Lord of Arcane

Chapter 2121

For a while, Xia Duo regretted agreeing to the invitation of the Great Emperor Calinshan. He thought it might just be a relaxing and pleasant sightseeing trip, and he might talk about something incidentally, but generally speaking, it would be very relaxing.

But looking at it now, I’m afraid it’s not that simple. Calimshan’s country is unstable, and the assassination of an elf prince just happened not long ago. Xia Duo suddenly had a premonition——

When Karim arrived, he might inevitably be involved in this matter!

As the Floating Void City continued to deepen, although Xia Duo still maintained the state of communication with Fadilla, Xia Duo also saw more and more ground scenes through [Wide Area Detection] or other passive information collection spells.

From a high altitude, you can see the vast desert stretching from west to east, from north to south, all the way to the sea. Oasis distribution.

The rest of the territory is only sporadically dotted with some small and medium-sized oases. It can be seen that Calishan has a vast territory, but the actual population is very limited.

Of course, compared to Netheril, that's still a lot more.

And Karim, where Xia Duo is going on this trip, is at the southernmost end of the Karin River that runs through the desert and flows south into the sea. Looking along the way, Xia Duo saw the exquisite and skillful fighting posture of the Karinshan scholar, and also I saw the scene of the civilian class struggling to survive.

The oasis belongs to every pasha. If the common people want to live in the oasis, they must work for the pasha. They are called "civilians". In fact, their lives may not be as good as some slaves in Netheril.

The biggest problem here is the water source. Controlling the water source in the desert is equivalent to controlling the lifeline of everyone. Even an extremely skilled spellcaster, if he doesn't know how to summon the water flow, he can still get it when he should be thirsty!

And although almost all the citizens of Calinshan can cast spells, most of them can only do some simple blood magic, and happen to awaken the blood of the water element in a country where the blood of the wind element is the mainstream.

Even if the blood of the water element is really awakened, it may not be able to summon the water flow, and even if it is summoned, it may not be enough to drink for oneself, let alone satisfy the people around it.

If Xia Duo was a local pasha with a slightly vicious mind, as soon as he heard of someone with awakened water elemental blood, he would immediately kill him.

At worst, you can report to the higher authorities and invite the "great" Sil Pasha to maintain the stability of this class order.

If you think about it in this way, I am afraid that someone in Calimshan will deliberately deal with the water-related spells in the blood magic system.

If this is the case, Xia Duo dares to conclude that the ruling class of Calimshan was born because of the water source, and it will surely die because of the water source!

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The speed of the floating city was not slow. It didn't take long for Xia Duo to receive a message from Niya. She had already seen the magnificent city of Karim on the far coast.

The buildings in the city are tall and majestic, and there are many towers. Almost all the buildings have pointed arch tops that are shining in colorful colors in the sun, full of exotic customs.

In addition, perhaps for the convenience of heat dissipation, the main surfaces of most of the buildings in Calimshan are covered with a kind of white fine sand, which emits a hazy white light in the sun.

Niya likes this architectural style very much, and the voice of the message is also full of joy and cheerful colors, until I look at the scene in a small village near a small oasis not far north of Dukalim!
Hearing Nya's angry and even slightly disturbed tone, Xia Duo quickly adjusted the target of [Wide Area Detection], and soon found the small village that Nya mentioned.

It was a super tiny settlement with only a dozen families living in it. In the middle was a low building made of stones, inside was a structure similar to a cellar, and at the bottom was a water tank paved with crushed stones.

Outside the stone building, a circle of wooden houses was surrounded in an almost uniform manner. There were also two rows of unknown dead trees growing outside the wooden house, blocking the wind and sand from the north and west.

Of course, from the sporadic tiny yellow leaves, it can be seen that the dead trees are not actually dead, but a kind of drought-tolerant plant that is more common in deserts and almost absent in the Northland.

If there are no accidents and no rulers above, this small village should be a paradise that can survive in spite of hardships.

If you are hungry, there are fruits on the dead trees, and some lizard-like animals are kept in some wooden houses; if you are thirsty, there is water in the cellar of the stone house in the middle.

But reality is reality after all. Although Xia Duobiniya observed it a step later, it can also be seen from the scattered tools outside the wooden house and the long series of horseshoe prints stretching westward into the desert that this place has just experienced a man-made disaster.

Of course, from the perspective of [Wide Area Detection], Xia Duo could clearly see four masked men on horseback in the west singing a song with a wild melody.

Looking at the village, fortunately there was no bloodshed, but the water source stored in the village was robbed by the horse bandits from the west.

It's already winter, and the Northland has entered a state of ice, but in the south of Calimshan, even in winter, the daytime is still hot, and it is almost impossible to survive without continuous water supply.

Thus, Xia Duo, who caught the timing just right, saw the most evil side of human nature——

A girl who could see her thin body even when she was wrapped in a loose blouse was surrounded by four or five men who were equally thin but had particularly fierce eyes.

Although Xia Duo couldn't understand Calishan, it could be seen from their gestures and the expressions on their faces that the four or five villagers were forcing the little girl to pour water into the stone trough.

As for how to inject, it is obviously a little instinctive spell of the blood of the water element.

Niya should have seen the robbery by sand robbers and the scenes of the villagers turning against each other after being robbed. Xia Duo asked, and it was indeed the case, and also mentioned that the girl had just made some clear water, but the villagers were still not satisfied. He wanted to squeeze more, but the power of the bloodline was limited and needed to be recovered, so there was a sad scene of persecution that Xia Duo saw.

Through the investigation outside the village, Xia Duo estimated that it would take at least one day for the villagers to walk from the village to the nearest oasis. If they wanted to bring back water, they would probably be drunk by the people who transported them before they could go back to the village. up.

Or the person who transported it was tired and collapsed.

Now there are only two roads in front of this village——

One was to collectively abandon the village and go to the oasis to be pasha's obedient slaves; the other was to force the girl with the blood of the water element to make clean water for everyone, temporarily slowing down the wave, so that the water in the cellar tank could recover.

(End of this chapter)