Chapter 3482: Exploration of New Power

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Such a rare opportunity has been delivered to my doorstep; how could I not take it!

Dafuni and Kalano are both here. If I miss this chance, I might have to wait until the final battle concludes to have another. At that time, I might not necessarily be able to catch Dafuni, but there is a high probability I could catch Kalano.

In the previous Time Line, it was precisely under Dafuni's nose that Xia Duo caught Kalano. Although it was a bit opportunistic, it is 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 released their Saint Form almost simultaneously, but this secret manor had already become Xia Duo's home field.

The Jieti 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 taken away by Xia Duo just like in the previous Time Line. This guy ultimately lacked the Courage to fight to the death; the short moment of hesitation 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 used a Time-Involving Spell to escape without any warning. It was the same this time, but because she was still concerned about her nephew, she did not leave immediately.

She was also constantly 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 to verify whether the Time Flow Regulator he designed could actually collect Time Force from the scene of a Time-Involving Spell.

Because he had already caught 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 its disguise and begun to push the ritual process forward without any scruples.

Xia Duo could not be bothered to act with Dafuni anymore. 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? Why don't you 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.

"There is no need to say these high-sounding excuses. Wasn't the birth of the Illuminati pushed forward by your grandfather to preserve the family's strength and continue the family's legacy? Or do you, as the leader, actually believe the nonsense that the Illuminati exists for the sake of the bottom-tier, such as Demon Descendant and Wood Elf?"

Xia Duo kept stimulating Dafuni with his words. He believed that 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 back from the wrong path; he only needed to stall for a little longer.

Because he discovered that the Time Flow Regulator had actually collected Time Force!

How could he easily let go of this excellent opportunity to fleece the sheep!

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

"Is the plight of the Wood Elf within the Alliance something I fabricated? Is the persecution suffered by the Demon Descendant 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 the Demon Descendant; don't you know that the Demon Descendant within the Alliance can now operate 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 you should join in and build it well, rather than smashing everything to start over."

"Do you think the reborn Ailan is still this current world? By what right do you make decisions for the countless living beings of this world? Your actions are countless times worse 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 very difficult to refute. She just stubbornly held onto her own thoughts and defended:

"The Alliance is 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 there no longer be a distinction between the wise and the foolish? Facing the situation where the strong remain strong and the weak remain weak, how will Ailan solve it? Or is it that you have no solution yourself, yet you pin your hopes on the evolution of the Void?" Xia Duo asked again.

This question struck 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 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. Rather than 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 thinking is so similar to the Elf nations of the past. Did no Wood Elf high-level Mage 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 operate 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 the current operation of the Elf World order."

"Even if you rebuild a new world with only Demon Descendant, as long as you don't 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 in return.

"Besides the Northland Alliance, who else can give the Demon Descendant the opportunity to operate openly and aboveboard? And the improvement of the Wood Elf's status is already in the process of change. If you have truly cared about Ailan—I mean the real Ailan—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 jointly invested in and built in Ailan. The industrial workers there, although they had the appearance of Gold Elf, would be considered firmly at the bottom tier if placed in other countries.