Chapter 3050: The Primordial Holy City

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After wandering around the Holy City for a while, Xia Duo successfully found the residence of the Seven Dun Mage Association. This was a complex composed of multiple palaces and tall towers; the palace in the center was magnificent and grand, towering higher than any Mage Tower.

At the very top, wisps of Arcane Energy were dissipating, as if a Reincarnator had already awakened their memories of being an Arcanist from their previous life and had successfully replicated Arcane Energy in the Outer Planes.

This caught Xia Duo by surprise, and he thought that this trip might even yield additional gains!

Following that, Xia Duo arrived at the entrance of the Seven Dun Mage Association residence and communicated briefly with the Arcane Energy magical servants guarding the place. Soon, a group of young Mages flew out from inside the residence.

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

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

Before Xia Duo could speak, a young Mage had already begun to greet him, "Your Excellency, please come inside the residence 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 was not worried that the other party would set up some kind of trap. He walked side-by-side with these young-looking Reincarnator Mages in a relaxed manner and entered the residence together.

"Of course not."

"Yes, if you have judged incorrectly, this is also the hometown of many of them in their previous lives."

Because the name Netheril Time Garden originally meant the land of Netheril, it was named by the first Nether King. The reason the first Nether King was able to have such authority was fundamentally because he, as a Priest, held the only transcendent power at the time.

Xia Duo thought that when he said those words, those Reincarnator Mages would be moved, but he did not expect these people to have a lukewarm reaction. It seemed they did not remember the relevant experiences of Netheril Time Garden on the Main Plane at all, or perhaps they simply did not care about them.

Either way, it was not good news for him.

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

After the pleasantries, the leading Mage in the hall got straight to the point, "Mage Xia Duo, you mentioned earlier that you are from Netheril on the Mortal Plane. Is that the hometown of the God of Exploration and Protection?"

After Xia Duo finished speaking, the hall fell into a brief silence. Then, a Reincarnator Mage could not help but sigh: "I always felt that there were some inconsistencies between the Xia Shenguo Covenant and the Kingdom of Radiance. Now that I see the New Covenant, I finally know where the inconsistency lies!"

The perspective of a Divine Envoy is, after all, different from that of ordinary residents.

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

The so-called "Netheril Time Garden" had likely been overturned long ago by the Mages colliding with power.

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 or new covenant, he knew them better than anyone.

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

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

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

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

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

Therefore, Xia Duo did not intend to mention this for the time being. It would be better to wait for Da Arcanist to develop for a while longer, and then it would not be too late to win them over.

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 Divine Envoy Taide had not mentioned before.

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

Hearing such an answer, Xia Duo's heart skipped a beat. Would this ruin the Princess's plans? However, this thought came suddenly and went quickly. These Mages were not the Princess's private property, nor did they have the Princess's label on them.

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 stains, and it was only because the second Nether King decisively rebelled and the last Nether King transferred the royal power.

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

Ordinary Netherese might be one thing, perhaps they hadn't even heard of the Xia Shenguo Covenant, but the Mage class must have understood it, knowing that they were the true rulers of the country.

Both sides were in the early stages of development. The Princess's side had one more True God than he did, but he knew the knowledge of Ascension to Godhood, and his side was closer to the Lord of Radiance, so the safety was not bad either.

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

However, oral narration inevitably had omissions. After obtaining their consent, Xia Duo directly cast a spell to transcribe the original text of the two covenants onto paper, and then explained it to them using the text.

But this did not matter. His main purpose in finding the Xia Shenguo Mage Association was still to investigate the Darkness Society. If he could build some rapport, that would be great, but if not, dealing with matters objectively was also the proper thing to do.

However, they were Netherese Mage Reincarnators after all; in terms of compatibility, the Kingdom of Radiance was probably more suitable for them.

Seeing Xia Duo arrive, those Mages cast curious gazes, and there was no lack of whispering. However, Xia Duo remained calm and composed. When the Mage who had gone to the entrance to welcome him introduced him, he also greeted them humbly:

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

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:

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

Saying this, 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 hesitating 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."

And the order of the covenant also caused them to be attracted to the Kingdom of Radiance to reincarnate after death, and thus the Xia Shenguo Mage Association came to be.