Chapter 873: Super Spellcaster, Close-Range Confrontation Form

Of course, in his subconscious, Xia Duo was not actually satisfied with merely killing twelve Elf Mages, or perhaps, given the right conditions, he actually wanted to clash with the Elves as well.

In Xia Duo's view, Elves were absolutely the great enemy of humanity; since he was already a human and had no intention of changing his race, many things could be prepared in advance.

Having made his decision, Xia Duo once again cast aside all distracting thoughts and devoted himself heart and soul to the Mind Link.

For a moment, in this state of extreme perception and extreme focus, his consciousness actually broke through the limitations of time and space, hovering over the battlefield in a transcendent manner.

This was not on the material level, but rather mentally; within the link where a group of High Mages thought in coordination, Xia Duo had now transformed into the collective consciousness of these hundred-plus High Mages, becoming a super Spellcaster.

In such a state, so-called Joint Casting was nothing more than a natural instinct for this super Spellcaster.

The Elves were attacking again, and they appeared in a forceful and overbearing manner, like a behemoth rushing out of the water; those Elf Mages forcibly linked two spaces together through the Ether Plane, and grand energy currents surged and flowed behind the Magic Net.

Almost the instant he discovered the Elf teleportation, Xia Duo began a Delayed Teleportation, forcibly constructing a 4th Circle 【Delayed Teleportation】 through the individual operation of Magic Net Strings by multiple terminal High Mages within the Mind Link.

Generally speaking, this spell is permanently stationed on a Spellcaster before teleportation, and it only automatically delays or does not intervene after detecting a teleportation signal.

If it were a normal Spellcaster who only began casting after detecting a teleportation signal, even someone like Xia Duo, who was very knowledgeable and skilled in this spell, would find it very difficult to cast it successfully in time.

But a super Spellcaster is different; in a situation of multi-person cooperation, even just forcibly kneading together a Spell Source Point is more rapid than single-person casting.

Of course, all of this relied on the trust each High Mage in the Mind Link had in Xia Duo, or rather, Xia Duo forcibly exerting influence on the terminal High Mages through his subconscious, letting them cast spells subconsciously and almost intuitively.

Otherwise, not to mention whether he could successfully force the spell together, the delay problem from Xia Duo issuing a command to the terminals understanding and executing it alone would be insurmountable.

Regardless, following Xia Duo's will, the super Spellcaster, with over a hundred High Mages in the Mind Link acting as threads, succeeded in casting again.

It was a pity that Xia Duo had not upgraded the 【Delayed Teleportation】 beyond the 7th Circle; if this spell had appeared in the form of an 8th Circle at this time, no matter how much of a commotion the Elf Mages made, it would have been difficult to overcome the spell's delay effect.

For that kind of teleportation spell, which was highly likely to be 9th Circle or even higher, the effect of a 【Delayed Teleportation】 below the 8th Circle could only be described as better than nothing.

But it was not nothing after all; even if there was only a tiny bit of effect, the situation was different.

In the eyes of this super Spellcaster, now composed of Xia Duo and nearly a hundred other High Mages (some had disconnected), even a tiny bit of time was enough to make the correct response, so as not to be caught off guard.

At this moment, the most important thing for Xia Duo to do was—"Concentrate threads"!

Although the scattered High Mages were still under his command, this was like scattered chopsticks; when one needs to confront an incoming "iron rod," a few scattered chopsticks might be able to use technique and space to stall.

But in essence, chopsticks and an iron rod are difficult to contend with; one must bind the chopsticks into a bundle to truly possess the power to confront the iron rod.

Of course, this was only the foundation of confrontation in terms of volume; only with this volume could one talk about other things, such as technique, experience, and so on.

Xia Duo issued a teleportation command to all the High Mages in the link, and it had to be at the fastest speed, without the slightest hesitation.

Even so, only twenty-some people teleported to the location where the Elves were about to raid before the Elf teleportation arrived.

Of course, there were many factors influencing this, and the biggest influence among them was the Elves themselves.

Generally speaking, teleportation is achieved by utilizing the parallel overlapping state of the Ether Plane and the normal Plane; now that there was a powerful group teleportation spell from the Elves here, other teleportation spells were more or less interfered with.

However, for Xia Duo, twenty-some people were enough for him to construct a basically viable temporary defense.

——Resonance

——【Protection-2-1】

Almost at the instant the Elf teleportation arrived, the human side completed the first equivalent 8th Circle Protective Spell, and what followed was the direct process of spell confrontation.

This was not a normal spell confrontation; in a normal spell confrontation, the two sides are far apart, and the form of confrontation unfolds more in the form of the birth and destruction of specific spells.

But here, perhaps it was because the Elves were unwilling to retreat as before, perhaps it was because of an urgent desire to destroy the Guidance beacon, or perhaps it was for some other reason.

In short, the Elves teleported directly to the vicinity of the Guidance beacon, and the two sides were almost at the distance of close-quarters combat.

At this distance, the spell confrontation unfolded in another, more profound form.

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Throughout the entire process, almost no complete spells appeared; there was only the constant struggle for the Magic Net Strings at the Magic Net level by both sides, which triggered the leakage of elements and energy.

Manifesting in the normal world—a certain corner of this Green Field Plane forest—various elemental anomalies appeared out of thin air in space, whether it was flowing water or lightning, and so on.

And these anomalies were not just anomalies, but the direct manifestation of elements and energy; a large number of trees around the Guidance beacon were destroyed by these materialized elemental and energy turbulence.

It even affected both sides of the spell confrontation, but because both sides had Protective Spells, no casualties were caused.

This was the first time Xia Duo had seen such a scene of spell confrontation.

At the same time, he finally understood why most Spellcasters do not like to cast spells in front of other Spellcasters; besides the possibility of having spell details spied on by other Spellcasters, it might also be the fear of being dragged into this most direct spell confrontation of fighting for control over the Magic Net Strings.

If it were just individual Spellcasters, then to avoid this most direct spell confrontation, the required safe casting distance would be about 10 meters.

Beyond this distance, it would be a normal, relatively complete confrontation in the form of spell birth and destruction.

But now, with the Elves' state of Joint Casting, Xia Duo discovered that even if the distance exceeded 10 meters, it was enough to interfere with the other side.

This might be related to the number of people in the Joint Casting; previously, the Elves were a 13-person Mage squad, and even when the human High Mages performed Element-level Spell Counter at close range, it did not trigger any elemental or energy turbulence.

Or perhaps, it was related to the Elves' spells.