Chapter 3352: Promises, Rewards, and Punishments

————It will be later~

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Xia Duo believed that one or two minutes was by no means an overly tense amount of time for that group of researchers, who were at least Elite Mages, and within these one or two minutes, more details of that ritual could be probed over at Tear Drop Lake.

It is just a pity that neither Time Acceleration nor thought acceleration can be performed indefinitely; one or two minutes of normal time in the outside world corresponds to at most a few days of perceived time for the researchers.

For a complex and ever-changing ritual, this is still not enough to understand it clearly.

So, what is Xia Duo expecting?

Naturally, he is expecting a miracle to appear; this world has never lacked miracles, and there are always people who can create miracles in critical moments or even in the mundane.

It is just a pity that a miracle is called a miracle precisely because it does not necessarily appear; even if it bears the expectations of countless people, it will not necessarily appear.

Just like at this moment, Xia Duo ultimately did not receive a miracle, only increasing the chances of survival for the frontline personnel at Tear Drop Lake by a little bit.

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Even if the Darkness Society crudely destroys it, it will certainly leave behind a certain amount of Space-Time Mist, but this is Yierlan, and it is the border, so how could Xia Shao truly care!

"What exactly does Consultant Xia Shao want? When can we withdraw?"

And what he can do is only to minimize the sacrifices as much as possible, whether it is the sacrifice of people or the sacrifice of land.

The Darkness Society has made it clear that it wants to destroy the world; he had previously seen the suspected sage and prophet Dafuni in Taiweimansa, and the other party's attitude was firm and it was already completely impossible to change.

As for after the ritual is completed, as long as he wants to escape, no one can stop him.

Even if one considers the future where the Alliance is truly unified, that is a matter for the future; who knows if the Space-Time Mist will still be a problem in the future, and besides, without the present, how can there be a future?

But under the planning of the Wisdom Brain—which is essentially multiple Consciousness Copies of Xia Duo himself—the spellcasting instructions were laid out without a single error.

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On the contrary, it is for those mages still at Tear Drop Lake that Xia Shao truly feels regret and feels sorry, because he has always held the philosophy of "preserve the people and lose the land, both people and land are preserved; preserve the land and lose the people, both people and land are lost."

As a High Mage, he also has his own pride, and at the same time, he is also very clear that as long as he firmly holds the initiative of the ritual, no matter how many Darkness Society members the Alliance sends, it is useless.

Spellcasting Team 2 has already fully withdrawn; although they still maintain the Element Harmonization spell on their bodies to move freely underwater, this spell could fail at any time in the turbulent Magic Net environment.

The original plaza had already become dilapidated in the confrontation between the Alliance mages and the Darkness Society ritual host, but the Central Altar was not affected much, only the Water Elemental Domain Barrier that originally covered this place had disappeared.

Moreover, he had long seen the scene of the Main Plane being covered by a large amount of Space-Time Mist in prophetic visions, which could also be considered a form of desensitization training.

And judging from the words the other party said, the other party does not look like an object that can communicate normally.

"Damn it, how many senior mages has the Alliance sent to target me? Good, good, good, all coming to target me, right! Let's see who can't hold on first!"

Tear Drop Lake.

Beside the golden altar in the center of the plaza at the bottom of the lake, a figure slowly emerged from the Void, pushing away the surrounding water as if he truly did not exist just a moment ago.

Xia Shao reminded them carefully, trying his best not to stimulate the sensitive nerves of those frontline mages, but inevitably, he still received an inquiry from the senior mage who was the team leader, not through a public broadcast on the Mind Network, but by contacting Xia Shao separately—

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Therefore, they dare not mention withdrawal, and even less dare they run away.

Leaving them at the bottom of the lake is just a meaningless sacrifice; although Xia Shao had already prepared for the sacrifice of all the Darkness Society members there, meaningless sacrifices should be avoided if possible, so it is better to let them withdraw.

If it really came to the time to run away, it is estimated that apart from that senior mage who was the team leader who might be able to run away, the remaining seventeen Elite Mages would not be able to run away at all.

Seeing this scene through the Mind Link of the frontline personnel, how could Xia Duo not realize that his tactic of delaying and probing had already been discovered? It was just that this completely unfamiliar Elf did not seem to care at all, and even spouted wild words:

Bottom of Tear Drop Lake.

And the most critical point is that all members of Spellcasting Team 2 are only Intermediate Rank Mages; even if they obtained an effect similar to a High Mage through Coordinated Casting, the absolute shortcoming in "hardware" destined that they could not have the real-time spellcasting distance of a true High Mage.

In the Mind Link, Xia Shao's orders came one after another, specific to every individual spellcaster, and without any delay; in the outside world, this manifested as the reinforcement mages on the shore quickly entering the state of Coordinated Casting.

And at the Alliance Headquarters, regarding the changes at Tear Drop Lake, Xia Shao had a plan in mind; he had already made the worst preparations. Even if all the frontline personnel there were sacrificed, including the senior mage who came to reinforce them later, he must make that ritual expose enough details, because there were still a large number of such rituals in other places waiting for him!

It is funny to say, among those mages, quite a few had clearly and involuntarily leaked their thoughts of wanting to run away in the Mind Link, but because of the stalemate in the battle, once they lost Xia Shao's command, they would likely collapse directly.

"Do not be distracted, Andelie, you have already made mistakes twice in a row; I have no confidence in helping you make up for it a third time."

It is just that sometimes being in such a position, a very helpless thing is having to make the decision to sacrifice some people. If possible, he hopes there are no sacrifices, but the enemy will not think so.

And he simultaneously activated the spellcasting sequences of three main threads; it was only because he had the Wisdom Brain to assist, otherwise Xia Duo really would not dare to play like this, as one might accidentally lift a rock only to drop it on his own feet.

The arrogant and conceited voice spread rapidly across the plaza; because it was underwater, it had a more chaotic and sinister feeling. Xia Shao was simultaneously presiding over multiple actions and did not want to communicate with this guy at all.

"Pay attention, listen to my instructions, execute the following spellcasting sequence—"

"Come on, stop me! I have already been unable to wait to see the expressions of despair on your faces!"

And at the bottom of the lake, that arrogant ritual host also quickly felt the pressure. First, he ignored the ritual and directly tried to control the unfamiliar spells; once he was slightly distracted, the interference with the ritual followed one after another.

If it is said that Spellcasting Team 2 could withdraw because they were too weak, then the reinforcement mages who arrived later had to fight to the end because they were too strong. At this moment, they were already in a stalemate fighting that Darkness Society High Mage under Xia Shao's command.

That is, the ability to create a spellcasting source point at a distance, or in other words, the ability to perform Control on the Magic Net String.