Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1014 The Second Stage of the Comanso Suspicious Cloud Trial
So far, Xia Duo is still in the midst of trials. He thinks that he has not made any major mistakes, and everything is happening unswervingly according to his expectations.

Of course, this is just a trial after all, and behind this, either some reactions are preset in advance, or the real-time control of the high-level mage, it must not be able to completely simulate reality, and it must be simplified a lot.

But looking at it from another angle, this also means that Xia Duo's approach satisfied the senior mages who presided over the ceremony and witnessed the trial, at least not to the extent of opposing and then suspending the trial.

……

After several rounds, Xia Duo had gradually figured out the routine of the trial, but changes followed.

"My lord, the Crown Prince of the Northwestern Reese Kingdom summoned us again to question whether our side is determined to expand, and asked us to immediately withdraw from the neutral zone that serves as a buffer between the two countries."

To quit or not to quit?
Xia Duo thought about it, this so-called Northwest Reese Kingdom is probably the Akola Kingdom reflected in this projection plane.

Originally, this large area was called the Listar Forest, but after Uvelen was destroyed, the forest was divided into two parts, the smaller one was the Kingdom of Akola, and the larger one was distributed with the Jeronstad Waiting for the multi-party forces to be merged now.

However, the name of the Listar Forest was inherited by the smaller forest.

When it comes to history, Akola was established hundreds of years earlier than Geronstadt. Apart from the Elven Court, it seems that the Akola Kingdom is more representative of this Listar Forest.

Because of this, the Akola side is very resistant to the unification of the Ristar Forest. At least they think that unification should be done by them, rather than attributed to a created Cormanthor.

From this, Xia Duo understood that his trial had probably reached the second stage.

Since King Osens predicted that the future King Cormanthor would unify the entire elf world, then for the elves who want to pass the trial, the Ristar Forest should be just a piece of cake.

If you can't even unify the Listar Forest, how can you talk about unifying the entire elf world?
Xia Duo didn't know how the King Cormanthor of the main plane passed the trial, but it was clear that almost 1000 years had passed, and Akola still existed.

Not to mention, there is Ilfaran, which is separated from Netheril and Yeerlan in the west, this ancient country that survived the Crown War. Have great hatred.

And Comanthor on the main plane is undoubtedly dominated by the golden elves, and it is also the hiding place for many remnants of Arivanda.

In fact, there are not a few hiding places like this. After all, Arivanda in its heyday almost unified the entire elf world.

Even Ilfaran, who survived the Crown War, was in a state where the high-end power was slaughtered and the bottom was enslaved.

It's just that the leader of Arivanda was too ambitious later, and began to secretly clean up the high-level mages who threatened the empire's rule. After the incident was revealed, he received backlash from almost all the high-level mages.

This is also the origin of the last crown war.

In fact, there is another elven country on the main plane that is closer to Arivanda than Komanso, and that is Sluvand, but this country was actually defeated by Yeerlan long before Komanso was established, and was became a vassal of the latter.

Irfaran didn't show much hostility towards Sluvand. On the one hand, Sluvend was basically not threatening, and on the other hand, Cormanthor was too high-profile.

From this point of view, the Cormanthor crowned king of the main plane not only failed to complete the unification of the Ristar Forest, but also laid a hidden danger for the division of different ethnic groups within the elves.

At this stage of the trial, Xia Duo really couldn't figure out how the crowned king of Cormanthor on the main plane—Kefm Elisel, passed the trial!
Unifying the Ristal Forest is beneficial to Comanso. If it can be done, it will not stop. There are only two possibilities now, either the trials of the projection plane and the main plane are different, or the trials and reality The gap is too big.

Even if they can be unified in the trial, it may not be possible in reality.

But Comanthor on the main plane has a tendency to follow the old path of Arivandar, "Great Elf Imperialism", and does not advocate harmony among all races. This is obviously very different from the trials that Xia Duo is currently going through.

In the projection plane, although Arivandar has been disintegrated for thousands of years, and the elves' impression of Arivandar has improved a lot, it is not so good that they forget the history.

Especially for high mages, they definitely don't want to live in such an empire.

Therefore, even though most of the high-ranking people in the Riestal Forest are golden elves, and there may be a preference for golden elves, no one will talk about reappearing the glory of Arivanda.

In the language of the earth, this is called "politically incorrect".

So, what happened in the 1000 years after the establishment of the main plane Comanthor that made it so different?
The only explanation is probably that the content of the Excalibur trial on the main plane and the projected plane is different!

This may also explain why, before Xia Duo, Kephm Elisel in the projection plane failed and died.

……

Going back to the trial itself, if the first stage is to examine whether the tester has the basic ability to govern, then the second stage has reached the trial of unifying the Listar Forest.

Direct conquest is the fastest way, and it can be fought, but it is not the best way. Not to mention being sentenced to failure directly, it will at least leave a belligerent impression on the high mages.

I don't know how many trials there will be in the future, in case this is the key straw that overwhelms the camel!

Moreover, doing so is not the style of a king, and it is actually not in line with Xia Duo's wishes.

In his hometown, there is an old saying called "the way of the king is to educate the world", Xia Duo agrees with this saying very much, and he hates unjust wars very much.

Therefore, for the second stage of the trial, he wanted to adopt a more domineering approach, which was also a successful case in his hometown.

After careful calculation, Xia Duo issued the latest order——

"The development in the northwest direction is temporarily suspended, but the land already occupied by us does not need to withdraw;
"Secondly, entrust the Academy of Magic to prepare a communication and transmission plan between the Kingdom of Tar and the Kingdom of Reese;
"Once again, led by trade consultants, organize domestic merchant representatives to visit the Reese Kingdom, focusing on recording its relatively scarce supplies;
"Once again, order the Second Theater of the Capital to step up the creation of works about the major decisions of the Elven Court in history, especially the highlight moment of the representatives of Akoala at the meeting 600 years ago;
"Finally, contact the Great Elder of the Elven Court for me, and ask him to invite the foreign affairs advisor of King Reesmian to visit Taal in the name of the Elven Court."

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After issuing a series of orders, Xia Duo stopped to think for a while, and then ended the round.

Then, the scene changed and a new round began.

　There are about two chapters left, and the projection plane is over.

The projection plane is mainly to supplement some background information on other areas that are not written on the main plane, or that have little intersection with the protagonist for the time being.

In this way, when it is written later, everyone will not feel too unfamiliar, and will have a general understanding of the general pattern of the protagonist's world.

(For the author) What benefits the protagonist gets is secondary
　
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