Chapter 3317: Goodwill, Liquidation

And now, Xia Duo had already arrived at the embassy district, yet he still received an identity verification request from the Taiweimansa Mythallar, and it was a demand for immediate banishment if not verified.

If this were an ordinary situation, it would have been enough to cause a diplomatic incident, and if he had encountered such a thing normally, Xia Duo would never have compromised; after all, this was no longer just his own affair, but one concerning the national dignity of Netheril.

However, with Yierlan using martial law as a justification at the moment, it was truly difficult for Xia Duo to refute it. Long before today, Yierlan had issued notices to various countries stating they would temporarily seal their borders, and the internal martial law had begun at the same time.

Fortunately, this was just a minor episode, or perhaps a standard procedure for Taiweimansa to treat every outsider with vigilance, and it was not specifically targeted at him.

After Xia Duo verified his identity within the Mythallar, he did not receive any further interrogation. Of course, he did not know whether Yierlan had actually conducted a deep investigation, but at least what he felt was that there was no follow-up.

Because his status at this time was that of embassy staff, Fema'ai had not arranged for anyone to meet Xia Duo at the airport. It was only when Xia Duo entered the embassy building with Divine Envoy Richi that Fema'ai appeared before him.

"Welcome, Councilor Xia Duo, to inspect the embassy!"

"Inspection is too strong a word; rather, I am disturbing the Ambassador."

Xia Duo had a very good impression of this Ambassador whose hair was already graying. Although the other party came from the Seven Towers, he did not possess that arrogance unique to many people of the Seven Towers, and this was not just because he was facing him.

In reality, Xia Duo had seen so many people from the Seven Towers; their arrogance was carved into their bones. It was not directed at any specific person, but rather mixed with their dual status as Seven Towers members and Spellcasters, a natural perception of being superior to others who did not hold those two identities.

At the same time, he also provided some information about the Abyss that he had mastered, for example, the trouble the Darkness Society had caused in various countries. Except for the situation in Yierlan, which Fema'ai understood a little more, the situations in other countries could hardly reach the Netheril Embassy.

After meeting him, he realized that this bit of intelligence was far from enough to describe the achievements of Fema'ai, so later, after the New Covenant was signed, he specifically retrieved more data regarding Yierlan from the Seven Towers.

"What did the Ambassador think of?"

And not the other way around.

Saying that Fema'ai regarded diplomatic work as his lifelong pursuit was not something Xia Shao heard Fema'ai say himself, but rather that the other party had already served as the Netheril Ambassador to Fema'ai for nearly seventy years.

Because Demon Descendants themselves are very difficult to produce offspring, if they were cared for by their own kind from the beginning, Xia Shao believed that those First Generation Demon-born would either be completely cured or voluntarily give up their Bloodline Inheritance, leaving the pollution in the past to give a clean future to the descendants of more of their kin.

"Nothing, it's just that a while ago, before the internal chaos in Fema'ai appeared, voices for liquidating Demon Descendants had already appeared again within Fema'ai. I had a bad premonition at the time, and now that premonition is even stronger."

"Liquidating Demon Descendants? Could it be that the agreements reached by various countries before are all void? Where does Fema'ai get the confidence to do such a thing of breaking promises and betraying trust?"

But the reality was the exact opposite. These war victims who should have received care and concern from their own kind were subjected to discrimination and persecution by their own kind. Under such circumstances, they instead hoped to pass down their bloodline, even if it was a polluted one.

People who sit at the pinnacle of power can make public interest greater than private interest, not because they truly possess such great public spirit, but because the public interest is inherently directly related to the private interests of those in power; their selfishness just happens to align with the public interest.

After some exchange, Yierlan could not help but sigh: "This Darkness Society is truly a scourge! Now I am actually a bit worried; even if the Darkness Society is eliminated, the influence they left behind will likely not be able to completely subside for hundreds of years."

Previously, Yierlan had used the Mithril Agreement to make things difficult for Netheril, and it was largely thanks to Fema'ai mediating from the middle, delaying the progress of Yierlan, and winning time and relatively favorable conditions for Netheril.

Afterward, his good impression of Yierlan increased even more.

Even if it was not expressed on the surface, it would be exposed in words and actions, which was even more annoying than the elite types Xia Shao hated most.

If he didn't have feelings for Netheril and for ordinary people, and only thought of himself, how could he possibly make such a decision!

Later, when the three countries re-signed the Mithril Agreement, Fema'ai again provided a lot of help, such as his long-standing understanding of the domestic situation in Fema'ai from dealing with Elves, his understanding of the Fema'ai mithril market, his judgment of Fema'ai's negotiation bottom line, and so on.

Elite types would at least treat ordinary people as humans, but many people from the Seven Towers had long since stopped treating ordinary people as their own kind. This kind of difference even exceeded the difference between lords and commoners, and was already close to the difference between species.

For someone who had not yet sat at the pinnacle of power in the Seven Towers, this was very rare and commendable.

But it cannot be denied that compared to other people from the Seven Towers, Tiao's public spirit is far greater than his private interest.

If the uninfected Elves had shown more sympathy, more understanding, and more help to those infected people who were also victims of war, perhaps the very concept of Demon Descendants might not even have been created in later generations.

Therefore, although Fema'ai, Tiao, and those Seven Towers people whose public spirit was greater than their private interest did not have philosophies completely consistent with Xia Shao's, compared to others, Xia Shao was still more willing to win these people over and more willing to give these people respect.

Those who are good at fighting have glorious achievements. Before Xia Shao saw Fema'ai with his own eyes, his understanding of Fema'ai was limited to a name on an intelligence document and a very brief introduction.

This was also a form of compensation for the fact that Demon Descendants had long suffered from discrimination and persecution.

Before the comprehensive testing targeting Demon Descendants, various countries had already reached a consensus to grant Demon Descendants the status of equal Northland citizens; as long as they had not committed bloody crimes, other minor issues would no longer be pursued.

Xia Shao did not deny that there were people in power in Netheril who cared more about the public interest, but the vast majority still cared more about their own private interests. From this, it can also be seen that the situation Netheril was able to form (the New Covenant) actually contained many coincidences.

Similar to this was the Plenipotentiary Representative of Netheril to the Northland Alliance, Tiao, but compared to Fema'ai, Tiao's utilitarianism was still greater.

Perhaps Yierlan had information channels from the Seven Towers, but because Xia Shao himself worked at the Alliance Headquarters and even temporarily led an Alliance rapid reaction force, the information he mastered was not inferior to the Seven Towers, and was even more.

One must know that the initial Demon Descendants were entirely victims of war. It was the discrimination and persecution by normal Elves against those of their own kind who were infected with the Abyssal Aura during the war that led to the tragedy that lasted for thousands of years.

Although his heart was tied to the clues about the Moonshadow Family, Xia Shao still set aside just one hour to talk with Ambassador Fema'ai, asking about the recent situation in Yierlansa and the changes in the upper echelons of Fema'ai.

But Fema'ai did not have that kind of arrogance. Xia Shao could see that the other party still regarded himself as an ordinary person. As an Arcanist, Fema'ai even gave up the magical career that the vast majority of Arcanists would not give up, turning instead to make diplomatic work his lifelong pursuit.