Chapter 153 A Series From Underground (4 Updates) (Asking for Monthly Votes)
Ryan would never have dreamed that a conversation would go so wrong after being passed on to two people.
This is the so-called layered increase.
In the four-kilometer tunnel, there are a total of six large passages and 41 small branches. In such a place, even if the entrance of the passage is filled with bricks and stones of the specifications of a city wall, it is not necessarily safe.
After all, there are many races in this world that have the ability to dig holes. Even as strong as the mountain dwarves, they can only divide their troops to guard in this situation.
Ryan was busy with this and that, and did not notice the slight fluctuations in the [Physical Network] and the small increase in daily magic power consumption.
This is the characteristic of the triggered magic trap. It takes more magic power to carve runes at the beginning, but once the magic trap enters the standby state, the consumption is very small.
To be honest, Harry knows nothing about magic runes. Ryan didn't teach him.
However, when the entire cave was engraved with the names of physics masters such as Joule, Archimedes, and Heike Onnes (the one who proposed the concept of absolute zero), and then using [Anti-Chaos Array] and [Anti-Evil Array] as trigger conditions, Harry managed to achieve the desired effect by ignoring the process.
Ahem!
How to say it, perhaps this is the result of Ryan letting Downs be an assistant coach.
No, this is also Ryan's fault.
When Ryan punished Harry to copy books, he forced Harry to comprehend (double casting) and create his own super magic specialty (modular casting). Harry didn't dare to use these two things to cheat when he was punished to copy books, but now he is working for his master, so why not?
Harry became more and more excited, and except for eating and sleeping, he spent 18 hours a day on this.
In just one week, this group of caves has completely changed.
What's more amazing is that the temperature in this cave is low, and many places will freeze. When the cave wall is covered with frost, you can't see what was originally engraved on the stone wall.
Interestingly, Ryan had no idea what his second disciple had done.
Count Ramanque and Grand Duchess Sophia had actually asked him separately.
"Master, can you really guarantee the safety of this mountain tunnel?"
"Of course! I have already made arrangements." Here, Ryan was talking about the system helping to monitor the situation around the mountain tunnel. In Ryan's opinion, the tunnel should be stopped when necessary. He and his disciples went in to clean up the caves around the tunnel, and that was enough.
Ryan was not concerned enough about defense, mainly because he had more important things to do.
As the system said before, after the entire Marino Principality became a legendary physical land, the system's first round of exploration was completed.
The result disappointed Ryan quite a bit, as no fragments of the magic network were detected nearby.
Ryan was a little distressed.
The real upper limit of the [Physical Network] is 5 people, such as the enhanced power obtained by Sanders and others, which are all incidental.
Without the assistance of the [Physical Network], the ordinary mages he will teach in the future will be really ordinary.
This is not in Ryan's interest.
He knew that this matter could not be rushed.
Unexpectedly, on the 10th day after the cave was opened, when the adventurers in Lamanque City reported that they had completed the exploration of the cave and submitted a detailed cave route map within a five-kilometer radius around the tunnel, Ryan received an invasion alarm.
With a larger territory, Ryan had to classify the alarm system of the college security department. The small valley must be a red alarm, the main city of Marino and the surrounding towns are orange, and only the Ma (Rino) La (Manque) tunnel, which was specially marked recently, will use a yellow alarm.
Now it is yellow.
"Huh?"
The large number of red dots in the cave topographic map made Ryan wake up.
There are thousands of them.
Even if the enemy is just a bunch of soldiers, this is a large-scale invasion.
Ryan was very upset: he couldn't use fire bats in this freezing cave.
At this moment, in a fairly spacious cave 10 kilometers northwest of the tunnel and at an altitude of minus 150 meters, a group of dark elves were moving forward cautiously.
The leading female drow covered her slightly aching head and said, "It's probably safe here. Those bastards won't chase us here."
Another female drow smiled bitterly: "They won't chase us, but we should be very close to the human territory."
"Be careful, don't go southeast again. If I calculated correctly, the human city of Ramanque is just over ten kilometers away. At this distance, we won't be discovered by humans if we are careful."
"Humph! It's all the fault of that idiot Lisanquesi*Shambhala! Not only did she die herself, but she also put that ghost thing in the rebuilt 'Mind Spider Web' to harm us."
It all started with an accident nearly three months ago:
In a very nonsensical way, a portal opened in the dark underground world.
If the time was set a hundred years ago, although this kind of shit was rare, it did happen.
Before the end of the law era, there were too many half-baked wizards who liked to use space magic to kill themselves. When these guys, who have some strength but are obviously not enough, open the portal to the underground world and are caught by the Dark Elf Matron, the most normal outcome is that the Matron controls the souls of these mages, drags them into the territory of the drow, and turns them into complete slaves.
The drow will also gain a new spatial coordinate so that they can capture more human slaves.
This incident is completely different from the past.
In the past hundreds and thousands of years, similar outcomes of such incidents are basically - even if the Matron fails to succeed, she will not suffer any loss.
After all, the female drow who can become the matriarch in a drow group are not simple people. Not only are they scheming and cruel, but they are also the most loyal believers of the Spider Goddess, who can use a lot of dark magic to destroy or enslave their enemies.
Things changed dramatically until the Magic Goddess fell a hundred years ago.
In order to fight against the Magic Goddess and steal her divine power, the Spider Goddess built a [Shadow Magic Web] for herself by means of freeloading and stealing the laws of the magic web.
This shadow magic web is a distorted dark replica of the real magic web. It enhances the power of shadow magic, enchantment, necromancy and illusion magic.
The price of the seemingly powerful Shadow Magic Web is that whoever accesses the Shadow Magic Web will be controlled by the Spider Goddess' mind.
Not only will their IQ drop, but even their souls will be corroded by the Shadow Magic Web.
With the fall of the previous generation of the Magic Goddess, the magic web collapsed, and the Shadow Magic Web, which uses the same laws, was also affected.
This is like two databases using the same source code. The main database was deleted. Can your sub-database that has been connected to the main database still run?
The Spider Goddess was implicated and suffered a severe blow.
It is unknown whether she is dead or alive. Some people say that she has fallen, and there are also a large number of believers who insist that she has not.
Anyway, she has not responded to the prayers of believers for a full hundred years.
In order to maintain their rule in the dark underground world, the drow mistresses joined forces to create a [Mind Spider Web] that was weakened by N levels. It no longer has the ability to grant magic, and only has one function left - controlling the minds of other drow.
As luck would have it, in the accident three months ago, the mistress surnamed Shambhala not only failed, but was also driven crazy by the enemy. Before committing suicide, she passed a [Thoughts and Politics] to the mind network based on the pit idea of sharing the same misfortune...