Arcane Lord

Compared with the last time in Metril City, Shado had the home field advantage of the Mage Tower (seizing authority to occupy), but this time the home field advantage was on the demon side.

It's not that it's impossible to seize the authority like last time, but it's just that there's not enough time, and there are mages outside of rituals in the demon's secret hall this time. Thinking about it, it's unlikely that Xia Duo can easily seize the authority.

Instead of wasting time on uncertain things, it is better to go straight to the source. The impact of time-related rituals is far beyond what a mere demon secret palace can cover. Even with the protection of the secret palace, Xia Duo is confident that he can successfully prevent it.

"Consultant Xia Duo, do we have to cast spells under the attack of demons?" An elf asked worriedly.

"Isn't it possible?" Xia Duo asked back, but he kept reassuring people, "We are now under the protection of war spells. We don't have to worry about the attacks of the demons in the short term. It is best that we can press the time-related rituals of the demons in one go. Come down."

"Okay, anyway, Consultant Xia Duo, you are an expert, so we will just listen to you."

"Follow my instructions—"

Subsequently, Xia Duo issued spellcasting instructions to the 27 mages of the action group in accordance with the time sequence. The first thing to do was

What he is doing now is to directly try to control the time-related ritual that the demon is performing. Of course, this is impossible to succeed, but the demon is bound to respond. This is Sha Duo's purpose!

Reacting will inevitably expose more details. Different from realm protection, Xia Duo has done a lot of research on time-related magic. After all, he is also a consultant of the alliance's time-related magic research room. Although he is not a researcher, anyone who uses the Lingsi Network Research cannot bypass him, and he also needs to be the center to coordinate information exchange.

It might be an exaggeration to say that he is the most proficient in time-related magic in the alliance, but he believes that his understanding of time-related magic is definitely not inferior to those of the demon mages currently performing rituals.

It would be the best if the demon didn't make any reaction, and Shado would really seize control of the ritual.

But by then, the offense and defense of both sides will be reversed. Xia Duo needs to safely stop the ritual that has exceeded the critical point. However, the demon descendant will become angry because of the failure of the plan and will destroy it to prevent Xia Duo from safely stopping the ritual.

However, this is also a link that cannot be bypassed in this operation. He experienced the same thing in Metril Chateau last time, and he is confident that he can also succeed.

…

Soon, the demon mages who were conducting the ritual made their choice, and instead of choosing to let it go, they began to chase and intercept Xia Duo in an attempt to exclude him from the ongoing ritual system.

But as soon as they met, Shado judged that the demon mage currently performing here was more proficient in time-related magic than Paris and his party who performed the ceremony in Metril last time!

If he guessed correctly, this should have been specially trained by the Illuminati. It did not just allow them to be a spellcasting tool, but also provided additional training on various responses when the ritual was interfered with by external forces or even seized control.

But these are of no use to Xia Duo. The ceremony has not yet reached the point where it cannot be stopped. How can a dozen demonic mages compare to the entire time-related magic research laboratory behind him, as well as the hundreds of mages summoned temporarily.

These mages who are connected to the Lingsi network and provide invisible support for this operation are at least elite mages, and there are many senior and high-level mages among them. And even if the dozen or so mages on the demon descendants are all high-level mages, what can they do?

What's more, it's not even there. Xia Duo estimates that half of it at most would be great.

He is completely crushed by the system now. Individual spellcasters are very powerless in this situation. Even if the demon mage wants to fight desperately, he must immediately sublimate the saint form to the extreme.

Doing this may cause some trouble for Xia Duo, but the ceremony will definitely not be able to continue, and the trouble is not impossible to solve.

Therefore, from the moment Xia Duo entered the boundary protection, and the left-behind personnel arranged by the demon were unable to cross his [Wide Area Restriction] protection, the final outcome of this incident was already doomed.

While seizing control of the ritual, Xia Duo also took advantage of the entanglement between the two sides' spells to get a glimpse of the image of the spell caster on the opposite side. As he guessed, there were only fourteen mages in total on the opposite side.

On Sha Duo's side, there were only 28 people who directly participated in the operation. With such a balance of strength between the two sides, Sha Duo really couldn't imagine the possibility of this operation failing.

"Caril, Synchronize the Demon Information Room, the images of the fourteen Demon Mages, investigate immediately, you may be able to catch a lot of big fish."

Xia Duo issued instructions to the intelligence agents in the Lingsi network of the action team. Although the image of the demon mage he spied may not be real, he should not let it go as long as there is a slight possibility.

Now that the two sides are still entangled, it is a good time to take action. If you can catch one or two big fish, you can lead a large group by following the clues.

And not only the demons here, but also the demons over there in the Ansai Mountains, and all the demons there have been controlled, so there should be more information that can be obtained.

It is foreseeable that after this incident, a new round of searches for demon descendants will be launched in the Northland. The absconding of the two high-ranking families of Cormanthor may be just the beginning.

This is of course a good thing, as it can greatly combat the Illuminati's tentacles that influence the outside world, but on the other hand, Xia Duo is also worried that if the involvement is too wide, the countries in the North may consider compromising with the demon descendants.

For example, if you publicly break with the Illuminati and accept living within a fixed range, after a certain period of time, the devil will be allowed to move openly in the North.

This result is not a bad thing, at least for Xia Duo. After all, he also pulled up a demon team in the projection plane!

The only thing to worry about is that this may allow the Illuminati to lurk deeper. When the countries in the North relax their vigilance, there may be big trouble in the future.

…

"Advisor Xia Duo, there is news from UU Reading www.uukaｎshu.net Demon Intelligence Room that the identities of three of the fourteen demon mage images you passed on have been determined. The alliance has informed the country of origin for processing. I believe there will be results soon.”

"Very good."

Xia Duo synchronized this news to the other mages in the action team. They were all at least senior mages, and they were engaged in collaborative spell casting. This news should not affect the spell casting process.

Now that everyone is fighting deep in the demonic territory, this is the time when good news is needed to inspire fighting spirit and boost confidence.

Sure enough, after Xia Duo synchronized the news, the subconscious emotions coming from the Lingsi network became more positive, and everyone was generally confident in this action.

…

Time passed little by little, and in the Lingsi network of the action team, there were only the information flow of intelligence agents synchronizing external intelligence and the information flow of Xia Duo's spellcasting instructions.

Everything is developing in a good direction.