Arcane Lord

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Xia Duo hurriedly walked towards the corner. As soon as he passed the corner, he suddenly saw a huge spherical space in front of him. There were several relatively flat grounds below, and countless spikes hanging from the top.

Of course, those were not spikes, but stalagmites and wrinkles squeezed out by the rock layer. There should have been some on the ground below, but they may have been considered to have been cleared.

The light he just saw came from a platform below. Although the light emitted from there was not particularly bright, it almost illuminated the entire space in this limited space.

There is no doubt that the ultimate ritual of the Illuminati is there!

Xia Duo did not take any further action, but quietly retreated. The reason why he was so sure was that he sensed the powerful fluctuations of the power of time coming from the bottom of the space just now.

In the process of studying the power of time before, although he failed to find the true source of the power of time and could not reproduce this special power, perhaps he also consumed a lot of the power of time and actually gained the ability to perceive the power of time.

But it was limited to perception, and he couldn't do more. He thought that if he could be given unlimited time power for experiments, maybe he could get a little time bloodline in the process of continuous use, just like those mages who studied elemental energy for many years and obtained weak elemental bloodlines.

It was also because he personally experienced the fact that he had no perception of the power of time at the beginning and then had a weak perception ability. Xia Duo even suspected that Daphne's ability might be caused by long-term use of the power of time.

However, all this has a process of starting from scratch, so where did the initial time power come from?

If Daphne really obtained the ability related to the power of time through long-term use of the power of time, it means that the power of time may be obtained through conventional spells.

But there is another possibility, that is, Daphne has a source of time power from the beginning, such as time-related bloodline, or artifacts in the field of time, which can continuously generate time power.

No matter which one, Xiaduo will always conduct an in-depth investigation after the war. At the moment, after seeing the scene of the suspected Illuminati ritual in the dark area, Xiaduo did feel the fluctuation of the power of time.

The fluctuation of the power of time with such a strong presence must be the key part of the ritual even if it is not the ultimate ritual of the Illuminati.

So Xiaduo did not alarm them, but quietly retreated. He asked Uta to stay here for monitoring temporarily, and at the same time, the search for other suspicious places should not stop.

He immediately returned to the surface. Because Tarafu was the translator of Xiaduo and Uta, he also learned about the situation below at the first time. When Xiaduo came up, he immediately asked:

"Are you going to start a counterattack?"

"Yes, but not here." Xiaduo glanced at the southeast direction and said meaningfully.

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On the other side, Yongle City.

Xiaduo once again asked representatives of various countries for authorization to act through the alliance command network.

As for information synchronization, it was completed during Xia Duo's "going underground". All countries synchronized all the details of the time-related signal source operations in their territories to the command network, but the authorization to allow the Alliance Mage to enter the country has not been released.

In fact, Xia Duo does not have to obtain authorization from all countries to start counterattacks. The counterattack he will carry out next is not in the main plane, but on the timeline level.

Authorization is not for the next action, but for post-war protection. It is a possibility anchor, that is, he will definitely be able to obtain the possibility of authorization from all countries, so that he can be exempted from accountability after the war.

So he must get it now!

"Everyone, we don't have much time left. If all countries can handle the time-related signal sources in their respective territories completely and properly, then it's fine. I won't make such a request at all.

"But the reality is that even with the support of war spells and even with your so-called best efforts, the time-related signal sources in the territories of various countries have not been properly handled.

"In this case, do you still need to hesitate to allow the alliance mages to deal with the dangers that you cannot handle for the time being?"

Xia Duo was very puzzled. What on earth were these people thinking? Some problems were obviously beyond their ability to solve, but they did not allow others to help them solve them. If it was just a general problem, Xia Duo would not care at all and let him handle it.

But these problems are related to the interests of everyone, but now they are kidnapped by the narrow-mindedness of some senior executives, which also makes Xia Duo have a stronger idea to improve the alliance system.

"Advisor Xia Duo, if the sources of individual time-related signals are not handled properly, the impact on the final result should not be that big, right?"

"You may not believe me if I tell you whether it is a big deal or not, so why not ask the Time-related Magic Research Institute for their opinions?"

As he said this, Xia Duo directly pulled Bondi from the Time-related Magic Research Institute into this small "conference room" branch network, and then repeated the question just raised by the alliance representative. As Xia Duo expected, Bondi immediately expressed his objection:

"Our current war with the Illuminati is essentially a battle for the right to define the past. Any source of time-related signals represents a decisive battle for the right to define. Losing one game means that the balance of victory will tilt a little towards the Illuminati. Whenever possible, no game should be lost."

"See, I'm not the only one saying this! If you don't even believe the conclusion of the Time Magic Research Laboratory, then what else can you believe in?"

After that, Xia Duo unceremoniously gave an ultimatum, "I'll give you twenty minutes. If you can't produce the authorization, I will act unilaterally. You should know that I can go there. If any unnecessary misunderstandings are caused by then, the responsibility will be on you, the plenipotentiaries!"

Xia Duo didn't care what these representatives thought. Anyway, after the war, he would definitely gain prestige and voice far beyond the current ones, while some of these plenipotentiaries were destined to be rotated.

Moreover, what he did was in line with the order of the alliance and occupied the righteousness. In fact, he didn't need to care about the ideas of these representatives at all. The reason why he had to insist on obtaining authorization was mainly because he didn't want to leave any stains that were not in compliance with the regulations in the procedure.

But at the same time, Xia Duo was also very clear about the ideas of these alliance representatives. On the one hand, it was indeed difficult to convince the domestic party, or they themselves were not sure to convince the domestic party, but at the same time, these representatives were most likely to agree to give authorization in their hearts.

They were just afraid of taking responsibility. Now that he was forcing them to step down, it would be easy for them to accept it.

After the war, if everything went well, it would be their decisive decision. If things went badly, they could also put the blame on Xia Duo.