Lord of Arcane

Chapter 3252: Brazenly Dismantles the Conspiracy
The scepter that Elder Devin handed to Shado represented Evereska's supreme power, and more specifically, Evereska's maze authority. Although it still required cooperation from all parties, it already showed the maximum support.

In this situation, Shado certainly would not disappoint Devin, Larian and other Evereska elders who trusted him, so he would not gamble on what the Illuminati was going to do. He would treat this action as a formal war.

Previously, he had asked Brad to tell the Elder Council of Everska whether to build a floating city or lower its height, which actually hinted at his next move -

He wanted to cut Evereska off the platform where it was located! Thus separating it from the secret Illuminati stronghold in the rock mass below.

Such an operation would undoubtedly be impossible without Everska's maze lock authority. If the city could be moved easily, then wouldn't the enemy be able to do the same?
"Elder Devin, the next commotion may be quite loud. Please arrange for the pacification of the city. Also, after I start the operation, please inform the alliance of the current situation."

Even though Xia Duo was now sitting with the three heads of the Alliance's intelligence department, and had just participated in a capture operation carried out in the name of the Alliance.

But now the situation has escalated, and because the incident took place in Evereska and time is running out, there is no need to go through the alliance's procedures; just give an explanation afterwards.

"Don't worry about appeasing Advisor Shado in the city. Larian has already done it. As for the Alliance, I'd better go there myself!"

"Ah."

Xia Duo nodded, and then began to summon the floating city Yongle. When there was no need for surprise attack or stealth, it was better to use the [Robe of Missing] as little as possible to avoid being discovered by others and becoming wary of him.

The floating city is a strategic weapons platform that has been demonstrated long ago, so it is reasonable to summon it at this time.

However, in order to prevent the secret base of the Illuminati from going to extremes, Shado did not teleport Yongle City to the vicinity of Evereska at the fastest speed, but continued to wander over the Gray Peak Mountains and Langas Plains at a normal cruising speed.

But the "preheating" of the jump system has already begun internally, including determining the coordinates of the destination, storing energy in advance, and so on.

In addition to the "warm-up" of the jump system, Xia Duo also summoned the mages on duty in Chang'an City above the territory. Since this incident must be handled according to the standards of dealing with war, some floating city configurations that meet the war standards must be in place.

Although he can cast war spells alone, a more reasonable way is to have a group of people assist in the operation. For example, the war spell [Wide Area Detection] is very powerful and can detect information in multiple dimensions over a very large range at the same time, which is far beyond the limit of individual perception.

Similarly, such complex information cannot be easily processed by an individual, so it is more reasonable to arrange multiple people to handle information in different dimensions and areas, and then summarize and hand it over to Xia Duo.

The same goes for [Light of Annihilation]. Although Yongle City is currently only equipped with two sets of war instruments designed based on this spell, it does not mean that Yongle City can only attack two targets at the same time, or launch two attacks at the same time.

Instead, it adopts the design concept of field interference, so that the [Light of Annihilation] stimulated by the two sets of war instruments can interfere with each other, thus forming multiple different focusing cores.

Simply put, it is possible to attack more than two targets or areas at the same time, whether it is a small target or a large area. Compared with the first generation of [Light of Annihilation] in Chang'an City, there is not much change in power, but the flexibility has been increased by more than double.

Accordingly, operating such a [Light of Annihilation] naturally requires the cooperation of multiple people, and even requires the use of a computing power pool to obtain additional computing power support to calculate the setting parameters of the focusing core in real time in order to cope with complex battlefield situations.

The same is true for [Wide Area Restriction], which requires real-time calculation of the restriction range and restrictions to achieve the best effect. This has already been applied in Chang'an City and is more mature in Yongle City, with higher requirements for advanced spellcasters.

The above are just the war spells that Chang'an City has. In addition to these three, Yongle City is also equipped with a new spell [Realm Protection] that Xia Duo obtained in the Metriel incident.

This is also a war spell, and it is a war spell that can effectively protect against [Light of Annihilation], which shows its potential. Compared with the previous three, this spell generally requires a high-level spellcaster to operate.

According to Xia Duo's experience in organizing exercises, Yongle City needs to be equipped with at least 60 high-level wizards to barely be able to use these war spells. To achieve full staffing, it would be best to have more than 450 people.

At present, Xia Duo certainly cannot staff all the war mages in Yongle City. If there are more than 400 high-level mages, he will definitely use them in production and research instead of wasting them on standby as war spell operators.

So now, in his two floating cities, except for Chang'an City which maintains a rotating team of about a hundred people, Yongle City basically only retains three or four observation posts.

Fortunately, no one dares to challenge the floating city now. This is a bit like driving a modern aircraft carrier on Earth to ancient times. Even if the number of people is too small to unleash its full war potential, just an empty shell can run rampant in ancient times.

This is how the technological generation gap is reflected.

For the floating city, the core of the strategy is not flying, but the war spells that do not require manpower to maintain and can be activated at will. If any enemy cannot do this, it will be almost impossible to attack from the front even if there is only one person on duty on the floating city.

The fact that Shado has now assembled a team of war mages with the minimum configuration is already a great respect to the Illuminati. With such a configuration, even if they cannot sweep across the north, they can at least completely dominate a local war.

This is the case with Evereska right now.

……

The floating city had already prepared plans for various events, and even had many internal drills before today, but the war mages who were summoned this time were clearly informed -

This time it’s not a drill!

A considerable number of these war mages had participated in Shado's previous revenge operation for the assassination of Xamdas. Compared to others, they had at least experienced killing and death personally.

After issuing the call to action, while waiting for Yongle City to be ready, Shado's incarnation in Evereska was not idle either. He gathered all the high-level mages from the field team summoned by the Alliance Intelligence Department, that is, the elite mages in elven magic, in the demi-plane villa.

This half-plane villa is usually located on the bank of the Linshui River in Linshui Town. It serves as a place for Xiaduo to relax occasionally and have dinner with Niya. In fact, it is the original lord's villa transferred to the half-plane, making it movable.

And now it has become the command post of the war and even the place where the first strike on the battlefield begins.