Lord of Arcane

Chapter 874
In this case, not only did Xia Duo not relax in the slightest, but he became even more vigilant. Through the perception information shared by other high-level mages in the mind link, he paid close attention to every move of every elf in almost all directions.

Including casting spells, words and deeds, and even demeanor, the slightest change has not been missed.

In this way, while maintaining vigilance, Xia Duo methodically launched the final work of closing the net. The first thing to do was naturally not to directly attack them, but to restrict teleportation and flight.

In this regard, after the balance was broken, the elves were no longer difficult to stop.

Soon, when the restricted field created by [Forbidden Technique] was projected to where the elves were, the elves collapsed before Xia Duo cast another spell to restrict flying.

There are more than 30 elf mages in total, most of them are moon elves, and only four are gold elves. The moment the prohibition technique came, the golden elves holding the scepter immediately chose to teleport away.

However, when they left, they did not forget the other two golden elves who had lost their scepters.

It's just that due to the limitation of the location of the core nodes of the joint spellcasting, one of the golden elves is still a few steps away from the two golden elves with scepters.

Although the distance is not far, at this moment, the difference is only a moment of time.

No, he just pushed away the two moon elf mages who were blocking the way in front of him, and wanted to rush to his companions to leave together. Even the caster is still an elf, and his skills are very vigorous, but just this moment, they His companion did not wait for him.

Seeing this scene, Xia Duo became even more nervous. In fact, he hoped that the golden elf could run with the other three.

In this way, without the golden elves who are obviously superior and may have unconventional means, the remaining moon elf mages can handle it at will.

But the next scene almost made him break his glasses——

"My uncle is a close minister of the crowned king and a high-level mage Galanod! I have the curse of death on me! I have positioning magic! You can't kill me!"

There is not much noise in the battle between mages, it can be said to be peaceful, but on such a peaceful battlefield, such a sharp and almost broken shout suddenly broke out, which immediately attracted everyone's attention .

It's the only remaining golden elf mage!
Even if Xia Duo is linked with everyone's mind, he can share his thoughts, and this situation still made him stagnate for a moment.

The sudden appearance of such a situation really surprised him, and he actually came up with the idea that "the elves are nothing more than this"!

And those moon elf mages gave up their resistance almost at the same time when they heard this voice.

In fact, after the three golden elf mages left, the resonance state ceased, and these moon elf mages knew that they had been abandoned.

Not only here, even if they are lucky enough to return to Cormanthor alive, there may not be any good results.

And after hearing the hoarse cry of the last golden elf mage, they felt even more sad. They just felt disheartened and completely lost the will to resist.

……

The golden elf mage's begging for mercy was naturally not just begging for mercy, maybe he also wanted to find a chance to escape, but after the other moon elf mages gave up resistance, Xia Duo focused most of his attention on him.

More precisely, on the magic item placed on him.

As the elves were captured without a fight, Xia Duo also freed up more manpower, focusing on the only golden elf mage.

The influence of [Breaking Law-2-1] is still there, the magic item on this golden elf mage's aura is dim, and it is obviously unusable.

Because it is not clear what kind of hole cards are hidden in the other party, and the name of the grandnephew of the high mage is indeed quite scary.

It was not until the basic processes of blocking teleportation, restricting flight, and physical confinement that Xia Duo ordered someone to remove the opponent's magic item.

Before that, Xia Duo didn't pay any attention to any of the other party's remarks, but instead expressed vigilance more bluntly.

When everything was finally settled, a question was posed in front of Xia Duo, and that was——

What are these elves going to kill?Or not to kill?
If you don't kill them, you have to keep an eye on them all the time. Unlike ordinary people, spellcasters can be restrained with just a few shackles.

The key to casting spells lies in the distortion of the will on the strings of the magic net. This relationship is difficult to isolate.

In other words, if you want to truly limit the caster, you must limit the magic net or limit their will.

It is indeed difficult to change the environment of the magic net. The key is that it is difficult to last, but you can use tricks, such as restricting teleportation + sealing the environment, which is actually equivalent to a mage prison.

As for restricting the will, there are many ways, the easiest way is to knock out directly, and to be sure, you can use mind magic.

But whether it is building a prison or spiritual magic, it is not very helpful to the current situation. The former takes time, while the latter requires Xia Duo to show up in person.

Xia Duo had no problems in the past, but once he casts the spell himself, he will focus on casting the spell, and it is almost inevitable to loosen his control over the soul link.

In other words, when he teleported there, what he saw might not be the elf captives obediently waiting for him to cast a spell to restrict him, but a group of human mages who were flustered by the escape of the captives.

It's better to kill and save trouble!
……

But after a little thought, Xia Duo still decided - not to kill!

In fact, it can be seen from the words of Archmage Furstum before that the higher-ups don't mind killing elves in battle, and even encourage killing as many as possible.

But if the elves surrender, or are not in battle, they cannot be killed, not only cannot be killed, they cannot even be humiliated, and must be given certain treatment.

The main plane may need these captives in exchange for other benefits.

Furthermore, considering it more realistically, there is more room for not killing if you can kill or not. After all, after killing, when you really need to use it, do you still have to find a way to revive it?
Maybe there are some valuable and difficult captives, you can choose to kill them first, and then resurrect them when they need to be used, but it is obvious that these elves are probably not worth the price of the resurrection.

In Netheril, Xiaduo only knew that a death priest in Severton had the ability to resurrect, and the price was high, and the threshold was high.

It is simply impossible to use it as a conventional method.

Therefore, sometimes it is really troublesome to take captives. Fortunately, Xia Duo was going to notify everyone to evacuate, but the elves had to stop because they came too fast.

So in the mind link, he asked Anglin to contact Archmage Furstum again to ask how to deal with these elf captives.

Before that, Xia Duo could only work harder and stare at them personally.

(End of this chapter)