Arcane Lord

Of course, in this case, there is another possibility, which is to hide until the family gives birth to a high-level mage, but even so, it is not considered a truly high-ranking family.

Because this is just an example, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is luck. A truly high-ranking family needs a stable inheritance and a continuous succession of high-level mages from generation to generation.

If it is just one generation, although it can attack the upper-class families, once the only high mage passes away, it is probably inevitable that they will be divided up.

The so-called "If virtue is not matched, there will be disaster" is nothing better than this.

Therefore, the real rulers of the elf world are not individual countries, crowned kings, or parliaments, but upper-ranking families.

No matter what kind of reform is carried out within a specific country, as long as it cannot reach the upper-level families, it is basically a change of the soup without changing the medicine. This is the main reason why Chateau is not very optimistic about Everesca's reform.

Because there are so few high-ranking families in Evereska, so few that there are not many variables, let alone any misjudgments, and they can sit down and make candid transactions.

Moreover, Everesca's base is too small, so small that even if just one family is unhappy, all upper-level families may be unhappy. In this case, it is easy to reach a compromise.

The same is true for reform, but Ye Erlan's situation is different. There are enough upper-level families, and Ye Erlan's base is large enough. Even if someone wants to overturn the chessboard, the worst is to fight. As long as the enemy is killed, the broken base is enough to survive. The family was divided.

In addition, there are enough high-ranking families, and it is extremely difficult for all families to have the same interests. In this case, forming gangs is almost an inevitable choice.

But once the camps are separated, it will be very difficult to bridge the gap. Not only will the opponents be worried, but those in your own camp will also not be happy.

Ye Erlan's successful reform was all due to seizing the most critical moments in the development of the situation, such as the demon crisis, the rise of Nese, and so on.

But even so, Yerlan Mianwang failed to achieve full success because of the discourtesy of the Sluvende War. Centralization of power was centralized, but only externally. Internally, there were still opposing camps - Mianwang and the Gaoshu Council of Elders.

This is the difference in the difficulty of reform in countries of different sizes. In fact, it is also the difference in the difficulty of the birth of emerging upper-class families.

Evereska is too small, and there is no extra development space for the emerging high-ranking families. In this case, even if the Bactrian Code is introduced, it will be difficult to produce qualitative changes - popularize education or create new high-ranking families.

On the contrary, big countries like Yeerlan still have ample room for development and can accommodate more high-ranking families.

Of course, this only refers to the present, there may be new opportunities in the future!

Judging from Sha Duo's understanding, universal education may create more high-ranking families to seize the current Everriska's interests, but popularizing education also means that Everriska's overall national strength has become stronger.

It is completely possible to expand externally to add new development space. In addition, development space is not either/or, but exists in various parallel fields.

As long as a new field is opened up, it will be a brand new development space, enough to accommodate more than one high-ranking family.

If the current high-ranking families in Evereska can figure out the development opportunities, it may be the opportunity for Evereska to truly rise.

Of course, rising is one thing. If it wants to surpass regional powers such as Yeerlan and Irfarang, Evereska's own size is still too small.

Perhaps an alliance of small countries is their real path to development.

Of course, Xia Duo only reminded them deliberately. After all, if a new field appeared, he would also want a share of the pie. Not only he, but also Yeerlan and other countries could not get around it. It might not be Everest's turn. Cards arbitrarily occupy development space.

As for now, the Northland Alliance takes the supreme inheritance as a reward, which is actually giving them an admission certificate for a high-ranking family endorsed by the alliance!

Sha Duo felt that there must be someone with bad intentions here. Perhaps he felt that he was close to Everriska, and wanted him to leave this certificate in Everriska, thereby disrupting Everriska's normal life. The pace of development.

Small families in big countries can get this certificate, but big families in small countries cannot get it. Once they get it, they will either leave the small country and go to the big country to develop, or there will be civil strife in the small country.

If someone really has such thoughts, then this guy's heart is really dark!

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After sighing, Sha Duo weighed the Secret Scroll of the Supreme Heritage of Elf Magic in his hand, and then asked Doom tentatively: "Do you know what this is?"

"I don't know. I haven't handled this remuneration before, but as a rule, the Northland Alliance generally only provides standard Mithril as remuneration for temporary invitations. If you become an employee of the alliance, you can get additional internal benefits within the alliance."

Dumu briefly introduced the compensation mechanism of the Northland Alliance. The reward given to Shado this time was actually a pile of standard mithril ingots worth more than 100,000 gold coins. As for the extra, Dumu also had an explanation——

"The extra amount should be the compensation given to the alliance by the country concerned, and the alliance will generally share this part of the compensation with the corresponding parties."

The implication is that Doom does not know what the extra compensation given to Shado by the Northland Alliance is, but it is certain that the extra compensation comes from Yeerlan, and what Shado is getting now is only part of it.

"Who has the right to decide what additional compensation to give?" Xia Duo asked again.

"Normally, the director of the corresponding agency involved in the incident, such as me, has the authority to adjust the additional compensation for you, but this time I am not involved in the incident, and I am from Netheril like you, so I avoided it."

"Does this mean that one of the other two directors of the Demon Intelligence Research Laboratory is the one who selected these extra rewards for me this time?"

"No, Brad was also an eyewitness to the incident, and he should have avoided it. The one who really made the decision should be McGlor, and of course it could also be the director or even the representative above."

After finishing speaking, Doom added, "Any decision made by the Northland Alliance will leave a record. This is easy to check. Does Lord Shado need me to check it?"

"Then if you go to check, will you leave a record?"

"Sure."

"That's not necessary!"

In fact, Xia Duo already has the answer in his mind. If nothing else, it should be McGlor, one of the three directors of the Demon Intelligence Research Laboratory. This guy is from Yeerlan. You can roughly judge based on this alone.

But no matter what, this incident shows that the Northland Alliance is not as harmonious as outsiders imagine, and there will always be some discord.

However, Shado also had a bolder idea - that McGlor might be a demon and was trying his best to sow discord within the alliance.

This time, he seized the opportunity to give him extra rewards and gave away the supreme inheritance. But if you think so, there must be demons in Yeerlan who are cooperating with him.

Regardless of whether it is true or not, Xia Duo has already written down this matter, but he will not deliberately pursue it because he has more important things to do, and it is more important to grasp the key points.

As far as the Northland Alliance is concerned, the main task is to promote timeline-related research as soon as possible. The demon is hidden so deeply that it would be too passive to keep pursuing it.

To hit a snake, you have to hit it seven inches. If you understand the issues related to the timeline, no matter how deep the demon is hidden and unable to complete the ritual to subvert the timeline, it is all in vain.