Master of Noble Phantasm Outsider

"Have you found the underground man that you could never find?"

"Yes, although I'm not completely sure, I finally have some clues. I finally have some clues about the underground man who created the Stone Mask and once instructed several black magicians in Academy City to conduct ghoul research."

Rux smiled very complacently.

"How come there are clues all of a sudden? Previously, no matter how hard we investigated, we couldn't find any traces..."

Conan-san paused awkwardly in the middle of his words.

"Could it be... the change in the magic environment, the influence of the magic tide?"

"That's it."

Rux nodded in affirmation.

Conan-san frowned subconsciously.

"Can this... be considered a good thing?"

"Who knows? However, due to the recent changes in the magical environment of the human world, those guys who have been hiding their whereabouts in some unknown way can finally be found. This is certain."

The method mentioned by Lux is naturally to search through various kinds of magic.

"The divination and prophecy magic that didn't work before suddenly responded. Although, it only responds to my hands, and it seems that others can't do it, but a discovery is a discovery."4

"So, is that right? The reason why the underground man was able to hide his whereabouts was probably because he used an unfamiliar magic system?"

"High probability."2

"Then... what about the others? Others who are nowhere to be found, for example, those behind the scenes who secretly held the Heroic Wars many times... are they hiding themselves in the same way as that underground person?"

"No, this is a little different."3

Rooks shook his head.

"This is just my feeling, there is no evidence, but the underground people and the masterminds behind the war of heroes and spirits use different magic systems to cover themselves up."

"...I understand."5

Conan-san let out a light breath.

"You didn't alert the enemy, did you?"

"Of course not. Look, I haven't submitted the investigation report in your hand yet. You are the first one to see it."

Conan-san nodded.

"That's good... So, next, we have to deal with the underground people?"

"Yes, and we can't mobilize troops on a large scale. If that underground person is really as you said, and his goal is to become the so-called ultimate life, then it is more important to be able to eliminate the opponent's elite than the number of manpower."

"At the same time, it is also to avoid alerting the enemy."

Conanshan put down the report in his hand.

"We still need manpower, but there aren't many people we can completely trust... According to our speculation, there must be some big shots colluding with that underground person."

"Maximilian Berkman, this elderly super soldier, should be trustworthy based on his past performance, but even if he is not, it doesn't matter."

Conan-san smiled wickedly when he saw his collaborator in front of him.

"Anyway, garbage will have to be sorted and cleaned up sooner or later. This time, let's confirm the value of the so-called high-level people in the human world."

118 On the boat

An action plan to deal with almost all unknown underground people has been put on the agenda and can be implemented as soon as a week later.

The reason why we cannot take action immediately is that there are still some uncertainties.

"According to my divination, I can confirm that the place where the underground people are located is the Arctic Circle, a place with no light in the polar night, but it is hard to say whether it is the South Pole or the North Pole."

Lux said so while searching with magic.

"Why is it so hard to say? I remember that polar night and polar day alternate, right? Isn't it enough to just check which place in the North and South Pole is experiencing polar night now?" Conanshan was very puzzled.

"That's not the case. My divination results show that the underground people are in the Arctic Circle, hiding in the polar night. This is consistent with what you said about the underground people not being able to see the light. However, this does not mean that they are still in the same place. I just know that they have stayed in the Arctic Circle for a long time."

The so-called divination, the so-called prophecy magic, is a very inaccurate magic that will go wrong ninety-nine times out of a hundred times, just like a lucky draw.

The origin of this kind of magic is naturally the prophet, or rather, it is the imitation of the prophet's power, trying to predict the future in an active way.

This kind of magic is naturally difficult to be accurate.

"My prophecy magic seems to be very accurate, right? I have found many parasites using this method before, but do you know how many times I have used the prophecy magic?"

Although the person in front of him did not give a direct answer, Conan immediately understood what the other person meant.

"I see. Exhaustive method."

