Chapter 927: Waiting for Awakening, Confirming the Mythallar

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Xia Duo felt that Bishop Anbulier seemed to have aged somewhat; if the price for one person to be rejuvenated was for another to age, then that price was truly too great.

So great that even an outsider like Xia Duo found it hard to accept; wanting to make someone voluntarily sacrifice themselves to achieve another was even harder.

Is it really like this?

Xia Duo kept this question in his heart, preparing to ask Bishop Anbulier when there was an opportunity; as for now, the Bishop's rescue had ended.

The Holy Light Water, originally so abundant it had turned into a stone-like substance, was also slowly dissipating, merging into the Holy Light Dome above the garden and even the entire space of the Temple.

Xia Duo walked forward and introduced the two people to Bishop Anbulier: "Bishop, this is Great Arcanist Bailun, the Princess's teacher, and this is President Zhenna of the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce; they just arrived from Seventon!"

He then asked: "How is Consultant Saide's condition now?"

Only then did Anbulier realize that there was actually a Great Arcanist in this small Temple garden, and one with an extraordinary status at that; he suppressed his fatigue, hurriedly bowed, and then said:

"Consultant Saide's condition has stabilized, but his consciousness was damaged by that mysterious water grass earlier; he has just recovered and cannot wake up immediately!"

Speaking of the water grass, Bishop Anbulier could not help but turn his gaze to the spot where Saide had originally been lying; of course, there was no water grass there now, as those had been expelled and destroyed as foreign objects during the recent Baptism of Holy Water.

"Then when will he be able to wake up?" After all, he was her subordinate, so Zhenna suddenly interjected.

"It could be now, or it could be tomorrow; it depends on his own will. As an outsider, all I can do is restore him to his best state," Anbulier said truthfully.

"Can he be forcibly awakened?" Zhenna asked again.

"I can try, but I cannot guarantee success; I suggest letting him wake up naturally," Anbulier said cautiously.

"I see—"

Zhenna hesitated, as if unable to make up her mind; she cast a questioning and imploring look at Bailun, and Bailun nodded slightly, not refusing: "Then let's wait!"

The Temple garden was a place where Priests usually rested, and tables and chairs were readily available; after everyone sat down, Bailun proposed wanting to cast a spell first to investigate the situation at Maihete Lake; Zhenna was somewhat moved, and the others naturally would not object.

Xia Duo, who had personally been to Maihete Lake, provided even more accurate location information for Maihete Lake from a Mage's perspective.

After preparing, Bailun did not mind that there were others present and cast the spell directly; for the sake of demonstration, he even displayed the investigation results in the form of a Magic Image.

The Great Arcanist cast the spell with ease, but Xia Duo could still see that this spell was based on a Detection Spell and had likely undergone some improvements; the casting speed was more than twice as fast as his and Niya's.

Soon, a large expanse of green light appeared before everyone; Bailun adjusted the scrying perspective, the green light gradually shrank, and the full view of Maihete Lake appeared before them.

It was a standard circular area, completely covered by the green light; one could not see the original appearance of Maihete Lake at all. Now, all that could be seen was the green light area and the two rivers flowing into Maihete Lake from the north and south.

Of course, these two rivers could hardly be seen in their original state now either; the river surfaces were completely packed with dense swarms of murlocs, like a black, winding conveyor belt constantly rolling and twisting as it moved north and south!

Even though he had already seen the Murloc Tide blocked on the side of Savile Town and the deep green, nearly black river channels filled with murlocs stretching north for an unknown distance when he had just passed through the Portal and landed on the ground, Bailun was still shocked by the scene he was seeing now.

The straight-line distance between Maihete Lake and Savile Town was nearly 100 kilometers, and the river channel was winding, so no one could know its actual length, but it was certain that the number of murlocs filling the river channel must be unimaginably vast!

And this was just the murlocs in the river channel south of Maihete Lake; it was unknown how far they extended to the north, perhaps they were already approaching the Nether Core Region!

Bailun could almost imagine the scene of murlocs flooding the entire Nether Territory in the future; this was truly not what he had envisioned.

Next, Bailun adjusted the perspective multiple times to observe the situation of the green light at Maihete Lake, but after looking, apart from confirming that the green light was indeed a Mythallar, there were no further discoveries.

"It seems one must enter the interior of the green light to know the specific function of this Mythallar."

Reaching this conclusion made Bailun frown; without figuring out the specific function of the Mythallar, even if he were confident in destroying it from the outside, he could not do so.

After all, this was within the territory of Netheril; if handled improperly, it might leave a disaster for ages.

Noticing Bailun frowning, Xia Duo hesitated for a moment before asking directly, "Master Bailun, are there any new discoveries?"

A Magic Image was merely a visualization of a simple perspective of partial scrying information and could not fully present all the information gathered.

For instance, the state of the Magic Net, the state of free-roaming elements, or intuitive information processed through scrying spells, and so on.

Mind Link was the most comprehensive way of sharing information that Xia Duo knew of, but obviously, he could not ask a Great Arcanist to link minds with him; that would be somewhat abrupt.

However, asking directly was the same; if Master Bailun was willing to say, he would naturally say so, and if he was unwilling, Xia Duo believed that even through a Mind Link, he might not necessarily know.

The Princess could give every Pioneer a 【Pioneer Scepter】, so she must be proficient in mind spells, and as the Princess's teacher, he surely wouldn't be without achievements in this area!

"Unfortunately, Lord Xia Duo, I have no new discoveries, only confirming that the green light is indeed a Mythallar; to investigate further, one must go deep into the interior of the Mythallar!"

"A Mythallar?!"

Although Xia Duo had been very certain of this guess before, when he received a definitive answer from the mouth of a Great Arcanist, he still felt very shocked.

Or rather, he had a subconscious resistance to the idea; after all, now was not the best time to have a conflict with the Elves.

But the facts were right there, and there was no second way to think about it; in the Green Field Plane, the Seven Towers also showed they had mastered certain Mythallar technologies, but the Seven Towers would have to be brain-damaged to do such a thing in their own country.

If it were really done by the Seven Towers, Bailun might not have come, and if he had come, he wouldn't have this kind of reaction.

However, even knowing it was done by the Elves, it was difficult to make any substantive counterattack; this was like knowing on Earth that a certain terrorist attack was committed by humans—it was completely meaningless.

If not humans, could it be aliens?

But humans had so many factions that it was hard to truly determine who specifically it was.

Just like the current situation, knowing it was done by the Elves, and that Keman had the greatest suspicion, it was not impossible that some other Elven Kingdom was causing trouble in the dark.

Seriously speaking, even Yierlan, Netheril's most steadfast ally, was a suspect, though the possibility was very small.

After Keman, Yierlan was next and also had a certain degree of suspicion; they were leaning closer to Keman in their diplomatic policy, but were there really no disagreements within them?

Whether it was to oppose the alliance between Yierlan and Keman, or because they were unwilling to be in a dominated position when allied with Keman, there were reasons and possibilities for them to cause trouble in the dark.