Chapter 2158: Tuokesente

When everything finally settled, Niya finally asked the question she had been hiding in her heart for a long time, "Why didn't you pretend to negotiate with the other side first? Now there must be layers of heavy defenses over there!"

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"It's not that I don't want to talk, but before we truly cross swords, talking is meaningless. They would certainly never admit that it was their people who attacked me, even if Mohawi's consciousness is currently within my own."

Furthermore, what Xia Duo didn't say was that he wanted to use this tough and intense method to express his attitude—there is no good outcome for provoking me!

In short, this time he must give Zhamu Dasi a heart-wrenching lesson!

……

"I'll give you five minutes to summarize the gains and losses from just now. We won't continue flying later; I will control the Floating City to teleport directly above Tuokesente City. At that time, it will depend on your performance."

After Xia Duo finished speaking, intense discussions began in the adjacent Control Room. These discussions were transmitted to Niya via Mind Link, then synchronized to the intelligent brain, and finally received by Xia Duo—

"I am not very accustomed to controlling War Spells directly through the Mythallar. If there were corresponding Netheril-style Magic Artifacts for the operation, I could do better!"

"Me too. Also, there is too much spell feedback; I can't handle it at all and can only extract some key information based on Lady Niya's instructions to transmit to the Mind Link. If there were more people operating the Wide-Area Detection, or if the feedback information were classified more meticulously, and if more distinct Permission Levels were set for each operator based on that, it would be even better."

"I have the same feeling about what you said. Also, I feel that using the Mind Link only for this hasn't been able to exert its true real-time efficiency."

"You wouldn't be trying to say that Lady Niya is not good at commanding, would you!"

"I don't mean that much, but when I was in Seventon before, I heard that President Xia Duo used the Mind Link in the war on the Green Field Plane to the extent of almost changing the course of the battle."

"You didn't transmit this into the Mind Link, did you?"

"Of course not, I'm not stupid. The hub of the Mind Link is Lady Niya right now, and I still want to stay in the Tower of Time!"

……

Listening to these contents—whether they were summaries and analyses, suggestions and pointers, or complaints and gossip—a knowing smile could not help but appear on Xia Duo's face.

Most of these were obtained by the intelligent brain parsing Subconscious Information. Although Niya was the hub of the Mind Link, she did not have the ability to parse Subconscious Information, so naturally, she could not "hear" the inner voices of the various High Mages!

As for Aiboke, whom she had always treated as her own daughter, although she didn't complain about Niya, when Andongni said that Niya was not good at commanding, this fellow was secretly laughing in her heart!

Of course, this was also because, under Xia Duo's leadership, the Tower of Time was orderly yet not lacking in liveliness; otherwise, if it were any other Mage Tower organization, such an atmosphere would not appear.

……

Just as the High Mages of the Tower of Time were chatting easily and happily about their insights from operating War Spells for the first time, the capital city of Nayakoulisi in the central part of Zhamu Dasi, far away in the east, was experiencing an unusually tense debate—

"Zhalanmonai, the arrogance of your Zeqi School has caused another noble Blade Lord to perish at the hands of the enemy. Do you still not recognize reality?"

"Reality? What is that?"

Zhalanmonai glanced disdainfully at Suolinkala sitting opposite him and said proudly: "Since one has chosen Psionic, one must have the temperament to dominate everything. Reality—without a doubt—is also under the domination of Psionic."

"You must be crazy. Since Psionic dominates everything, why don't you live in the Mental Image World? Why do you still stay in this reality that you look down upon?"

Suolinkala knew Zhalanmonai's ambition too well, but the custom of the two major schools of Zhamu Dasi taking turns in power had been practiced for over a thousand years. Every time the Zeqi School dragged Zhamu Dasi into the Abyss of war, it was the Anti School that dragged it back out.

Such a cycle had continued for over a thousand years, and even within the Anti School, there were many who had accepted this reality.

But Suolinkala knew very well that if Zhamu Dasi continued like this, it would sooner or later be dragged down by the Zeqi School. This time, the Zeqi School's insane plan had once again provoked the human lord of the Northland to become an enemy of Zhamu Dasi.

Zhalanmonai might not care, but Suolinkala had a premonition of a crisis of collapse. He had never mentioned his ability of Psionic precognition to others before, so even though he strongly opposed the Zeqi School's insane plan at this moment, it was very difficult to get the other side's approval, and there were even different voices within the Anti School.

In the end, Zhalanmonai didn't even listen to Suolinkala's speech at all. Regarding this, Suolinkala was also helpless; after all, the one in power for the last ten years was the Zeqi School, not their Anti School.

At this moment, inside the majestic Dongcha Dadian.

Various structural wonders that were unimaginable to ordinary people were all so unrealistic in Suolinkala's eyes. Watching Zhalanmonai, who was speaking eloquently and issuing a declaration of war opposite him, and watching the Blade Lords raising their swords in agreement, his heart sank bit by bit, and the deeper it sank, the colder it became.

Until it was completely frozen, he stood like a complete outsider, watching the Executive Council being incited by Zhalanmonai bit by bit. He suddenly felt that if everything were to be destroyed right here and now, it might not be a bad thing.

He could no longer count the races and lives that had been enslaved and slaughtered by Zhamu Dasi in the name of acceptance over these years. With such sins, perhaps destruction should be the only ending for Zhamu Dasi.

Even Psionic itself—

No, Suolinkala hurriedly reined in his wandering thoughts and let the Psionic in his heart calm down. He understood that Psionic itself had no distinction between good and evil; it only manifested as evil in the hands of evil people.

There was one point he still agreed with Zhalanmonai on, and that was—choosing Psionic meant having the temperament to dominate everything. This was the teaching of the Psionic Masters of the previous generation.

But the true meaning of the masters of the previous generation was that a Psionic Scholar should be able to dominate their own temperament; only in this way could they truly control Psionic, rather than the misinterpretation by Zhalanmonai—using Psionic to dominate everything in the world.

In fact, in Suolinkala's view, Zhalanmonai's mind had already been dominated by Psionic. The current him was simply the embodiment of an evil essence in reality, not the Mind Mentor of the millions of people of Zhamu Dasi.

"Let it be destroyed! Only after destruction can there be a rebirth of the great mental kingdom!"

After the mobilization in the Dongcha Dadian ended, Suolinkala left quietly without communicating with anyone—including the Blade Lords within the Anti School—and even cut off all external contact. Next, he would witness with his own eyes the final madness and destruction of the Zeqi School and even the entire Zhamu Dasi.

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Tuokesente City.

Although the order for war had long been transmitted from Nayakoulisi, even though Tuokesente was currently closest to that overestimating Northland lord, and even though a noble and powerful Blade Lord had already fallen into the enemy's hands.

But no one really thought that the Northland lord would dare to directly attack one of the twelve main cities of the great Zhamu Dasi Empire. At the moment before the Floating City descended, the City Lord Bujifu was still joking and betting with his subordinates about which part of the empire's border the northern barbarians would harass.

And the next moment, when the Floating City appeared above Tuokesente and cast a large shadow, the smile on Bujifu's face suddenly froze. But before he could even give rise to anger, the keen intuition bestowed upon him by Psionic made him shudder in shock.