Chapter 811: Infiltration, Gold Elf Soldiers

Siluwende, Western Border.

Late that night, the quiet and peaceful border city of Domutos suddenly welcomed an uninvited guest. After several days of careful scouting, Xia Duo finally chose this place as his training ground.

Combining the information Niya brought back from the Princess, it was clear that the so-called joint operation was likely to be the expulsion or killing of Cormanthor Elves who had invaded a certain Sub-plane.

Of course, the other side might also be treating them the same way, so the focus of the joint operation would likely be on searching and preventing searches.

As for combat, combat between Spellcasters, the advantage of the first strike is extremely important, and it is easy to form a situation of many against few; Xia Duo was not very worried about this aspect.

And considering that Cormanthor was dealing with the Drow War, and Netheril possessed the power to strike back, this joint operation should only be a low-intensity conflict.

This conflict might determine the ownership of a Sub-plane, but it was unlikely to escalate the conflict into a higher-level war.

That was a consequence no one wanted to see, whether it was the Elves, known for their long lives, or Netheril, which desperately needed time to develop.

Therefore, both sides should control the power participating in the conflict.

Of course, if one absolutely believed that the other side would participate with equal power, then one was not far from death.

It was just that Xia Duo knew too little about high-level power. The things he could practice in the Projection Plane did not even include combat, because he had not received training in Joint Casting for combat as a Netherese Mage, and there were no companions here to practice with him.

Anyway, after leaving the Projection Plane, he and Niya would head to Seventon to receive special training before the joint operation; whatever combat techniques there were, he would know them then.

And here, he could compete with relatively real Elves in reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, tracking and counter-tracking, and that was enough.

In fact, the experience gained from the projection becoming a Drow, although the vast majority was experience in the Underdark environment, still had a considerable portion that was applicable on the Surface.

Xia Duo set a goal for himself, which was to clear out the Elf Mages in Duomutuosi City as much as possible, while dodging all searches.

Over the past two days, he had already identified a target, and his infiltration late that night was to hunt the other party—the renowned Secret Text Master and Elite Mage of Duomutuosi City, Genite.

And to complete a provocation.

……

"These Elves are truly not what they used to be!"

After entering the city without any obstruction, Xia Duo could not help but sigh.

In the era where the Projection Plane 【Maiyelita Sukanweisa City】 was located, almost every border town of the Elves was covered by a Mythallar, and at the very least, there would be various Jieti for warning.

Imagining climbing over a wall to enter the city relying only on physical agility like he was doing now was almost unimaginable in that era.

A border city did not even have night guards, and the military preparedness was lax to this extent; it was no wonder that it was defeated by the newly rising Yierlan hundreds of years later and became the other party's vassal state.

Hundreds of years for Elves was just one generation, which showed that the decline of Siluwende's national strength might have long since penetrated into its internal organs, beyond saving.

However, as for what the situation really was, Xia Duo still had to verify it himself to know. If it was truly not worth a fight, then he would have to go to the newly established Yierlan.

Passing through the thorn tree wall, the road was smooth and unobstructed. It was not until he approached the inner city that Xia Duo saw the first wave of patrol soldiers coming out of the inner city.

There were four Elves in total, and they were all Gold Elves, wearing metal armor, with long swords at their waists, long bows hanging on their shoulders, quivers on their backs, and arrow feathers resting on their shoulders.

Seeing these Elves, Xia Duo finally felt that his trip had not been in vain. Each and every one of them was covered in Magic Equipment, especially those arrows with only the feathers visible, which gave one an inexplicable sense of crisis.

Xia Duo thought of the Magic Arrow he still had in his Personal Space that he had discovered from the Mythallar ruins; even if placed in this Projection Plane, it could be considered an ancient Psionic Creation.

These Gold Elf soldiers' Magic Arrows should not be stronger than his, but this was, after all, a long-range attack method.

Who knew what might pop out from inside!

Watching from afar as these four cold-faced, uniformly moving Gold Elf soldiers moved away bit by bit, Xia Duo waited until he could no longer see their figures and could no longer hear their footsteps before he crept toward the inner city again.

Arriving here, it finally looked a bit like a magical race. In addition to the persistent guard Jieti, there were also detection spells sweeping over from time to time, and the strictness far exceeded that of the outer city.

It seemed that these Gold Elves not only extremely discriminated against other Elves, but even within the Gold Elves, they were divided into different ranks.

……

The periodic detection spells were not worth mentioning; as long as one was careful to avoid them, it was fine. It was the persistent guard Jieti that was very troublesome.

If it were Xia Duo alone, he would have no way to deal with it in a short time, mainly because he had no research on Elven Magic, even though he had read many books in the Kelaorui Family in the Underdark before.

Even if Drow Magic and Elven Magic were homologous, wanting to consume and understand them in a short time was still not easy.

The biggest trouble here was that he could not alert the other party, otherwise the research would be meaningless. If he could ignore the other party's reaction and keep trying, even without those Drow Magic materials, Xia Duo would have the confidence to find a breakthrough method in a short time.

One had to alert them to study and find a breakthrough method, but the purpose of finding a breakthrough method was precisely to avoid alerting them; this was a contradiction.

But fortunately, Xia Duo was not just himself at the moment; he also had "Brandon". Having received a Drow mission to come to the Surface, how could he not have considered this situation!

Among the equipment Maluxisi sent him, there were Magic Items specifically used for concealment and even infiltrating Elven Jieti. Other Drow had them too, but the effect might not be as excellent as what Maluxisi had prepared for him.

After activating the concealment effect of the Invisibility Cloak, Xia Duo's figure seemed to turn into a shadow and melt into the night. From his hiding place outside the inner entrance, he spread all the way to the inner city, without touching any magic Jieti during the process.

Of course, the actual situation was that the cloak temporarily transformed Xia Duo into an existence suspected to be a shadow creature, simultaneously existing in the Main Plane and the Shadow Plane, and he could choose in which specific Plane to manifest.

It was a bit like the feeling of storing and retrieving items in a Personal Space.

Just like that, he swaggered past the entrance of the inner city, and not a single Elf discovered him. However, the concealment effect of the Invisibility Cloak was not permanent and could only be maintained for about ten minutes.

But that was enough to support Xia Duo in completing the hunt.

……

Genite's residence was easy to find; it was a Library in the inner city. This was also an important reason why Xia Duo placed his first target on him—

He needed to practice, and he also needed to plunder Knowledge.