Lord of Arcane

Chapter 2440 Prophecy Again
Sevington, Azure Manor.

In the reception room, Xia Duo thought for a long time, but he finally didn't say on the spot whether he wanted to speak out for the people on the Tianshui plane, but he gave Puman the teleportation scepter he used before to prevent the other party from falling into the hands of the Seven Towers.

This was more or less a statement. Apart from a little disappointment on his face, Pullman didn't insist too much, and quickly left with the teleportation scepter.

When he left, he still turned into the previous shopkeeper and pushed the cart from the manor to the port trade area in the west. After such an incident, Xia Duo originally wanted to go back and see the high-level mages that Eberke had recruited. go down.

He intends to inquire about Iolum, but like Pullman, he is also worried that Iolum will be kidnapped by the Seven Towers. Wisdom can break through these shackles.

Iolum is indeed a very wise elder, but it is more in the field of magic, organization, and politics. In Xia Duo's view, he is still a little bit lacking in maturity. It is the accumulation of hundreds of years of experience and the almost immutable rules of the game in classical society.

Nowadays, the changing trend of the times has become more and more obvious. It is not because of the existing definition of change of the times that there will be a little change in the real world, but changes in the real world first can be used to define changes in the times.

In other words, if Iolum still looks at the problem from the perspective of the past, he is actually lagging behind the development of the times.

Of course, Xia Duo still believes in Iolum's character, but when it comes to big issues like stance, personal virtue often doesn't count.

In Xiaduo's view, Netheril is a typical aristocratic regime, with a small number of elite spellcasters ruling everything, but nominally they are still under the banner of the people.

Iolum is undoubtedly a supporter and supporter of this system, not only that, he actually regards the Seven Towers as the elite among the elite.

What Xia Duo yearns for is a republic where the people are the masters of the country and everything is for the benefit of the people. From this perspective, he and Iolum are destined not to be able to get together.

It's just that the two sides don't have much disagreement on the issue of the people, and because of Xia Duo's attempt to popularize education in Daxia, Iolum realized the potential of the people.

But his views on elitism have not necessarily wavered.

As for right now, people on the sweet water plane want to return to the main plane. This is not a problem in itself, but it will bring about a very critical problem, that is——

The power of the Seven Towers has declined, and the aristocratic regime dominated by the Seven Towers has shaken, commonly known as "shaking the country's foundation", and the "national foundation" is largely maintained by the old Severton Covenant.

In other words, once the people on the sweet water plane return to the main plane, the power of the Seven Towers that can be used to dominate Netheril will be diluted, and the Severton Covenant may collapse, which will lead to the collapse of the entire Netheril.

Xia Duo believes that there must be a way to maintain the old system since the people from the sweet water plane return to the main plane, but there is no doubt that for the Seven Towers, suppression is the easiest way.

In this case, it is hard to say whether Iolum will be kidnapped.

Unless he can come up with a solution that balances both ends, it is obviously very difficult. The center of power can only accommodate a small amount of space. Once those who voluntarily gave up participating in politics come over, it will inevitably have an impact on the center of power.

This is obviously not allowed by the current seven tower controllers and the power center interest groups they represent. This is a fundamental contradiction, and Xia Duo really can't think of any way to reconcile it.

Of course, the reality is not a purely rational deduction, at least the Morain Tower is a little different, but they are obsessed with exploring the truth, and if they want to live safely in their own small world, they will inevitably give up part of the right to speak, especially in the issues related to the distribution of power.

But in any case, this is a special feature of reality. If you discover it carefully, you should find more, but after all, it is only a side detail, and normally it is difficult to affect the general trend.

Therefore, Xia Duo is so hesitant now, not sure what to do in order to unite everyone as much as possible and avoid the future of civil war.

……

After sitting in the reception room for half an hour, Xia Duo decided to perform another prophecy ceremony, even though he knew too much future information might not be a good thing, let alone a possible future.

The more you know, the more you will care, and when you think about any problem, you will involuntarily bring that part of possible future information.

Of course there are advantages, but the disadvantages are also obvious, that is, it may constrain the thinking and make oneself fall into the pit without knowing it.

When Xia Duo was in his hometown, he heard a saying that it was okay if he didn’t know the future. Once he knew it, the future would be determined, and no matter what he did, it would lead to that established future happening.

Of course, this is just the nonsense of fantasists, but it also reveals the disadvantages of knowing the future to a certain extent. It does not necessarily lead to the established future, but it may also be a future that the past self is unwilling to go to.

But the fact that people from the sweet water plane returned to the main plane had too much influence, and Xia Duo would rather lose some future possibilities, and make another prophecy to see what the framed future looks like.

Theoretically, the possibility of the future is infinite. Even if knowing the future information leads to the limitation of thinking, it is actually infinite, as long as the prophet can eliminate the (adverse) interference of those future information on his own decision-making.

Xia Duo can analyze the subconscious mind, can see clearly the source and process of every occurrence of inner thinking, and can eliminate the interference of external information to the greatest extent. Of course, this is not only the interference of conscious information from outsiders, but also the interference of future information.

Thinking of this, he suddenly made a decision.

……

Austrian Federation Headquarters.

Still in the laboratory half a month ago, Xia Duo once again set up the anchor altar in this world, skillfully established an anchor point for the current moment, and then projected perception into the boundless astral world.

Use the special time attribute of the astral world to perceive the development possibility of the main plane. In a sense, the projection plane is also born based on this.

However, Xia Duo is not looking for the projection plane this time, but looking for the future.

With the help of the current time anchor, Xia Duo quickly found the source of information in the world that was constantly spreading out like a spring. Although it was not the first time it was easy, every time he saw such a scene, he was extremely shocked.

Afterwards, Xia Duo adjusted his perceptual state, and the present world information that was originally superimposed on the infinite future quickly collapsed, and was received by him as scenes of specific pictures——

(End of this chapter)