"These are... teleportation arrays?"

Inside the building that resembles a Roman Colosseum, 13 circular magic arrays are neatly distributed in the open space.

In the very center is a huge circular magic circle that overlaps with the center of the building, and around this large magic circle are 12 relatively small magic circles.

When Carl suddenly saw this scene, he actually felt a little familiar.

Because there is a similar place in Akanix College.

"Are these the magic circles that can get us back to Eberron? How do we use them?"

Seeing that Carl stopped talking after sighing, Hope next to him asked anxiously.

"No, these twelve small magic circles are only for teleporting within this plane. The one that can get us back to Eberron is the large magic circle in the middle, but..."

Looking at the magic circle in front of him, Carl's brows gradually frowned.

The rune principle of this teleportation array does not seem to be the work of a wizard, but rather it seems to be set up by priests.

Although the effects of the Mage's "Teleport" and the Priest's "Teleport" are the same, the spell runes used are different.

This is like a software that both Android and Apple systems have. Although the functions are the same, the program codes used to develop the software are different.

Although artificers can theoretically be compatible with all types of magic items or arrays, the prerequisite is that they need to understand the operating principles behind them.

How could Carl, a student from a magic academy, understand the principles of a 7th-level priest spell? This was like he had to relearn programming languages.

Moreover, being able to use all kinds of props and magic arrays without any restrictions is a feature that can only be mastered by the artificer at level 14.

"But what?"

Seeing Carl's distressed look, Hope held Carl's arm, trying to ease his depressed mood.

The warm body temperature did soothe Carl's originally irritable heart to a certain extent. Looking at the magic circle in the distance, he told them in detail the predicament they were facing.

"I can't adjust the plane that the teleportation array is connected to, because I haven't learned anything about teleportation arrays. If I adjust it rashly, even if I activate the array, we won't know which plane we will end up in."

A metal tuning fork is placed in the middle of the teleportation array. This is the key item used to achieve "synchronization" with other planes.

Which plane the magic circle connects to after being activated depends entirely on which plane the tuning fork is tuned to.

After listening to Carl's explanation, Hope blinked, then hugged Carl's head and buried his face in his chest.

"It doesn't matter. At worst we can just live here forever! Maybe we can think of a solution when we become more powerful."

This statement seems to make sense at first, but knowledge is not something that can be acquired overnight.

With Carl's current level of magical knowledge, if he were to study on his own, he would probably have to be at least seventy or eighty years old before he could make any achievements in the field of alien teleportation.

If that was the case, he might as well go back to the Giant Mine Car with Hope and concentrate on having children.

Maybe a genius would emerge from the two of them, who would learn the principle of teleportation to another world without any instruction, and then successfully bring them back to Eberron.

Trying hard to break free, Carl pointed around, his expression becoming a little worried.

"No! Things may not be as simple as you think. I once read the memory of a bear goblin barbarian. In his memory, he called another goblin tribe the Furious Tribe."

"The Goblin Empire back then believed in the Six Dark Gods. If nothing unexpected happens, this Fury Tribe might believe in Fury, one of the Six Dark Gods."

“And this tribe that controls the teleportation array may be the tribe that believes in travelers.”

"Now, the Traveler Tribe has taken away all the internal combat forces because of something. What do you think they are going to do?"

Looking at Carl's serious expression, Hope also tried to analyze the problem.

"You mean, what's happening in the dungeon right now?"

"Do you think those goblins will go to deal with that mind flayer?"

Thinking of the explosion that shot straight into the sky, Hope somewhat understood Carl's anxiety.

Hiding underground can certainly provide temporary safety, but with the noise created by the mind flayers and goblins, it is only a matter of time before the underground is affected.

Carl nodded and looked at Hope with satisfaction.

"Yes, that's exactly what I'm worried about. If all the goblins in the dungeon unite, whether the mind flayers win in the end or the goblins win the war, it won't be a good thing for us."

"But now that they are deadlocked, we might have a chance to escape."

"As long as we return to Eberron, what happens here won't affect us."

However, for the two of them now, anything related to space travel seems too advanced.

"Okay, I've written down all the runes here. Let's go to a nearby house to rest for a while, and then we can make a long-term plan."

After that, the two of them found a house nearby that was relatively close to the teleportation array, pried open the door, locked it, and went in.

The houses in the inner city are much more luxurious than those in the outer city.

The goblins used cooled volcanic rock to build these structures.

After confirming that the environment here was relatively safe, Carl immediately entered the dream world and tried to study something from the priest version of the magic circle.

…

"Abandon, abandon..."

In the second layer of the dream world, Carl was lying on his back on the vast land, muttering English words from his previous life.

The 7th level spell was more complicated than he had originally thought. After deciphering just a small part of it, his brain was about to explode.

The operating principle of the priests' teleportation array is more like using certain software on the "cloud platform".

They act as data transmission channels with their high perception attributes, and the operation of the magic circle is left to the existence of their faith.

The results of the operation will be sent back later and take effect. The whole process does not require the priests to use their brains, they just need to maintain their faith.

When interpreting the beliefs that served as "data transmission ports", Carl was almost corroded by some huge information carrier even in his dream.

Fortunately, he reacted promptly and no problems occurred in the end.

"This part should be able to be split into lower-level spells. Hmm... It looks like the principle of Banishment? That's right, Dimensional Teleportation also has the effect of Banishment..."

After lying down for a while, Carl moved the magic circle in front of his eyes again and studied it.

But his eyes had lost their luster, like a doll that was about to break.

After briefly interpreting part of the contents of the magic circle, his brain fell into a state of stagnation again, and he mechanically muttered "Exile, Exile" in his mouth.

I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly, a flash of inspiration came to Carl’s mind.

He suddenly stood up from the ground, staring in a daze at the magic circle runes floating in front of him.

"Wait, I remember that the Banishment spell can expel creatures from other planes back to their birth plane! So if I can use something to make a prop for the Banishment spell, can't the two of us return to Eberron?"

Banishment, a 4th-level spell from the protection school, is not so out of reach for Carl compared to the 7th-level teleportation.

(End of this chapter)