Chapter 3412: Capture Plan

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In this case, Xia Duo had greater certainty regarding the upcoming actions.

Because of his understanding of Sea Elf Magic, he even had a greater bargaining chip; originally, his only bargaining chips were the Alliance—its powerful strength and the promise of survival in the near seas.

But now, he seemed to have discovered a more useful bargaining chip, and that was Magic; any promise or threat given by the Alliance could not compare to letting the Sea Elves master true power themselves.

And Xia Duo could precisely achieve this.

First, Sea Elf Magic had already begun to deviate from the path of traditional Elven Magic, becoming similar to Netheril Magic, but because of insufficient development, it had not been able to evolve into a true general Arcane Magic System.

If it had already become a general Arcane Magic System, even if the Sea Elves were more adept at spells related to the Water Elemental Domain, and even with the special environment of the seabed, they would still be able to use spells from other domains without any hindrance.

Just like the Bloodline Magic of Calimshan in the south; Calimshan only had two elemental bloodlines, one was the Wind Element, and one was the Fire Element, but after long-term development, it still developed into a general Arcane Magic System.

The bloodline element merely became a primer, or rather, an anchor point for Spellcasting, and would not become one's own spell tendency, which is to say—

A Calimshan Scholar with a Fire Element Bloodline could still fluently and naturally use various spells related to the Water Elemental Domain.

And this was precisely what the current Beilunuo Elves could not do, or found very difficult to do.

But for Xia Duo, this was not difficult; when he first prepared for the trip to the seabed, he did not consider a general magic system; he only formulated a Spellcasting plan for the Water Elemental Domain for his own common combat strategies.

Although this plan had great limitations, there was no doubt that this was already the prototype of a general Arcane Magic System for the Water Elemental Domain.

The reason he was able to so easily obtain the magic achievements that the Beilunuo Elves might have worked towards for countless years was likely due to these few points—

First, of course, because Netheril Magic itself is a general Arcane Magic System, and secondly, Xia Duo had already come into contact with countless magic systems.

There were several relatively complete Arcane Magic Systems in the Main Plane and the Projection Plane. (Elven Magic, Calimshan's Bloodline Magic, Zhamu Dasi's Psionic Creation, Dwarf Rune Magic)

There were also a large number of ancient magic systems at different stages of development recorded in the 【Nether Scroll】; some of those magic systems were already quite complete, and some were even still at the stage of Primitive Sorcery.

Besides this, Xia Duo had even come into contact with the extraterritorial Golden Dragon Magic; this was also a true general Arcane Magic that developed from Bloodline Magic, but its form of expression was obviously different from Calimshan's Bloodline Magic.

All of this gave him an understanding of the essence of magic that far exceeded that of others; from such a commanding height, it was naturally not difficult to derive a general Spellcasting plan for the Water Elemental Domain for Sea Elf Magic, which had already begun to develop in the direction of Netheril Magic.

And this, in fact, was the prototype of a general Arcane Magic System for the Water Elemental Domain; as long as there were a few more Spellcasting plans, encompassing all known magic, who could still say it was not a true general Arcane Magic System!

At the moment, Xia Duo already had the intention of using the general magic system of the Water Elemental Domain as a bargaining chip, and in the remaining voyage ahead, he devoted more energy to this.

With the assistance of the Computing Power Pool and the brain, he was continuously perfecting his general Spellcasting plan for the Water Elemental Domain, until it became a general Arcane Magic System capable of self-iteration and development.

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As the Jiliu continued to advance, Xia Duo was also constantly calculating the time and the progress of perfecting Sea Elf Magic.

Of course, in this process, Xia Duo also gained a rough understanding of the basic situation within Beilunuo through Meila—

Currently, the ruler of Beilunuo is called the 【Tide Queen】, who controls the city-state's most important Water Elemental Domain Barrier and is also a powerful High Mage.

The other five High Mages who were out in the open were all advisors to the Tide Queen, and they jointly ruled the city-state of Beilunuo.

The Tide Queen's attitude toward the Land Elves was still friendly, and she was also considered by Meila to be the least likely to collude with the Illuminati; as for the reason, although Meila did not say it explicitly, there were quite a few hints.

Just as Xinnaliya received help from Beilunuo when it first established itself in the Moonshadow Archipelago, Beilunuo had also been receiving help from Yongju Island early on and even now while surviving in this sea area.

In fact, many Beilunuo Elves would go to Yongju Island for advanced studies in magic or even to settle down, and the Tide Queen would definitely go to Yongju Island for advanced studies, mastering the power of the tides through a certain ritual, which was also a necessary condition for becoming Queen.

Having already become the supreme ruler, what reason was there to destroy one's own rule?

But the Tide Queen's advisors were different; in recent years, due to the abnormal climate in the Northland, Ilfaren's grain production had decreased, so they reduced grain trade with Xinnaliya and Beilunuo.

And Xinnaliya itself was relatively short of supplies, and being affected by this, it would also reduce grain trade with Beilunuo; in this way, Beilunuo was equivalent to suffering a double blow.

According to Meila, the Tide Queen's advisors had expressed dissatisfaction to her face more than once, and even threatened to sever ties with the land.

Beilunuo's grain indeed could not guarantee that everyone would be full, but it was not difficult to barely survive; after all, being located at the intersection of multiple ocean currents, fish resources were not scarce, it was just that they could not be guaranteed to be available at all times.

Therefore, it was also necessary to raise schools of fish and seaweed on the seabed plains; this part was not consumed directly as the main staple food, but was used more to regulate the proportion of food obtained from the ocean currents.

Beilunuo trading grain from Xinnaliya and Ilfaren was basically for the same purpose; after all, no one would hand over the key supplies that determined their own life and death to others to control.

Once ties with the land were severed, Beilunuo would indeed suffer heavy losses, and many Beilunuo Elves would likely face disaster because they could not adapt to a life of food shortages, but as a whole, it would definitely not reach the level of famine or extinction.

But on the other hand, the trade between Xinnaliya, Ilfaren, and Beilunuo was definitely not charity; they could obtain many special resources from the ocean trade that were rare or even non-existent on land.

This could probably be called the land's dependence on the ocean.

So from Xinnaliya's perspective, the Tide Queen's advisors clamoring to sever ties could largely be considered a threat, and a threat that Xinnaliya would very likely compromise on.

After all, in the trade between the two sides, Xinnaliya actually could not occupy much initiative; what they had, Ilfaren also had, and even more and better.

For Ilfaren, it was the same; the resources they possessed did not have uniqueness, whereas Beilunuo was the only one among the various parties in the trade that possessed ocean resources.

Under these circumstances, to say that Xinnaliya and Ilfaren had absolutely no dissatisfaction with Beilunuo was impossible.