"As for not sending someone to take command, this is not a decision made by me alone. This is a joint decision of the Seven Towers, including yourself!"
Badigal's explanation left Horn speechless for a moment. He knew that Badigal was right. The war was indeed a war, and it was indeed their joint decision not to send anyone to command.
And the reason turned out to be just to allow the mages of the Seven Towers to grow quickly, learn cooperation and compromise, and get out of the narrow self-circle.
Horn expressed his opposition at the time, but was eventually persuaded by Badigal and the princess, but now that he mentioned it again, he inevitably regretted it.
Therefore, the group of people who died not long ago also included people from his Jilan Tower. Even if they were just two mid-level mages, it made him feel very distressed.
In Horn's view, the probability of a high-level mage becoming a legend is close to zero, let alone becoming a grand arcanist later. However, the probability of an intermediate mage becoming an arcanist and then becoming a grand arcanist is much higher. Significantly much higher!
He would rather lose two high-level mages than lose one mid-level mage. After all, who knows whether the dead mid-level mage will be the future great arcanist!
Of course, it is impossible for him to say this openly, but at the level of a great arcanist, his thoughts are indeed different from ordinary people, even ordinary spell casters.
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Sha Duo never thought that his return would trigger a debate among the great arcanists. From the moment he lay down on the bed of his temporary residence, he almost forgot all the trivial matters and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the spiritual link.
The spiritual link at this time, with Sha Duo's consciousness projection as the center and more than a hundred high-level mages as branch nodes, formed an invisible network flowing with sensory information and fragments of thinking.
In this network, every node is Sha Duo's perception window, a distributed subconscious calculator, and also the execution terminal for his instructions.
The first formal instruction issued by Sha Duo was to obtain as much information as possible and share it with the spiritual link.
Whether it's the mission information everyone receives, or the supersensory information obtained by casting spells.
Only with enough information can a clear enough battlefield situation be established. This is also a simple judgment made by Sha Duo based on the small amount of military knowledge he had on Earth before traveling.
Know yourself and your enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles without danger.
Now, Xia Duo has a fairly complete understanding of the true abilities of the more than 100 of them, or the abilities that can be used for coordinated operations.
As for certain people's powerful trump cards, this is not something Sha Duo considers.
After all, the so-called command and dominance are based on win-win cooperation. If the interests of certain groups of people are to be sacrificed, this cooperation may fall apart immediately.
Perhaps we can talk about compensation afterward, but it is difficult to negotiate a result that satisfies everyone in a short period of time. If a consensus cannot be reached quickly, the battle may have been lost.
Therefore, the best approach is to treat everyone as exactly the same individual, without any high expectations, as long as they can exert the abilities that a normal high-level mage should have.
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After the information collection command was issued, a succession of information was quickly shared to the mind link network. There were pictures, sounds, smells, perceptions of the magic network, and detection spells in various places in the green field plane. Various feedback from all over.
In an instant, almost endless information flowed back and forth in the mind link network. At this moment, and even in the following moments, no active consciousness information came out of the mind link.
Except for Xia Duo, probably no one can "look directly" at such complicated and endless information!
Of course, although it is said to be infinite, there are actually limits and there are rules to follow.
When Xia Duo's body fell into a deep sleep, his subconscious mind and conscious mind were extremely active. He used his subconscious mind specifically to regulate other people's subconscious minds for thinking and judgment.
And use your own expression consciousness as the goal of the result output.
The first thing Sha Duo did was to establish a multi-dimensional green field state diagram in his consciousness, which mainly included terrain, landscape, and the state of the magic network.
The most important one is of course the state of the magic network. For the caster, other information is just an appearance. Only by tearing apart the appearance can one see the reality.
At this moment, in this real state diagram of the green field plane, there are more than twenty abnormal areas of the magic network, which should be the mysterious lock nodes set up by the Cormanthor elves.
Each one corresponds to the mission objectives of Xia Duo and his more than fifty teams.
Yes, the result obtained by combining most of the information is somewhat counter-intuitive. It is not that there are more than fifty targets, but only more than twenty.
As for the reason, Xia Duo now knows.
On the real surface, there is also a layer of appearance constructed from terrain and landscape. If the task is carried out according to the appearance, half of the team will be led to invalid targets.
This is also the final effect of the anomalies in trees that Shado first discovered.
In fact, it is not just reflected in the forest itself, but in a very magical way, the other half of the world that overlaps with the normal world but has no real meaning is fictionalized out of thin air.
Maybe this is the mystery lock!
If it weren't for the fact that more than a hundred high-level mages shared information at the same time, allowing him to integrate a more realistic picture of the plane, he himself might have gone astray.
But now, things are different.
Although Xia Duo didn't know much about the Mystery Locks, especially its principles, which could be said to be almost blank, his ignorance of the principles did not prevent him from destroying those Mystery Lock nodes.
Many times, it is easier to destroy than to create.
And when he knew that there were probably only more than twenty real Mystery Lock nodes, Xia Duo had a better chance of winning.
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The teams that were attacked before were heading to the real Mystery Node. Others may not have noticed, but with Xia Duo's strong memory, how could they not notice that the elf mages who attacked only changed a few times. A new face!
If the number of elf mages is large enough, there is no need to replace people in the same team. Wouldn't it be better to just change teams and conduct a sneak attack?
Even though the threshold for elves to jointly cast spells is low because of the particularity of the elf magic system, it is not without any threshold.
If a new person suddenly joins a skilled team, it will have some impact.
Therefore, when Sha Duo persuaded everyone to accept the spiritual link, he said that the number of elves may not be large. Only if they unite can they not be overwhelmed by successive raids.
And now, knowing that there are probably only more than twenty Mysterious Lock Nodes, this confirms his previous speculation, that is, the number of elves is far less than he imagined, at least the number of elven mages may not be that many. .
