Chapter 803: Temporary Subordinate, Thermal Imaging

The next day, "early" in the morning, Ba'er came to the courtyard where Xia Duo was staying, and for the first time, Xia Duo saw Ba'er in person—no, he should say, in Drow.

Under Ba'er's guidance, Xia Duo saw some scenes inside the Kelaorui Family for the first time; they were not much different from the Sangqi Family in "Brandon's" memories, and eventually, the two arrived in front of a stone wall.

"Lord Xia Duo, behind this is the Training Ground. Please put on your protection device, my Lord," Ba'er said with a humble expression.

"Mm."

Since Maluxisi said he could not remove the protection yet, Xia Duo followed suit, wrapping layers of wide leather straps over his eyes and gripping his Blind Sight Cane tightly before signaling Ba'er to open the door.

Soon, the creaking sound of the door opening reached Xia Duo's ears, followed immediately by sunlight that felt like a sharp sword striking his body.

Xia Duo couldn't help but let out a muffled groan, then forcibly held it back; he refused Ba'er's assistance and followed behind him, walking into the Training Ground step by step.

Just after entering, Xia Duo heard a series of whip-cracking sounds hitting flesh, as well as the scolding of a female instructor. At this moment, Ba'er leaned in and whispered:

"So far, you are the only newcomer here, my Lord, and you have not yet completed the adaptation training. They have already begun training in lurking, searching, and combat under the sunlight, but with your strength, my Lord, you will soon catch up to them once the adaptation training is over."

"And what about you?" Xia Duo asked suddenly.

"During your mission, I will temporarily become your subordinate to do some rough work for you; this is my task."

Xia Duo paused his steps, deciding to ignore Ba'er for the time being. In any case, once they reached the Surface, he did not believe an ordinary Drow warrior could pull any tricks on him, an Arcanist from the Surface.

In fact, he was more willing to believe this was a benefit given to him by Maluxisi, but Maluxisi's thoughts were unfathomable; if he really thought that way, he might not even know how he died.

……

For the rest of the "morning," Xia Duo continued as he had the previous few days, undergoing adaptation training under different light intensities in the Training Ground.

As for Magic, he had already completed the measurement of the Magic Net state in the Underdark yesterday. From yesterday until now, except for sleeping, he had been working on adapting Netheril Magic to the Underdark in his mind.

This was a purely computational task that required no external objects; it could be done entirely within his mind and consciousness.

The truly troublesome part was the practice after adaptation. For a long time, he had been accustomed to Spellcasting in the Surface environment. Now that he had changed his method of Spellcasting, even if there were only slight differences, it would be very inconvenient when actually using it.

From this, Xia Duo thought of a convenient method: leaving room for adjustments in his Spellbook for adaptation. In the future, upon arriving at a new Plane, he would only need to adapt it once in the Spellbook, and no further practice would be required.

He could simply cast spells through the Spellbook.

It was just a pity that he thought of this too late; his Spellbook was currently hanging at the waist of his main body in the Main Plane!

Of course, even if he brought it in through his Personal Space, he would be unable to make adjustments to the Spellbook in a short time. Such a huge change was no longer in the category of upgrading Inner Pages or fine-tuning the structure; the entire architecture of the Spellbook would have to be redesigned.

The adjustment points were mainly concentrated on dynamic energy acquisition methods adapted to different Planes and different Magic Net environments, as well as more flexible dynamic spell Inner Pages.

For the time being, Xia Duo could not think of any way to dynamically adjust a Magic Item that had already been formed.

It could only be considered a long-term vision!

……

Near noon, the training sounds in the Training Ground temporarily subsided. If it were like the previous few days, Xia Duo would already be considering how to force down the Rothé meat that tasted strongly of rust.

However, since Maluxisi agreed yesterday that he could train for half a day and rest for half a day, and that he could enter her private library, Xia Duo did not need to consider eating that disgusting meat in the Training Ground at all.

He was going to eat algae at his courtyard residence!

Since he had been a Projection, the only Drow food he could accept and even liked a little was algae.

Perhaps there were more foods he would like, but the process of trying them would surely be a nightmare; he would rather just survive by eating grass.

Still under Ba'er's guidance, Xia Duo left the Training Ground.

As soon as he left the simulated sunlight range of the Training Ground, Xia Duo snatched off the protection from his eyes. However, to avoid trouble, he did not show his ability to have memorized the entire route, still letting Ba'er lead the way.

Upon returning to the courtyard, Xia Duo immediately rang the bell. The same male Drow servant from before brought him lunch, and with the previous experience, the lunch brought this time was mainly algae, with only a small amount of meat.

After finishing lunch, it was time for the book-scanning session Xia Duo was looking forward to most.

However, when he actually arrived at the library, he was dumbfounded. It was pitch black; what kind of books could he read?

So-called Darkvision does not mean being able to truly see through all darkness, but rather refers to some special perspectives, such as infrared vision, X-ray vision, and so on.

The effects that different races' Darkvision can see are not necessarily the same.

Xia Duo had experienced it personally; the Darkvision obtained from his main body's Bloodline Awakening in the Main Plane had a completely different experience from the Drow's Darkvision.

The main body's Darkvision was more like low-light vision, able to perceive extremely faint light and amplify it in his Perception, creating an effect similar to turning night into day.

In the process of this light source amplification, there would be distortion, which would be very different from the colors seen normally during the day; the darker the situation, the more severe the distortion would be.

But the Drow's Darkvision was quite different. The Underdark was almost absolutely devoid of light. If Xia Duo's main body came here, he would likely see nothing at all, and instead be "blinded" by the radiation filling his field of vision.

Drow have an alternative Darkvision, similar to a thermal imager on Earth, where objects at different temperatures appear in different colors.

In "Brandon's" memories, the center of the great cavern of Aozuobeien was the Drow settlement, which could also be called 【Ao Zu Bei En Cheng】; there was a stone pillar in the city that had been enchanted with Magic.

This stone pillar could present different colors in the Drow's vision through different temperatures, used to indicate the specific time.

If one only timed things through background radiation, one could only know a rough estimate, not the specific time.

In the Drow's field of vision, colors were extremely rich. Xia Duo guessed that this might also be why they could accept black skin.

After all, in their own field of vision, black skin itself had no meaning; in a dark environment, they could not see it, and instead, the colors brought by the body's temperature were more vivid.

Specifically regarding this reading room, although Xia Duo could see the scene depicted by the different temperatures of different objects in the reading room, however—

The difference in temperature of the same book was extremely small; he could roughly distinguish the difference in material between the cover and the Inner Page, but the text on the book was very difficult to distinguish—at least, Xia Duo could not distinguish it.