Arcane Lord

Soon, the regular monthly council meeting began.

The fixed topic is still a continuation of the discussions on the subordinate agencies of the parliament from the past few months, mainly about the division of authority and personnel arrangements.

The subordinate agencies of the parliament are led by Qita based on their power to govern, but leadership does not mean that all people in the subordinate agencies must use Qita. If other members are interested, they can also arrange people to join, or formulate specific employment standards and selection mechanisms.

In fact, many congressmen are like Xia Duo. They don't have much extra power to send out to enter the parliament's subordinate agencies-or the government, so they prefer to formulate rules instead of cramming people in.

After several months of discussions, more than half of the ten subordinate agencies of Severington Council have completed the division of powers and the formulation of rules.

This includes the Austrian Law Federation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Resource Planning Committee, the Law Enforcement Guards and many other real power departments. Except for the more controversial Department of Gods Affairs, the rest are just a formality.

Regarding the Department of Gods Affairs, it is apparently used to manage temples, sects, priests and other god-related affairs within Netheril, but in fact this department is also related to the future order of god ascension, or the latter is the key.

Regarding the establishment of this department, most congressmen voted in favor, and even Xia Duo could not stop it. However, there are too many disputes about the distribution of authority within this department.

The order of divine ascension cannot be mentioned too early, otherwise it will be suspected of being a monopoly. Even if it can be done, no one is willing to admit it, because doing so is almost equivalent to blocking all the ways for future generations to ascend.

The path to ascension to the gods cannot be shared. Once someone in each order uses this method to ascend to the gods, do the newcomers have to kill the gods first and then ascend to the gods themselves? Maybe it's possible, but it's obviously a very low probability.

But the order of divine ascension must also be laid in advance, otherwise in the future the rules of the parliament and the government will be clear, and the parliamentarians and lords will be familiar with this set of rules and gameplay, and it will not be easy to add private goods to it.

Therefore, if the first group of councilors under the new covenant want to establish the order of divine ascension, they must complete it as soon as possible. Otherwise, the later the delay, the greater the variables will be and the harder it will be to reach an agreement.

However, Xia Duo is opposed to establishing an order of divine ascension and monopolizing the path to divine ascension. However, he is currently unable to propose a better plan. After all, the pure arcane path he expects is far from touching the realm of gods.

In this field, order is much better than disorderly chaos. At least in the early stage, many disputes can be avoided. The monopoly problem that he is most worried about will not be revealed until later.

Therefore, he made up his mind that if the Ascension Order was destined to be unstoppable, he would at least have a certain say in it so that he could make changes in the future.

In this case, the rules that Shado hopes to formulate are more biased towards destroying the order of divine ascension rather than maintaining it. Coupled with the differences that naturally arise in the process of formulating the rules, this matter has been discussed since a few months ago, but until We haven't been able to come up with a result yet.

This situation is what Xia Duo is happy to see. He knows that many congressmen actually support the arcane path. They are not just in favor of the advancement method of ascension to the gods. It’s just that there is really no hope for the arcane path, and the path to the ascension to the gods. There is already a ready-made case.

As long as time is delayed, as long as the possibility of progress on the Austrian path can be proven, even just a possibility will be enough to convince most members to postpone the establishment of the order of ascension to the gods.

As for how to prove it, in the past, Xia Duo might not be too sure. After all, this would require a qualitative breakthrough in the relevant magic theory.

But now, the new discovery of the application of the power of order may be a new direction for the further development of arcane magic. Even if it is not, it can at least be pretended to be and then used to delay time.

This is actually one of the reasons why Xia Duo has been focusing on researching the power of order recently.

Of course, this aspect itself was an area that he was concerned about and interested in. If there happened to be an opportunity for a breakthrough, he naturally invested more energy in it.

…

In the first half of the meeting, as Xia Duo expected, there was no progress in the discussion on the Gods Affairs Department, while the discussions on other departments were passed quickly, and the time soon came to the second half, which was the discussion of recent domestic and international events.

In China, it is mainly about some lords of the three planes of Mingshui who came to explore the main plane in advance. They sent a message for help to the Parliament through the Ministry of Pioneers and Lords Affairs.

So the parliament discussed how to assist and how much to assist. Whether to assist had already been discussed in the last parliamentary meeting. Niya voted in support on behalf of Shado at that time.

How and how much aid will be provided this time has basically nothing to do with Xia Duo, because at the last meeting, while others were still waiting and watching, Daxia Leader had already claimed part of the aid in advance, and has now delivered all of it. .

Counting gifts in private names, he has exceeded his aid obligations.

Therefore, during this meeting, Xia Duo watched other people discuss without participating. Some of these people agreed to provide supplies directly from their own territories, while others suggested convening a meeting of lords in advance and calling on all lords to support them.

During the vote, Xia Duo did not hesitate to support the assistance from the parliamentarians, or to be more precise, the assistance from the parliamentarians from the main plane. Because the climate of the three planes of Mingshui was stable, there was no preparation for this at all.

…

"Okay, this one passes. The next one is related to everyone -" Badigal's eyes swept over everyone one by one, and stayed on Sha Duo for an extra long time.

"Although Mythra has not been around for a long time, its impact has been extremely huge. In the past six months, the Northland Alliance has repeatedly reminded our country about the issue of Mythra's super-demon.

"Although you don't all have your own Mythra at the moment, you will have it sooner or later in the future, so you can already think about the issue of super magic in advance."

Then, Badigal introduced the background and main contents of the Northern Alliance's Demon Restriction Treaty to a group of congressmen—especially the twenty-six from the three dimensions of Sweetwater.

In the end, he concluded, “We didn’t feel much about it in the past, but now the magic restriction treaty has increasingly affected us, so we need to reconsider the relevant contents of the treaty.”

Of course, this matter cannot be resolved by just sitting here in Netheril and discussing it. It still needs to be discussed by the Northland Alliance, but at least the opinions can be unified internally first.

Therefore, Xia Duo immediately expressed his support and put forward his own opinions on revising the magic restriction treaty. "The intention of the magic restriction treaty itself is good. It can remind us to properly utilize the magic network resources. However, with the development of magic technology, The super magic quota established in the past is really out of date, and it is recommended that it be renegotiated or simply abolished.”

In Xia Duo's view, the treaty itself should be a consensus, and the treaty is signed by a country rather than an individual. It is actually very unreasonable to force a specific indicator that lags behind the development of the times, because even if it exceeds the standard, it will be difficult to impose penalties.

He felt that the Demon Restriction Treaty should focus more on some protective indicators related to the Magic Network, rather than an overly rigid record of super-magic events, so that it could at least be maintained for a longer period of time, rather than having to be revised every few years.