Arcane Lord

"To be honest, Lord Xado, in fact, I have long thought of stopping the smuggling on Comansor's side. This time is also an opportunity. After all, this kind of secret business is really uneasy.

"If Lord Shado is willing to help match, I am willing to share the benefits of ancient spices with you."

The last words are a bit blatant, but Xia Duo is very clear that the symbolic meaning of ancient spices to the elves may be greater than the practical value, and it is also greater than the money paid.

It is impossible for an elves to allow a human being to master something that can represent their glorious past, whether it is spices or anything else, they must find a way to get it.

Perhaps when Collins heard the conditions put forward by Cormanthor, he realized that he could not monopolize the ancient spices. Today is Cormanthor, and it may be another Elf country tomorrow.

Instead of passively waiting for the unknown means to come, it is better to take the initiative to buy a good price. In the long run, you may not be able to reap greater benefits.

Xia Duo thought about it, and finally agreed, not only because of the benefit sharing proposed by Collins, but also because he wanted to deepen the relationship with the small country alliance headed by Everiska.

The Seven Pagodas intend to build the order of ascending gods, and it is impossible for Xia Duo to urinate in the same pot with them. In addition to the rapid development of their own territory, the two sides are likely to eventually break.

Unless the seven towers give up the ascending order, or Xia Duo forgets his original intention, the final result may be difficult to change, but even if it cannot be changed, Xia Duo hopes that the day will come as late as possible, so that he can be fully prepared.

Then, the relationship with the Alliance of Small Nations in the Northland Alliance will help consolidate Netheril's right to speak in the alliance externally, and it will also help him maintain the balance of power with the Seven Towers internally.

To use an inappropriate analogy, it is probably "relying on foreigners' self-respect"!

In addition, although the small country alliance is small, its background is not necessarily small. Didn't Xado get a few dragon mad secret scrolls in Akola before? Maybe you can find clues about the control center of the Dragon Crazy Myth Lock there!

"Lord Collins, I'm going to travel to Cormanthor recently, and I may pass by Everisca on the way to Yeerland. I will mention this to Elder Larian!"

"Lord Shado's schedule is the priority, just take this matter to heart, I'm not in a hurry."

He said it was not in a hurry, but Xia Duo heard a trace of anxiety from the other party's words, but he did not promise any more, and soon ended the communication.

…

Floating City, public area.

On a terrace near Hengchun Square, Xia Duo and Niya sat side by side on a comfortable soft chair, quietly watching the ground scene that was transformed into the sky above the two of them through space transformation.

The clear blue, jade belt-like Tessa River flows out from between the mountains southwest of Connefera, meandering eastward and extending into the distance, eventually merging into a long and narrow lake.

Of course, in the geographical concept of the elves, it is called the "Moon Sea", but it is actually not as big as the narrow sea, and even the narrow sea is still far from the real vast and boundless sea in Xado's mind. a piece.

"Are there the traces left by the Drow war the year before?" Nya asked Shado, pointing to a large area of ​​almost pure black land that flows through the Tessa River.

Even though the early winter has come, the forest is still a little green, which is more obvious in Comansor. The almost pure black land is in sharp contrast with the surrounding yellow or emerald colors.

No wonder Nia noticed them right away!

"It should be. I heard that Drow used a large-scale Extinction Vitality Spell after hitting the Tessa River at that time, but I didn't expect that there are still a lot of unrecoverable traces there today."

In fact, it is not only a land of extinction. If you look carefully, you can also see a large number of city ruins south of the Tessa River, and north of the Tessa River, there are also many ruins of fortresses, but more of them are war spells. damage to the environment.

It has not been completely repaired until now. It is conceivable that Comanso must have been injured in the first World War.

No wonder they were so eager to promote the formation of the Northland Alliance, even at the expense of Inferran, who was hostile to them.

It is no wonder that among all the member states of the Northland Alliance, Comanthor is the most supportive to the frontline of the Danzuo battlefield in the Underdark.

In Netheril, the real city is probably only Severndon, or some of the territories that some great arcanists have been operating for a long time, and most of the rest are towns.

But in the territory of Comansor, the city occupies an absolute dominant position, or only from the surface, Comansor is a city-state composed of various cities.

This is also a typical feature of an elf country, with a city (mystery lock) as the center and several satellite villages scattered around.

However, those villages did not serve the necessary agricultural needs of the city, they were just simple rural settlements, and the agricultural needs of the city were almost entirely provided by Druyin, just on the edge of the city.

"Five Dynasties Rivers, Mountains, Wind and Moon"

The villages are located in the forest, which are really in line with nature, and many of them are still in a primitive self-sufficient state. Although the elves in those villages know that there are cities around them, they and the elves in the cities can almost Said to be two completely different species!

…

As the floating city went all the way to the east, Xia Duo was also explaining to Niya the various secrets of the elf society. Those rules and order, either overt or dark, were actually not fundamentally different from those in human society.

Even because they live longer than humans, the elf society has been in a state of rigidity and even abnormality for a long time. There may be noble and beautiful places, but their rotten and depraved places are absolutely beyond human imagination.

However, Xia Duo did not describe in detail how the elf was perverted, and only briefly mentioned it so as not to contaminate Niya's eyes and ears.

In the process of flying eastward, Shado and Nya occasionally fall to the ground, and go to the elf city or village to observe and even experience the living conditions of the elves at close range.

The most regrettable thing for Niya is that Xia Duo did not let her go down, UU reading www.uukanshu. com can only go to incarnation, which makes many experiences somewhat distorted.

…

Soon, according to the guidance of the pass, the floating city came to an urban area that was larger than all the cities that had passed by before.

In this urban area, the most eye-catching are the three towers in the center of the city. Although Xia Duo came here for the first time, he was no stranger to those three towers.

It was a special magic building created by three elven swords.

Shado once passed the Divine Sword Trial in [Projection Plane: The Birth of Cormanthor] and became the only true king of the new Cormanthor. At that time, he created a tower of rule through [Sword of Rule].

There are now three towers here, apparently all three Excalibur holders who created their own towers.

Just when Xia Duo sighed that something was wrong, Comanso sent him an invitation by means of a pass—a nobleman wanted to see him!