At the bottom of Teardrop Lake, outside the boundary of the water elemental domain.
The two temporarily assembled spell-casting teams stood still and cast spells. Shado completely transformed the spell-casting process used to seize the enchantment authority into a spell-casting sequence that was synchronized to each team member. These field team members only needed to follow the instructions.
Due to the existence of the psychic link of the Lingsi Network, there was no delay in Sha Duo's command of these field team members to cast spells. Coupled with the redundant setting of the spell casting sequence, it made him feel as if he was at the bottom of the lake on the front line, fighting an unknown enemy in real time.
But in fact, the progress on the front line far exceeded Xia Duo's expectations. There was no spell caster in charge of this water element realm barrier, and his invasion encountered almost no obstruction, which also made him doubt the true situation inside the barrier.
Are there really Illuminati members inside?
But no matter what, this hidden danger must be eliminated, and it is impossible to leave it here and ignore it.
With the permission to gain access to the barrier, Team 1 was able to detect within the barrier immediately, and the detection results were sent to Xia Duo and other mages behind them almost simultaneously.
"No one was inside, there was only a ritual altar, but the ritual seemed to be going on."
After multiple confirmations, Xia Duo immediately ordered the 2nd team to enter the barrier. After receiving the name, the 2nd team began to continue diving and soon fell to the bottom of the lake.
The bottom of the lake here is not mud or water plants, but an underwater square that takes up almost one-tenth of the size of the lake. The entire square is covered by the water element domain barrier.
There are statues of elves of various races on the edge of the square, and in the center is an altar made of gold, with gold lines at least three inches wide extending from the altar and embedded in the ground of the square, forming an undetermined magic circle.
However, what concerned Xia Duo the most was the four magical instruments that were floating on the altar at the moment. The strings of the magic network on them were densely packed, echoing with the golden altar, and they obviously formed a whole.
The four magical instruments are obviously different from the style of this underwater secret altar. The former has an obvious modern style, while the latter has a completely ancient atmosphere.
More importantly, Xia Duo had seen similar magic weapons, which were excited state magic weapons that the Illuminati had previously stored in the Void Warehouse of the Tower of Time through the Russ Chamber of Commerce.
But it is more complicated. If nothing else, it should be the main part of the set of magical instruments, or components with more functions.
Seeing this scene, Xia Duo felt very troubled. He had studied this excited state magic weapon for a long time with the help of the time acceleration array, and knew that once this magic weapon was taken out, it was equivalent to the completion of the spell.
In other words, quite a bit of the ceremony has already taken place here.
However, it is not all bad news here. There are magic weapons and even magic weapons that are still supporting the continuation of the ritual. This shows that there must be a host of the ceremony. Otherwise, if the magic weapon alone can make the ritual continue, then a spell caster is needed.
What to do?
The automatic casting of magic weapons has always been an area that Xia Duo pays close attention to and has conducted in-depth research. Even he has not been able to come up with a pure magic weapon automatic casting solution for the time being.
The alternative is nothing more than replacing the caster himself with other beings with will. For example, the essence automation solution once designed by Sha Duo is to replace the caster with elemental essence.
It is possible to automatically produce real magic weapons, which are actually used to cast spells, because in order to make real magic weapons, a spellcaster must be connected to the magic network, which is something that ordinary dead magic weapons cannot do.
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Shado has cracked the Illuminati's excited state magic weapon, which is a pure arcane magic product. There is no other will. It is impossible to cast spells automatically, which means it is impossible to keep the ritual here going.
"Team 2 is on alert, team 1 is strengthening detection and changing the detection dimension."
At the same time as the order was issued, Xia Duo was also using the newly synchronized detection feedback from Team 1 to conduct a preliminary analysis of the altar and the four magic weapons on the altar. Also doing the same job with him were nearly a hundred experts in the command network.
Mages in different fields.
Some of them joined the command network from the beginning, and in some cases, reinforcements urgently recruited from various countries have arrived in Everesca and joined the network.
In addition, Xia Duo also seeks more insights through computing power pools.
Soon, the preliminary analysis results came out. The four magical artifacts were indeed related to time-related rituals, but they were not the time-related rituals that Shado had obtained in the Metril incident at the beginning.
It seemed to be a variant, and with the interference from the altar and the magic circle, Xia Duo couldn't make up his mind for a while.
But the worst result is that the field team will be wiped out. The progress of the ceremony here has completely completed the Illuminati. However, Xia Duo still wants to work harder. He can't just watch this. Maybe it is not worth it in the eyes of other elves.
The field team mentioned died.
Of course, it was not advisable to evacuate directly. He wanted to catch the hidden ceremony leader.
Since he did not cast the spell himself, but only directed the two teams to cast spells, Xia Duo had many methods that he could not use, but it was impossible for him to go there in person. After all, if he went to the source of the signal in person, what about the next one?
What about the next place?
No matter how many incarnations he takes, it won't help, not to mention that he only has one incarnation. Even if he uses teleportation spells to rush over, frequent spell casting may cause him to be rude in a real decisive battle.
Right now it's just a matter of fighting before the decisive battle. If we deploy our trump cards immediately, it will be too passive in the follow-up.
So there are still other ways to do it.
After trying several detection dimensions in succession, Shado directed the spellcasting team 1 to cast a special spell - Summon the Tower of Time Void Warehouse. Originally, this spell was supposed to be linked to a certain dimensional bag or storage ring.
But the essence of the magic weapon is the various spell elements contained in it. If the dimensional space linked to the dimensional bag is mastered, then the caster can directly cast spells to access items without the dimensional bag magic weapon.
Before the Alliance field team took action, Shado was still in Taivimansa. Even if he was in Everesca, it was impossible to equip each team with Void Warehouse magic weapons. This kind of temporary spell summoning was more reasonable.
What Shado commanded the first team to summon the Void Warehouse this time was actually a psychic magic weapon, which he had previously purchased from Calimshan through the Mairead family, and was mainly used for psychic experiments.
Several of them were set up as psychic detectors for him, capable of detecting psychic energy or other things he wanted to detect.
Of course, this kind of psychic detector is not omnipotent. At least after understanding its working principle, Xia Duo has a way to avoid or interfere with their detection, but for an arcane mage who has not prepared in advance, there is no good way to deal with it.
means.
In other words, the vast majority of arcane mages have no precautions against psychic magic, because they cannot usually come into contact with it. Once they do encounter it, they will be blinded.
After asking the first team to take out the psychic detector, Xia Duo did not let them use it immediately, but continued to try a variety of conventional detection methods. If the ritual host hidden at the bottom of the lake was a high mage, such detection methods would