Arcane Lord

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After leaving the Golden Autumn Courtyard, Sha Duo returned directly to the Floating City, but in the afternoon, news came from the elves that Insteria, the chief advisor to King Helianmian, invited him to meet.

If it were other advisers, Xia Duo could not see him at all, but it was difficult for him to refuse Yinstria's invitation. This was certainly not because of his title of chief adviser to King Mian, which was actually more of an honorary title.

Insteria is not actually a follower or subordinate of King Helian Mian, but the leader of Mage Yerlan who is equal to King Mian or even has a more transcendent status.

This is the position of an arbiter under the new system of Erlan, similar to that of Yin Orem in Netheril. The title of chief advisor is just a means for King Helion to respect or win over the other party.

In fact, Instria also occupies a seat in the Council of Elders of the Ellan Tall Trees, but is regarded as an "honorary elder".

If an elf of this status wants to see him, of course Shado cannot just ignore him. It is obvious that this is the real "entertainment" given to him by Erlan, similar to the invitation from Kelani when they were in Cormanso.

After briefly thinking about the factors that the other party might mention after meeting, Xia Duo set off from the floating city.

And unlike yesterday's high-profile Pegasus ceremony at the banquet, this time Ye Erlan specially prepared a curtain flying carriage that could avoid the sight of ordinary people, and there was no detour in the middle, starting from the floating city and going directly to the palace.

After a while, Shado sat opposite Yinstria, and through the decorations on the walls around the reception hall, he noticed that more than one elf was observing him with the help of magic.

Combined with the identity of Insteria opposite, it is not difficult to guess that it should be King Helian and the representative of the parliament.

Because it was a private meeting, Xia Duo was not prepared to go around with the other party, and asked straight to the point: "Master Yinstria summoned me, what advice do you have?"

"Lord Shado, although I have known your appearance for a long time, I was still very surprised by your youth when I saw you in person. With a presence like you in Netheril, it is difficult not to grow and develop. !”

Although this kind of commercial flattery is a bit redundant, it is indeed somewhat useful to Xia Duo, and it also makes his slightly confrontational mentality relax a little.

Then Insteria said: "This time I invited Lord Shado to meet in private, mainly because there are a few things that King Helion and the Council discussed and agreed that it would be more appropriate to meet with you. Of course, there are also some selfish motives on my part. "

"Master Yinstria, please speak clearly!"

"First of all -" Instria paused, seemingly communicating with the observers outside the living room, and then continued:

"It's the demon descendant issue. Now the demon descendant has become the biggest threat to the Northland Alliance. Ye Erlan hopes to have more in-depth cooperation with Netheril on the demon descendant issue."

The issue of demon descendants is a commonplace in elven countries. The first thing the other party talked about was this. Xia Duo was not surprised at all, but his trip did not represent Netheril, so he also gave a very official attitude:

"I will convey Ye Erlan's opinions to the Seven Towers. Based on my understanding of the demon descendants, I think the Seven Towers will be happy to accept such cooperation."

Although the Seven Towers are still not sure, they have also determined that demons may threaten the security of the entire world, and intend to carry out more cooperation with the countries in the North within the framework of the Northland Alliance. If Ye Erlan's request is not surprising, should be satisfied.

"The second thing also involves a major crisis in the North, that is, climate anomalies. Although Yeerland's food production has not been affected at this stage, it is hard to say what will happen in the future. Therefore, King Mian and the Parliament hope to be able to endure it. Thriel gains the Yerevan Seed and the Blessing of Cold Protection spell."

Yinstria said calmly that he was worried about the reduction in food production in the future, but Shado was a little surprised by this. He originally thought that the elves protected by the Mystery Chain would not care about the cold-resistant seeds developed by Master Yerevan!

However, if you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to understand that no one can guarantee to what extent the climate anomalies in the North will develop in the future. Although Misuo can maintain a certain planting environment, if this environment is significantly different from the outside world, The efficiency and durability of the Mystery Lock will be affected.

In other words, planting cold-resistant seeds will be more energy-efficient and cost-effective when the time comes.

Not to mention the blessing spell, even if it is not used for research, it is still a pure profit. Especially when the elves are better at the life field, it is not surprising that Sha Duo will one day complete the improvement and transcendence of this spell.

At that time, it may be Netheril who seeks help from Erlan or other elven countries.

After thinking for a while, Xia Duo did not express his views this time, but only said that he would convey Ye Erlan's opinions to the Seven Towers, and Instria also expressed his understanding.

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Then we talked about the third thing, which was also somewhat beyond Sha Duo’s expectations——

Erlan intends to renegotiate the previous Mithril Agreement between the Three Kingdoms with Netheril and Danzuo.

But you must know that the original Mithril Agreement of the Three Kingdoms had been changed before and after the establishment of the Northland Alliance. This time Ye Erlan wanted to renegotiate the Mithril Agreement. Sha Duo almost subconsciously thought that Ye Erlan wanted to export high-grade Mithril. .

You must know that in the past, the source of high-grade mithril in Netheril, apart from the archaeological remains, the biggest source was Erlan, or to be more precise, the Moonhorn family where Hildalanna belonged.

Although Netheril currently has the technology to refine mithril, and domestic mithril mines are no longer subject to the mandatory export restrictions of the Three Kingdoms Mithril Agreement, most of the sources of high-grade mithril still need to be imported.

Now that the internal changes in Yeerlan are a foregone conclusion, a centralized regime is unlikely to allow the Yuejiao family to continue to monopolize the hugely profitable trade of high-grade mithril, although the previous Yuejiao family must have obtained the permission of most upper-level families.

However, strategic resource management and control is also one of the important processes of centralization reform, and it cannot always be left to the monopoly of one family.

Xia Duo had expected this, but this day came so quickly, even though he had mastered the mithril refining technology, which also included the continuous purification of high-grade mithril.

But the source of his mithril is not produced by himself, but purchased from other territories or chambers of commerce. Once Yeerlan makes a decision that is not conducive to the import of high-grade mithril from Netheril, it will inevitably affect the domestic secrets of Netheril. silver price.

This is very obvious. Once Netheril cannot get a stable supply of high-grade mithril, it will seek to produce it on its own. The production of high-grade mithril will cause great losses to the mithril itself, and this is inevitable. .

It’s just that it will decrease as refining technology and processes improve!

In this case, how could Shado not be affected, unless Netheril discovered a few super rich ores that could not be used up for hundreds or thousands of years, or used its own mines.

The former is not very realistic, while the latter is something he is reluctant to part with and wants to keep as a strategic reserve.

"This is reality——"

Xia Duo sighed in his heart, it was just as the slang in his hometown said, "It's going to rain, and the mother is going to get married."