Chapter 837: Spell Batteries and Multi-threaded Spellcasting

After arriving at the jungle where they had trained previously, Aisisi was the first to propose: "Lord Xia Duo, before Lord Fusitemu arrives, shall we conduct a joint drill?" After spending the better part of yesterday interacting with them, he had roughly grasped who among these eight people held the most authority; Niya undoubtedly held the highest status, yet she consistently respected and was willing to follow Xia Duo's opinions.

Therefore, this time Aisisi directly proposed the suggestion to Xia Duo, understanding that as long as Xia Duo agreed, the others would be no issue at all.

Hearing Aisisi's proposal, Xia Duo naturally looked toward Niya and Beilaila, and seeing that they were also interested, he agreed directly.

"Mage Aisisi, this is a good proposal. How would you like to conduct the drill?"

"If the mission had already begun, I would be willing to submit to Lord Saville's leadership. However, since we are still in the training phase, I hope that each of us can have the opportunity to lead the resonance state."

Xia Duo thought for a moment and agreed.

According to his speculation, the form of the mission would very likely evolve into some kind of direct confrontation, rather than actually playing hide-and-seek in the forest.

As for personnel, it would very likely involve one High Mage leading multiple Intermediate Mages to form a squad, rather than multiple High Mages joining together.

Of course, it was also possible that multiple squads would join together.

In short, they must make full use of these more numerous Intermediate Mages, incorporating them into a joint spellcasting system led by High Mages, in order to maximize the significance of their existence.

Then, after the mission officially begins, these High Mages would very likely have to lead their own squads, and at that time, fighting for the leading position during a drill would have no meaning at all.

Only when multiple squads coordinate in the future would it be meaningful to decide who leads; in this regard, Niya had a great advantage, but only by performing well in training would the others truly be convinced.

Of course, if Aisisi or Beilaila were truly natural leaders, Xia Duo would not forcibly demand that he or Niya occupy the leading position; after all, this also concerned his own life.

A general's incompetence exhausts the three armies; Xia Duo took this deeply to heart.

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The High Mages made the decision, and the remaining few Intermediate Mages had almost no opportunity to speak.

In fact, aside from political significance, the true value of their existence might be to serve as spell batteries for the High Mages, as well as providing additional spellcasting threads.

The first practice was led by Xia Duo as the leader; when everyone took out their resonance spellbooks, they each first used the spellbook to cast a simple trick.

During this process, spellbooks within a certain range would automatically "lock onto" other spellbooks, forming a resonance network, and the leading position was also determined during this process.

Xia Duo held the Pioneer Scepter in one hand and the resonance spellbook in the other; he felt an intangible fluctuation radiating from his spellbook, linking himself to the other seven people, and a very familiar feeling welled up.

It was as if he were currently in the Advanced Laboratory, the surrounding Magic Net seemed completely prepared, following his will to move, ready to erupt with magnificent power at any moment.

A powerful illusion! Xia Duo quickly realized this; usually, when he and Niya performed joint spellcasting, the feeling was not very obvious, but once there were many people, it was easy to feel the Magic Net being easily mutable.

Although this was indeed the case, this power did not come from himself, but from the assistance of the other seven people.

Once the others gave up, or even if the Intermediate Mages among them were slightly distracted, he would immediately be knocked back to his original state.

Of course, this was merely one state of the resonance spellbook, a state led by the Spellcaster, characterized by flexibility, and its function was only to provide the role of a spell battery for the leader of the resonance state.

In this state, others only needed to remain focused and did not need to worry about spellcasting issues; the spellcasting was entirely controlled by the leader of the resonance state.

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And the other state was the multi-threaded state, but compared to being controlled by only the leader, this state was very mechanical and could only cast fixed spells preset in the spellbook, without room for free improvisation.

Even if Xia Duo and the others mastered joint spellcasting without the aid of a resonance spellbook, they could perform multi-threaded spellcasting, but once they used the spellbook, they still had to follow the rules of the spellbook.

In fact, during Fusitemu's teaching yesterday, Xia Duo had already understood that the resonance spellbook was an imitation of Elf joint spellcasting; although the threshold was lowered, the flexibility was more than a notch worse than the Elf joint spellcasting.

Of course, humans could also train for true joint spellcasting, but the problem of multi-person resonance alone was very difficult to solve, let alone multi-threaded spellcasting.

Letting every Spellcaster in the resonance state participate—this was a coordination problem, easier to solve than multi-person resonance, but it also required a large amount of time to practice.

It seemed that for humans, the resonance spellbook was indeed more suitable.

As long as one worked hard to update the preset spells in the spellbook and considered all kinds of situations, it would be almost no different from Elf joint spellcasting.

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After practicing the state led entirely by one person, Xia Duo quickly ended such a drill; this state was almost no different from him casting spells alone, only that the spells that could be cast became more numerous.

The cost, naturally, was that the spells others could cast became fewer; this might be useful in certain specific situations, but as long as there was no situation where Xia Duo had to cast a spell and his energy was insufficient to complete the spellcasting task, it was very lackluster.

Xia Duo focused on practicing the second type—multi-threaded spellcasting.

"Protection-2-14!"

This specifically referred to the 14th spell of the 2nd Circle in the Protective Spell category of the spellbook! As the command was issued, because they were practicing, Xia Duo deliberately waited a moment longer, confirming that everyone was ready, before beginning to trigger the energy guidance link of this spell's initial state.

Just like counting off in a line, after Xia Duo called out "1", the others quickly followed in sequence with "2", "3", "4", and occasionally there would be simultaneous operations like "x-1", "x-2".

But compared to true multi-threaded spellcasting where every element had to be cast personally, this form of dividing element units to form specific modules, solidifying them into a Magic Item, and having multiple people trigger them separately, was almost a fool-proof mode.

When the last spell element unit was triggered, the spell quickly took shape, and a Protective Field divided into countless small diamond-shaped pieces appeared around everyone, continuously spreading outward.

Although this was a 2nd Circle Spell, its complexity was no less than 10 2nd Circle Spells being triggered simultaneously, and its actual protective strength far exceeded the strength of a normal single 2nd Circle Protection.

If integrated and simplified, this 2nd Circle Spell, recorded in the spellbook as the Diamond Protective Field, could also be converted into an equivalent 6th Circle Spell.

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