"That's right."

Lux is a true magic genius with powerful magical abilities, but he is not a prophet and has no way of seeing the future.

What he did was actually relying on his own strong magical power and using the most clumsy method to eliminate every possible suspicious location.

This approach would be impossible to achieve without sufficient manpower and material resources.

"There is no shortage of manpower in the human world. In places you haven't paid attention to, XCOM has been working very hard. No one can deny that. It is thanks to them that my carpet-style search method can be successful."

It's not that Conan has not paid attention to the actions of the military organization XCOM, but the reports he has seen did not contain more detailed information behind the scenes.

The so-called report is for the higher-ups to read, and some parts of it may be embellished with unnecessary words, which inevitably makes it difficult to see the real situation.

If Conan had stayed in the human world and stayed in XCOM as a magic consultant, he would have gradually understood sooner or later, but he was always a student in a magic school, so he ignored this point.

"Okay, I'll wait for your news."

While Conan-san was waiting for the action to arrive at the Avengers Building, he checked on the situation of the heroic clone who was traveling to the continent of Teyvat.

On the continent of Teyvat, his heroic clone has already boarded a merchant ship from the City of Rock.

The merchant ship was traveling to Rock City by sea at a moderate speed.

So far, there have been no accidents on this sea voyage. Although it cannot be said to be smooth sailing, there is no sign of any major danger either.

As long as everything goes as usual, no matter how slow it is, we should be able to reach our destination, Rock City, in a month at most.

"The shipbuilding technology on this continent is very ordinary. If you want to speed up, you can only rely on manpower or the power of elementalists. In addition, you have to be careful to avoid the elemental life that you may encounter along the way. It is normal to be a little slower."

The merchant ships from the City of Rock set out from the sea route in the south of the Rock Elemental Domain, then crossed the large river in the Grassland Elemental Domain in the southwest, and finally arrived at the Water Elemental Domain.

The journey back to the City of Rocks does not go back along the same route. The ship will continue to move eastward, then follow another downstream river, enter the sea from the east, and then return to the City of Rocks.

In other words, the merchant ship from the City of Rock is equivalent to making a circle and a half on the continent of Teyvat.

During this journey, the merchant ship passed through the human settlements in the grassland element realm, conducted transactions, and then headed to the water element realm.

The annual merchant ships set out on the journey of thousands of miles because there is profit to be made.

To put it bluntly, but more realistically, there is no benefit in getting up early.

It is naturally impossible for merchant ships to be dispatched just for their fellow humans in the water element realm.

Moreover, although the next journey is only to return to the Rock City and will not come into contact with other human settlements - there are no human settlements along the way - but along the way, the merchant ship will occasionally stop and allow the passengers on the ship to collect elemental materials or resources from different places.

Merchant ships were not just trading ships, but also gathering ships and cargo ships that collected whatever they could find and use along the way.

The merchant ships from Rock City were filled with merchants from many different chambers of commerce, some independent merchants, and some speculators who were trying their luck, or adventurers.

The so-called traveling merchant ships that travel once a year are actually, in essence, adventure fleets funded by multiple parties.

Trading with other fellow human beings in their place of residence is just a side job.

In other human settlements, it is difficult to make money unless you are a relatively powerful businessman or chamber of commerce.

A human settlement with limited development capabilities can never compare to the most populous and most powerful Rock City.

If he was simply looking for business opportunities to make money, he would definitely not risk leaving the safety of the rock.↑转＾QＵｎ：９琳-:缌叭｜死&∩贰☆'久♀０五元素领域.

The main way to make money for traveling merchant ships is to collect various things that are not available in the rock element field during the journey.

Conan learned all these things after he transformed himself into a spirit and sneaked onto the ship, eavesdropping and eavesdropping.

"If you really want to make a lot of money with merchant ships and goods, it would be better to go to other continents instead of doing it in this elemental paradise where human civilization is developing slowly or even stagnant..."

