Chapter 3484: Neither Increasing Nor Decreasing

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Tide Queen Taisi was extremely furious about this. On one hand, she was naturally unable to comprehend Xia Duo's methods and lamented the Alliance's power; on the other hand, the betrayal of her confidant Dali left her feeling deeply disappointed.

Xia Duo also took this opportunity to invite Beilunuo to join the Alliance. There was more or less an element of coercion in this, but it was also for Beilunuo's own good.

The war between the Illuminati and the Alliance involved the survival of the entire Main Plane. Since Beilunuo was already involved, he should not think about staying out of it; he had to choose a side. Whether to choose the Alliance or the Illuminati went without saying.

Queen Taisi ultimately chose to join the Northland Alliance, just as in the previous Time Line. Xia Duo felt deeply gratified by this: "Her Majesty the Queen has made a correct choice."

As for Taisi, since she had made her decision, she would see it through to the end. She immediately indicated to Xia Duo: "I will dispatch a force to the mainland to support the Alliance's war efforts."

"Very well, on behalf of the Alliance, I thank the Queen for her support."

The development of events was similar to the previous Time Line. Xia Duo was glad he had not snuck in privately but had waited for Yierlan's response instead. In this way, the trip could be considered a success.

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The avatar returned to the Alliance Headquarters with the Xinnaliya Envoy Meila, the Beilunuo Envoy Yila, and two Mage forces from both countries that supported the Alliance, causing a huge stir at the Headquarters.

At present, it was the initial stage where the Illuminati had completely torn off their disguise to fight a decisive battle with the Alliance. The Alliance's forces were limited, and the various countries were completely unprepared, especially Yierlan, which was still in the midst of internal strife.

The fresh troops Xia Duo brought back could immediately play an important role. At the same time, the news he brought back about Sea Elf Mages joining the Illuminati also made the various countries of the Alliance determined to begin mobilization.

It was just that, like the previous Time Line, it remained extremely difficult to persuade the various countries to agree to open up Permission Levels for Spell support, and Xia Duo proposed his conditions as usual—that is—

Allowing the various countries to send Elite Mages to Yongle City to personally operate the War Spell System of Yongle City to provide remote support for the local battlefields of each country.

This was still not a small matter that the various countries could easily agree to, but regardless, the progress of mobilization and assembly by the various countries in this current Time Line was already much faster than in the few Time Lines Xia Duo had experienced before.

As for the various local battlefields, although the Illuminati no longer hid their intentions, they did not immediately begin a decisive battle on the Time Line; it remained a conventional war situation with both wins and losses.

Regarding this, Xia Duo on one hand seized the time to perform Time Anchoring on those battlefield events where the Alliance was victorious, and on the other hand, he actively intervened in various local battlefields, especially those where the Alliance failed, to collect as much intelligence as possible.

And the one he was most concerned about was, without a doubt, the Xiangshui River Battle.

In the previous Time Line, the result of the Xiangshui River Battle was difficult to change. Even if the Alliance invested more, the Illuminati would have targeted countermeasures, which could even lead to even worse consequences.

Various signs indicated that the Xiangshui River Battle was extremely critical for both the Alliance and the Illuminati; it could even be said that whoever could win the Xiangshui River Battle would possess more initiative.

This battle had not yet broken out, but in the eyes of an observant person like Xia Duo, the battlefield already showed initial signs. However, he did not immediately launch an action to avoid provoking a fierce reaction from the Illuminati.

In the previous Time Line, he had reacted too quickly and invested too much power, leading to a strong backlash from the Illuminati, which caused multiple battlefields to fester, and even the Xiangshui River side failed to achieve its goal.

It was conceivable that if he acted like before in this Time Line, he would likely have few results, not to mention that he had already made a prediction, or rather a choice, regarding the outcome of the Xiangshui River Battle while in the Astral Plane.

The Alliance's win rate was extremely low, and even if they could win, the consequences were hard to predict; there was a reason why the Illuminati had to win there.

Although Xia Duo did not take truly reversing the outcome of the Xiangshui River Battle as his main goal when he restarted this Time Line, trying was still necessary.

At present, he had already obtained enough Time Force and even had a new source of Time Force; even if he failed this time, there would be a next time.

Therefore, his mindset this time was very relaxed, but relaxed did not mean not serious. War was not child's play. He did not believe that reshaping the Time Line was a panacea. Did frequent reshaping of the Time Line only have the cost of Time Force consumption?

Xia Duo felt that was not necessarily the case. At the very least, his own mindset had already been affected. He could feel that he was becoming increasingly reliant on this method; after all, this method was simply too easy to use—if things were slightly unsatisfactory, he could just tear it down and start over.

With this happening many times, it was inevitable that a mindset of arrogance and contempt would arise.

Xia Duo could still restrain himself now, but who could say for sure about the future? This also made him determined to reshape the Time Line as little as possible and to use Time Force more for research rather than changing the past.

At the very least, he felt that he was currently unable to fully grasp this power.

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By the Xiangshui River.

Xia Duo's main body set out, his avatar turning into Void to conduct an on-site investigation personally. In his current state, unless he encountered Dafuni, it could be said that the vast majority of Illuminati members could not possibly discover him.

At this moment, the Alliance was already carrying out operations over at Tear Drop Lake. Under his intentional deployment, if nothing went wrong, victory was a matter of course.

The Xiangshui River Battle and the Tear Drop Lake Battle occurred on the same day, with only a few hours between them. At present, the Alliance Monitoring Center had not yet detected any Time-Involving Signal emitted from here.

Except for Xia Duo and the people of the Illuminati, no one knew what was about to happen here.

And besides the Xiangshui River, Xia Duo also knew of at least two other local battlefields that were the same as this one, connected to many battlefields, and were key Nodes in the Illuminati's ritual.

Xia Duo was currently in the form of Void, his consciousness and Perception only manifested in this piece of heaven and earth where he resided, but he knew that the Xiangshui River originated in the west from the Grey Peak Mountains where the Giant Mithril Mine was discovered.

It then passed through the Ansai Mountains between Yierlan and Shaerwen, continued westward, and even became the active border between Yierlan and Shaerwen (sometimes changing course), until it inserted into the territory of Yierlan and finally flowed into the sea.

But Xia Duo did not need to explore the entire Xiangshui River basin; he only needed to focus on the area where the Illuminati hid their ritual.

From a temporal perspective, in at most two or three hours, a strong Time-Involving Signal would erupt here, be captured by the Alliance Monitoring Center, and then Alliance Mages would be dispatched to handle it.

And now, Xia Duo had arrived here two or three hours early, and upon arrival, he indeed discovered an anomaly!