During the soul communication, Tasia said: "There must be something strange in here. We have to find a way to get in."
Elaina said, "I can use my mental power to lift the cloth on the basket. Can Xiaobai steal the stone?"
Xiaobai chirped, and both Tasia and Elena understood what it meant: Leave it to me.
While the wizard and the two guards were about to leave with their backs turned, Elaina used her spiritual power to lift the cover on the basket and found that it was a toolbox, which contained a lot of iron tools of various shapes, as well as pens and potions for drawing magic circles. It seemed that this was an alchemist responsible for maintaining the city defense magic circle.
Xiaobai crawled into the basket through the gap created by Elena and tried to grab the crystal with his claws, but he didn't expect that his claws were too small. He tried twice but failed to grab the slippery crystal.
However, at this moment, the alchemist reached for the ring in his hand, ready to put the entire basket into the storage ring.
Seeing that Xiaobai was about to be locked in the ring, Tasia was quick-witted and mobilized her mental power to form a barrier above the ring. This barrier was tightly attached to the surface of the ring, and if it were not for a high-level mage to carefully distinguish it, it would be difficult to detect the changes in the ring.
The alchemist used his mental power to issue the command to open the ring, which directly hit Tashia's mental power.
Obviously, the alchemist's mental power level was too different from his. He didn't even notice what his mental power touched. He was just wondering why the ring didn't respond. He put the basket on the ground and began to think about his ring. At this time, Tashia hurriedly removed the mental power barrier.
Xiaobai finally figured out a solution. He picked up the crystal with both paws, then flew out carefully and handed the crystal to Tassia.
They waited for the alchemist to leave and came to the door in the wall. Tashia put the crystal into a shallow groove, and sure enough, light appeared on the wall again, gradually gathering into the shape of a door, and then a hidden stone door slowly opened.
The scene behind the door looked very dreamy. It was a stone path that seemed to have no end. The path was very narrow and small. When Tasia walked inside, she felt that her head would touch the ceiling of the stone path, and Elaina had to bend down to move inside. On both sides and the ceiling of the stone path, there were very complex magic arrays. The lines of these magic arrays contained magic of different attributes and emitted magical fluorescence of various colors. People walking inside felt like walking in a rainbow. The three of them were all in stealth mode. The other party in their vision was an image of spiritual power, and they all looked translucent to each other, which added a bit of dreamlike feeling to this passage.
"I have to say, this place is really beautiful," said Tasia.
"It's a bit vulgar by the elves' standards." Elena paused, "But... after I became a human, I kind of like this style."
Xiaobai also seemed very excited, twisting his body and dancing in the light and shadow.
"Ahem." Tashia came back to her senses. "This should be the magic channel of the city defense barrier. When I was at home, I studied this kind of structure in the family castle. But our family's barrier is not so advanced. It is directly drawn on the ground of the castle, and it is just covered with a carpet. And it does not contain that many magic arrays."
"In other words, the shield rising outside is maintained by the magic power here? Then if we destroy this section of the formation, can we destroy the barrier?" Elana asked. Although she was slightly stronger than Tasya, she was a rain and dew priest before, and her knowledge of magic theories related to formations was far less than that of Tasya who liked to study them.
Tasia shook her head and said, "It's useless. This kind of city defense array is like the streets in a city. There are always several roads leading to important locations. Even if you block one of the roads, the magic power can reach it through other routes if it doesn't go there."
Elena placed her finger close to a magic line, and the spiritual power emanating from her finger instantly blocked the light. Then the magic light dimmed in an increasingly larger area. After a few seconds, the light within a ten-centimeter radius was cut off, leaving only a stone wall with grooves all over the surface. "It doesn't look that difficult. Then why don't we destroy enough lines?"
Tasia said: "The problem is that we don't know which routes lead to the same place. Maybe we destroyed eight or ten places, but the city defense barrier is still functioning well.
Moreover, I suspect that the control center will monitor all the lines. Once a road has a problem, there will be alchemists like the one just now to check and repair it. Maybe after we destroy some of the later line sections, we will find that they have already repaired the previous ones. "
"What should we do then?" Elena asked.
Tashia stared at the light on the wall and thought for a while before saying, "This large barrier is different from the barrier in my castle. My barrier is small, so it only needs one point to output shield energy. But the inner city of Suero is so large that it must have multiple main nodes to jointly maintain the shield."
"Just like a wide hall requires more columns to support the roof."
"That's right. So I guess if we move forward along this passage, we should be able to find large nodes. If we destroy the nodes close to the west, the shield in the direction of the guard's attack will be greatly weakened. The enemies at these nodes are unlikely to defend as tightly as the central node, so the possibility of success is much greater."
Elaina said, “Let’s go, what are you waiting for.”
Tasia looked embarrassed: "But now there is a problem."
"What?"
"Where is the west?"
Tasia and Elena looked at each other, then at Xiaobai. Xiaobai danced in the air for a while, as if to say, how would I know.
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On the ground, Xiao Chen was originally trying to find the location of Tasia and Elena, when he suddenly felt that they were sending messages one after another, and they seemed very anxious. He thought something serious had happened below, so he quickly cast a Swiftness spell on himself and started running, trying to find their location as quickly as possible.
The connection between them was a vague feeling, and Xiao Chen could only use the strength of this feeling to judge whether he was close to them. He spent nearly half an hour running and sweating, and finally got close enough to hear what they said.
What? Where is the west
Xiao Chen looked up and saw that the setting sun was almost hanging over the city. He said, "Can you sense where I am? Follow the direction I'm running."