As a result, Catherine also became expressionless, glanced at Vivian, who was also dull, leaned behind Pannis, coughed dryly, and asked gently, "Dear Mr. Pannis, may I ask what this thing is?"

"The information taken down from above. "Pannis, looking at the stack of papers in his hand, replied casually, "I just thought that since Freya's mechanical spider won't trigger the trap, I just asked her to carry all the paper items down with the mechanical spider bit by bit, and sure enough, there is a lot of information." ”

"Dear Mr. Pannis, then. Catherine's smile was sweet, and her tone was even gentle: "Why don't Catherine and the others know about this?"

"I saw that they were very happy to discuss the question of who went up in a serious way, so I didn't bother them, hahahaha, when they reacted, their faces must be very exciting, and they feel funny when they think about it, hahahaha. Pannis's energy was still focused on the paper in his hand, and he didn't speak through his brain at all, but in the next moment, his body suddenly became stiff, cold sweat oozed from his forehead, he swallowed heavily, and said in a dry voice: "That, in fact, it was nonsense just now, I just looked like a real yàn, yes, yes, I didn't think it would succeed, so I didn't tell them, but who knew that it really succeeded, En, that's it, really, believe me, I definitely didn't want to see the joke." ”

"Of course, I've always believed in you. Catherine's tone was so gentle that it almost dripped, and even the voice of her sword was so gentle: "So I really won't be angry, I promise." ”

"I don't believe it. Pannis shoved the paper in his hand behind Catherine's hand, and the moment Catherine took it, the man had already fled far away, hid behind Moore, poked his head out and said, "I want me to believe it." You put your weapons away first. ”

"Hmph, it's important to get down to business, and I'll settle accounts with you when I get home. Catherine gave Pannis a blank look, handed Vivien a stack of papers, and said, "Take a look, is it their circle blueprint?"

"I'll take a look, oh. That's right, this is the same as the ones we saw before, most of the magic circles that have been destroyed, and the difference should be those parts that have been destroyed. Vivien took it, and looked at the first page to come to an affirmative answer, but the more she looked at it, the more ugly her face became. Seeing her face, even Pennis stopped making trouble, and a group of people gathered around the mage girl, carefully watching her face. Ten minutes passed. Vivien took a deep breath, closed the paper in her hand heavily, closed her eyes weakly, and said in a voice that was almost **: "It's really terrible, what do they want to do? ”

"What do you see?" Catherine asked, frowning, "Aren't they already admitting it themselves? Why do you repeat it again? Is it because you see something more excessive? Is it not their fundamental purpose?"

"I don't think that's what they're trying to do, but that's just my guess. Vivien sighed. Putting the paper in her hand in Freya's hand on the side, she took out her notebook and roughly depicted a magic circle on it, and drew a larger sketch composed of sparse small black dots, and said weakly: "Look at it, the first magic circle is the magic circle they use, plundering other people's time." The black dots on the second sheet are used to represent the circle, and based on these black dots, a large array of circles is formed, which is within the coverage area of this array. Even if there is no magic circle under their feet, it will have the same effect, and they use this to achieve city-wide plundering time. ”

"Why don't you just draw a huge circle. Catherine asked, "Wouldn't it be easier to draw a large circle that covers the whole city?"

"No one can control that big circle. Mur on the side interjected and replied: "The larger the scope of the circle, the more energy is needed to activate and maintain the effect, and the circle covering the scope of a village already needs several legendary mages to be powered at the same time, or it needs more than 20,000 terr of spars, if the scope of the entire city is expanded, the energy required may need several demigod mages to work together to provide, or hundreds of thousands of terr of spars to maintain, the problem is that they don't have a few demigod mages, and there are no spars in the world with a capacity of hundreds of thousands of terres." ”

"Yes, the key is energy supply. Vivien also nodded: "With their method, you can use the hedron to power each small magic circle, and each small magic circle may only need three or four thousand terr of spar to activate, so although it will consume a large number of spars, it will turn the impossible into a possibility." ”

"I understand what you're saying. Catherine nodded, "However, does this have anything to do with what you just said, their fundamental purpose?"

