Modir could not remember most of the adventures he had experienced. Those journeys, which were brilliant, thrilling or interesting, now only some fragments left in his mind. Occasionally they turned into messy fragments of dreams back at midnight, but most of the time, all they had left was a sense of familiarity, a sense of familiarity that made him feel from time to time that he had been somewhere and had experienced something.

This sense of familiarity cannot be used as a mature experience, but sometimes it can also help him make judgments on some extraordinary things, such as the Thousand Towers City, which should have been in front of him, but no matter how he looks for it, it is missing.

Listening to the old mage's judgment, Maggie couldn't help but shake her head. A friction sound from both sides of the slightly hideous black dragon's head immediately came from: "What do you mean is that the Thousand Towers City is currently in a state where we can't see or touch, and even if we walk through the middle, we will directly 'pass the wall'?"

"It's just a guess. I... don't know why I think so, but I always feel that I may have experienced something similar," Modir's tone was a little uncertain. "Some things exist parallel to our real world. They may be located between the real world and a certain real world, so they will lose trace from all dimensions. They will only appear by observing in a specific way or waiting for a specific opportunity."

"What should we do now?" Maggie looked back at the temporary camp that had been built when the exploration team arrived in the wilderness. Several steel rangers were moving inside the camp, checking equipment and strengthening the camp tent. Several other soldiers were patrolling the edge of the forest, alerting to all the dangerous factors between the floating light and shadow. "We have been stranded here for four days, and we have found nothing. The Victorian hostess sent an inquiry this afternoon."

"...Camp a day," Modir thought about it carefully, and finally nodded, "I will test a few different perception and phase switching spells, and organize my memories and ideas. If we have not made any progress after tonight, we will circle the dense forest in the north first, so that even if we can't find the Thousand Towers City, we can record and archive all the 'monuments' around the Thousand Towers City."

"Okay, I'll make arrangements later," Maggie nodded, and then she seemed to remember something again, "But... since we left the first stone pile monument, we have not seen the magical intelligence that calls herself "Benadedo" near the next few stone piles. This always makes her invitation a little suspicious. And it was she who invited us to the Thousand Towers City, but now we may be at the entrance, but she still doesn't show up..."

"If the Thousand Towers City is really in a 'slit' state as I guessed, then it is probably not that easy for Benadido, who lives in the city, to contact the outside world," Modir was quite open-minded. "Maybe she also needs to contact us at a specific time or at a specific 'node'... Well, this is a way of thinking. When doing the magic test tonight, I can find clues from this aspect."

Maggie glanced at the big adventurer quietly and did not give any additional opinions. Although Modir had the habit of forgetfulness, as a legendary wizard, the old man's insights and abilities in the extraordinary realm are beyond doubt. He also has some experience in facing strange things (although most of these experiences are messy). In this case, she would better believe the old man's judgment.

"Then I'll arrange for today's night guard." Miss Black Dragon bent her neck slightly and turned around and walked towards the camp.

But as soon as she walked out two steps, a strange aura from the direction of the forest suddenly made her stop. Then she heard a faint commotion in that direction. Maggie immediately turned her neck and looked in the direction where the movement came. Modir next to her naturally patted ten layers of mage armor on each of them, and at the same time picked up the battle staff with her other hand: "It seems that something is happening there."

"We have our secret whistle there, but it seems that we have not discovered the enemy when we hear the movement." Maggie replied in a low voice. At this time, the soldiers in the camp also noticed the strange noise in the direction of the forest. Several soldiers formed a team of soldiers quickly moved towards Maggie and Modir. However, not long after everyone entered the state of combat readiness, a team of figures walked out of the edge of the forest. The figure also included two Ranger soldiers who served as secret whistle in the forest.

After seeing the costumes of those figures, Maggie breathed a sigh of relief. She did not remove her black dragon form, but she still signaled the soldiers beside her to temporarily put down their weapons: "Don't be nervous, it's the exploration team of Tifeng people."

