Chapter 3416: Escape

————It will be later~~

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Very soon, as Jiliu continued its advance.

Inside the cabin, faint specks of light began to appear in the exterior projection that had previously been nothing but darkness. Xia Duo realized that Beilunuo had arrived; while the long voyage had given him more time to learn about Beilunuo from Meila, it had also worn down his patience.

Over at Yongle City, aid from the various Elf nations had arrived in succession, and High Mages from within Netheril who were not supported by the Seven Towers were also arriving one after another; those who had already arrived had long since begun emergency training.

And in the local battlefields pointed to by the Time-Involving Signal, the influence brought about by the early arrival of the Seven Towers High Mages continued to expand. From their initial lack of proficiency after just finishing training, they could now, without needing Xia Duo's guidance, independently complete the screening and judgment of frontline guidance signals, as well as the calculation of precise strike ranges.

The addition of War Spells provided a great boost to the front lines; although the scales of victory were still constantly tipping toward the Illuminati, the Alliance was finally no longer helpless.

With the help of War Spells, news of victory kept coming from the frontline battlefields, and for every piece of victory news received, Xia Duo would almost immediately dispatch a (normally capable of Spellcasting) avatar to anchor the past of the victory by receiving a Sending from a Divine Envoy.

Correspondingly, the Illuminati were also constantly competing for victories on the Time Line. Because Xia Duo's consciousness could maintain continuity amidst changes in the Time Line, there had been more than one occasion where he failed to arrive in time to anchor the past of an Alliance victory, allowing the Illuminati to reshape the Time Line, change the past, and transform an Alliance victory into an Illuminati victory.

Of course, this only accounted for a small minority among all the local battlefields represented by the victory news. Although the Illuminati surely also possessed War Spells, their efficiency in utilizing War Spells was far inferior to the War Spell System of Yongle City.

Moreover, because the Time Line battlefield could not be opened in multiple places simultaneously, this meant that the Illuminati could only attend to almost one local battlefield at a time, whereas the Alliance's support could be considered to be spread across the entire Time Line, and even the entire Northland.

The Illuminati could only win at one point; that is, the Alliance currently did not possess the ability to reshape the Time Line, otherwise the Illuminati would truly have no possibility of winning at all.

It was just that the War Spell System of Yongle City also had its limits and could not possibly attend to every local battlefield, which meant that although the Illuminati's overall ritual progress had been somewhat contained, it was still continuing to advance.

It was just that compared to the situation at noon when they first opened the Time Line battlefield and the Alliance had zero victories, the current speed was already many times slower.

This also bought more time for the Alliance to find where the Illuminati's true core ritual was located.

The current situation was slowly improving; if there were even a few more Yongle Cities, and a few more sets of similarly efficient War Spell Systems that could cover all local battlefields, then even if the Illuminati's core ritual could not be found, just dragging it out would be enough to exhaust the Illuminati.

Of course, it was impossible for Xia Duo to build several more War Spell Systems in a short time, and as for sharing the design plans with the Alliance so that the various Alliance nations could build them themselves, that was even more impossible.

Under the current circumstances, the factor of secrecy was secondary; the main issue was that there was not enough time. Xia Duo himself could not keep up, and other countries were also across different Magic systems, so they would certainly be even less capable.

Even if they were manufactured, personnel training would also require a considerable amount of time, but right now, even though some time had been bought through War Spells, it would not actually be much.

Xia Duo estimated that there might be at most one or two days, or even less. Right now, he was placing more hope on Beilunuo, hoping to obtain more clues about the Illuminati from the Sea Elf side.

Of course, he was not without other contingency plans. Once there were no gains at Beilunuo, he might immediately enter the Projection Plane and use the time difference of the Projection Plane to manufacture Magic Artifacts and then bring them out.

Then he would continue to recruit personnel to use them; perhaps he could complete the deployment before the Illuminati completed their ultimate ritual, and in this way, more time could be bought.

Even if full coverage of the local battlefields could be achieved, dragging the Illuminati down like this would also be a good choice.

It was just that if the Illuminati members could not be completely wiped out, who knew what kind of trouble those guys would stir up later.

Even if this was the final plan of the so-called "Elan Rebirth Project" and it would be impossible to implement ever again once this attempt failed, the Illuminati members would not necessarily have to repeat this plan later; they could completely choose revenge.

Because it was the Alliance that destroyed their last hope, although from the Alliance's perspective, this was actually saving the world, the Illuminati did not see it that way. If they could accept the real world, this current situation would not have arisen.

Therefore, whenever possible, Xia Duo hoped to eliminate all the core members of the Illuminati, and then with the help of the Divine Envoy's power, anchor the past to completely bury those "delusional patients" who possessed the power to destroy the world in the past.

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Endless Sea, deep sea.

From seeing the faint specks of light ahead of Jiliu to truly being able to see the full appearance of Beilunuo, it only took a few minutes in total.

"How magnificent!"

Seeing the scene of Beilunuo displayed by Jiliu's exterior projection, Xia Duo could not help but exclaim, and the "magnificent" he spoke of did not refer to the scale of Beilunuo's city.

In terms of actual scale, it was not much larger than Evereska. (Evereska had limited area due to the plateau, while Beilunuo was more dispersed and had a larger area, but its actual population was only one-tenth of Evereska's.)

What made Xia Duo exclaim was the great power of conquering Nature represented by such a city built on the seabed. Before Xia Duo transmigrated, people on Earth had already begun to explore the Universe, but the seabed of his own planet could still be called a forbidden zone.

Humans could easily send spaceships into space, but for the seabed, they could still only conduct very limited exploration.

And in the world of Magic, the ocean, or more accurately the deep sea, remained a forbidden zone for land-dwelling creatures. Although Magic existed, the more one understood Magic, the more one understood the difficulty of conquering the deep sea.

Specifically, this underwater city before his eyes, in Xia Duo's view, could be completely compared to his Floating City; of course, this only referred to the technical level of the Spellcaster conquering the environment, and did not include combat power, aesthetics, or other aspects.

The Floating City conquered the sky, while Beilunuo conquered the deep sea; both were special environments within the Plane that were originally unsuitable for the survival of land-dwelling creatures, and it was Magic that allowed land-dwelling creatures to overcome the limitations of the environment.

Although Sea Elves were now aquatic species, in the distant past, they were also land-dwelling creatures. It was to facilitate the defeat of the dragon-kind underwater that they transformed themselves into Sea Elves; they were not native aquatic species.

If they were native aquatic species, there would be no need to build a Water Elemental Domain covering the entire territory, but rather they would live directly in the water.

"Reduce speed, slowly approach." Xia Duo issued the order to the captain of Jiliu through Meila.