Chapter 525: Saving the

When Xia Duo returned to his residence in Giles Tower, it was already the early morning of the next day. Mentally, Xia Duo did not feel very exhausted; after all, even for an ordinary person, staying up late was nothing, and his physical constitution far exceeded that of an ordinary person.

Sleeping was certainly good, but Xia Duo still decided to pull an all-nighter to organize the spell duel from yesterday's Snow Melting Competition. He worked until morning, then gave himself a cleaning, stretched his limbs, and went outside the Mage Tower.

There were ten matches again today. On the way to the Arena with Niya, the two chatted about the upcoming matches, and they both coincidentally held a pessimistic view of today's results.

Yierlan had made up their mind to work with Cormanthor to target Netheril. If this continued, the participating Arcanists would only suffer losses for nothing. He had already seen it yesterday; the Elves seemed to be forcing the Arcanists to manifest their Arcane Fire and then launching targeted attacks.

Several people had already suffered damage to their Arcane Fire.

If Netheril did not have any countermeasures, then today's matches would only continue the results of yesterday.

Arcane Fire could be said to be the key to the advanced profession of Arcanist. The loss of just some excess Magic Net Strings was not a big deal—it was merely a matter of accumulating time—but if the core was damaged, one would have to re-advance.

If one only remained at the 5th-circle level, then having advanced once, one could re-advance several times later. But if one exceeded the 5th-circle level, then to re-advance, one could only wait until after becoming Legendary.

The participants of the Snow Melting Competition were limited to below the 8th-circle level, because once one reached the 8th-circle level, one could be called a Senior Arcanist or an Archmage.

At such a level, one basically would not participate in any public Arcane Competition, and basically, no one could command them like that.

In fact, according to Xia Duo's understanding, the power mastered by those people like Stuart was all at the 7th-circle level. If such people suffered any mishaps, Xia Duo felt that no material things could compensate for it.

"Save the land and lose the people, both the people and the land are lost; save the people and lose the land, both the people and the land are saved."

This was the viewpoint of a great man from Xia Duo's hometown, and it was actually applicable to the current Netheril.

Arcanists could be said to be the seeds of Great Arcanists, and Great Arcanists were existences that could form a direct deterrent against the Elves; they should not be consumed in such meaningless competition arenas.

Regardless of what was involved behind the Snow Melting Competition, as long as mass production of Great Arcanists had not been achieved, the human factor remained very critical and very important.

Sometimes, sacrificing some immediate interests to protect one or two good seedlings might yield more benefits in the future.

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Arriving at the Arena, Xia Duo and Niya sat in yesterday's seats. The Arena opened relatively early today; except for those who used the Teleportation Array, most other spectators were let in early.

However, it didn't take long before the Teleportation Array also began to activate.

Compared to yesterday, there was no major change in the number of spectators; it was mostly the same people as yesterday. What was strange was that yesterday, on the Elf side, the Gold Elves and other Elves sat quite scattered, but today they sat together.

Of course, this was only for Yierlan and Cormanthor. As for the Gold Elves of Yierlan, they sat far away from the Cormanthor Elves, which was the same as yesterday.

Niya also noticed the phenomenon of the Elves sitting together and couldn't help but exclaim, "It looks like Yierlan has really come together with Cormanthor; they aren't even hiding it anymore!"

Regardless of whether they understood the specific details of that history, most Netherese, including Spellcasters, were full of goodwill toward the Yierlan Elves who led Netheril into the door of Magic.

At this moment, although Niya felt some regret, she did not show any overly negative emotions.

Soon, the representatives of the three parties, as well as the big shots in the secondary seats, all arrived. Elkamon immediately announced the start of the competition, but before starting, there was an extra introduction—

"Friends from the Elf Kingdom of Yierlan, from further west than Yierlan!"

Elkamon's introduction was full of emotion. Tracing back through history, the Yierlan Elves were the Elves who had contact with the Netherese second only to Yierlan.

However, later contacts were mostly normal trade exchanges in the Dwarf trade city of Asikeer, but in Elkamon's introduction, this also became a testament to the long-standing relationship between the two sides.

Soon, the competition officially began. In the spectator stands, Xia Duo was still considering the issue of Yierlan. Niya had mentioned to him before that the connection between the Yierlan Elves and Netheril was not much.

The most critical thing was that Yierlan and Cormanthor did not get along; calling them mortal enemies would not be an exaggeration.

It seemed that, stimulated by Cormanthor, there was a possibility for the relationship between Netheril and Yierlan to go a step further.

For Xia Duo, this somewhat eased his anxiety about a possible future war. The Elves were not a monolith, and the more complex the situation, the more favorable it was for the peaceful development of Netheril.

Of course, it was also more favorable for Xia Duo's own growth.

Thinking this way, he felt that those Gold Elves from Yierlan also became cute.

To be honest, Xia Duo could not really accept the golden skin of the Gold Elves, or the copper-colored skin of the Wood Elves that was slightly greenish; the skin of the Moon Elves, which was as clean as white jade, was very beautiful.

In addition, there was another type of Suri Elf that Xia Duo had seen in 【Projection Plane: Maiyuelita Sukanweisa City】, who also had fair skin and tall, athletic bodies. However, he also knew that in the Main Plane, perhaps true Suri Elves no longer existed.

They now had a new name—Drow.

Xia Duo had once personally killed a Drow Assassin in 【Projection Plane: Yierlan Yinguangcheng】. If he hadn't read literature about the Drow in Yinguang City, he would have found it hard to imagine that the pitch-black-skinned Drow, whose physique was even worse than humans, were once tall and fair Suri Elves.

Sighing slightly at the cruelty of the Elves' infighting, Xia Duo turned his gaze back to the competition arena.

The first match was a fake fight between two Elf Mages, which was truly annoying, and the second match was an Elf Mage from Cormanthor challenging a Netherese Arcanist.

This was finally worth watching.

Just like yesterday, the Elf Mage intended to force the Netherese side to manifest their Arcane Fire and then desperately attack the Arcane Fire, even ignoring their own safety to a certain extent.

The intentions were extremely sinister!

However, Xia Duo also learned some techniques for operating Arcane Fire because of this.

Moreover, after yesterday's competition, the Netherese side also realized that Yierlan and Cormanthor were teaming up to target them, so today's participants immediately had some responsive measures.

The reaction speed was quite fast.

Of course, it also made for a very satisfying watch for Xia Duo.