Arcane Lord

Soon, the lightning above the circular gray-black land gradually spread to Xia Duo and others, and the bright light of lightning distorted everyone's faces.

It's true that they should be distorted. Just after listening to Xia Duo's words and hesitating for a moment, they missed the best opportunity to escape.

From the moment the scattered out-of-control lightning struck their defensive spells, they knew they couldn't run away.

At this moment, there are already signs of riots in the surrounding magic network. Forcibly teleporting may trigger a more serious chain reaction. The risk is even higher than staying to complete [Breaking Law-5-1].

If it weren't for the fact that casting spells through the Resonance Spell Book doesn't require concentration or too much effort, but only requires cooperation, perhaps they would have been unable to remain calm in such an environment.

At this time, everyone has only one thought in their minds, and that is to complete [Breaking Method-5-1].

…

Seeing that the large number of dense micro diamond-shaped protective force fields generated by [Protection-2-14] were weakened layer by layer, and could penetrate deep into the lightning terminals around him, he could even feel a slight tingling flowing on the surface of his skin.

Xia Duo once again realized how powerful this spell was. Just the spell after it was out of control had such an effect, making it difficult for the equivalent 8-level spell to resist.

Fortunately, everything is about to end, and the equivalent 9-level spell [Protection-5-1] they jointly cast has been completed.

Under the leadership of Xia Duo, a powerful magic network calming field was instantly projected from the spell source point in front of him, and was projected into the core area where the elf magic was out of control.

In just an instant, the dense lightning that had flickered from above the gray-black land to behind Xia Duo and others disappeared immediately.

Of course, a more rigorous statement is that at that moment, the string combination of the magic network that originally formed the core of the spell was straightened out and smoothed. The foundation of the spell's existence was no longer there, and it was no longer possible to obtain a steady stream of energy from the magic network.

It's just unsustainable lightning. No matter how many there are, it only has the explosive power of one strike. After the explosion, there is no trace of it.

According to Sha Duo's speculation, this elf spell was supposed to gather a large amount of lightning energy and then burst it out in a focused form.

In this way, even a 9-ring protection spell may not be able to block it.

After all, there is always an efficiency issue with spears and shields, and the attacking side obviously has the advantage.

…

"We succeeded!" Essers said excitedly.

Even more excited than them were the people who had just asked for help. If Xia Duo and others who came to support still had a chance to escape, then they, who had completely lost the initiative in the elves' sneak attack, had almost lost the chance to escape.

"Don't let down your guard to prevent the elves from attacking again!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Xia Duo discovered that someone had teleported over, but the location they teleported was a bit far away, and the trees in the forest were blocking him. It wasn't until those people teleported over that he discovered the other party through the detection information shared by Niya.

Fortunately, it's a human being, otherwise it would really be a crow's mouth.

"Master Xia Duo, we are here!" The person who came promptly revealed his identity, it was Anglin and others.

After the meeting between the two sides, Anglin and others looked at the large radial area of ​​scorched trees caused by the raging lightning after the elf magic was out of control, as well as the core area of ​​the previous sneak attack and subsequent attack——

There was not even a single tree remnant left in the gray-black circular clearing.

"Is this elven magic?" Anglin said thoughtfully.

"Didn't you get attacked by a sneak attack?" Xia Duo asked.

"Of course, but we can react!"

The person who spoke was another high-level mage, and his tone clearly showed strong confidence. Xia Duo didn't want to argue with them, so he called over Master Mailin who had asked for help before and asked:

"It happened suddenly just now. The Elf Mage made two raids in succession. Before I had time to ask, please tell me about your situation at that time!"

In fact, Joyce's team had a short period of time to inquire after they were attacked, but Joyce, the only survivor, chose to give up the mission. Sha Duo was busy restoring morale, and then contacted Anglin and the others.

During this time Joyce lost all contact.

Now, Xia Duo didn't want to contact a person who was destined to be marginalized. It happened that Mailin had survived, so he might be able to get more information about the elf mage by asking.

"At that time, we were on the way to the Mystery Node. Someone told me that he found an elf hiding behind a tree. I did find traces of the elf after checking, but I didn't expect that I was attacked by the elf just after I checked. Fortunately, we maintained protective spells throughout the entire process, so the elves didn’t succeed.”

"What happened next?" Xia Duo continued to ask.

"Later, the attacking elves all ran away in one direction. I realized something was wrong and immediately asked the team to retreat. As soon as they ran away, what happened behind them became like this -"

Having said this, Mailin pointed at the round gray-black area next to him, with a look of lingering fear on his face, and continued:

"I knew I had lost the opportunity. It was difficult to engage in a spell confrontation with the opponent in this situation. I didn't want to give up on the others, so I chose to stay where I was and ask for help. You all know what happened next."

After speaking, Mailin also concluded, "I know that the "Operation Manual" introduces the common sneak attack methods of elves and countermeasures, but when the sneak attack actually came, I still only reacted like an ordinary person. But I’ll know next time! Even if I can’t defeat the opponent in a spell confrontation, I will at least eat their bait.”

After listening to this, Xia Duo said nothing more. He knew that even if he encountered this situation, he might not be able to perform better. Knowing what to do is one thing, and actually doing it is another.

However, the biggest difference between him and Mai Lin and others lies in the dimension and depth of information acquisition. He can obtain the perception and even thinking information shared by other people in the link through the mind link, and return it to the conscious judgment after processing.

This allows him to find the traces of the elves in advance. Even if the elves have any conspiracy, it is easy to produce different results from multiple angles in the multi-person thinking mode of the mind link, so as to avoid being fooled.

At this time, Xia Duo noticed that Anglin and others who also came to support but were just a little late had a different look on their faces, so he asked:

"Anglin Mage, how about you?"

"We haven't encountered sneak attacks involving elf mages, just the cooperation of druids and swordsingers."

Then, Anglin also described several sneak attacks they encountered.

However, compared with the attacks involving mages, the cooperation of druids and swordsingers alone is only a suddenness. As long as you are careful, it is not difficult to prevent it, and even counter-killing is not impossible.

But with the participation of the mage, the sneak attack is just the beginning. If they cannot win the magic confrontation later, they will definitely fall into the quagmire step by step and it will be difficult to get out.

Anglin re-examined his team. Maybe they can delay the magic confrontation for a longer time, but it is almost impossible to win.

And even if they wait for support, it will be difficult to keep the elf mage.

Thinking of this, Anglin has more expectations for the mind connection plan proposed by Shaduo.