Arcane Lord

Chapter 3177: Failed to reach an agreement again. Larian's hint

"Advisor Shado, sometimes I really don't understand you. In the south, you can destroy the civilians of a city without hesitation, but in the north, you are unwilling to accept even the slightest risk of ordinary mages. Which one is the real you?"

Kalish originally thought that people who could kill civilians without hesitation would not care about the slight risk of his plan to ordinary mages, but he didn't expect that the biggest obstacle to this plan was Shado.

After listening to Kalish's words, Shado couldn't help but sneer in his heart. If the other party had a little understanding of the Great Xia Code, he would not say such low-level words.

Perhaps the other party had already understood it, but still regarded the Great Xia Code as his unique skills and means to maintain his rule, rather than the spirit that the code itself showed openly.

Kalish, or many people in the current era, cannot understand the meaning of the people. They only regard the people as the object of rule, rather than the subject of the country or organization.

For example, Everiska has communicated and cooperated with Shado, and is even introducing some contents of the Daxia Code to reconcile class contradictions in Everiska. But in essence, Everiska regards such reforms more as a means to maintain rule or improve international competitiveness, rather than really wanting to improve the situation of the bottom.

So now, it is completely understandable that Shado can say this to Kalish. As for killing civilians without hesitation in the south, that is just collateral damage of the war.

No one can guarantee that no damage will be caused to civilians during the war.

In fact, considering that the proportion of psychic mages in Zhamdas is as high as more than 80%, the civilians in and around Toksent cannot be called civilians at all, but potential armed forces.

In that case, in order to achieve the effect of rapid counterattack, Shado certainly cannot distinguish which people are harmless to him one by one, and then send a notice first, let those people evacuate, and then launch a strike.

This is unrealistic.

Even now, although Shado felt sorry for the civilians of Zhamdas who were killed in the attack, if he had to choose again, he would still choose to strike decisively.

If Kalish wanted to use such a case to accuse him of being hypocritical or to attack his persistence in his ideas, then he could only say - he was overthinking.

"It doesn't matter which one is the real me. What matters is whether you, who proposed the new artifact plan, are willing to consider some risk control for the group of northern mages?"

As if seeing the signs of Shado's relenting, Kalish was willing to say some polite words:

"Of course I am willing, but the plans I proposed cannot satisfy everyone, especially you, consultant Shado, which makes it difficult for my plan to be implemented from the beginning."

"Then I would like to propose an idea. If you want to collect arcane wisdom, you may collect it in batches in advance, rather than collecting it in real time during the ceremony. In this way, if something unexpected happens, there is still a chance to remedy it."

Kalish is interested in arcane wisdom, so is Shado not interested in it himself? As long as the risk is controllable, what can happen even if the other party really creates an artifact?

From the beginning, he had clearly told the other party that the artifact plan could not include uncontrollable factors, but Kalish's attitude was also very firm in the past.

Even now, Kalish still remained noncommittal about the idea proposed by Shado, which was actually resistance. This guy hoped to collect arcane wisdom from the computing power pool in real time during the process of building the artifact.

In Shado's view, arcane wisdom should be a database of arcane magic at the consciousness level, which is a collection of the cognition of magic by all arcane mages participating in the plan. This should be a resource that can be collected in advance.

I just don't know why Kalish insisted on collecting in real time during the ceremony. Maybe it has something to do with psychic power, or maybe Kalish has some ulterior motives.

For Shado, psychic power is unknowable, so he is more willing to believe that Kalish has a little idea that is unfavorable to the Northern Mage.

This time, the communication between the two was deadlocked again. For such a result, Shado had actually expected it. He smiled and said to Kalish:

"Actually, it is a bit too optimistic to say this now. Now the envoy of Zamdas is in Everiska. We need to get through this level before there can be any follow-up."

"I understand, and thank you for the information provided by Consultant Shado. Next, I have to prepare materials for the confrontation with the envoy of Zamdas. I will not entertain you. I will invite you to be my guest again in the future."

"Okay, then I won't bother you."

Although this meeting brought new doubts, most of the goals before coming here have been achieved. Since Kalish issued an order to expel him, Shado also ended the meeting.

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After leaving the Cloud Top Tower, Shado hesitated for a while. He did not return to the Alliance headquarters immediately, but turned and came to the Golden Maple Manor halfway up the mountain. He was lucky today, and Larian happened to be at home.

After the meeting, Shado did not beat around the bush and directly asked the other party about his current views on the new artifact plan. "Since we last met, so many things have happened. I wonder what Elder Larian thinks of Kalish's plan now?"

"To be honest with you, Advisor Shado, I actually regret it. This plan has long exceeded my expectations. It's just that the Elder Council is still waiting and watching this plan. It depends on how Kalish responds to the Xamdas envoy next."

"So, Evereska is actually more inclined to support Kalish's plan?"

This is the first time that Shado has clearly learned the attitude of a country towards Kalish's plan. In Netheril, although Iorum said that everyone is rational and will not easily believe Kalish, according to Shado's judgment, it is probably not optimistic.

And now, Kalish has also revealed the attitude of Evereska's Elder Council, which has to be said to be quite in line with Shado's prediction.

"There are actually quite a lot of differences of opinion within the Council of Elders, but we have to admit that supporters do account for the majority. After all, Kalish's plan does not require us to take risks ourselves, it just provides some convenience to the other party."

Larian's words reminded Shado of Yeerlan's sudden change in attitude before, and he couldn't help asking: "Did Kalish make any promises to you privately?"

"At the beginning, he promised to trade with the Alliance and let the psychic mage from Everiska take charge of the artifact. I don't know whether he did so later, at least I didn't receive any promises."

This hint couldn't be more obvious, and Shado immediately understood that the supporters of the Council of Elders of Everiska had most likely received Kalish's private promise.

As for what the promise was, let's not talk about whether Larian knew it, and even if he knew it, it would be impossible for him to reveal such news.