The next morning, Shado and Nia went to the arena to watch the game as usual.

The snowmelt competition has now come to an end, and today is the final project [Grand Illusion] showcase.

The reason why I say "show" instead of "competition" is that it was a competition a few days ago, and the atmosphere was too harmonious, even when Mage Ilfaran and Mage Comanso were fighting, there were no serious accidents.

Recently, there has been gossip that the Northland Alliance is about to be established, and this year's snowmelt competition has become an important channel for these alliance leading countries to exchange feelings.

As for the specific date of the establishment of the Northland Alliance, Xia Duo also inquired with Iolem, but his nominal teacher did not know, but he only determined one thing, that is-

Whether the alliance is formed or not, before the end of the year, there will be a definite news.

If nothing else, the Northland Alliance should be able to be formed.

As for the dispute between the parties over the issue of demon summoning, Iolem did not explain much, but only revealed one piece of news, that is, the princess did not approve of studying demon summoning either.

After learning this news, Xia Duo breathed a sigh of relief, in Nessreel, the princess's influence was still quite large.

Although he has stayed away from the world after his ascension, after all, the time is still short, and his influence will not fade so quickly.

This time, the question of demon summoning should be over like this.

But from Ioleum's more subtle answer to the question, Xia Duo could still guess some of the other party's thoughts, and his nominal teacher seemed to be in favor of studying demon summoning, or at least not so repulsively.

In fact, Xia Duo himself did not reject this research, after all, no matter what, demons are real, and with the development of civilization, they will always come into contact with it in the future.

What he objects to is to do this kind of research, which is extremely dangerous and not necessarily profitable, when absolute safety cannot be guaranteed at the moment.

He had a hunch that the issue might be discussed again in the future, but the situation might have been different then.

……

"Xia Duo, you said that in this year's [Magnificent Illusion] project, will the color resistance party still be a dwarf mage?"

"I don't know, I haven't heard of this these days, but I guess it's probably not a dwarf mage."

"Why?"

"It's simple, there are two points!"

Xia Duo pointed to the auditorium in the arena and drew a large circle, and then said, "First of all, today is the [Grand Illusion] project, but there is no place for dwarf mages in the arena like last year.

"Secondly, the nature of this year's snowmelt competition has changed, unlike last year's many interests, this year is more like a return to the original essence of the snowmelt competition, for friendly exchanges, in this case, if you are the person above, will you still send a dwarf mage?"

This is actually similar to various sporting events on the planet, if the purpose is not to win, there is not much interest involved, then why bring in foreign aid?

A return to sport is in itself.

Natto's answer made Nia froze for two seconds, but then she pointed to a short man who had just appeared not far away, and said to Saddo:

"Look, what is that!"

Xia Duo looked in the direction of Niya's finger, and it turned out to be a dwarf dressed as a spellcaster, and then several dwarfs teleported over, was he going to be slapped in the face?

"I guess I'm here to watch the game, right?" Xia Duo said with a slight hesitation.

Then he traced his memory, and sure enough, he found the scene of last year's snowmelt competition in his memory, and the first dwarf to appear was one of the contestants at that time!

Hablin, the dwarf illusionist!

After Hablin and ten other dwarf illusionists won the game, the princess even declared that she would accept their family, friends, and kindred as the Chroma people, and promised to make the Yellow Maple Hills their breeding grounds.

Since then, Shado has not heard anything about them, and he did not expect to see Hablin again today.

In this way, those gnomes should have settled down in the Yellow Maple Hills.

According to the princess, these gnomes are also considered to be chromogenesis, and it makes sense to come to the game, but Xia Duo knows that things can't be so simple.

It's like on Earth, where a few black people slipped into a white meeting place, and how could it be without some special reason?

"Let's take a look!"

Although the gnomes appeared in the arena where there was no place reserved for them, Xia Duo still insisted on his opinion, and there was a high probability that the Resistant Color Fang would be all human this time.

……

Soon, there was already a slight commotion in the area where the Seven Pagoda Mages were located, and several archmages with administrative authority seemed to have received some orders and began to arrange seats for the dwarf mages.

Fortunately, there were only more than a dozen dwarf mages here this time, and with a little coordination, it was not difficult to squeeze out some positions.

But in fact, the dozen or so dwarf mages only had three seats, with Hablin and the other two dwarf mages sitting in their seats, and the other dwarf mages all gathered around them.

Since the spectator seats in the arena are primarily for the caster and are not crowded together like in sports arenas on Earth, there is plenty of space around each seat to maintain the most basic privacy and safety distance between the casters.

In addition, the dwarfs themselves are relatively small, and it does not seem to be much inconsistent with more than a dozen dwarfs squeezing three positions.

……

With the entry of representatives from all parties, the competition quickly entered the main topic.

As Xia Duo guessed, all of them were humans, not even the half-elves who had basically integrated into humans.

The dozen or so dwarf mages who had just come over really just came to see the game.

As for the competition, Ilfarang, Nesseril, Yerlan, Comanso, all four countries showed the scenery of their respective capitals very tacitly.

The capital of Ilfarang, Erinthal, is surrounded by rivers and seas, and the city is not built in a forest, but the forest is integrated into the city.

The vast Maze Cluster covers a large area centered on the capital, and even the nearby sea is deeply affected.

As an ancient country that survived the Wars of the Crowns, its capital retains a considerable amount of ancient architecture, despite the numerous baptisms of war it has suffered.

Chadora even saw the shadow of the ancient Mai Yeli Tower in it, and it seemed that ten thousand years of time had been condensed in that vision, which could not help but give him the idea of going to Ilfarang and Erinthal.

Even though the casters are more reserved, and only a handful of them shout at the top of their voices, ordinary people don't care about this, and there are really not many opportunities to shout in front of the Grand Arcanist!