While speaking, the figure had left the edge of the forest. After walking out of the shaded area of ​​light and shadow, their faces became clearer in an instant. It was an elite soldier wearing black light armor or short mage robe. Their costumes and carry-on weapons all illustrate their identity. This was a Tifen exploration team that landed on Violet Island from the east coast. Modir and his rangers led were no strangers to the existence of this exploration team.

At present, all countries of the alliance have known that the Violet Kingdom disappeared overnight. It is located in the north of the mainland and has direct communication with the Violet Kingdom. Several countries have successively sent their respective explorers. Among all these countries, only the exploration teams of the two empires of Cecil and Tifeng have reached such an in-depth position. They landed from the south and east coasts of Violet Island, and advanced along two different routes to the Thousand Towers City. The rear commands of the two sides maintained exchanges during the operation. Tifeng and Cecil also used this as a channel, and occasionally conducted some shared exchanges on intelligence, but this was the first time that the two groups of people met directly.

Moreover, it seems that the Tifeng people were discovered by the secret whistle in the forest. The slight commotion before should be caused by the two sides' sudden encounter. Fortunately, both sides are well-trained professionals, so even if they suddenly encounter it in the light and shadow, the strange and inexplicable shadow forest, they did not cause any accidental casualties.

"It seems we finally have neighbors here," Maggie took a half step forward, lowered her head slightly to look at the team of Tifeng people with a little embarrassed expression on her face. "Last time I received the news that you have arrived here, but I didn't expect that we would be in this situation... Hum? Ms. Diana? You actually led the team in person?"

Standing among the Tifeng people in this team, Ms. Diana, one of the most trusted deputys of Emperor Augustus, was one of the "Chief Maids" who had a transcendent status in the Obsidian Palace.

The appearance of the upper-level commander of the Tifeng Empire surprised Maggie. She didn't expect such a person to run to such a place to lead the team in person, but the latter's expression was quite calm. Diana looked up at the hideous black dragon in front of her, and her tone was calm like a 300-pound maid: "Sorry, our sudden appearance caused a misunderstanding from your sentry. We originally planned to contact you through the agreed method after leaving the forest area, but we didn't expect to meet your sentry in the forest."

Diana said this plainly, but the Tifeng soldiers beside her were a little more embarrassed than before. It is no wonder that after all, the elites of the Wanderer troops who could follow the "Captain Maid" and reach the deepest part of Violet Island. As a team that is best at special operations and secret operations in the military system of Tifeng, they have always had their own pride. Even if Cecil and Tifeng are all ally, these teams operating outside will inevitably have a bit of a competitive attitude when they meet. The result of this competition was that they were discovered by two secret whistles without even understanding the Cecil's camp... This time, they would not be ridiculed by the next session as a negative textbook among the Wanderers?

However, these unlucky wanderer soldiers were also a little comforted. After all, they were not the only ones who were discovered. Even Ms. Diana, who led the team, did not understand when it touched the alert spell set by the Cecilians in the forest. The sky fell and the Organic Mother Commander held the...

"The Rangers have always been cautious, and we have a more cautious and experienced adventurer as a consultant," Maggie retreated slightly at this time, and returned to the appearance of a black-haired maid in a human form in a light curtain. Of course, she also noticed the embarrassment on the faces of these Tifeng people. "We had arrived here four days ago. Now the forest around us is full of detection runes and eye of alert that has been set in the past four days. In this case, even the legendary powerful man will be accidentally discovered."

As soon as these words came out, the wanderer soldiers who were discovered by secret whistle suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. Diana, who was in charge of leading the team, immediately noticed the keywords in Maggie's words: "You have arrived four days ago? That Thousand Towers City..."

"As you can see, we are still wandering in this wilderness," Maggie smiled bitterly and spread her hands. "It's shameful to say that we have opened almost every stone in this wilderness in the past four days, and found no traces related to the Thousand Towers. Now we suspect that the city is hidden in the cracks parallel to the real world, hidden beyond our perceptions, but we have not made any progress except this guess."

