Arcane Lord

Next, Shado did not start a new game with Niya. It was almost time, and the mages from the Seven Towers had already begun to teleport in. By the time El Camon stood in the center of the arena, there was no projection of any chess game in the arena. .

"Hey, why didn't Master Iolum come today?"

No matter where he is, the Grand Arcanist always attracts the most attention. No, Sha Duo immediately noticed that the people at the second seat today had changed slightly from before.

Instead of Iolum, there is a golden elf.

What's happening here?

Sha Duo was about to ask Niya if she knew what was going on here, but he happened to meet Niya's confused eyes, so he said, "The new golden elf on the second seat belongs to Ilfarang, right?"

He just noticed that the position originally assigned to the golden elf was next to the other elves, but he did not expect that the golden elf sat directly at the farthest place from Ye Erlan, Cormansogo and other mages.

This is obviously something that cannot be dealt with.

"It should be." Niya nodded, but said, "I didn't expect that a high mage came over temporarily from Irfalan. Do you think Irfalan will also participate in the next snow melting competition?"

Who knows?

However, Xia Duo hopes in his heart that the Snow Melting Competition can develop into an international competition similar to the Olympic Games on Earth, so that peaceful development becomes the mainstream instead of estrangement and disputes.

After all, no one can guarantee that he will not die on the battlefield. Except for a very small number of natural war madmen, probably all intelligent life longs for peace!

Of course, if you want real peace, you still have to rely on your own strength and struggle. Peace that relies on compromise will not last long after all.

But in any case, the snowmelt competition does have the potential to eliminate international disputes and reshape the international order. It depends on how the above group of people develop.

“Hopefully Irfaran will join in the next snowmelt competition.”

"Huh? Why do you say that?" Niya's view of the snowmelting competition was still the exchange competition between the two countries in the past. Cormanso's participation only made her see arrogance and coercion.

At the lords' meeting at the beginning of the year, Niya was present in person. She was very disgusted with Cormanso's domineering behavior.

Shado did not explain from an international perspective or communication platform, but said, "Elfaran is obviously pro-Netheril, at least that's what they show. If they join, it will help Netheril fight against Ellan." Union with Cormanso?"

"That's true!" Recalling the situation of the previous game, Niya nodded, "Netheril really needs a new ally, an ally more reliable than Erlan!"

Shado didn't say anything. Even now, many Netherese mages still consider Yeerlan to be Netheril's enlightened mentor, blood brother, and international ally.

But in fact, the two countries have neither firm common interests nor a very stubborn and powerful common enemy. It is difficult for the two countries to maintain long-term closeness.

In particular, Netheril is getting stronger.

Sayings such as "Those who are not of my race must have different hearts" are not only found in Xia Duo's hometown. Compared with the differences between humans with different skin colors and different cultures, elves who naturally have hundreds of years of lifespan, and How much real friendship can there be between human beings?

"The game begins!"

"okay!"

…

[Arcane Puzzle] is still the same as [Spell Showdown]. It adopts a cycle challenge mode. The final score is based on double victory, that is, the number of contestants who challenge and are challenged and win at the same time.

It is difficult for players to resist the chess piece's first attack advantage, let alone the opponent's obstruction. Several games in a row basically proceed according to the normal chess game.

No player can change the result of taking the piece!

At this point, because the rules of [Arcane Puzzle] had been announced a long time ago, no one would be surprised. On the contrary, Netheril's frequent routines immediately ignited the atmosphere in the venue.

For Xia Duo, he couldn't summarize any routines he was asked to summarize. All the routines were integrated into one. To sum it up, there were actually only two words - chess power.

The training that Shado gave Stuart and Anglin before did not involve magic, it was just a simple chess game, allowing them to grow in the game.

This is much faster than a pure novice trying to improve by himself.

And the results are also shown on the field.

Ten games were played from morning to dusk, and Netheril won all four games without exception.

Even in the last game, Master Yeerlan had some shitty luck that invalidated one of Nese Arcanist's captures, but this was only a small step in the overall situation and did not allow him to turn defeat into victory.

In Xia Duo's view, the spell resistance abilities of all the contestants are almost the same. At this time, the level of chess ability becomes the decisive factor. Obviously, the Nise player's chess ability is better.

…

In the evening, after Shadonia finished her meal, she returned to Giles Tower. Before he could sort out the spell confrontation between the players during the day's game, Archmage Greta had already come to her door.

"Lord Xia Duo, I need to trouble you with something."

"Please say!"

"The elf contestants have left Sevington. Her Royal Highness the Princess suspects that they want to use some time difference to conduct temporary training, so I asked you to come to you to train our people as well."

"Time difference?" Xia Duo was a little confused.

Archmage Greta didn't explain too much, "Lord Shado, just follow me and you'll find out."

Helpless, Xia Duo had no choice but to follow, but as he walked, he was thinking about the time difference. He could think of the projection plane, but the problem was that multiple people entering the projection plane at the same time may not necessarily arrive at the same time. Tens, hundreds, thousands of years are possible.

Not to mention, it may also be projected into different creatures and land in different places. There are too many uncertainties.

There is a so-called "time stop" spell in the game on Earth, but it just accelerates oneself to the extreme, making it look like the outside world has been stopped.

Moreover, in this real magical world, he had not heard of any time to stop the spell.

Soon, the two of them entered a place that Sha Duo had never been to before. Just looking at the layout here, Sha Duo felt a sense of familiarity - the plane exploration layer of the Tower of Time!

Could it be that Giles Tower solved the problem of multiple people projecting at the same time?

Or are you going to a secondary plane where the flow of time is different from the main plane?

Xia Duo suddenly started to look forward to it. No matter what the situation was, it meant that he was likely to have it in the future.

After all, new technologies can be introduced and researched. If there is one sub-plane with different time flow rates, there may be more.

…

What awaits Xia Duo in the end is not a large ball of light for astral projection, but a portal that shines with a strong magical aura.

"There are actually sub-planes with different speeds of time!"

Before he could sigh, Sha Duo stepped into the portal at the urging of Archmage Greta.