Chapter 3349: The End of Arrogance
There are too many disputes in this world due to misunderstandings. In the state of spiritual connection, two intelligent creatures can transcend race, culture, language and other external things to communicate in the most direct and least likely to cause misunderstanding.
When it comes to annihilating the Illuminati, Shado is not like many elves who only rely on passion or resentment. He has enough knowledge about the Illuminati, enough to allow him to completely firm up his determination to eliminate the Illuminati.
And this kind of determination was transmitted to the hearts of the mages on the front line of Teardrop Lake through spiritual links, and it also deeply infected them.
"Consultant Xia Duo, let me do whatever you want from now on!"
"Well, just follow the spell-casting instructions."
Although not all elves have the consciousness to fight to the death with the Illuminati, they are generally unanimous in their opinions. At least until the real desperate situation arrives, these elven mages will no longer think about retreating.
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For the Alliance at the moment, the biggest goal of Operation Teardrop Lake is still to prevent the ritual, the secondary goal is to capture the host of the ritual alive, and the minimum goal is to find out enough details of the ritual.
With such three goals, upper, middle and lower, the next casting instructions issued by Sha Duo will also revolve around these three major goals.
It's just that the frontline mages made a lot of mistakes in the process of completing their psychological construction, and now they have fallen behind in the duel with the Illuminati's ritual host.
This temporary reinforcement team was originally inferior to the opponent in terms of "hardware". Even with Xia Duo's "software" to make up for it, it was only a 50-50 split at best.
And now, how can such a team regain the initiative when it is at a disadvantage?
Regarding the current situation, Xia Duo has a clear understanding of the situation. The most important point in the current game between the two sides in Teardrop Lake lies in this time-related ceremony that is still in operation.
The Alliance wants to stop it, while the Illuminati wants to complete it. This is the core conflict between the two sides.
Therefore, before the frontline mage completely lost his ability to control the situation, Xia Duo made a crucial but risky decision——
They don't consider how to test the details of the ritual, nor how to stop the ritual smoothly and minimize the impact. They only consider the fastest and most effective destruction.
He knew that doing so would definitely leave a lot of hidden dangers, but compared to a team of mages being wiped out when they failed to achieve their intended goals, Sha Duo could fully afford this hidden danger and risk.
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And on the other side, on the shores of Teardrop Lake.
If the reinforcements this time were a high-level mage, perhaps he would be more calm in the duel with the Illuminati mage, but it would be more difficult to do more.
A spellcasting team composed of a senior mage and fifteen elite mages may not be as good as a senior mage in terms of spellcasting hardware, but it also has the absolute advantage of multi-threaded spellcasting.
If used properly, it is not difficult to hold down a high-level mage. Even with some luck, it is not impossible to force a high-level mage to death or even capture him alive.
At present, with the command of Xia Duo, who has the support of nearly a hundred mages in the computing power pool, intelligence brain and command network, this spell-casting team is undoubtedly able to use its own power properly.
As for luck, even Xia Duo himself can't control this, let alone give it to others. He can only try to make mistakes, but as long as he is strong enough, he may not be able to create opportunities.
With the change in the spell casting strategy of the Alliance Mage, the Illuminati Mage initially thought that the Alliance Mage had exhausted his skills and that he would win, but he did not expect that the Alliance Mage suddenly gave him a big one——
Regardless of the risk of the ritual getting out of control, we directly attack the weakest point of the ritual, which is of course the weakest point for the ritual host, which is the auxiliary secret ritual altar.
Such a complex and changeable ritual cannot be controlled by a single spellcaster. Fortunately, the ritual has now reached a critical moment, and even destroying the altar cannot stop the ritual.
But once the altar is destroyed, it will at least greatly slow down the progress, which is unacceptable to the Illuminati mage.
In an instant, the two sides' offense and defense changed. The Illuminati mage was not willing to give up the duel advantage he had gained by himself, so he tried to disrupt it with words:
"Do you know what you are doing? Don't stop! If the ritual goes out of control, the entire western part of Yeerland will be destroyed by out-of-control magic, and even Irfalan in the west will be affected."
Coincidentally, two of the sixteen mages who came to Teardrop Lake for reinforcements were from Yeerlan, and even more were from Irfalan, as many as six. The most important thing was that the leading senior mage was also from Irfalan.
At this time, I heard a message from the Illuminati mage mentioning that the out-of-control ritual might affect Ilfaran, and he was immediately affected. When Shado saw this, he quickly explained:
"Don't listen to the deceptive words of the Illuminati. Letting them complete the ritual will do the greatest harm to the North and even the entire main plane. As for this local ritual, even if it gets out of control, it will only affect the Teardrop Forest area."
It is impossible for Shado to say that there is no impact, but this impact is definitely not like what the Illuminati mage said, which can destroy the entire western part of Yeerland, and even affect Irfalan in the west. This is absolutely impossible.
When the other party said this, it meant that he had done the right thing.
In the spiritual link, the communication speed was extremely fast and there was no misunderstanding. Xia Duo's explanation was quickly recognized by all the first-line mages, and the spell-casting state became stable again.
At the Alliance headquarters, Shado was comforting himself. It was not easy for such a temporary team to be in the current state, and he could not ask for more.
However, the idea of forming a standing force within the Alliance framework also came to mind again. The Alliance's current achievements in this regard are only a quick response list.
Mages who are willing to respond to the Alliance's call at any time - at least elites and above, can join this list, but this is not a standing force. If the other party refuses to be called, the Alliance obviously does not have enough authority to deal with the other party.
As for the field team, this is indeed a standing force, but these teams can only do some intelligence tasks, and combat effectiveness is not their first requirement.
The standing force that Shado wants is specially prepared for combat or war. This force should perhaps be called [Alliance Standing Army] or [Alliance Peacekeeping Force].
It's a pity that just like Netheril cannot form a standing force, the Alliance countries are also quite conservative on this topic. I don't know how long this quick response list has been dawdling. If the threat of the Illuminati is not too great, even this may not be passed.
It is hard to imagine how difficult it is to form a real standing army.
But because it is difficult, Xia Duo will not give up. It is just that it is too late to start negotiations right now. Only after the Illuminati crisis is resolved, it may be smoother to talk about this topic.
After all, in addition to the Illuminati crisis, there is also the Dragon Madness Lock crisis, as well as the invasion crisis of the Holy Golden Dragon Empire and the invasion crisis of the Astral Psychic Forces that the Alliance is not aware of.
As long as there is enough demand for standing forces in this Illuminati crisis, the Alliance countries are not really indifferent and will eventually make some choices afterwards.
