Arcane Lord

After transmitting the original text of the transcribed paper to Niya and explaining it to her again, Shado walked out of the Tower of Time and had been away from the territory for several days. It was time to go back and take a look.

The straight-line distance from the Tower of Time to the Altar Square of Linshui Village is only more than 1 mile. Now the expansion of the Great Xia Territory has already passed here and surrounded all the Mysuo ruins except for the northern point.

In other words, as long as Xia Duo walks out of the Tower of Time, he can theoretically arrive at Linshui Village.

…

After trying to sense the surrounding magic network environment, Xia Duo frowned. Although the magic network environment in the Mystic Lock Ruins is now much better than it was at the beginning, it is still a bit violent and sets off waves of magic network strings from time to time. The shaking storm.

As reflected in ordinary vision, a series of random spell effects appear from time to time in the Mystic Ruins.

Compared with the previous shaking storm that set off the magic network string every moment, it is indeed much better now, but Xia Duo is not satisfied.

He thought of the time when he tried to repair the magic network in the Tower of Time Advanced Laboratory. Although it was not easy, it was not as difficult as he had imagined before he advanced.

It is nothing more than spreading the arcane fire, using its own miniature magic net to temporarily cover the damaged area, and temporarily calm the magic net riot caused by the damage.

Let the external magic network and the own miniature magic network be in a semi-independent and semi-assimilated state. Start repairing the surface of the magic network and gradually deepen until all the damage is repaired.

Although the damaged area of ​​​​the magic network caused by Sha Duo's advancement is not large and is limited to the fifth floor on the surface, there are seven or eight arcane masters here in the Mystic Ruins!

Two of them are senior arcanists. They have been working hard for more than a year, but they have not yet completely repaired this place.

Xia Duo repaired the magic network environment in the advanced laboratory, which only lasted about ten days intermittently. It had been here for more than a year, and the arcanists were all experienced.

He briefly estimated the workload. Assuming that the work efficiency of both parties was similar, the workload of these arcanists so far was at least hundreds of times that of his.

If you take work efficiency into consideration, it's even more!

Is it really that difficult to repair the magic network environment in the Mystic Ruins? Xia Duo didn't quite understand.

Of course, he didn't want to try it himself. After all, the outside world did not have the various auxiliary means of the Tower of Time, and he had no urgent need for divine grace.

After thinking about it, Xia Duo still decided to ask the arcanist of the Hidden Hand to see when the magic network environment here would be repaired.

Originally, when the front line of development had not been pushed to this side, he was not too anxious, but now the actual development area of ​​Daxia Territory has covered this side. It is like a muddy pond suddenly appeared in his yard, and it is still there all day long. Stinky.

This makes Xia Duo not anxious!

…

From the Tower of Time to the east, south, and west, although there are still elven ruins, there are Shado's territorial citizens living everywhere in the periphery.

Now the arcanists who are repairing the Magic Network here have moved their temporary residence to the north of the Tower of Time. Seven or eight integrated stone buildings are located on the edge of the Magic Network riot area.

Xia Duo flew over and found a small house marked with the mark of [Hidden Hand], and sent out a signal from a distance. After a while, a short old man with a white beard came out of the house. Xia Duo nodded slightly in greeting, but still Not close.

A considerable amount of warning magic has been deployed here, and it is not certain that there will only be warning. Sha Duo is naturally unwilling to step in rashly under such circumstances.

The old man also looked at Xia Duo from a distance and summoned him, "Lord Xia Duo, what do you want from me?"

"Master Olins, I would like to ask when the repair work here is expected to be completed!"

"Lord Xia Duo, you have to be patient. God's grace is not so easy to obtain. As for the completion date, based on my experience, it will be almost completed by this time next year, but -"

Olins's voice suddenly stopped here, and then continued the transmission, "But even if it is finished, it is not completely repaired!

"Part of the deep magic network is beyond our reach. If we want to repair it, we can only find a great arcanist, or wait for time to repair it naturally.

"Of course, we will do our best to leave you with a more secure Magic Network environment."

"..."

Although he was a little disappointed with the results of another year, at least he knew a rough date. Xia Duo recalled the magic network repair records he had seen. It was rare for seven or eight arcanists to repair them at the same time.

and--

Shado glanced at a few houses to the left and right of Orlins' house - usually only organizations like [The Hidden Hand] that believe in the goddess of magic would restore them from scratch.

The difficulty of repairing the magic network is not exactly the same from beginning to end, but from difficult to easy, and then difficult again. Generally, if the arcanist is seeking divine favor, most of them will withdraw in the middle stage, leaving a mess behind.

The situation of the Mystic Ruins in Daxia Territory is somewhat special. It can pass through the construction of elemental channels, which reduces the difficulty in the early stage, and the difficulty of repairing it in the later stage is relatively stable. This attracted seven or eight arcanists to come over at the same time.

But the later it gets, the more difficult it will be to repair, there is no doubt about it.

In other words, there are eight here now, but that may not be the case next year. Currently, there are only four people in [Hidden Hand] here.

I don’t know if what Orlins said about this time next year means that it will take the four of them [Hidden Hand] one year, or that the eight existing arcanists will need to continue repairing it for another year?

Chateau told Orlins his doubts, and Orlins's answer was——

The current eight people are needed to continue repairing it for another year! If there are only four people like [Hidden Hand], it will take at least 3 years, or even longer!

"..."

Xia Duo understands that the longer it takes to repair the magic network, the more difficult it will be.

There are even some mythal ruins that were completely damaged very early, even before the emergence of Netheril.

It could not be repaired in time, and the magic network there was completely dead, making it extremely difficult to repair.

Divine grace has nothing to do with the difficulty of repair, but is only related to specific workload indicators such as repair area and degree of repair. Even an organization like [Hidden Hand] that believes in the goddess of magic will not give priority to those magic network dead areas as Repair target.

Xia Duo naturally didn't want an unfinished magic network dead zone to appear in his territory, which would be unsatisfactory.

"Master Orlins, I hope the repair progress of the Magic Network can be faster. Is there anything I can do?" Sha Duo asked again.

Orlins smiled and said: "If Lord Shado is willing to participate in the repair work, or let other arcanists from the Tower of Time participate in the repair, I think this will play a big role in speeding up the repair progress."

"I'm sorry, Master Orlins, I have a lot of things to worry about here. Is there anything else?"

"other?"

Orlins thought for a while, as if something suddenly occurred to him, "Lord Chateau, you can definitely do this. If Lord Chateau can provide us with daily food, then we don't have to waste time looking for it ourselves. "

"That's no problem. I will arrange for someone to deliver food to you every day."

"Then thank you Lord Shado."

…

Soon, Xia Duo visited the four arcanists except the [Hidden Hand] arcanist one by one.

Except for one who made it clear that he would leave after the snow melts next year, the other three said they had no plans to leave here for the time being, and they also thanked Xia Duo for providing them with food.

"It seems that we still have to find another way!"