Arcane Lord

Since it was already late at night, Shado did not wake up Layton or Jabbas. Instead, after meeting with the night patrol, he went directly to the site of the ruins.

Seeing the ruins site again, in Sha Duo's perception, time seemed to have passed for a long time, but from the perspective of the main plane, the last time he saw this place through the detection spell was one day ago.

But I came here in person, and it was quite a while ago compared to the last time.

At present, in addition to the original passage extending downward from the Troll Cave, there are also two large exploratory pits in the southeast direction.

As for the ruins further down the Troll Cave, it has only been one day on the main plane, and no progress can be seen at all.

But now, perhaps there is no need for Jabas to lead people to dig. Chateau has a more convenient and faster method——

Stone walking technique!

A special spell from the Underdark!

Since he already had the experience of transforming into water flow and gaseous bodies, when Shado found this spell in Malusis's private library, he immediately understood that this was the "Earth Escape Technique" he had been waiting for!

In addition to hollows, the Underdark is filled with rocks and soil. Therefore, the mages there have more and more in-depth research on media such as rocks and soil than surface mages.

[Shi Xing Shu] is a typical representative among them.

And matching [Stone Technique] is [Earth Vein Detector], or [Infrasound Detection].

Previously in the projection plane, one of Shado's missions as a drow from the Dark Realm to the surface was to use the [Leyline Detector] to search for weak points in the earth's veins, so as to facilitate the establishment of surface passages in the underground world.

Because of this experience, he obtained a lot of [infrasound detection] feedback characteristics. In addition to the characteristics of weak points in the earth's veins, there are also more characteristics of normal geological environments.

In other words, today's Xia Duo can really be said to have various escape channels by land, water and air!

The analysis of [Stone Walking Technique] and the final work of converting it into the Nese Magic version were completely completed in the last few days of the projection plane.

All that's left is to actually test it.

After previous research on [Petrification Magic], Xia Duo is quite accomplished in the field of earth elements. Even if he fails to obtain the [Stone Walking Technique] spell in the dark area of ​​the projection plane, he still believes that he will be able to develop his own. [Earth Escape Technique].

The relevant principles and details have long been understood, and Xia Duo cannot worry about this spell returning to the main plane and becoming acclimatized.

"Then let's get started!"

Standing next to the exploration pit of the original troll cave, he calmly performed the [Stone Walking Technique] or [Transformation into Earth and Stone].

In an instant, Xia Duo's original flesh and blood form suddenly collapsed and turned into a pile of scattered soil. This soil was different from ordinary soil, but elemental soil that had just been transformed by magic.

After the initial confusion, he quickly regained the familiar feeling when he transformed into water and gas. This pile of scattered soil began to seep into the ground.

Just like water seeps into sand, his current earth elemental body can also seep into ordinary earth and rocks. However, compared to the smoothness of water flow and the unrestrained gas, the earth elemental body can be said to be "difficult to move" in the soil.

Of course, this "difficulty" is relative to the incarnation of water and gas. The actual speed is only slightly slower than the normal walking of ordinary people.

When he was just on the surface, he didn't feel anything. Once everything went underground, Xia Duo was like a fish in the water. The deeper he went, the smoother he became.

Occasionally, he would pass by some underground rocks without any hesitation and rush straight over. His body seemed to be on another level, passing by the rocks easily, as if there was nothing special about them.

"It's really Earth Escape! It's just slower!"

Then, while Xia Duo dived quickly, he continuously scanned the surrounding environment through [Infrasound Detection], and constructed a more vivid underground world in his mind based on the feedback characteristics of infrasound detection that is more suitable for the average human perspective. Material distribution map.

After a while, Shado found the narrow trail leading to the ruins deeper underground that Jabas had pointed out before.

Perhaps due to the geological changes in the past long years, this trail that should have been nearly horizontal now extends almost vertically deeper underground.

But this is convenient for Xia Duo. This trail is his best signpost.

Following the trail all the way down, the feedback from the infrasound detection finally changed. In addition to discovering more narrow trails like links, tall stone buildings were also discovered.

Perhaps this is the true appearance of the ruins.

After arriving here, Xia Duo became more and more cautious. Those previous statues still retained petrification magic after a long period of time. So is there magic left in this ruins?

…

After carefully circling around from the outside, Sha Duo discovered that the ruins as a whole looked like a small town that had been twisted and torn to only half.

Most of the buildings are dilapidated and mixed in the soil. After a long time of baptism, there is almost a tendency of dissolution and assimilation.

But there are still some buildings that are relatively intact, such as a stone building similar to an auditorium that Sha Duo is preparing to go to at this moment.

He only asked to go to this auditorium-like building, mainly because he detected that there seemed to be a large number of Saluk shaman statues in this building.

Just like the three ones dug out before in his territory.

…

Arriving at the entrance of the building, Xia Duo looked around carefully. If the surrounding soil was regarded as air, the door of this auditorium-like building was suspended not far above the building, which looked a bit strange.

However, this is underground after all and is supported by soil, so it is not surprising.

After checking with various means, Xia Duo entered the building. He immediately spotted the hundreds of statues neatly arranged in the hall.

If every statue could expand his portable space, that would be a huge gain!

I don’t know how many arcane crystals I have to save for him!

However, at this moment, it becomes more important to be more stable. According to the three statues unearthed before, Xia Duo knew that the petrified area of ​​the statue was about 10 meters around the statue.

However, that is the petrified field after it is triggered. It does not exist before it is triggered. To trigger the petrified field, you must touch the statue itself.

If ordinary people were to carry the statues, they would have to use creatures to trigger the remaining magic in the statues, as Jabas did with the last two statues he unearthed before, and then they could move them normally.

But for Xia Duo, it can be moved without contact, and he also wants to see how much space will be expanded if a more "original" statue is put into the portable space!