Chapter 2690: Breakthroughs Along the Way, Idealism

Inside the Secret Ritual Chamber.

As spellcasting commands were issued one by one, Xia Duo quickly confirmed the coordination status of Feilifa's team outside the city through the Metelier Mythallar.

As he had expected, the Yierlan side attached great importance to this matter; the level of performance shown by Feilifa's team was identical to the investigator team he was currently organizing, and it appeared the Yierlan side had also utilized certain means to ensure the spellcasting process was smooth and error-free.

Now, the actions of Feilifa's team outside the city to interfere with the influence range of Palisi's ritual were going exceptionally well, while inside the city, Xia Duo was likewise using the Mythallar as an entry point to methodically seize Mythallar Permission.

Palisi needed to rely on the Metelier Mythallar as a medium; once control over the Mythallar Permission was lost, more than half of the control over the entire Ritual Spell would be forfeited.

If Palisi also possessed a Spirit Thought Network and had a large number of connected users with a Magic level reaching a certain threshold, perhaps he could make real-time adjustments, but as it stood—

Palisi had begun the ritual in a state of almost desperate gambling.

Previously, in front of the Silver Spire, it was not that he lacked the power to attempt to control or resolve the investigation team, but that would have required time; once delayed for too long, if Yierlan reinforcements arrived, it would be a total failure.

Therefore, Palisi chose to seal off the region, then hide inside the Silver Spire to immediately begin the ritual, and bound the Secret Ritual Chamber to the Mythallar; unless the Mythallar was resolved, there was no way to stop him.

In this way, even if Yierlan reinforcements arrived, they could only watch helplessly as the ritual continued until it was completely finished; even if the Yierlan reinforcements chose to launch a direct assault, with the people of the Metelier region in hand, it would be a matter of mutual destruction.

In other words, if one wanted to obtain full Mythallar Permission for the Metelier Mythallar, Xia Duo could only choose to update the Mythallar, a workload no less than rebuilding a New Mythallar.

In that case, the progress on Xia Duo's side would be far higher than on Yierlan's side; once the progress of both sides was equal, it would be equivalent to possessing equal control over this ritual.

This process seemed complex, but it was actually very simple; Xia Duo also needed to conduct this ritual of Yierlan's, but through many omissions, retaining only the elements related to control.

Having previously obtained the Ritual Book from Dakesi, several factors converged here, and coupled with the Spirit Thought Network that had never been displayed in the Main Plane before, it instantly broke the deadlock that Yierlan had spent so long preparing to create.

The reason it was called complex was precisely because Yierlan also possessed a certain degree of control, and he could also arbitrarily "increase capital" or even operate recklessly; these situations required Xia Duo to deal with them one by one.

Although this plan was a spur-of-the-moment idea, under normal circumstances, it was almost impossible for anyone to be able to stop it, because Yierlan had been preparing for this day for a long time.

But similar to the situation encountered at the Silver Spire earlier, Yierlan also retained a portion of materialized permission, just like the small Scepter that Envoy Ruien had brought out earlier.

As the saying goes, "destruction is easier than construction"; Xia Duo's current approach was equivalent to building a new system within the opponent's system using part of the resources within that system, and then having to properly and cleanly delete the original system.

Not long ago, the Demon Descendant had already begun their actions, and even if Metelier was late, it could not be played for much longer; the spur-of-the-moment nature of this had a very large margin.

Reconstructing the Mythallar was also not realistic to think about; fortunately, he had already seized most of the permission. In the entire ritual, although the Mythallar medium was important, it could not be called critical; even if this medium were not used, it would merely affect the scope of the ritual.

Right now, what was more important was seizing control of the ritual; having most of the Metelier Mythallar permission was already enough to attempt it, unless Yierlan disregarded everything and used that portion of materialized permission to counterattack, which might interfere with his plan.

At this time, if there were sufficient time, then Xia Duo might be able to reset the permission by reconstructing the Mythallar as he did at the Silver Spire, but currently, whether it was the Red Heart Alliance or the Main Plane, the Mythallar could not be "cold" processed.

Once Yierlan abandoned the ritual, even if the Mythallar exploded, it would be nothing more than normal destruction; it was unlikely to involve the Time Line, and even if Metelier were smashed to pieces, it would be impossible to harm him in the slightest.

And the opponent was not a dead person, so the difficulty could be imagined.

Afterwards, Xia Duo would then issue calculation tasks to the lower-level network—that is, the other Collaborative Computing network composed of local Mages—based on that feedback, and within the shortest possible time, summarize the results and then provide a specific correction plan.

What followed was a process of constant feedback on the ritual state and constant correction by Xia Duo; during this process, the influence of Yierlan could not be ignored at all, which made the feedback on the ritual state become more complex and changeable, or even completely irregular.

But his plan was precisely to make Yierlan abandon the ritual; if Yierlan ignored the ritual to counterattack him, that would be exactly what he wanted.

Throughout the process, the pressure on Xia Duo was exceptionally heavy; it was only because of the assistance of the intelligent brain, which was equivalent to several of himself sharing the work, otherwise even Xia Duo would not have been able to undertake such a task.

If there were sufficient time, even if the workload for this kind of work was enormous, he would prefer to do it that way, but right now there was less than half an hour until Yierlan completed the ritual.

Very soon, time reached the tenth minute after the start of the operation, and Xia Duo, leading the Northland Alliance investigators, had seized most of the permission for the Metelier Mythallar that had been modified by Yierlan.

And Dumu, in addition to being responsible for monitoring the various feedback of the ritual state, also had to transmit that feedback back to the Spirit Thought Network in real time.

Therefore, he also needed to adjust the ritual at a specific Node, which felt a bit like increasing capital and expanding shares; in this situation, he had come prepared, while Yierlan could only be caught off guard.

Xia Duo was also clear on this point, so his goal next was to seize control of the ritual, using the Mythallar medium as an entry point, just like tracing back from a tributary of a river to the main stream and competing for control of the main stream.

Xia Duo did hope that Yierlan would disregard everything and counterattack, but unfortunately, Yierlan's goal was very clear: to maintain the ritual until it ended.

As long as the ritual could be completed, then even if all permission was lost or even his life was lost, that would still count as a win.

If there were no consequences to consider, having the same control as Yierlan, Xia Duo could completely destroy the ritual directly, but such simple and crude destruction might trigger the unpredictable.

But Yierlan could never have imagined that Xia Duo could actually seize the Silver Spire permission in a short time, learn part of the truth, and subsequently request the original Metelier Mythallar blueprint from Palisi's side.

In this situation, maintaining a dedicated monitoring person was very necessary.

If one wanted to reconstruct or, say, update it, one could only replace the whole thing.

"We are close to the predetermined Node; Dumu, you withdraw from the Spellcasting Sequence and focus your energy on monitoring the feedback."