Chapter 12: Incursion
"Woo......"
After the transfer process was completed, before she could confirm her surroundings, Luo Jielinti fell to her knees due to the double after-effects of the large amount of magic in the leylines directly channeled by her body and the sequelae of forcibly using forbidden magic.
When the sequelae were not completely eliminated, the magic circuit that was forcibly awakened in order to carry out the transfer magic was stabbing her body from the inside like a red-hot soldering iron.
Fortunately, she was not unprepared for this. Before reciting the key words of the ritual, Luo Jielinti used her free hand to take out the secret medicine prepared in advance from her pajama pocket to relieve the pain of the magic circuit. At the same time as the transfer, she had already taken the secret medicine, but it had not yet fully taken effect.
Curled up on the ground for a few more seconds, and before the sweat soaked her pajamas in a large area, there was a feeling of loss like an anesthetic all over her body, and even her reaction slowed down. Then the feeling subsided, and she staggered to her feet.
Gradually changing from a blur to a clear vision, the view of the town where the "Hypocrisy Garden" is located.
There's no doubt that this isn't the real world anymore, but for Rogerinti, it's the equivalent of her own backyard that she frequents, and it's not something to worry too much about.
The key is, where is his servant Antun?
There was no aura of anyone else around, and no remnants of additional ritual magic, meaning that the only transfer process that occurred here was her own.
It seems that some details of the ritual have caused errors.
After sighing softly, she had to reuse her magic and perception in an attempt to establish a psychic connection with Anthun.
[Can you hear me, Antun?]
The good news is that the link is indeed established, unlike in reality, where you only get feedback like "the other party is far away", indicating that Antoun is also constructing an enchantment of the "courtyard of hypocrisy". It also confirms her previous speculation that Jonah brought him here.
The bad news is that the connection between the two is very unstable, and there is no news coming back, which means that there is a certain distance between the two people's location. Considering that he is in the middle of a town, Antoun is probably located in the suburbs of nowhere.
Regardless of her current inconvenience in using magic, even in normal times, walking alone in the "Void Realm" is not something that a magician of her sequence can easily do.
As for the reason for this, in fact, it is recorded as the primary common sense in various codexes for the reference of new magicians.
The "Void World", also known as the "Mirror World", is a mysterious space that magicians can touch after fixing the memories of the leylines through enchantment magic. Its vision is constantly changing with the memories and emotions of all living beings on that land, and it is only relatively stable.
For modern towns, because of the strong memories and emotions of the large number of people who live in them for a long time, they can be relatively stable and maintain an image that is not much different from reality. Almost all organizations set up enchantments in towns, which gave the "Void" the nickname "Mirror World".
The more sparsely populated the suburbs, due to the lack of human impressions and the fixed role of enchantments, it is difficult for the emotions of other creatures to maintain the "virtual world" in a fixed state for a long time due to the emotions of other creatures in their short life course, but will produce various uncontrollable distortions with the predation relationship in the biota, the spread of epidemics, migrations and other events.
Walking in the distorted "void" is undoubtedly very dangerous, and even a seasoned magician cannot tell what will appear in front of him in the next second. It's just that they can respond to all kinds of situations in a timely manner, so it is possible to walk in such a "demonic realm" (by the way, if you want to go back and forth between the "void realms" of the two regions directly through the leylines, the difficulty is not as simple as walking in the "demonic realm", it is equivalent to asking for a dead end).
As a result, Roger Linti, who has only reached Sequence 9, has the only option to move around town and its suburbs.
So she stopped the futile psychic connection first, and prepared to go back to the mirror building of the association headquarters in the "Void Realm" to see the situation, maybe she could directly meet her uncle and persuade him to give up the fight. After all, in her impression, her uncle will not choose a tough person, rather than fighting with the other party, it is better to consume the other party's strength first, and finally wait for work. In his theory, this is the only way to show the wisdom of a magician.
Now that Antoun has been teleported to the outskirts, this speculation seems to be very consistent with the status quo.
Unfortunately, things don't always go as planned, and just as she was about to leave, the sound of some kind of bird's wings fluttering nearby caught her attention. She looked up and saw a gray shadow passing directly above her, fading into the darkness of the street.
Given that the existence of a single individual in the memory of the leylines is basically dependent on the memories and emotions of other individuals, and that ordinary creatures (including humans) are not enough to meet the minimum standard of leaving a fixed image in the "Void", it is impossible to see a mirror image of normal creatures in the "Void".
The remaining two possibilities do not need to be explained. First, the birds that Luo Jielinti saw were not ordinary creatures, but "monsters", and second, the existence was not a mirror image shaped by the memory of the leylines, but a living reality like her.
