Lord of Arcane

Chapter 2120 Death of the Elf Prince
Afterwards, Xia Duo connected Fadilla, the messenger of Calinshan, to the floating city, and changed the flying direction of the floating city, making it turn back to the south and head towards the direction of Karim directed by Fadilla.

On a terrace near Hengchun Square, Xia Duo and Fadilla sat opposite each other, and the two chatted about the local conditions and customs of Kalinshan in a tacit understanding.

Xia Duo actually doesn’t know much about Calinshan, and even now he still can’t understand Calinshanian. He only knows that it is a very romantic, casual and changeable language. And in terms of richness of meaning, it is not inferior to Elvish language at all.

He communicated with Fadilla in Elven language, and from the communication between the two, he could see that Fadilla had mastered the Elvish language. Except for a little accent, he didn't look like a human being at all.

It's hard to say without the results of the Calimshan practice.

As for other aspects of Calimshan, Xiaduo obtained more from some elven literature, and Netheril had almost no information about Calimshan.

And even in the elven literature, most of them only have the explanation of "the southern human country", a few will mention that Calimshan is a country in the desert, and very few will mention Calinshan's blood magic and some status quo.

In the communication with Fadila, Xia Duo finally established a preliminary impression of Calisthen——

It was a country ruled by many pashas, ​​the leader was called "Sir Pasha", and what maintained the system was not the "power" that Shadow originally thought, but a class order similar to the caste system.

In this order, the pasha occupies an absolute dominant position, and below him is the "vizier", who is the actual manager of the country, and then scholars, warriors, merchants, civilians, and slaves.

These titles are both class distinctions and can be used to refer to status.

This long-established class order can actually be classified into the category of "people's hearts", which is reasonable to a certain extent.

Anyone who wants to challenge this order, unless he can kill all classes, it will be difficult to change this order that has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and is unanimously maintained by everyone, including the bottom.

Fortunately, this order is not without some progress. Basically, all classes below warriors can gain class promotion by participating in wars. For the slaves, it is almost the only chance for them to change their destiny.

But this opportunity is also available to almost all slaves, so Xia Duo said that they are making progress.

After all, the slaves of Netheril had no way to escape unless the lord agreed. This seemed loose, but it was actually based on the lord's personal wishes.

It’s okay to meet a benevolent lord, basically as long as (family, friends or passers-by) give a small amount of money to redeem the body, but if you encounter a die-hard lord, you can’t wait to drain the last drop of blood.

In addition, the conversation with Fadilla also changed Xia Duo's misunderstanding of Calinshan. Before, he thought that Calinshan only had the blood of the wind element, which was actually wrong.

It should be said that there are all kinds of elemental bloodlines, but in the long-term bloodline research, the research on wind elemental bloodlines has gradually become the mainstream, and has suppressed the research and development of other elemental bloodlines.

This point reached its peak after the general magic system of the wind and blood was finally formed, and with the development and growth of the blood magic system, it became more and more difficult to change.

Therefore, when you see a person with fiery red hair in Calimshan, there is no doubt that the person has the blood of the fire element, but if you think that the person knows a little fire element spells, you are completely wrong.

The opponent not only knows wind elemental spells, but is more likely to master more advanced general spells other than elemental spells.

After all, in the past countless years, because of its "convenience", the blood of the wind element has already "infected" all the people of Calimshan. Without the blood of the wind element, it is impossible to get along in Calimshan.

Even if other bloodlines with a higher concentration are awakened, they will eventually return to the development path of the wind elemental bloodline.

The last thing is to cast spells for the whole people. What Xia Duo has not achieved in the Great Xia Territory, Karinshan has already basically completed it!

This was admitted by Fadilla himself. Xia Duo didn't think that the other party would lie on such an easily verified issue, and the other party also mentioned that limited by the perfection of blood magic, only the blood of the wind element can reach a certain level. Only those with "concentration" have the opportunity to reach the top in this magic system.

In other words, there is no fundamental difference between Calimshan's universal spellcasting and other countries' elite models.

Of course, this is the unanimous opinion of Fadilla and even Karinshan, but in Xia Duo's view, casting spells for all means to a large extent that all citizens can use magic items with a little training.

Measuring their value by their combat effectiveness is like picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons. Their real role is to start a new era of magic industrialization.

In fact, at the earliest time, Xia Duo couldn't understand why a country where all people could cast spells hadn't developed industrialization yet.

After communicating with Fadilla, he discovered that the country's class is severely solidified. Anyone below the soldier can be promoted by participating in the war, but the impact on the class can only be promoted to the businessman level at most.

Merchants who participate in wars can only obtain the expansion of their commercial territory at most, and they will inevitably expand from this territory to other territories, and from one kind of business scope to another.

But once the war is unfavorable, a large number of businessmen will often suffer, be demoted to civilians, and need to start over.

There is no stable channel to obtain the status/class of warrior, but this status is also related to the learning of magic. In Calimshan, only those with warrior status and above are eligible to learn magic.

In other words, most civilians in this country have no access to real magic, only a little bit of blood magic, which is nothing in a country where all people are blood magicians, and it is not valued at all.

No, it should be said that it can still be taken seriously. After all, Calimshan fights almost every year. Without the support of lower-level soldiers and relying on the upper-level soldiers to fight life and death, the country has long since collapsed and disintegrated.

……

In addition to some basic status quo of Calinshan, in the process of communicating with Fadilla, as the unknown veil was lifted little by little, even if the other party did not say anything, Xia Duo clearly felt the many problems that this country was facing at the moment. dilemma.

The most intense perception is the complex emotion of Fadilla when he mentioned the war, which includes both unconcealable pride and unavoidable sadness.

Xia Duo probably guessed the purpose of the Great Calinshan Emperor's invitation. Most likely it was related to the Northland Alliance. Maybe he wanted to find allies and cannon fodder for the situation in the south, or maybe he heard some rumors and wanted to seek cooperation. .

"I hope it's cooperation!"

Because Ketmir, a seemingly Buddhist elven country, blocked the Northland from being involved in the southern war.

Although there are often conflicts and even wars within the Northland, compared to the frequency and intensity of wars in the South, the Northland can almost be said to be a peaceful paradise!
For Calinshan, the situation is even more serious, not only external wars, but also many internal problems, which can be seen from the fact that Xia Duo saw more than a dozen territorial disputes within half a day after entering the country.

Perhaps this ancient country, which was established long before Evereska's independence, is about to usher in a major change that it has not seen in thousands of years!

(End of this chapter)