Chapter 3372: New Clues

————It is truly a bit late now,

————Cramming in progress

Although both are called "Wide-Area," the effective range of a 【Wide-Area Prohibition】 is only a spherical region with a radius of about one hundred New Li around the Floating City.

If it is a standard-level 【Forbidden Spell】, the actual effective range might only be a spherical region with a radius of about 50 meters; the area of effect can be shaped otherwise, it does not necessarily have to be spherical.

The reason 【Wide-Area Prohibition】 is called "Wide-Area" is not by comparing it to the scope of a Plane, but by comparing it to the standard version of this Spell; compared to a radius of 50 meters, a radius of 100 New Li increases the coverage area by 8 billion times.

If this cannot be called "Wide-Area," then what else could be called "Wide-Area"?

However, in order to avoid protection loopholes appearing in the Floating City, the coverage area of 【Wide-Area Prohibition】 cannot be shaped, which is to say the maximum effective distance is 100 New Li.

And right now, the straight-line distance from Yongle City to the Surface is just about one hundred New Li.

If Yongle City happened to be directly above Tanzan Peak at this moment, then Xia Duo might agree to Kandela's request, but right now Yongle City's position is above the original site of Evereska.

Moreover, due to the previous surprise attack, various countries have developed suspicions regarding Evereska's neutral status, and more than one country, including Netheril, has demanded that Xia Duo return Evereska to its original location.

As for remote support via War Spells, I have a new idea, though I don't know if the various countries are willing to agree, given that Kandela has not yet personally practiced and verified it.

It is to ask the various countries to open up remote strike permissions within their borders, allowing Alliance field personnel operating within those countries to call for War Spell support at any time.

Rather than acting as a tool Mage on the front lines used to trigger a Guidance Artifact.

But for the moment, Xia Shao still does not need to worry about "defying" the First Tower on individual issues, and even if there are more disagreements in the future, as long as he has the Great Righteousness in hand, he also completely does not need to worry about the First Tower.

Front line, Tanzan Peak.

It was still the Evereska side that stood firm against pressure from all sides, and even after Xia Duo had clearly informed them of the possibility of encountering an Illuminati attack, they still insisted on asking Xia Shao to keep Evereska by Yongle City's side.

But by comparison, Xia Shao's plan is still more cost-effective; in fact, Kandela is not the first Alliance Mage to use Yongle City's remote support, as the Alliance field personnel under Dumu were.

If everything requires support from the rear, then where is the value of my own existence? Is it not the case that any Elite Mage bringing a Guidance Artifact could achieve the same effect?

Or perhaps the various countries organizing their own War Mages to provide support would also work.

The Moonshadow Family being able to attract the Illuminati is key to exposing them, and the operation to capture them is very critical; if there were no high degree of certainty, Xia Shao certainly would not use a tactical plan that had never been verified before in such an important operation.

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Of course, his disagreement with Badijiaer on this matter does not affect his cooperation with the First Tower in other areas; it is just a matter of judging each case on its own merits.

It is a symbol of a country, a centralized system.

Kandela knows that too many expectations from the Evereska Council of Elders are pinned on him, and even if the situation is more unfavorable to him, he actually hopes to have more opportunities to perform.

Xia Shao considers himself to be standing on the side of justice; right now Evereska is in a weak position and its sovereignty has been violated, so he chooses to help Evereska.

The First Tower could of course learn from Xia Shao, but human selfishness is not so easy to overcome; if the First Tower could truly be single-mindedly for the public good, then Xia Shao would naturally also be willing to run errands for it.

The position of Executive is not so easy to hold; disregarding the overall situation means losing the Great Righteousness, and considering the overall situation is fulfilling Xia Shao. If one were to ask who in the entire Nether Region has more of a sense of the big picture and who cares more about collective interests, it is none other than Xia Shao.

Whatever joint government or win-win cooperation, in the face of visible shortages of benefits, everything is empty; it is just that on this matter Xia Shao has sufficient say (Yongle City's home-field advantage + authorization from the Evereska side), and in the end, the two could only part on unhappy terms.

Of course, the root of all this is still because Evereska is not strong enough; if it were strong enough, it could even treat the Northland Alliance, which has its headquarters on its territory, as a puppet.

In the Elf World, whether in the past, present, or even the future, Mythallar Permission is equivalent to a country's sovereignty. The reason why the various Elf countries want to build a Unified Mythallar is actually to reunite the scattered sovereignty.

If Evereska were to leave Yongle City's sphere of influence now, the various countries would likely not allow them to carry out Floating City modifications at all, but would instead immediately use the excuse of helping with repairs to continue encroaching on Evereska Mythallar Permission.

There is only one purpose for doing this: to take advantage of the process of modifying the Floating City to reclaim as much City Mythallar Permission as possible, or at the very least, to separate out the portion of permission that the various countries have forcibly demanded.

On the issue of Evereska's temporary docking location, Xia Shao and Badijiaer have had private communications more than once; standing from the perspective of the First Tower, or even Netheril, it is of course more beneficial to occupy more Evereska Mythallar Permission.

For such a convenient matter, Xia Shao truly had no reason to refuse, and the aftermath proved the effect was excellent; otherwise, there would not have been this incident of letting Kandela take a Guidance Artifact to Tanzan Peak.

Kandela, who was refused support from prohibition-type Spells, did not feel too much disappointment; although such a result was more unfavorable to him, deep down he actually felt a strange sense of relief.

Previously, the Alliance had an important operation on the Langas Plain, and Dumu was worried that the operation would not go smoothly, so he requested Xia Shao's help to look after it, because at that time Yongle City was just wandering above the Langas Plain to provide support to the Grey Peak Mountains nearby.

If the various Alliance countries were willing to support Xia Shao and use his tactical plan in more operations, then the subsequent confrontation between the Alliance and the Illuminati would definitely be much easier.

The issue of selecting a temporary docking site for Evereska is also just a concrete manifestation of the conflict of concepts and differences in paths between the two sides; if there were no conflict and no differences, then naturally this problem would not exist.

At present, the various Alliance countries only occupy a portion of the permission; once they occupy more, then Evereska might still hang onto the name of a sovereign country, but in reality, it would have been reduced to a puppet controlled by the various countries.

As long as the representatives of the various countries do not bring it up, Xia Shao himself naturally will not take the initiative to bring it up.

Even if it were to catch the Moonshadow Family members more conveniently and quickly now, the various Alliance countries would likely not agree to let him take Yongle City to the North, right!

If that is not possible, then the two sides will sooner or later move toward an opposing stance.

If he were allowed to take Yongle City and leave, then would the next step be running around everywhere, and the step after that be wanting to control the Alliance Headquarters? This kind of matter is very sensitive.

Unless one day the differences between the two sides become so great that even cooperation cannot suppress them, then the two sides will completely go their separate ways, or even become mutually hostile.

In the future, if Evereska becomes strong and even develops the idea of using the Alliance as a puppet tool, then he will also stand on the side of the Alliance without hesitation.

Of course, the current Northland Alliance is also not Xia Shao's one-man show; whether it is him or Evereska, it is impossible to truly ignore the opinions of other countries, so in the end, Yongle City still carried Evereska and stopped above the original site of Evereska.