Arcane Lord

The next morning, Sha Duo and Niya went to the arena to watch the game as usual.

The snow melting competition has now come to an end, and today is the display of the last project [Magnificent Illusion].

The reason why I say "show" instead of "competition" is that the atmosphere was so harmonious in the competition a few days ago. Even when Master Ilfaran and Master Cormanso fought, no serious accidents occurred.

Recently, rumors have spread that the Northland Alliance is about to be established, and this year's Snow Melting Competition has become an important channel for these alliance-led countries to exchange feelings.

Regarding the specific date of the establishment of the Northland Alliance, Shado also asked Iolum, but his nominal teacher did not know. He only confirmed one thing, that is——

Regardless of whether the alliance is established or not, there will be definite news before the end of the year.

If nothing unexpected happens, the Northland Alliance should be able to be established.

As for the dispute between the various parties on the issue of demon summoning, Iolum did not explain too much, but only revealed a piece of news, that is, the princess did not agree with the study of demon summoning.

After learning the news, Shado breathed a sigh of relief. In Netheril, the princess's influence was quite large.

Although he stayed away from the secular world after becoming a god, his time was still short after all, and his influence would not fade away so quickly.

This time, the issue about demon summoning should be over.

But from Iolum's rather obscure answer to this question, Shado was still able to guess some of the other person's thoughts. His nominal teacher seemed to be in favor of studying demon summoning, at least not so exclusive.

In fact, Xia Duo himself does not reject this research. After all, demons are real anyway, and with the development of civilization, we will always come into contact with them in the future.

What he objects to is that under current circumstances where absolute safety cannot be guaranteed, conducting research that is extremely risky but may not yield much benefit.

He had a hunch that this issue might still be discussed in the future, but the situation might be different then.

…

"Xia Duo, do you think that in this year's [Grand Illusion] project, will Nese Fang still have a dwarf mage on the stage?"

"I don't know about that. I haven't heard any news about this these days, but I guess it's probably not a dwarf mage."

"Why?"

"It's very simple, there are two points!"

Xia Duo pointed at the auditorium in the arena and drew a big circle, and then said: "First of all, today is the [Grand Illusion] project, but there is no place for the dwarf mage in the arena like last year.

"Secondly, the nature of this year's snow melting competition has changed. It does not involve many interests like last year. This year it is more like returning to the original essence of the snow melting competition, which is for friendly exchanges. In this case, if you are the person above, you still Will a dwarf mage be sent?"

This is actually similar to various sports events on earth. If the purpose is not to win and there are not many interests involved, then why is it necessary to introduce foreign aid?

It’s a return to sports itself.

Niya was stunned for two seconds by Sha Duo's answer, but then she pointed at a short man who had just appeared not far away and said to Sha Duo:

"Look, what is that!"

Xia Duo looked in the direction of Niya's finger, and it turned out to be a dwarf dressed as a spell caster. Then several more dwarfs teleported over. Are they going to be slapped in the face?

"You should be here to watch the game, right?" Xia Duo said with a slight hesitation.

Then he traced his memory, and sure enough he found the scene of last year's snow melting competition in his memory. The first dwarf that appeared was one of the contestants at that time!

The dwarf illusionist Harblin!

After Habrin and ten other dwarf illusionists won the competition, the princess even announced in person that she would accept their family, friends, and fellow tribesmen as Nese people, and promised to use the Yellow Maple Hills as their place of reproduction.

Since then, Sha Duo has never heard any news about them, and he did not expect to see Hablin again today.

From this point of view, those dwarfs should have settled down in the Yellow Maple Hills.

According to the princess, these dwarfs can be considered as people of Nese, and it is reasonable for them to come to watch the game, but Xia Duo knows that things cannot be that simple.

This is just like on earth, a few black people sneaked into a white gathering place. How could it be possible without some special reason?

"Lets see!"

Although the dwarfs appeared in the arena with no space reserved for them, Shado still insisted on his opinion. There is a high probability that Nese Fang will be all humans on the field this time.

…

Soon, there was some commotion in the area where the Seven Towers Mage was. Several archmages with management authority seemed to have received some order and began to arrange seats for the dwarf mage.

Fortunately, only a dozen dwarf mages came this time. With a little coordination, it would not be difficult to squeeze out some spots.

But in fact, the dozen or so dwarf mages only took three seats. Among them, Habrin and two other dwarf mages were sitting on the seats, and the other dwarf mages were all surrounding them.

Since the auditorium in the arena is mainly for spellcasters and is not crowded together like sports venues on earth, there is quite enough space around each seat to maintain the most basic privacy distance and safety distance between spellcasters. .

In addition, the dwarfs themselves are relatively small, so it doesn't seem too out of place for more than a dozen dwarfs to squeeze into three positions.

…

As representatives from all parties entered the venue, the game quickly got down to business.

As expected, those who came on stage were all humans, not even the half-elves who had basically integrated into humans, as Xia Duo had guessed.

The dozen or so dwarf mages who just came here seemed to be really just here to watch the game.

As for the competition, the four countries of Ilfaran, Netheril, Erlan, and Cormanthor all showed off the scenery of their respective capitals in a tacit manner.

Eilintal, the capital of Ilfaran, is surrounded by rivers and seas and is lined with buildings. It is not that the city is built in the forest, but that the forest is integrated into the city.

The huge Mystery Cluster covers a large area centered on the capital, and even the nearby sea is deeply affected.

As an ancient country that survived the Crown War, although its capital has suffered numerous baptisms of war, it still retains considerable ancient architectural styles.

Shado even saw the shadow of the ancient Maiyeli Tower in it. Tens of thousands of years seemed to be condensed in those illusions. This made him have the idea of ​​​​going to Ilfarang and Eilintal. .

…

The capital city of Netheril, Severnton, is currently holding the Snow Melting Competition in Severnton, but because of this, all viewers have a more intuitive comparison.

Strictly speaking, the illusion of the ten Nese mages is not outstanding. It only restores most of the above-ground buildings in Severton, and some of them are obviously seriously distorted.

But they still won bursts of applause from the stadium, who knew this was Netheril's home court!

Even though the spell casters are relatively reserved and only a few of them shout at the top of their lungs, ordinary people don't care about this. There are really not many opportunities to shout in front of the great arcanist!