Judging by the fact that she had not been aware of the bird's existence before, the possibility was that the former - to be exact, the so-called bird should be a "demon" who had been obscured by someone's breath. At the moment, the barrier of the "Hypocritical Courtyard" is likely to have been invaded.
Considering that the establishment of the psychic link is a two-way factor, Antoun should have been aware of her arrival, and it was only a matter of time before the two met. Because of this definite "trump card", Luo Jielinti dispelled the idea of returning to the base area, and prepared to trace in the direction of the disappearance of the birds. In the case of the enemy in the dark, delaying time will only make the opponent more prepared and take the initiative to find a way to break the game.
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While Rogie is rushing to face her big trouble, Antoun is also having a headache with the current small trouble.
Originally, he was still walking leisurely on the way to the town, thinking about what tests Jornadi had prepared for him, and how he should deal with it. As a result, he sensed the mental link opened by Luo Jielinti halfway, and after receiving the message of his master's "can you hear it", there was no follow-up, and I don't know if he heard his words before the link was broken.
But in short, the state of not being able to connect after that gave him a bad premonition.
Regardless of why Luo Jielinti came here, there was no doubt that she was forcing herself again. At such a distance, Antoun couldn't sense the specific state of the other party, and only knew that the other party was probably in the direction of the town. So he quickened his pace, but was repeatedly hindered by some strange beasts that suddenly appeared.
Those guys with unreasonably large bodies and fangs don't look like real creatures, but they have a fight with monsters from another world. But before in the "Forest of Thorns", not to mention monsters, I didn't even encounter normal creatures, only a large number of knights from the "Holy See".
Antun was puzzled by this, and was not in the mood to entangle with them, so he had to run wildly with "Instant" while trying to shake them off. As a result, he encountered many insurmountable spatial faults on the way, causing him to take a lot of detours back and forth.
When he finally made his way to the outskirts of town, he had to admit that if this was Jonah's play, it had indeed exhausted him in some sense.
At this time, he had indeed sensed that Luo Jielinti was in the town, but the link still could not be established, and her magic power fluctuated significantly, and she seemed to be using magic frequently.
Without much thought, he stepped straight into town, and was about to take the next step when he immediately felt something strange.
Although I felt it on the hill of the annex, it was only when I got to the ground that Antoun was sure that unlike the modern layout of the "Forest of Thorns" base area, which is full of high-rise buildings, the "Hypocrisy Courtyard" base area can be described as a traditional country town. With the exception of a few electric towers and what appear to be a radio building, there are few other facilities in the town that overlook the surrounding scenery.
As a last resort, he had no choice but to climb to the roof of a relatively tall house around him and look around.
As a result, a dense fog appeared in the air at a certain altitude sufficient to minimize visibility, a kind of concealment that was not apparently born naturally but created by magic in the "void" when looking up from the ground, and caused Antoun's plan to reconnoiter the terrain completely.
After a little thought, Antun who had returned to the ground had a certain guess: this was probably the defense mechanism used by the "Hypocritical Courtyard" to deal with outsiders, but he didn't know why it was activated. Was Jonah activated it as part of the test, or was it linked to the state of Rogerinti, where there are now intruders, or both?
In any case, the development of things is inevitably a bit too coincidental, and it may not be that there are no people who have a heart to see the possibility of the leader of the "Hypocritical Courtyard" not being able to take action against the enchantment in order to wait for the rabbit.
This "treatment" is as the other party's wish, as for whether he is a "rabbit", it is up for debate.
The top priority is to rush to Luo Jielinti's side, although he can't confirm it with his eyesight, he still has a feeling to rely on.
But after a few minutes, he realized that the so-called feeling was not so reliable. The defense mechanism of the "Hypocritical Courtyard" is much more than the fog above, and what was originally just a combination of ordinary houses and streets has been transformed into a labyrinth-like thing that is completely impassable above under the influence of the power of the enchantment—in short, Antoun is lost.
When he was in the other world, whether it was when he was still an adventurer or when he became a demon god, the maze exploration was basically done by his partners or subordinates, and he didn't know anything about it.
It was a bit of a problem, and now he couldn't find his way forward, and he couldn't see the boundaries of the town when he retreated. He couldn't jump from roof to roof because of what looked like a wall of air in the air, so he tried even the stupidest way of walking against the wall with his eyes closed, but it still didn't work. It seems that the labyrinth has also been blessed with illusions and the like to confuse enemies.
Think about it calmly, what else can be done to break the current dilemma-
Perhaps it was the first time he had experienced the true value of luck as an attribute, and Antoun was about to ponder when a faint sound of footsteps sounded at one end of the street.
Here comes the man who hits the "rabbit".