Chapter 2104: Inspecting Forestry Township
The thirteen Great Mages beside him, who were also watching that region of mana space, froze when Archmage Laduka suddenly conceded defeat. Then their faces fell, and they lowered their heads without a word of protest.
Although their magical abilities fell far short of those of the two Archmages, they were already Great Mages and had done some research into mana space.
With their level of expertise, they could easily tell that if this region of mana space were allowed to continue developing, it would produce a mana space chain collapse-a phenomenon that struck terror into every mage.
Once that happened, it meant the mana space there had become utterly violent, dangerous, and uncontrollable.
Faced with such a situation, whether one was an ordinary mage, a Great Mage, an Archmage, or even a legendary Grand Archmage, there was only one choice-to flee as far away as possible.
The only way to resolve it was to let the surrounding stable mana space slowly influence the completely shattered region until it gradually returned to normal.
If Archmage Orphalian had done this earlier, while they were trapped in the Magic Cage, then judging by how things were unfolding now, the entire space enclosed by the Magic Cage would have been caught in the chain collapse.
And they, trapped inside the Magic Cage, would inevitably have been swept into it. Not one of them would have survived.
At that realization, everyone understood that when Xu Yi had stepped in to stop Archmage Orphalian earlier, he had actually saved their lives.
Xu Yi gave no response to Archmage Laduka's words. He simply watched Archmage Orphalian quietly, waiting for his reaction.
Archmage Laduka and the other thirteen Great Mages sensed Xu Yi's stance in that silence and turned their gazes toward