If Sha Duo cast the spell himself, he could of course use the perceptual dimension that a high mage would not expect or find it difficult to avoid to conduct detection, but for now, using a field team to cast the spell, that is all he can do.
Even Xia Duo would not dream of defeating a high-ranking mage who stands at the pinnacle of magic in the main plane with just a group of half-baked ordinary mages.
However, two large archmages "made up" by a group of half-baked ordinary mages who collaborated to cast spells through spiritual links were enough to compete with the high mages.
Reinforcements are already on the way. If you delay a little, you might have a chance to eliminate an enemy even a high mage. Capturing him alive is unlikely unless Xia Duo takes action himself and makes a sneak attack.
Xia Duo is now commanding the first team of spellcasters to use conventional detection spells to check the bottom of the lake. The purpose is to paralyze the person who presided over the ceremony and delay the time for backup to arrive.
Of course, the more important thing is to wait for him to come up with a plan to properly deal with the four magical artifacts and related rituals. If he can't even come up with a treatment plan and just goes to stop it with passion, it might be self-defeating.
Xia Duo would not do this kind of thing. He would rather do less than do it, rather than rashly do something that has a high probability of being a trap. Unless there is no other way in the end, he can only do it forcefully knowing that it cannot be done.
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"Master Bondi, how long will it take on your side? Teardrop Lake won't be able to wait long!"
"It's almost time. Give us a little more time."
"In the last five minutes, if not, I have no choice but to take action."
In this matter, Xia Duo alone is no more useful than nearly a hundred mages combined, even if he has done some research on the excited state magic weapons of the Illuminati before.
The magical artifact he studied before was not the same as the four found under Teardrop Lake. There were not even many similarities, but more similarities in the style of the magical artifacts.
Strictly speaking, Xia Duo cannot even conclude that the four magical artifacts on the altar at the bottom of the lake must have been left behind by the Illuminati.
Therefore, if you want to properly handle the four magic weapons and the variant time-related magic, you will need the strong assistance of other alliance mages, such as Mage Bondi, who is a member of the alliance's time-related magic research laboratory.
Currently, I am responsible for both research and communication coordination, and the task is also very heavy.
Of course, Xia Duo's task is not light at all. Teardrop Lake is just a typical case that has been initially determined to be true among the large number of time-related signals currently detected by the alliance.
In addition to Teardrop Lake, real time-related signals have also been discovered in other places, and those time-related signals also require Shado to command nearby field teams to investigate, and even design spell-casting sequences and direct spell-casting.
Without the assistance of the Intelligent Brain and the computing power pool, Xia Duo has no doubt that he will be in a state of downtime. Even now, he feels a little powerless.
It can be seen that the plan of the Illuminati is working, and it has gradually worn down the mobile forces of the Northland Alliance, including Shado.
If you can't find the opponent's core before being completely defeated, the results may be disastrous.
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Western border of Erland, Teardrop Lake.
The Spellcasting Team 1 by the lake has announced its disbandment and returned to its original organization. The reinforcement team just received replaced the Spellcasting Team 1 and began a new round of exploration of the bottom of the lake.
This team is led by a senior mage and consists of fifteen elite mages. Even without Xia Duo, it is enough to compete with a high-level mage.
Of course, it is still almost impossible to win, unless it is a team of strategic support mages who have been trained for a long time and possess war weapons, but that includes at least three senior mages and more than twenty-four elite mages.
At present, this support force is still a little weak, but this is already the greatest effort of all countries in the alliance. Currently, each country is still recruiting support forces within its own country, but this will take time.
At this point in time, if Teardrop Lake had not been the first source of real time-related signals that Sha Duo paid attention to, we might not have been able to wait for such a force!
Collaborative spell casting and detection with the participation of senior mages is different. Shado's methods can almost be perfectly reproduced on the front line through these support mages.
However, if the intensity is increased now, the ritual master hidden at the bottom of the lake may escape immediately, but Xia Duo wants to try to capture him, or at worst, kill or force him to death.
The final decisive battle between the alliance countries and the Illuminati is about to begin. In this case, it is completely acceptable for the alliance to pay a certain price if a strong main force of the other side can be eliminated in advance.
In fact, according to the countries in the alliance, the ideal situation is to exchange the coins directly. Even if it is ten for one, as long as the Illuminati can be eliminated, it is quite cost-effective for the alliance.
There was a lone man at the moment. Although Xia Duo was not sure whether he was a senior mage, but he was able to preside over this ceremony alone. He was at least a senior mage. He would definitely make a profit if he killed him. If he could capture him alive, he would make a lot of money.
As for the other party not being alone, this possibility is almost impossible. You must know that the newly disbanded spell-casting team, under the command of Xia Duo, is almost equivalent to a large archmage, and he is also a person with peak magical attainments in the plane.
The Archmage.
In this case, even regular detection is not impossible for a group of spellcasters to avoid.
It is either a single powerful spellcaster or a more powerful special magic weapon. No matter which one is captured, it can add a little more weight to the subsequent decisive battle between the alliance and the Illuminati.
Of course, considering the suspicion of the host of the ceremony at the bottom of the lake, Xia Duo would not let the new reinforcement team conduct inspections exactly according to the detection method of the previous caster team 1, and also increased the intensity a little bit.
But just a little bit, carefully maintaining the other party's sense of crisis without being too exciting, so that the other party feels that the form is still under his control.
Unless the other party has a plan in advance and leaves when the time comes, it will be easy for the other party to relax their vigilance.
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Time passed little by little, and the new reinforcement team had already begun to set up their spellcasting home court in advance outside the lake, relatively far away. With a senior mage leading the team, they did not need to worry about the spellcasting distance.
On the contrary, extending the distance can reduce the chance of being discovered by the host of the ceremony at the bottom of the lake. That is to say, the other party is still hidden and cannot effectively detect the surrounding environment. Xia Duocai can prepare in advance so unscrupulously.
If the opponent has already appeared, mastering the surrounding environment will become the primary goal of the opponent's spellcasting. In this case, Xia Duo will have no chance to arrange it in advance, or in this case, he will directly enter the "hand-to-hand combat" of the spell duel.
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"Bondi, how long will it take? I'm not in the Time-Related Magic Research Laboratory network. You should synchronize your current research progress first. I've already received the information from other mages, and I'm just missing you."