Chapter 3229: Spending Others' Money to Accomplish One's Own Affairs

The Main Plane does indeed currently face many threats, but Xia Duo now has his own plans, and with the help of Pulitatisi, Netheril has already begun to discover a large number of new Planes.

Generally speaking, the situation has not yet reached the point where it is urgent to seize every moment to do something.

As for the present, the Illuminati does indeed pose a significant threat, but that is more so for the Northland Alliance; for Xia Duo personally, it is actually just that—even if the Main Plane really falls apart, at worst, he can just switch to another Plane.

Therefore, he is eager to strike at the Illuminati, but not to the extent of making major changes to his own plans for their sake.

However, the Northland Alliance is different. Judging from the situation Xia Duo saw in the Temporary Camp this morning, before the results of the Alliance Assembly are out, the various Elven Nations have clearly already treated this incident as a top priority to handle.

When Xia Duo found Feilifa, the latter was surrounded by a group of Elves, seemingly reporting on the preparations for the Magic Items to be used for the sacrifice later. Seeing Xia Duo approach, Feilifa gave a silent greeting.

Only after the deputy arrived did he walk out from the pile of Elves and say to Xia Duo, "Consultant Xia Duo, is there something urgent that you've come to find me so early?"

"It's not exactly urgent; it's just that I also want to contribute a batch of Magic Items, and I'd like to ask Lord Feilifa to arrange a sequence for me. Besides, I also wanted to come over and take a look at your preparations here."

As he spoke, Xia Duo looked around at the busy figures of the Elves and said to Feilifa, "It looks like you have made up your minds to use the method of sacrificing Magic Items to let the Magic Net heal itself!"

"There is no such thing as a sole choice; it is just that we have temporarily chosen this method for now. If the effect is not ideal, we will also try other methods. Of course, more specifically, it depends on what the Alliance Assembly says; after all, this matter is not just the business of Yierlan alone."

Feilifa mentioned the Alliance Assembly that would be convened at noon today, and Xia Duo could not help but become interested, so he asked the other party, "Then has Yierlan already decided to spare no cost in tracking down the Illuminati?"

"As for that—" Feilifa looked around and did not answer Xia Duo's question directly, but instead said, "That still depends on the results of the sacrifice experiment later. Some councilors in the country seem to be overly optimistic; I hope the results later can change their minds."

"I understand."

Xia Duo nodded and did not ask anything further. With him and Kulas, who was sent by the Seven Towers, here on the Netherese side, the Seventon Council should have a relatively sufficient understanding of the situation here.

But on the Yierlan side, Feilifa represents Crown King Helien more than the High Tree Elder Council, which has a power struggle relationship with the Crown King. Sometimes, opponents are not necessarily opposing out of sincerity, but merely opposing for the sake of opposing.

However, once the results of the sacrifice experiment come out later, neither the Crown King nor the Council on the Yierlan side will be able to ignore the facts and oppose tracking down the Illuminati anymore, because the Council must have also sent people to the morning's experiment and will be able to obtain first-hand information.

"By the way, Consultant Xia Duo, I have checked, and there will be a window of about twenty minutes after the second sacrifice in the Xi-2 Qu later. You can go there to perform your sacrifice at that time."

"That works. Then I will head back first. When the time comes, please have Lord Feilifa send someone to remind me."

The reason for letting the Elves arrange the time is mainly because all the time today has been occupied by the Yierlan side, and the Decay Region is not a place where just anyone can go to experiment at any time.

If some unknown change were to be triggered, who would take the blame?

The current situation is that Yierlan has taken the power of on-site coordination. If any accident occurs during the experiment later, then there is no doubt that they will be the ones to take the blame.

Netheril is not snatching this coordination power not because it lacks the ability to do so, but because Iolum has already provided the most suitable treatment plan for Netheril, which is—

Using the power of the Lady of Mysteries to clear these Decay Regions.

If the experimental results from the Yierlan side are not ideal later, then it will be Netheril's turn to do this. By then, the Yierlan side will also obey Netheril's coordination just as Xia Duo is doing now.

As for Xia Duo now, he is not doing any sacrifice experiment like Yierlan, but merely doing it to earn some Divine Grace. Apart from Divine Grace, he does not need to consider any other factors.

Returning to the area where the Netherese Mages were located in the camp, Xia Duo sent a message to Iolum, then turned his consciousness back to his main body and stored the Apprentice practice assignments kept in the Tower of Time into his Personal Space.

After that, he transferred his consciousness back to his avatar. By this time, Iolum had already prepared everything and was waiting for him in an open space with six or seven human Mages.

"Teacher, I've kept you waiting."

"It's fine. I was just instructing the others on the precautions for recording the Yierlan experiment later."

Then Iolum asked about the items Xia Duo had prepared for the sacrifice. Xia Duo took out several Apprentice assignments and handed them to Iolum:

"They are all student assignments. There are too many piled up at the Tower of Time, and I was just worrying about having nowhere to put them!"

Iolum took a look and could not help but laugh: "If Yierlan had these things of yours, I reckon they would just go all the way with the sacrifice path!"

"Does Teacher not think highly of their experiment today? I just went over to their side for a stroll, and they have prepared quite a lot of things. It looks like they have made up their minds!"

"It's not that I don't think highly of them, but that I have a deeper understanding of the Decay Field there than they do. If it's just to obtain Divine Grace, they can do whatever they want, but if it's to clear the Decay Field, relying solely on sacrifice will likely bankrupt quite a few Upper Families on their side."

Iolum said this with a feeling of someone who enjoys watching the chaos. Xia Duo does not yet understand the efficiency of using sacrifice to eliminate the Decay Field, but hearing Iolum say this, he still smiled with a knowing heart.

It seems Yierlan's experiment this time is going to be a wasted effort.

The Divine Grace of the Lady of Mysteries is very useful to Netherese Mages, but it is of no use to Elves.

Unless one day the Faith of the Lady of Mysteries can spread to the Elven Nations, and at the same time, the patent certification system of the Lady of Mysteries can be unanimously recognized by the countries of the Northland.

From this perspective, Yierlan's efforts this time are not entirely without gain. However, because of this, Xia Duo suddenly thought of an idea. He apologized to Iolum and immediately went to the Elven side again.

Feilifa's camp.

When Xia Duo arrived again, he saw the same scene as before: Feilifa surrounded by a group of Elves. He greeted from afar. Feilifa showed a helpless expression and walked out of the encirclement while greeting his deputy:

"Consultant Xia Duo, is there anything else?"

"I wanted to say, don't you Elves have no use for the Divine Grace of the Lady of Mysteries? But we humans do, so I would like to ask Lord Feilifa to hand over the work of deploying the Magic Items for your experiment to me."

When Xia Duo came before, he noticed that Yierlan had prepared a considerable number of Magic Items this time. If he could be the one to deploy them, wouldn't that be equivalent to Yierlan spending money to help him buy Divine Grace?