Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1184 Farewell to the Phantom of the Dwarf Alinthal
The next morning, Xia Duo and Niya went to the arena to watch the game as usual.

The snowmelt competition has now come to an end, and today is the display of the last project [Magnificent Illusion].

The reason why I said "display" instead of "competition" was the competition a few days ago, and the atmosphere was so harmonious that even when Mage Ilfaran and Mage Cormanthor fought against each other, no serious accidents occurred.

Recently, there have been rumors that the Northland Alliance will be established soon, and this year's snowmelt competition has become an important channel for the leading countries of these alliances to exchange feelings.

Xia Duo also asked Iolum about the exact date of the founding of the Northland Alliance, but his teacher in name didn't know either. He only confirmed one thing, that is——

No matter whether the alliance is established or not, there will be a definite news before the end of the year.

If nothing else, the Northland Alliance should be able to be established.

As for the dispute between the various parties on the issue of demon summoning, Iolum did not explain too much, but only revealed a piece of news, that is, the princess did not agree with the study of demon summoning.

After hearing the news, Xia Duo breathed a sigh of relief. In Netheril, the princess still has a considerable influence.

Although after ascending to the gods, he stayed away from the secular world, but after all, the time is short, and the influence will not fade so quickly.

This time, the question about the demon summoning should just be over.

But from Iolum's relatively cryptic answer to this question, Xia Duo could still guess some thoughts of the other party. His teacher in name seemed to be in favor of the study of demon summoning, at least not so repulsive.

In fact, Xia Duo himself does not reject this research. After all, demons do exist, and with the development of civilization, they will always come into contact with them in the future.

What he objected to was doing this kind of research that was extremely dangerous but not necessarily rewarding when absolute safety could not be guaranteed at the moment.

He had a hunch that this issue might still be brought up for discussion in the future, but the situation might be different then.

……

"Xia Duo, you said that this year's [Grand Illusion] project, Nether will still be a dwarf mage?"

"I don't know about that, and I haven't heard any news about it these days, but I guess it's probably not a dwarf mage."

"why?"

"It's very simple, there are two points!"

Xia Duo pointed to the auditorium in the arena and drew a big circle, and then said: "First of all, today is the [Magnificent Illusion] project, but there is no room for dwarf mages in the arena like last year.

"Secondly, the nature of this year's snowmelt competition has changed. It does not involve many interests like last year. This year it seems to have returned to the original essence of the snowmelt competition. It is for friendly exchanges. In this case, if you are the person above, you still Will a dwarf mage be sent?"

This is actually similar to all kinds of sports events on the earth. If the goal is not to win and there is not much interest involved, then why is it necessary to introduce foreign aid?
Getting back to sports itself is what it is.

Niya was stunned by Xia Duo's answer for two seconds, but then she pointed to a short man who just appeared not far away, and said to Xia Duo:
"Look, what is that!"

Xia Duo looked in the direction of Niya's finger, and it turned out to be a dwarf dressed up as a spellcaster. Afterwards, several dwarves teleported over. Are they going to be slapped in the face?

"Should be here to watch the game?" Xia Duo said with a little hesitation.

Then he traced his memory, and sure enough, he found the scene of last year's snowmelt competition in his memory. The dwarf who appeared first was one of the contestants at that time!

Hablin the Gnome Illusionist!

After ten dwarf illusionists including Hablin won the competition, the princess even personally announced that they accepted their family members, friends, and fellow clansmen as the people of Nether, and promised to use the Yellow Maple Hills as their place of reproduction.

Since then, Xia Duo has never heard any news about them, and did not expect to see Hablin again today.

From this point of view, those dwarves should have settled down in Huangfeng Hills.

According to what the princess said, these dwarves are considered Nether citizens, and it is reasonable to watch the game, but Xia Duo knew that things couldn't be that simple.

This is like on the earth, a few black people sneaked into the white people's meeting place, without some special reason, how could it be possible?
"Lets see!"

Although the dwarves appeared in the arena where there was no place reserved for them, Xia Duo still insisted on his opinion that there was a high probability that Nether's side would be all humans this time.

……

Soon, there was a little commotion in the area where the Seven Towers mage was located. Several archmages with management authority seemed to have received some orders and began to arrange seats for the dwarf mage.

Fortunately, only a dozen or so dwarf mages came this time. With a little coordination, it is not difficult to squeeze out some positions.

But in fact, the dozen or so dwarf mages only wanted three seats, among which Hablin and two other dwarf mages were sitting on the seats, and the other dwarf mages were all surrounded by them.

Since the auditorium in the arena is mainly for spellcasters, it is not crowded together like sports arenas on earth, there is quite enough space around each seat to maintain the most basic privacy and safety distance between spellcasters .

Coupled with the relatively small stature of the dwarves, it doesn't seem out of place for more than a dozen dwarves to squeeze into three positions.

……

With the entry of representatives from all parties, the game quickly entered the topic.

As expected, those on Nether's side were all human beings, as Xia Duo had guessed, not even half-elves who had basically integrated into human beings.

The dozen or so dwarf mages who came here just now seemed to really just come to watch the game.

As for the competition, the four countries of Ilfaron, Netheril, Yeerlan, and Comanthor all showed their respective capitals in a tacit understanding.

Alintal, the capital of Ilfaran, is surrounded by the river and the sea, and there are many buildings. It is not that the city is built in the forest, but the forest is integrated into the city.

The huge cluster of mythos covered a large area centered on the capital, and even the nearby sea area was deeply affected.

As an ancient country that survived the Crown War, although its capital has been baptized by countless wars, it still retains quite a lot of ancient architectural styles.

Xia Duo even saw the shadow of the ancient Maierita in it, and thousands of years of time seemed to be condensed in those scenes of phantoms, which made him have the idea of ​​going to Ilfaran and Alintar .

……

Severton, the capital of Netheril, is currently holding snowmelt competitions in Severton, but because of this, all spectators have a more intuitive comparison.

Strictly speaking, the phantoms of the ten Nether mages were not brilliant. They only restored most of the above-ground buildings in Severton, and some of them were clearly distorted.

But they still won bursts of applause in the arena, who let this be Netheril's home field!

Even though spellcasters are relatively reserved, and only a very few people shout at the top of their voices, ordinary people don't care about these things, and there are not many opportunities to shout in front of the great arcanist!
(End of this chapter)