to humans planting crops, these Murlocs also planted "crops." In addition to the plants that covered almost the entire island, there were also schools of fish, shellfish farms, and crab nests.

What surprised Xia Duo was that the schools of fish raised by the Murlocs stayed obediently in the designated areas even without restrictions like nets, and rarely escaped.

This was a bit like raising birds in an airspace without any restrictions; he didn't know how they managed to do it.