Diana frowned. Although there was a certain degree of intelligence sharing between the Cecils and Tifeng, this sharing was ultimately restricted and had a certain lag. So she did not know that the troubles the Cecils who arrived at the target area early in the past four days were encountered here. Now it seems... they encountered the most troublesome situation when exploring the "vision area".

Monsters in the wilderness can be eliminated by force, and trap mechanisms in the ruins can rely on caution and dexterity. Even the ancient magic that runs wild, there are many corresponding knowledge and skills to crack, but a city that is close to you but cannot be observed... How to deal with this thing?

At this time, Diana couldn't help but think of the comments about Cecil's troops outside. It is said that some of the Cecil people trained by Princess Rebecca are very good at solving problems with explosions. Once the troubles in front of them reach a certain level, they will choose to ignite a large number of explosives immediately... Fortunately, it seems that the princess was not the princess who led the team to perform this exploration mission, otherwise she would have to take the soldiers to spend the night next to the ruins of the Thousand Towers Pit today...

"We are going to camp here for another night. Master Modir will try some detection spells that have not been tried before to find the "opening" of Thousand Towers City in the real world," Maggie continued. "You can camp near us so that both sides can take care of it. If you have any ideas for finding Thousand Towers City, you can also test it yourself."

Diana looked back at the soldiers she brought, then looked at the direction of the Cecil camp, but did not refuse Maggie's proposal: "Okay, then we will be more disturbing."

Modir on the other side saw Maggie and Diana negotiated, and felt that there was nothing he had to do here, so he waved his hand: "If there is nothing, I will go to the forest south of the camp to set up a warning rune. The secret whistle was touched just now, and the warning rune should have consumed a lot..."

As he spoke, the big adventurer had already walked to the forest not far away. Behind him were a group of scrupulous roaming soldiers of Tifeng Wanderer. Diana, who led the team, also watched for a long time. The Iron Man lady always maintained a calm expression, but after the old mage walked away, she couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "Although it's a bit awkward to ask this...how many alert runes have you set up near the camp? I have always been quite confident in my secret action ability, but..."

Maggie looked at Ms. Diana and couldn't help but feel a little happy. She just thought that this lady was really as accurate and ruthless as a machine. Now it seems that she still can't get over the fact that she led the team and was caught by two secret whistles. The indifferent expression on her face was probably just because the iron man's head was too hard...

The murmuring flashed in her heart, and Maggie still had a gentle and friendly smile on her face. She raised her hand and pointed to the woods that Tifengren had just walked out: "Did you see those trees? Every tree you have walked through..."

"You have set up alert runes on every tree around the camp?" Before Maggie finished speaking, a wanderer soldier behind Diana widened his eyes in shock, "No wonder..."

"No, I mean every leaf on every tree," Maggie corrected it seriously, "Every leaf was marked by Master Modir with spells, and it was only the first three days. By the fourth day, he even marked the grass around the tree, so I said you don't have to be embarrassed. This is if a legendary strong man comes over, he will still be discovered, and no one can do it.

"In fact, let alone that forest, there are even more than 1,600 magic traps around the camp in the Shadow Realm, because the old man always feels that someone in the Shadow Realm wants to harm him..."

Diana listened in amazement. After Maggie finished speaking, she thought about it seriously and just crashed...

Diana's sudden crash really scared the soldiers around Tifeng, but fortunately, the maintenance and overhaul she had done on the Ophelia Matrix was quite in place, and the crash was quick to restart. After a few seconds, the Iron Man lady woke up slowly. A series of dripping and squeaking sounds came from all over her body, and then she said: "Why is this..."

Maggie opened her mouth, she knew why, but she really didn't know how to speak out that ancestor who was a good friend after all, and she had to worry about the image of the old man in front of outsiders, after all...
Chapter completed!