The current situation is that the elves have shown their lack of artistic background in bullying humans. All the great arcanists can see it clearly, but there is nothing they can do about it.
Human aesthetics has been deeply influenced by elves for hundreds of years. Even the great arcanists appreciate elven art. Is it possible to win in this competition with elves?
Silence and a depressing atmosphere permeated this secret meeting hall. It was okay to be inferior to the elves in terms of art. After all, Nese mages were all about practicality. If the elves were good, just use them.
But the problem is that the snowmelt competition also involves many interests and even many potential crises. Not to mention losing the entire project, even losing one is unacceptable.
"Remember that little thing we let go a few years ago?" A great arcanist said suddenly.
"What little thing?"
"That's the dwarf slave who is proficient in illusion!"
After saying this, several great arcanists immediately thought of the dwarf slaves they had deliberately let go.
There are many dwarves living in the territory of Nese, and Nese also needs these intelligent creatures for mine development. With their good intelligence, they are much better than orc slaves!
It's just that these dwarfs don't know where they learned elven magic. Although it is difficult to develop under the deliberate suppression of Master Nese, under the pressure of life and death, they focus on illusion magic, hiding themselves and their tribe.
Some gnome illusionists perform illusions that even the Grand Arcanist marvels at.
The dwarf slave who was deliberately let go by several great arcanists was a very skilled illusionist, and most importantly, he was quite famous among the dwarf tribe. The purpose of letting him go was to let him gather dwarves, so that Nese could
The mages were spared the trouble of searching everywhere.
Just keep an eye on the dwarf illusionist, and when he gathers a large number, arrange a sweep, capture some, let go of others, and then continue to catch him next time when there are more people gathered.
Using this method, most of the wild dwarfs in Nese's territory have been captured and used as slaves.
Although the illusions of dwarfs are not as artistic as those of elves, in terms of being consistent with nature or whimsical, they are definitely superior. After all, they are honed in life and death.
The great arcanist just wanted dwarfs to compete with the elves instead of humans.
Dwarves are not the enemies of the Netherese people, but the Netherese people are the enemies of the dwarfs. Letting the dwarfs fight for their enemies is a very imaginative idea.
However, the pragmatic Grand Arcanists quickly accepted this suggestion. Since it is difficult to win with human mages anyway, it is better to try with dwarfs.
"Your Highness, [Spell Showdown] requires the assistance of your elf mages for training, and [Arcane Puzzle] was proposed by you. You will be responsible for these two projects. Let's go and deal with those dwarfs."
Princess Shia nodded, "Yes, but the [Arcane Puzzle] was not proposed by me, but by a pioneer."
"The Pioneer is the author of the "Standard Development Manual of the Daxia Territory" and the lord of the Daxia Pioneer Territory, Xia Duo?"
"Yes, that's him."
"good."
There will be no further details after that. After all, it is good to be able to remember the name of the Grand Arcanist.
Soon, the seven great arcanists dispersed, and it was less than a month before the Snow Melting Competition.
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And in the far east of the Nese territory, within the territory of Cormanthor, deep in the Akora forest.
The area covered by a mysterious barrier has been ravaged by war, but it still survived tenaciously and worked hard to recover. It looks like a small village, but this is the Elf Court and the place where many Elf elders provide retirement care.
The place.
This place has also experienced glory in the past. Hundreds of high mages, priests, and nobles stood up and issued a declaration here to resist Arivandar's imperial rule.
Of course, thousands of years have passed, and the glory here has long been gone. Now it has become a retirement home. The elders are generous and fraternal, and they can still exert their last remaining enthusiasm in the war against the drow. This is what King Cormanthor tolerates.
Important reason to continue here.
But today, the Elf Court has welcomed many young high mages. Although their real age is not too young among the elves, compared with the elven elders, they are still a younger generation.
The Elf Court prohibits teleportation spells, so Farrow and his party walked from outside the barrier to the village inside the barrier, where members of the organization had already arranged the ceremony site in advance.
A large-scale mysterious magic circle, magic casting nodes poured with mithril, countless gems of different colors inlaid between the nodes, and various mysterious symbols looming in the air.
In the distance, several elven elders looked at this place with smiles. Their connection with the world had long been broken, and the reason why they stayed in the world was just to give the last bit of help to their descendants.
Farrow respected these elf elders from the bottom of his heart, saluted from a distance, and then asked the members of the organization who did not participate in the ceremony to entertain the elf mages who came to watch the ceremony.
He himself carefully checked the entire magic circle. This is no small matter. If something goes wrong, even if he is lucky enough to survive, it will not be easy for the Lord God's oracle to be completed. He wants to organize it again next time.
The Mystery of Omniscience] is not so easy.
Fortunately, everything was fine. Farrow adjusted his gorgeous robe and stood at the center of the magic circle, on the mithril-poured casting node. When he saw Farrow, he started, and the other twelve high mages also took up their positions in turn.
On the casting node.
With Farrow as the center, there is a spellcasting node on each of the three equally divided corners, and each spellcasting node has three subsidiary spellcasting nodes.
Equivalent to the 1-3-9 division.
When the thirteen senior mages, including Farrow, were ready, the ceremony officially began.
First, Farrow recited the starting incantation and activated the array supporting the [Omniscient Mystery]. Then the incantation suddenly changed, and the other twelve spellcasters also began to recite the incantation.
Although each of them recited only the default incantation, when combined, the thirteen voices were intertwined to form a complete set of incantations.
Of course, the secret ceremony is not only about spells, but even the spells are secondary. The fundamental thing is to control the magic network. The spells only play a supporting role to allow the thirteen spellcasters to coordinate.
The more people participating in a ritual, the more difficult it is to coordinate, and of course, on the other hand, the more powerful it is.
…
As the [Secret of Omniscience] began, the wind began to rise around the Elf Court, and even the sky seemed to darken, and various mysterious and incomprehensible phenomena continued to appear around the magic circle.
The onlookers' elf mages all moved away from the magic circle, but none of them left. Since they were here, they must have been mentally prepared.
After a while, it began to rain lightly. Farrow and the others had no protection and allowed the raindrops to hit their faces. However, the rhythm of the spell was not disrupted at all, and even vaguely resonated with the surrounding wind and rain.
Until more than half an hour passed, the wind stopped, the rain stopped, a rainbow hung from the oak tree not far away, and the most critical moment for Faroe was reached.
Everything before can be understood as a spell-casting process, and there will be consequences after that, which need to be endured by him and the other twelve participants.
Being omniscient is not necessarily a good thing. If you don't have the endurance, you may be overwhelmed by the huge amount of information. Farrow's method is to use magic to link the thinking of thirteen high mages together to construct a simple thinking.
The model incorporates, organizes, and draws conclusions from all information.
In addition, the mental model cannot be complex. If it is too complex, the processing speed will be slow, and accidents will occur if it is slow.
Finally, except for Farrow, all the spell casters stopped. When Farrow finished reciting the final ending spell, the magic circle instantly erupted with a burst of intense light.
There was both magical aura that could not be seen by the naked eye, and dazzling light that was visible to the naked eye. It made the surrounding elven mages squint, and some even simply closed their eyes to sense the changes in the magic network at the magic circle.