Chapter 3014: The Vanishing Darkness Society

The most popular accessory in the Northland right now is the ear-clip style Computing Pool Connector; since its public launch in May, it has been named a representative of the new annual trend by multiple Northland fashion journals in just over ten days.

This is, of course, inseparable from the sponsorship of the Psionic Network Research Center, but there are also organic supporters, as the Computing Pool has truly changed the ecology of Northland Mages.

Northland Mages today, as long as they have used the Computing Pool, almost none have anything bad to say about it; those who have yet to try it are instead considered stubborn and set in their ways.

Of course, this is more the case in the various Elf kingdoms.

Among the Dwarves, the Computing Pool has not yet triggered such a wave, mainly because the Dwarves are currently all playing with local area networks, and Xia Duo is temporarily unable to create a translation device between Dwarven Magic and Elven Magic.

As for humans, or rather, here in Netheril, the Computing Pool has not caused much of a stir.

On one hand, the total population of Netheril is far less than that of the Elf kingdoms; on the other hand, Netherese Mages still harbor certain misunderstandings about the Computing Pool to varying degrees.

But it is foreseeable that as soon as Low-level Mages fully enjoy the benefits brought by the Computing Pool, they will naturally become its supporters, and once they grow up, they will be living examples.

As for those stubborn elements, when everyone else is using it and only you are not, wouldn't you be falling far behind others?

Even if the Computing Pool were truly a bad thing, as long as the effects are real, there will be plenty of people biting the bullet to use it; this is just like a topic that once circulated on the internet in Xia Duo's hometown—

If the establishment of the Computing Pool can completely change the ecology of Northland Mages and provide a minor boost to the development of Northland Magic, in that situation, can that visitor from another realm in Seventon really sit still?

Furthermore, Saville from the Tower of Time also sent a message for him to return, saying there were new discoveries, and plus the testing of the Core Gateway Magic Artifact also needed to be conducted on his own turf; with various factors combined, Xia Duo left directly.

In this situation, Xia Duo could not help but feel a bit anxious; it clearly looked like everyone could reach a consensus the next moment, yet every meeting would have this or that problem, resulting in a failure to reach a final agreement.

But even from that limited understanding, one could see the opponent's strength.

Such a potential opponent cannot be valued too highly.

The Computing Pool is a weak point exposed by the Alliance, and it is hard for Xia Duo not to worry that the Darkness Society might start from there.

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Even in the Southern Seven Kingdoms, a single country is indeed stronger than any one country in the Northland, but the Northland countries have long since formed an Alliance, while the Southern Seven Kingdoms have their own disputes.

Only when everyone contributes money and effort together can the project be sustained; otherwise, if only a few parties invest, it will only lower their own development speed.

By the middle of March, at a meeting, Xia Duo finally couldn't help but give a final deadline, "If we still can't reach a consensus this month, then the previous Cross-Domain Teleportation Link project should also be re-discussed; at worst, we'll each do our own thing!"

The Computing Pool is not even a free project; it is very profitable, which in the eyes of some people might be even more hateful, so from the first day of official operation, Xia Duo worried about being attacked.

After all, the Darkness Society and the Northland Alliance can be considered old rivals; their most core Time-Involving Ritual has already fallen into the hands of the Alliance, and this alone is enough to minimize the threat of the Darkness Society.

Once there is more of this kind of attempt, such a situation might arise—as long as you are in the martial arts world, you must practice the Bixie Sword Manual, to the extent that it creates a world of eunuchs.

Because the connectors are distributed for free, yet the privacy policy is set very high, others can easily obtain attack vectors, while the Alliance side finds it difficult to trace the other party.

On the premise that the Bixie Sword Manual is known to be a powerful martial art that can be mastered quickly, there will inevitably be people trying to use it; some may be forced by helplessness, some may be born differently from others.

