Chapter 3371 The Nature of Spell Duel: Feint Defeat
From this perspective, the degree of control over the strings of the microscopic magic network determines the true limit of a mage. Of course, such a limit can be achieved through one's own efforts or through external objects.
If the God of the Magic Network in an area can be completely controlled by some means, then it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the God of Magic in this area. The Arcanist should have been born under this expectation.
It's just that even the Arcanist's personal magic network cannot completely control the strings of the magic network in a natural environment. However, it can indirectly suppress, exclude, and resonate with the magic network in the natural environment through its own magic network.
Achieve more efficient control of the Strings of the Magic Network.
Although Xia Duo is currently at a disadvantage, he has not yet deployed his personal magic network (the incarnation also has arcane fire, which can be deployed into a private magic network), so he has every chance to reverse the situation.
Just like playing Go, temporary gains and losses are nothing. Only at the end of the game can you know who lost and who won.
However, Xia Duo deliberately fell into a disadvantage and aroused Daphne's desire to win in order to delay time. Therefore, he did not launch the arcane fire, but showed an unwillingness to admit defeat. Wherever he loses, he must start from there.
Where to take it back.
This actually violates the general strategic principles of spell duels. What the duel competes for is the overall control of the magic network in an area, rather than local gains and losses.
If you can use the failure of a small area to gain an overall advantage, it is obviously more advantageous. Then you can use the general trend to crush opponents who have local advantages.
Xia Duo has a reputation in the North for being good at spell duels. No matter from any angle, he should not be obsessed with local gains and losses, except for one situation, that is, from above.
Emotions overwhelm rationality, so naturally you will do whatever you want, regardless of gains and losses, regardless of the consequences. Even if you know it is the wrong choice, you will still go to the dark side.
What Sha Duo is now acting is that of a man who cannot accept that he cannot compare with his enemies in the field he is best at. Of course, he also knows when enough is enough. After a simple attempt to no avail, he decisively launched the Arcane Fire.
After all, this is the method he is best at and should use in his current capacity as an arcanist.
There are advantages and disadvantages to the deployment of Arcane Fire, but at the moment, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. It is originally a one-on-one duel, and the game of maintaining and destroying Arcane Fire is inherently included.
Any arcanist would not mind launching arcane fire in such a situation, because he already has the greatest advantage. If he does not dare to do this, there will be no spell duel at all, and he should just run away.
right.
Just as Sha Duo guessed, Daphne immediately began to try to destroy the private magic network. Since the arcanist's personal magic network itself was also made of natural magic network, under Sha Duo's control, Daphne was actually not very powerful.
It may directly destroy the arcane fire or the private magic network. The so-called destruction is more about destroying the structure of the private magic network itself.
The arcanist's personal magic network is far smaller in size than the naturally existing magic network. In fact, it is only a superficial magic. In order to allow the arcanist to control this miniature magic network, there must be more resources than the natural magic network.
The structure of control.
This is the biggest and most difficult to hide difference between the Arcanist's personal ley line and the natural ley line.
Of course, arcanists are not stupid enough to expose their biggest weakness to the enemy. In fact, the essence of arcane fire is to absorb energy to create arcane energy, and its expansion into magic net is just incidental.
Since it is not the main purpose, then naturally we will not seek to be completely consistent with the natural magic network. If we really want to be completely consistent, then anyone can use it.
This is obviously impossible.
No arcanist can accept that the private magic network he has worked so hard to build can be used casually by others, so any arcanist's personal magic network is a reconstructed magic network.
The more advanced the technology, the more it can be consistent with the external magic network while ensuring its own control, because the external magic network is the most common in the current plane state.
But if the skills are not enough, then the priority is to ensure your own control. In this case, some spells may be naturally restricted and cannot be cast through the private magic network.
Judging from the external appearance, Xia Duo's magic network is almost the same as the normal magic network in the outside world. It will even be more hidden and safer when it coexists with the magic network in the outside world.
However, he still took the initiative to reveal flaws, and even allowed Daphne to destroy his magic network. He was already ready to sacrifice this incarnation anyway, and he didn't have to care about the incarnation's arcane fire.
On the contrary, in the process, the secret of the arcane fire was known to Daphne, which made Shado more concerned. Even though the arcane fire of the incarnation and the original body are not exactly the same, the essence is to create arcane energy, which is even the essence of Mythra.
Therefore, despite retreating step by step, Xia Duo still kept the bottom line very tight. In any case, the secret of arcane energy transformation could not be known to Daphne. As for the characteristics of the magic network, that was secondary.
After all, the characteristics of the magic network are related to the origin of the plane. If you want to know different magic networks, just change the plane. If the characteristics of the magic network are known to Daphne, it is nothing more than adding a new plane magic network sample to the opponent.
As for similar samples, not only are they no longer available in the North, at least as Daphne was the former consultant to the crowned king, there should still be no shortage of them.
For Xia Duo, changing the characteristics of the private magic network is no more difficult than recreating an arcane fire.
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In this way, Xia Duo continued to lose in the duel with Daphne, which made his control over the surrounding magic network less and less, but there were always two red lines in his heart——
One is not to reveal the nature of the arcane fire, and the other is to continue delaying until Candela and the others return to Everesca.
Although the current situation is very unfavorable for Xia Duo and may be completely defeated in the next moment, the first red line is still firmly maintained, and the second one is almost there!
"Quick, quick, quick!"
Sha Duo kept urging Kandela and the others in his heart. Seeing them rush out one by one from the passage they opened when they entered the mountain stronghold, Sha Duo's nerves became even tighter.
In fact, he has prepared the light of annihilation and can launch a strike at any time. However, if he strikes now, none of Candela and the others will be able to escape, and they will be affected by the dissipated energy of such a huge material collapse on Tanzan Peak.
The light of annihilation can annihilate energy, and it is precisely because it can annihilate energy that Xia Duo planned to use it to erase Tanzan Peak, but after all, it is not a real "reality eraser".
Whether it is disintegrating the material structure or annihilating the energy form, it all requires a process. No matter how high the power is, it is impossible - at least it is impossible for Xia Duo to do it without a trace of excess energy leaking.