Arcane Lord

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Since he had collected the power of time when Tevimansa and Daphne fought, how could Xia Duo not take the time flow regulator to those local battlefields to see if he could also collect the power of time!

Unfortunately, Xia Duo failed to collect the power of time in the local battlefields that had already started. Although he did not go to every local battlefield that had already started, he had been to many of them, so it can be considered that he had basically lost it.

But now, he actually collected the power of time before the time-related signal broke out in the Xiangshui River battlefield. Was it because of this battlefield or because he came here in advance?

If it was in other places, he might think it was because he arrived early, but here, in the key place of Xiangshui River, Xia Duo already had a vague answer in his heart.

If he guessed correctly, he should be able to collect the power of time in the other key battlefields that have been determined.

And it is also very simple to verify this. Just wait until the Alliance detects the time-related signals here. If the power of time can be collected by then, it is most likely not because he came here in advance, but because this war itself has its own special features.

However, Xia Duo could not really let the Illuminati complete the ceremony smoothly, and he could not sit idly by and watch the loss of the Alliance mages. Since he had come here in person, and came here in advance, he also wanted to try it himself.

He did not believe that this battlefield could not be changed forever, just like the Illuminati's time-related magic. If it was really unsolvable, it should have succeeded a long time ago, and it would not have been delayed until now.

It's just that he has not yet seen through what the key is here, but it is always right to continue to draw the power of time from here. The power of time itself is also an extremely important key resource.

As long as he has more power of time, he will have the capital to repeatedly reshape the timeline. In this way, even if this war is temporarily lost, he can reshape the timeline and come back to "brush" repeatedly.

Although Daphne has the means to regenerate the power of time, Xia Duo also believes that the opponent's power of time will not always be infinite, at least the power of time that can be provided in a short period of time is likely to be limited.

As long as you find a way to make Daphne's consumption of time power greater than the output, forcing the opponent to constantly use the inventory until the inventory is consumed, then Daphne will be no different from an ordinary high-level wizard.

Thinking about it, Xia Duo seems to have figured out the key to the timeline war. The key is not how to win on a single timeline, because both sides can reshape the timeline, and a temporary victory does not mean anything.

The real key lies in the unconventional special strategic resource of time power. If there is no time power, it is very difficult to reshape the timeline with arcane magic alone.

At least with the strength of the Illuminati, it is impossible to reshape the timeline with arcane magic alone to achieve the goal of replacing the present world with Elan civilization.

So, this war turned into a war of attrition in the end!

Thinking of this, Xia Duo suddenly realized that most wars-as long as there is no unilateral crushing situation at the beginning, I am afraid that they will eventually become a war of attrition.

Because the Illuminati is very weak compared to the Alliance, it can only use time-related magic to open up a battlefield on the timeline. Although the Alliance can completely crush the Illuminati with its hard power, it can only passively fight because it is not good at time-related magic.

If there was no Shado, the Illuminati might succeed. Of course, there is also a high probability of failure, because Shado has received an accurate reply from the Rich Messenger, that is-

Netheril is the place favored by the Lord of Light, and the Illuminati is unlikely to change the past of Netheril.

In this case, the best outcome is to unify the elven kingdoms in the main plane into the Kingdom of Elan, but the elven kingdoms in the main plane also have gods, and the elven main god is not dead, and is outside the main plane.

If the Illuminati succeeds, it may be a situation of "invincible in the world, enemies from the sky".

From this perspective, Shado seems to be able to lie down. No matter what the Illuminati does, the sky will not fall. Even if the sky falls, there will always be tall people to support it.

However, he has never been a person who likes to lie down, and he does not want to pin his hopes on the failure of the enemy. What if the Illuminati succeeds?

What if the Illuminati can ignore the favor of the Lord of Light? Or if there are other ways to coordinate history, wouldn't he be dumbfounded.

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By the Xiangshui River, Xia Duo realized that the timeline war is the essence of a war of attrition. This is more or less within his cognition. For the time being, he can only follow this line of thought.

Soon, an hour passed, the battle of Tear Lake had already ended, and even many battles in local battlefields had ended, but it was still like the previous timeline, the alliance lost more than won.

Only a few battlefields where Xia Duo took the initiative to intervene were won very easily, and even if they won, they paid a considerable price, and this was with the reinforcements of Belluno and Sinaria.

If not, according to the situation in this timeline where the Illuminati fought in advance and the alliance was not well prepared, the cost would probably be even greater.

As for Shado, in just one hour, he had collected almost half of the time power of the Time Stone, which was enough to reshape the timeline several times.

In this regard, he actually had an advantage over the Illuminati.

His way of reshaping the timeline is different from that of the Illuminati. The power of time is more used as a medium or "catalyst" for casting spells. Although there is also consumption, it should be smaller than that of the Illuminati.

In addition, his anchor point in the present world is set in the "past" of the "history" he wants to reshape, which is actually more like changing the future rather than changing the past.

There is no doubt that changing the past is much more difficult than changing the future. As long as the future can be foreseen, the past can be changed without consuming the power of time.

In contrast, even if the past is known to be certain, it will cost a huge price to change it.

This is also the key to Xia Duo's ability to fight a war of attrition with the Illuminati. Of course, his real trump card is actually the time flow regulator. This key item can continuously "pick" the power of time from the Illuminati.

As long as the Illuminati still wants to use the power of time to change the past, it will not escape Xia Duo's "pick wool" behavior.

But if the Illuminati does not want to change the past through the power of time, then they will either give up the so-called Elan rebirth plan or just act in a single timeline.

As long as the Illuminati are physically eliminated in this timeline, the war will be won.