Chapter 3302: Formulating a Plan and the Demands of Aosiman

However, before that, there was one more thing Xia Duo had almost forgotten to do. Having emerged from the Time Acceleration Array once again, his concept of time blurred, and he needed to know the current time as well as the situation regarding the Yierlan representative.

"Alanmidinuo, what time is it now? Has the Yierlan representative not sent the entry permit yet?"

Xia Duo sent a Sending to Alanmidinuo of the Psionic Network Research Center's Operations and Maintenance Group, and the other party replied quickly: "My lord, it is now noon on July 10th. You just asked, and the Yierlan representative indeed has not sent the entry permit."

"However, I just went to the administrative district. Ambassador Aosmantusi is not there, nor is his secretary, but an attaché remains. That attaché told me the Ambassador has returned to his country and did not specify a time for returning to Headquarters."

Hearing this news, Xia Duo's expression could not help but sink. He had not expected that fellow Aosmantusi would pull this on him.

The other party knew full well that there were problems within Yierlan; once he returned, he might very well be unable to come back out. He should have given the entry permit to him first!

Thinking of this, Xia Duo had already made a decision in his heart. He instructed Alanmidinuo: "Go to the administrative district again and stay there. Notify me immediately once Ambassador Aosmantusi returns."

As for himself, he also attempted to send a direct Sending to Aosmantusi. He waited for two minutes, but the other party did not reply, so he simply stopped caring.

He continued the test experiment he had not yet finished.

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That Excited State Magic Artifact did not possess a breaking function in the usual sense; it was similar to a household appliance on Earth. If one were to arbitrarily cut a section of a circuit, could that really explain anything?

The damage to the Magic Net there, at most, the dragons would feel uncomfortable; it would not hinder the Aosiman Elf in any way.

But now—absolutely impossible!

The Falanzhuo'er representative was currently overwhelmed by the newly discovered Underground Passage in their country, and he was busy contacting various nations to find a feasible solution.

And the current test experiment further verified my judgment.

At present, most of the Mythallars of various nations were built according to the terrain and topography, especially the city-level protective Mythallars. Such a large-scale alteration as destroying an Underground Passage would definitely cause irreversible damage to the Ailintar Mythallar, subsequently affecting the Unified Mythallar, and even triggering a chain reaction that would cause all Mythallars within Falanzhuo'er to fall into paralysis.

The Aosiman representative's proposal ultimately failed to gain the unanimous approval of all nations, not only due to Falanzhuo'er's strong opposition but also the warnings from the Dwarf kingdoms.

A country like Aosiman, which had truly destroyed an Underground Passage before, should know this better than anyone. During that time at the Dragonspine Mountains, although they succeeded in destroying the Underground Passage, it also brought about many unfavorable consequences.

Alliance Headquarters.

Although the Dwarf kingdoms suggested it was merely a possibility, when that same possibility threatened their own interests, the Aosiman representative no longer insisted.

When I first discovered this Excited State Magic Artifact, after a series of complex investigations, I had already made a judgment—it was highly likely to be a component of a certain Ritual Spell.

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Interpreting it from this direction, Xia Shao's train of thought suddenly opened up.

Just as Xia Shao had previously judged, the Darkness Society could not completely shield the Time-Involving Signal generated during the ritual, but it was possible for them to delay it.

This was also the experience from the last Time-Involving War.

But this time, the Underground Passage discovered by Falanzhuo'er was near the capital, Ailintar. If they followed Aosiman's suggestion and destroyed it immediately, the crisis might be reduced by more than half, but the Ailintar Mythallar would inevitably be affected.

Even if the enemy were to rush to the Surface tomorrow, Falanzhuo'er could not make the decision to destroy the passage immediately today; instead, they would find a way to fight to the other end of the passage and place the main battlefield in the Underdark.

Facing a crisis, Aosiman ultimately still had some sense of responsibility.

After coordination between the various nations, they even took the initiative to provide some experience in surveying and handling Underground Passages.

But the test experiment did not go as smoothly as Xia Duo had anticipated. In fact, he should have thought of this earlier; he had just been holding onto a glimmer of wishful thinking.

One must know that the Time-Involving Ritual the Alliance currently possessed was the one I found during the Metier Incident. Even at the inception of the Alliance's Time-Related Magic Research Laboratory, Xia Shao, as the Lingsiwangluozhongshu, participated in the relevant research almost throughout the entire process.

And when the news reached the Falanzhuo'er representative, he was almost furious. The Underground Passage was not impossible to destroy, but it could not be destroyed at will.

It still had to be placed into the whole to possess specific meaning and have interpretive value.

Even if it was a bit behind now, the foundation was still there.

It was also at this time that the Aosiman representative was likewise contacting various nations, but he was not doing so to provide Aosiman's rich experience in dealing with Underground Passages; rather, he was uniting the various nations to demand that Falanzhuo'er immediately destroy the newly discovered Underground Passage.

Then there was much room for speculation.

But now, asking Falanzhuo'er to immediately destroy the newly discovered passage—these two Underground Passages were completely incomparable. The Dragonspine Mountains were far from Aosiman's core area and were, in fact, a place for ranching dragons.

This was not an impossible thing to happen.

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Earthquakes were one thing; as long as the notification was in place, at most it would be an impact on supplies. But for such a large area, and one that also connected to the Underdark, one must use extremely powerful Magic to completely destroy the passage to a degree where it could not be utilized or where the cost of reuse would be very high.

This was not just a matter for Falanzhuo'er alone; it could even affect the entire Northland. No matter how urgent the situation was, one could not rashly make such a choice.

Just by thinking about it initially, I felt inspiration bursting forth everywhere. I hurriedly entered the Time Acceleration Array to gain more ample time to organize my thoughts and design verification experiments.

As for the current Excited State Magic Artifact, looking at it alone, Xia Duo could not judge what it served, but he already knew it was made by the Darkness Society and that it was highly likely to serve a Time-Involving Ritual.

If the newly discovered Underground Passage were on the border, then Falanzhuo'er might truly be able to grit their teeth and make the decision to destroy the passage immediately.

Starting from the Spell Elements contained in the parsed Excited State Magic Artifact, and attempting to design various possibilities for delaying the Time-Involving Signal, Xia Shao suddenly discovered that a quite critical part of the elements had already been placed into the artifact by the Darkness Society.

Destroying an Underground Passage was actually equivalent to Falanzhuo'er launching a War Spell within its own territory, and doing so repeatedly; the damage to the Mythallar was very great.

And on the other side, Evereska.

And this level of powerful Magic would inevitably cause near-permanent damage to the Magic Net within a large area. Aosiman had hesitated for a long time when they destroyed the Underground Passage at the Dragonspine Mountains back then.

If one were to rashly destroy an Underground Passage without surveying, it could possibly cause the collapse of a large amount of underground space connected by the passage, subsequently leading to large-scale subsidence of the Surface.