Chapter 3435: Persuasion

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During the last two meetings between Dali and Dafuni, Dali observed Dafuni just as he had in their previous encounters, which also included some indirect Perception.

Dali discovered that Dafuni was tainted with some special magical radiance, and at the time, he only assumed it was because Dafuni had just come from a battle, and those traces of radiance were left behind by the impact of Element Turbulence triggered during the fight.

But when Xia Duo re-examined this sensory information, he immediately distinguished that it was not magical radiance produced by the impact of Element Turbulence, but rather radiation that clearly bore the characteristics of the Underdark!

Dali might have heard of the existence of the Underdark, but he had never been there in person; even if he knew radiation existed there, it would have been impossible for him to recognize it the first time he encountered Underdark radiation.

This was something completely beyond his cognition, much like how a person cannot imagine things outside their own understanding; no matter how indescribably it is described, it is always just an attempt to associate it with known elements.

As for Xia Duo, not only had he personally incarnated as a Drow in the Projection Plane to experience the radiation environment of the Underdark, but he had also seen the radiation traces left by Drow in the Main Plane with his own eyes, which could be matched with the Projection Plane.

The characteristics of this environment itself do not change regardless of whether it is a Projection Plane or the Reality plane.

And now, he had once again seen the familiar characteristics of Underdark radiation in Dali's memory, and it was appearing on Dafuni, the leader of the Illuminati, which immediately led him to a hypothesis, that is—

The core ritual of the Illuminati is in the Underdark, or at the very least, the Illuminati is hiding secrets in the Underdark.

Xia Duo continued to search Dali's memories, reviewing the scenes of his previous meetings with Dafuni, and confirmed that Dafuni had not been tainted with Underdark radiation during those earlier encounters.

From this, Xia Duo also thought of himself; when he confronted Dafuni at Tanzan Peak earlier, did the other party also have Underdark radiation on them?

So he immediately traced his own memories, and the conclusion was that there was none, and even earlier, when he met the other party at Taiweimansa, there was no Underdark radiation on them either.

It seemed to have appeared only during the last two meetings with Dali.

Not long ago, an Abyssal Land Embryo was suddenly discovered in the Underdark; this discovery came abruptly, although theoretically, it should be considered a kind of inevitability, after all, so many demons were left uncleaned after the Drow War.

But the timing of its appearance was very sensitive, making one have to suspect it was the work of the Illuminati. For this reason, Xia Duo even specifically went to the Kingdom of Radiance to invite a Divine Envoy to help handle it, just because he was worried that the Illuminati would stir up more trouble.

If subverting the Time Line is just a domestic affair within the Plane, then introducing the Abyss can be considered "biting the hand that feeds." The Illuminati had already decided to subvert the Time Line, so they certainly wouldn't care about this, but Xia Duo had to care.

And judging from the fact that the Divine Envoy can perform Time Anchoring on the past, demons can likely perform Time Anchoring on the past as well. That is to say, once the Abyss has invaded, even if the Time Line is changed, it is impossible to make the Abyss that has already arrived leave.

Perhaps the Illuminati did not know of this characteristic at the time, which is why they created the Abyssal Land Embryo to constrain the Alliance's forces. Of course, it is also possible that the Abyssal Land Embryo discovered recently was not actively created by the Illuminati, but merely discovered by them first; they just kept it hidden until recently, when they were about to have a decisive battle with the Alliance, and only then released this trump card.

But regardless, it is almost certain that Dafuni, or rather the Illuminati, has a connection with the Underdark, and it is perfectly reasonable for Dafuni to be tainted with Underdark radiation.

However, with the Alliance currently digging three feet deep around Ailan and still failing to find the location of the Illuminati's core ritual, Xia Duo had to turn his suspicious gaze back to the Underdark.

Finding the location of the Illuminati's core ritual in time is one of the few chances for the Northland Alliance to turn the tables; not only Xia Duo, but the Alliance side is also constantly searching.

The only thing that can be confirmed at present is that the core ritual location cannot be too far from Ailan, or rather, it is within a certain range centered on Ailan.

As for how large this range is, no one can predict for the time being.

All the Alliance can do is search continuously with Ailan as the center, and search inch by inch, but until now there has been no progress there, and instead, a large amount of manpower and material resources have been tied up because of it.

The Alliance has vast resources, but when facing an enemy that is accustomed to hiding and seems not to exist when viewed only from the surface, they feel somewhat helpless.

And now, the Underdark radiation on Dafuni that Xia Duo saw in Dali's memory can barely be considered a new breakthrough: the Underdark beneath Ailan.

Thinking of this, he immediately sent a Sending to Tili'ao and other representatives of the Alliance nations, informing them of the latest clues he had discovered in Beilunuo, and then proposed a suggestion to them—

"Immediately transfer the residents of the Ailan region to other places; if necessary, we may need to directly destroy that area."

"Forgot to tell Consultant Xia Duo, the transfer work for the residents of the Ailan region started at noon, but the transfer of millions of people cannot be completed immediately; we need time."

Answering Xia Duo was the Yierlan representative, Osmanthus, because having been pitted the worst by the Illuminati, the Yierlan side's attitude toward how to deal with and handle the Illuminati is also the most radical.

Not to mention domestically, where they even used harsher means against the Seer families compared to other countries, and abroad, especially regarding Ailan, the storm center of all events, the current attitude of the Yierlan side is very direct—

If it can be destroyed directly, try not to consider other methods; they want to completely cut off all thoughts of the Illuminati.

In fact, if Xia Duo had known earlier that the Yierlan side had such an attitude, he would have long since shared all intelligence about the Illuminati with the Alliance, especially regarding the special significance of Ailan to the Illuminati.

Of course, in the past, he had no clear evidence to accuse any person or matter; if he had rashly synchronized these unverified messages, it is highly probable that he would have been counterattacked by the Illuminati, who have already infiltrated deeply into various countries.

It was not until he captured Kalano of the Moonshadow Family that he obtained conclusive evidence, and he did indeed synchronize the relevant information with the Alliance only after capturing Kalano.

It's just that he captured Kalano only recently; it's too late, it's really too late.

As for now, the Yierlan side has already started transferring the residents of the Ailan region, which is good, but the problem is whether they can transfer everyone or at least the majority before the Illuminati's ritual, which is really hard to say.

But what must be done must be done; the Yierlan side has already transferred in advance, and Xia Duo can only urge them to speed up the progress, while he himself has decided to personally go to Ailan to conduct further on-site exploration.

If there is an Underdark passage in Ailan, it will certainly not be without traces; if he can find it, it might be the key breakthrough.