Arcane Lord

Soon, the ceremony reached a critical point simultaneously.

From this moment on, the entire ceremony will be out of Paris's control little by little, and Shado is full of confidence in this. As the spell casting instructions were issued one after another, Paris finally reacted.

The reason for the lack of response before was mainly because he was not clear about Xia Duo's purpose and was tied up by the ritual itself. Now he saw that Xia Duo wanted to make changes to the ritual and even seize control of the ritual.

Under such circumstances, how could Paris continue to swallow his anger!

A counterattack ensued, but after all, there was no preparation at all in advance. All Paris could do was block it with the inertia of ritual casting, and there was no way he could do more.

Of course, this presupposes that Paris still wants to let the ceremony go on, and it does not reach the point of breaking the jar.

What Paris did was more of delaying time, as long as it could be delayed until the end of the ceremony, but all this was within Shado's expectation, and he even complied with Paris' delaying strategy to a certain extent.

Just like what Ryan did in Pearl Square before they took action, Ryan seemed to want to persuade the people to do something. Maybe he thought so himself, but in Sha Duo's plan, Ryan's role was just Used to delay time.

Prevent demons from taking drastic actions, such as more direct massacres.

As for the demon descendant, because he underestimated Xia Duo, he did not expect the real reason behind Ryan going out to appease the people, and has not taken any drastic action until now.

As for Paris now, Paris should actually be able to realize that his opponent is extraordinary, but he is already riding a tiger and has only two options -

One is to give up the ritual and fight back, but this goes against his original intention.

Another is trying to stall for time.

It's not that Paris didn't want to take back control of the ceremony through a method like "increasing capital and stock expansion" like Chateau, but that he didn't expect this situation at all and was completely unprepared for it.

As a last resort, we had to adopt a strategy of delaying time.

Shado, on the other hand, tried his best to continue to "increase capital" in this ongoing ritual spell without irritating Paris, so as to achieve the purpose of expanding control.

However, Shado also knew that Paris could not always let him do this. Once he realized that there was no hope that the ceremony could proceed normally, Paris' behavior would be unpredictable.

Maybe it was to destroy the ritual, or maybe it was to notify the demons to carry out a massacre.

If it's the former, this is what Sha Duo is struggling to deal with, and if it's the latter, he can only pray that the power of the local mage is enough to calm him down.

While maintaining the collaborative computing network, they also have to deal with demons. There is still some pressure. Xia Duo sincerely hopes that they can cope with it.

…

I don’t know how much time passed, but in such a fierce battle, time seemed to slow down a lot. It was at this moment that Sha Duo received a message from Doom on the Lingsi network——

Paris has given up on the delaying obstruction that used ritual inertia at the beginning and started to become more aggressive!

"I just realized it now, it's too late!"

Xia Duo has now mastered over 80% of the process of the entire ritual spell. If it is a normal spell, in this case, he will stop if he says to stop. But for this special spell involving timeline manipulation, he still has to try his best to get it. Only with 100% control can it be stopped safely.

As for this opportunity, Paris obviously didn't want Shado to win too easily.

Soon, Shado learned about Paris's approach from the feedback information about the progress of the ceremony. This guy really "destroyed what he couldn't get", and after a brief silence, he began to actively sabotage the progress of the ceremony.

Unfortunately, Sha Duo has mastered more than 80% of the process at this time. Paris's sabotage action does not pose much danger to the core of the ceremony, and the destruction of other non-core processes is actually what Sha Duo wants to do.

Although he used ritual synchronization to seize control, he certainly did not want the ritual to be completed. Therefore, at this stage, the ritual process could be gradually terminated.

There is no doubt that Chateau chose to gradually end the ceremony from the non-core process. At this moment, Paris's destructive behavior helped him to a certain extent. Where Paris started to destroy, he started to end it.

Under the perfect control of Sha Duo and the entire Lingsi Network, Paris's destructive behavior was more like cooperation.

However, such good things did not last long. Paris quickly reacted. When he realized that his actions had not achieved the least desired results, they had actually achieved the enemy's goals.

At this moment, even though they were far apart, Xia Duo could feel the other party's uncontrollable anger.

The next moment, Chateau felt the extent of this anger from the message returned - Paris began to attack the core process of the ritual desperately.

It can be said that this is the most dangerous step in the operation.

Of course, Xia Duo also expected this, but there was not much he could do. He still followed the pre-determined plan and continued to terminate the ritual process from the periphery to the core.

As for Paris's attack on the core process, he relied on ritual inertia to delay like Paris did before, as long as it was delayed until all non-core processes were terminated, or at least all non-controlling processes were terminated.

At that point, it's all over.

Of course, it is also possible that Paris destroyed the core process before that. This possibility cannot be completely eliminated, but if he senses that something cannot be done, Shado will give up in advance and evacuate.

The reason why the members of the investigation team are gathered in Silver Spire is not only to borrow the secret room here, but also to facilitate evacuation in case of emergency.

After all, everyone is together, there is no need to look for someone everywhere, and you can leave immediately when you want to.

The so-called "Don't worry about victory, think about defeat first" is probably the case.

As for the Ryan messenger who is still in Zhuguang Square, if there is still a chance by then, Xia Duo won't mind helping him. If there is no chance, that will be Ryan's fate.

If Ryan is taken away by force, will all the people of Metril be taken away by force? Xia Duo will not take responsibilities that are not his own at will!

Even though he is a time traveler, he is not so arrogant as to think that he is the savior of all creatures in this magical world.

…

Ten minutes later, Xia Duo suddenly showed his face. It was smoother than expected. He finally saw the light of day in this race against time!

He finally completed the termination of most of the non-core processes of the ceremony before they went out of control, and all remaining processes were under his control.

In other words, from this moment on, Paris has nothing to do with this ceremony.

Although his destruction continued, it was only a scabies. Without the ritual itself, Paris and his followers were just meat on the chopping board.