Lord of Arcane

Chapter 197 Navik

Back on the seat, Xia Duo found that Kim across the opposite platform was staring at him. Xia Duo gave him back a row of big white teeth, but he didn't take it seriously.

In the next three competitions, people from the Tower of Time, Gardner and Carey also played respectively, and successfully won their first show.

It was Palos who was injured because of the mentor's experiment. Because he didn't come, the Tower of Time lost a player out of thin air, and it also caused some discussions among the guests.

And even the crowd of onlookers was a little commotion, and the lord and Eberke's faces were not very good-looking. Whether they win or not is a matter of ability, which is understandable, but whether they come or not is a matter of attitude!
Xia Duo couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat for Palos, not just Palos, it is estimated that his mentor will be put on shoes behind him.

The competition behind the Tower of Time was full of outsiders. Xia Duo noticed that the players walking out from the opposite side were of different ages, but none of them were female.

As human beings, there is not much difference in thinking and will between men and women, but the difference in the number of male and female mages is so obvious, which reminds Xia Duo of scientists on Earth.

Although theoretically the ratio of men to women should be equal, the actual ratio is quite different due to various reasons.When male and female mages are placed in Netheril, where the social structure is even more backward, the disparity in proportion is even more obvious.

This is probably a problem that even gods can't solve. Xia Duo just passed it in his mind for a while, and then focused on the competition on the battle stage.

The layman looks at the excitement and the insider looks at the doorway.

The ordinary people onlookers could only see the red and blue missiles whistling and flying around, appearing suddenly and disappearing suddenly, and cheered a few times.

But a mage like Xia Duo can see the specific details of the opponent's counterspells. Of course, due to the distance limit, the details are actually quite vague.

But still rewarding!
Such as counter-countering skills, such as counter-countering ideas, Xia Duo has a feeling of learning new knowledge every time he watches a game, and this is indeed the case.

These foreign mages are indeed very capable, and most of them are not "spellcasters" who follow the scriptures, but real mages who have their own understanding of the principles of magic and the nature of the magic net.

At this moment, Xia Duo felt pressure, but at the same time excited.Even if it's just a simplified version of the arcane competition, there are so many gains. What if it is a competition initiated by a grand arcanist?

……

The first round of the competition was soon over. In the end, only ten people entered the second round, and the Tower of Time accounted for three. Although there were some secret operations, since none of the archmages objected, it was still within the allowed range of the rules. .

But the second round was not so simple. Except for Xia Duo who won relatively easily, it was very difficult for Gardner to win, almost exhausting all his spells with the opponent, and Kaili lost even more easily.

"Xia Duo, it's up to you next!" Kaili encouraged, but his eyes were on a person opposite, and Kaili lost to that person just now.

Even being ridiculed by the other party, Xia Duo nodded and accepted the encouragement without much sincerity, and it really depends on him next.

Gardner has almost exhausted all his spells. If it is a regular arcane competition, even if it is not a daily one, there will be special recovery methods to allow the contestants to start in the best condition.

But Savile led this time—

Gardner is out.

Compared with Carey's perfunctory encouragement, Gardner's support was much more. He whispered with Xia Duo about his analysis of other participating mages.

There is a proverb in Xia Duo's hometown called "One person counts the short, two people count the long." Xia Duo believes in collective wisdom, otherwise he would not have organized any organization.

With Gardner's analysis, and even attracting Carey, the three-person plan is longer. Although Carey is a bit unreliable, it is enough to provide one more analysis angle.

……

In the third round, five people participated, but in fact Gardner could not participate, there were only four people. Like Kim in the first round, Xia Duo's opponent also came from the Pure White Tower.

And seeing that they were sitting close together, they might be under the same mentor.

"Tower of Time, Xia Duo!"

"The White Tower, Narvik!"

Following Eberke's roll call, Xia Duoli came to the opposite platform, exchanged salutes with Navik on the opposite side, and then cast protective spells on each of them.

Neither of them had the desire to talk, and they cast [Magic Missile] at the same time. Xia Duo is making progress, and the others will not be left behind.

Xia Duo's first attack was disintegrated just after the midpoint, and the opponent's blue missile was successfully countered by him at a position more than one meter past the midpoint.

Is this going to happen?

A distracting thought flashed through Xia Duo's mind, and he quickly dismissed it, focusing all his attention on the battle, but his second attack was still quickly countered by the opponent.

And Navik's second attack was closer to Xia Duo by more than half a meter. Xia Duo's total reaction distance was only 5 meters, which was almost two meters away.

It wasn't that his reaction speed was not enough, but that the details of Navek's second spell casting were different from the first one, and Xia Duo did the same.

But in terms of quickly understanding the principles of the opponent's spells and then countering them, Xia Duo has already lost!

From a rational point of view, for the next round, Xia Duo should admit defeat in time, but Navik can't even win, so how can he be sure to win the next round?

In the end, I still have to fight. Instead of putting it in the next game, I want to win a No.3 at most. It is better to directly win a No.2 here.

In the blink of an eye, Xia Duo has already made a decision!

Generally speaking, mages pursue stability rather than maximum effect when casting spells. The most direct reason is of course for the sake of their own lives.

If the spell is out of control, it will not necessarily hurt the enemy, but it will definitely hurt yourself first. If it is in the spell laboratory, then naturally there is no need to worry, but in the normal magic net environment——

In fact, Xia Duo relied on his physical fitness far surpassing that of ordinary people to resist the backlash of spells. Of course, this is the worst situation.

In the best case, the spell is cast successfully, but the opponent cannot counter it, and then under the blessing of the "magic combo" of the field magic circle, even if no adjustments are made, the opponent may not be able to counter it.

In the second round before, Carey was triggered by his opponent's combo, which directly triggered the protection of the field magic circle.

But if you want to fight, you can't be too explicit, at least you can't let the lords and archmages above think that he is a brave and ruthless person.

Next, the [Magic Missile] cast by Xia Duo, although it is still a missile, can add a "men", which was originally prepared by Xia Duo to spy on the second layer of the magic net!
Now it is used temporarily, and even if it fails, it will be known to those big shots - Xia Duo is already close to a third-level mage, and he has not been a full-fledged mage for more than a year at most.

People in the Tower of Time, such as the lord and Eberke, should be more aware that he has raised his authority in the Tower of Time for less than a month!

　Ask for a ticket! !

　
(End of this chapter)