Full-Time Magister: I Had No Intention of Reaching the Dimensional Throne

Chapter 175 Serene Stone, Inner Space

Bai Mo sat up abruptly. The hunter's disappearance in the wild was practically a death sentence. Super-tier hunters were no ordinary cats or dogs; the sudden disappearance of two Super-tier hunters was no small matter.

He turned his gaze to the hunter woman. "Are you sure?"

"They were my last business partner, and I haven't been in contact with them for a month."

The hunter girl said sincerely, "I can't be sure if they're dead or not, so only I know the answer to this."

Where did they go missing?

"have no idea."

The hunter girl spoke first, then turned on the tablet, placed it in front of Bai Mo, and pulled up a map showing the distribution of demons.

"This is part of the plague water monster distribution map that we helped them make. Currently, only the plague water monsters in the east direction of the long river have not been detected. I think the source of the plague may be related to this area."

The hunter girl extended her fair finger and tapped several bodies of water on the map—a few lakes and a few rivers.

Most of these are the territory of demons, but they are all in the lower reaches of the long river near Jiangcheng. If the source of the plague is in the water, it should be in the upper reaches.

I shook my head; habitual thinking is unacceptable.

Bai Mo memorized the distribution map. Just thinking about having to travel through such a vast area gave him a headache. Nevertheless, he still asked:

"What's your last guess?"

"This is a rumor circulating among mages," the hunter girl said. "It's said that this plague is the work of Salan of the Black Church. She's dissatisfied with what happened in Bo City and wants to unleash a plague that will sweep across the land. Jiang City is the starting point."

"Oh." Bai Mo nodded, neither confirming nor denying, stood up, stretched, and opened the window with a wave of his hand.

"Keep an eye out for useful information, I'm leaving now."

After he finished speaking, he transformed into a gentle breeze and blew into the world outside the window.

Bai Mo didn't rush to check the locations mentioned in the intelligence report. Instead, he first bought a map of the area around Jiangcheng and a map showing the distribution of demons.

By the time you've memorized these things, it's already getting dark.

澄湖

The morning mist was blown away by a gust of wind, revealing a vast, desolate plain with a dark purple hue, beside a massive, hundred-meter-deep crater.

In the gentle breeze, Bai Mo's figure slowly emerged.

That desolate place wasn't much to see, and the pit itself showed many signs of human presence.

Looking down from above, the light gradually thinned out. The entire giant pit was about six meters deep, and the uneven bottom of the pit, illuminated by the faint light, was slightly to the left.

A passageway, neither too big nor too small, lay open, its location marked by the footsteps of those who had come before, without needing to search carefully.

With a flicker of movement, Bai Mo appeared at the entrance of the passageway.

A luminous crystal ball appeared in his hand, and he stepped inside.

The passage was built with blue bricks that were protected by magic, presumably to guard against demons that could walk on the ground.

One piece is missing, and the mark is still very fresh. I wonder who was so bored.

The all-pervasive sound waves revealed the entire structure of the underground cavern before his eyes, starting with the main hall, which was not easy to find.

Not only could no antiques be found, but Bai Mo even discovered chisel marks on the wall bricks.

Continuing inward, I searched through each room one by one, following the image in my mind.

One room after another, all looked like they had been visited, and there was really nothing left, not even the lights that should have been embedded in the wall.

They didn't overlook a single detail, searching bit by bit.

But the deeper Bai Mo searched, the less he found. He didn't even find a coffin; the entire small underground palace was empty.

He even had the urge to turn around and leave right now, not wanting to waste any more time here. He felt that even the mechanisms and anti-theft formations might have been worn down by people who had been here before.

Therefore, he felt that he had almost no chance of making any discoveries here.

But since we're already here...

Let's finish the checkup.

When he reached the last underground chamber, Bai Mo looked at the space in front of him, which was only the size of a bedroom, and especially at the stone walls in front of him, and fell into deep thought.

In the structural diagram constructed by his string detection, this should be a dumbbell-shaped area.

There shouldn't be a wall in front of you.

"Snapped!"

With a crisp snap, an even stronger sonic detection spread with the snap of the fingers, providing even more detailed feedback on the surrounding situation.

There was indeed a wall in front of us, but there was also a passageway.

