For various reasons, the ancient elves concentrated the control authority of the Mystic Locks in one place for unified management. This place is also the location of the Mystic Locks Control Center mentioned in the Dragon Madness Secret Scroll.
The official name is - Feres Fortress.
For a moment, Xia Duo stopped the calculator test experiment that the main body was conducting and put most of his consciousness on the incarnation. He first roughly determined the size of the abnormal range based on the [Element Scanning] results.
Judging from the surface, this area is not large. Even compared to a control center that can be used to control the Mystery Lock covering the entire main plane, this area is pitifully small.
That is to say, it is centered on a certain cliff and surrounded by a range of one or two hundred meters.
Xia Duo cautiously approached the central area. The edge of the continent formed a nearly vertical fracture surface here. The bottom was bottomless, and the pale and deep ice sealed everything.
Xia Duo shuttled through the ice and did not feel that this area was any different from the places he had experienced before. It seemed that this was just a very ordinary frozen layer.
But in the abnormal areas discovered before, there are always some abnormal things, such as mineral veins, ruins, or traces left by the activities of elemental creatures.
But there is nothing here, just a dark cliff, and the ice that wraps the cliff is no different from the Seven Towers.
"Cliff?"
Xia Duo stared intently at the huge wall in front of him. It looked very flat from a distance, but when he got closer, he discovered cracks on the surface and neatly arranged rock protrusions the size of a fist.
It doesn't seem to be fundamentally different from other places. The rock mass protrusions on the cliff seem to be washed by water or the erosion effect of sea water freezing.
He had seen similar scenes in the cliff areas he had searched before, but the ones here were just more tidy.
but--
If there was no elemental anomaly detected before, then he might have really ignored it, but now, how could he turn a blind eye when he knew that there was an anomaly here?
Thinking of this, Xia Duo retreated a little distance, to a place where he felt he would not be affected, and still stopped in the ice. Just like when he checked the abnormal area before, he completely overlapped his personal space with this area.
During this process, Xia Duo himself was also in the overlapping area of planes. This was a very special state. The portable space existed in his consciousness, but his consciousness now existed in the portable space.
It gives people a feeling of contradiction and harmony.
It is also in this state that Xia Duo can use the portable space to perceive another layer of space that overlaps with it, and this kind of perception between spaces is the most real.
At least he is in the projection plane. In this way, he can penetrate its virtual nature even within the projection plane, which is impossible to do with normal inspection methods.
And now, through the portable space, Xia Duo saw the real scene of the main plane. It was still cliffs and ice, but the difference was——
The traces of magic are finally revealed!
Although it cannot be concluded that this is Feres Fortress, the anomalies here are completely different from those discovered before.
What has been discovered before can generally be classified as natural phenomena. Even if there are traces of elemental biological activities, it can be seen that they are naturally produced in the current icy environment.
But the obvious and regular traces of magic here can never occur naturally. If it must be said that it occurs naturally, the probability is like a monkey pressing random keys on a typewriter to produce a masterpiece.
Although that possibility is not completely ruled out in theory, in practice, that possibility must be ignored.
The traces of magic here right now can only be artificially produced by intelligent creatures, not natural phenomena!
After carefully distinguishing the many magical details that appeared in the portable space, Xia Duo initially judged that it was not the root cause of the current situation in this area, but just a result.
To put it simply, this area is probably really the Feres Fortress. The reason why the fortress cannot be seen may be the result of a certain setting of the fortress and the natural environment of this area.
This effect makes the fortress disappear from the main plane in a way that is closer to reality.
Under normal circumstances, Xia Duo's current portable space is already huge. Once it completely overlaps with the main plane, it will be enough to completely cover this area, including the fortress itself.
But now, there is only a limited part of the cliff, and the fortress cannot be seen at all.
Xia Duo then checked the etheric plane and shadow plane that fit this area, but could not find any direct clues related to the fortress, but there were many indirect ones.
Whether it is the etheric plane or the shadow plane, there seems to be a missing piece in this area. The "missing" here is not that there is really an empty piece inside the plane, but that in this area, those two planes There are obvious differences in the topographic and landform characteristics within the area.
It was as if a part of the area was wrapped up in the main plane and fell into a certain space fold.
If the normal space is the larger part of the lower half of the gourd, then the fortress is probably located in the folded space of the upper half of the gourd.
The normal method of overlapping planes cannot reach that part of the space. Only by finding the small opening in the middle of the gourd can the hidden space be found.
Now, this elemental anomaly area is very likely to be where the small opening is. After all, there are so many bells and whistles in normal space, and hiding the space must involve magic.
As long as you figure out what the magic here is, you may be able to find the hidden space!
Thinking of this, Xia Duo couldn't help but think about it, whether the Eastern world also had such an operation, using some kind of force to tie the plane into a "knot" in the middle. Half of it is the Western Continent + Eastern region where Xia Duo is now, and the other half is Eastern world.
It's just that this speculation is too shocking. Xia Duoning believes that the Eastern world is hidden through order and law, perhaps by some other force, such as the legendary "Kyushu Barrier" and so on.
This method of directly playing with large planes is not something that a single plane civilization can develop.
…
Suppressing the inappropriate thoughts in his mind, Xia Duo once again turned his attention to the magic that existed in this area. After observing for a moment, he couldn't restrain his thoughts radiating in the space, so he separated his personal space from the main plane.
But the memory of his previous observations is still there, and he can still use the magical details he observed before to try to find out the real secret here.
Of course, this part can be carried out through the intelligent brain to a large extent. A few parts that cannot be simulated through calculation will be collected to a certain number and then unified for experimental verification.
As for now, Xia Duo bypassed this area and continued the search work in the next area.
Although he judged that Feres Fortress was probably here, he did not rule out the possibility that it was a cover. After all, the only thing he could conclude now was that the magic traces here were not naturally formed and were indeed man-made.
Continue the search. If all suspicions about the abnormal area can be eliminated, then this is not just a man-made trace, but the Feres Fortress is here.
(End of chapter)
