Chapter 2081: Immortality in the Blazing Fire

About two more hours.

Just as those four uninvited guests were moving rapidly through the Seventon city district and constantly approaching the Arcane Plaza, Xia Duo noticed them, but the Seville Mythallar, which he had assumed would also have noticed, showed not the slightest reaction.

Even those Controllers of the Seven Towers on the viewing platform on the north side of the plaza showed no reaction at all, so what about Yinaole?

However, at this moment, Xia Duo had no time to send a message to Yinaole to inquire or warn him; those uninvited guests were moving extremely fast, and by the time he noticed them, they had already moved from the Nan Cheng Qu to the vicinity of the Arcane Union, and to the north of the Arcane Union was the Arcane Plaza, the main venue for the Eriwen Ascension Ritual.

Such reckless charging could hardly be explained by accident or impulsiveness; it must be full of malice!

Thus, Xia Duo did not hesitate to summon the Floating City to descend a Wide-Area Prohibition, but the Floating City was, after all, not on the Main Plane, and even if the distance was close, it was ultimately separated by a plane.

When the Wide-Area Prohibition descended, those four uninvited guests—or rather, the four areas of dense and sparse changes in the Magic Net String—had already merged into one, and the trend of entanglement and change of the Magic Net String within them had already spread rapidly to the surroundings.

At this moment, there was no need to use the Scrying spell of the Floating City; Xia Duo could see with his naked eye from the Arcane Plaza that a spiritual light like a supernova explosion was flashing in the south.

With this level of disturbance, there was no need for him to remind anyone; as long as all the Spellcasters in the plaza still maintained their Magic Vision, it was impossible for them not to notice.

In fact, in this short moment, Xia Duo had already noticed that the Spellcasters on the viewing platforms around the ritual venue were beginning to become panicked.

At the same time, visible spell anomalies triggered by intense elemental agitation began to appear in the sky southwest of the plaza; although brief, Xia Duo could still feel the subtle changes in the hearts of the onlookers in the plaza.

"Hum—"

It was like a low-frequency screech caused by the air being rapidly changed by the Magic Net String; starting from the southwest corner of the plaza, it slid across the entire plaza, and everyone who heard it subconsciously covered their ears.

However, in Xia Duo's view, this was not a bad thing, but rather the "belated" Seville Mythallar finally beginning to exert its power.

A large number of Magic Net Strings began to converge in the southwest corner of the plaza, and the myriad changes within them seemed to be attempting to "neutralize" the mysterious attack of the uninvited guests by some unknown means.

At the same time, Badijiaer finally stepped out, arrived in the sky above the plaza via Short-range Teleportation, and his calm, firm, and incomparably grand voice instantly covered the entire venue.

"Everyone stay calm. Such despicable tricks cannot block Netheril's determination to develop and grow, nor can they block the friendship of the peoples of the Northland countries, and even less can they block the era's trend of cooperation and win-win results!"

"If you want to gain benefits by causing destruction, I cannot control what happens elsewhere, but here in the Northland, in Netheril, I want to tell those clowns: it won't work!"

Badijiaer's righteous speech immediately stabilized the wavering hearts in the plaza, but those uninvited guests had not yet been dealt with, and everything remained an unknown.

However, the Wide-Area Prohibition from Xia Duo's Floating City had already crossed the plane boundary to reach the Main Plane and had immediately separated the area where those uninvited guests were located from the outside world.

It was just that such an operation could also be classified as an intrusion by the Seville Mythallar, so under the internal and external pincer attack, Xia Duo's spatial separation collapsed in less than a second.

And in this process, he also discovered that the target those uninvited guests were aiming for was actually not Master Eriwen, but the ordinary people who made up the vast majority in the plaza at this moment!

This discovery made him even more furious; such low-class methods of attacking ordinary people were truly despicable, but this discovery also lowered his suspicion of the Elf.

Many of the Elf's actions might not be called honorable, or could simply be called vile, but at least they could not commit the act of publicly attacking ordinary people in broad daylight.

In the past, when the relationship between Netheril and Keman was poor, the worst form of conflict between the two sides was at most driving Orcs into the other's territory or directly assassinating Spellcasters.

Direct attacks targeting ordinary people were both unnecessary and easily provoked public outrage, as well as subsequent unscrupulous imitation by opponents.

And for any attack, as long as one was willing to investigate, one could always find some clues, or at least find a relatively clear suspect.

Conducting such attacks in the name of a country—did they not worry that others would do the same to them? The principle of reciprocal countermeasure holds true in any world!

Thus, a name suddenly rushed into Xia Duo's mind: Demon Descendant.

The Demon Descendant were already unscrupulous in their actions, and since Eriwen's successful Ascension would inevitably have a significant impact on their plan to create a specific historical node, it was not hard to understand why they came to sabotage it.

The Drow were also possible, but the Drow had long since retreated to the depths of the Underdark, and even if they still had power left on the Surface, they could not rashly launch such an attack.

Other than that, there were forces outside the Northland, but as the saying goes, as long as it was an orderly organization, they would worry about Netheril's reciprocal countermeasure, or even a doubled countermeasure.

Once the bottom line is lowered, it is very difficult to raise it again.

Just like the Projected Plane Arcane Empire, the bottom line of war was lowered time and time again, not only against the enemy but also against their own people, and in the end, it logically led to total extinction.

Xia Duo believed that if the Arcane Empire had been in the upper hand or had the opportunity at that time, they would have chosen to destroy the Elf without hesitation.

Therefore, this method of attacking ordinary people could basically rule out orderly organizations.

As for terrorist organizations outside the Northland, Xia Duo felt it was also unlikely; terrorist organizations were not fools, and since they already had enemies locally, why come and provoke Netheril?

After some thought, Xia Duo almost concluded that it was the Demon Descendant.

Therefore, before receiving authorization from Badijiaer, he summoned the Wide-Area Prohibition again; with the containment of the Seville Mythallar, this time his Wide-Area Prohibition arrived before the attackers' attack could take shape.

It was just that this time, it was the same as before, simultaneously being targeted by the Seville Mythallar, and under the internal and external pincer attack, it collapsed again.

But during this time of entanglement, Xia Duo had already received the Mythallar Permission sent by Badijiaer, along with a piece of advice: "If you can catch them alive, it is best to capture them alive."

And this was exactly what Xia Duo hoped for; if he could catch a living Demon Descendant and link them to the newly established Ailan Kingdom, he would have a reason to directly wipe them out, or at the very least, force them to change their name.

The name Ailan was still a bit too sensitive for him.

With Badijiaer's authorization, the Seville Mythallar was no longer an obstacle but became an aid; after the third summoning of the Wide-Area Prohibition, Xia Duo successfully completed the blockade of the attackers.

So he sent a signal to Badijiaer and Master Eriwen: "The attackers have been controlled, the ritual can continue!"

In fact, all of this happened in a very short time; the ritual had not stopped at all, but because of the change in the hearts of the people in the plaza, it had caused some interference to the ritual.

Upon receiving Xia Duo's notification at this moment, Badijiaer immediately announced: "The clowns have been dealt with; resisting the tide will surely lead to destruction!"