Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1187
But on the other hand, Badigal's previous attitude was clearly saying that the relationship between Netheril and the elves, especially Cormanthor, should be improved. Why are there still these unrealistic demands?

Unless correspondingly, Netheril also made some excessive demands on Comanthor, otherwise Xia Duo really couldn't understand why the Severton Conference agreed to liberate the dwarves and let them establish an independent country!

Xia Duo couldn't guess what the request was. After thinking about it for a while, he decided to put it aside for the time being. Some things will eventually come to light.

As for asking Iolum, that's unnecessary. Iolum may not know the details of the negotiations between the Severton Council and the Northland countries on the establishment of the Northland Alliance.

Even if you know, you don't necessarily tell yourself.

Furthermore, during the day, Badigal suddenly announced such news on behalf of the Severton Council, which would definitely give an explanation to all the lords of Netheril.

Otherwise, if one fails, Netheril will be divided soon.

In fact, it might be more convenient for Xia Duo to directly ask Badigal, but now Badigal probably doesn't have much time to explain to him.

Anyway, just wait a few more days and everything will become clear.

……

After staying in Sevington for the last night, Xia Duo and Niya returned to the southern border early the next morning. Of course, De Parker, Gibson, and Harlan returned together.

In Xia Duo's original plan, the itinerary was not arranged like this. He originally planned to stay in Severton with Niya for a few more days, and even go out to sea for a while if he had the chance.

But now that the Severton Council has such a big news, the two of them have no mood to play, and there are also some bad news from the territory.

So, on the second day after the snowmelt competition ended, the two went straight home.

As for Lord Leisen, as Xia Duo had expected, the other party did not appear in Sevington, but Xia Duo had conveyed to him through Director Blunders of the Austrian Law Federation that he wanted to visit him.

Lord Leisen's son, great arcanist Cliff's student, Arcanist Stern, personally contacted Xia Duo, and expressed his welcome to Xia Duo's visit on behalf of his father, Lord Leisen.

The two parties agreed to meet in Leisen Ling five days later.

……

After returning to the southern border, Xia Duo's mood immediately became much easier.

Whether it is a demon or a dwarf, these problems will not bother him for quite a while, and he can play freely as much as he wants.

However, there are a lot of troubles. The mayor of Thain entrusted the mage of the Tower of Time to send a message to Niya, saying that villagers in the village west of the Wolfburg River discovered the murlocs by the river.

Last year's murloc event was not even a year away from now.

And now, murlocs were discovered by the river. This kind of thing is extremely sensitive to any Savile citizen, especially the one who lives by the river.

The discoverer immediately notified the town hall without any delay. When the mayor of Thain arrived at the scene, the territory guards who arrived in advance had already killed the two murlocs that were discovered.

Yes, there are only two murlocs.

At first, when Xia Duo was in Severton, he heard Niya say that there were murlocs again in the territory. He thought it was another murloc wave, but when he realized that there were actually only two murlocs, he really couldn't laugh or cry.

But it also reminded him that after the murloc wave last year, although most of the murlocs were wiped out by the wave of negative energy created by the death priest, there were quite a few fish that slipped through the net.

It has only been about half a year since some murlocs were brought by Savile. If these murlocs were bred for a few more years, it would be really difficult to deal with.

The Tower of Time, Niya's Study Room.

After making tea, Xia Duo adjusted the window projection to overlook the Wolfburg River, and then said to Niya: "It is spring, the season of recovery of all things, but it is also the best time to control the number of murlocs. "

"What do you want to do?" Niya asked.

"Send the territory guard to take a boat to the north along the Wolfburg River, and focus on cleaning up the murlocs that slipped between Savile and Lake Mecht!"

The murloc's reproductive ability is indeed very strong, but that is when there is a large base. If the base is small, can the murlocs still become adults in one year, and then the adults will give birth every year?

This is simply not possible without the influence of special magic.

Generally, it takes at least ten years for murlocs to grow to the stage of fertility. During this period, as long as they keep cleaning up, until the total number drops to a certain level, it will be much more convenient to control afterwards.

This is also different from goblins, goblins are now flooded, but there are no murlocs, the number is relatively limited, and the living environment of murlocs is also different from that of goblins.

Although they are amphibious creatures, they can go ashore, but they cannot stay away from the water source. Unlike goblins, they can run around with just stretching their legs.

In other words, as long as the river is cleaned up and sifted over and over again, the murlocs will be wiped out sooner or later, provided that they don't become flooded.

The sea is the real destination of the murlocs, and the inland rivers are very limited no matter how big they are.

Of course, with the current strength of the Savile leader, it is almost impossible to eliminate all the nearby murlocs. What Xia Duo wants is only to delay the time for the murlocs to skyrocket as much as possible.

If we don't clean it up this year, the number of murlocs will double next year, and again in the next year. Knowing that ten years later, a new generation of murlocs will start to give birth, it will be almost uncontrollable, unless we go to the death priest a few more times. Negative energy baptism.

But that's obviously unrealistic. Let's not talk about whether we can find a death priest who has the ability to control the torrent of negative energy. Even if we find one, we still have to consider the risk of negative energy getting out of control.

It's better to start from the source and limit the number of murlocs from the beginning.

……

After listening to Xia Duo's suggestion, Niya did not agree immediately, but thought seriously, and said after a long time: "This method is very good, but the Savile leader does not have the ability to do such a thing now."

"why?"

"As you said, sending the territorial guards to clean up the murlocs along the river, and lead them from Savile to Lake Mecht. This trip requires at least 50 soldiers, two ships, and at least two months. Have you considered this? Expenses during the period?"

"Of course I've considered it. It's only about [-] gold coins a month!" Xia Duo replied calmly.

"Isn't [-] gold coins not much?"

Niya opened her eyes wide, and looked at Xia Duo in shock, "Saville's net income for a year was only about [-] gold coins in the past! How can I save much savings with such a way of spending!"

In this regard, Xia Duo shook his head, "You also said that it was last year, and today's Tower of Time earns at least one million a year, so why care about the mere tens of thousands of gold coins!"

(End of this chapter)