Chapter 3400: Characteristics of Sea Elf Magic

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Especially the latter, Xia Duo invested more energy, because right now the Illuminati has already begun the decisive battle on the Time Line, and even under his command, it is difficult for the various local battlefields to gain the upper hand, let alone achieve victory.

And this further highlights the preciousness of the information already obtained in the various local battlefields before noon today.

That information contains not only the details of the Time-Involving Rituals in the corresponding battlefields, but also various potential information exposed by the behavior of the Illuminati Mages themselves.

Regarding the part about the Time-Involving Rituals, because Xia Duo had already parsed the Tear Drop Lake ritual during the Time Loop of the Tanzan Peak operation, this can likewise be used to assist in parsing the ritual details of other battlefields.

And on the local battlefields, the words and actions of the Illuminati Mages are also very important; even the details of the battlefields themselves are worth analyzing, but it is a pity that the Time Loops experienced before only add up to a little over two years, which is not enough to support Xia Duo in conducting a comprehensive intelligence analysis.

Parsing the Time-Involving Ritual at Tear Drop Lake alone can already be considered lucky, and now, Xia Duo is prepared to complete the remaining analysis work.

Compared to individual research within a Time Loop, now he can make use of the Wisdom brain, the Computing Power Pool, and the various domain experts in the Command Network; if it is purely researching Time-Involving Rituals, it is not necessarily more efficient than in a Time Loop.

But when it comes to intelligence analysis, it will only be more efficient than him thinking dryly without any assistance; in fact, this is also the fundamental reason why he only parsed Time-Involving Rituals in the Time Loop.

Parsing Time-Involving Rituals involves the Application of Magic knowledge, and the assistance of others is mostly reflected in computing power, while the effect on inspiration is not obvious.

But for intelligence analysis, almost every individual is involved, not to mention those intelligence experts who are even more skilled than Xia Duo.

In terms of intelligence analysis, integrating everyone's Wisdom is the most efficient, which is the so-called "one person's plan is short, two people's plans are long."

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Xia Duo synchronized all the analysis progress in the Command Network at the first moment, and then he joined in himself; very quickly, he discovered a key clue!

In order to ensure the smooth progress of the Time-Involving Rituals in the local battlefields, the Illuminati almost all chose places inaccessible to human footprints, so that they could avoid the anchoring of the past by historical inertia as much as possible.

But the Northland, after all, does not have many truly wild places; so-called ownerless lands are mostly places that cannot be developed at the moment, or lack a basis in law, while in the past, those ownerless lands basically all had owners.

This also means that it is difficult for there to be many places that are truly inaccessible to human footprints.

Therefore, in the selection of specific ritual locations, the Illuminati mostly chose to be underwater or inside mountains, just like Tear Drop Lake and the stronghold of the Moonshadow Family inside Tanzan Peak.

Of course, this alone is not enough to be identified by Xia Duo as a key clue; after all, anyone who just glances at the locations of the various local battlefields can reach such a conclusion.

The key lies in the fact that these two special types of ritual locations—underwater and inside mountains—cannot be accessed by conventional means; for example, to go underwater, one must at least have a Spell capable of going underwater, right? One cannot just swim down directly, can one?

Even if they really swam down directly, those Illuminati Mages could not possibly hold their breath while casting Spells, right?

What's more, some underwater ritual locations are not shallow in depth; even Elves who are extremely skilled at diving find it difficult to maintain a normal state of activity there, at least unable to sustain it until the ritual ends.

In this situation, it is like needing to use Magic to change the environment, or to let oneself adapt to the environment.

The clue Xia Duo discovered lies right here; he discovered that almost every underwater ritual location featured a 【Water Elemental Domain Barrier】. If it were just this, it would not be worth paying too much attention to, but it just so happens that they are all barriers in the style of the Sea Elf.

The Magic of the Surface Elves on the Main Plane has long formed a clear distinction from other branching Elves.

For example, the Drow; first of all, the Magic Net environment of the Underdark is different from the surface, and coupled with the harsh living environment, not only are the survival resources of the environment itself scarce, but there is also more cruel competition brought about by this scarcity.

Therefore, developing to this day, the Magic of the Drow has long evolved into a completely different system compared to their surface kin from nearly ten thousand years ago.

The Sea Elf is the same; perhaps the Magic system has not had much essential change, but the Spellcasting style and Spell forms are all closely related to the environment in which they live.

Without frequent communication with the continental Elves, it is also very easy to develop a unique style.

Of course, these are just reasons Xia Duo looked for after concluding that Sea Elf Magic appeared in the local battlefields, and the reason he was able to reach the conclusion in advance is naturally because he had seen Sea Elf Magic of a similar style in the Projection Plane.

If one says that the same Sea Elf Magic exists at Tear Drop Lake and even other multiple underwater ritual locations, perhaps it can be considered a coincidence, but different variants of the same Magic appear, and they are still in the Sea Elf style.

Then that obviously cannot be explained by coincidence.

It is more likely that the Illuminati has been in contact with Sea Elf Mages and learned water-related Spells from them, or simply that Sea Elf Mages have joined the Illuminati.

Although it does not exclude the possibility that there really are Illuminati Mages who taught themselves Sea Elf Magic from scattered records on land, it is still difficult to explain the distinct Sea Elf style within it.

The key is that a more likely explanation already exists, so Xia Duo cannot ignore it.

No matter what, he must grasp this clue; perhaps this is the key to finding where the Illuminati's core ritual is located.

And this clue has already involved forces outside the Northland; if it is not investigated clearly, even if there is no impact now, it is highly likely to produce a backlash in the future.

Therefore, even if the situation is extremely urgent now, and it is even possible that the Illuminati will succeed in subverting the Time Line in the next moment, Xia Duo will still not let go of this clue.

After all, besides this one and only clue, there is really no other way to effectively counter the Illuminati.

Even if all countries open up War Spell Permission Levels and provide strong support, at most it will only keep the scattered Time Line battlefields in a stalemate; it may not necessarily affect the Illuminati's core ritual, and the Alliance remains in a passive position.

Xia Duo still understands the principle that long-term defense will inevitably lead to failure; if he wants to gain the initiative, he still needs to strike at the Illuminati's vital point.

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After discovering the Sea Elf clue, Xia Duo immediately synchronized it to the representatives of various countries, and then the representatives of various countries synchronized it to their respective countries, but the various countries had different opinions on this clue discovered by Xia Duo.

Most countries do not think that at the most urgent moment, they need to divert energy to investigate any Sea Elf; based on their understanding of Time-Involving Magic, they believe that as long as they defeat the Illuminati on the local battlefields, they can dismantle the other party's conspiracy.

This point itself is not a problem, but the problem is whether it can be done; in fact, it is already impossible to do so, because from noon until now, the Illuminati has already won quite a few victories.

No one knows how much impact these local victories will eventually have.