Arcane Lord

This move is really clever. At least Xia Duo has not yet figured out any other way to keep paper books normal underwater besides isolating the water.

According to his observations, the Tide Queen's approach may be to use Belluno's ubiquitous water element field to precisely change the properties of the water element where the book is located, so that it no longer wets the paper, and can even be pulled away from the paper.

Sea elves have lived in a water environment for a long time, and are far ahead of land people in water-related applications. Even Xia Duo has to admit this.

The "Articles of Association" he gave was written in standard Elvish language. Even sea elves who have been away from the mainland for tens of thousands of years can read it relatively smoothly. Sea elves have been away from the mainland for tens of thousands of years, but they are not isolated from the world.

It's just that the language has naturally differentiated due to the environment. The text is still the same as before. Standard Elvish has eliminated redundant semantics and is most suitable for beginners of Elvish. For sea elves who already understand Elvish, naturally they will not There are too many obstacles.

And that "Articles of Association" was written with some principled clauses in the program. It didn't take much time for the Queen of Tides to read it twice in succession. After reading it, she also gave an affirmative answer:

"If this is the alliance, then Belluno is willing to join the Northland Alliance."

"There is no rush to join the Northland Alliance. Even Cynaria will have to wait until at least the war for an answer. I have already notified Belluno's application to join the alliance to the representatives of the alliance countries. Let's talk first. How to catch the Illuminati’s little tail!”

Chateau had indeed informed the representatives of various countries at the alliance headquarters that Belluno would join the alliance. At the same time, he also mentioned that catching the clue of sea elf magic must rely on Belluno's cooperation.

Just like Sinaria joining the alliance, representatives from various countries did not oppose Belluno's joining, but they just said that they would wait until after the war to vote.

Of course there may be variables in this, but Xia Duo will try his best to promote it. As for the moment, he still has to focus on dealing with the Illuminati. He really doesn't have the energy to make every representative make a guarantee that they will agree after the war.

However, Shado has had a brief exchange with Iolum and Badigal. The three of them all believe that Belluno can be developed into an ally of Netheril. The reason is that Belluno's magic system is closely related to Netheril. I'm very close.

It's just that he has an extra water element tendency. If Belluno still wants to live in the deep sea in the future, he must persist in this. But if Belluno thinks about developing in shallow seas or even land, he can actually do it almost seamlessly. Integrated into the Nese magic system.

Although Belluno now only has a population of several hundred thousand, they have popularized magic to all the people. Their overall strength is not as good as that of the big land countries, but their magic system is lacking.

Once this is supplemented, not to mention completely catching up with land powers, at least it will have the strength to fight a full-scale war with big powers. If the population catches up again, it will become a regional power.

If we can obtain such an ally, Netheril will undoubtedly be able to increase its voice in the alliance, which is much better than Ilfarang, who is becoming more and more powerful.

As for the possibility that sea elves and land elves are completely as close as one family, this possibility does exist, but it is very low. If they were close enough, there would be no contact with each other for tens of thousands of years.

Not to mention, the magic system is actually the path of development. There has been a clear division between sea elves and land elves, and they have taken the same path as Netheril. In this case, even if they are not allies, they will naturally develop due to the external situation. Get closer.

In addition, the universal popularization of magic by sea elves is considered a taboo in the land elven countries. There will probably be no civil exchanges between the two sides for quite some time in the future.

This might even prevent Bellunor from joining the Alliance, which would require a strong push from Netheril, just like Ilfaran did with Sinaria.

In fact, Belluno and Sinaria are already bound together at this moment. The two countries will either join the alliance together or be rejected together. There is almost no third possibility.

This may also be the best time for Belluno to join the alliance, even more critical than the time chosen by Cynaria. If he misses it, if he wants to join in the future, he may have to wait until the day when Shado becomes the leader.

Unlike Cynaria, even if it misses this time, as long as it declares to give up the dividends from the Gray Peak Mountains, the countries will probably not refuse.

As for now, if the two countries can take advantage of this Illuminati crisis to join the alliance, they will actually be able to enjoy the dividends from the Gray Peak Mountains by default. It is nothing more than an increase in the initial investment of the alliance countries and the missed snowmelt competition for two sessions. That's all. .

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"How does Advisor Xia Duo want to investigate? Have you identified a preliminary target?" the queen asked.

If the Queen of Tides had asked this question at first, Xia Duo might not have been able to answer, but now, he told the other party quite confidently:

"The target has been initially locked. If possible, please Her Majesty the Queen to control him and we will interrogate him together."

"Who is it?" The Queen asked in a deep voice with a solemn expression.

At this moment, she couldn't help but feel a little lucky. Fortunately, she didn't insist on resisting to the end. Judging from the current situation, she thought that there was no need for Xia Duo to lie to her. If he said that he had locked the target, it could probably be confirmed that there was collusion with the Illuminati in the target area.

If she resists to the end, it will be the worst outcome.

Either, as Shado said, the Illuminati conspiracy will succeed and the world will be destroyed, or, whether there is an Illuminati or not, it will be considered as an offense to the Northern Alliance, and will be retaliated afterwards.

"It is the red-haired consultant who just left here." Shado said truthfully.

To be honest, he was also very surprised by such a result. On the way here, he also asked Mela, who among the Queen's consultants was the most hostile to the land. At that time, Mela mentioned a consultant named Solintas.

But Solintas was not among the two consultants just now!

The two consultants just now were brought by the Queen to meet the important envoy, and they left obediently when they were told to leave. It can be basically confirmed that the two consultants are most likely the Queen's confidants.

But it was the red-haired consultant who sent messages one after another after leaving the Star Palace, and even sent messages outside Belluno. Since Shado entered the water element field of Belluno, he has been trying to steal authority.

And he did succeed. In addition, the communication spell used by the sea elves was still the traditional method, not the most popular magic network background communication in Netheril.

The biggest difference between the latter and the traditional communication spell is that it is almost impossible to intercept, because it is transmitted in the magic network background in the form of almost full-frequency broadcast.

It seems to be a wide-area spread, and anyone can intervene and peek, but in fact, only those who have mastered the communication key can receive it, and others can't even distinguish the communication from the magic network background fluctuations.

And once this information is received by the target, there will be instant feedback from the caster, which guarantees the security of communication to the greatest extent.