Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 270: Materialized Magic Web Wandering
Logically speaking, legendary spellcasters like Soul Reaper and Shadow Knight don't need to seek external help easily. They are both well-known high-level masters in the magic world of the Southern Continent. It is not impossible for them to find a colleague who has mysteriously disappeared.

But the problem lies in the coincidence of timing - when Mr. Scorching Lord disappeared, the relationship between the Federation and the Church was at odds, and the other two chiefs happened to leave Alayeh and head for the Evil Moon Mountains.

The three chiefs, who are the iconic leaders of the Federation, have always been at the top of the elimination list of the Divine Punishment Faction of the Church of Light. In a sense, their threat is even greater than the superior demons from other dimensions that the church has been guarding against for many years.

At least half of the demon slayers secretly trained by Goris in the City of Grace were targeting them.

If they easily tried to enter the magic network and search for the missing First Chief Sarath by roaming, they would probably be immediately detected by the church's secret positioning method, and then they would be forced to face the attack of a large number of demon slayers.

The other party came with the intention of never returning and to destroy themselves together with them, so they would naturally not let them escape from the magic net easily.

If the Scorching Lord really had an accident in the secret room and escaped directly into the magic network space with his flesh and blood body, thus disappearing out of thin air... Harvey felt that perhaps he could use the code mark he left in the forum as an anchor point to locate him.

But there is currently no idea how to get him back from the magic net.

[Administrator Turing: Mr. Scorching Lord, you have always been a wise and knowledgeable member of the forum. Okay... I can try to lock onto him within the magic network, but regardless of his current state and location, you will need to figure out a solution on your own...]

[Soul Snatcher: Thank you for your kind help! Mr. Turing, I wonder what price we will have to pay for this?]

Harvey scratched his head and found that apart from the lack of money and people, there seemed to be nothing he could squeeze out of the Federation. The spell learning and magic literature required for his current rank and ability could all be obtained at will from the Magic Encyclopedia. The precious materials and magic items used in the experimental research could also be obtained for free by trading points on the forum.

[Administrator Turing: Please pass this payment to our agent... Don't forget our agreement. Give Mr. Kel'Thuzad as much help as possible.]

Gallagher turned his gaze away from the crystal screen of the Magic Brain instrument, turned his head to look at Dawson and sighed, "It seems that the forum really attaches great importance to the training of their agent..."

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Harvey left the Magic Network forum and said helplessly to Asdaren, who was standing beside him, "It looks like tonight will be another busy and sleepless night... All work and experiments will have to be put aside for the time being."

As he spoke, he consciously walked to the energy-gathering array instrument and asked Asdalen to help him install the energy pipeline and metal hood. As the energy-gathering array continued to hum, he quickly sank his mental power into the magic network plane.

The virtual projection and main model of the Spellcaster Forum have always been in a companion form within his magic pattern. He only needs to put his mental power into it like entering a mental anchor, and he can quickly enter this virtual space composed of data and information.

When Harvey was in the virtual space projected by the forum, he could completely control all the floating and moving information runes in this space - they were originally composed of countless living source codes, and had a natural affinity for Harvey, the space host composed of a spiritual body. With just a casual move, several living codes would float and gather around him.

Harvey picked up a random message code and found that it was a purchase information just posted by a new member in the anonymous trading section of the forum. However, this member was short of money and could not give out many points, so he could only seek the magic experiment materials he needed through barter... In the forum's projection space, those fixed stars that flashed from time to time were actually the code marks of various forum members. The dim ones meant that they were temporarily offline, the flashing ones meant that they were surfing the forum at the moment, and the ones that were always on... showed that they were currently addicted to the adventure game "Magic Tower" and might even be actively spending money to draw cards.

Being in this space, Harvey will have the illusion that he has uploaded himself to the Internet through some kind of "brain-computer interface" technology, becoming a true digital life.

As long as Harvey wanted, he could use those flashing code marks to lock onto the magic pattern location of any forum member at any time, and thereby invade their natal magic pattern, and then use his own powerful and strange mental power to erode the opponent's mental anchor.

Or, he could draw pure magic energy from the planetary energy-gathering array connected to his body, and release a powerful energy beam shock wave in the magic net to directly shatter the opponent's magic pattern.

This is truly... a terrifying ability that can kill the opponent by following the network cable.

"Let's start with Mr. Scorching Lord's codename mark... I hope he really did accidentally enter the magic network space and got lost and trapped somewhere..."

Harvey pulled out three thick mental tentacles from the mental anchor and swept directly towards the member mark representing the Burning Lord. He quickly wrapped up the dim star and gradually penetrated and eroded it with mental power.

Under normal circumstances, Harvey would not dare to take such a risk. The magic pattern structure of legendary spellcasters is extremely strange. Even if the strength of mental power can surpass them, it is still necessary to guard against their other terrible backup plans - for example, Mr. Burning Lord has more than one legendary magic weapon that can be projected into the magic network.

When the Spellcaster Forum was first established, Harvey accidentally discovered the location of Mr. Scorching Lord's magic pattern while wandering the magic network. At that time, the state of his magic pattern was very strange. It was a dim and lifeless form disguised as the owner's death, quietly floating near the rift in the alien space, "playing dead and fishing."

It stands to reason that no spellcaster would carry his or her own natal magic pattern and roam in the magic network with his or her family. This would make it too easy to encounter unknown dangers in the magic network space and be unable to escape quickly. The most common way is to hide the magic pattern somewhere, and then extend a mental power connection line, using the mental power projection to explore the surroundings. The specific distance that can be roamed depends on the strength of the spellcaster's own mental power.

But today, after locking through mental penetration, it was discovered that the magic pattern of this legendary spellcaster was no longer in the original position, but the location of the member code still clearly pointed to the vicinity of the alien space rift, which was really strange.

"The location hasn't changed... but the magic pattern is gone." Harvey stared at the empty entrance to the alternate dimension rift, hovering in the distance, frowning in thought. "Why is this happening? The forum's location can't be wrong, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to successfully kill real-world targets through the magic network so many times before."

Wait... He suddenly recalled the doubts raised by the other two chiefs during their communication about "directly escaping into the magic network space with flesh and blood body".

"Is there really a strange way to roam the magic web in a physical form?"

Harvey slapped his head suddenly. "That's right! Those strange eggs I created on Soul Beach... that can hatch into Soul Puppets, aren't they actually there in physical form?"

(End of this chapter)