Four Split Personalities

Chapter 2249: Chapter 1058: Deadly Game (III)

As everyone knows, space teleportation magic is almost synonymous with concepts like ’convenient’, ’fast’, and ’efficient’. Conversely, whether applied in the tourism sector or the communications field, it remains a luxury enjoyed only by those whose status, wealth, or strength have reached a certain level.

An adventurer team with an average strength at the advanced stage, even if working tirelessly on tasks matching their strength each day, would barely earn close to a thousand gold coins in a month, excluding consumable supplies, equipment maintenance, and daily necessities.

A registered letter from the Mage Guild, which is the method Diana uses when she writes to ’Frank Hughes’, involves directly delivering the letter through long-distance space transfer to the Mage Guild closest to the recipient. The standard external price for this service is three thousand five hundred gold coins.

Due to the Grand Astrologist’s title, Diana herself can send a letter at a discounted price of three thousand gold coins.

For the same service of sending a plain letter, the Thief Guild’s price ranges from 5 gold coins to 30 gold coins, while the Cloud Traveler Inn charges a stable rate of 15 gold coins.

As for the price of live teleportation, it won’t be less than five figures. Uh, these four words mostly refer to ’travel through teleportation’ rather than some strange and terrifying affairs.

In comparison with the air transport charges of Bao Gang Aviation and the gnomes’ general commercial circles, it’s simply heaven and earth.

However, one aspect needs to be emphasized separately: although the term ’space teleportation’ is indeed synonymous with concepts like ’fast’, ’expensive’, ’luxurious’, this doesn’t mean it’s ’comfortable’.

In fact, most space teleportation doesn’t have much to do with comfort—sending a letter is fine—after all, a letter won’t throw up from enduring continuous spatial shocks, but living beings are another matter.

Epic tier and above space mages fare better; they only need to create a layer of ’dynamic’ space tremor around their bodies and then counteract the shock during teleportation by yawning.

Moreover, those who aren’t space mages but have reached half-step legend in strength, these individuals won’t feel discomfort from mere ’teleportation-induced spatial shock’.

Some beings with insufficient strength but extraordinarily robust physical fitness or bizarre bodily construction can also be immune to this effect, such as those who simultaneously possess ’strong physique’ and ’bizarre structure’ like Cordova.

Aside from these three types, there remains an extremely small proportion, or those with great compatibility with space teleportation, or those with exceptional talents capable of avoiding its effects through other means.

For instance, Double Leaf, who researched the topic of ’how to effectively neutralize the side effects of long-distance space teleportation’ in the City of Miracles for a long time. She now carries a self-made [Prototype Mithril Resonance Rune Board] with her, which, although just a prototype, forms a barrier sufficient to neutralize most side effects of space teleportation around her simply by infusing a small amount of magic power into it.

Furthermore, since a large amount of the library’s mounted space derives from the same source, the design methodology and construction concepts are highly similar, and the ’dimensional gap’ between them is small enough, the teleportation array inside won’t cause many side effects for the users.

In summary, teleportation from [Region One] to [Region Thirty-One] imposes no burden on Double Leaf at all, causing her no discomfort whatsoever.

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For Motan, who has no neutralization means, this kind of burden cannot be avoided, directly causing him dizziness during the initial few teleportations as Hei Fan.

Thus, after experiencing a change in mental state, he logged in as ’Tan Mo’ and casually set up a plan even he didn’t believe could be successfully implemented.

Although he prudently refrained from probing Double Leaf with his ’old comrade Hei Fan’ identity during this time, nor did he try to learn from Diana what Double Leaf did out of his surveillance range, he could guess that this flat-faced four-eyed certainly would be interested in the renowned [Academy City Comprehensive Library]. Based on this, his preparation work became very simple.

First, according to the intelligence gathered from visiting the library as Hei Fan, he speculated which floor Double Leaf might be interested in, and after excluding the forbidden book area where he couldn’t make an effective layout, the remaining options were very few. The ’Region Thirty-One’ where they currently were was one of the floors Motan speculated Double Leaf would be interested in.

Then, he made some ’arrangements’ on the floors possibly chosen by Double Leaf in advance.

Third, he patiently waited for the opportunity.

Finally, at the right moment, he immediately made a judgment through observing Double Leaf. If she fell into dizziness unsuspectingly like he did as Hei Fan, he would create a bloodshed here. If she was unaffected as he predicted, he would signal those lying in wait for support to cease action.