Chapter 2907: Seizing authority and crushing the system
Compared to 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 with the demons.
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 in addition, there are mages outside of rituals in the demon's secret hall this time, so 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 up. Even with the protection of the secret palace, Xia Duo is confident that he can successfully prevent it.
"Advisor 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. We'd better be able to press the time-related rituals of the demons in one go.
Come down."
"Okay, anyway, Consultant Xia Duo, you are an expert, we will just listen to you."
"Follow my instructions——"
Later, Xia Duo issued spellcasting instructions to the 27 mages of the action group in accordance with the time sequence. The first wave of tests was carried out, similar to the light of annihilation that had just been used to impact the blue giant screen outside the boundary protection.
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 Xia Duo's purpose!
Reacting will inevitably expose more details. Unlike boundary 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 laboratory. Although he is not a researcher, anyone who uses the Lingsi Network
Research cannot avoid him, and he is also needed 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 best if the demon didn't make any reaction, and Shado would really take advantage of the situation and seize control of the ritual.
However, by that time, 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 last time at Metril Chateau, and he is confident that he can also succeed.
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Soon, the demon mages who were conducting the ritual made their choice, and instead of choosing to let it go, they began to pursue and intercept Xia Duo in an attempt to exclude Xia Duo from the ongoing ritual system.
But as soon as they met, Shado judged that the demon mage currently working 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, not just to use them as spellcasting tools, but also to provide additional training on various responses when the ritual is interfered with by external forces or even takes control.
But these are of no use to Xia Duo. The ritual has not yet reached the critical 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, many of whom are senior and high-level mages. And even if the dozen or so mages on the demonic side 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 now completely crushed by the system. Individual spellcasters are very powerless in this situation. Even if the demon mage wants to fight desperately, he must immediately sublimate his 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 insurmountable.
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 had 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 the 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 now, 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 follow the clues and bring up a large group.
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, Shado 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 openly operate 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 you need 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.
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"Advisor Xia Duo, there is news from the 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 host country to handle the matter. I believe the results will be reported soon.
Come."
"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, so this bit of news should not affect the spell casting process.
Now that everyone is fighting deep in the Demon King's 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.
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Time passed little by little, and in the Lingsi network of the action team, there were only the information flow of the intelligence agents synchronizing external intelligence and the information flow of Xia Duo's spellcasting instructions.