Lord of Arcane

Chapter 550
Next, Xia Duo did not start a new game with Niya. It was almost time, and the mages of the Seven Towers had already started teleporting into the arena. When El Carmon stood in the center of the arena, there was no projection of any chess game in the arena. .

"Hey, why didn't Master Iolum come today?"

No matter where it is, the Grand Arcanist always attracts the most attention. No, Xia Duo immediately noticed that the people in the second seat today had changed slightly from before.

Iolum was missing, and a golden elf was added.

What's happening here?
Xia Duo was about to ask Nya if she knew what was going on here, but met Nya's puzzled eyes, so she said, "The new golden elf on the second seat is from Ilfaron, right?"

He just noticed that the seat originally arranged for the golden elf was next to the other elves, but he didn't expect that the golden elf sat directly at the place farthest from Yeerlan and the high mage Comanthor.

This is obvious, and there is something wrong with it.

"It should be." Niya nodded, but said, "I didn't expect that a high-ranking mage came to Ilfaron temporarily. Do you think Ilfaran will also participate in the next snowmelt competition?"

Who knows?
However, Xia Duo hopes in his heart that the snowmelt competition can develop into an international competition similar to the Olympic Games on Earth, so that peaceful development can become the mainstream instead of estrangement and disputes.

After all, no one can guarantee that he will not die on the battlefield. Except for those very few born war madmen, probably all intelligent life yearns for peace!

Of course, if you want real peace, you still have to rely on your own strength and struggle to achieve it. Peace through compromise will not last long after all.

But in any case, the snowmelt competition does have the potential to eliminate international disputes and reshape the international order, it depends on how the above group of people develop.

"Hopefully Il Faran can join in the next snowmelt competition."

"Huh? Why do you say that?" Niya's view of the snowmelt competition is still the past two-country exchange competition, and the joining of Comanso only made her see arrogance and coercion.

At the lord meeting at the beginning of the year, Niya was present in person, and she was very disgusted with Cormanthor's domineering behavior.

Xia Duo did not explain it from an international perspective or a communication platform, but said, "Ilfaron is obviously pro-Netheril, at least that's what they showed. Wouldn't their joining just help Netheril against Yeerlan A union with Cormanthor?"

"That's true!" Recalling the previous game, Niya nodded, "Netheril really needs a new ally, a more reliable ally than Yeerlan!"

Xia Duo didn't speak. Up to now, there are still many Netheril mages who think that Yeerlan is Netheril's enlightenment mentor, blood brother, and international ally.

But in fact, the two countries neither have any firm common interests nor a very stubborn and powerful common enemy. It is difficult for the two countries to remain close for a long time.

In particular, Netheril is growing stronger.

Sayings such as "If you are not of my race, their hearts must be different" are not unique to Xia Duo's hometown. Compared with the differences between humans with different skin colors and different cultures, elves that naturally have a lifespan of hundreds of years, and How much real friendship can there be between human beings?
"The game is on!"

"okay!"

……

[Arcane Puzzle] is still the same as [Spell Showdown], it adopts a round-robin challenge mode, and the final score is a double win, that is, the number of contestants who both challenge and are challenged to win at the same time.

It is very difficult for the players to resist the first attack advantage of the chess pieces, let alone the opponent's blocking. Several games in a row basically proceeded according to the normal chess game.

No player can change the result of the capture!
In this regard, because the rules of [Arcane Puzzle] have been announced long ago, no one will be surprised. On the contrary, Netheril's routines are frequent, which immediately ignites the atmosphere in the venue.

For Xia Duo, he couldn't sum up what routines he was asked to sum up. All the routines were integrated into one body. To sum it up, there are actually two words-chess power.

The training Xia Duo gave to Stuart and Anglin before did not involve magic, it was just a simple game of chess, and let them grow during the game.

This is much faster than a pure novice's speed of improvement.

And the results are also shown on the field.

Ten games were played from morning to dusk, and the four games of Netheril won without exception.

Even in the last game, Mage Yeerlan had some shit luck to invalidate Nether Arcanist's capture, but this was only a small step in the overall situation, and it didn't turn the tables on him.

From Xia Duo's point of view, all the contestants have almost the same ability to resist spells. At this time, the level of chess strength becomes the decisive factor. Obviously, the chess strength of the Nether players is even better.

……

In the evening, Chardonia finished her meal and returned to Gilles Tower. Before he could sort out the situation of the players' spell confrontation during the daytime competition, Master Greta had already come to her door.

"Lord Xia Duo, I need to trouble you with something."

"Please say!"

"The elf contestants have already left Severton. Her Royal Highness suspects that they want to use some kind of time difference to conduct temporary training, so let me ask you to train our people as well."

"Time difference?" Xia Duo was a little puzzled.

Master Greta did not explain too much, "Lord Xia Duo, come with me and you will know."

Helpless, Xia Duo had no choice but to keep up. He just walked while thinking about the time difference. He could think of the projection plane, but the problem is that many people entering the projection plane at the same time may not arrive at the same time. Tens, hundreds, or thousands of years are all possible.

Not to mention, it is also possible to project into different creatures and land in different places, there are too many uncertain factors.

On the contrary, there is a so-called "time stop" spell in the game on Earth, but it just accelerates itself to the extreme, and it looks like the outside world has been stopped.

Moreover, in this real magical world, he has never heard of the time to stop spells.

Soon, the two stepped into a place that Xia Duo had never been to before. Just looking at the layout here, Xia Duo felt a sense of familiarity—the plane exploration layer of the Tower of Time!

Could it be that the Tower of Gilles has solved the problem of where multiple people are projecting at the same time?
Or do you want to go to a sub-plane where the time flow rate is different from the main plane?
Xia Duo suddenly looked forward to it, no matter what the situation is, it means that he is likely to have it in the future.

After all, new technologies can be introduced and researched. If there is one sub-plane with different time flow rates, there may be more.

……

In the end, what awaited Xia Duo was not a large ball of light projecting astral projection, but a portal shining with a strong magical aura.

"There really are sub-planes with different time flow rates!"

Before he could sigh, Xia Duo stepped into the portal under the urging of Master Greta.

(End of this chapter)