Chapter 2030: Advancement, Acquaintance

In a flash, Suweilisi quickly gave the signal, "Now, the Magic Net is stabilized, teleport!"

The members of this strike team were either high-level Mages or Great Arcanists, so they naturally knew the drawbacks of ordinary Teleportation Spells; even if the Magic Net was stable, if they teleported over recklessly, what might be waiting for them was likely not a caught-off-guard enemy, but a dragnet laid out by the enemy after delaying the teleportation time.

Therefore, the teleportation used in combat is generally a pre-teleportation spell that arrives instantly like a Portal, or a teleportation spell similar to reversing cause and effect—that is, first establishing the feasibility of the teleportation; if this step can be completed, it is equivalent to the teleportation being completed, and the main body's successful teleportation then follows as a matter of course.

It is equivalent to opening a Portal, but even more secure than a Portal.

Xia Duo had also studied this type of spell; the 【Teleportation Mark】 was one of the results, and it was also a typical pre-teleportation spell, which he used as a fallback for escape.

It was just that he had always been cautious in his actions; apart from in the Projection Plane, he had basically used it only a few times in the Main Plane.

The spell jointly cast by Tailun and Laruian appeared to be a joint effort, but it was centered on Tailun in every aspect, and Laruian had become a spellcasting tool without security, though what Xia Duo was truly focused on was this spell of Tailun's.

As soon as it took shape, an invisible trend of Magic Net change penetrated time and space, extending from the Ether Plane to the Main Plane, and then Xia Duo felt some subtle changes occur in the structure of the surrounding space.

But before he could experience it in detail, the surrounding time and space shifted, and he was already above a hall wreathed in flames and light, as if demons and gods were dancing wildly.

If he hadn't instantly perceived that the distribution of the surrounding Magic Aura was roughly the same as what he had Scried in the Ether Plane just moments ago, Xia Duo would have thought Tailun had teleported them to some decadent place of entertainment.

However, the current situation was not much different from those decadent places of entertainment; a group of disheveled Elves were shaking their bodies frantically in the hall, seemingly unaware of the arrival of their group.

Xia Duo lamented that the morals of the world were not what they used to be, but Tailun did not pause in the slightest, continuing to join forces with Laruian to set up a suitable spellcasting environment together with the combination of Suweilisi and Kesita.

This should be considered the first time Xia Duo had seen such a textbook example of combat spellcasting, and it was being performed by several high-level Mages in person.

Almost instantly, Xia Duo felt the surrounding Magic Net rapidly transform into a highly ordered entity, like a regular Small Mythallar, but this was just the beginning.

The next moment, a Spell Suppression Field with vast and peerless Magic Aura covered them from above; the vast majority of the Magic Auras that had been shining like stars below instantly dissipated, and the few that remained were flickering, seemingly about to extinguish at any moment.

At this point, no matter how slow the enemies were, they reacted, but a more dramatic scene occurred: before the enemies below even realized that the intruders had appeared above their heads, a door on the second-floor corridor on the periphery of the hall suddenly opened, and a Demon Descendant wrapped in a black robe shouted anxiously toward the bottom:

"Stop quickly, the Midian has detected enemy Scrying, prepare immediately!"

After all, he was a Mage; as soon as he finished shouting, he realized something was wrong and subconsciously wanted to shrink back into the room he had just come out of, but Tailun's new round of offensive from above had already arrived.

The rapid change in the Magic Net brought about dazzling Magic Auras, which spread rapidly upward along the walls from below the hall; Xia Duo noticed that this should be a spell similar to space separation.

After all, this Midian was someone else's home turf; the surprise attack only counted as having the upper hand for a moment. Once the other party reacted and cooperated with the Midian's Protection facilities, it was not impossible for them to reverse the situation.

The facts were exactly as Xia Duo had anticipated; even though Tailun did not waste any time, the casting and completion of spells required time, and although it was very short, for enemies who were also high-level Mages, it was enough for them to react.

The two Demon Descendants below who were suspected to be high-level Mages did not immediately counter Tailun's spell, but instead joined together to shatter a mask relief embedded in the wall at the edge of the hall.

The next moment, Magic Aura reactions appeared on the hall floor again and spread rapidly to the outside of the hall; immediately following this, extremely powerful Magic fluctuations erupted from two rooms on the second floor on the periphery of the hall.

One of them was the room where the Demon Descendant who had just come out to give the warning was located.

The two rooms were connected to each other, and the resulting trend of Magic Net change formed a highly ordered structure similar to a Mythallar, and it was constantly eroding the normal Magic Net environment in the surroundings, and even the spellcasting environment constructed by Tailun.

"A powerful force is forcibly taking over the Magic Net here; we have less than three minutes. We can ignore the others, but we must at least capture one of the two leaders!"

After giving the spellcasting order, Tailun looked at Xia Duo as if seeking help while casting, but Xia Duo remained unmoved; the current situation had not yet deteriorated to the point of needing to use the Floating City, and the several Elf Mages were fully capable of handling it.

Four against two, the advantage is with us!

Of course, refusal was refusal, but this did not prevent Xia Duo from quietly contacting the Floating City, at least to confirm that the Floating City was still available; if Tailun and the others really couldn't handle it, it wouldn't be too late to intervene.

The connection with the Floating City was not smooth; it was intermittent, as if interfered with by some kind of force, but Xia Duo had already recorded the coordinates here, and he had set a delayed command for this connection.

As long as it did not receive his new command within ten seconds, the Floating City would launch an attack according to the preset command; this could be considered the final Insurance.

……

On the other side, after activating the Midian's Protection, the two strongest Demon Descendant Mages finally determined the location of the enemies—they were actually right above their heads.

In addition to shock and anger, there was also a trace of relief; since the enemies were courting death by breaking into their home turf, they shouldn't think about leaving alive.

"Luke, you should know what the consequences will be if you let them run away; cooperate with me!"

Among the two Demon Descendant Mages, one seemed to be in a more dominant position, issuing orders to the other, and the other did not feel anything wrong with it at all.

"I know, I'll leave the rest to you!"

Luke responded, then tore off the few clothes he had on his body, let out a cruel low roar toward the top, and then transformed into a demon; the surging Magic Energy gushing out formed a strange Magic Array in the surroundings.

It seemed to have some kind of connection with the Midian itself, and was using the orderly Magic Net structure gradually derived from the Midian to faintly brew a soul-stirring supernatural ability.

And above the hall, when the other party transformed into a demon, Xia Duo's heart couldn't help but tighten, but what was even more unexpected was Kesita on the side; just now, when the Demon Descendant Mage below looked up and provoked them from above, he noticed that the disheveled, unkempt, and wildly arrogant Demon Descendant Mage was actually his colleague—

Luke, a high-level Mage who was also one of the pillars of the Helien Crown King's lineage!