Concentrating, Bai Mo heard a barely perceptible sound, like the whistling of wind, coming from the wall in front of him.

"Sound illusion?!"

Bai Mo said in confusion, and with a wave of his hand, a gust of wind crashed into the wall in front of him, and then dispersed as if it had hit a real wall.

"interesting."

With a soft chuckle, Bai Mo discovered the secret of the wall in front of him.

A silver light shone from his hand, and a massive surge of intent slammed into the wall in front of him.

With a faint cracking sound, the wall in front of them appeared completely undamaged.

However, Bai Mo stepped into the wall and came to a passage that was narrower than the wall.

That wall was a spatial wall of the spatial system, and then covered with a sonic illusion of the sound system. If it weren't for the sound system, it might not have been discovered.

Bai Mo glanced around the passage and saw no signs of anyone having been there.

Continuing along the passage, we arrived at a basement on the opposite side.

This underground chamber was about the same size as the one outside, but to Bai Mo's surprise, this underground chamber had a door.

This means that there is actually space behind the door, but he failed to detect it.

Bai Mo's eyebrows twitched as he carefully examined the door and the surrounding walls.

The walls of the previous passage changed from blue to earthy yellow, and the walls of this underground chamber also turned earthy yellow.

Bai Mo didn't notice it at first, but after observing it carefully, he discovered a difference.

The wall in front of them, with its stone gate, was faintly glowing with a pale gold color.

Bai Mo had a guess in his mind about the stone that could block the detection of sound magic.

With a flick of his finger, the air traced the outlines of two arrows, one with a faint silver glow, the other pulsating without any visible movement.

The two arrows struck the pale gold wall in front of them, but nothing happened.

The spatial and sonic attacks did not cause any damage to this wall!

Bai Mo tilted his hand, and a wind blade was unleashed, leaving a shallow scratch on the pale gold wall in front of him.

It's almost certain that the wall in front of us is made of Thorium, which can block dimensional magic.

Thorium is not a very hard mineral, but a product of elemental veins. It can be found in any elemental vein.

If this entire underground chamber were made of Thorium Stone, then Bai Mo's dimensional magic would be completely unusable.

Having figured out what this thing was, Bai Mo checked the underground room again but found no mechanism.

Then you'll know what to do.

The contract array flashed, summoning the Divine Dust Tiger.

"Big Orange, quickly use Tiger's Heart Strike to smash it!"

Facing the still dazed little tiger, Bai Mo pointed to the stone gate in front of him and gave him a command.

In just one month, Shenchenhu had already digested the commander-level essence and was simply in a habitual slumber.

After all, children love to sleep.

Upon hearing Bai Mo's words, it immediately became more alert and looked at the heavy-looking stone door in the direction Bai Mo was pointing.

He immediately twisted his body, and the tail trailing behind him became like a hilt, pulling a long, thick, bright yellow rock sword from the ground. With the twist of his body, he slammed it heavily into the stone door in front of him.

With a loud bang, countless fragments of stone flew everywhere as the stone door in front of them was cleaved open by Shen Chenhu's powerful tail strike.

As the dust settled, Shenchenhu curiously ran inside.

Before Bai Mo could stop him, the bright yellow figure leaped into the passage.

Hearing his words, she turned around and glanced at him, letting out a questioning cry.

"Aww~"

"Be careful, there might be danger," Bai Mo said, and stepped into the passage.

"Meow!"

"No? Even if you don't have any, be careful. Don't be too curious, or you'll kill the cat."

Bai Mo casually told Da Ju to stay close to him and not stray too far. He then surveyed the environment of the passageway.

The passage was also faintly golden in color. He could indeed feel his dimensional magic being suppressed. Before he could fully enter, he sent out a probe.

Not sensing the presence of any living beings reassured Bai Mo somewhat, so he continued walking inside.

The light from the crystal ball illuminated the walls above, below, left, and right clearly. The walls were just ordinary walls, without any murals or information.

Suddenly, a faint, pale yellow light flowed across the side wall, causing Bai Mo to pause and turn his head to look.

Seeing that Bai Mo had stopped, the orange cat curiously looked up at him, then followed its gaze to the wall to the side.

"Whoa?"

Ignoring Da Ju's confusion, Bai Mo extinguished the crystal ball and stepped to the wall. His eyes were fixed on the line between the bricks.

