Lord of Arcane

Chapter 3217 Close Encounter

There was a new direction for investigation, but at the beginning of this step, Shaduo was directly stumped. Demiplanes were not easier to find than complete planes, although they might be closer to the "void" of the main plane.

Not to mention, demiplanes are usually smaller and easier to hide. Starting the investigation from the direction of the demiplane is indeed one direction, but in practice, it is no easier than directly catching the head of the Illuminati.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo felt that it would not be too late to wait until tomorrow to communicate with Ye Erlan to see if he could get some new information.

……

Elan, temporary camp of the survey team.

After returning to his avatar's consciousness, Shado opened the tent. An assistant under Kulas immediately came up to him and asked, "Councilman Shado, do you have any instructions?"

"Where are Kuras and my teacher?"

"It seems they went to the scene, and the elves were there too."

"I understand. Go ahead and do your thing."

After saying that, Shado directly located Iolum. Such an undisguised action undoubtedly triggered Iolum's personal protection mechanism, but when he found out it was Shado, Iolum still opened a back door for Shado.

However, the magic network at the attack site was in chaos. Even with the cooperation of Iollum, Shado could only roughly determine a direction and could not lock it accurately.

Fortunately, he had walked around the scene several times during the day and was very familiar with it. With a general direction, he could roughly guess where Iolum was.

……

Soon, Shado found Iolum and his party in the southwest of the deep pit at the destruction site. In addition to Iolum, there were Kulas, Philipa, and two observers, Ilfaran and Komanso.

Xia Duo greeted him from a distance. Seeing this, Iolum immediately stopped what he was doing and waited for Xia Duo to approach. Then he immediately greeted Xia Duo:
"You came just in time. I was planning to test the blue flame in the deep pit. Please help me keep watch."

"Teacher, isn't there a test result from the day in the examination record I gave you?"

"No, that's different." Iolum shook his head and said slowly, "I've read your records. They're just routine tests. They can't even detect the nature of the blue flame."

There was one more thing he did not say in public, which was that the tests during the day were all done by the elves. It was not that he doubted the elves, but that he wanted to test it himself.

"So what do you want to do, teacher?"

"I want to get close to that blue flame."

"Isn't this too dangerous?"

"There are certain risks, but you don't have to worry too much. I still have the protection of the Lady of Mystery!"

Iolum said it easily, but Shado did not feel relaxed at all. The Goddess of Magic would not protect those who were seeking death, and divine grace was not a golden ticket to immunity from death, otherwise, countless wizards would have prostrated themselves at the feet of the Goddess of Magic in order to avoid death.

But the reality is that only a minority of people in Netheril believe in the Goddess of Magic, and most mages still follow the crowd and believe in the Lord of Light.

Of course, the belief in the Lady of Mysteries was popular in the past, but in the last hundred years, as Netheril has become more conservative, the belief in the goddess of magic that encourages innovation and sharing has gradually shrunk. (After the signing of the new covenant, the atmosphere has changed, and the belief in the goddess may become popular again)

From this point of view, it is not unfounded that Iollum can obtain a lot of grace from the goddess. It is because he has always insisted on training new wizards and has made many innovations over the years.

But again, if divine grace could save one from death, countless people would have believed in the goddess of magic.

The situation inside the deep pit is unclear now, especially the blue flame, which has never been seen in any previous books, volumes, documents or even private notes.

Xia Duo was worried that Iolum might get into trouble if he made contact rashly, so he could not help but advise him again: "Teacher, you can wait a little longer. I already have some guesses about the existence of that blue flame, and I think others have the same idea. It won't be too late to make contact after the situation becomes clearer."

"It's not too late, but someone has to do it, and I am quite aware of the risks of what I am going to do next. Don't worry, I haven't lived this long to joke with my life today!"

After saying that, Iolum raised one hand, revealing a ball of blue-white glow like water waves. At this moment, the blue flame on the edge of the deep pit not far away seemed to sense something and suddenly experienced some unexpected fluctuations.

These spellcasters present accompanied Iolum to investigate near the deep pit, so how could they not pay attention to any abnormalities in the deep pit!

After all, the experiments during the day have proved that the blue flame can almost devour everything, so it is never too cautious when you are near a deep pit.

"Sir Iorum, what is this--" Philipfa asked immediately with concern.

Philipa was far more shocked at this moment than he showed. During the day, he had asked his subordinates to conduct various tests on the blue flame in the deep pit, but unless the flame was directly touched by material or magic, no other means could affect the existence of the flame.

Not to mention, what Iolum showed at this moment was that as he slowly waved his hands with a blue and white glow, the blue flames on the edge of the deep pit also rose and fell slowly and regularly!

This alone is enough to show that Iolum's understanding of that blue flame far exceeds that of others!

"teacher!"

Shado couldn't help but exclaimed, but unlike the elves like Philippa who knew nothing about the methods displayed by Iollum, he knew that the way Iollum "manipulated" the blue flames in the deep pit was through holy power.

At this time, the blue and white glow in Iolum's hand is the embodiment of the holy power of the Lady of Mystery, similar to the holy light manifested by the holy power of the Lord of Light. It is also a symbol of the priest's identity.

It's just that Iolum seldom reveals his identity as a priest in front of outsiders, or it can be said that Iolum does not actually think of himself as the priest of the goddess. He just happened to sense the goddess's holy power, and he did not refuse, that's all.

But in the eyes of outsiders, the method he is demonstrating now is considered to be some kind of special magic.

Of course, even if it was the priest of the goddess of magic, if someone else came here, they might not do better than Iolum. Xia Duo was very sure of this.

But he was not sure how much Iolum knew about the blue flame in the deep pit. Now he wished he could end the investigation immediately and have a good conversation with Iolum.

But Iolum had no intention of ending the investigation.

After seeing Iollum "controlling" the blue flames in the pit, Shado no longer tried to persuade him to give up close contact. He just gave a final reminder:
"If something is impossible, you must withdraw in time."