Chapter 2615: Heritage Summary and Recent Concerns

It was not much different from what the other party had mentioned previously; a significant portion of this consciousness information indeed contained the Dragon Madness Secret Scroll, and when Xia Duo compared it to the 91 copies he had already found, they matched almost perfectly.

It stood to reason that there would be no issues with the ones beyond those 91; after all, the other party did not know exactly how many copies of the Dragon Madness Secret Scroll he had mastered, so how could it be such a coincidence that they would fake the ones he had not yet mastered?

Of course, there was also a possibility that the Dragon Madness Secret Scroll itself contained certain false components.

One could actually find examples of this; for instance, the method of obtaining Mythallar Permission through the secret scroll records at Feres Fortress would not grant permission directly, but would instead first awaken an ancient Elf.

The actions of this ancient Elf—voluntarily accepting the seal and then voluntarily sacrificing themselves after being unsealed to delay the collapse of the Mythallar—might be called noble, but that did not mean the other party was without selfish motives.

The method of obtaining permission in the secret scroll was one such thing, the possession-like means within the Soul Fragment was a second, and there might be others; after personally experiencing those two events, how could Xia Duo believe that the Dragon Madness Secret Scroll was absolutely correct!

But regardless, he had managed to organize the complete secret scroll information.

The method of separately sealing the King-Slaying Star that the ancient Elf had mentioned previously was also mentioned here, but the threshold for execution was extremely high, and it had to be completed before the Dragon Madness Mythallar collapsed.

Once the King-Slaying Star truly descended, if one wanted to seal it then, it would be almost impossible; perhaps one could only pin their hopes on the gods taking action.

……

And this complete Dragon Madness Secret Scroll was not all the information the ancient Elf had left behind; there were also the coordinates of the Elf homeland. Because it was consciousness information, it did not actually consist of just the coordinates themselves, but also a series of supporting associations related to the homeland and the coordinates.

The former contained the ancient Elf's understanding and associations regarding their homeland in an Other Plane (as they were born on the Main Plane), while the latter also contained the Elf's insights into the Plane Domain, such as positioning methods that differed from the mainstream of the current era.

This even had considerable reference value for the Ether Interlayer navigation research that Xia Duo was very interested in!

Besides these, the rest was an overview of the ancient Elf's era, such as the composition of Elf forces, Dwarf allies, the outcome of the war, the Dragon secret treasures, and so on—a series of information.

And also because it was consciousness information, the change was merely a scene, which also contained some background information supporting the existence of that scene.

In other words, this was actually a quite detailed ancient Ziliaoku!

It took a full ten days for Xia Duo to completely sort through all the Elf heritage and organize part of it into written materials, which he placed in the Tower of Time Library.

After finishing this, he finally had a little free time; the main things he needed to consider next were two matters—

One was to study the Dragon Madness Secret Scroll and determine the method of repair; if the difficulty was truly too high, he would have to consider notifying the Northland Alliance and gathering the strength of the entire Northland Alliance, or even the entire Main Plane, to research and solve it.

The other was the prophecy regarding the Demon Descendant. At present, the Territory Cultural Arts Festival was nearing its end, and having repeatedly postponed the Prophecy Ritual before, he now had no more excuses to find.

Ultimately, he still had to clash with the Demon Descendant. As for whether doing so would alert the enemy, that did not matter; after all, the current Northland Alliance was searching for the traces of the Demon Descendant almost every moment, and prophecy means were merely one of the methods of searching.

Moreover, what Xia Duo wanted was to alert the enemy. If the collapse of the Dragon Madness Mythallar might still have a countdown, the Demon Descendant's subversion of the Time Line would not give advance notice; one might wake up one day to find the whole world had changed.

Besides these two major matters, there were some things that were not major but not minor either that required Xia Duo's attention, such as the Mist Event he had predicted many times before, which would occur shortly after the end of the Territory Cultural Arts Festival.

In the prophecy, as long as the Mist Event appeared, abnormal climate would inevitably occur, and the abnormal climate was related to the Dragon Madness Mythallar.

Xia Duo was not sure if this was the price paid for the ancient Elf delaying the collapse of the Dragon Madness Mythallar, or some other reason, but regardless, this event mentioned in the prophecy was worth paying attention to.

In the short term, this was his key target of concern. Of course, this matter did not require his personal attention; as early as the beginning of the month, he had sent a Sending to the Councilor Secretariat under the Council to continuously monitor major events in the Northland, and he would be notified if there was any news.

Given the situation of the Mist Event in the prophecy, this could definitely be called major news. After the mist appeared, the Northland Alliance sent out multiple investigation teams in succession, among which there were even personnel from Netheril, but they all went and never returned.

And if the Mist Event did not appear, then one had to be even more careful, because in the many prophecies conducted before, whenever there was no Mist Event, a war would basically occur, and it would be a war of considerable scale, just a few years later.

From this, it seemed a conclusion could be drawn: the appearance of the mist prevented the war from happening, or merely delayed it; after all, the time span of Xia Duo's prophecy was limited, and just because it did not happen then did not mean it would not happen later.

But it was enough to be vigilant.

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Tower of Time, Public Level.

Xia Duo came over to check the employment registration of the new Mages and, by the way, inspect the Academic Affairs Office. Under normal circumstances, he would not personally come here to inspect, but just two days ago, people from Weide had arrived!

This required some extra care!

Inside the office, Xia Duo sat in Jianaer's seat. Before long, four slightly reserved young people came before him. This was Xia Duo's requirement: those who came for training did not need to have high attainments in Magic, but they must be young!

And these four young people were actually not simple; they were only in their early twenties and had grown up in the Tower of Wisdom under the traditional Apprentice system, and were now already Intermediate Mages!

In an ordinary Mage Tower organization, these would be Arcanist Seeds, and whether they were suppressed or supported would depend on the closeness of their relationship with the organization leader.

If suppressed, it went without saying; they might be directly wiped out. If supported, for example, if they were the leader's children, they would certainly have to receive the most complete Elite education, in the hope that they could become pillars of the organization in the future and take the organization to a higher level.

Xia Duo believed that even in the Tower of Wisdom led by a Great Arcanist, these four young people were absolutely rare; after all, it was not easy to get ahead under the Apprentice system, let alone being an Intermediate Mage in their early twenties.

Of course, it was also possible that these few were the offspring of Weide's students, having received a complete Elite education from a young age. Although limited by the era, this Elite education might not compare to the academy education of the current Tower of Time, but it was far beyond what ordinary Mages of the current era could receive.

"I called you here for no other reason than to see you. I was busy a few days ago and didn't have time to meet you. Now that I have met you, I am very happy. At least Weide is taking this matter seriously."

"There are some things I need to tell you in advance: the Tower of Time has its own rules and order. Don't apply the set you used at home here. Listen more, watch more, learn more, and do more in your daily life. I believe you will spend an unforgettable training period here."