Chapter 3481: Complementary Advantages

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Dafuni and Kalano were both there; if he missed this opportunity, he might have to wait until the very end of the final decisive battle to have another chance. While he might not necessarily be able to catch Dafuni then, there was a high probability he could catch Kalano.

In the previous Time Line, Xia Duo had caught Kalano right under Dafuni's nose. Although it was a bit opportunistic, it was an iron-clad fact that Dafuni could do nothing about him.

Therefore, he struck again, and the moment he did, he used the War Spell 【Wide-Area Prohibition】 to control the field first. Dafuni and Kalano's expressions changed drastically, and they almost simultaneously unleashed their Saint Form, but this secret manor had now become Xia Duo's home turf.

The Manor Barrier, originally controlled by Dafuni or Kalano, was almost equivalent to non-existent in Xia Duo's eyes, but 【Wide-Area Prohibition】 was not something Dafuni or Kalano could easily break.

Thus, Kalano was sealed and captured by Xia Duo again, just like in the previous Time Line. This guy ultimately lacked the Courage to fight to the death; the short time he spent hesitating was enough for Xia Duo to completely imprison him.

As for Dafuni, in the previous Time Line, Xia Duo had also tried to control her, but she had escaped without warning using a Time-Involving Spell. It was the same this time, but because she was still worried about her nephew, she did not leave immediately.

She even kept probing Xia Duo: "Who exactly are you? Do you know the price of making a move in Taiweimansa? You are setting yourself against Yierlan!"

Xia Duo also intended to stall, though not to probe her for anything, but rather to verify whether the Time Flow Regulator he designed could collect Time Force from the scene of a Time-Involving Spell.

Because he had already captured Kalano, and Xia Duo knew that Kalano's memories contained information regarding Dafuni's identity and background, plus the fact that the Illuminati had now completely torn off their disguise and begun pushing the ritual process forward without restraint.

Xia Duo couldn't be bothered to keep acting with Dafuni. He quietly activated the Time Flow Regulator, set it to the mode of collecting Time Force through alternating Time Acceleration and deceleration, and then directly exposed her identity:

"Dafuni, the Alliance already knows your identity and plan. It is not too late to stop now; the Alliance will grant you a fair Judgment."

"Grant me Judgment? Does the Alliance have the qualifications? Look at how many oppressed Wood Elf and Demon Descendant there are in the Alliance now; you are the ones who should be receiving Judgment!" Dafuni's indignant voice echoed in the Void.

"Don't spout these high-sounding excuses. Wasn't the birth of the Illuminati pushed by your grandfather to preserve the family's strength and continue the family's legacy? Or do you, as the leader, actually believe the ghost story that the Illuminati exists for the sake of the lower classes like Demon Descendant and Wood Elf?"

Xia Duo kept stimulating Dafuni with his words. He believed Dafuni would not be so easily swayed by him; as a prophet capable of reshaping the Time Line, she should have a more thorough understanding of the inevitability and contingency of history.

Yet, the more this was the case, the more curious she would be about his words, and this was exactly what Xia Duo wanted. He did not expect Dafuni to turn over a new leaf; he only needed to stall for a little longer.

Because he discovered that the Time Flow Regulator was actually collecting Time Force!

How could he easily let go of this excellent opportunity to fleece a sheep right now!

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Perhaps it was because Xia Duo had exposed her true identity, or perhaps she was dissatisfied with Xia Duo crudely categorizing her ideals as a struggle for profit, Dafuni responded again:

"Is the suffering of the Wood Elf within the Alliance something I fabricated? Is the persecution that Demon Descendant suffered in the past something I fabricated? Why must you forcibly blame the problems of the Alliance on us victims?"

"Then why must you keep staring at the past? Why can't you look forward? You mentioned Demon Descendant; don't you know that the Demon Descendant within the Alliance can now move about openly? The improvement of the Wood Elf's status will also come very soon."

To Xia Duo's counter-question, Dafuni was silent as expected, so Xia Duo continued: "If you feel the Alliance is not good, then join in and build it well, instead of smashing everything to start over.

"Do you think the reborn Ailan is still this world? By what right do you make decisions for the countless living beings of this world? Your actions are infinitely more malicious than the various Elf nations of the past!"

"No, it's not like that!" Dafuni could not agree with what Xia Duo said, but for a moment, it was also difficult for her to refute it. She merely clung stubbornly to her own thoughts and defended herself:

"The Alliance is already beyond saving. As long as racial differences exist, injustice will inevitably exist. Only Ailan is the only path to Jiusu."

"If everyone were transformed into Demon Descendant, would the distinction between the wise and the foolish no longer exist? Faced with the situation where the strong remain strong and the weak remain weak, how will Ailan solve it? Or are you saying you have no solution yourself, yet you pin your hopes on the evolution of the Void?" Xia Duo asked again.

This question struck at the core of Dafuni's philosophy—that is, the meaning of Ailan itself. If Ailan could not realize the ideals of the Illuminati, then what was the point of letting Ailan be reborn?

Dafuni also understood this point. She did not evade the question of the polarization between the strong and the weak, but instead stated her own understanding:

"As long as one's origin is equal, wisdom and foolishness, strength and weakness are just a matter of whether an individual works hard or not. Instead of asking me this question, you should go ask those weak ones whether they have worked hard or tried their best!"

"Ridiculous!"

Xia Duo refuted without hesitation, "Your way of thinking is so similar to the various Elf nations of the past. Did high-level Mage of the Wood Elf not appear in the past?

"Why could some Wood Elf become high-level Mage, while the vast majority of other Wood Elf could not? Was it because they didn't work hard enough? And the Demon Descendant, why couldn't the Demon Descendant of the past move about openly? Was it because they didn't want to?

"No, this is the key to the problem I am talking about. In terms you can understand, it is the oppression of them by the Elf upper echelons, but this is actually determined by the essence of how the current Elf World order operates.

"Even if you rebuild a new world with only Demon Descendant, as long as you do not change the essence of the order operating within it, you are still walking the old path of the past!"

"By what right do you say I am still walking the old path? Is the current Northland Alliance a new path?" Dafuni also asked back.

"Besides the Northland Alliance, who else can give Demon Descendant the opportunity to move about openly and legitimately? And the improvement of the Wood Elf's status is already in the midst of change. If you have truly cared about Ailan—I mean the Ailan in Reality—it is not hard to discover such sprouts!"

What Xia Duo was actually talking about was the Magic Artifact Manufacturing Factory that he and Yierlan had jointly invested in and built in Ailan. The industrial workers there, although they looked like Gold Elf, would be considered firmly in the lower class if placed in other countries.

They were actually equivalent to the Wood Elf of Yierlan, where Dafuni was from.