Chapter 2673: Communication Means

The arrival of Chief Mage Dakesi and Councilman Gaodite of Metelier brought the latest intelligence regarding Palisi, who had imprisoned most of the city council members and was even preparing to perform a Sacrificial Ritual on the entire city.

Hearing such horrifying news, Ruien was so anxious he nearly jumped up, but he could not stop all this on his own, so he could only look at the investigators around him with an anxious, pleading gaze:

"The situation is urgent, I implore you all to please help the innocent people of Metelier!"

"Helping is a given, as we are already involved." As one of the leaders of this investigation team who intended to take responsibility, Dumu was the first to accept Ruien's request.

But he then changed the subject, turning his gaze toward Dakesi at the side, "There are a few questions I would like to ask Mage Dakesi."

"What questions? If I can answer them, I certainly will."

"Just yesterday, a reconnaissance squad from the Northland Alliance went missing in Metelier; do you know what happened?" Dumu asked.

This was originally a question intended for the high-level officials of Metelier, but since Palisi had rebelled and the City Guard Commander was likely unreachable, only the Chief Mage before them could be asked.

Yet regarding this question, Dakesi showed a confused expression, "A reconnaissance squad from the Northland Alliance? Did the Northland Alliance send another reconnaissance squad to Metelier?"

"They did not come to Metelier specifically, but were passing through; more accurately, they were preparing to return to Aifuruisi from Metelier, but ended up going missing."

"I don't know, I haven't heard of any reconnaissance squad, and even the arrival of Envoy Ruien was something I only knew after I escaped the Silver Spire."

Only then did Dakesi react belatedly, "You are a human? Why would humans appear in Metelier? Who exactly are you?"

"We are an investigation team from the Northland Alliance, here to investigate the disappearance of the reconnaissance squad that occurred yesterday; this was agreed upon by Taiweimansa."

After Dumu finished speaking, Ruien also nodded affirmatively and added one more point, "The Crown King and the Council attach great importance to this matter and had already notified Metelier in advance, explaining the situation; did you not receive the news?"

"I swear I did not receive any relevant news; it must be Palisi. He intercepted or even tampered with the Sending from the capital, deceiving most of the city council members into going to the Silver Spire."

Dakesi was emotional, cursing Palisi incessantly, and Councilman Gaodite, who had followed him out of the Silver Spire, joined in the cursing as well.

"Enough, cursing is of no use now; the key is how to respond!"

Even as an envoy of the Crown King and the Council, saying such emotional words was completely offensive, as regardless of whether Dakesi was suspicious or guilty, he was still a high-level Mage.

However, no one cared about the tone of Ruien's speech at the moment; in fact, it was precisely this decisive attitude that earned him the trust of others.

Just then, Xia Duo also took the initiative to step forward, giving everyone a significant comfort:

"Everyone, I have already contacted Speaker Badijiaer of the Seventon Council through special communication means. If nothing goes wrong, he should notify Taiweimansa about what happened here in Metelier. Perhaps reinforcements are already on the way. What we need to do now is figure out exactly what is happening inside the city."

Contacting the outside world could not be hidden in the end. As Xia Duo said, reinforcements might already be on the way, or perhaps they had already arrived outside the Metelier Mythallar.

After the fact, one only needed to compare intelligence to know someone had tipped them off, and since this tip-off was not a bad thing, Badijiaer certainly would not deliberately hide Xia Duo's contribution.

So there was no harm in saying it early; it could just boost everyone's morale. Of course, there was no need to mention the Demon Descendant, as that involved the unique Trace Erasure spell of the Demon Descendant.

The Northland Alliance had no records of this type of spell. Considering that the Demon Descendant intelligence research lab was the result of full information exchange between countries, it was unlikely that the countries would hide anything in this regard.

The situation was urgent now; if he mentioned the Demon Descendant, it would inevitably lead to a round of explanations and proofs, and in fact, this could not be proven at all.

As long as they could deal with Palisi now, they could investigate slowly later.

"You can still contact the outside world under these circumstances?" A few Elves showed expressions of obvious disbelief, especially Councilman Gaodite who had escaped the Silver Spire with Dakesi.

He also had quite a bit of research into Magic, and although he had not yet achieved Supreme Magic, he was far beyond most ordinary Mages. He had tried to contact the outside world after escaping the Silver Spire, but it simply did not work.

The essence of a Mythallar is to reconstruct the macroscopic Magic Net structure within an area, but high-level Mythallars can often impose restrictions on microscopic Magic Net Strings as well.

In layman's terms, any restriction one could think of could be imposed, though there was a trade-off of efficiency involved.

Currently, Metelier was under total lockdown, and it was impossible to have any contact with the outside world; if one could contact the outside, one could effectively leave as well.

Xia Duo could have ignored the doubts of individual Elves, but in order to reach a consensus for the upcoming joint attack on the Silver Spire, he still explained:

"I have no need to lie on this matter, and I can say that I am not the only one here who can contact the outside world. Am I right, Mage Deladaier?"

The Mage Deladaier that Xia Duo mentioned was the Cormanthor investigator who had come in a puppet body. Hearing Xia Duo call his name, Deladaier also stood out somewhat unnaturally:

"Lord Xia Duo is correct. I do have a way to contact the outside world, as long as I abandon this puppet avatar of mine and use my true body to transmit the news here. But to maintain real-time contact like Lord Xia Duo, I still cannot do it."

"I believe Lord Xia Duo."

Where there are opinions, there are sides. The name Xia Duo had a high reputation even among Elves, especially the Illefarn Elves who had a better understanding of Netheril.

Because the situation was urgent, the issue of contacting the outside world was quickly skipped, "We cannot manage what happens outside the city for now, but inside the city, we are here; we cannot remain indifferent and let the situation develop. We must do something."

"Palisi is performing a Sacrificial Ritual at the Silver Spire; we must disrupt the ritual." The speaker was Chief Mage Dakesi.

It was just that Dakesi was still under suspicion, and everyone was hesitant about whether to attack the Silver Spire, but the more such a situation arose, the more decisiveness was needed.

Xia Duo, Dumu, and Ruien unanimously proposed attacking the Silver Spire, but without Dakesi's participation. Although other investigators intended to stop Palisi or break the blockade, they had no clue how to do so and could only reluctantly agree.