If he wasn't mistaken, the light of the barrier just now flowed from here.

However, there is nothing on the wall now.

Bai Mo was not in a hurry and waited quietly.

After a while, the orange tree had scratched three floor tiles, and finally...

A pale yellow hue emerged from the edge where the wall and floor tiles met, meandering slowly upwards along the lines formed between the bricks on the wall.

The brick lines flowed past the side wall, reached the top, and continued forward, only to suddenly disappear in the middle of the brick wall at the top.

It's like an electric current flowing through a circuit, and suddenly the power supply is cut off in the middle.

Bai Mo looked up and quietly watched this scene. It was indeed a light of restriction, but the light dissipated before completing the restriction's trajectory.

It's not surprising, given how long this underground palace has existed; time is enough to change many things.

Generally, the pale yellow light of the restriction is used for reinforcement and sealing, while the lightning of the restriction has a greater function. Since this restriction was not completed, Bai Mo did not know whether it was for reinforcement or sealing.

However, this should serve as a warning to him that what lies ahead is probably not a safe place.

Light up the crystal ball and continue forward.

The entire passage is not long, only 120 meters.

The further you go, the more pronounced the familiar chill becomes, and at the same time, the dimensional suppression from all sides intensifies, and the moisture in the air grows thicker.

Bai Mo frowned, but continued forward unhurriedly, quickly trying to recall where he had felt this familiar chill before.

Cursed Raven Island!

When he first encountered the powerful cursed crows on Cursed Crow Island, that region gave him a feeling of coldness and gloom.

It contains a curse! And a very strong one.

Bai Mo glanced at the Divine Dust Tiger at his feet, a moon-white light flashing in his eyes. Instantly, a recall array appeared, and amidst the Divine Dust Tiger's puzzled gaze, he retrieved it into his contract space.

He continued walking inwards, and the moment he reached the end of the passage, he suddenly felt a spatial fluctuation.

It seemed like we had traversed a layer of space, or perhaps a short-distance spatial teleportation array.

Bai Mo sensed that this teleportation mechanism was very ancient. With his power, he could have completely rejected the power of this spatial teleportation, but he did not do so.

He was very curious about what this mysterious secret was all about.

The moment my feet touched solid ground, a chilling, biting cold, as if I were in the dead of winter, instantly enveloped my entire body.

Meanwhile, the Guardian Wind and the Illusory Heart Armor, which had always protected his heart, also reacted differently.

The protective winds dissipated one by one, while wisps of dark red power rose up on the Void Illusion Armor's mind-guarding armor.

Bai Mo glanced at his feet, which were not the actual ground, but a thin plane of space.

Seeing the patterns on the spatial plane beneath his feet, he quickly realized that the spatial power he had just experienced was not spatial teleportation.

In modern terms, this platform is a space elevator.

When Bai Mo passed through that passage and entered, it was like entering an elevator. Instantly, he would be carried by the power of space into this inner space that opened up in mid-air.

If the magical world were a painting, he would now be in a deeper part of the canvas, even deeper than the canvas he had drawn open with his dimensional travel.

Looking outwards, he could vaguely see the world on the surface of space, and he was located just above the exposed crater below the small hill that had been blasted in half.

If that hill hadn't been blown up, it must have been located inside the hillside.

Bai Mo's gaze was fixed ahead as countless spatial turbulence surged in, continuously destroying the space that had been stabilizing.

It was like a huge hole in a house, with strong winds constantly rushing in.

The area opened up in the space is not large, only about the size of a fighting arena, but it should have used a spatial technique similar to the Three-Step Tower. The spatial turbulence that surged in is still only lingering in that place with the spatial void.

However, because the entire space is no longer complete, this method of stretching space is disappearing.

His gaze shifted, landing on the seven stone carvings in the center of the space before him, and the pool of water surrounding them.

The pool water was a mixture of dark red and dark green, with wisps of dark green gas rising from its surface, like venomous mosquitoes slowly spreading outwards. A chilling, cursed aura also emanated from the pool water.

Curses and poison!

Bai Mo's eyes lit up. Could it be that the plague in Jiangcheng and the thousand-meter-long dead zone outside were caused by this pool of water?!

Whose catacombs are these? And why is there a cursed, poisonous pool here?

(End of this chapter)