Chapter 2038: A Pessimistic Future

"Betraying the world" is indeed a very serious accusation. Aleikesa understood the meaning behind Xia Duo's words; he opened his mouth, seemingly intending to defend himself, but in the end, he could say nothing.

"Nothing to say? A tacit admission? It seems I overestimated you!"

After saying this, Xia Duo prepared to reset again, but unexpectedly, Aleikesa suddenly spoke: "I did this for the continuation of my race, human, you have no right to say such things at all!"

"I have no right? Am I not a member of the Main Plane?"

"Heh."

Aleikesa fell silent once again.

Thus, Xia Duo decisively reset. He now had a rough understanding of Aleikesa's psychology, and the subsequent questioning mostly focused on stimulating the other party from the two aspects of subverting reality and betraying the world.

After countless attempts, through one detail after another, Xia Duo finally outlined a rough overall picture—

Aleikesa seemed to have seen and become convinced of some kind of truth, and thus threw himself into the embrace of the Demon Descendants without hesitation, working for the cause of the Demon Descendants. But in Aleikesa's heart, he remained loyal to Cormanthor and loyal to the Elf World.

As for what kind of truth it was, Aleikesa never revealed the relevant details, but through the other party's various reactions, Xia Duo speculated that it should be related to the decline of the Elf World and the rise of humans.

Aleikesa could not accept such a future, so he decided to work with the Demon Descendants to overturn the entire reality and reshape it into the likeness of another Time Line.

In that other Time Line, the Demon Descendant civilization was incomparably powerful and prosperous, even ruling the entire Main Plane. Such a powerful civilization undoubtedly held a strong attraction for Aleikesa.

Especially since the Demon Descendants originated from Elves; although other races joined later, such as Demon Descendant humans, Dwarves, etc., the main body that occupied the absolute ruling position was still the Demon Descendant Elves.

If there was destined to be no place for (native) Elves in the future, then rather than yielding to humans, why not yield to the Demon Descendant (Elves)?

This was likely one of the firmest beliefs supporting Aleikesa's betrayal of the world.

But what Xia Duo could not figure out was why the other party was so certain that the truth they saw was necessarily true. He felt that it was very likely that those parallel-world Demon Descendants were meddling.

It was just that the methods were so brilliant that even a High Mage, who was known for Wisdom, was deeply convinced.

The successive reset attempts, although yielding quite a bit, were far from touching the core of the Demon Descendant conspiracy. Aleikesa was willing to reveal his philosophy, thoughts, and mental journey, but was unwilling to reveal more specific details.

Such as the function of the Midian, what these Demon Descendant Mages usually did, and the identity of the true mastermind behind them, etc.

Seeing that no more useful information could be asked, Xia Duo immediately decided to use violent analysis. He first performed Spellcasting to establish a Mind Link with Aleikesa's Consciousness Copy, and then successively used Judgment Spells to shatter his consciousness.

The scattered consciousness information was received and parsed by Xia Duo via the Mind Link. Information obtained in this way might be incomplete, especially in the current situation where there were only two Consciousness Copies; it was basically impossible to obtain the other party's complete memory.

But Xia Duo actually did not care about so many details. As long as he confirmed the existence of the parallel-world Demon Descendants, or rather the true mastermind, that would be enough. The rest could be left to the Northland Alliance to handle.

In the past, the Elves only regarded the Demon Descendants as a temporary ailment. Although they were purged from time to time, they were not treated as the primary threat. After Aleikesa publicly expressed the ideas of "universal conversion to Demon Descendants" and "everyone is equal," the Elves might start to take it seriously.

But compared to the true purpose of the Demon Descendants wanting to completely overturn reality, those were still too childish, and the level of threat was far from enough.

As long as clear evidence of the Demon Descendants' conspiracy to change reality could be found, the Northland Alliance would absolutely treat resolving the Demon Descendant threat as a top priority.

Soon, Xia Duo shattered Aleikesa's consciousness, and a vast torrent of consciousness information surged into Xia Duo's memory along the Mind Link.

Having had the experience of parsing consciousness information and clearing consciousness pollution many times before, Xia Duo was now quite familiar with dealing with such situations.

While stabilizing his own consciousness, he also searched for corresponding consciousness fragments within the vast torrent of consciousness information through key information, thereby improving the efficiency of the analysis.

If he really were to parse all the consciousness fragments, it would be too much of a waste of time; who knew how many meaningless sensory pieces of information from Aleikesa were among them!

By searching for the "historical nodes" obtained from the consciousness of the High Mage of the Long-lived Family in the Projection Plane, Xia Duo quickly locked onto several consciousness fragments in Aleikesa's collapsed consciousness that carried this information.

"Illuminati?"

This was the first time Xia Duo knew for certain the name of the mysterious organization behind the Demon Descendants of the Main Plane. In Aleikesa's memory, that mysterious organization was called the 【Illuminati】.

Its tenet was to create a bright new world!

Regarding this mysterious organization, Aleikesa did not know much either, only that the head of the Illuminati was called the "Wise One," and the main members were called "Apostles."

Below the Apostles were the "Secret Hall Guardians." Usually, only those above the rank of senior Mage could obtain this title, and Aleikesa was a Secret Hall Guardian.

As for the Midian, it was the main communication channel between the Illuminati and the Demon Descendant Mages of the subordinate countries. Demon Descendant Mages could receive tasks issued by the Illuminati through the Midian, and would receive rewards after completing the tasks.

Xia Duo carefully searched the task details in Aleikesa's collapsed consciousness and found that most of the tasks arranged by the Illuminati were related to infiltration, such as helping to pass certain reviews, winning over a key figure, etc.

In addition, there were some inexplicable tasks. This "inexplicable" was not Xia Duo's opinion, but Aleikesa himself felt that those tasks had no connection to their cause.

For example, assassinating an Elf who had absolutely no leanings, or going to fund an Elf who was even extremely disgusted with Demon Descendants, or even setting traps in some place in the wilderness, etc.

Regarding these tasks that Aleikesa considered inexplicable, Xia Duo actually did not quite understand them either. If killing an Elf who opposed the Demon Descendants might improve the living environment for Demon Descendants in the future, then what did funding an Elf who opposed the Demon Descendants count as?

And assassinating certain Elves who had absolutely no leanings was also very unnecessary, unless—

The Illuminati possessed some means to ensure that these actions would play a positive role in promoting their cause!

In Aleikesa's consciousness, there were not many details about the Illuminati, and he did not even have any channel to contact the Illuminati Apostles, but whenever he wanted to make contact, an Illuminati Apostle would always appear before him.

Being so mysterious was also a major reason why Aleikesa was deeply convinced by the Illuminati and even the Illuminati's judgments.