Chapter 2908: 【Jieti Protection】Reappears

————Still about twenty minutes left~~

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After synchronizing the current situation with the members of the action team, Xia Duo confirmed the status with the two intelligence officers who were also in the action team's Spirit Thought Network:

"Has the Time-Involving Signal detected by the monitoring center in the northwest direction disappeared?"

"That's good!"

Although Xia Duo was more than ninety percent certain that the Time-Involving Signal to the northwest of Evereska originated from the Demon-born Secret Base in the Ansai Mountains where he was currently located, he only breathed a slight sigh of relief the moment it was truly confirmed.

Next was the signal source in the south.

"Has the exact location of the signal in the southwest direction been determined?" Xia Duo asked again.

"It still needs a little time, it will be ready immediately!"

"Synchronize it to the Spirit Thought Network the moment you have the exact location."

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A moment ago, the scene before Xia Shao changed, and in just an instant, he noticed the strange feeling brought to him by the Spirit Thought direction nearby; specifically, Scrying spells are far worse than the effect of direct naked-eye observation.

Reaching this step is actually true combat, because the Time-Involving Ritual corresponding to the signal source in the south has likely already exceeded the critical point for casual intervention, requiring the contest of ritual control through spell confrontation before it can be safely eliminated.

According to the location information synchronized later by the monitoring center, the signal source is roughly on the southern border of Shaerwen, which is to say it and the Ansai Mountains where Xia Shao is currently located just happen to sandwich Shaerwen.

Right now, these Mages were all temporarily summoned and exist more as auxiliary Spellcasting tools; without Xia Shao commanding from the center, even double the number of people would be useless.

It's just that human Spellcasting is ultimately inferior to War Spells; Xia Shao switched through many types of spells in succession, but in the end, he couldn't discover anything unusual, only vaguely generating some inspiration.

But time is tight now, and the Demon Descendants will not give him time to slowly trace memories, so he had almost no hesitation and issued the Spellcasting command in the mountain wall network.

Thus, Xia Shao quickly adjusted the orientation of the Scrying spell, and the next moment he indeed saw a scene similar to the one in the Ansai Mountains; this was a scene in the Watina Mountains on the border of Shaerwen——

For example, combining Magic Net fluctuations with life traces can detect a Spellcaster, but it requires two types of Scrying spells, and it also requires the Spellcaster to be able to understand these two Scrying results and consciously perform a comprehensive analysis of them.

This belongs to a multi-modal fusion state of Perception.

Just as Xia Shao was performing this Spellcasting Scrying, the field personnel of the Demon-born Intelligence Office finally arrived at this destroyed Demon-born base, but Xia Shao did not interact with them, instead synchronizing the Scrying results in the mountain wall network.

But now is not the appropriate time to trace the subconscious; fortunately, at this time, the monitoring center had already locked onto the exact location of the signal source; it couldn't be called very precise, but it was already sufficient to use.

A piece of wasteland, and the seemingly primitive forest scene outside.

This spell is essentially a Spell Suppression Field, capable of smoothing out the distorted state of the Magic Net Strings within a certain range and restoring them to their original state of Flow.

And multi-modal fusion perception is the comprehensive analysis of multiple perception states from the very beginning; perhaps it is not as good as a Scrying spell in terms of the accuracy of a single item, but it can produce an extraordinary intuition far exceeding that of a Scrying spell regarding the overall situation.

【Dispel Magic】!

While synchronizing the construction of the Spellcasting position, he sent the first probe to the nearby Jieti——

Of course, the time here is calculated from the start of the ritual, not from the discovery of the Time-Involving Signal.

But after coming here in person and seeing it with his own eyes, he felt a strange sense of incongruity, feeling that the scene before his eyes was not Reality, or at least it had been artificially modified or disguised.

But Scrying spells each have their own tendencies, such as detecting Magic Net fluctuations, life traces, lingering spiritual light, airflow direction, etc., while being present in person and observing with the naked eye is essentially not just vision, but also includes all the body's senses.

The next moment, the Jieti that was originally very calm there suddenly showed bursts of light and shadow distortion on the surface; seeing this scene, it was not just Xia Shao, but the other Mages in the mountain wall network immediately transmitted a unanimous judgment——

So although only about two minutes have passed since the signal was discovered, in reality, in about another minute, the ritual corresponding to the signal in the south will cross its first critical point.

"Teleport!"

So even if Xia Shao could still use War Spells to scry distant information with the help of the Thought Robe, he did not continue to do so, but chose to consider the emotions of his companions.

The action team members must coordinate their Spellcasting to confront the Demon-born Mages; Xia Shao alone cannot do it.

After replying, Xia Duo did not delay any further, but issued Spellcasting commands to the action team members; although the exact location of the target had not been locked, relevant preparations could be made in advance, such as preparing for teleportation and performing early Scrying.

The time difference for the start of the corresponding ritual is about 10 to 20 minutes.

That is the first critical point of the ritual; if it is crossed, there is still a chance to stop it. Half an hour is also considered a critical point; beyond that time, unless Xia Duo participates personally, it is unlikely to be stopped successfully.

But that time is at most one hour; beyond one hour, even if Xia Duo copied multiple versions of himself with perfect telepathic coordination to cast spells, he would be unable to stop it.

And at this current time node, if Xia Duo directs the operation, there will be at least two chances to try.

Therefore, when choosing the Scrying orientation, Xia Duo consciously chose the mirror-symmetrical position of this Demon-born base with Shaerwen as the center.

First is Wide-Area Detection, not the War Spell one, but referring to a rough, large-scale Scrying; it's not that he couldn't continue using War Spells, but that Xia Shao had already keenly sensed the subtle psychological changes of the action team members in the mountain wall network.

In other words, the next task for Xia Shao's team, besides stopping the Time-Involving Ritual, also requires first removing the Protection of the Demon-born base!

But the difference is that the Watina Mountains side does not have the disguised caravan guarding the outside like the Ansai Mountains side; Xia Shao guessed that perhaps because the Demon-born base there is still in a complete state, it does not need extra guard personnel.

Just like the situation Xia Shao is encountering now, clearly having determined through multiple Scrying spells that this place is a perfectly normal primitive forest.

At this time node, even without Xia Shao's participation, if the action team members had studied the Time-Involving Ritual beforehand, there would be a relatively high probability of successfully stopping it, but there is only one chance.

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Scrying might be able to use War Spells, but can the subsequent stopping of the Demon-born's Time-Involving Ritual also use War Spells?

If it were normal, Xia Shao might trace his memory at this time, looking for the Subconscious Information from the moment he felt something was wrong, so he could know exactly why he felt something was wrong.

Illusion Barrier!

This time difference is almost about to pass the first critical point; directly destroying the ritual is highly likely to cause unpredictable consequences, so War Spells are clearly not applicable.