Chapter 3024: Discovering Anomalies, Being Overly Optimistic

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After obtaining the attitudes from Evereska and Netheril, Xia Duo did not directly contact the Thorn Society. Instead, he slightly modified the introductory manual on Netheril Magic that Kustuo had brought earlier, and then had Lajieer send it over.

This was to imply his permission to the other party, while not giving any formal promises. If the situation turned sour later, it would be easy to cut ties; if the situation improved, cooperating would not be a problem at all.

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After handling the small interlude of the Thorn Society, Xia Duo returned to the Alliance Headquarters. Although the current Public Computing Power Pool was in a stable operating state, it would still be inseparable from his oversight for quite some time.

However, now that the initial high-pressure phase had passed, Xia Duo did not need to stare at it constantly while at the Alliance Headquarters, as long as he could be contacted and arrive immediately if a problem arose with the Computing Power Pool.

The rest of the time, he stayed in his office, either flipping through various materials collected by the Alliance Archives or transferring his consciousness back to his main body to busy himself with matters of the Territory and the Tower of Time.

After arriving at the Headquarters this day, Xia Duo first made a round of the Gateway control hall, and only after confirming there were no problems did he return to his office.

A moment later, Dumu from the Demon Descendant Intelligence Research Lab knocked on the office door while personally carrying a Secret Box, "Consultant Xia Duo, I heard you were back, so I brought the data to you at the first opportunity."

As for Netheril, although Abyssal Aura infections were also detected, they were mostly residual effects from the Drow attacks earlier; some were not purified clean at the time, and some were infected because they conducted related research in private.

The individual Demon Descendants detected were also Elven Merchants from abroad.

Although the paper style was the same, after checking it slightly, he determined that this data did not come from the same person, but from many people. Some text was handwritten, while some was transcribed by spells, looking somewhat unharmonious.

But the proportion of Demon Descendants detected in the Ailan Kingdom was actually higher than in Siluwende, which was very puzzling.

While reading, Xia Duo suddenly discovered a suspicious point. He noticed that the number of Demon Descendants in the Ailan Kingdom recorded in the data brought by Ruier was extremely small—calculated by population proportion, it was much lower than in Siluwende!

Although he had long expected that the number of Demon Descendants found in Elven nations would be quite high, he had not thought there would be so many! The hardest-hit areas were Yierlan and Keman.

The so-called longevity of Demon Descendants later referred to the descendant Demon Descendants whose bloodlines had stabilized; their existence itself could be regarded as a kind of miracle. One hundred Demon Descendants could not even give birth to one normal Demon Descendant; the vast majority were just a mass of blood-fetus, and it was not strange for some to even give birth to demons.

Otherwise, do you really think the high-level officials of various countries are law-abiding good people?

"I brought it, but this portion of data has a very high security clearance. Consultant Xia Duo, you do not have the right to retain it, and you can only view it when I am present."

"The Demon Descendant Intelligence Research Lab has special Permission Levels within the Alliance Headquarters and can access the whereabouts information of most personnel. Consultant Xia Duo, don't think that I have planted eyes and ears in the Psionic Network Research Center."

After he took office, he carried out a large-scale purge of Demon Descendants. If it were not for Siluwende opening up to its neighbors, it might have been even cleaner than Akaola.

"Did you bring the data I wanted?"

Those Demon Descendants discovered in the Main Plane now are only a very, very small number born naturally; the vast majority were transformed through Ritual Spells.

Those "purer" than Netheril are mostly Irusk and Akaola. The former doesn't even have many Spellcasters in the country, so Demon Descendants probably wouldn't even look at it.

Of course, the text format and such were not the focus of Xia Duo's attention. What he truly cared about was the content recorded in the text—the summary results of the comprehensive testing in the Northland countries over the past month or so.

This kind of Demon Descendant directly infected by Abyssal Aura is called a First Generation Demon-born; they themselves suffer from various hardships and almost cannot obtain any positive benefits.

"How could that be!"

This is also the fundamental reason why Demon Descendants have been difficult to eradicate in the past. This special bloodline of Demon Descendants, or even this special culture, has been deeply rooted within the Elven ethnic group.

"Eh—"

But one must know that General Kelusi, who took office after Siluwende split, was in reality an anti-establishment figure from ancient times who had smuggled himself into the modern era, resisting the high-level officials of Siluwende who were heavily infiltrated by Demon Descendants at the time.

Of course, there were also Dwarves, but the Demon Descendants among the Dwarves were not transformed by Elven Demon Descendants; rather, they were on the front lines of the war and received the most pollution, and even the battlefields of those years have not been completely cleaned up to this day.

Xia Duo certainly did not think that Dumu had the ability to arrange capable Elven Mages to come over as eyes and ears, but it was almost inevitable that some Mages who had already joined the Psionic Network Research Center would be persuaded through various channels to provide some less-than-critical intelligence.

In the data brought by Dumu, this point was clearly recorded: many of the Demon Descendant families detected only regarded the transformation ritual as a kind of special Life Extension Spell, and the main body of the family remained normal Elves.

But this does not mean that these Demon Descendants are all strangers to each other. In fact, those Demon Descendant families are still normal Elven families on the surface, and only when they are near the end of their lifespan or have children and no plans to have more, will they transform into Demon Descendants to obtain the benefits of being a Demon Descendant.

Many Dwarves were infected by Abyssal Aura, even to the point of becoming First Generation Demon-born.

Even if all related spells were destroyed, researching them again would not be much trouble. Just find some Commoners and let them be infected by Abyssal Aura until they naturally transform into Demon Descendants; those are ready-made research materials.

"No problem, I can understand."

Especially Yierlan, which actually detected over ten thousand Demon Descendants this time, and Keman was not far behind, also having nearly ten thousand!

The initial Demon Descendants of the Main Plane were Elves infected by the Abyssal Aura of the battlefield. During the Crown War, Aryvandaar and Ilythiiri, in order to become the final victor, used almost every means possible; summoning demons was just one of those methods.

It is because of this current situation that the various countries of the Alliance absolutely comply with the previous resolution, treating Demon Descendants who are not involved in malicious incidents leniently or not dealing with them at all.

As for Akaola, it carried out a major purge of Demon Descendants before closing its borders, and after reopening, it was more about opening up to Netheril; even if Demon Descendants wanted to go there, it would be difficult to find a normal path.

Unless the ideology is eradicated, even if all the currently detected Demon Descendants were killed, if an Elf wants to extend their life in the future, they will still think of Demon Descendants.

After Xia Duo agreed, Ruier handed over the Secret Box and provided the unlocking key. Xia Duo opened the Secret Box, and inside lay a thick stack of Elven Paper, which is also Wood Pulp Paper, quietly.

"So well-informed, worthy of someone in intelligence!"

"It's shocking!" Looking at the items of data on the paper, Xia Duo could not help but sigh.

Then there are the Demon Descendants transformed by spells, whose bloodlines are relatively stable and who can enjoy a lifespan far longer than normal Elves.