Arcane Lord

The sun is setting in the west, dusk is approaching, and the surface of Macht Lake reflects the dim sunset, making it look particularly peaceful.

However, when Xia Duo turned around, he saw that the busy work on the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce's ship was incompatible with this peaceful environment. Miles had just sent him a message not long ago, because the task of collecting fish-man slime had not yet been completed. The mage will come tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

It depends on how productive Miles’ side is.

Miles has also decided to let his workers collect all night, and must complete the task before noon tomorrow, so that when the Archmage comes to clean up the fishmen here, they can return immediately.

Xia Duo had no objection to this. He just ordered his fleet to be more vigilant, and after ordering the fleet to stay away from the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce ship, he personally deployed warning magic.

Before going to bed, Xia Duo slightly adjusted the categories and levels of magic net storage spells, mainly focusing on concealment and maneuverability, such as illusion, invisibility, flight, teleportation, etc.

As for breaking spells, one is [Dispel Magic] that forcibly smoothes the magic network, and the other is [Spell Counterattack] that uses one's own knowledge. The former is a specific spell, but Sha Duo does not think he can completely dispel the Archmage's spell. Spells, so just have a magic scroll as a backup.

On the other hand, [Counter Spell] has no set rules and relies entirely on its own knowledge to perform on the spot. The snow melting competition in early May has not been long yet. Xia Duo has learned a lot of experience, so he is still a little confident in this aspect.

Even the Archmage is not completely invincible.

But his purpose was not to engage in a spell confrontation with the Archmage. Xia Duo knew that even if he won the spell confrontation, it would not mean much. If the Archmage really wanted to run away, he would not be able to catch up.

The main thing is to give priority to ensuring that you can escape.

The spells stored in the magic network are almost instantaneous. The only disadvantage is probably that any spell must be stored in advance, and it will be used as soon as it is used. It will not recover by itself.

But as an additional spell system that is independent of itself, this shortcoming can be completely ignored. I don’t know how many mages rely on the magic network to store spells for their livelihood!

Although Xia Duo does not completely rely on the magic network to store spells, he also attaches great importance to this aspect. However, his ability to cast spells on the spot is still satisfactory. Therefore, when it comes to the magic network to store spells, he has always aimed at running away and is always prepared. With.

This time it's just a slight tweak to better deal with possible Archmage enemies.

…

Have a peaceful night.

Neither the expected murloc attack nor the archmage's attack happened, and the first thing Shado did after waking up was to get a bunch of status spells, such as [Avoid Detection], [Magic Alarm Clock], [Delayed Teleportation], [Long-lasting armor] and the like.

Most of these spells last for more than 24 hours. Xia Duo will refresh them every day when he gets up, especially when he is away from home, so he must not forget them.

After finishing this, Xia Duo started to wash up and eat. This was what he had supplied at Giles Tower before leaving. Although it was not very delicious, it was still pretty good.

After breakfast, Xia Duo came to the deck outside. Mate Russ had already arranged for people to fish here. The other ships in the fleet were similar, but this time they were not to "fish" fishmen, but Xia Duo. He was ordered to use the catch subsidy to supplement the food consumption on the ship.

Looking towards the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce's big ship, Miles had also gotten up and was talking to a steward-looking man on the deck. Xia Duo waved his hand, and the other party immediately responded and waved his hand as well. At the same time, he sent a message:

"I'm sorry, Lord Xia Duo, for delaying your schedule."

"It doesn't matter, it's just a matter of waiting one more day." Xia Duo behaved generously, but he still asked about the collection mission. After all, if you can go back early, you can go back early.

"It will probably be completed at noon. Archmage Timothy will come over at that time. At that time, we will also ask Lord Shado to help search for the location of the fishmen."

"Easy to say."

…

Whether it was fighting or searching, he needed to maintain a good state. Xia Duo did not do any magic research, but sat quietly on the bow of the boat, as if watching the scenery.

But in fact, he was organizing information in his personal space, including books copied from Giles Tower, [Projection Plane], and his past experimental records.

He has done similar sorting before, but every time he rearranges it, he will come up with different ideas. This is probably "learning and learning from time to time" and "reviewing the past and learning the new"!

This time, he arranged a library-like form in a corner of his personal space, and put all his notes and materials into categories for easy reference next time.

Moreover, this time he no longer classifies from the perspective of application, such as protection, defense, assistance, etc., but from the principle of spells, which are roughly the current mainstream [Creation], [Change] and [Soul] These three major systems.

The field of [Plane] that Xia Duo is currently mainly researching spans the two departments of [Creation] and [Change], and is a proper interdisciplinary field.

The purpose, of course, is to better utilize the portable space.

As for the [Psychic] system, the Judgment Spell series that Shado brought back from the [Projection Plane] was called [Psychic Spell] in Netheril. However, he was not prepared to study it in depth, so he could use it. .

In addition to having already chosen his future research direction, more importantly, after seeing the [Pioneer Scepter], he had no motivation to research. Others had even made magical items that were immune to psychic spells, and he also got one. How much more motivation can there be!

Although this scepter cannot be absolutely immune to all psychic spells, at least for now, Xia Duo has not seen any psychic spells that can break through the protection of the [Pioneer Scepter].

Occasionally, Xia Duo also calls this scepter the "Scepter of Soul Protection".

…

The time came to noon in a blink of an eye. Miles had completed the collection task ahead of schedule, and the workers had returned to the cabin to rest. However, Miles did not release control of the "corpse" murlocs gathered at the bow.

"Lord Shado, Archmage Timothy has set off and will be coming soon!" Miles sent another message.

Xia Duo did not reply, but stood up silently, stood on the bow of the ship, and looked at the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce ship not far away.

Well, the distance is a little far, and it is beyond the scope of [Delayed Teleportation].

If it were an ordinary mage, there would probably be nothing he could do at this time.

But Xia Duo has long understood the principle of [Delayed Teleportation]. He just programmed the caster's own active recognition and turned it into a specific spell that can be automatically recognized.

It doesn't mean that with this spell, one's own ability to identify teleportation is gone, it is still there.

Moreover, one's own active ability and the passive ability of spells can basically be compared to "fine-work products" and "mass products". There is a gap between the two.

In fact, although he cannot interfere with possible teleportations over there, it is still no problem to detect them in advance, even if the amount of advance is small.

But even the advance amount of automatic spell recognition is very small, but the spell will be automatically delayed (can be turned off), and it is basically too late for the caster to actively delay after recognizing the transmission.

Therefore, spells can be both convenient and limiting at the same time.