Chapter 843: The Three-Year Promise, Fuzzy Spellcasting

While Niya and the others were busy contacting the Intermediate Mages they knew, Xia Duo was not idle himself; he knew that this joint operation, or rather, the expanded Plane War, had conscripted all Pioneers.

However, not all Pioneers originated from the Seven Towers; in fact, the majority of them did not belong to the Seven Towers, such as Xia Duo.

Although he became associated with the Seven Towers after becoming a Pioneer, before that, it could be said there was absolutely no direct connection.

Xia Duo did not know much about the group of Pioneers, only some partial information about those who had made a name for themselves.

Of course, even Xia Duo would be quite proficient at handling invitations from strangers with whom he had no intersection, but there might not be no one among the Pioneers who had crossed paths with him.

For instance, the two New Mages from the Pure White Tower who had obtained their Pioneer status alongside him. (The top three of the Savile Territory Arcane Competition)

The Pure White Tower was the Mage Tower of the Great Arcanist Buluode, and Buluode was a student of Iolum, belonging to the same sect as Niya's great-grandfather, the Great Arcanist Saville, and perhaps they even had personal ties.

Inviting Butler and Todd to join his and Niya's team could be considered reasonable.

It was just that Xia Duo had not seen the figures of those two before, and now that there were many people, it was inconvenient to cast Scrying spells, so he could only perform Fuzzy Sending based on the appearance of the two in his memory—

"Butler, Todd, do you still remember Xia Duo from Savile Territory? The student of the Wier Lingzhu and the Princess—Niya Saville invites you to join her team; if you are willing, come to the northeast corner."

Xia Duo did not use his own name to extend the invitation, although he knew he had already built up a certain reputation, but that reputation was brought about more by the "Daxia Territory Standard Development Guide" and the 【Arcane Maze】.

If Butler or Todd still remembered him, they would probably find it hard to imagine that only two and a half years (Main Plane) had passed, and Xia Duo, who was still a New Mage back then, had now realized the ultimate dream of the vast majority of Netherese Mages—

Becoming an Arcanist!

……

Similar to Fuzzy Teleportation, Fuzzy Sending also utilized spellcasting with a fuzzy target, but the most fundamental mystery within it was something Xia Duo had not yet fully grasped.

He only knew that this was a magical effect bordering on a Divine Miracle, similar to the legendary Prophecy.

If one had to describe it, it felt somewhat similar to the quantum effects of microscopic particles on Earth.

One sets a certain condition in advance, and the spell is cast in an uncertain form, much like a probability cloud of a particle's position, and once the preset condition is met, the spell effect is immediately determined, like the specific position of a particle at a certain moment.

Of course, there was one point different from the quantum effects on Earth, which was that the spellcaster of Fuzzy Spellcasting could know, from a more transcendent perspective, whether their spell was in an uncertain state or had already been determined.

The more precise the preset conditions, the closer Fuzzy Spellcasting becomes to spellcasting with a definite target; this method of spellcasting is most common in curses, or searching and Scrying.

Once, because of papermaking, Xia Duo was visited by the Princess's teacher, the Great Arcanist Bailun; that kind of spell capable of detecting the complex act of papermaking was already close to Prophecy.

What was used was also Fuzzy Spellcasting.

Correspondingly, to avoid such spells, one could also use Avoidance of Detection spells to evade them, similar to a spear and a shield, depending only on who had a deeper grasp of the essence.

With Xia Duo's mastery of Magic, if those two, Butler and Todd, were definitely here, it would be basically impossible for them to escape his search.

Almost the instant his spell was completed, he sensed that the probability-cloud-like state of the Fuzzy Sending had immediately found a definite target.

Without a doubt, Butler and Todd were here, and they had received his message.

……

A moment later, Xia Duo saw two familiar bodies walk out from behind a building; it was indeed Butler and Todd.

Somewhat like Xia Duo, these two were also holding their 【Pioneer Scepter】 in their hands, carrying it with them; as soon as the two saw Xia Duo holding his scepter, their pace immediately quickened a little.

At the same time, just a little slower than Butler and Todd, several others walked out from behind the building and headed toward Xia Duo's side.

As the first-place winner of the original Savile Arcane Competition, Todd greeted him neither coldly nor warmly, appearing to be purely tacit, polite pleasantries:

"Mage Xia Duo, it really has been a long time! Before coming, Jin Mu specifically asked me to send his regards to you on his behalf!"

Jin Mu?

Another name lingering in the memories of the past; with Xia Duo's current memory capacity, he naturally found everything regarding Jin Mu with great ease—

A genius, a genius who had become an Official Mage before even reaching adulthood, with talent even more outstanding than Niya's.

It was just a pity that he had lost to him back then! At that time, Jin Mu had even declared that in three years, he would come to the Tower of Time to challenge him again.

Xia Duo had been anxious about it at the time, but looking at it now, even if Jin Mu really came, it would only be to encounter an even greater defeat.

"Mage Todd, Mage Butler, long time no see. I also remember Jin Mu; welcome him to visit the Tower of Time again!"

"I will pass that on to him. Now, please, Mage Xia Duo, introduce me to the Savile Mage!"

"Alright."

Xia Duo chuckled inwardly, thinking he was probably regarded as someone who had advanced through luck, but it was true—if Niya were a man, his subsequent circumstances would certainly have been completely different from what they were now.

……

As for the few newly arrived Intermediate Mages, besides Butler and Todd, the others were also introduced to the rest by their respective contacts.

In the end, Butler, Todd, and Mage Dai Xi, whom Niya had called, joined Xia Duo's team.

And the few people called by Beilaila and Aisisi joined their team.

However, a small episode occurred during this time; Todd had assumed Xia Duo was also an Intermediate Mage and even asked Niya who the other Advanced Mage in the team was.

The result was that, afterward, Todd never dared to look Xia Duo in the eye.

……

"Alright, even with a few more people now, the team is still not full. Todd, Wensen, Dai Xi, you can also look for Intermediate Mages you are familiar with and find reliable; once you find them, bring them over."

Currently, the Xia Duo-Niya team was still short five people, while Beilaila and Aisisi's team was still short four!

The Advanced Mages couldn't think of anyone to fill these nine vacancies for the time being, so letting Wensen, Todd, and the others look might be feasible.

In any case, the final decision-making power rested with them, the Advanced Mages.

……

Just as Xia Duo and the others had already begun searching for the final team members, on the other side of the camp, those who had arrived new yesterday had not yet finished pairing up the Advanced Mages.

Time passed bit by bit just like that.