Listening to the drunken chatter of several drunken adventure team merchants, Conanshan felt like laughing for some reason.

This kind of thing is too realistic and not funny, but it makes people laugh.

I don’t know how to explain this wonderful feeling.

"There should be no other news that needs attention..."

After boarding the ship, Conan-san confirmed that no one on the ship could discover his spiritual form, so he began to eavesdrop on other people's conversations and continuously collect various potentially useful information.

"The Rock Elemental Realm is indeed aware of the abyss issues concerning the Water Elemental Realm, but they don't seem to care too much about it. At least they haven't sent out an official investigation team..."

Considering that the human settlements in each elemental realm are already struggling to survive and live every day, it is not surprising that they are unable to lend a helping hand to their compatriots far away.

Moreover, if there is a mastermind behind the Abyss problem, it is not surprising that the top leaders of Rock City would remain indifferent.

"The people of Rock City also don't pay much attention to the abyss problem in the water element realm. On the one hand, communication between human settlements is inconvenient, and the news is not well-informed. They don't know the seriousness of the abyss. On the other hand, I don't know whether it is not their business or someone is controlling the news..."

Conan-san was not sure whether the investigation would make any progress after arriving at his destination, Rock City.

It's really not surprising.

If the mastermind behind this has already left Teyvat and will not return in the short term or even forever, then no matter how you investigate, it will be useless.

"Everything can only be decided after we reach the City of Rock. If there is a chance, I will also go to meet the Dragon King of the Rock Elemental Realm... Can we only talk about it when the time comes..."

119 Exhaustive method

"Yes, the underground person we are targeting is most likely no longer in the human world."

"what?"

Conan-san, who was quietly waiting for the book war to begin, suddenly received such a notice from his partner.

"Not in the human world... That underground man went to the magical world at some point? Seriously?"

"Based on the results of my exhaustive method, this should be the case."

Rux gave a headache expression.

"Thanks to the fact that the magic environment in the human world changes every day, my magic has become more and more convenient and flexible to use here. The unknown magic system used by the underground people to hide themselves can no longer hide themselves. Then I kept searching, and continued to try and error, and finally eliminated several possible correct answers."

"You've confirmed that the underground people are not in the human world... then what should we do?"

"No, there is nothing we can do. If we want to eliminate the underground people as soon as possible, we can only ask for help from our other reliable companion."

"that's true……"

Conan-san knew he had asked a very stupid question.

Since they have to deal with the underground people who are unclear about many things as soon as possible, there are not many methods they can do now that they have entered the magic world.

"It's just that our preparations have been wasted. I finally got in touch with that super old soldier, and he said he would fully cooperate with me. Haha, a lot of things may be difficult to handle next."

Rooks was sighing.

Conanshan didn't take the other person's expression seriously. This guy was probably just pretending.

"Rux, if our target is in the wizarding world, will you go?"

"It's not that we can't go. If we want to avoid the Ministry of Magic, it's still possible."

Rux looked hesitant, but he already had the answer in his mind.

"Anyway, I will contact the heroic Chief Auror and ask him to cooperate with us."

Conan-san nodded.

That's all it can do now.

"However, if that underground man really went to the magic world, it means that he may have magic power and become a magician. Or, he may have companions in the magic world..."

The method of traveling from the human world to the magical world is very simple.

As long as you have magic power and the corresponding knowledge, you can go to the designated magic plane station and buy a ticket to the magic continent.

This is the simplest way to travel between the two sides.

Since the Ministry of Magic does not have a so-called customs, as long as you have magic power, it is equivalent to having the corresponding pass, and anyone can use the plane station.

Although the magic plane station has different protections and will secretly monitor whether there are wanted criminals taking advantage of this convenience, it will not always check the identity of every passenger.

If the underground people obtained magic power, or disguised themselves as magicians through other means, then it would not be difficult for them to go to the magical world.