Arcane Lord

This kind of thinking is actually very consistent with the battle of mage.

Those mages who start with fireballs and ice storms are often considered to be inferior. Real mages often leave themselves a way out before fighting and make various preparations at the same time.

The battle process is not a battle of energy-filled spells, but a struggle for various control rights, including but not limited to teleportation, flight, destruction, etc.

During this process, you should try to remove the opponent's protection while maintaining your own protection as much as possible. As for the final victory, it may be a casual blow after fully controlling the situation.

The development of armaments on earth to modern times has always been so-called "offense is greater than defense". As long as the protection is lifted, any target can be solved with a random missile.

But it is the process of lifting protection (including breaking through protection) that most tests the military strength of each country.

The same is true for mages in the magic world. A completely unprotected mage is just an ordinary person. The vital points of ordinary people are also vital to them. Just stab them with a dagger and you can kill them.

But in fact, there are very few high-level mage killed by ordinary people. The few cases basically occur during close contact with the same bed. Except for a few special moments, it is almost impossible for ordinary people to kill a high-level mage.

Because magic, this kind of thing looks like a foreign object, but magic is fair to everyone, and the only requirement is wisdom.

As long as they are smart enough, an ordinary person can reach the highest point of magical achievement in a short period of time. This time may be so short that most people cannot imagine it.

Although the actual combat ability is still related to spell casting experience, it is nothing more than more practice.

But if you are not smart enough, you may spend your whole life wandering below the high level. Such people should be relatively rare. In Xia Duo's view, most normal humans have the appearance of high-level mages, analogous to those on earth. Graduated from high school.

The reason why we are unable to achieve this is not a matter of talent, but rather a limitation of educational resources.

And this is also the fundamental reason why the Tower of Time can continuously train new mages. As long as the educational resources keep up, mages will really be mass-produced. Now they are junior mages, and in the future they will be mid-level and high-level mages, and even arcane mages. division.

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After separating from Niya, Shado returned to the study to check the information sent back by Oripus. In addition to basic customer information, Oripus would also consciously collect various local information outside and conduct a simple analysis. , summarized and sent back to the Tower of Time for Xia Duo’s reference.

In fact, the main business is business, and the side business is intelligence.

The collection is all local public information and does not violate any laws and regulations. It can be said that almost all personnel stationed abroad from various countries currently perform this task. This is an open secret.

After carefully searching the messages sent back by Oripus, Shado found only one piece of information about the Russ Chamber of Commerce, and that was——

The Ruth Chamber of Commerce is a local chamber of commerce in Evereska that was just established and is currently engaged in transnational intermediary business.

If they hadn't purchased the void warehouse service of the Tower of Time, this newly established chamber of commerce might not have caught Oripus's attention at all.

Regarding this chamber of commerce, Oripus also gave his own evaluation - it is suspected to have a special background, but he is not optimistic about the development prospects of the chamber of commerce. The reason is that hiding the background in the current Northland environment is not conducive to development.

And the most important point is that with the deepening of exchanges between countries in the North, there is no longer a need for such brokers with unknown backgrounds. There are a lot of opportunities for cross-border cooperation, and a clean background is what is most needed in this situation.

However, after seeing Oripus's comment about the "suspected special background" of the Russ Chamber of Commerce, Shado's suspicion of this chamber of commerce decreased.

If it were the Illuminati, would it be so obvious? Or is this a deliberate way to conceal the true background of the Illuminati?

Of course, the reduction of suspicion does not mean that the suspicion has been completely eliminated. Regarding the Illuminati, Xia Duo will not turn a blind eye as long as there is a trace of suspicion. When the suspicion reaches a certain level, he will definitely investigate to the end.

Obviously, the Russ Chamber of Commerce's suspicion on Sha Duo's side has reached a point where it is necessary to investigate to the end.

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In addition to the Ruth Chamber of Commerce, Shado also carefully checked the information about the newly established chamber of commerce collected by Oripus. There may not be a Ruth Chamber of Commerce, but there may not be a second one.

But unfortunately, the information collected by Oripus is very limited. Xia Duo carefully went through all the information from the first time Oripus sent it back to the most recent one. Except for the Ruth Chamber of Commerce, there was nothing special. discovery.

In fact, even the Russ Chamber of Commerce only attracted Sha Duo's attention because they stored an excited state magic weapon of unknown purpose in the stasis space warehouse.

Without this, just looking at the information sent back by Oripus, Shado would not suspect that this new chamber of commerce might be controlled by the Illuminati behind the scenes.

And then, he did not remind or urge Oripus to send back new information, or specifically investigate the Russ Chamber of Commerce. Instead, as he told Niya before, he acted as if nothing had happened and everything was normal.

If nothing else, the breakthrough point should be Person, who is far away in Terminos.

…

Just when Shado discovered suspected traces of the Illuminati and was about to wait and see, Person already felt that he could no longer stay in Terminos.

After the Dawn Secret Code was shattered, the second time he met Isloda, he was almost coerced into agreeing to a strange mission. These days, he has been thinking about what this mission is all about.

But I can't figure it out. The only thing that's certain is that this task is definitely not as simple as Isloda said.

During this period, he also tried to contact Isloda to ask for details, but after the last meeting, Isroda seemed to have evaporated from the world and was completely unreachable.

As for asking, Person wouldn't dare to directly ask for the name Isloda, but after all, he was also an elite mage with the official establishment of Terminos. He very carefully asked the colleagues in charge of the Mystic Alarm.

Ask the other party whether there were any alarms in Mysuo during his meeting with Isloda.

Everything turned out fine.

This means that Isloda has a legally public identity in Terminos, or the Illuminati has controlled the Mystery Lock of Terminos to a certain extent, opening up authority to Isloda.

If it is the former, it means there is something wrong with the top management of Terminos. Isloda used to be colleagues with Person, but he "died" in the Temple of Dawn, while Person returned to Terminos safely.

Under this situation, Isroda was naturally treated as a missing person. However, Isloda's identity on the surface was still an elite mage officially established by Terminos. This identity disappeared inexplicably, and privately he was actually regarded as a missing person. It was the demon who defected.

Even if he came back afterwards, it would be very troublesome to explain. The most important thing is that Isloda is really a demon, so it is impossible to come back and explain afterwards.

Now that Isloda can still appear in Terminos, either the higher-ups who are not accessible to Person have given special care, or the Illuminati has secretly controlled the Terminos Mystery Lock through some means.

For Sluvender now, neither situation is a good thing.

Based on Person's understanding of the city where he has lived and worked for a long time, he is more inclined to the latter possibility, and a contradiction arises.

Although he temporarily agreed to help the Illuminati, his love and loyalty to Sluvender was not false, especially after the original resistance organization representing the bottom resistance people came to power.

If doing things for the Illuminati would lead to another unrest in Sluvender, then Person couldn't agree to it.

So when he tried to contact Isroda many times without success, he decided to go to the capital Tel'ano to report the matter to the superiors. At the worst, he would ask the superiors to re-check the Terminos Mystery Lock to avoid being exposed by the Illuminati. use.