Chapter 526: Angelin, Arcane Staff

"Snow Melting Competition 【Spell Duel】 Round 12, Angelin, winner!"

Angelin is an Arcanist from Gustav Tower. Xia Duo once trained him in chess strategies, so seeing him win, and unscathed at that, Xia Duo was quite pleased.

It wasn't just Xia Duo; Angelin's victory also triggered a deafening roar of cheers within the Arena. For the first time, the Mages did not suppress their emotions and shouted openly.

Although Angelin was not the first Netherese Mage to win, he was the one who won the most easily.

Compared to yesterday's situation where even winning was a struggle, today undoubtedly had a very good start.

"Xia Duo, do you think Angelin can win another round?"

"He probably can!" Xia Duo said uncertainly.

He certainly hoped Angelin could achieve two wins, but after this round, would the Elves have some preparations for the next one?

However, the thing Xia Duo was worried about did not happen for the time being. In today's third round, it was still Angelin representing the Netherese side.

Under normal circumstances, contestants do not compete consecutively; that was how yesterday's matches went. But today, it was clear the Netherese side had changed their strategy.

Angelin challenged an Yierlan Mage.

Without any surprises, Angelin won easily!

The Arena erupted in high-pitched cheers once again. Almost all the Netherese Mages stood up and shouted Angelin's name. Even Xia Duo was infected by this fanatical emotion and added his own shouts.

In the subsequent matches, the Netherese side was occasionally able to achieve victory, but even when they won, it was never as easy as Angelin's. Naturally, no one else was able to make the Mages in the arena cheer so intensely.

Mages are calm by nature; if they hadn't been suppressed for too long yesterday, there wouldn't have been such a large rebound today.

In the following matches, mostly only low-level Mages would shout a few times; the reactions of the others were quite flat. However, those Dwarves were somewhat beyond Xia Duo's expectations.

After witnessing the Mages' cheers, no matter which side won afterward, the twenty-nine Dwarves sitting in the spectator stands would collectively raise their hammers to cheer, and then, as if no one else was around, take out their wine cups and drink deeply.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Xia Duo clearly felt that the Dwarf Holy Hammer Warrior in the second row looked like he couldn't sit still. He didn't know if he also wanted to drink or if he felt his clansmen were embarrassing themselves.

It wasn't until noon that the ten matches ended, finishing slightly earlier than yesterday.

Of course, Xia Duo was happy with that; it gave him plenty of time to organize the situation of today's matches.

After finishing lunch with Niya at the usual spot, they returned to Giles Tower together, where the two then parted ways, each returning to their own residence.

Organizing the match situation had no major difficulties; it only depended on one's memory ability. But if one had a deeper understanding of spell Principles and could understand the contestants' operations, then memorizing them was actually more efficient.

Xia Duo certainly didn't see the spell duels in the match as clearly as a Senior Arcanist, but when he was in the Arena, he had actually already recorded them in his Personal Space.

It was just that the records from that time were relatively messy and needed to be reorganized now. Unlike others, if they didn't have the Courage to take out a notebook in the Arena, they could only rely entirely on memory.

Being able to agree to an open competition was already quite good; how could they agree to let people record on the spot? Under the conditions of the Arena, wouldn't that be equivalent to completely revealing one's secrets?

Not to mention that the contestants couldn't accept it, the people above would also consider the impact on whether anyone would be willing to participate next time.

All in all, possessing a Personal Space that could be controlled freely meant Xia Duo still had a great advantage.

After organizing the various information related to Magic involved in today's ten spell duels, Xia Duo began to organize the pile of notes he had copied back from the 【Projection Plane: Arcane Empire】.

He had been busy advancing before, but now that the advancement was complete, these notes also needed to be organized, studied, and utilized.

It wasn't until near dusk, when Xia Duo estimated that Niya had finished organizing the morning's matches, that he contacted her and proposed borrowing the Spell Laboratory.

Having just obtained a complete Spellbook yesterday, Xia Duo was still very curious about its contents, especially since Xiao En likely awakened his bloodline because of this Spellbook. It was rare that he could hold back until now.

Just now, while Xia Duo was organizing the notes copied from the Arcane Empire, he had prioritized organizing the content related to the Spellbook. Additionally, he had already prepared the manufacturing data for the Tower of Time's Spellbooks in his Personal Space and had read through it in advance.

Regarding Spellbooks, Xia Duo's understanding was not biased; they were just a tool to assist Spellcasting, and even ordinary Spellbooks could become tools to assist Spellcasting.

It was just that when made into a Magic Item, the functions were more powerful.

Niya's reply was swift. Before long, she arrived at the location they had agreed upon and brought Xia Duo into the private area of Giles Tower.

Inside the Spell Laboratory, Xia Duo took out the lead box he had put into his Personal Space yesterday. Niya was about to avoid it, but was stopped by Xia Duo, "I didn't pay any price for this Spellbook. Padike originally wanted to find you, so you should stay and take a look too!"

Aside from the cost of using the Teleportation Array to bring Padike's family back to the Tower of Time, what Xia Duo actually paid was just some air-dried salted meat made by the territory's residents.

He felt that Niya also had the right to study this Spellbook. Just as he said, Padike was aiming for Niya's status at Giles Tower, and he was the one who intercepted it.

If it were someone else, that would be one thing, but for Niya, studying it together might yield greater gains.

Hearing the sincerity in Xia Duo's tone, Niya did not refuse again. She was indeed very interested in this Spellbook, "Then I will stay."

"Mm."

Opening the lead box, a strong Magic Aura appeared before Xia Duo once again. Judging solely from the Magic Aura, this Spellbook was even slightly stronger than the 【Crimson Shelter Robe】 on his body.

If there were no accidents, Padike's ancestor was at least an Archmage, because the robe he was wearing was the work of an Archmage.

It was a coming-of-age gift purchased for Niya by Lord Epps back then, costing over 50,000 Gold Coins, which was almost half of the Savile Territory's annual net income.

Looking at it this way, the value of this Spellbook was even more obvious.

On the cover were two lines of text, written in Netherese and Elvish respectively—"Feierde's Arcane Staff"!

This was the first time Xia Duo had seen someone name a book after a staff, and Feierde was the name of Padike's ancestor.

Padike's knowledge of this ancestor was very scarce. When Xia Duo brought his family to Daxia Territory yesterday, he had specifically asked, and all Padike knew was this name.

Not to mention any life stories or Magic Knowledge; he didn't even know what era this ancestor lived in.

Xia Duo certainly didn't know this Mage Feierde either. After all, the Mages whose names he knew were mostly famous Mages who had biographies. This Feierde was obviously not famous; at least Xia Duo had never read his biography.

Looking at the obviously handwritten cover, Xia Duo couldn't help but ask, "Niya, have you heard of this Mage Feierde?"

"No." Niya shook her head, "I have never heard of this name. If you want to find this kind of information, perhaps you can go to the Arcane Union and take a look."

"The Arcane Union? I understand. I'll go look for it when I have time tomorrow. For now, let's find a way to open this Spellbook!"