"Whew, it's related. Vivien sighed again and said, "Pennis, I remember that you are very familiar with the maps of various regions of the continent, can you draw us a plan of the Bute Plateau, reduced to the size of this paper." ”

"Huh?" Pannis seemed to immediately understand Vivien's thoughts, and his face became ugly, and the corners of his mouth twitched, "Are you sure?"

"Hehe, I hope I can't be sure. Vivian smiled bitterly and said, "That's why I said it, let's discuss it together." ”

"Okay, I see. Pannis took his notebook and hurriedly drew a simple topographical map of the Butt Plateau, and consciously marked most of the cities on the map in dots: "Here, the map you need." ”

"Thank you. Vivien took the map and looked at it, nodded and said, "Eldest sister, do you remember how many cities we found this kind of magic circle along the way? ”

"Seven, no, eight. Catherine also seemed to understand something, her fingers trembled slightly, and she picked up the pen and marked it on the map: "Here, Frost City, Canyon City over there, Hurricane City, Fog Cloud City, ......"

"Well, let's take a look at it now. Vivian smiled bitterly and picked up the second spell array map composed of black dots, overlapped it with the map, looked at the light and said: "Pannis, you drew it so well, the scale is just right, it seems that you really understand, so what do you think after reading these two pictures?"

Looking at the light, the black dots representing the eight cities circled by Catherine almost exactly coincided with the eight black dots on the second array of seventy or eighty black dots. The scene in front of them made everyone can't help but take a breath of cold air, everyone knows very well what this means, this means that even these cities are only a very small part of their goals, their real goal is to use each city as a complete node, and then form a higher-level spell array to expand the plunder range hundreds of times.

Pannis squinted his eyes for a while, took the map and put it together with another piece of paper, drew the map covered by the entire spell array, rubbed his chin and said: "The range covers half of the Bout Plateau, and the small half of the Farrar Empire, even the Whispering Swamp also includes a small part, and the Sighing Desert." However, there are basically no intelligent creatures living in these two places, so they can be ignored. ”

"Perhaps...... Let's think about it too much. Lina drew a square on her chest, forced a smile and said with a trembling voice: "Within the coverage, I'm afraid there are tens of millions of people alive, maybe even 20 million, this is one-tenth of the human race in the Yala world, no matter how big their ambition is, it is impossible to think about slaughtering so many people at once, haha, haha, it must be too much." ”

"I'm afraid I don't believe you even yourself. Vivien sighed again: "But there is one thing that I find very strange, how can they complete such a large scope and such a large amount of work?" Indeed, the demigods are very powerful, and the mages are very mysterious, but they are not omnipotent, even if they have been preparing for this since they first got the magic circle more than ten years ago, with their numbers, it is unlikely that they will complete such a big project, and these require the cooperation of the locals, even if he is a demigod, I don't think he has the qualifications to let everyone cooperate with him, especially those mage lords in Bute, so, maybe there is something we haven't noticed yet. ”

"It's useless to talk about that now. Pannis's face was extremely strange, the girls had not seen him have such a strange expression since they had seen the temple of Danakus on the grassland, and he said in a voice that barely had any ups and downs: "No matter how big their plan is, after all, they are all dead, and what we have to do now is to clean up the magic circle in this city as much as possible, and then inform Speaker Warrenson that the cities or regions represented by these more than seventy nodes must be cleaned up." ”

"That's right. Vivien nodded: "It's a hidden danger to keep it, it's better to clean it up quickly." ”

"Well, so let's split up. Pannis said, "You follow Vivien's node diagram to deal with all these seventy locations, and you can't leave any hidden dangers." ”

"What about you?" Catherine was puzzled by Pannis's appearance, but thoughtfully did not force the reason, but just asked, "Let's deal with it, won't you follow?"

"Heh, I have other things. Pannis's eyes narrowed into a slit, and he whispered with a strange smile: "If you kill two students, you must give an explanation to them, and I will do this kind of thing like sending an obituary." (To be continued.) )

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