Chapter 2998: Ether Boundary Wonders

————A bit late, currently rushing~~

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The next day, all the councilors gathered in Seventon. Badijiaer informed the councilors of the existence of Pulitatisi and proposed that all councilors participate in this massive, or rather, grand cooperative project.

After an intense morning of discussion, everyone reached a consensus on the cooperation and on temporarily withholding the matter from the Northland Alliance. In the afternoon, Badijiaer announced the first phase plan of the Cross-Domain Teleportation Link Project——

"First, we will build a high-standard Plane Exploration Center. Each councilor can participate personally, or send others who are trustworthy and possess a certain foundation in Magic."

"This Plane Exploration Center is tentatively set to be in the Mage Tower of Xin Saiwendun. We have promised this Mage Tower as a foothold for Pulitatisi. I hope that by the end of the month, this Plane Exploration Center can be officially operational."

As soon as Badijiaer finished speaking, a councilor raised a question, "This is too fast, and we haven't even obtained the Spells of Pulitatisi yet. Isn't it too early to talk about this now?"

"I can answer this question!" Huo En interjected during the witness process, "At noon, I already signed the relevant agreement with Pulitatisi on behalf of the Council. With the Lord of Radiance as witness, those Spell materials are already with me and can be provided to everyone shortly."

"Then I have no problem. The sooner the better, I can't wait to discover new Planes!"

"Xisilai, are you coming to the Plane Exploration Center?"

"Of course. Once things are temporarily settled here on the Main Plane, I will bring all my people to join the Plane Exploration Center."

After Xisilai finished speaking, several other councilors from the Tianshui San Planes expressed their stance on the spot. Like Xisilai, they also prepared to fully commit to the Plane Exploration Center once they were settled on the Main Plane.

Councilors from the Tianshui San Planes had a different perception of living environments compared to the native councilors of the Main Plane. If more Habitable Planes could be discovered, they might not necessarily be willing to stay on the Main Plane.

But regardless, with people taking the lead, the yet-to-be-officially-established Plane Exploration Center was already growing at a visible speed.

"The Tower of Time has only just shown some signs of improvement since its decline. I really cannot spare many High Mages, and I myself have duties to attend to for the Alliance. I can send at most two people to the Plane Exploration Center in Xin Saiwendun, but I will send more people there every year in the future."

Xia Duo also seized the time to explain the situation. The Tower of Time was already supporting its own Plane Exploration Center; it really had no spare capacity to support the work in Xin Saiwendun, but sending additional personnel annually was a matter of course.

After all, he could not completely abandon the progress there.

Subsequently, the remaining councilors also expressed their stances one after another, proposing how many people they would send, or whether they would personally go to participate in the relevant research and exploration.

Before long, the matter of the Plane Exploration Center was temporarily settled. Then Badijiaer said again——

"Now I have one more thing I would like to seek everyone's opinion on: whether to allow Pulitatisi to participate in our discussions. After all, the Cross-Domain Teleportation Link Project has become the main task for Netheril for the next hundred years. Many things simply cannot bypass Pulitatisi, who is actually in charge of this project. What do you think?"

"I want to know if this is something you thought of yourself, or if Pulitatisi requested it?"

"It is something I thought of myself. Pulitatisi only has eyes for the project, but to avoid trouble in the future, I think incorporating him into the Council in advance is the right choice."

The matter Badijiaer spoke of was neither small nor large. If it were a Great Arcanist of Netheril, they would automatically become a councilor and enter the Council, or become a lord and also enter the Council, though their voting rights would differ from those of councilors.

But Pulitatisi was entirely an outsider. Even if he were to join Netheril, he should go through the process. If he did not follow the normal process, there was a fear that opening this precedent would leave hidden dangers for the future.

Therefore, even though Badijiaer explained again that this was not proposed by Pulitatisi himself, many councilors still opposed it, and this naturally included Xia Duo!

"There is no need to set this precedent. Today it is Pulitatisi; if tomorrow a High Mage from the Northland Alliance comes over, should we also let them join the Council?"

"That definitely won't do!"

Mentioning the Northland Alliance, Badijiaer immediately became sensitive. Compared to Pulitatisi, who had no connection to the Main Plane or even this domain, the Elves of the Northland Alliance were even more worthy of vigilance.

"There is no need to make an exception for Pulitatisi. Just treat him as a normal foreign guest. If the Council has any resolutions that cannot bypass the Cross-Domain Teleportation Link Project, notify who needs to be notified and negotiate with who needs to be negotiated. The project is set for hundreds of years, are we still afraid of this little trouble?"

Xia Duo's heart was unwilling to have Pulitatisi join the Council. Even with the Lord of Radiance as a witness to the oath, it might not necessarily be useful. The other party's home was in the Outer Planes, and now he was single-mindedly focused on going home. How much deterrent power could the Lord of Radiance's blacklist have on him?

Furthermore, with the current knowledge of the existence of the Outer Planes, the threat of the Lord of Radiance's blacklist had actually diminished. At worst, he just wouldn't hang around on the Main Plane.

This was similar to a deadbeat on Earth going abroad. As long as the relevant information and judicial rulings were not synchronized, going abroad was effectively running away or defaulting.

In reality, the witness of the Lord of Radiance might not even be universally applicable on the Main Plane; it only had practical effects in the Northland, the region where Netheril's influence could cover.

Once beyond the scope of Netheril's influence, what could happen even if one were on the Lord of Radiance's blacklist?

Others didn't believe in the Lord of Radiance anyway. At worst, they would just never deal with Netheril for the rest of their lives, and continue living as they always had; it wouldn't affect them at all.

The witness of the Lord of Radiance was just a relatively reliable integrity system, but if no one recognized it, it was nothing more than a niche evaluation, unless the Lord of Radiance directly inflicted Divine Punishment on those on the blacklist.

Otherwise, in many cases, it was really not as useful as the Contract Magic of the Elves.

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Badijiaer's proposal to let Pulitatisi join the Council, under the opposition of many councilors, ultimately came to nothing.

Afterwards, they discussed some previously unresolved issues for a while. Against the backdrop of the hundred-year plan for the Cross-Domain Teleportation Link Project, the things everyone had been fixated on in the past had quietly changed.

Some results that might have taken months or even years to discuss were, on this day, surprisingly reached in consensus after only a brief discussion.

Soon, the meeting ended. Each councilor received a copy of the cooperation agreement between the Council and Pulitatisi as well as the relevant Spell materials. After receiving the materials, Xia Duo notified Saville at the first opportunity, and then the two returned to the Tower of Time together.

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The Tower of Time, Plane Exploration Center.

Xia Duo first gave the copy of the cooperation agreement to Saville, while he himself opened the Spell materials to quickly browse through them, before handing these materials to Saville.

While Saville was reviewing the Spell materials, Xia Duo was also reviewing in his mind the brand-new knowledge about Planes he had just seen, especially the description regarding the 【Ether Boundary】.