Chapter 2795: Signing, Making an Exception

The signing process using a Sacred Contract is simpler than using an Element Contract or an Elf's Contract Magic; it only requires both parties to copy or spell-transcribe the agreed-upon content onto a Contract Document, and as long as the agreed-upon content is identical for both parties, the contract takes effect.

If one wishes to play word games, the contract will fail to take effect during the process of writing it into the document due to differences in how both parties understand the contract text.

It can be said that as long as a contract takes effect, it must be the mutual consent of both parties.

On Xia Duo's side, the only signatory is Xia Duo himself, but on the Mairide Family's side, in addition to Amur Pasha, there are Talafu's father and two older brothers.

Although the subsidiary signatures seem to bear unnecessary responsibility, conversely, this is also a power unique to family heirs; if Amur abdicates in the future, the cooperation between the two parties can still continue, and the contract remains valid.

If it were Talafu signing as a subsidiary, then Talafu's father and brothers might have to doubt Amur Pasha's determination regarding the choice of heir.

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Xia Duo signed a total of three agreements in Calimshan; one is a framework agreement regarding the cooperation between Daxia Territory and the Mairide Family, covering not only the technology transfer of the Element Ranch but also subsequent aspects such as Arcane Crystal and Elemental Essence trade.

There are also research fields regarding bloodline research and elemental spells, as well as maintaining consistency in dealing with the Demon Descendant problem and the Dragon Madness Mythallar crisis.

One is a transfer agreement regarding Element Ranch-related technology and facilities; this has basically no requirements for Xia Duo's side, mainly determining the various details for the Mairide Family to build an Intermediate Element Ranch for the Tower of Time.

Finally, of course, is the agreement that the Mairide Family values very highly regarding the pricing and trading of Arcane Crystals; Arcane Crystals can replace Gemstones as the main feed for the Element Ranch, and the effect is even better.

In other aspects, Arcane Crystals can also play an important role, such as serving as an energy buffering core, as an instant energy supplement for high-yield spells, and so on.

The most critical part of this agreement is not the surface parameters like pricing and trading volume, but the stipulation that the Mairide Family's handling of these Arcane Crystals can only be for their own use and cannot be resold.

Likewise, the Mairide Family requires that if Xia Duo sells Arcane Crystals to other parties in the future, the price must not be lower than the quote given to the Mairide Family.

With the three agreements signed, the relationship between Xia Duo and the Mairide Family has ascended to a new level, entering a brand-new stage of partnership.

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Additionally, outside of the agreements, the Mairide Family also proposed a suggestion regarding the pricing of Northland Energy Gems.

Nowadays, Yierlan in the Northland Alliance has already begun to introduce Calimshan's Elemental Towers, not to mention that there are already a large number of Elemental Towers within Calimshan itself.

And Netheril has mastered the more efficient Mythallar.

It is foreseeable that in the future, the Energy Gems of the Westland and even the entire Main Plane will be monopolized by the output of Elemental Towers and Mythallar, so the two parties holding the greatest production capacity can reach an agreement on the pricing of these Energy Gems in advance.

Even if Elemental Towers and Mythallar spread in the future, the established price alliance will not be easily broken and can fully continue to occupy a dominant position.

Therefore, the Mairide Family, representing the Grand Vizier of Calimshan, extended an invitation for cooperation to Xia Duo, and Xia Duo agreed, because this was something he wanted to do anyway, only he had originally only considered the Mythallar holders of Netheril.

Now adding Calimshan doesn't matter; Elemental Towers indeed have the potential to contend with Mythallar, and perhaps they are not yet comparable to Mythallar, but who can guarantee the future?

Or to take a step back, Calimshan's Elemental Towers have already been built in large numbers and are already in stable production, while Netheril's Mythallar have not been fully deployed and are only possessed by a few people.

If one really wants to determine production capacity by total energy output per unit of time, the current Netheril may not necessarily surpass Calimshan.

Why does Yierlan want to introduce Elemental Towers? It is nothing more than wanting more Energy Gems, and what are Energy Gems generally used for?

In the past, the output and consumption of the Northland had long reached a balance; it is hard not to associate Yierlan's desire to increase output with an arms race.

It is also foreseeable that there will definitely be more than just Yierlan introducing Elemental Towers in the future, and some countries might even obtain a stable supply of Arcane Crystals from Netheril through various means.

In this situation, it is equivalent to Calimshan and Netheril carving up the market; if both sides are not prepared to fight to the death, then agreeing on a competitive bottom line in advance or even forming a price alliance is completely understandable.

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Xia Duo stayed in Calimshan for about a week; during this period, he was not only active in the Mairide Family's territory but also met with members of several great Calimshan families in Kalim, among whom the highest-ranking was, of course, the Grand Vizier of Calimshan.

As the Mairide Family had proposed, the Grand Vizier also mentioned the invitation for cooperation to establish an Energy Gem price alliance to Xia Duo, and mentioned that Calimshan would soon send representatives to Netheril to discuss this matter.

Facing the Grand Vizier himself, Xia Duo did not express his stance on the spot, only saying that he would convey this matter to the Seventon Council for the Council to discuss and decide.

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After the avatar returned to the territory, he continued to Evereska with almost no delay; during the avatar's visit to Calimshan, news had already come from Evereska—

The Northland Alliance is willing to make an exception for Xia Duo this one time; actually, it is not entirely an exception.

Xia Duo himself will not join the Time-Related Magic Research Laboratory, but will provide Spirit Thought Network services to the laboratory in the form of outsourcing; this result can be said to be quite unexpected for Xia Duo.

He had originally thought that the Northland Alliance would strictly adhere to principles, but he did not expect them to play such tricks; although this matter is very helpful for him to timely understand the progress of the Northland Alliance's time-related magic research, no matter what, if they can let him in, they might also let a Demon Descendant in.

How it will specifically go remains to be seen after joining the laboratory; Xia Duo only hopes that the laboratory can research steadily and safely, rather than suffering from the destruction of Demon Descendants every day.

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And at the Tower of Time, one week is almost like a drop in the bucket for Order Force research, but Xia Duo was not without gains; on the contrary, the gains were huge.

The primitive Langasi Sorcery brought him a brand-new perspective of Perception; in terms of Order Force research, the biggest gain was determining the next research direction, namely—

The "tug-of-war" between the Spellcaster's will and the rules of Order Force.

Of course, before starting formal research, Xia Duo needed to turn the Order Force back into Yuan Shi Zhi Li, so during this week, he tried various ways to disintegrate the already formed Order Cycle.

Including but not limited to reverse-pushing the Order Force cycle, issuing new decrees, splitting the types of Order Force, and so on.