Arcane Lord

Almost ten minutes after Xia Duo and his party entered the boundary protection, Xia Duo suddenly became mentally shocked. Just now, he successfully seized control of the ritual from the demon mage.

The next duel will enter the second stage where one's own side is defending and the demons are besieging them!

However, Xia Duo did not synchronize this news to other mages in the action team, and continued to issue spellcasting instructions at the same pace as before, as if he had not seized the authority to perform the ritual.

This news is different from the confirmation of the identity of some demon mages. This is a key step in the operation. Once someone thinks that seizing control of the ritual is successful and relaxes their vigilance, it will be troublesome.

Although Xia Duo relied on the Lingsi Network to support a large number of mages, the support of those mages was more based on computing power and inspiration rather than actual collaborative spell casting.

If he were alone, it would be too difficult to successfully stop the ritual without the demon destroying it without any worries. Even if he knew all the operations clearly, it would be an almost impossible task.

There is an old saying in my hometown that "two fists are hard to beat with four hands", and the same is true here in the magic world. Before the absolute gap between spellcasters is widened, more people are always more powerful.

Xia Duo's current incarnation is quite special, but he estimates that he can only maintain a balance with four to six high-level mages at most. Of course, this refers to a spell duel.

If it was a kill without additional conditions and the Robe of Thought could be used, he could easily crush another six.

Correspondingly, once a high-level mage obtains a war weapon and there are a bunch of senior or elite mages who can perform coordinated spellcasting, if Xia Duo himself does not wear the robe of longing, a dozen or twenty of them will probably be crushed.

War instruments or war spells have such decisive power.

It's just that war spells are not omnipotent. They can easily defeat enemies, but they may not be able to accomplish certain specific purposes. For example, what Xia Duo is facing now -

Stop the time-related ritual safely without the interference of the demon mage.

Perhaps in the future, a machine that can automatically cast spells will be invented. In this case, the caster does not need to do it himself, and only needs to set the spell casting program, or even the machine can complete it automatically according to the plan set in advance.

To achieve this, at least a general-purpose magic computer is needed, not just the two-string and five-ring calculator that Chateau has made now.

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"Consultant Xia Duo, is there something wrong in the demon's secret palace? Why do I feel that there is something abnormal about the spiritual light there?" A mage asked directly next to Xia Duo.

Although the mages who followed Xia Duo into the boundary protection are still executing spell-casting instructions, these instructions do not require them to think about the reasons for doing so, as long as they execute them without thinking.

In this case, as a senior mage or high mage, he naturally has enough energy to observe the outside world, and even retains a certain degree of personal spellcasting ability.

At present, Xia Duo has gained control over the time-related rituals of the demons. Under such circumstances, the demons will naturally not give up. Except for a few demons who are preparing to escape, most of the demons are frantically sabotaging the ritual.

There is only one way for them to defeat Xia Duo's purpose first. Once they give up the ritual or do not intervene, Xia Duo can stop the ceremony in the blink of an eye.

Only continued destruction can contain Xia Duo.

In other words, if the demons in the secret hall want to run away at this time, they can completely escape, because Xia Duo did not use the wide-area ban to affect the demons' secret hall from the beginning, but only provided protection to the members of the action team.

The demons who are still destroying the rituals are, in Xia Duo's view, completely die-hards among the demons, the mortal enemies of normal creatures on the main plane, and the unforgivable ones who are completely impossible to transform!

For a moment, Xia Duo also had a heart as strong as iron. He completely calmed down. While presiding over the Lingsi Network, he issued spellcasting instructions without giving the demon mage any chance.

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Soon, another ten minutes passed. The offensive and defensive situation between Xia Duo and the demon mage had reached a certain balance, but this was a situation he could shape. He knew very well that as long as these demon die-hards wanted to leave, he was now There's no stopping it.

Therefore, he had to delay the time and maintain the ritual even though he could stop it at any time. Every second that passed would make it more difficult to stop the ritual, and the overall risk would also increase.

But he still did it, just because he didn't want to let go of the die-hards among these demons.

"Caryl, how long will it take for the Alliance to wait?"

"It will take at least another minute. It says that if it doesn't work, make sure to stop the ritual first. There will be plenty of opportunities for the demons to seize in the future."

"Tell them to hurry up. I will try my best to maintain it. If it cannot be maintained, I will stop the ceremony first. For the time being, this place is still under my control."

It was said to be at least a minute, but in reality it was only about half a minute. The intelligence officer called here, "The alliance is ready. Advisor Xia Duo can stop the ceremony."

"Do you need my cooperation to intercept the demon mage?"

"No need, Consultant Xia Duo has done enough. If the alliance can't even do this, it would be a failure."

"That's good."

On the premise of achieving the goal and saving himself some trouble, of course Sha Duo followed suit. However, before stopping the ritual, Sha Duo added another teleportation spell to the spell casting sequence.

He said before that he would bring the members of the action team out safely, and now it is about to happen.

"Huh? Consultant Xia Duo, isn't this a teleportation spell? Is the operation over?"

"Well, it's over, we can leave."

With that said, Xia Duo stopped the time-related ceremony that he was still struggling to maintain just now, and even used the aftermath of the ceremony to send a small gift to the demon mage in the secret palace.

However, considering that the demon mage must have used a special secret room to perform rituals, his small gift may not have any substantial effect.

But so what, something convenient can add some trouble to the enemy, so why not do it!

At the same time, the teleportation spell on the action team's side was also successfully completed. A flash of light flashed, and Xia Duo and his party appeared outside the boundary protection and next to the Holly Team.

Later, in accordance with the plan discussed with the alliance, Xia Duo used a large amount of annihilation light to defeat the demon's boundary protection with one strike. If the alliance had come to this thing, the demon inside would have escaped long ago.

Only he can do this, but he doesn’t need to take action for the rest.

"What a spectacle!"

Even if they were some distance away, the moment the boundary protection was destroyed, Xia Duo and his party could still feel the very strong vibration of the magic network.

Xia Duo's expression remained normal, but many elves peeked at the starlight wrapped around Xia Duo's left hand, with a look of fear in their eyes from time to time.

After a while, news came from the alliance——

There were a total of 46 demon mages in the secret hall, 16 died in the magic network riot when the boundary protection was destroyed, 2 escaped, 12 died in the alliance siege, and the remaining 16 were all captured alive!