Chapter 1869: Behind-the-Scenes Player, Arcane Energy Infection

Although he suspected that Siluwende was already controlled by Demon Descendants, Xia Duo found it difficult to disclose this to the various Elders of Evereska.

This made him somewhat unhappy, but fortunately, the initial goals he had for entering the Projection Plane were being completed one by one, and everything beyond those goals was pure profit.

In fact, if he hadn't yet obtained the specific location of the newly appeared Ancient Fortress in the Main Plane, he would have even wanted to conduct a rehearsal raid in the Projection Plane first.

Just a few days after Evereska notified the Elf Court of the discovery of Demon Descendants, while Xia Duo was surveying Old Mythallar Nodes with Saijisi, both of them simultaneously received messages from Ougesi and Katunidede—

The Elf Court had taken action; an reclusive Elder from Wuweilun had decided to investigate personally.

Furthermore, although Xia Duo had not shared the news that Siluwende might be controlled by Demon Descendants with the Council of Elders, Katunidede had still managed to secure some favorable conditions in the negotiations from Jielunsita by leveraging the threat of the prophecy.

This even included limited public support for Evereska Independent.

Ever since the breakthrough in negotiations, good news had followed one after another; first, Akaola hinted that as long as one more nation expressed support, they would also support it, and they were more generous than Jielunsita regarding the recovery of initial investments.

Consequently, in order to get the New Mythallar project started as soon as possible, Xia Duo could not help but turn his attention toward Shaerwen.

That day, he withdrew his Perception, tidied up his memories from this period, and summoned Xize, though he did not manifest an avatar.

After Xize arrived, he bowed respectfully with his usual look of admiration, "Elder Xilin, what are your orders?"

"Tell the Tree Council that the prophecy from Jielunsita may be related to Demon Descendants."

"Demon Descendants? Could it be that Elder Xilin has also made a prophecy?" Xize was immediately surprised.

In his impression, Elder Xilin did not seem to care about external affairs, and he had never heard that Elder Xilin knew Prophecy.

Recalling the last time the Elder asked about the Jielunsita prophecy, Xize could not help but have a bad premonition—

Could the prophecy be true? Was Siluwende really plotting a massive conspiracy, and was this conspiracy so sinister that even Elder Xilin was alarmed?

Regarding Xize's doubts, Xia Duo did not answer, only telling him to notify the Tree Council to send someone to the Elf Court to scout for information.

In this way, once Shaerwen learned the news of the reappearance of Demon Descendants, combined with his reminder, it would not be difficult for them to associate it with Siluwende.

Regardless of whether Siluwende was already controlled by Demon Descendants at this time, Xia Duo had passed the buck, and they would have to accept it whether they wanted to or not.

It might not even be necessary to contact the Elf Court proactively; the Elf Court would likely notify the rulers of each nation first, provided there was a reclusive Elder from that nation willing to believe their ruler.

Regardless, by isolating Siluwende first, under the threat of the Demon Descendants, Shaerwen would likely relax the conditions for Evereska Independent, and even public support for independence would not be a difficult matter.

Once the matter in Wuweilun was settled, regardless of whether Crown King Yintewa had been infiltrated by Demon Descendants, it would be difficult for Wuweilun to set obstacles for Evereska in the independence negotiations.

Of course, the situation Xia Duo hoped for most was that Wuweilun had not been completely infiltrated by Demon Descendants, that Crown King Yintewa was still normal, and that he would be grateful for Evereska's reminder, making major concessions in the negotiations and even becoming a staunch supporter of Evereska Independent.

But even if it wasn't the ideal situation, securing the independence negotiations in the short term was no longer a pipe dream for the current Evereska, but an achievable fact.

……

Thus, another three days passed.

That evening, Xia Duo was in Athos Manor in Evereska, researching some issues regarding the transformation of Demon Descendants, which he had scraped from Gulite's consciousness and confiscated from the herbalist Sailuo's hut.

During the day, he had to survey Old Mythallar Nodes with Saijisi, and occasionally he would go to Wild Vine Valley to see if the preliminary verification experiments on the adaptive framework for the New Mythallar by other project participants were proceeding smoothly.

As the proposer of the Mythallar adaptive framework and the true beneficiary of this project, Xia Duo naturally had to expend a great deal of energy on it.

Only when he returned to his manor at night did he have time to do things that interested him, as a form of relaxation.

Currently, regarding Demon Descendant transformation, the main methods remained the two from Gulite's consciousness—ritual transformation and Magic Energy Infection transformation.

The materials left behind by Sailuo, in terms of form, belonged to the category of ritual transformation, but looking at the specific transformation process, it was closer to Magic Energy Infection transformation.

It could be said that this guy was worthy of being a member of the Radical Faction among the Demon Descendant Elves; he wanted to develop a simplified version of the ritual with fewer restrictions and lower thresholds so that he could rapidly transform a large number of his kind on a large scale.

As long as the proportion of Demon Descendants among the Elves continued to rise, to a level that was difficult to hide and difficult to ignore, could those bloodline theorists really carry out an apocalyptic purge?

One must know that there was not only the Northland in this world; there was at least one major Elf nation in the south that had survived the Crown War, not to mention the nations of other races.

As long as the cost of eliminating Demon Descendants was so high that the rulers could not bear it, then Demon Descendants would become a normal race among the Elves, and even if their status was lower, they could at least appear openly under the sun.

Instead of being like this now, where they could only hide in dark corners and could not publicly reveal their identities.

If Xia Duo were a Demon Descendant, he would probably be quite optimistic about such a plan; if the masses discriminate against me, then I will turn the masses into the same as me.

As long as one dares to break the bottom line, sometimes it is truly invincible.

But Xia Duo was not a Demon Descendant; he could not empathize with many of the emotions and experiences of Demon Descendants. At the moment, he only had one view on Sailuo's plan, and that was—he absolutely must not be allowed to succeed!

However, stance is stance, and setting aside stance, Sailuo's research was still quite meaningful for reference to Xia Duo; Xia Duo would not treat everything of an opponent as worthless just because of his stance.

When he was in the Main Plane, he often lamented that Arcanists "refined" Arcane Energy like cultivators, yet they could not use Arcane Energy to directly strengthen their bodies.

There were indeed some spells that could change one's constitution, and among them were many with permanent effects, but these spells were difficult to change the essence of humanity, and the most obvious point was that it was difficult to live long.

To achieve Longevity, one still needed to use specialized Life Extension Spells, but Life Extension Spells also had limits; unless one used some special means that were difficult to replicate, even a Great Arcanist would find it difficult to live past 200 years old.

Yet Demon Descendants possessed a lifespan even longer than Elves; if some of the hidden dangers of the Demon Bloodline could be resolved, it was hard for Xia Duo to say that this was not a more advanced form of Life Extension and strengthening spell.

Or perhaps "evolution" would be more appropriate!