It was clearly a free public welfare project that benefited everyone, yet it was subjected to massive malicious attacks, to the point where the server was constantly shutting down and restarting, unable to have a moment of peace, and ultimately it could not be sustained.

There are so many Other Planes, and Imaska does not lack the strength to explore Other Planes, so they shouldn't be stirring up trouble in the Main Plane.

Anyway, now everyone has mastered the method of discovering new planes through the Ether Boundary; Xia Duo said "each do our own thing," and there will always be people who are tempted, and there will certainly be people who are unwilling.

The Cross-Domain Teleportation Link requires the consumption of massive resources and manpower, and it cannot be built by just a few parties alone; it is a very simple logic that this thing will not see returns for a considerable period of time, only endless investment.

Until the Computing Pool finished its March revenue target ahead of schedule, the heart Xia Duo had been hanging finally let down a little; the most difficult moment for the Computing Pool had passed, and what followed was just meeting moves with moves—he was not fighting alone.

Compared to the Darkness Society, Xia Duo was more wary of Seven Tons.

Another object of suspicion is Seven Tons, an explorer from the Holy Golden Dragon Empire in another realm; having traveled ten thousand miles to the Main Plane, is it really noble, pure, and completely unselfish, specifically to help the Main Plane develop?

If Lin Pingzhi were to copy the Bixie Sword Manual countless times and distribute it to the martial arts world, what would happen in the end?

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It is just like, if Sophon flew ten million miles from Alpha Centauri to Earth and saw an accelerator that could boost Earth's technological development, could it really resist not going to sabotage it?

During this period, Seven Tons seemed completely unwilling to interfere in the internal affairs of Netheril, declining several discussion invitations from the Pulita Council, and was solely busy with preparing to build the Plane Exploration Center.

Instead, it is Seven Tons from a more distant Other Plane; what means he is hiding, no one can predict, after all, even Saville, who has personally been to the Holy Golden Dragon Empire, has very limited understanding of that side.

One is the Darkness Society; with the continuous advancement of comprehensive detection, under the resolution of the Alliance, this time the various countries did not kill all the Demon Descendants, but the Darkness Society's intention to subvert the Time Line is not dead, and they will always find ways to cause trouble.

The Computing Pool's revenue needs to be shared with various countries; attacking the Computing Pool is equivalent to attacking the Northland countries. Thinking about the Main Plane, I am afraid no force would dare to do that.

It is time to apply some pressure.

You must know, Xia Duo originally came to Seventon because of watching the Snow Melting Competition, and now the time is already mid-March; the discussion on the ownership of the new plane has been going on for nearly a month without any result, and he really couldn't wait any longer.

In this situation, the Southern Seven Kingdoms should not make irrational moves; of course, that is on the surface, and what happens behind the scenes is another matter.

Although it was not explicitly stated, both in words and between the lines, they were questioning why he did not consider the big picture; Xia Duo directly replied with silence, and on that very day, he publicly left Seventon.

As for Imaska, wrapping its territory in a massive Jieti, and even modifying the Magic Net within it, in Xia Duo's view, it belongs to the defensive type, not the open type.

When the public Computing Pool triggered rounds of competitive discussion and new trends in the Northland, the discussion in Netheril regarding the ownership of the new plane continued.

The public Computing Pool certainly would not have the hidden dangers of the Bixie Sword Manual, but public operation would inevitably encounter some mysterious challenges, just like in Xia Duo's hometown, where he himself personally encountered similar things—

Once Xia Duo released the words about breaking up, this meeting naturally could not proceed normally; after the hasty dispersal, Xia Duo immediately received a message from Badijiaer.

Doing so might really lead things in a direction Xia Duo himself did not want to see, but he still did it; reality is just like that—if you want to open a window, you must have the determination to lift the roof first.

Of course, it is also possible that the sword manual was spread too widely and developed a large number of targeted countermeasures, but that is just one possibility.

For the time being, the objects Xia Duo listed that might attack the Computing Pool were only two—