Lord of Arcane

Chapter 2490 Attacked Time Barrier
It is not difficult for Xia Duo to guess the behavior of the elves. It is nothing more than trying to influence the group of elite spellcasters below the Netheril Archmage. Although these people may not have much decision-making power, their indirect influence is Nothing less.

Take Xia Duo for example, if Eberke tried his best to dissuade him from agreeing to the elves joining the new covenant, although he still wouldn't change his mind, he would still give more consideration to Eberke's attitude.

It’s fine if it’s just an Abeck. If people around him are persuading, especially Nya and Savile, Xia Duo attaches great importance to their opinions, and he is not sure whether he will compromise in the end.

Xia Duo himself is like this, and it is impossible for other great arcanists to live in a vacuum. As long as they live in the real world, they will inevitably be unable to escape the various relationships between people.

You don't have to listen to friends' advice, but what about your blood relatives?
Xia Duo can almost imagine that the methods of the elves must not only be in the Offa Square, but may already exist in other places.

Thinking in this way, Xia Duo was even more sure of the disadvantages of Ye Erlan joining the new covenant.

At this time, the host of the elves in the distance has introduced a sculpture from the early days of the Old Covenant. Its author is not an elf, but a human being. It has been preserved as a symbol of the friendship between the two countries until now.

Seeing this scene, Xia Duo really didn't know what to say. He knew very well that this kind of "reminiscing about the bitterness and thinking about the sweetness" of the past could easily arouse the sympathy of human beings.

Compared with the friendship that has lasted for hundreds of years and has not been completely severed in the past, what is a little bit of friction in the past hundred years?Perhaps most Netherese would think so.

In the minds of most Netherese, elves represent all positive words such as strength, abundance, mystery, beauty, purity, kindness, and so on.

In the eyes of many people, elves are angels who can be satisfied by drinking dew alone. How can the ugliness of the world be associated with elves!
If you don't have a deep understanding of the essence of elf society, many people will be deceived by the exquisite and affluent performance of elves in foreign countries, and thus fall into the blind worship of elves.

But Xia Duo didn't blame those Naithers for their shallow eyesight. It was because the timing of the appearance of the elves in the past was too good, and they had always disguised them too well.

In order not to completely tear the face off with the elves, the upper echelons will naturally not deliberately spread negative news about the elves. Xia Duo even feels that it is hard to say whether the upper elves of Netheril in the current era have the concept of ideological penetration.

It is too difficult for them to take the initiative to get rid of the influence of elves, and if they are not careful, they will slip into the other extreme-that is, extreme pride, thinking that all species that are not humans or, more precisely, non-arcanists are inferior.

It has to be said that Xia Duo, a foreigner, was very worried about Netheril.

……

A little bit away from the booth, the crowd that had been sparse just now became dense again.

Just when Xia Duo was about to completely leave the area affected by the stage, a very dazzling spiritual light suddenly burst out from the crowd, and rushed towards him with a loud shout——

"Xia Duo, die!"

Almost at the same time, even Xia Duo himself did not react, an invisible halo suddenly spread from Xia Duo as if stimulated.

When the incoming aura touched the expanding halo, it was as if the pause button had been pressed. The aura flickered, but he couldn't move forward.

And Xia Duo, who was inside the halo, only reacted at this time, looking at the almost frozen aura at the edge of the halo, and the also almost frozen crowd that had become dim and blurred farther outside.

"[Time Protection Barrier] is really powerful!"

Xia Duo sighed unhurriedly. This spell was completed when he learned from others when he was in the projection plane of the Red Heart Alliance. It can almost be said to have condensed his deep understanding of time, matter, elements, space and other fields.

The first is the triggering of spells, which can be activated actively or passively. When a directional spell is locked, the time protection barrier will be automatically activated.

With Xia Duo's current status, unless there are very few special circumstances, it can be said that all directional spells cast on him, no matter good or bad, can be regarded as a provocation to him.

The "pointing" of directional spells can basically be regarded as "locking" or "positioning", or even "observation", and there must be a certain degree of interaction with the target.

And when Xia Duo's time protection barrier detects an interaction based on "pointing", it will be automatically triggered, similar to the collapse of the wave function caused by the observation on the earth.

When the directional spell does not actually arrive, the influence similar to "quantum entanglement" between it and the target has already occurred first, and once this influence is detected, the time protection will be automatically triggered.

Most of the spells that protect against directional spells are designed on this principle, such as the most famous spell reversal.

If there is a spear, there will be a shield, and if there is a shield, the spear will also be upgraded, so Xia Duo chose not to upgrade the protection of the shield itself, because no matter how the upgrade is, it is at the level when the spell is finalized. Once you encounter a spell that exceeds the protection at that time , that must be "breaking the defense".

Xia Duo chose to use time to slow down and time to speed up, turning the original real-time battle into a "turn-based" battle that is more suitable for him. Once the time protection barrier is triggered.

The enchantment will spread rapidly, and the periphery is the [contact zone] where time slows down to almost stagnation, which is used to block various tangible and intangible spells, foreign objects and even influence.

In the inner layer, especially within a step or so around Xia Duo, time is accelerated by tens of hundreds of times, allowing Xia Duo to make decisions calmly and respond properly.

Just like the attack he suffered now, as long as he wants, he can even take out a chair to sit down and think slowly, analyze slowly, until he finds a way to crack the incoming directional spell.

Of course, for the attack in front of him, he didn't need to spend much time thinking or analyzing it. He just glanced at it lightly, and he easily cut off the connection between the attacking spell and him.

At the same time, he also targeted the assailant in the crowd, a strange image of an elf. It is normal for Yeerlan to hold an exhibition to have elves to watch.

After all, although Sevington is a bit small now, it is indeed an "international city". Many countries in the Northern Alliance have permanent portals leading to Sevington.

Although there are not many elves in Severton, they are definitely not too few, especially Yeerlan's exhibits in Offa Square this time are almost all high-quality goods. Of course, some historical relics related to Netheril will be deducted.

Naturally, it was determined that the attacker was an elf, and Xia Duo naturally would not hold back anything. The time protection barrier was adjusted slightly, and the spell calming field was lowered towards the area where the elf was.

The next moment, the aura scattered in the square, and the original space expansion effect suddenly failed, and the dense crowd that seemed to be crowded suddenly became really crowded.

But at this moment, there is still the spell stabilization field lowered by Xia Duo. Even if most of the onlookers are spellcasters, they cannot cast spells in a controlled and suppressable magic environment.

Almost instantly, panic spread.

But all of this was within Xia Duo's expectations. The next moment, the space on the north side of the square changed. Before other people could react, the space expanded again, and not just expanded. A large area.

(End of this chapter)