Arcane Lord

Shado summoned these alliance mages for nothing else but to assist him in completing a large spell - [Peak Cutting], which was a new spell invented by the Seven Towers in just a few years.

When he created a war spell platform like the floating city, the Seven Towers also wanted to follow up quickly, but the idea of ​​the Seven Towers to build the floating city was not to transform materials, but to directly cut off the mountain and then turn it upside down as the base of the floating city.

Doing so can effectively save time, and there is no risk of the transformed materials being reversed. For example, the sky-blue stone transformed from pure water in the Chang'an City of Shado has at least several months of unstable physical properties.

During this period, anyone who casts a [Dispel Magic] on the stone may turn the stone back into water, and this is an ancient transformation spell obtained by Shado from analyzing the [Saruk Witch Statue] (actually a fossil).

It is far more effective than the spells of the current era. Most of the spells used to transform materials in modern times cannot achieve permanent transformation. Even if they can, it will take decades or even hundreds of years to settle.

For example, the stone bridge west of Savile Town was originally transformed by magic, and the one-piece molding is a clear proof. It took nearly 30 years for the bridge to really stabilize, and it would not become its original transformation raw material because of a [Dispel Magic] shot.

If it was just a bridge, 30 years would not be a big deal, after all, few people would be interested in a bridge and would specifically attack it, but if it was a strategic weapon like a floating city, it would always be in the sight of all countries.

This naturally includes enemies of Netheril or the Seven Towers.

So Shado can fully understand what the Seven Towers did at the beginning, but the Seven Towers' doing so will undoubtedly set a bad example. In the future, as Misera becomes more popular, I am afraid that every great arcanist will want to build his own floating city.

By then, no matter how many mountains there are in Netheril, they will not be enough to cut, and this kind of natural environment is easy to destroy, but it is extremely difficult to repair.

So Xia Duo joined others to persuade the Seventh Tower to withdraw on the grounds of sustainable development. This matter was complicated and not as simple as attacking the Seventh Tower or sustainable development. It was also mixed with the ownership of the three planes of sweet water and even the legitimacy of the Seventh Tower's governance. Anyway, the Seventh Tower finally compromised in this regard, gave up the plan to intercept the mountain, and returned and repaired the intercepted mountain.

Xia Duo certainly also compromised, such as providing a spell of transformation materials that was more advanced than the current main plane, so that the Seventh Tower could complete the infrastructure construction of the floating city.

And [Peak Interception] was also obtained at that time.

This is not a regular spell. Xia Duo had never even thought that he would use this spell one day before today, but there was indeed such a need.

This spell is undoubtedly a 10th-ring spell, reaching the limit of the magic network, but this is not the limit of the caster. There can be spells equivalent to 11th ring or even higher above it.

The same is true for [Peak Interception], which can be improved as needed.

What Xia Duo is preparing now is an equivalent 11th ring spell. The magic net cannot directly provide the magic net string for constructing the 11th ring spell, but needs to be expressed equivalently through the tenth layer of elements.

Similar to 11, it can be written as 10+1, but the spell is raised by one ring beyond the limit of the magic net, and the difficulty of casting is much more difficult than a normal 10th ring spell.

Depending on the different spells, the difficulty may only be increased by three times, and the difficulty may be more than ten times.

This also means that the equivalent spell ring level cannot be increased indefinitely. At least at the level of manual casting, there is an operating limit that can be roughly estimated.

However, if it is machine casting, there is no such limitation.

For example, if the war spell is cast manually, it is certainly more flexible, but the premise is that there needs to be a group of mages to conduct long-term training first, and the cost is extremely high.

If it is stimulated by war magic tools, it is relatively rigid, but the power of the war spell itself exceeds the ability of individual casters to resist. Generally speaking, only war spells can be used against war spells.

In this case, even if it is a war spell triggered by a war artifact, as long as the opponent does not have an equal existence, it is not much different from the one cast by humans, and both are crushing.

But in the future, the equivalent spell ring level will almost certainly exceed the limit of manual casting. At that time, war may really be determined by a weapon.

And now, 11th ring or even 12th ring is not the limit of manual casting. Even if the method of coordinated casting is not used, it is possible for only one caster to complete these spells.

For Xia Duo, with his current spellcasting ability, he can indeed complete this [Peak Cutting Technique] that he has never practiced before, but it only consumes a lot of his energy.

And during this period, he has no time to pay attention to things other than spellcasting, which does not conform to his plan, so he can only ask for help.

As long as there are enough people to help, and at the same time do a good job of coordination and arrange redundancy, he can easily pay attention to things other than spellcasting. At present, most high-level mages in Netheril usually use this model for experiments.

It's just that Shado is now asking Alliance mages and Everiska mages for help, while most Nether mages help their teachers on a voluntary basis from the apprentice stage, and when they take in apprentices, they start asking apprentices to help on a voluntary basis.

The main focus is on passing on the torch.

In the most extreme case, the leader of the coordinated spellcasting can assign more than 90% of the spellcasting tasks to the assistants, and he only does a series of summary work, which can really save a lot of energy and allow more experiments to be carried out.

So just looking at how many apprentices a Nether wizard has doesn't mean how open-minded he is. Maybe his apprentices are all his spellcasting supply packages!

Although Xia Duo is not pursuing the extreme now, he has assigned more than 50% of the spellcasting tasks to other wizards. This is a reasonable ratio, which is equivalent to reducing the difficulty of spellcasting by nearly half.

If the ratio is to be increased, the leader and the auxiliary equipment need to be very tacit.

Generally speaking, 50% is already a state of tacit cooperation between teachers and students. The biggest shortcoming is that the apprentice's own spellcasting ability is very limited.

And the Alliance wizard and Everiska wizard that Xia Duo chose this time are at least elite wizards, and they are all wizards under the elven magic system, which is easier to achieve a coordinated state than the Nether wizard.

In addition to the assistance of the spiritual connection state of the spiritual network, Xia Duo dared to directly set a 50% outsourcing ratio for the first spellcasting. If it were a group of Nether wizards, he would not dare to do so.

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A simple test of the synergy effect showed that during this process, Xia Duo had already used the computing power pool to complete the decomposition of [Peak Cutting Technique] and set up sufficient redundancy.

The synergy effect of this group of elf mages really exceeded his expectations. As long as no one deliberately did something bad, this joint spellcasting would definitely succeed!