Arcane Lord

After thinking about it, Xia Duo asked Mott, "So where is the progress of your research now?"

"Sir, I have thought of an idea. Turn the negative energy into a curse, attach it to a goblin, and then let it continue to contact and infect other goblins. Eventually, all the goblins will be in a state of half living creatures and half undead. This way, There is no need to increase their intelligence, the goblins themselves have certain intelligence and can understand human commands."

At the end of the sentence, Mort's eyes almost glowed, but his state made Xia Duo tremble in his heart. This was the rhythm of a natural disaster of the undead!

Do you have the potential to become the Lich King?

Sha Duo shook his head and expelled this terrible scene from his mind. Then he looked solemn and said to Mott: "I am very satisfied with your research, but now the labor force in the territory is enough, and there is no need for undead goblins for the time being. I will hand over it now." Give you a new task."

"ah?!"

Mott was a little disappointed. He didn't expect that his research would be of no use at all, but thinking about the lord's new mission, he couldn't help but look forward to it, "Sir, what new mission is it?"

"Let's sort out a funeral ceremony that is unique to Daxia Ling!" Xia Duo said casually.

This was not something he came up with on the spur of the moment, but had been planned for a long time, and this was Mott's job. The Lord of Death didn't care about etiquette, and his teachings were more inclined to maintain the peace of the dead.

Shado, who had experience in [Projection Plane, Netheril, and Kiran Town], even suspected that the teachings of the Lord of Death on the main plane had been specially modified.

After all, in that projection plane, the death priests are the real upper class, and the faith of the Lord of Glory is even suppressed.

The projection plane is a possible projection of the main plane. Xia Duo has reason to believe that the main plane has also gone through such a wave of suppression, power seizure, and counter-suppression. In the end, the Lord of Death does not even have a serious temple.

The priests of the Lord of Death can only live in the temple of the Lord of Glory. Of course, why the mage class became the real ruler in the end, Shado doesn't know.

He speculated that it might be related to the [Scroll of Nese], or it might be that the priest class of the Lord of Glory took the initiative to give in. It has been hundreds of years. Who can really understand the secret behind this!

Anyway, in the main plane, the power of the mage lord has been confirmed in almost all aspects. Just modifying a funeral ceremony is not a big deal.

Shado did not directly force Mort to ban the study of undead creatures. Instead, he prepared to downplay the matter and constantly assigned him new tasks. This was the process.

…

After leaving the cemetery, Shado immediately sent a message to Gibb and issued a new order, asking him not to take Mott out to hunt goblins. Without raw materials, even if Mott wanted to study it privately, it would be impossible.

As for going one step further, Shado is also planning to recruit two more death priests from the Saville Territory. Even if they are just two apprentices, with more people, the secret cannot be hidden.

Back at the lord's villa, guard Norman told him that the former Druid Atwood was already waiting for him in the reception room, but it just so happened that Niya "came with information" at this time, and Shado was anxious about the news about the scarlet flashing star. , and did not go to the reception room immediately.

Since the communication tool can only transmit short text messages, Niya's voice message was sent through the tower spirit, and her tone seemed a little panicked:

"I can't contact the teacher now. There are rumors about natural disasters spreading outside. I have asked several arcanists in Giles Tower, but they don't know about the flashing star. I am currently looking for information in the library. See if there are any similar situations in history.”

After hearing Niya's reply, Xia Duo felt a little heavy. He really hoped that Niya could reply directly and say that the scarlet flashing star was just a normal phenomenon, even if it was said that her teacher was conducting some strange experiment!

This kind of lack of accurate information and rumors of natural disasters really makes people anxious!

The only good news is probably that the Giles Tower Library has accumulated hundreds of years of experience and may actually be able to find records of similar situations.

If it was just an ordinary natural phenomenon, it wouldn't matter. What I was most afraid of was that it was really a precursor to some kind of natural disaster.

"well--"

Xia Duo sighed, calmed down his mood, and stepped into the reception room. No matter what the future holds, he still has to do what he should do now step by step.

…

"Lord Lord!"

Seeing Shado come in, Atwood stood up and saluted with some restraint. Shado still valued the former druid, and he would be of great use to him in the future, so he returned the salute.

After the two sat down respectively, Shado took out a piece of parchment that had been prepared from his personal space, stretched out his hand and passed it forward, then naturally floated to Atwood, "Let's take a look at the content on it first!"

Atwood held up the paper suspended in front of him with both hands and began to read. As he read each line of text, Atwood's expression continued to change.

From the initial calm, to later surprise, shock, horror, and finally appreciation, recognition, and so on.

Xia Duo had a completely calm expression, because he knew very well what was written on the paper. In his opinion, these contents were just common sense, and there was nothing surprising.

But if you put it in Netheril, it's not that simple. From the complicated changes in Atwood's expression, Shado once again confirmed this idea.

There wasn't much content on the paper. Xia Duo estimated that Atwood had read almost everything, so he asked, "Is there anything you want to say after reading it?"

"grown ups--"

Atwood opened and closed his mouth, closing and opening it again, as if he didn't know where to start.

Seeing this, Xia Duo directly drew the range, "Let's talk about the definition of nature first. What do you think of the idea that 'human beings are also part of nature'?"

With the scope in hand, Atwood no longer hesitated, and immediately said, "This idea is very novel, but the intention is higher than 'nature is equal to the forest'. Since elves can belong to nature, then of course humans can also belong to nature. "

"..."

Chateau's original text is indeed human, but what he wants to express is any intelligent creature, including goblins. However, Atwood's interpretation is not wrong. At least it shows that he is somewhat dissatisfied with the elves' exclusive right to define nature.

So he asked again: "Then what do you think about 'harmony between man and nature'?"

Atwood replied, "Coexisting in harmony does not mean unconditionally maintaining the forest. Human beings themselves are also part of nature. Survival is the first priority. As long as the conditions for survival are met, harmony is achieved without malicious demands."

Shado nodded. It seemed that Atwood had been able to accept the new definition of nature. However, this was not surprising. If he could still accept the original definition, he would not have been criticized for arguing over whether forests could be cleared to open up farmland. The Order of Ruy was banished.

Nowadays, the druids of Netheril can basically become fundamentalists. They believe that nature is the forest, and the elves are the embodiment of nature. If they can agree that clearing the forest, there will be ghosts.

In fact, even among elves, druids are not the mainstream, and elves have done many things to destroy forests.

When Sha Duo incarnated as an elf in the projection plane, it can be said that he knew a lot about it, especially in the [Projection Plane Maielita Sukanvisa City], where there are almost no legends of druids. Although the elves It is true that we care for the forest more than humans, but when war breaks out, what should be destroyed will still be destroyed.

As long as it is necessary, it doesn't matter even if it means destroying an entire forest.

Xia Duo guessed that the elves attached so much importance to the forest may be because the establishment of the Mystery Lock was related to the forest. Of course, Xia Duo was not sure about this, it was just a suspicion.

Otherwise, how can there really be any race that pays special attention to a certain environment!

To be honest, elves live in the air, so they should pay more attention to the quality of the air, just like aquatic races pay more attention to the quality of the water body.