Chapter 197: Navik

Back on his seat, Xia Duo found that Kim on the opposite side was staring at him from the opposite platform. Xia Duo gave him a row of big white teeth, and did not take it seriously.
In the next three competitions, there were people from the Tower of Time, Gardner and Carey also played separately and successfully won their first show.
Palos, who was injured because of the mentor's experiment, lost a player in the Tower of Time because he didn't come, and there was some discussion among the guests.
And even the crowd onlookers was a little commotion, the lord and Ebbock's face were not very good-looking, winning or not is a question of ability, and you can understand it, but whether you come is a question of attitude! Chateau couldn't help but squeezed a cold sweat for Palos, not just Palos, it is estimated that his instructor will be wearing small shoes behind.
The competition behind the Tower of Time was all outsiders. Xia Duo noticed that the players who walked out from the opposite side were very old and young, but there was no female.
As human beings, there is not much difference in thinking and will between men and women, but the difference in the number of male and female wizards is so obvious, which reminds Xia Duo of scientists on earth. Although the theoretical ratio of men to women should be the same, the actual ratio is quite different due to various reasons. When male and female wizards are placed in Netheril, whose social structure is more backward, the disparity in proportion is even more obvious.
This is probably a problem that no can solve, and Xia Duo just passed through his mind for a while before focusing on the competition on the battle platform.
The layman looks at the excitement, the insider looks at the doorway.
Ordinary people onlookers could only see the red and blue missiles whizzing around, suddenly appearing and disappearing, just a few cheers.
A mages such as Xia Duo can see the specific details of the counter-spells on both sides of the battle. Of course, due to the distance limitation, the details are actually rather vague. But there are still great gains!
Such as countermeasures techniques, such as countermeasures, every time you watch a game, Xia Duo has a feeling of learning new knowledge, and it is true.
These foreign mages are indeed very skilled, and most of them are not "casters" who follow the scriptures, but real mages who have their own understanding of the principles of magic and the nature of magic nets.
At this moment, Xia Duo felt pressure, but at the same time excited. Even if it is just a simplified version of the arcane competition, there are so many gains. What if it is a competition initiated by a great arcanist?
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The first round of competitions quickly ended. In the end, only ten people entered the second round, and the Tower of Time accounted for three. Although there were some black-box operations, since the archmages did not object, they were still within the scope of the rules. .
But the second round was not that simple. Except for Xia Duo's easier win, Gardner won very hard, almost exhausted all his spells with the opponent, and Carey lost easily.
"Xia Duo, it's up to you next!" Kaili encouraged, but his gaze was on the opposite person, who just lost Kaili.
He was even mocked by the other party. After listening to the lack of sincere encouragement, Xia Duo nodded and accepted it. It really depends on him next.
Gardner has almost exhausted all his spells. If it is a formal arcane contest, even if it is not a day, there are special recovery methods that will allow the contestants to start in their best condition.
But Saville led this time--
Gardner is out.
Compared to Carey's perfunctory encouragement, Gardner's support is much greater, and he quietly discussed the analysis of other participating mages with Xia Duo.
There is a proverb in Xia Duo Township called "One person counts the shortcomings, two people count the long." Xia Duo believes in collective wisdom, otherwise he would not engage in any organization.
With Gardner’s analysis, he even attracted Kaili, and the three-person plan was longer. Although Kaili was a bit unreliable, it was enough to provide an additional analysis angle.
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In the third round, five people participated, but in fact Gardner was unable to participate. There were only four people. Chateau's opponent, like Kim in the first round, also came from the pure white tower.
And seeing where they sit close together, maybe they are under the same tutor.
"The Tower of Time, Chateau!"
"Pure white tower, Navek!"
Following Ebb's roll call, Chadoli came to the opposing platform and exchanged salutes with Navik on the opposite side, and then each applied protective spells.
Neither of them had the desire to talk, and they used Magic Missiles at the same time. Xia Duo was improving, and the others would not fall.
Xia Duo's first attack was disintegrated just after the midpoint, and he successfully countered the opponent's blue missile more than one meter above the midpoint.
Is this going to suffer?
A distracting thought flashed in Xia Duo's mind, and then quickly skimmed it, focusing all his attention on the battle, but his second attack was still quickly countered by the opponent.
And Navik's second attack approached Xia Duo by more than half a meter. Xia Duo's total reaction range was only 5 meters, which was nearly two meters away.
It's not that the reaction speed is not enough, but the details of the second spellcasting of Navik's spell are different from the first time, and Chateau did the same.
But in terms of quickly understanding the principle of the method ~EbookFREE.me~ and then countering it, Xia Duo has lost!
From a rational point of view, for the next final round, Chateau should surrender in time, but Navik can't win, so how to ensure that he will win the next game?
After all, I still have to fight, instead of putting it in the next game, I will win the third place at most, it is better to directly play at least the second place here.
Xia Duo has already made a decision between the electric light and flint!
Generally speaking, the mage casts spells in pursuit of stability, not the maximum effect. The most direct reason is of course for the sake of his own life.
Loss of control of the spell will not necessarily hurt the enemy, but it will definitely hurt yourself first. If it is in the spell laboratory, then naturally don’t worry, but in the normal magic net environment
What Xia Duo relied on was actually his physical fitness far superior to ordinary people, and he resisted spell backlash. Of course, this was the worst case.
The best case is that the spell is successfully cast, and the opponent cannot counter, and then under the blessing of the "spell combo" of the field circle, even if no adjustment is made, the opponent may not be able to counter.
In the second round before, Kaili was triggered by his opponent's combo, which directly triggered the shelter of the field circle.
But if you want to fight, you can't be too explicit, at least you can't let the lords and archmages above think that he is a brave and cruel person.
Next, the [Magic Missile] played by Xia Duo, although still a missile, can be added with a "men". This was originally Xia Duo prepared for spying on the second layer of the magic web! Now it is used temporarily, and even if it fails, it will let the big people know-he is close to the 3rd-level mage, and he has not been an official mage for more than a year at most.
The people in the Tower of Time, such as the Lord and Ebbk, should know that he has not been upgraded in the Tower of Time for less than a month!