Chapter 801: Blind-Sensing Cane, Testing the State of the Magic Net

Without anyone to talk to, Xia Duo's attention returned to himself once more; he could feel that the light in his current location was much weaker than before, but even with that cooling ointment, he could still feel a stinging pain all over his body.

Not long after, a cold female voice rang out before him, bringing some new information, "The High Priestess has already told me about your situation; I will arrange for someone to give you special training next."

After saying this, she left directly without waiting for Xia Duo to respond. Before long, someone came over to help Xia Duo up—or more accurately, two strong female Drow came over to forcibly hold Xia Duo's arms, moving him back and forth within this Training Ground.

Xia Duo didn't understand at first, but as his body fed back sensations of alternating pain and relief, he discovered that these two Drow were walking him through light of varying intensities.

"Could this be the training?"

Although he had guessed as much, Xia Duo was still somewhat surprised; the Drow had actually created a light-environment training ground—could they really be planning to counterattack the Surface?

He tried to ask the Drow female instructor beside him, but he didn't receive any reply. These two female Drow were like robots; other than forcibly taking him into areas of different light intensity, they only applied ointment to him.

However, after Xia Duo refused once, they even skipped applying the ointment.

……

Just like that, after four or five consecutive days of special training, the two female instructors left on their own after handing Xia Duo a cane used for pathfinding.

"It's actually a Magic Item!"

Holding the magic cane in his hand, Xia Duo could clearly perceive the terrain features about ten meters ahead; he didn't feel any dissatisfaction regarding the departure of those two instructors.

Compared to other trainees, his current treatment was already much better.

Groping his way back to a cool, shaded spot, a familiar voice rang out in his ear, "Those annoying females left?"

"Mm."

Xia Duo nodded casually.

Several days had passed, and his identity was no longer a secret in the Training Ground; many people already knew. Some distanced themselves, and naturally, some grew close. Ba'er, who was speaking to him now, was one of them.

According to his own account, he was a Commoner from the underground great empty bubble called 【Aozuobeien】. Of course, the Drow were almost all soldiers; a so-called Commoner was at least a low-level warrior.

In "Brandon's" memory, Commoners were roughly equivalent to cannon fodder, ruled by various families according to geography; whenever a family needed to get something done, they would conscript Commoners.

And this time, Ba'er had been forcibly conscripted. There were four or five who came with him, but only he had survived until now.

Xia Duo was not willing to have too much of a friendship with Ba'er, and he only believed half of what Ba'er said. It was just that he was currently unable to remove the Protection on his eyes, and he needed to learn more about the Training Ground, so he had to respond perfunctorily.

Regarding the Drow, he had always been vigilant!

But now, he didn't want to waste any more time. After a moment of silence, Xia Duo tapped Ba'er beside him with his cane and said to him:

"Go to the side, I am going to perform Spellcasting, don't disturb me!"

"Yes, yes!"

Immediately following was a series of deliberately heavy footsteps. Although Xia Duo wasn't at ease, he wasn't in a position to be picky, so he focused his mind and began Spellcasting.

He had not yet completed the Spell Adaptation for the Underdark Magic Net environment; what he was doing now was using various Drow Spells to test the current state of the Magic Net.

"Brandon" knew many Spells, but had learned very few, and was only proficient in 【Spell Breaking】 and 【Short-range Teleportation】. Two days ago, Xia Duo had already exhausted "Brandon's" accumulation.

To measure the state of the Magic Net, more Spells were needed. Brandon's experience was no longer sufficient to rely on; Xia Duo was now self-studying those Spells in Brandon's memory that he had not learned.

For the past two days, he had been pondering in his consciousness a Drow Spell he had renamed 【Radiation Invisibility】.

In Netheril, 【Invisibility】 focused more on light and shadow, and more advanced versions involved concealment at the level of the Magic Net. But in the Underdark, in a lightless environment, invisibility focused more on being invisible within radiation.

It was a completely different Spell from the Invisibility of the Main Plane.

In Brandon's memory, only Drow warriors who had mastered invisibility could be called assassins; they were the nightmares of enemies, and even Mages would fear them by three parts.

It was a pity that Brandon had studied it for a long time but had never been able to learn this Spell.

Now that Xia Duo was relearning this Spell from the perspective of a human Arcanist, the efficiency was completely incomparable to that of a half-baked person like Brandon.

In just two or three days, Xia Duo had completely understood this 3rd Circle Spell. He really couldn't understand why Brandon, who could learn the 4th Circle 【Short-range Teleportation】, couldn't learn this Spell that was only 3rd Circle.

While focusing, Xia Duo used his own understanding and the Drow method of Spellcasting to perform this Spell for the first time. The result was naturally no surprise: success on the first try.

At least, he felt it was a success.

Immediately after, Ba'er's voice rang out again, but this time, his tone was full of surprise, "Brandon, what did you do?"

"Can you see me?" Xia Duo asked.

"I can see you, but you give me the feeling as if you don't exist. Are you really still here?"

Xia Duo heard the other person's voice approaching, seemingly wanting to confirm it at close range, so he hurriedly stopped him: "Stop, don't come any closer!"

Pfft—

The stopped footsteps landed heavily, making a dull sound. Simultaneously, a slightly hurried sound of breathing appeared, "Brandon, I mean no harm!"

"I know, but I am still Spellcasting!" Xia Duo said sternly.

This was, of course, an excuse; he just instinctively didn't want to let a Drow get close, even if the other party had the intention to show goodwill.

Xia Duo gripped the cane in his hand tightly. The other person's figure appeared clearly in his Perception. If the other party didn't know what was good for them, he was not without the power to resist.

In his Perception, Ba'er hesitated for a moment, but ultimately retreated.

Then, Xia Duo performed 【Radiation Invisibility】 again. Judging from Ba'er's words just now, this Spell didn't seem to be able to provide invisibility under normal light. He hadn't forgotten that although his current location was relatively cool, light still existed.

However, Xia Duo had no interest in modifying Spells for the time being. By performing the Spell again, starting from the root of the Spell's effect and deducing through the Spell Principles of the Netheril Magic System, he once again corrected the Magic Net state model.

His proficiency as a Plane Scholar was still lacking; he could only use this indirect method to obtain the current state of the Magic Net.

He could make as many corrections as there were Spells, until it could no longer be changed, infinitely approaching the Magic Net state directly derived by a Plane Scholar from the current Plane environment.

Of course, this was theoretically; in reality, as long as it was corrected to a certain degree, it was considered complete.

That was exactly what Xia Duo was doing now. After 【Radiation Invisibility】, he only needed to complete three more Spells to finally obtain a relatively accurate Magic Net environment.

After that, he could complete the adaptation. The new Spell after adaptation might be less stable than when on the Surface, but compared to "arriving in the Underdark and being completely blind," it was much better.

Of course, if a Mage with extremely strong Spellcasting ability really came to the Underdark, they could actually choose not to adapt and force the Spellcasting.

After all, the Underdark and the Surface were both part of the Main Plane; even if the Magic Net environment differed, it was not as great as compared to an Other Plane.

As long as one's control ability was sufficient, one could completely ignore that slight difference.