Arcane Lord

Main plane, the tenth day of May.

The snow melting competition has now progressed, and there is only one last project left - the [Grand Illusion] proposed by Elf Fang. In a sense, it is not an arcane competition, but an art competition.

On this day, Xia Duo and Niya came to the arena early and stayed in the [Annihilation Plane] for an extra ten days. He always felt that the time had exceeded May. This feeling was somewhat similar to returning from the projection plane. That sense of time and space confusion.

But no matter how fast time flows in other planes, time in the main plane always flows quietly as in the past.

As the number of spectators in the arena increased, members of the Seven Towers and foreign guests began to enter one after another, and the arena was filling up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Eh-" Sha Duo suddenly looked at Niya, and Niya also happened to look at him, both of them with surprise in their eyes.

Sha Duo pointed at the little men who had just walked out of the teleportation circle and asked in an uncertain tone: "Are those dwarfs?"

In fact, he had seen a dwarf with his own eyes. In the Saville Territory, there was an open-pit mine on the far west side of the territory. Now it seems that the previous generation of lords, that is, Niya's grandfather's generation, bought a mine worth hundreds of dollars. The human dwarf tribe was placed there to mine.

So far, it can still produce some poor iron ore and a small amount of broken gemstones every year.

In addition, some dwarfs occasionally appear in the town as commodities, and the price is about three or four times that of human slaves. Basically, they are bought by the town office and then sent to the mines in the west.

According to Shado's understanding, in Netheril, anyone can capture, trade, or even kill dwarfs without owners at will, just like wild vegetables in the field, no one cares or asks.

But now, a group of dwarfs came out of the teleportation circle in a grand manner, and sat on the players' seats under the eyes of hundreds of Nese mages. Moreover, they were Nese players' seats.

Xia Duo had neither malice nor kindness towards the dwarf, but this abnormal phenomenon also made him think a lot.

Not only him, but also the human mages in the venue may not have expected such a situation. Some people were already shouting that they wanted to capture slaves, and they watched the atmosphere in the venue gradually turn into chaos.

Several great arcanists appeared on the teleportation circle, and the chaotic scene suddenly became silent. Then came the dwarf Holy Hammer Warriors and the elves' high mages, all of whom also appeared one by one.

When everyone was seated one by one, El Camon appeared out of nowhere and suddenly appeared in the center of the arena. At this time, the demiplane in the center of the arena had long been hidden, and a half-person-high rhombus appeared in place. crystal.

There is no external support. One of the longer tips is pointing upward and the other is pointing downward, just floating there quietly. The downward tip seems to be dyed bright red by something.

But if you look closely, you can see that there is no color at all.

This diamond-shaped crystal appeared together with Elkamon. Perhaps seeing everyone's doubts, Elkamon immediately said:

"Today is the last event of the Snow Melting Competition [Magnificent Illusion]. The three contestants must create the most spectacular or strange scenes, images, and events they can imagine. As for which party can win, it is entirely up to the people present. All viewers!”

As he spoke, El Camon pointed to the diamond-shaped crystal that everyone was paying close attention to, and introduced: "This is the appraisal crystal provided by Comanso, and it has passed the test of the Grand Arcanist and serves as the basis for judging this competition."

It is up to the audience to decide how to judge this rhombus crystal. Elkamon did not explain clearly, but with the endorsement of the Grand Arcanist, everyone can accept it.

However, Xia Duo immediately thought of the so-called emotional power. It was easy to guess that he might need such power to awaken his own bloodline.

However, he had previously called this power the power of belief. In this case, it might be more appropriate to call it the power of emotion.

Then the order of the competition is very particular. In the final analysis, the so-called [Magnificent Illusion] is a performance. If the previous ones do not lose the standard, then you have already enjoyed the previous ones, and if you appreciate the later ones, it will be difficult to have any emotional fluctuations. .

On earth, this situation may be called "aesthetic fatigue" or "nerve numbness", but in this magical world where emotions can be counted, perhaps it is because human emotions are limited!

Although Mage Nese may not necessarily be able to immediately associate emotional power, he can still tell clearly who is first and who is last in the competition, and who has the advantage.

When El Camon announced that the order of competition was "Cormanthor first, then Ellan, and finally Netheril," a group of dwarves who had been suppressed by the Grand Arcanist's appearance sat down on the contestants' bench. The dissatisfaction immediately broke out.

"Can those little things represent Netheril in the battle?!"

"Magic is not a trick. Do dwarfs know what magic is?!"

"Send them to the mines!"

…

Xia Duo did not make a sound. Instead, like the members of the Seven Towers, he watched this farce-like scene with cold eyes. He felt that instead of targeting the dwarf, it would be better to use a fireball directly on the elves.

This would at least allow him to see a hint of blood.

Of course, if someone really did this, Xia Duo would still call him a fool.

It is not ruled out that there are really great arcanists with missing strings in their heads, but Shado feels that someone who can reach the level of a great arcanist is at least not a fool. Although he had previously wondered why there were dwarf players in Netheril, he was just confused. , and did not question it.

It’s such a formal game that even the methods used by [Annihilation Plane] to increase time are used, so we shouldn’t really let a group of dwarves who know nothing take the field!

It must be these dwarfs that make the great arcanists feel that they have a better chance of winning than humans.

Of course, Chateau is also dissatisfied with the order of the game, but this is not something he can decide. If El Carmon can say this, it must be that the people above have reached an agreement.

…

From her high seat, Princess Shia also watched the protests from the audience with a cold eye. She deliberately did not say anything to stop her. On the one hand, she was dissatisfied with the elf's strong demands. On the other hand, when the game was over, there might be something more disturbing. Unacceptable results!

Let the people below be mentally prepared first, and it may not be so difficult to accept when the announcement is made later.

At this moment, Cormanso's representative, Suveris, held back his laughter and asked softly: "Your Highness, do you want to continue today's game?"

In his opinion, in a competition like [Magnificent Illusion], even if humans find a group of dwarf illusionists, even if those dwarf illusionists are quite talented in the field of illusion, there is no way they can be opponents of the elves.

After all, the civilizational heritage of the elves is far beyond that of the dwarves. If the elves hadn't stretched out their hands to fish them out of the mud, these little guys might still be digging in some unknown mine!

"The game continues, and we are about to appreciate the majestic scenery of Cormanso!"

Seeing the elf speaking, Princess Xia responded to him, and then stopped the chaos in the venue.

The game begins.