Chapter 345: Shocking Change
Glancing at the completely blocked passage ahead, Claire tentatively controlled an empty alchemical flask and slowly approached the blocked area.
In the eyes of the two, the front end of the empty bottle was instantly sucked into the distorted space-time and disappeared without a trace. The other part directly turned into white sand and fell to the ground.
"Anvis, do you have a way to get through here?"
No longer trying, Claire shook her head and turned her blue eyes to Avis, indicating that she was powerless.
"If we want to crack it, it will be difficult with our strength alone."
Staring at the space-time barrier in front of him, Avis also felt a little tricky.
"And, Claire, there seems to be something wrong with this passage as well."
After carefully looking at the walls of the corridor on both sides, he raised his right hand and cast a third-level earth-splitting spell.
But when the magic light shone, the spell that was enough to create a large crack in an ordinary stone wall had no effect on the walls on both sides that seemed to be just ordinary rocks.
"Although the walls appear to be made of stone, they are not real rocks, but something like a subspace mirror. Digging holes in the walls on both sides like we did last time won't work here."
Not surprised by the result, Anvis finally made a summary.
"In other words, we are not in the real world now, but in an area similar to the mirror space?"
After hearing what Anvis said, Claire immediately understood what he meant.
"How about this, Avis, let's look around to see if there's a magic circle that can shut down this defense. If we can find one, then we'll continue forward. If not, then we'll have no choice but to turn back."
Of course, there is actually an uncontrollable method, which is to rely on Claire's legendary explorer qualities and find a way to create some unexpected accidents to stop the isolation layer from working.
"Well, let fate decide our future."
Anvis shrugged, making a double entendre.
So the two of them searched the area carefully for a while.
But today, fate did not seem to be on their side and they gained nothing.
"Let's go back first."
After a while, at Claire's suggestion, the two returned the same way.
But before she had gone far, the girl noticed a horrifying detail.
"Anvis...look!"
Following the direction of Claire's finger, where the sixth mural was originally located, there was now only a blank wall left!
Needless to say, the two of them felt their hearts suddenly rise, and they simultaneously tightened their staffs in their hands.
In the far end of the tunnel, beyond the range illuminated by the lantern light, the deep and thick darkness seemed to be surging with unimaginable malice. . ….….When Avis and Claire were exploring the corridor that had been opened accidentally, many Ninth Orders observing from outside the ruins had already begun to carefully study this newly appeared stone door.
According to the feedback from the Ninth Order who is monitoring the ruins, there are dozens of such doors throughout the ruins, and their internal structures are highly consistent.
A ninth-level person has already entered to explore in person, and tried to rely on his own strength to break through the isolation layer and explore what is hidden behind it.
But in the end, he gained nothing. There was nothing behind the seal except more chaotic time and space.
After moving forward for about thirty minutes, the ninth-level cultivator gave up this futile behavior and withdrew again.
After three magical hours of the stone gate appearing, the mages of the Royal Academy of Magic gave an analysis conclusion: the dozens of stone gates that have appeared now are nothing but the mirror image space of the original stone gate corridor, and only a part in front of the isolation layer, and there is nothing behind it.
According to their specific calculations, there is actually only one real stone gate, and it is not included in these opened passages.
Currently, they are using a special detection ritual to urgently calculate the coordinates of the stone gate itself based on the locations of all newly discovered stone gate mirror images in the city ruins.
After learning the news about these strange stone gates, the marquises and the ninth-level masters of the four major families also gathered here, waiting for the results.
"How is it, is there any result?"
At one side, looking at the many magicians of the Imperial Research Institute surrounding a huge magic circle, nervously calculating the results, Vice President Xius of Pamir asked a question.
Although most students did not enter the door, there were still some students who were confident and strong enough, as well as those who were simply "brave and fearless" who chose to go in and explore.
Not all students can resist the temptation of such a heroic adventure.
'Maybe many people died on the road of seeking adventure, but I am different from them! '
Everyone has this thought at some point.
After all, this strange round door that suddenly appeared did look like the beginning of an adventure.
The college did not stop these students from choosing to explore.
They already have the right to choose, and now that they have made the choice, they must be responsible for their choice.
"It's almost there. In about one magic hour at most, we can lock onto the true coordinates."
Glancing at him, one of the mages nodded and reported the latest progress.
Gradually, with the joint work of many academicians from the Royal Academy of Magic, the true location of the stone gate was finally determined.
"Found it. It's on the fourth underground floor of the Platinum Tower of the ruins, on a wall on the left side of the underground laboratory!"
Finally, in the three-dimensional image of the mini ruins suspended in the center of the formation, a dark red light spot appeared in the lower corner of the model.
Once the true location of the gate was determined, how to make it appear would not be a problem for a group of ninth-level cultivators.
However, before heading to the underground laboratory, the marquises exchanged glances in a very covert manner.
Soon, everyone arrived at the laboratory.
"Wait a moment. To prevent any accidents, I will notify the students who have entered the mirror channel to explore to come out first."
Suddenly thinking of a question, Vice President Xius quickly spoke.
The others had no objection to this, so Xiusi released his ninth-level mental power, preparing to temporarily notify all the students in the corridor.
"Wait...something's wrong, they're not real people!"
But when he really started notifying, Xius suddenly noticed something unusual.
Under his mental gaze, the students who were exploring the corridor were not their real selves, but mirror images of the same space as the corridor!
Upon realizing this, Xiu was shocked.
"Don't worry. The students' disappearance must be related to this door. Open it as soon as possible. Maybe we can save some of them."
Facing the seemingly empty wall, an old wizard from the research institute came out, drew a symbol representing the royal family of the high elves on the wall, and then chanted an unknown ancient Manni spell.
Then, an unknown force began to move, lines appeared on the wall, and a new door appeared, slowly opening before everyone's eyes.
Unlike other doors, the petals of the blood orchid carved on the door frame of this stone door are a rich crimson, as if soaked in thick blood.
(End of this chapter)
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