Chapter 3434: Continued pursuit, a ray of hope
The time span and geographical span of the appearance of the two passages are too large. It is unlikely that they are the same passage. Of course, they must correspond to the same underdark area.
If Uta's theory is correct, perhaps the Underdark Passage where the Drow War took place more than a thousand years ago will be reborn, and unlike the one in the Dragonspine Mountains a few years ago, it is on the border of Cormanthor.
If the Underdark passage from more than a thousand years ago was reborn nearby, it would be the core area of Cormanthor!
Thinking like this, Xia Duo felt that after the war, he might be able to remind Cormanthor to check near the ruins of the Underdark Passage that had been destroyed to avoid further trouble.
Then, he continued to ask Uta:
"As you said, can it be considered that the influence of the Underdark is actually spreading? In countless years, will there be countless Underdark passages on the ground? Or will there be radiation unique to the Underdark on the surface?"
"I don't dare to say for sure. Whether the radiation from the Dark Territory is continuing to spread to the surface will require a long period of observation and recording before we can get the result. For now, I haven't seen such a trend."
Uta said this, and Xia Duo was temporarily relieved. If the influence of the Underdark Realm really continued to spread, as long as the change lasted long enough, surface creatures would still be able to find new ways out.
After all, life is best at finding a way out!
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Under Uta's guidance, Shado went deeper and deeper underground. The underground fissures where the Illuminati camouflaged before had disappeared, but the influence of the Dark Territory it represented had not been cut off.
In the special vision provided by Uta, it still looked like a line, extending from the top to the endless bottom, and now he and Uta were tracking this line.
If you enter from the previous rift, you must use a teleportation spell to reach the corresponding Underdark area. But if you keep tracking like this and don't go through the rift, you can directly reach the Underdark area in a continuous underground space, or directly Underdark underground passages.
"Uta, how far down is it?"
Rao had already "seen" the line of action representing the influence of the Underdark Region through the special perspective shared by Uta, but this line downwards far exceeded the limit of Sha Duo's individual perception, and it seemed as if there was no end at all.
In this regard, Uta's explanation is: "Come on, there should be a real passage down there, or if you go all the way down, you can always encounter the dark area, but I am not sure whether it is the one where the Illuminati is. ”
The underground of the Elam region, only in terms of horizontal scope, is the same as the surface. No matter how large it is, it cannot reach Elam itself. However, in the vertical direction, there may be many different levels.
In other words, it is possible that there is a smaller Underdark space at a certain depth. If you find a random location and dig straight down, you may encounter many independent or connected Underdark spaces.
Of course, it is possible that none of them can be touched. This vertical hole perfectly avoids every Underdark space.
Now, if Xia Duo wants to find the space where the Illuminati is located, he can check the space one by one and eliminate the options one by one. The remaining space is where the Illuminati is.
But now, since the clue has been found, and it is the only clue found so far that the Illuminati has disguised itself, then there is no need to be so troublesome, just follow the clue and follow it.
Xia Duo obviously understands this, but he has been facing the pressure from the Illuminati for a long time and is about to be released now, so he is inevitably a little restless.
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Soon, at about 5 miles vertically downward from the underground fissure disguised by the Illuminati (the actual trajectory was far more than 5 miles), Shado finally discovered that it was richer and wilder than any suspected underdark passage he had ever seen before. of underground radiation.
"Your Majesty Uta, please conduct a simple inspection of the passage first!"
"Well, my body is already checking."
Uta still remains invisible at this moment, but his control over the underground earth and stone realm has also been transferred to the vicinity of the Underdark Realm passage along with the movement of his body.
In this case, his inspection would be more secretive than Xia Duo's inspection, and of course it might be more effective.
After a while, Uta gave the inspection results to the command network through Tarafu: "The enemy is too arrogant. There are no disguises or traps in the passage. Next, will Master Shado enter the dark area through the passage, or will he fight with us just now?" Were you fleeing underground like that when you came here?”
"Just the same as before!"
Xia Duo immediately made a decision. It was undoubtedly more convenient and faster to take the dark area passage, but it might also trigger the warning magic of the Illuminati. Uta's inspection was more at the earth element level. If the earth element was not involved, Uta might not be able to detect it. Illuminati magic.
So he simply didn't take the passage. Anyway, the Underdark is just an underground space. As long as he can travel among the earth and rocks, it doesn't matter where he enters. If he takes the passage, it will limit his access to the Underdark space.
Next, although Xia Duo did not enter the dark area in the passage, he still moved forward according to the direction guided by the passage. This passage was not straight up and down, but complicated and might even go up in reverse direction.
But outside the passage, with the help of Uta's special perspective, Sha Duo could easily find the general direction pointed by the passage. He could go straight towards the destination without the need for twists and turns like traveling in the passage.
Soon, they came to a position far below the crack that had deviated from the initial clue in the vertical direction, almost to the border of Elan near Sluwende.
"Master Shado, there are no traps or surveillance from here." Uta pointed out a direction to Shado.
Shado replied: "Yes. I am also preparing to enter from there! Wait a moment, I will do some disguise!"
Of course, he couldn't just go in like this. Even if there were no traps or surveillance inside, it would be good to be cautious. Apart from anything else, the change in the magic network environment would affect the spells of the caster, which would be as obvious to those who are interested as fireworks at night.
Of course, Shado couldn't make such a low-level mistake. After all, he was not a novice. After making a good disguise, he moved towards the predetermined position.
Then he squeezed out from an unknown wall in the dark area space. Just now, he just checked it simply outside and didn't find anything abnormal, but now he was in the dark area space, he immediately found something abnormal.
This abnormality can even be seen directly with the naked eye, as a ray of light is visible in the corner passage not far ahead!
