Chapter 3049: Memories of the Covenant

After wandering around the Holy City for a while, Xia Duo successfully found the station of the Seven Dun Mage Association. It was a complex composed of multiple palaces and tall towers, with the central palace being magnificent and grand, towering higher than any Mage Tower.

At the top, wisps of Arcane Energy were dissipating; it seemed that a Reincarnator had already awakened memories of being an Arcanist in their previous life and had successfully replicated Arcane Energy in the Outer Planes.

This surprised Xia Duo somewhat, and he thought that this trip might even yield extra gains!

Following this, Xia Duo arrived at the entrance of the Seven Dun Mage Association station. After a brief communication with the Arcane magic servants guarding the place, a group of young Mages soon flew out from inside.

However, Xia Duo dared not underestimate them. Reincarnators almost never aged; these Mages looked young, but their true ages might be decades or even hundreds of years older than his!

"Is the guest from the Mortal Plane? No wonder I have never seen you in the Holy City before!"

Before Xia Duo could speak, a young Mage had already begun to greet him, "Sir, please come inside the station to talk. Our Mage Association has not hosted a guest from the Mortal Plane for a long time."

Because he was in the Radiant Holy City, Xia Duo did not worry about the other party setting up a trap. He walked side-by-side with these young-looking Reincarnator Mages in a relaxed manner and entered the interior of the station together.

Eventually, these Mages brought Xia Duo to a reception hall within a palace. By the time he arrived, many Mages were already gathered there.

Seeing Xia Duo arrive, these Mages cast curious gazes, and there was no lack of whispering among them. However, Xia Duo remained composed. When the Mage who had greeted him at the door introduced him, he also greeted them modestly:

"Yes, if I am not mistaken, this is also the hometown of many of you in your previous lives."

Although Da Arcanist is currently just a village of a few thousand people, barely even a small town, it will always develop in the future. Moreover, he believed that the development speed of Da Arcanist would certainly be faster than the Princess's side.

Although Xia Duo had not prepared for this question in advance, he had, after all, practically participated in and even to a certain extent led the signing of the New Covenant. Whether it was the Old Covenant or the New Covenant, he was incomparably familiar with them.

After Xia Duo finished speaking, the hall fell into a brief silence. Then, a Reincarnator Mage could not help but exclaim: "I always felt that the Old Covenant was somewhat uncoordinated with the Kingdom of Radiance. Now that I see the New Covenant, I finally know where the lack of coordination lies!"

However, being Netherese Mage Reincarnators, if one were to talk about compatibility, the Kingdom of Radiance was probably more suitable for them.

Xia Duo thought that when he said these words, these Reincarnator Mages would be moved, but he did not expect that their reactions would be flat. It seemed they did not remember their experiences in Netheril on the Main Plane at all, or perhaps they simply did not care about such things.

And the order of the Covenant also caused them to be attracted to the Kingdom of Radiance to be reincarnated after death, which led to the Seven Dun Mage Association.

After simple pleasantries, the leading Mage in the hall took the lead in getting to the point, "Mage Xia Duo, you mentioned earlier that you are a Netherese Mage from the Mortal Plane. Is that the hometown of the God of Exploration and Protection?"

Under such circumstances, the foundation for the existence of royal power was very weak.

Furthermore, he himself actually wanted to win these Mages over to settle in Da Arcanist!

Xia Duo roughly guessed why these people had no memory of the name Netheril; it was nothing more than the fact that the name Netheril itself had a stain, if not for the decisive defection of the Second Nether King and the transfer of royal power by the last Nether King.

Because the name Netheril originally meant the land of the Nether, it was chosen by the First Nether King, and the reason the First Nether King was able to have such authority was fundamentally because he, as a Priest, possessed the only supernatural power at the time.

"Of course."

Later, when the Elves arrived to teach Magic, supernatural power was no longer monopolized by one family but continued to spread, giving birth to the emerging class of Mages.

However, oral accounts inevitably have omissions. After obtaining the other party's consent, Xia Duo directly cast a spell to transcribe the original text of the two Covenants onto paper, and then explained it to them based on the text.

Ordinary Netherese might be one thing, perhaps not even having heard of the Xia Shenguo Covenant, but the Mage class must have understood it and known that they were the true rulers of that country.

As they spoke, multiple Mages, including that Mage, bowed to Xia Duo in unison, "Thank you, Mage Xia Duo, for bringing us the New Covenant. We were originally hesitant about whether to move to the God of Exploration and Protection's Shenguo, but now it seems that the Kingdom of Radiance is more suitable for us."

"Sorry, Mage Xia Duo, some of us did indeed awaken memories of our previous lives, but they were mostly some Magic Knowledge or the Old Covenant, and did not include Netheril."

Hearing such an answer, Xia Duo's heart jumped violently. Would this ruin the Princess's good deeds? However, this thought came suddenly and went quickly; these Mages were not the Princess's private property, nor were they labeled by the Princess.

Therefore, Xia Duo did not intend to mention this matter for the time being; it would be better to wait for Da Arcanist to develop for a period of time before trying to win them over.

However, this did not matter. His main purpose in finding the Xia Shenguo Mage Association was to investigate the Holy City. If he could build some rapport, that would be good, and if not, discussing matters as they stood was also the proper thing to do.

"Mage Xia Duo, can you talk about the Xia Shenguo Covenant of the Mortal Plane? Although some of us have awakened memories of the Covenant, those memories are not complete. We are very curious about what the Xia Shenguo Covenant of the Mortal Plane is actually like!"

Based on what Xia Duo had seen on the Main Plane, almost no lord believed that the Nether Family were the natural rulers of Netheril, but rather believed that Netheril was jointly ruled by various lords.

The so-called "Netherese" had probably long been overturned by the Mages who collided with power.

Both sides were in the early stages of development. The Princess's side was nothing more than having one more True God than him, and he was not ignorant of the knowledge of Ascension to Godhood. Moreover, his side was closer to the Lord of Radiance, and in terms of safety, it was not bad.

And the foundation of the union of all lords was the Xia Shenguo Covenant.

"So that's how it is. It doesn't matter, I can understand. In fact, what we are following now is also the order shaped by the Old Covenant system. As for the name Netheril, it is secondary."

After finishing the topic of the Covenant, Xia Duo answered the various questions these former Netherese Mages had about the Mortal Plane one after another. Of course, in the process, Xia Duo also learned a lot of basic information about the Holy City that the Divine Envoy Taide had not mentioned before.

The perspective of a Divine Envoy is ultimately different from that of an ordinary resident.

Neither was good news for him.

Hearing Xia Duo mention the Xia Shenguo Covenant, the Mages in the hall whispered among themselves again. Afterward, the same Mage from before asked on their behalf:

"It is an honor to meet everyone from the Xia Shenguo Mage Association."

He did not do this intentionally to cause trouble; based on his understanding of the Princess (before Ascension to Godhood), she should not mind such a small matter.