Arcane Lord

Severton, New Town, Arena.

At this time, a full year has passed since the last time Xia Duo and Niya came here. During this year, the Grand Arena does not seem to have changed at all, but the people who come are no longer the same people as before. .

Looking at the tall, majestic, light blue stone building in front of him, Xia Duo really felt like he was in another world.

In fact, since he has been to the projection plane during this year and stayed for more than a year, in his perception of time, more than one year has indeed passed.

But thanks to the memory tracing ability brought about by bloodline awakening, by tracing past memories, Xia Duo's memory of the last time he came to watch the snow melting competition was so fresh and vivid.

It's like it all happened yesterday.

Time seems to have disappeared at this moment.

…

"What's wrong? Don't you want to go in?" Niya reminded in a low voice.

The entrance to the grand arena is naturally very spacious, but the two people standing at the entrance also affected the order of normal entrants.

The flying iron stones above the two people's heads were the best proof of identity. The crowd around them automatically gave way to a large space like water flowing around the rocks.

This makes the originally quite spacious entrance not so spacious, and even a little cramped.

"Well, let's go in!"

Xia Duo noticed the expressions of awe, excitement, or nervousness on the faces of the people around him, and sighed inwardly at the disparity in the status of the casters. He did not hope that the future magic civilization would also have such a distinction between high and low.

Whether one is noble or not cannot be determined entirely by strength, but should be determined by the person's character and contribution.

In Netheril, the factor of power accounts for too much. Take Congenio, for example. Although he is highly respected, how can he have such a high reputation if he is not a great arcanist?

When Shado was first learning magic and receiving enlightenment, he often read a book called "The Biography of the Archmage Dathriel" in order to become familiar with Nese writing.

Darthriel was a character who lived more than two hundred years ago. He was born in poverty and was a farmer until he was 30 years old.

After being exposed to magic, including learning writing, it only took fifteen years to become a powerful mage.

But after he became the Archmage, he did not continue along the path of magic. Instead, he chose to return to his hometown and protect it.

He spent his days training new spellcasters for his hometown, or cleaning up the orc threat.

But few people know Darthriel's name today. Even at that time, what people talked about most was just the legendary story of how a farmer became an archmage, not what he did for his hometown after returning to his hometown. various facts.

In a world where great power belongs to itself, it is extremely difficult to change this status quo, but if it does not change, how can it be called "civilization".

It's just a jungle where the jungle is strong.

The reason why humans are humans and intelligent creatures is precisely because humans can get rid of the drive of animal instincts to a certain extent, and instead actively discover, understand and transform the world through the three outlooks shaped by their acquired nature.

…

Entering the arena, you first pass through a short passage, and then you suddenly see a ring-shaped structure that is very similar to a modern stadium on earth.

The seats are distributed around the perimeter, with the seats getting higher towards the outside.

The one facing the entrance is empty, as if there is a hole in the ring. However, facing the entrance, there are four seats high up. They are obviously the seats representing the representatives of the four parties in this snowmelting competition.

The last snowmelt contest there were only three.

Now that the princess has ascended to the gods and left the main plane, she doesn't know who will sit in that position on behalf of Netheril this time.

Is it possible that the princess will descend to the avatar specifically to watch a game involving only mortals?

Sha Duo thought secretly in his heart, and soon followed Niya to the area where the Seven Towers Mage was. Although strictly speaking, he was not a member of the Seven Towers of the Mage Tower Organization, but at least he was a member of the camp. A member of the Seven Towers.

In addition, Niya has not left Giles Tower yet, so it is right to sit here.

…

After sitting down, Sha Duo responded to the greetings from the seven tower mages around him one by one, and then began to look for Depak in the arena.

At present, everyone in the arena has not arrived yet, and people are still entering at the door, but there are already more people than when the number of people was the highest last year.

Fortunately, the internal capacity of the arena is large enough, otherwise it would be embarrassing. However, judging from the current situation, except for those areas specially reserved for elf dwarves, other areas are almost full.

"Depak, are you here?"

"Here we are, we just saw you come in. The three of us are now sitting in the second row of the second area to the right of the entrance!"

After receiving De Park's reply, Sha Duo immediately followed the information given in his transmission and looked diagonally across.

Sure enough, in a corner, he found De Parker, who was nodding to him, and Gibson and Harlan, who looked excited and looked around.

"Watch the game with peace of mind!"

After that, Xia Duo stopped replying and turned to observe the arena itself.

…

After becoming a senior arcanist, Xia Duo's vision has naturally changed. Now when he looks at the diamond-shaped platform in the center of the arena, he can no longer see anything like when he came last year.

Now, he clearly knows that the essence of the platform is a small demiplane that completely overlaps with the main plane, with an internal area of ​​more than 100,000 square meters. (Much larger than the yellow sand demiplane~)

Due to the special magic network environment reconstructed inside the arena, Shado can even directly see the elemental roots of this plane to a certain extent.

The various elements and energies are very balanced, or a little too balanced. Even the main plane does not have such an absolutely balanced elemental nature.

This looks like it is artificially made.

So Xia Duo became more interested.

However, before continuing to observe and study the demiplane of the opposite platform in depth, he planned to observe the magic network environment in the arena.

When he came here last year, he discovered that the magic network environment inside the arena had been reconstructed, and there were some subtle changes this year compared to last year.

But compared to the last time when he was not very sure, this time he was very sure that it was a mystery lock, a small mystery lock that only existed inside the arena!

As for last year, because he was unable to observe the Magic Network from a macro perspective at that time, even if he could trace his memory, he could only confirm that the Magic Network had been reconstructed. He was not very sure whether it had reached the level of mystery. .

But judging from the changes in the magic network environment inside the arena between this year and last year, maybe the magic network was already under construction last year, but it was only completed now this year!

…

Soon, Xia Duo noticed that the surrounding magic network strings were oscillating, which was a sign of teleportation. Compared with last year, when there were only a few fixed teleportation points, this year's teleportation points were much denser.

Some late Seven Towers mages even teleported directly to the specially reserved empty seats. They didn't even have to walk when they got here and sat down directly.

Xia Duo guessed that this might have something to do with the Mystery Lock. There was a new participant in the Snow Melting Competition and it would last longer than last year. He had a lot of time to study this.

Of course, that must be done after studying the opposite platform demiplane.