Chapter 3333: Competing in Patience, Delayed Teleportation

Linna Nie'ersi Chengqu.

Xia Duo frowned upon receiving the Sending from Fema'ai, but after a moment of hesitation, he still did not reply, which could be considered a subtle expression of his stance.

As for now, he remained silently locked onto Kalano within the secret manor, keeping a constant watch on the situation outside, especially the changes in the Mythallar; whoever came next would undoubtedly be from the Illuminati.

About a quarter of an hour later, chaos began to emerge within the manor; although it was quickly quelled, Xia Duo, as an ever-present observer, could still discern the panic within the Moonshadow Family.

However, he did not wait for the expected messenger; judging by the time the message was delivered, the suspicion surrounding Crown King Helien was greatly diminished, while Dafuni's suspicion surged significantly once again.

Xia Duo had a premonition that this Dafuni was surely a member of the Illuminati, but he did not know why the other party had not returned yet, only sending a message back; was she not worried about the Moonshadow Family being exposed during the evacuation process?

Holding this thought, Xia Duo delayed taking action, watching as the members of the Moonshadow Family within the manor were gathered together and even began an orderly evacuation.

Kalano, whom he had been locking onto, did not leave immediately; if Kalano had wanted to leave, Xia Duo certainly would not have let the other party go, but since the other party was not in a hurry to leave, Xia Duo was not in a hurry to act.

In any case, as long as he captured Kalano, he would surely be able to find the other members of the Moonshadow Family, or even if he couldn't, it wouldn't matter, as long as Kalano could provide internal information about the Illuminati, or simply expose Dafuni.

Xia Duo always remembered his purpose in tracking the Moonshadow Family was not necessarily to target this family, but to find more clues about the Illuminati; if Kalano could cooperate voluntarily, he might even consider letting the other party go.

……

Just like that, Xia Duo watched with his own eyes as the members of the Moonshadow Family disappeared one by one into the Teleportation Array; he did not intervene to stop them, but continued to wait, and the longer he waited, the more expectant he became.

Because Kalano, this big fish, had not left yet; could the reason the other party had not left be that they had already discovered his presence and were thinking of buying time for the other family members to evacuate?

Xia Duo felt this possibility was slim; a smaller possibility was that they were staying behind to cover the retreat, but in all likelihood, they were probably waiting for the Illuminati member who provided shelter to their family; perhaps the two sides still had some important matters to discuss or entrust.

Of course, Xia Duo had not acted all this time to provide an opportunity for the other party to appear; otherwise, if he had acted first to capture Kalano, would Kalano's protector still show up?

Perhaps once he made a public appearance, he would have to face the backlash from diviners, or even from the entire Elf World.

The current situation was somewhat like both sides competing in patience, only the other party might not know that Xia Duo had already arrived at the scene and was fully prepared; at this moment, Xia Duo was like a hunter quietly waiting for his prey.

Although the process of waiting was not exactly pleasant, as long as he could catch the prey, the delayed harvest would be even more satisfying.

……

Unknowingly, another quarter of an hour passed; just as Xia Duo thought that Dafuni or whoever else had sensed the danger and dared not come, he, who had been keeping a high level of attention on the Magic Net, suddenly discovered that the Magic Net within the secret manor began to show abnormal tremors.

In Xia Duo's situation, even if he could not analyze the specific cause of the Magic Net's tremors, he could still, with high probability, make the most intuitive inference—

An unknown Spellcaster was about to teleport over.

And for Xia Duo at this moment, this also meant that the prey he had been looking forward to for so long had finally delivered itself to his door; what was the point of just catching a Kalano? If he was going to catch someone, he would catch someone of more weight!

Almost the instant he discovered the abnormal tremors in the Magic Net, Xia Duo made a decision—delay the other party's teleportation; and while making this decision, he had already used the Spirit Thought Network to calculate the other party's teleportation landing point and the best timing for a countermeasure.

The next moment, he struck.

He first used the Mythallar Permission he had already obtained to cast a spell instantly, changing the space-time state within the target area of the teleporter; this was actually a way of applying a Forbidden Restriction.

At this moment, he could choose to block or delay the other party's teleportation; since Xia Duo wanted to catch them in the act, he naturally chose the latter.

This was arguably one of the biggest drawbacks of Teleportation Spells—

Teleporting away in front of others might lead to being tracked; teleporting into the territory of another Mage might lead to facing various countermeasures after being discovered, such as Delayed Teleportation, blocking the teleportation, or even misdirecting the teleportation to some dangerous place, and so on.

In the absence of certainty about the safety of the target area, rashly using a Teleportation Spell would lead to encountering such risks.

Because the essence of most Teleportation Spells was still utilizing the Ether Plane to teleport, or one could even say "gliding" on the contact surface between the Ether Plane and the Main Plane.

Such a process, from the perspective of the teleporter, had no delay and reached the destination almost instantly.

But in reality, this process still required a certain amount of time, and this time was not the same as the time in the Main Plane; the delay effect of a counter-teleportation could completely manage to delay the teleporter's arrival by several minutes.

Yet the teleporter themselves would not notice it at all.

Although a Portal also utilized the Ether Plane, it was actually closer to spatial folding within a Plane, "gluing" two different spaces together through the Ether Plane, and the Portal was the most intuitive manifestation of such a "glued surface" between two spaces.

Therefore, most High Mages who had mastered Teleportation Spells and understood the essence of teleportation would prioritize Portals if conditions allowed, rather than direct teleportation; even using a Teleportation Array was safer than direct teleportation.

Right now, what Xia Duo was directing was exactly such a negative example; perhaps the other party felt that no one in Taiweimansa dared to take action against them, but it just so happened that someone did!

Due to limited preparation time, Xia Duo only delayed the other party's teleportation arrival by less than two minutes, about a minute or so; don't look down on such a short time, at a critical moment, even a ten-second delay could potentially lead to fatal results.

And now, it was a critical moment!

While delaying the incoming teleporter, Xia Duo also began to close the net on Kalano; otherwise, if the other party reacted, wouldn't it add a lot of trouble?

So he decisively took action against Kalano.

To ensure he could take down the other party in the shortest time possible without interfering with the upcoming teleportation, Xia Duo used the Mythallar Permission he had obtained in advance to lift all restrictions on his own Spellcasting, and then came the big weapon: the Thought Robe.

This super Magic Artifact, which Xia Duo personally designed and crafted in the 【Projection Plane Red Heart Alliance】, was essentially a Micro Magic Net with built-in Arcane Fire Components and numerous War Spell modules, or one could call it a Mythallar.