Arcane Lord

Sluvind, Western Region.

Late that night, the quiet and peaceful border city of Domtos suddenly welcomed an uninvited guest. After several days of careful exploration, Shado finally chose this place as a training venue.

Based on the information that Niya brought back from the princess, it can be seen that the so-called joint operation is likely to expel or kill the Cormanthor elves that invaded a certain sub-plane.

Of course, the other party may also treat them this way, so the focus of joint operations is likely to be on search and prevention of search.

As for battles, in battles between spellcasters, the first mover advantage is extremely important. It is easy to form a situation where more people fight less. Xia Duo is not very worried about this aspect.

Considering that Cormanthor is dealing with a drow war, and Netheril has enough power to fight back, this joint operation should only be a low-intensity conflict.

This conflict may determine the ownership of a sub-plane, but it is unlikely to escalate the conflict into a higher-level war.

No one wants to see such consequences, whether it is the elves who are known for their longevity, or Netheril, who desperately needs time to develop.

Both sides should therefore have some control over the forces involved in the conflict.

Of course, if you absolutely believe that the other party will participate with equal force, then your own side is not far from death.

It's just that Xia Duo knows too little about high-level powers. What he can practice in the projection plane does not even include combat, because he has not received training from Master Nese in joint casting during combat, and he has no companions here to follow him. He practices.

Anyway, after leaving the projection plane, he and Niya will go to Severdon to receive special training before the joint operation. No matter what combat skills they have, they will know when the time comes.

And here, he can compete with relatively real elves in terms of detection and counter-detection, tracking and counter-tracking, and that is enough.

In fact, projection has become the experience gained by drow. Although most of it is experience in the underdark environment, a considerable part is still applicable on the surface.

Shado set a goal for himself, which was to clear Domtos City of elf mages as much as possible while evading all searches.

He has identified a target in the past two days, and his late-night infiltration this time is to hunt the opponent-Domtos City's renowned secret master and elite mage Gurnet.

and complete a provocation.

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"This elf is really not as good as before!"

After entering the city without any hindrance, Xia Duo couldn't help but sigh.

In the era of the projection plane [Mayelita Sukanvisa City], almost all the elven border towns were covered with mythical locks, and at worst, there were various enchantment warnings.

It was almost unimaginable at that time to imagine him climbing over the wall and entering the city with only the agility of his body like he is now.

A border city didn't even have night guards, and its armaments were so lax. It's no wonder that it was defeated by the newly-rising Ye Erlan a few hundred years later and became a client of the other party.

For elves, hundreds of years are equivalent to one generation, which shows that the decline of Sluvender's power may have penetrated deep into his internal organs, and there is no way to recover.

However, Xia Duo still has to verify it with his own hands to know what the situation is. If it is really not worth fighting, then he may have to go to the newly established Ye Erlan.

The road past the thorn tree wall was smooth, and it was not until approaching the inner city that Xia Duo saw the first wave of patrol soldiers coming out of the inner city.

There were four elves in total, and all of them were gold elves. They were wearing metal armor, with long swords on their waists, long bows on their shoulders, a quiver on their backs, and arrow feathers falling on their shoulders.

Seeing these elves, Xia Duo finally felt that his trip was not in vain. Each one of them was covered with magic equipment, especially those arrow branches with only arrow feathers exposed, which gave people an inexplicable sense of crisis.

Xia Duo thought that there was a magic arrow found from the Mystic Relics in his personal space. Even if it was placed in this projection plane, it could be regarded as an ancient creation.

The magic arrows of these golden elf soldiers should not be stronger than his, but they are long-range attacks after all.

Who knows what might pop up inside!

Watching the four golden elf soldiers with cold faces and uniform movements moving away from a distance, Xia Duo waited until they could no longer be seen and their footsteps could no longer be heard before he touched them again. inner city.

At this point, it finally looks like a magical race. In addition to the continuous guarding barrier, there is also detection magic that sweeps through from time to time. The rigor is far higher than that in the outer city.

It seems that this golden elf is not only extremely discriminatory to other elves, but even within the golden elves, there are three, six, and nine levels.

…

Periodic detection magic is not enough, as long as you avoid it carefully, but the continuous guarding of the barrier is very troublesome.

If it were Shado himself, he wouldn't be able to do anything in a short period of time, mainly because he didn't have much research on elf magic, even if he had read a lot of books on the Crowry family in the Underdark.

Even if the coefficients of drow magic and elf magic have the same origin, if you want to consume and understand them in a short time, you still disagree.

The biggest trouble in this is that you cannot alert the other party, otherwise the research will be meaningless. If you can not care about the other party's reaction and keep trying, even without the information on drow magic, Sha Duo will be confident that he can do it in a relatively short period of time. Find ways to break through.

Only when we are alarmed can we do research and find ways to break through, and the purpose of finding breakthrough methods is precisely to avoid alarm. This is contradictory.

But fortunately, Sha Duo is not only himself, but also "Brandon", who has taken the drow mission to the surface. How could he not take this situation into consideration!

Among the equipment Malusis sent him were magic items specially used for hiding and even sneaking into the elven barrier. Other drow also had them, but the effect may not be as good as what Malusis prepared for him.

After activating the concealment effect of the invisibility cloak, Sha Duo's figure seemed to turn into a shadow and blended into the night, spreading from the hiding place outside the inner entrance to the inner city, without touching any magic barriers during this period.

Of course, the actual situation is that the cloak temporarily transforms Shado into a suspected shadow creature, which is in the main plane and the shadow plane at the same time, and he can choose which plane to appear in.

It's a bit like the feeling of accessing items in a portable space.

He walked past the entrance of the inner city in such a swagger, but no elf noticed him. However, the concealment effect of the cloak was not permanent and could only last for about ten minutes.

But this was enough to last until Xia Duo completed the hunt.

…

Genit's residence is easy to find, it is a library in the inner city. This is also an important reason why Shado puts his first target on him——

He wants to practice his skills, and he also wants to search for knowledge.