Chapter 3434: A Stern Refusal

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The current Northland Alliance is merely a regional alliance.

Although there are currently attempts to introduce countries outside the Northland like Xinnaliya and Beilunuo to join, Xinnaliya and Beilunuo are adjacent to the Northland, and it is nothing more than a longer span across the ocean, so they can still be counted within the scope of the Northland.

It is just like a circle; even if the diameter expands a little, it is still a circle.

But the Southern Continent is different; it is separated from the Northland by other forces, just like drawing another circle outside the circle, which breaks through the pattern of the circle itself.

At that time, the name "Northland Alliance" will also need to be updated, otherwise the name "Northland" will become a shackle.

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Through Dali's memories, Xia Duo learned more inside information about Beilunuo. Of course, what he cared about most was how Dali connected with the Illuminati, a point that also occupied a significant portion of Dali's memories.

This matter can be traced back to the time when the previous Supreme Elder of Evereska was assassinated, and it was also from that time that the Illuminati officially entered the Alliance's field of vision.

Xia Duo played a very critical role in this, and the reason Dali found the Illuminati was not to seek out the Illuminati at first, but because he heard that the countries of the Northland had formed an alliance, and for the sake of Beilunuo's future development, he wanted to find some opponents within the Alliance to cause some trouble for it.

And this matter was not a secret in Beilunuo; it was discussed and agreed upon by the Tide Queen and the five Consultants together, but Dali had only been to the Northland once and did not go publicly afterward.

It is unknown whether to say he was lucky or unlucky, but in that one opportunity to go to the Northland to verify intelligence, he actually found the traces of the Illuminati.

The reason Dali was able to discover the traces of the Illuminati is inseparable from his identity as a Land Walker. In order to adapt to the land environment, Land Walkers have undergone a large amount of training, and these trainings have a side effect: it makes their Perception ability far exceed that of ordinary Sea Elves.

Not to mention, Dali is also an outstanding one among the Land Walkers, and he is even more prominent in terms of Perception ability; he directly found a Demon Descendant and demanded to speak with the Demon Descendant's superior.

How that Demon Descendant reported to the higher-ups and how this matter reached the ears of the Wise One Dafuni, Dali himself does not know very well.

But after he found that Demon Descendant, only less than two days passed before Dafuni found him and even called out his true identity in one breath.

At that time, Dali almost started a fight, but he was easily suppressed by Dafuni. At that time, Dafuni was still meeting Dali in the identity of a Demon Descendant, while Dali was a Sea Elf.

Both are victims of the ancient war, only one earlier and one later, and both sides harbor resentment toward the Land Elf.

Under the deliberate Guidance of the prophet Dafuni, Dali was soon attracted by the vision described by Dafuni.

A brand new world with only Demon Descendants—although the new world also lacks Sea Elves, after these years of struggling to survive on the seabed as if in exile, too many Sea Elves have reflected on the choices of their ancestors back then.

Dali is one of them; he is very dissatisfied that his ancestors transformed themselves into Sea Elves, and although they won the war in the end, they still lost the future.

Therefore, like many Sea Elves, Dali also deeply loathes his own race, and transforming into a Demon Descendant is not something unacceptable to him.

On the contrary, if a Demon Descendant could allow him to return to the land, or even take back everything his ancestors once lost, he would be willing to transform into a Demon Descendant.

It is just that Dafuni's words still need to be verified, and it is impossible for Dali to believe the other party upon the first meeting, but the seed has already been planted, and the rest is for it to take root and sprout.

The subsequent frequent activities of the Illuminati in the Northland were irrigating and fertilizing the seed in Dali's heart, until the Northland Alliance conducted a comprehensive inspection of potential Demon Descendants; from the surface, the Illuminati fell into a complete disadvantage in the confrontation with the Northland Alliance.

As an outsider, Dali still felt indignant about this, so he took the initiative to contact Dafuni to provide help, but Dafuni did not ask Dali to do anything.

It was not until after the Ailan attack incident that Dafuni requested assistance from Dali for the first time. Dali did not refuse, and he even directly provided a team of Land Walkers to serve under Dafuni.

Just like that, a total of four batches were provided, totaling three senior Mages and thirty-seven Elite Mages; this number is not an exaggerated figure in Beilunuo, where everyone is a Mage.

But under Dali's command, without arousing the suspicion of the Queen and other Consultants, these forty Mages were already the limit that Dali could mobilize.

This is Dali's own judgment that Xia Duo parsed from Dali's memory. Xia Duo believes that Dali should not be deceiving himself; of course, there should still be a certain deviation between the actual situation and Dali's own cognition.

But that is basically the meaning; Dali himself thinks he has already tried his best.

The last meeting between Dali and Dafuni that Xia Duo initially retrieved was when he went to send the last batch of Land Walkers ashore.

As for where Dafuni would use these Land Walkers, Dali would of course not fail to ask, and Dafuni's answer was also very firm: they were to be used in the ultimate ritual.

In the decisive battle with the Northland Alliance, the Illuminati created so many real or fake Time-Involving Signals that manpower must be tight, and even with the blessing of Time Line tactics, it might not be able to cover the whole field.

Plus, Xia Duo staked all his reputation to demand that the Alliance thoroughly investigate the prophets; although the countries did not directly control the prophets and their families, they also strengthened surveillance.

Under such circumstances, the manpower the Illuminati can use will be even less.

Of course, correspondingly, the Alliance will also have more forces tied up because of this. Before the result of the decisive battle comes out, no one can say for sure who gains or loses, but Xia Duo estimates that the Illuminati should still have a slight upper hand.

And the Sea Elf reinforcements are an off-board move on the chessboard of the Northland; before the Sea Elves were discovered, no one knew there was such a fresh force.

If Xia Duo were Dafuni, he would probably also make the choice to use this fresh force in the core ritual.

So where exactly is the core ritual?

Regarding such key information that concerns the outcome of the decisive battle and the success or failure of the plan, Dafuni would of course not tell Dali. In fact, Dali never asked at all; he knew that it was impossible for Dafuni to reveal such key information to him, so he simply didn't ask.

But out of a Mage's instinct, he still couldn't help but want to explore where Dafuni and the Illuminati's trump cards were hidden, but he didn't find any useful clues.

This question eventually ended up with nothing, but that was Dali; after Dali himself explored it, he indeed thought he hadn't found any useful clues, but the clue was actually hidden in Dali's memory.

It is just that Dali himself could not realize it. Now that it is Xia Duo's turn to search Dali's memory, although he didn't notice it at first either.

But searching for clues about the Illuminati was his main purpose, so of course he would check the key parts of Dali's memory one by one, and thus he checked a piece of Perception information that had been ignored by Dali.