Lord of Arcane

Chapter 2105 "Honor" is not honor
Hearing what the young elf said, the atmosphere in the Jinqiu Courtyard suddenly became stagnant. Not only was King Mian's face ashen, but most of the guests instantly became sober.

As one of the parties, Shado is even more angry in his heart. This Tal Ash tradition or the Tal Ash ritual is not a good thing!

In today's elf world, Talash is also known as "honorary duel", which is usually a duel ritual used by elves with certain identities to "convince" each other when they disagree.

But this honorary duel is often not honorable at all. First of all, the duel is endless. This is nothing in itself, but it can be linked with "disagreement". It is not because the reason can not convince you, it will be physically destroyed!
Secondly, and most importantly, Shado thinks that the main reason why it doesn't deserve to be called "Duel of Honor" at all is because it can be replaced by followers.

So basically, in the history of elves he had seen, the elves who died in honor duels were either low-ranking existences in power or unlucky followers. The real high-ranking people rarely died in honor duels.

In the end, Tal Ash couldn't refuse. After all, it was a matter of life and death. The opinion of the other party was not important. Of course, the premise was that both parties were elves, and their identities were equal, and the gap could not be too large.

Because the original meaning of Tal Ash was "a fair debate conducted by the people of Tyquith", it was gradually derived into a duel.

Shado witnessed more than one Taal Ash ceremony in [Projection Plane · Maierita · Sukanwesa], some of which were oral debates and some duels, both sides were very restrained, and Not much hostility.

But at the time of [Projection Plane Everiska Independence], Tal Ash has become a so-called "honor duel", and the same is true of the main plane of reality.

It is of course impossible for Shado to agree to such a duel, not only because he is not an elf and is not within the scope of application of Tal Ash, but also because the ritual process of Tal Ash is cumbersome and there are many restrictions on the means used, at least he does not. It may be possible to directly bombard the opponent with a war spell.

He is not an elf, which can be avoided. After all, Tal Ash was originally a duel ritual with an extension of the concept, expanding the elf to all intelligent creatures, which is actually not abrupt.

The process is cumbersome and there are many restrictions, but it's not a problem. If you just relax, Xia Duo actually wants to play something real compared to the current special dinner party where the style of painting is about to go wrong.

But this is a duel, a duel of life and death, whether winning or losing, it is not a good thing for him.

There is no need to say more if you lose, that is a dead word. Even if you win, the opponent probably has a good identity and background. Killing the opponent is simply a source of trouble that can't be thrown away.

If you don't kill it, it's more troublesome, because it means the opponent can kill him at any time when he is at a disadvantage to complete the duel, which is legal.

Completely legal, at least in the North, where elven rules pretty much dominate.

Xia Duo can't guarantee that he will always be in the upper hand, and that there will never be a day when the tiger falls into peace. It is impossible for him to leave such a big hidden danger for himself.

And the reason for today's duel is too childish, just because he defeated Fries, there are spirits jumping out to fight him. If you agree to this time, then if there is another enemy next time, why not? It's not that you don't even need to find a reason.

No matter what, it was impossible for Xia Duo to agree to this duel, but he did not refuse directly, but kept silent and looked at each other with interest.

Of course, this also depends on the attitude of King Helion.

The guests were invited, but their vassals launched a life-and-death duel against the guests at the welcome dinner. No matter what the result was or whether the guests agreed or not, Helion was equivalent to being slapped hard.

Moreover, he was slapped by his nominal subordinates, how could a king who was determined to gain real centralization bear it, even at this dinner party that had always been an occasion for indulgence, he got up angrily.

Just as he was about to rebuke, Xia Duo spoke first, and said to the young elf who was standing in front of him, "Is it appropriate for you to start a duel against your allies?"

Netheril and Yeerlan belonged to the Northland Alliance, and it was not a big problem to say that they were allies, but it was too cheap to call them allies.

Sure enough, when the young elf heard Shado speak of an ally, he immediately retorted: "The ally will not break into the ally's house with a fortress."

"Then you are questioning the decision of King Mian and the council?"

"Nonsense, I just expressed doubts about your victory over Master Ferris."

Looking at the other party's slightly dodging eyes, Xia Duo knew what he knew, not to mention that his victory over Fries was witnessed by high-level officials of the Northland countries, he said how this good welcome dinner suddenly turned into a Hongmen banquet, no one instructed that. What the hell!

So he suddenly said, "You asked you to come?"

"I--"

The young elf looked behind him subconsciously, but before he could realize that he had been fooled into anger, another calm voice sounded from the opposite side:
"Your Excellency Xado, forgive me. At first, I just mentioned your heroic deeds to the boy. I didn't expect that he would start a Taal Ash duel against Your Excellency, but the tradition cannot be violated. Heart."

Good guy, Xia Duo directly called good guy, if this is placed in the human world, those who don't know will think that the elf who spoke up has a grudge against the young elf in front of him!

But the more the other party is like this, the more he doesn't want to let the other party wish, and it can't be the kind of unhappiness that King Mian Helien intervenes.

In fact, if Helion came forward, maybe the other party would be happy!

And Helian also realized the trap at this moment. Yeerlan's domestic traditional power is not small, and it is not limited to his opponents. There are also many of his supporters.

There is not much contradiction between tradition and centralization itself. Except for a few fanatics, most elves who respect tradition and follow tradition are based on the principle that tradition can bring them more benefits.

If not, then the tradition is not necessarily irrevocable, just like Yeerlan's centralized reform, both supporters and opponents can find reasons from the tradition, but the final decision of the camp depends on their own interests.

However, respect for tradition has been almost instinctively integrated into every aspect of the race of elves, and the impact of breaking tradition is difficult to estimate.

As Mian Wang, it is not a good thing to give his supporters and the public the impression that he likes to break with tradition.

Thinking of this, Helien glanced at the Elder Aesop on the left seat with almost undisguised disgust. The other party deliberately chose to make trouble on this occasion. Do you really think he has no bottom line!
(End of this chapter)