Chapter 865: Real-Time Guidance, Premonition of a Decisive Battle

At this moment, through the active perception of the Perception Field created by Xia Duo with the help of Niya's Scrying spell, as well as the perceptions shared by Huaiyate and others in the Mind Link—either actively or passively.

As Huaiyate and the others completed their Spellcasting, a Magic Net Suppression Field was instantly projected from the Spell Source Point toward the target's location.

Immediately following this, the area there distorted and erupted with intense Magic Aura, but it vanished in an instant; at the same time, thirteen Elf Elite Mages appeared in a specific formation in the previously empty forest clearing.

The leader of the Joint Casting, or rather the Elf Ritual Magic, was an Elf Elite Mage wearing a pale gold Mage Robe, currently wearing a gloomy expression, entirely lacking the elegance and detachment that Elves usually display in the Main Plane.

Their meticulously planned sneak attack had been forcibly dismantled by someone before the Spell Source Point had even finished weaving; clearly, this incident had left a very bad experience in this Elf Elite Mage's mind.

And what exceeded Xia Duo's expectations was that after this failed sneak attack, the Elves did not choose to relocate immediately, but instead attempted to continue Spellcasting, seemingly wanting to have a spell confrontation with the humans.

Under these circumstances, Huaiyate and the others were somewhat out of their depth.

Xia Duo, while instructing other teams in the Mind Link to speed up their advance toward the mission objectives, especially those teams whose mission objectives were real Mythallar Nodes.

At the same time, he continued to mobilize more than ten people to teleport to the location where Huaiyate and the others were.

All of this was conducted within the Mind Link; almost at the same time Huaiyate's side was passively accepting the spell confrontation, people were constantly being teleported to designated positions nearby.

It was also at this time that Xia Duo gave up directly perceiving the Scrying spell shared by Niya, as the results of the Scrying spell contained extremely complex multi-dimensional perception information, which would occupy a large amount of his Conscious Mind's "RAM."

Placing it in the Subconscious would be more effortless.

At this time, his Conscious Mind was used more for integrating battlefield information and giving real-time Guidance to the group of High Mages in battle.

——Mage Huaiyate, 【Protection-2-6-1】, (that is, the 6th Protection Spell equivalent to 8th Ring in the Resonance Spellbook, Guidance element)

——Mage Angelin, 【Protection-2-6-2】, (the sequence element after the Guidance element)

——Mage Pu Di, Mage Duo Lei, 【Protection-2-6-2, 3】, (two elements that need to be performed simultaneously)

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Except for Huaiyate's side, which was in the same resonance state of Joint Casting, the others had not formed a resonance state; scattered around the battlefield, they were far apart from each other.

Even if they were in a resonance state, it could not allow them to complete Spellcasting; a spell could leave the Spellcaster's body far behind, but the Spell Source Point could not leave the Spellcaster too far.

Unless they were like Xia Duo, possessing a special Bloodline Ability that could assimilate water or air domains, placing the Spell Source Point at a position far from the body.

Although these people could not perform Joint Casting, under Xia Duo's near-total-perception command, they could achieve the effect of Joint Casting.

This effect was not as strong as the previous forced Joint Casting; just their independently cast individual spells were equivalent to a conceptual super Spellcaster, capable of casting different spells at different positions simultaneously,

Even so, it was still far better than having no coordination.

In fact, relying on the rigid Joint Casting of the Resonance Spellbook might be able to persist for a long time in a spell confrontation with the Elves, but wanting to defeat or even kill the Elves with this was almost impossible.

After all, the Elves' Joint Casting was true Joint Casting, capable of adapting to circumstances and adopting different responses.

And the Resonance Spellbook, even with numerous contingency plans, could not exhaust all the needs of the moment.

Therefore, in reality, those dozen or so High Mages on the periphery of the battlefield were Xia Duo's true trump card.

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Of course, it was still a bit too early to talk about trump cards; after all, the Elf Mages here were not all of them, and once they fell into a stalemate or disadvantage, they would definitely seek reinforcements.

And before the teams pinning down the Mythallar Nodes played their role in containment, there was no need to rashly alert the enemy.

As for a full-scale decisive battle, Xia Duo did not hold high hopes for the human side; even though they had up to a hundred High Mages, in terms of collective combat, they would very likely be taught a lesson by the Elves.

Even with him as the overall commander, it was the same; Xia Duo did not have the confidence to command a group of humans who could not Ascending Ring their spells during Joint Casting to defeat Elf Mages who could do so.

Or rather, destroying the Mythallar Nodes was the top priority; at least the Mythallar Nodes were more important in the eyes of the Elves, after all, those Mythallar Nodes were likely related to the final ownership of this Plane.

If the Elves did not want this Plane and simply wanted to kill human Mages, there would be no need to come here at all; they could have started the war directly in the Main Plane.

Of course, whether this situation was intentionally formed by those above, or if there was some kind of tacit understanding with Keman, Xia Duo did not know; he only knew that to win, he had to pin down the Elf Mages at the Mythallar Nodes.

Only then could the remaining human Mages consume the remaining Elf Mages, thereby reversing the strength comparison between the two sides.

And this was almost the only path to victory for the human side that Xia Duo could think of.

Or, just honestly follow the mission objectives, with each team fighting on their own, and then hope the Elves would also disperse to each Mythallar Node to fight individually?

Before Qiaoyisi's team encountered the Elf Mages' sneak attack, Xia Duo might have had this thought, but since the Elves had already assembled first, how could the humans still harbor such fantasies!

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On the periphery where Huaiyate and the others were conducting a spell confrontation with the Elf Mages, beyond the distance where normal human High Mages or Elf Elite Mages could perceive teleportation movements.

More than a dozen High Mages remained motionless under Xia Duo's instruction, serving only as insurance before Huaiyate and the others were truly defeated; if needed, more could be mobilized.

The Elves did not relocate immediately but chose to conduct a spell confrontation, which somewhat exceeded Xia Duo's expectations; perhaps they had sensed the abnormality in the speed of human reinforcements and wanted to probe a little.

Under these circumstances, a spell confrontation was inevitable, but Xia Duo did not want his trump card to be exposed because of the failure of Huaiyate and the others, so he could only hope that Huaiyate and the others could hold on longer under his command.

At the same time, he was also constantly urging other teams in the Mind Link to speed up, ensuring they arrived near the Mythallar Nodes in the shortest possible time.

Xia Duo had a vague premonition; don't look at how long the Seven Towers had prepared for this so-called Plane War, just the people like them who were conscripted had been trained for nearly a month.

But to end it, perhaps only a few short days would be enough!

This was also the norm of war that Xia Duo had learned; the actual combat time, compared to the early planning and post-war cleanup time, was undoubtedly extremely short.