Chapter 3326: Missing Information

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Starting from over twenty personal exchange experiences, this recorder analyzed the development of Seven Towers Mage in various aspects such as combat techniques, new spell development, and Magic Theory.

They gave a high evaluation that although it was not yet enough to pose a threat to Elven Magic, it was highly likely to surpass Elven Magic in the later stages, and even proposed in the report that ways must be found to contain the magic development of the Seven Towers and Netheril.

The recorder personally put forward many suggestions, and Xia Duo could even see the shadows of these suggestions in the actions of various Elven nations in recent years.

For example, guiding the development direction of Netheril Magic through exchanges, making it develop toward exquisite and delicate individual duels, rather than toward War Spell directions that win by quantity.

Another example is dumping a large amount of cheap Civilian Magic Artifacts into Netheril to cut off the development of Netheril Magic toward Civilian Magic Artifacts; after all, if Civilian Magic Artifacts prosper, they will inevitably provide feedback to the development of War Magic Artifacts.

Yet another example is imposing restrictions from the perspective of strategic resources, blocking Mithril Refining Technology, controlling the Mithril Mine within Netheril, guiding toward incorrect technical routes, and so on.

The most brilliant part is that this report explicitly mentions that they could unite with other Elven nations to restrict the scale of magic activities in the entire Northland, with the excuse that Elven Magic requires more archaeology rather than experimentation.

Conversely, the new magic system of Netheril Magic requires a large amount of experimental support; as long as the scale of magic activities is restricted, the magic development of Netheril will inevitably be greatly restricted as well.

At the same time, supplemented by extreme disparagement and exclusion of Netheril Magic, they would ultimately achieve the goal of guiding humans back to the correct path of Elven Magic.

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Xia Duo carefully flipped through this report and discovered that the time this report was written was actually over a hundred years ago, because a paragraph in the report mentioned "Netheril is recently preparing for a decisive battle with the Orc tribes, and interest in exchange magic has greatly diminished," so the author of the report did not continue to follow up, but chose to "summarize past exchange experiences for the King's reference."

In other words, over a hundred years ago, there were Elves who foresaw the development potential of Netheril Magic and even suggested that Yierlan take the initiative to contain it.

The practice mentioned therein of containing the magic development of Netheril by restricting the scale of magic activities in the Northland is exactly what the later Magic Restriction Treaty was!

It is just that the later Magic Restriction Treaty was first proposed by Cormanthor, not Yierlan, but perhaps this is what is called "great minds think alike."

However, the author of this report did not anticipate the later establishment of the Northland Alliance, and Cormanthor also did not anticipate that due to the establishment of the Northland Alliance, the magic development of various Elven nations would also usher in a major opportunity.

While the Magic Restriction Treaty could indeed restrict Netheril, it also restricted themselves, and thus, the Magic Restriction Treaty that no one wanted to abide by became a mere scrap of paper.

Of course, when Cormanthor proposed this suggestion, the ostensible reason was still very correct and sufficient—protecting the Magic Net environment.

Due to the abuse of magic in the last few thousand years (wars and other unbridled magic activities), the Magic Net environment had long been inferior to before, specifically manifested in the lower efficiency of Magic Net energy acquisition per unit of space.

Or it can also be understood as the energy density of the Magic Net having become smaller.

This is a fact acknowledged by all nations, so the later Magic Restriction Treaty began to be discussed in the direction of Magic Net protection, until the recent Ailan attack incident, which caused seven huge Magic Web Decay Zones that were also very likely to spread.

Only then did the various nations completely make up their minds to invest resources and manpower to protect the Magic Net.

Xia Duo also supports Magic Net protection; in Netheril, most Arcanists do not reject repairing the Magic Net, but the premise is that it is easy to repair, after all, doing so can obtain Divine Grace.

But only a very small number of Arcanists are willing to repair those Magic Network Knots or dead zones that are difficult to repair; the former requires combing the Magic Net structure in a larger range, while the "dead" description of the latter is enough to explain the problem.

It belongs to the category of long-term free labor where spending twelve parts of effort might not even yield one part of results.

Some Arcanists might occasionally try it on a whim, but to have them do this thankless free labor for a long time, I am afraid ninety-nine percent of Arcanists would not be willing.

Including Xia Duo, even if he knows that doing this is beneficial to the public, but while it is beneficial to the public interest, he needs to bear various costs personally; in this situation, the effect of selfishness will be infinitely magnified.

Unless it is a saint or someone with some kind of Faith support, it is possible to engage in such unpaid service of "sacrificing me alone to fulfill thousands of families" for a long time.

So it is also good for the Alliance to take responsibility for this matter; after all, the Alliance is truly able to pay money and provide resources, rather than letting people work for nothing.

As long as such a reward and punishment mechanism is established and maintained well, the magic environment of the future Northland and even the entire Main Plane will gradually improve.

And such behavior can generally only be mentioned now that the Northland Alliance has been established and various nations do not need to worry about war for the time being.

If it were placed before, even if the relationship between nations was friendly, they would worry about whether they would be backstabbed by allies one day; in this situation, who would sacrifice their own interests to fulfill the public interest?

Now, among the nations in the Northland Alliance, although some seem to have bad relationships, or are even bad, within the framework of the Alliance, cooperation is still greater than conflict.

Only in this situation can the Northland nations act as a whole and, for the sake of the overall interest, jointly bear a portion of the cost.

Of course, the Alliance is not perfect; not to mention the threats from the outside, as long as the nations of the Alliance are united, they can always overcome them, but the internal crisis is very fatal.

For example, the conflict between the "Golden Elf Supremacy" ideology and the "Five Races Equality and Prosperity" concept that Xia Duo has always kept in mind, as well as the contradiction between the Upper Family wanting to achieve eternal rule and the bottom layer wanting to progress, and so on.

These may only be a few sparks now, but if not handled well, they might cause the entire Alliance to split.

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Putting down the Morien Tower Exchange Observations, Xia Duo picked up the next book; this should be his first contact with the undisguised true thoughts of the Elven upper class.

Although one could glimpse such true thoughts from the process of getting along with Elves in daily life, it is almost impossible for any Elf to say to his face how to contain Netheril.

Almost all Elves carry disguises when facing humans; those with low status have to pretend to be submissive, because those with high status, even if they are humans, can determine the fate of those Elves with low status.

Those with high status also have to pretend to be aloof, thereby suppressing the status and interests of humans, or pretend to be brain-dead to make humans produce misjudgments.

Of course, this world is never short of Elves with true feelings, but they are mostly in the middle and lower classes; the higher they go, the less difference there is between Elves and humans, which is also an inevitable manifestation of intelligent beings with sociality at a certain stage.

Xia Duo is unhappy in his heart, but for the time being, there is indeed no way to change it; what he can do is to continue to develop.