Arcane Lord

After synchronizing the current situation with the members of the action team, Xia Duo confirmed the situation with the two intelligence agents who were also in the Lingsi network of the action team:

"Has the time-related signal from the northwest detected by the monitoring center disappeared?"

"That's good!"

Although Xia Duo was more than 90% sure that the time-related signal northwest of Everriska came from the secret base of the demons in the Ansai Mountains where he was currently located, he was slightly relieved the moment he got the real confirmation. .

Next is the signal source to the south.

"Has the exact location of the southwest signal been determined?" Xia Duo asked again.

"It still takes a while, but it will be ready soon!"

"The accurate location will be synchronized to the Lingsi network immediately."

After replying, Xia Duo no longer delayed, but issued spellcasting instructions to the members of the action team. Although the exact location of the target has not yet been locked, relevant preparations can be made in advance, such as preparing for teleportation and advance detection.

At this point, it is actually real combat, because the time-related ritual corresponding to the signal source in the south has most likely exceeded the critical point of random intervention, and it needs to compete for control of the ritual through spell confrontation before it can be safely eliminated.

This is the first critical point of the ceremony. If it is exceeded, there is still a chance to stop it. Half an hour is also considered a critical point. Beyond this time, it is possible to successfully stop it unless Xia Duo personally participates.

But this time can only be one hour at most. If it exceeds one hour, even if Xia Duo makes multiple copies of himself and fully communicates with each other to cast spells together, he will not be able to stop him.

Of course, the time here is counted from the beginning of the ceremony, not from the discovery of the time-related signal.

So even though it has only been about two minutes since the signal was discovered, in fact in about one minute, the ceremony corresponding to the signal in the south will have passed the first critical point.

The time corresponding to the start of the ceremony is about 10 to 20 minutes.

At this time point, even without Xia Duo's participation, if the members of the action team had studied the time-related ritual in advance, they would have a higher probability of successfully stopping it, but there was only one chance.

Now these mages are all summoned temporarily, and they exist more as auxiliary spell-casting tools. Without Xia Duo's central command, it will be useless to double the number of people.

And at this time point, if Xia Duo directs the operation, he will have at least two chances to try.

…

Just as Xia Duo was casting the spell, the field staff from the Demon Intelligence Office finally arrived near the destroyed Demon Base. However, Xia Duo did not negotiate with them, but simultaneously detected the results in the Lingsi Network.

According to the location information previously synchronized by the monitoring center, the signal source is probably at the southern border of Salven, which means that the Ansai Mountains where Sha Duo is currently located happens to sandwich Salven.

Therefore, when Sha Duo chose to detect the direction, he consciously chose the mirror-symmetrical position of the demon base with Salvin as the center.

The first is wide-area detection, not war spells, but rough detection in a wide range. It's not that war spells can't be used anymore, but that Xia Duo has been keenly aware of the subtle psychological changes of the action team members in the Lingsi network.

War spells may be used for scrying, but can war spells also be used for the subsequent time-related ritual to stop the demon?

At this time, the first critical point has almost passed. Directly destroying the ritual will most likely cause unpredictable consequences. War spells are obviously not applicable.

Members of the action team must work together to cast spells to fight against the demon mage, and Xia alone cannot do it.

Therefore, even though Xia Duo could still use the robe of longing to use war spells to detect information from far away, he did not continue to do so, but chose to take care of the emotions of his companions.

It's just that human flesh spells are not as good as war spells. Xia Duo changed a variety of spells in succession, but in the end he couldn't find anything abnormal, but only vaguely had some inspiration.

But now is not the right time to trace the subconscious mind. Fortunately, the monitoring center has locked the exact location of the signal source at this time. It is not very accurate, but it is enough for use.

So Xia Duo quickly adjusted the direction of the detection spell, and the next moment he saw a scene similar to the Ansai Mountains, which was a scene in the Wattina Mountains on the border of Salvin——

A mountain wall and a seemingly pristine forest scene outside.

But the difference is that there is no camouflaged caravan guarding the outside from the Ansai Mountains on the Watina Mountains. Sha Duo guessed that maybe because the demon base there is still in good condition, there is no need for additional security personnel. .

In other words, in addition to preventing the time-related ritual, the next task for Shado's team is to remove the protection of the demon base first!

"Teleport!"

…

The next moment, the scene in front of Xia Duo changed. In just a moment, he noticed the strange feeling brought to him in the direction of the mountain wall not far away. Generally speaking, detection spells are far more effective than normal direct vision.

However, detection spells have their own tendencies, such as detecting magic network fluctuations, traces of life, spiritual light residues, air flow directions, etc. However, being present and seeing directly with the naked eye is essentially not just visual, but also includes all the senses of the body.

It belongs to the perceptual state of multi-modal fusion.

For example, by combining the magic network with the traces of life, the caster can be detected, but it requires two detection spells. At the same time, the caster also needs to be able to understand the two detection results and consciously conduct a comprehensive analysis of the two detection results.

Multi-modal fusion perception, on the other hand, is a comprehensive analysis of multiple sensory states from the beginning. It may not be as accurate as the detection spell on a single item, but it can produce extraordinary intuition for complex situations that far exceeds the detection spell.

Just like what Xia Duo is encountering now, he has clearly determined through a variety of detection spells that this is a perfectly normal primeval forest.

But when I came here and took a look in person, I felt a strange sense of dissonance. I felt that the scene I saw in front of me was not real, or at least it had been artificially modified or disguised.

If it were normal, Xia Duo might trace his memory at this time and look for subconscious information about the moment when he felt abnormal, so that he could know the reason why he felt abnormal.

But time was running out now, and the demon would not give him time to slowly retrace his memories, so he issued spellcasting instructions in the Lingsi Network without any hesitation.

While simultaneously constructing the spellcasting position, the first test was sent to the mountain wall not far away——

【Dispel magic】!

This spell is essentially a spell to calm the field, which can smooth out the distortion of the magic network string within a certain range and restore the original flowing state.

The next moment, the originally normal mountain wall over there suddenly appeared light and shadow distortions. Seeing this scene, not only Xia Duo, but also other mages came to the unanimous judgment in the Lingsi network -

Illusion enchantment!