Chapter 3424: Secrets of Psionic Energy

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This technique is truly brilliant; at the very least, Xia Duo has not yet thought of any other way to keep paper books intact underwater besides isolating the water body.

Based on his observations, the Tide Queen's method might be to utilize the omnipresent Water Elemental Domain of Beilunuo to precisely alter the properties of the water elements where the books are located, preventing them from soaking the paper, or even extracting the water from the paper itself.

Sea Elves have lived in aquatic environments for a long time, and in terms of water-related applications, they are far ahead of the people of the land; even Xia Duo has to admit this.

The "Alliance Charter" he provided was written in Standard Elvish, so even Sea Elves who have been away from the continent for tens of thousands of years can read it relatively smoothly; although the Sea Elves have been away from the continent for tens of thousands of years, they are not isolated from the world.

It is just that the language has naturally diverged due to the environment, while the script remains the same as before. Standard Elvish has stripped away redundant semantics, making it most suitable for beginners of Elvish; for those like the Sea Elves who already understand Elvish, there naturally won't be too many obstacles.

That "Charter" was written with programmatic and principled clauses, so it didn't take the Tide Queen much time to flip through it twice, and after she finished reading, she gave an affirmative answer:

"If the covenant is like this, then Beilunuo is willing to join the Northland Alliance."

"There is no rush to join the Northland Alliance; even Xinnaliya will have to wait until after the war for an answer. I have already notified the representatives of the various countries in the Alliance of Beilunuo's application to join, so next, let us first talk about how to catch the little tail of the Illuminati!"

Xia Duo had indeed already notified the representatives of various countries at the Alliance Headquarters about Beilunuo's intention to join the Alliance, and at the same time, he mentioned that catching the clue of Sea Elf Magic must rely on the cooperation of the Beilunuo side.

Just like with Xinnaliya joining the Alliance, the representatives of the various countries did not oppose Beilunuo's joining, but it was the same old story: wait until after the war to hold a vote.

Of course, there may be variables in this, but Xia Duo will try his best to push for it. As for the present, he still needs to focus his main energy on dealing with the Illuminati; he really has no energy to make every representative give a guarantee that they will definitely agree after the war.

However, Xia Duo has already had a brief exchange with Iolum and Badijiaer, and all three believe that Beilunuo can be developed into an ally of Netheril, the reason being that Beilunuo's magic system is very close to that of Netheril.

It is just that there is an additional water element tendency; if Beilunuo still wants to live in the deep sea in the future, this is of course something that must be insisted upon, but if Beilunuo wants to develop in the shallow sea or even on land, it can actually be integrated into the Netheril Magic System almost seamlessly.

Although Beilunuo now only has a population of several hundred thousand, they have already popularized magic among the entire population; their comprehensive strength is inferior to the major land powers only because their magic system is incomplete.

Once this point is supplemented, not to mention catching up with the major land powers completely, at least they will have the strength to fight a full-scale war with a major power, and if the population catches up, they will definitely be a regional power.

If such an ally can be obtained, for Netheril, it will undoubtedly be able to increase its voice within the Alliance, which is much stronger than the increasingly wavering Ilfalan.

As for the possibility that Sea Elves and Land Elves are completely as close as family, such a possibility does exist, but it is very low; if they were close enough, there wouldn't have been no contact for tens of thousands of years.

Not to mention, the magic system is actually a path of development; Sea Elves and Land Elves have already shown a clear divergence, and instead, they have taken the same path as Netheril. In this case, even if they are not allies, they will naturally draw closer due to the external situation.

In addition, there is the Sea Elves' universal popularization of magic, which is considered a taboo in the eyes of the various Goblin countries; it is feared that there will be no civilian exchanges between the two sides for quite some time in the future.

This might even lead to obstacles in Beilunuo joining the Alliance, and this will require Netheril to vigorously push for it, just like Ilfalan pushed for Xinnaliya.

In fact, Beilunuo and Xinnaliya are already bound together at this moment; the two countries will either join the Alliance together or be rejected together, with almost no third possibility.

This may also be the best time for Beilunuo to join the Alliance, even more critical than the timing chosen by Xinnaliya; once missed, if they want to join in the future, they might have to wait until the day Xia Duo is in charge.

Unlike Xinnaliya, even if they miss this time, as long as they declare to give up the dividends of the Grey Peak Mountains later, the various countries will generally not refuse.

As for now, if the two countries can take advantage of this Illuminati world-ending crisis to join the Alliance, it is actually tacitly agreed that they can enjoy the dividends of the Grey Peak Mountains; it is nothing more than adding the previous investments of the various Alliance countries and missing two sessions of the Snow Melting Competition, that is all.

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"How does Consultant Xia Duo want to investigate? Have you locked onto a preliminary target?" the Queen asked.

If the Tide Queen had asked this at the beginning, Xia Duo might not have been able to answer, but now, he told the other party with considerable certainty:

"The target has been preliminarily locked. If possible, please have Her Majesty the Queen control him, and we will interrogate him together."

"Who is it?" the Queen asked in a deep voice, her expression solemn.

At this moment, she couldn't help but feel a little fortunate; fortunately, she did not insist on resisting to the end. Judging from the current situation, she believed that Xia Duo had no need to lie to her. If he said he had locked onto a target, then it could be largely determined that the target was colluding with the Illuminati.

If she had resisted to the end, that would simply be the worst outcome.

Either, as Xia Duo said, let the Illuminati's conspiracy succeed and the world be destroyed, or, regardless of whether there is an Illuminati matter or not, it would be considered offending the Northland Alliance, and it would inevitably be met with backlash afterwards.

"It is the red-haired consultant who just went out from here," Xia Duo said truthfully.

To be honest, he was also very surprised by this result. On the way here, he asked Meila which of the Queen's consultants was most hostile to the land, and at that time, Meila mentioned a consultant named Suolintasi.

But Suolintasi was not among the two consultants just now!

The two consultants just now could be brought by the Queen to meet important Envoys, and they went out obediently as soon as they were told to leave, so it can basically be determined that those two consultants are nine times out of ten the Queen's confidants.

Yet it was that red-haired consultant who sent messages one after another after leaving the Star Palace, and some even went outside of Beilunuo. Xia Duo had been trying to steal the Permission Level since he entered the Beilunuo Water Elemental Domain.

And he did indeed succeed, plus the Communication Spell used by the Sea Elves here is still the traditional method, not the Magic Net Background Communication that is most popular in Netheril nowadays.

The biggest feature of the latter, which distinguishes it from traditional Communication Spells, is that it is almost impossible to intercept because it is transmitted in the Magic Net background in the form of almost full-frequency broadcasting.

It seems to be widely diffused, and anyone can intervene to take a peek, but in reality, only those who have mastered the communication secret key can receive it; others cannot even distinguish the communication from the Magic Web Background Fluctuation at all.

Moreover, once such information is received by the target, there will be real-time feedback on the Spellcaster's side, which guarantees communication security to the greatest extent.