Chapter 3375: Sudden Attack

————Finished the previous two chapters, taking a break tomorrow to grind hard.

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In the blink of an eye, all the strange phenomena dissipated, leaving only Kandela, with his serious yet slightly callow face, blocking Dafuni's path.

"What a pity, you originally had a bright future!"

Just as Dafuni was about to say a few more words, her peripheral vision caught the traces of the Magic Array destroyed by the Annihilation Light behind Kandela, and suddenly, heavy strange phenomena appeared again; however, compared to the ever-changing future, the phenomena of the past were relatively uniform.

It was a light of the extreme, as if she had seen the sun. Seeing this scene, Dafuni felt a slight stinging pain in her eyes, but the pain was not the only harvest; that extreme light even severed the Time Line, making it impossible for her to continue peering into the past.

Looking around again, similar light was almost everywhere, and an alarm bell immediately rang in Dafuni's heart—

This is a trap!

Subsequently, she launched an attack on Kandela without the slightest hesitation. There was no sign of any elemental disturbance or Magic Net fluctuation, only a starlight shooting from her eyes, which expanded as it enveloped Kandela.

Seeing this scene, Kandela's first reaction was to retreat. After all, the position where this suddenly appearing enemy emerged was very clever, exactly blocking the path between them and the remaining members of the Moonshadow Family.

But precisely because of this, if he were to hand over the captives he had already controlled without even a shred of resistance, he feared that even he would face reprimand upon returning.

"So what if you're a high-level Mage? It's not like I haven't seen one before!"

Although Kandela rationally acknowledged the opponent's strength, or even invincibility, emotionally, he instead felt a sense of defiance and an urge to clash with the opponent.

"Calm down, retreat first!"

Xia Duo issued the command via Mind Link. Upon receiving the order, Kandela looked at the hazy starlight rapidly covering him and knew that following the order to retreat was the best choice, but he was unwilling!

At this moment, his companions had already begun to retreat in the direction they came from under Xia Duo's command. Seeing this, Kandela gritted his teeth and had no choice but to retreat as well.

However, while retreating, he applied to Xia Duo via Mind Link for an Annihilation Light strike, with the range limited to the passage he was retreating through, existing in the form of a plane.

Once he chose to retreat, his rationality regained the upper hand. The opponent's starlight spell was clearly something he had never encountered before, and it didn't even cause any reaction from the Magic Net.

Under these circumstances, the only means of obstruction he could think of was the Annihilation Light.

Fortunately, he won his gamble. Behind him, the Annihilation Light was like a mirror of destruction; the hazy starlight shot from Dafuni's eyes began to dissipate bit by bit before it could even make substantial contact with it.

It was just that Kandela did not discover this scene; the Annihilation Light's disintegration of matter and annihilation of energy did not just target the enemy—the Spellcaster's own spells were not spared either.

Only Xia Duo discovered this situation from the omnidirectional 【Wide-Area Detection】.

Although he did not understand what kind of existence the starlight dissipating from Dafuni's eyes was, it was enough as long as it could be countered by the Annihilation Light. Previously in Taiweimansa, because it was on Yierlan's territory, he could not summon the Annihilation Light.

But Tanzan Peak was not the territory of any country. Even if he completely wiped this place out, at most he would be accused of making a big fuss and damaging the environment; in reality, he wouldn't even need to pay compensation.

After all, it was ownerless land; no entity was qualified to accept his compensation.

Compared to the gains of completely eliminating the Illuminati leader, a little loss of reputation was, for Xia Duo, the most worthwhile trade-off, but—

Kandela was still there, so this account could not be settled that way.

If one added the youngest son of the Evereska Elder and more than a dozen other Elite Mages, then it might not necessarily be worthwhile.

It is true that war has sacrifices, but those are mostly voluntary sacrifices, just like in the previous Tear Drop Lake operation, where those Elf Mages chose to stay despite knowing they would surely die.

Rather than being "sacrificed" without knowing it. Right now, if he told Kandela the truth, it wasn't that he looked down on the other party, but that Kandela's status was different after all, and his purpose for joining the Alliance was also different from others.

Nine times out of ten, he would not be willing to sacrifice himself voluntarily.

As for other Mages, given enough time to reason with them and appeal to their emotions, Xia Duo was still confident in persuading them; only Kandela was the exception.

At least in the short term, he had no confidence in persuading the other party to sacrifice themselves voluntarily.

Fortunately, the "map cannon" was not the only option. Xia Duo's avatar was already on its way to Tanzan Peak; as long as Kandela could delay for a little time, that would be enough for him to act.

……

Tanzan Peak, inside the mountain passage.

After confirming that the Annihilation Light was effective against the enemy, Kandela suddenly didn't want to retreat anymore. Moreover, Xia Duo's order was for him to delay as much as possible, and under these circumstances, he had a new idea.

This time, he set his sights on the Moonshadow Family members who were still in a state of confinement. Since the opponent appeared just as he was about to guide the teleportation, the goal was most likely to rescue those Moonshadow Family members.

Under these circumstances, the only possibility to hold the opponent back was to use those underage Elves.

With the support of the Computing Power Pool, Kandela quickly calculated a field coverage range that could block the newly appeared enemy from making contact with those underage Moonshadow Family Elves.

Soon, Xia Duo's main body at Yongle City received this Annihilation Light coverage range; it was not a simple ray or plane, but a hemispherical curved surface.

And to achieve this kind of coverage strike, the interference of the Annihilation Light excitation field had to be extremely precise, similar to a phased array radar on Earth, reshaping new wave peaks with specific directivity through the interference of multiple wave sources, thereby achieving precise scanning and even tracking of specific areas without needing to rotate the radar main body.

Generally speaking, the more wave sources and the slightly greater the power of a single wave source, the larger the range that can be precisely scanned and tracked.

And the Annihilation Light of Yongle City was even more complex. Although there were only two "wave sources," or more accurately "field generation sources," the target for shaping the excited Annihilation Light was very strict.

Even the most precise phased array radar on Earth could not shape electromagnetic waves at will—for example, into the shape of Mickey Mouse; it was mostly about concentrating wave peaks to perform beam scanning.

The Annihilation Light could certainly do this, and it would be even simpler, but if one wanted to achieve truly precise strikes—for example, annihilating only a single line, a single plane, or a single spatial region—then exceptionally complex calculations were required.

If the War Magic Artifact for the Annihilation Light were upgraded to multi-field interference, that might be simpler, but the current Yongle City only had dual-field interference.

A complex curved surface was enough to give Xia Duo a headache.

Even with the assistance of the Computing Power Pool and the intelligent brain, he could not launch the strike immediately.