While waiting for reinforcements to arrive, Xia Duo was not idle. On the one hand, he used the command network to continue to support the Alliance mages who were processing the sources of time-related signals on the front line. On the other hand, he analyzed the information previously obtained from various local battlefields.
Especially for the latter, Xia Duo invested more energy, because now the Illuminati has begun a decisive battle on the timeline. Even under his command, it is difficult to gain the upper hand in various local battlefields, let alone win.
And this further highlights the value of the information that has been obtained in various local battlefields before noon today.
That information includes not only the details corresponding to the time-related rituals on the battlefield, but also various potential information exposed by the behavior of the Illuminati mages themselves.
Regarding the time-related rituals, Chateau has already analyzed the Teardrop Lake ritual in the time loop of the Tanzan Peak operation. This can also be used to assist in analyzing the ritual details of other battlefields.
On local battlefields, the words and deeds of Illuminati mages are also very important, and even the details of the battlefield itself are worthy of analysis. Unfortunately, the time loops experienced before add up to more than two years, which is not enough to support Xia Duo's comprehensive plan.
Intelligence analysis.
It was good luck to only analyze the time-related rituals at the Teardrop Lake, and now, Xia Duo was ready to complete the rest of the analysis work.
Compared to single-person research in a time loop, now he can use the brain, computing power pool, and experts in various fields in the command network. Pure research on time-related rituals is not necessarily more efficient than in a time loop.
But in terms of intelligence analysis, it will only be more efficient than if he did it without assistance. In fact, this is the fundamental reason why he only analyzes time-related rituals in the time loop.
Analyzing time-related rituals involves the application of magical knowledge. The assistance of others is mainly reflected in computing power, and the role in inspiration is not obvious.
But intelligence analysis involves almost every individual, let alone those intelligence experts who are better at it than Xia Duo.
In terms of intelligence analysis, it is most efficient to integrate the wisdom of everyone, which is the so-called "one person can calculate the shortcomings, and two people can calculate the longcomings".
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Xia Duo immediately synchronized all the analysis progress in the command network, and then joined in. Soon, he discovered a key clue!
In order to ensure the smooth progress of time-related rituals on local battlefields, the Illuminati almost always choose inaccessible places, so that they can avoid as much as possible the anchoring of the past by historical inertia.
But after all, there are not many truly wild lands in the North. Most of the so-called unowned lands cannot be developed at the moment, or lack legal basis. In the past, those unowned lands were basically owned by owners.
This also means that it is difficult to find many truly inaccessible places.
Therefore, when it comes to choosing specific ceremony locations, the Illuminati mostly choose underwater locations and mountains, just like Teardrop Lake and the Moon Shadow family's stronghold inside Tanzan Peak.
Of course, this alone is not enough for Xia Duo to identify it as a key clue. After all, anyone can draw such a conclusion just by glancing at the locations of various local battlefields.
The key is that underwater, these two special ritual locations inside the mountain cannot be obtained through conventional means. For example, if you want to go underwater, you must at least have a spell that can enter the water. You can't just swim down, right?
Even if they really swim down, those Illuminati wizards can't hold their breath and cast spells, right?
What's more, the depth of some underwater ritual sites is not shallow. Even elves who are very good at diving will have a hard time maintaining normal activities there, at least not until the end of the ceremony.
In this case, it is necessary to use magic to change the environment, or to adapt oneself to the environment.
This is the clue that Xia Duo found. He found that [Water Element Domain Barrier] appeared in almost every underwater ritual location. If it was just that, you don't need to worry too much, but it happened to be in the sea elf style.
's boundary.
The magic of the surface elves on the main plane has long formed a clear distinction with other branches of elves.
For example, for Drow, first of all, the environment of the Magic Network in the Underdark is different from that on the surface. In addition, the living environment is harsh. Not only is the environment itself lacking in survival resources, but also the more brutal competition brought about by this lack.
Therefore, since its development, the magic of drow has evolved into a completely different system compared to their compatriots on the surface nearly ten thousand years ago.
The same goes for sea elves. Perhaps the magic system has not undergone many essential changes, but the spell-casting style and spell form are also closely related to the environment in which they live.
It is easy to develop a unique style without frequent communication with mainland elves.
Of course, these are just the reasons Xia Duo found after he concluded that sea elf magic appeared on the local battlefield. The reason why he was able to draw the conclusion in advance was naturally because he had seen sea elves with similar styles in the projection plane.
magic.
If the same sea elf magic exists at Teardrop Lake or even in many other underwater ritual locations, it may be considered a coincidence, but different variants of the same magic appear, and they are still in the sea elf style.
Obviously it cannot be explained by coincidence.
It is more likely that the Illuminati has come into contact with the sea elf mages and learned water-related spells from there, or that there is simply a sea elf mage who has joined the Illuminati.
Although it is not ruled out that there are real Illuminati mages who learned Sea Elf magic from scattered records on land without any teachers, it is still difficult to explain the distinctive Sea Elf style.
The key is that there is already a more likely explanation, and Chateau cannot ignore it.
No matter what, we must seize this clue. Perhaps this is the key to finding the core ritual of the Illuminati.
Moreover, this clue has already involved forces outside the Northland. If it is not investigated clearly, even if it has no impact now, it is very likely to have backlash in the future.
Therefore, even if the current situation is extremely urgent, and even if the Illuminati may succeed in subverting the timeline in the next moment, Xia Duo will still not let go of this clue.
After all, apart from this single clue, there is really no other way to effectively counter the Illuminati.
Even if countries open up their war spell authority and strongly support it, at most it will only stalemate the scattered timeline battlefields and may not affect the core rituals of the Illuminati, and the alliance will still be passive.
Xia Duo still understands the principle that if you defend for a long time, you will lose. If you want to take the initiative, you still need to directly attack the Illuminati's vital points.
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After discovering the clues to the sea elves, Xia Duo immediately sent them to representatives of various countries, who then synchronized them to their respective countries. However, various countries had different opinions on the clue Xia Duo discovered.
Most countries do not believe that they need to devote their energy to investigating sea elves at the most urgent time. Based on their understanding of time-related magic, they believe that as long as they defeat the Illuminati on a local battlefield, they can disrupt the opponent's conspiracy.
This in itself is no problem, but the question is whether it can be done. In fact, it is no longer possible, because from noon to now, the Illuminati has won many victories.
No one knows how big an impact these local wins will have in the end. ()