Chapter 1803: Speculations on the Mysterious Organization

Two days later, news of the World Spine anomaly and the imminent, premature outbreak of an Orc Tide spread successively through the nations of the Northland. Xia Duo, situated in the Netheril Southern Border, only learned of this when Xierdalanna notified him of the time for the surprise raid.

After confirming the news with the Seven Towers, he could not help but form a connection: how could it be such a coincidence that a prematurely erupting Orc Tide would involve the only nation that was still relatively peaceful, Yierfalan?

Setting aside the assassination of the Evereska Elder for the moment—that was related to the mysterious organization, and the mysterious organization had influence in all the Elven Nations, yet they were all still hiding!

Aside from this, there were indeed no major events occurring within Yierfalan recently that would be sufficient to tie up their energy; in other words, among the five great nations of the Northland, only Yierfalan could spare the full effort to contend for the newly discovered Ancient Fortress.

But now, the Orc Tide had erupted early. Xia Duo was not sure how great a price Yierfalan would need to pay to deal with the Orc Tide, but using Daxia Territory as an analogy.

As long as a number of Orc Shaman appeared who could briefly pin him down, then a large number of Orcs could drive straight in; to resist, one could only use human lives or a large amount of Magic Equipment to hold them off.

Regardless of which, a huge price would need to be paid, and in reality, for the Orcs, ordinary Orcs did not matter—it even saved on food!

As long as the Totem Pole was not damaged, they could make a comeback in a few years.

In fact, after these years of "grinding," the nations of the Northland, including Netheril, still had Orc Tides every year, only the intensity was controlled just right.

Humans and Elf were unwilling to pay a huge price to completely exterminate the Orcs, and the Orcs were happy to throw away a portion of their old, weak, sick, and disabled every year, thereby allowing their internal population to be optimized.

A true Orc Tide with young and strong warriors only came every few years; for example, the previous Savile Territory only saw one every ten years, with only small-scale harassment in between.

And for some territories in the Netheril Inner Land, as long as the lords at the border did not slack off and intentionally let the Orcs in, it was quite normal not to see an Orc for decades.

Xia Duo could be almost certain that this sudden Orc Tide caused by the World Spine anomaly was man-made, and the greatest suspect was Yierfalan.

On one hand, they plotted to leak the clues about the Nether Scroll, dragging Netheril and Keman into the water, while on the other hand, they triggered an Orc Tide in the north of Yierfalan.

In this way, at least three of the five great nations of the Northland would have their energy tied up, making it difficult to compete with Yierfalan over the Ancient Fortress.

As for Danzo, those Dwarves had far less interest in the Surface than humans or Elves; if the treasures in the Ancient Fortress could be easily obtained, that would naturally be best, but now the fortress was within the territory of Sluwen, a vassal state of Yierfalan.

Regarding such a troublesome matter, Xia Duo estimated that the Dwarf would likely not get involved.

"But is Yierfalan not afraid of overturning their own boat by playing such tricks? Or have they already confirmed and are certain they can retrieve some high-power War Magic Artifacts from the Ancient Fortress that are enough to help them withstand the condemnation of the various nations?"

Xia Duo actually could not understand the thinking of the Yierfalan side; since the Ancient Fortress appeared within the territory of Sluwen, they should just declare it as their own, and if other forces dared to participate, then it would be war. Xia Duo believed that if they did this, the other nations would likely not participate, at least not by swaggering there openly.

"Or is it that Yierfalan actually failed to grasp the accurate information about that Ancient Fortress, and it is Sluwen that actually possesses it?"

Sluwen had been defeated for over a thousand years, but even after such a long time, it had not been completely annexed by Yierfalan, which showed the intensity of their will to resist.

If they obtained the high-power War Magic Artifacts from the Ancient Fortress, Yierfalan would not only lose a vassal state they could use and drive at will, but would also gain a mortal enemy with a relationship that would be very difficult to repair.

Perhaps only such a crisis, which could be called a national extinction, forced Yierfalan to choose to take risks and play tricks to stir up turmoil among the nations.

"Then what about this so-called operation to raid the base of the mysterious organization?"

Xia Duo could not help but feel some suspicion: was this another scheme by Yierfalan to drag Netheril into a situation that would be difficult to break free from in a short time?

Could this so-called base of the mysterious organization even be some important location in Sluwen?

This was not impossible; how could a defeated nation that had endured humiliation for a thousand years do nothing and just let the victor manipulate them?

Perhaps the mysterious organization was the restoration organization of Sluwen!

Everything was for the sake of restoring the nation, including the assassination of the Evereska Elder; perhaps the Evereska Elder had noticed something while visiting Sluwen, and they had no choice but to silence them.

This might have been an unexpected event, but from another perspective, the mysterious organization had accumulated power until now and might already be on the verge of restoring the nation, only lacking a catalyst.

Assassinating the leader of a nation at this time, throwing the Northland into chaos, and then secretly opening the Ancient Fortress themselves to retrieve the ultimate weapon and taking the opportunity to announce the restoration of the nation could also be considered a normal process.

But if so, there was a new problem—the news of the Northland fortress had leaked too early.

Perhaps because of Yierfalan's infiltration of Sluwen, or perhaps the Evereska Elder had leaked the news before dying.

But regardless, this string of events revealed too many coincidences, whether it was Yierfalan or the mysterious organization.

As an outsider, or a completely passive participant, Xia Duo had nothing more than guesses; there was absolutely no evidence.

"I shouldn't have participated if I had known!"

Because it might involve a thousand-year-long plan for national restoration, Xia Duo knew deeply that the power of an individual was very insignificant in it; at the same time, as an outsider, being targeted by a group of lunatics was not a good thing.

It was just that the Seven Towers had already made up their minds to participate, and the contract had already been signed, so it would not be easy for him to give up halfway; otherwise, this would not only cause a loss of personal credibility, but the credibility of Netheril would also be swept into the dirt.

"Tomorrow, tomorrow!"

Xia Duo muttered to himself twice, and once again threw himself into the exploration of his own thinking patterns.

……

The development of the Magic Brain had reached a point where it could be put into use to a certain extent, but the underlying basic thinking patterns were not yet complete; if it were only some established, certain thinking, both its speed and efficiency would far exceed Xia Duo's own.

But if it were to perform more complex thinking involving concepts, judgments, reasoning, and the like, the speed would still be very fast, but the accuracy—or rather, the efficiency—would be far inferior to Xia Duo doing it himself.

Xia Duo's main purpose in researching the Magic Brain was to save time, which required the Magic Brain to possess both the extreme speed of a large number of certain thinking processes and the accuracy of thinking about complex problems.

Of course, saying "accuracy" here might not be precise; it should be called "judgment accuracy based on one's own cognition." This was a private tool with very significant personal characteristics, not an absolutely correct "truth-wishing machine."