Chapter 558: Three People Make a Tiger, Departure

This is the final day of the Arcane Maze project competition, and the first match is Cormanthor challenging Netheril.

It is precisely because of this that Niya reminded Xia Duo to watch carefully; if it were just a staged performance between elves, she wouldn't even want to watch it herself, let alone remind Xia Duo.

"Xia Duo, how do you think the outcome will go today?"

"Not sure, let's see how the first match goes first. But with a Great Arcanist providing personal training, I imagine it won't be worse than yesterday (Main Plane)!"

"A Great Arcanist? Did the teacher train them? You saw the teacher?"

Niya asked several questions in a row, leaving Xia Duo unable to keep up, but the match on the field was not boring, and Niya didn't seem in a rush for Xia Duo to answer; she just asked the questions and then continued watching the match.

Xia Duo also watched the match while answering, "It was Master Badijiaer from Gustav Tower; the Master even gave me a few Arcane Crystals!"

"Really?!" Niya suddenly turned her head, her face full of surprise, "I heard that person is very difficult to get along with. How did you manage that?"

"No way? Niya! Do you actually believe those rumors?" Although Xia Duo said this, in truth, he had the same thought at the beginning.

And looking at the secondary seats beneath the representatives of the three nations at this moment, Great Arcanist Badijiaer was indeed dignified and solemn, looking somewhat fiercer than the others.

"Of course I don't believe them, but after hearing them so much, I just—" Niya felt a bit embarrassed. Thinking back carefully, they were indeed just rumors. Now that Xia Duo had interacted with Badijiaer, it was clear that Xia Duo's account was more credible.

Xia Duo certainly didn't suck up to him just because of those 8 Arcane Crystals; while watching the match, he simply described his experience in the Annihilation Plane.

He believed Niya would have her own judgment.

Three people make a tiger; he didn't know how those rumors had spread. Did the Great Arcanist really not care at all?

If he put himself in that position, it seemed he really wouldn't need to care about such things.

If the rumor was satisfying, treat it as a joke; if the rumor was unsatisfying, then just wipe them out.

Thinking this way, Xia Duo felt that Badijiaer might indeed have a dignified and tyrannical side, but he immediately shook his head; when those of lower status speculate about those of higher status, there are always countless interpretations.

As for what the reality is, who knows?

Recalling his own mindset in Daxia Territory, Xia Duo seemed to understand the Great Arcanist's thoughts, yet he also seemed not to.

……

Right here in the Arena, discussing the Great Arcanist himself in front of the Great Arcanist was somewhat inappropriate, so Xia Duo and Niya quickly stopped talking and focused on watching the match.

In the first match, as expected, Netheril won.

In the following matches, Xia Duo noticed that the elves didn't seem to have improved much, while the humans had undergone targeted training. Was the full-win scenario of the first day going to repeat itself?

Between matches, Xia Duo kept an eye on the elves from Cormanthor. He hadn't noticed it before, but upon looking, he realized that the number of elves who came to watch the match today was fewer than before.

Looking at the expressions of those elf contestants, even from a distance, one could see they were in a bad mood; their elegant facade seemed to be wearing thin!

It looked like today's matches were in the bag.

As for what followed, it was just as Xia Duo had expected: except for a draw in the final match, Netheril won all other matches.

After the match ended, Xia Duo and Niya returned to Giles Tower together. He now had to prepare for his return. The final project of the Snow Melting Competition, the Grand Illusion, was a group project and could be considered an exhibition match.

If nothing unexpected happened, tomorrow would be the final day of the Snow Melting Competition.

……

Niya's residence.

Upon hearing Xia Duo mention that he was about to leave, Niya felt inexplicably restless, though she told herself it was just unhappiness at losing a peer she could communicate with, so she didn't think too much of it.

She even thought Xia Duo should return to his Territory in time, otherwise he might be punished by his teacher, but at the same time, she thought of a problem, "If you leave, what about the Fielder Spellbook? Didn't you say you were going to decipher it with me?"

"That's simple."

Xia Duo took out a communication magic tool that looked like a Crystal Ball and handed it to Niya, "The deciphering work can only be considered in the preliminary preparation stage right now. We will first Identify the relevant elements of the Spellbook. Even after I go back, we can contact and communicate through this communication magic tool to formulate a specific deciphering plan, and only then will we move to the specific action stage."

Niya subconsciously took the communication magic tool, but her attention was not on it. In the past, she would have immediately noticed this communication magic tool capable of directly connecting Seventon and Nan Jing.

But now, she subconsciously wanted to refute Xia Duo's words. Realizing this thought, Niya was immediately startled by herself and hurriedly focused her attention on the communication magic tool.

This communication magic tool was completely transparent; if not for the presence of a Magic Aura, it would be no different from an ordinary Crystal Ball. But Niya was not an ignorant ordinary person or a wandering Mage; she knew this was a packaged, standard Magic Item.

"The packaging technique is skillful. Using packaging materials semi-elementalized by Crystal Softener and Mithril Components, it has achieved compatibility and concealment on both the energy level and the material level. The activation method is still the universal type—" Niya commented subconsciously.

But soon she realized something was wrong, and her voice rose involuntarily, "A new type of communication magic artifact?! Wait, what did you just say? This communication magic artifact can directly connect Seventon and Nan Jing?!"

"Yes."

Xia Duo took out another Crystal Ball and, in front of Niya, cast a Twin Arcane Mark, landing them on both communication magic artifacts respectively. This counted as adding a friend, and then he explained:

"Before long, the Arcane Union should make this new type of communication spell public, but it will never be as convenient as a communication magic artifact."

Xia Duo didn't explain too much, otherwise it would lead to a whole bunch of other questions, and instead continued to introduce how to use the communication magic artifact.

Since it was a communication magic artifact, the usage method was certainly not difficult; the only difficulty was probably the 1st Circle Spell, Twin Mark, used for adding friends.

After the verbal introduction, Xia Duo handed Niya a user manual, and that was the end of it.

"I've already given you the communication magic artifact, now hurry up and finish the Identification of the Fielder Spellbook!"

"Ah?" Niya, who was flipping through the user manual, was feeling a bit happy, but was interrupted by Xia Duo. She couldn't help but ask: "Is it that urgent? Didn't you say the Territory's ship would take a few more days to arrive?"

"It is a few days away, but the problem is I can't contact the ship right now, and I don't know exactly when they will arrive, so it's better to finish it as soon as possible."

If he really wanted to contact them, Xia Duo could still do it, but there was no need. He estimated that in a few days, the fleet would arrive, and later, if he equipped them with communication magic artifacts, they could have two-way contact at any time.

Of course, if the Identification work for the Spellbook wasn't finished after the fleet arrived, he would still delay for a few days; after all, no one was rushing him about when he had to leave.

He just felt that staying in Seventon wasn't as satisfying as being in his own Territory, and he wanted to go back early to do things with his hands untied.