Chapter 2689: Joint Action, Mechanical Mind

In fact, according to Xia Duo's thinking, he would rather directly destroy the time line that the Illuminati hopes to see, but unfortunately, a time line is merely a possibility and cannot be destroyed at all; at least, the current him cannot think of any way to destroy it.

If he cannot strike at the vital point, he can still try to find a way from the source of this specific operation—the Demon Descendants, but this group has been continuously adding points to their hidden talents since their birth, so finding them is not an easy task.

The superposition of many factors makes even a behemoth like the Northland Alliance appear constrained and very passive when facing the Demon Descendants.

As for the present, Xia Duo has no other choice but to find a way to stop Palisi's ritual spell; fortunately, at this stage, his understanding of this ritual spell and the Mythallar medium is not much worse than Palisi's.

The most critical point is that it has now entered the practical execution stage, and Palisi's spellcasting team is right there, so the new cards they can play are very few, while Xia Duo can still call for external reinforcements.

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Next, Xia Duo passed some of the intelligence he obtained by using the Spirit Thought Network to analyze the ritual spell and the Mythallar medium to the Yierlan side through the relay of Badijiaer.

He requested the Yierlan side to organize a spellcasting team outside the Metelier Mythallar to cooperate with him in interfering with the ritual's scope.

Doing this has one benefit: even if the ritual cannot be truly stopped from within, the scope of the ritual's influence can still be limited to a restricted area within Metelier.

This approach aligns with Yierlan's interests, and Xia Duo received a positive reply very quickly, with both sides agreeing on a time to exert force together.

There is more than one Secret Ritual Chamber within the Silver Spire; if spellcasters can use them, why can't Xia Duo's side use them!

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Xia Duo checked and confirmed the connection status of each action participant in the spellcasting network one by one, and conducted a series of complex rehearsals for some common scenarios.

After speaking, he began to apply the 【Mechanical Mind】 effect to each participant one by one; with life and death at stake, even the Mind Network did not refuse, so there was even less reason to refuse a mere auxiliary spell.

If time were sufficient, Xia Duo certainly would not use such a shortcut, and the other participants would most likely not accept such a method.

This is the visible escape route.

Only those who need to eat by relying on spellcasting proficiency need to constantly train their proficiency, such as professional soldiers or Magic Technicians.

Xia Duo's rise has been too fast, and even if he has been practicing very diligently, unless he enters a Time Acceleration Zone to practice for several years without eating or drinking, it is very difficult to catch up with those veteran spellcasters.

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After all, it involves the flipping of the subconscious and the conscious mind; once an operation error occurs or the duration is too long, it is very easy to trigger tragedies such as mental breakdown or even the dissipation of one's own personality.

Everything was ready, and Xia Duo projected the 【Magic Moment】 onto the walls around the Secret Ritual Chamber; this was not only to remind everyone of the correct time for the action to begin, but also to constantly calibrate the time during the subsequent actions.

「Can we start the action? How much certainty is there that it will succeed? 」

During the process of Xia Duo explaining the details of the action, Dumu, Sikaote, and other members of the investigation team also arrived at the Silver Spire one after another; Xia Duo's explanation did not avoid them, but rather, whoever arrived could listen.

As long as their emotions are stable, their confidence is full, and no trouble occurs during the spellcasting process, then there will be no problems.

As long as the other spellcasters are above the standard and not too incompetent, that is enough.

In the Secret Ritual Chamber.

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「We have already reached the limit of what we can do; if there are no accidents, there is at least an eighty or ninety percent chance of success! Even if luck is bad, I can guarantee to take everyone away. 」

Very quickly, Xia Duo finished explaining all the action details, after which he brought everyone into a Secret Ritual Chamber within the Silver Spire; after all, a good environment should be utilized.

But at the same time, the conscious mind has not completely "melted" into the vast ocean of the subconscious, and it can still maintain a certain degree of independence, providing a guiding role in the general direction for the subconscious's judgments.

「3, 2, 1, start! 」

Hearing the inquiry from Lier, the other three high-level mages also cast inquiring glances at Xia Duo; in such a situation, Xia Duo certainly would not be mysterious, but was directly honest:

The result made him very unhappy; no matter what the actual magic level of these investigators was, at least in terms of spellcasting, they were completely a large margin ahead of Xia Duo.

But isn't time tight? The total time before and after is no more than two hours; what can be done in two hours? Perhaps many things can be done, but it is absolutely impossible for a group of spellcasters who did not know each other beforehand to suddenly become tacit collaborators.

Because the spellcasting instructions he conveyed through the spellcasting network carried time attributes.

「Thirty seconds left!

Saying this, Xia Duo explained the details of the entire action in depth to these four high-level mages who would serve as the main guides in the upcoming collaborative spellcasting.

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This 【Mechanical Mind】 spell from Iolum is essentially flipping the subconscious and the conscious mind, letting the subconscious take the lead, and putting the spellcaster in a state of near-absolute rationality.

As the time agreed upon with Feilifa drew closer, Xia Duo said one last thing, 「Please trust me, we will definitely succeed! 」

Furthermore, Xia Duo is also unwilling to spend too much time on spellcasting; above passing, there is actually not much difference between one hundred points and sixty points.

When two spellcasters need to compete based on spellcasting proficiency, there is no doubt that in Xia Duo's view, these two spellcasters are both unqualified.

Not to mention anything else, in case someone makes a mistake in spellcasting, the Secret Ritual Chamber can at least help Xia Duo quickly reverse the situation; if there were no assistance from the Secret Ritual Chamber, and he had to rely entirely on self-correction, that would be too troublesome and too energy-consuming.

This is like going to the battlefield; if everyone else is wearing bulletproof vests and you are not, isn't that stupid!

As for how much they hear, it is irrelevant; it is more about using this method to boost their confidence, after all, the remaining members of the investigation team exist more as spellcasting tools in the upcoming action.

Of course, no matter how much such a spell claims to be harmless, using it in practice is definitely not simple.

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Although they had already been told that even if the action failed, they could still leave Metelier, this was ultimately just Xia Duo's one-sided statement; Lier did not fully believe it, and he still hoped to directly settle the spellcasters' side.

And within Meteier City, Xia Duo continued to assign tasks to those connected to the spellcasting network, either participating in collaborative computing or maintaining order in the city; in short, he did not let them be idle.

「Twenty seconds!

As for himself, he came to the Silver Spire again; Tuleidi, Kuitao, and the other two high-level mages were still waiting at the door, and as soon as he saw Xia Duo, Lier could not help but ask: