Arcane Lord

At first glance, for humans, Belluno is more like a somewhat messy primitive settlement scene, but upon closer inspection, you can see order and a unique aesthetic design that conforms to the water environment.

This is a three-dimensional city composed of corals and shells. Although the specific architecture is completely different from the surface, you can still see their similarities with the surface.

That is the civilization legacy of the prosperous period of the ancient elves. Among the surface elf countries, the two gold elf countries of Ilfarran and Sluvend are the most intact.

The original Uvilen in the Ristal Forest is also preserved. Although there are some differences from the gold elf kingdom, it still represents the prosperous civilization of the past.

It’s a pity that Uvilen was suddenly destroyed, and the later Comanso did not inherit much. It has developed to a new civilization scene that is different from the past. Of course, this does not prevent them from claiming to inherit the glory of ancient civilization.

The sea elves have been in the sea since ancient times. Even if they have developed into such a desolate state now, it can be determined that they have been passed down from ancient times.

This is just like in Xiaduo's hometown, the existence of each person is enough to prove that he is inherited from ancient times.

The original sea elves should be regarded as the product of the peak period of the elves. Their architectural style after going to sea should also have the shadow of that period, but the water environment must be different from that of the land.

In terms of building materials and specific construction methods, compared with the land, it has long been unrecognizable. Only those who are familiar with the history of elf civilization can see the legacy of the past civilization from it.

And the most eye-catching thing in the whole city is undoubtedly a "lighting stick" in the center of the city. Of course, this is Xiaduo's name.

In Belluno, the "lighting stick" is called [Light Tower]. Its brightness gradually decreases from top to bottom. It can be imagined that Belluno's urban structure is actually distributed around the Light Tower.

It's just that because the Light Tower is brighter on the top and darker on the bottom, the city buildings below are more dense and closer to the Light Tower, while the city buildings above are more scattered and farther away from the Light Tower.

Looking from a distance, it looks like a huge light column standing upright in the bowl.

It has to be said that the unique environment has created a unique urban structure. Such a structure is hard to imagine on land. Only in space without gravity can a similar structure appear.

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At Shado's deliberate request, the Torrent delayed for several minutes before driving into an airport located on the upper edge of the "giant bowl" of Belluno.

It is called an airport, but it is just a city location. In Shado's opinion, the infrastructure here is not even as good as the ordinary fishing boat dock on land.

After all, sea elves do not need magic ships. This is mainly a stopover specially set up for relatives on land. When sea elves travel in the sea, they use a tamed whale for short distances.

For long distances, they use a trident-shaped water-based magic tool to manipulate the tidal force to move forward without the need for additional means of transportation.

This also further proves that the so-called airport in Belluno is just an empty frame. If there are no distant relatives on land, there may be no such setting at all.

Coming out of the airport, or more precisely, seeing the appearance of the Glory Tower from a distance, you are already in the water element realm of Belluno. This water element realm barrier is actually a special puzzle lock.

It is larger and more complex than the water element realm used by the Illuminati at the source of the time-related signal before, and it is centered on a power that Shado has never touched before, perhaps the so-called "tidal force" of the sea elves.

But after touching it, he felt that it was easier to crack than the puzzle lock on land.

The so-called "gains and losses", specializing in one aspect will most likely be lacking in other aspects, and judging from the development status of Belluno, it is not enough to make up for the shortcomings in all aspects.

They may not even be able to reproduce the water element realm in front of them now.

However, Shado did not look down on the sea elves because of this. To be honest, a new race that was transformed halfway can survive from ancient times to the present and gradually adapt to the new environment. This is still very worthy of recognition and respect.

Now it is nothing more than a little worse development, but it is also moving in the right direction. Compared with their unprogressive distant relatives on land, at least before the establishment of the Northern Alliance, Xia Duo believed that land elves were far inferior to sea elves.

As long as the sea elves are given the current universal arcane magic with a water element tendency, this group of sea elves who survived from ancient times may not be able to overtake their distant relatives on land.

At least in terms of popularizing magic among the whole people, no elf country on land is as good as Belluno, and even the Great Xia Territory is far behind. After all, the current Great Xia Territory has not been able to achieve a nearly 100% ratio of mages among the people.

Belluno, a small city-state with a total population of only a few hundred thousand located in the deep sea, has already achieved the goal that Xia Duo hoped for but has not yet been able to achieve.

In fact, from the perspective of the number of middle and lower-level spellcasters, Belluno is even comparable to the entire Northern Alliance. The only thing it lacks is high-level mages. There are only six on the surface, and it is unlikely that there are too many hidden in reality.

Perhaps it is because the old magic system is not suitable or the new magic system is not perfect. As long as these shortcomings are made up, it can almost immediately become a powerful country in the north.

This is actually the best learning template for a small country like Everesca to overtake others. Unfortunately, even Everesca, which is eager to make progress, cannot make up its mind to fully popularize magic in the country.

Like Everesca, with a population of millions, although it is far less than that of large countries with a population of tens of millions such as Yeerlan and Ilfarran, it is still much stronger than the hundreds of thousands of people in Belluno.

According to the actual usage data of the computing power pool and rough statistics in the past, the 15 countries of the Northern Alliance have a total population of over 100 million, but the actual number of formal mages is only a few hundred thousand.

Specifically, it should be around 500,000. The total number of users of the computing power pool is just close to 300,000, but the growth rate has become extremely slow.

Even if there is no Illuminati, it is estimated that it will take several months or even years to reach the limit.

Now, there are hundreds of thousands of spellcasters in Belluno alone. Although this also includes apprentices under formal mages, at least there are so many on the surface.

As long as Belluno joins the Northern Alliance, it will almost immediately bring a wave of growth to the computing power pool, which is close to the bottleneck of the number of users.

In addition, what Xia Duo cares more about is the catfish effect that Belluno, a country that popularizes magic among the whole people, brings to the countries in the North.

In this way, when the Great Xia Territory and even the entire Netheril popularize magic in the future, it will not bear too much external pressure, and Belluno can help share some of it!

And popularizing magic can really improve the overall national strength in a short period of time. As long as more countries follow suit, popularizing magic throughout the North will no longer be an obstacle. (End of this chapter)