Lord of Arcane

Chapter 2443 Potential Grand Arcanist

Thinking like this, Xia Duo thought of another possibility!
In addition to the restoration baptism of the Lord Priest of Radiance, the priests of Ms. Mystery also had a similar baptism ceremony for restoring youth—the Baptism of the Secret Flame. Eberke had accepted it once before, and De Parker had also accepted it not long ago.

The only difference is that Ebike was paid for by the mystery priest himself, while Depak was lucky and got it directly in the Star Leaping Ceremony. No one paid for the grace, and it was all paid by the generous lady of mystery.

In the history of Netheril, there are not a few arcanists who have been baptized by the secret flame. Can all of them be regarded as potential great arcanist candidates?

After all, in the current environment, the difference between a grand arcanist and a non-grand arcanist is only the top combat power. If it does not involve the top combat power, there is no need to show it at all.

And the most important thing is that as long as the person does not tell, it is difficult for outsiders to tell.

Just like Xia Duo himself at the beginning, after he became a great arcanist, he visited Severton several times, and even cast spells in the city, but no one found out that if he hadn't taken the initiative to disclose it, he might have been able to hide it until now!

It was similar to Jenna. At the beginning, he guessed that the other party might be a grand arcanist, but he only speculated from Seid, a senior arcanist's subordinate, and there was no conclusive evidence.

In the end, it was Jenna herself who exposed herself because of Ascension God's consideration of wanting to form an alliance with him, and then took the initiative to disclose it to the public because of his suggestion.

It can be said that almost every grand arcanist who is public is self-disclosure, rather than being discovered by others. In fact, there is no essential difference in terms of interests.

Still take Xia Duo himself as an example. After he made it public, he has the power to convene a grand arcanist contact meeting, and other people respect him (opinion) more. He still needs to pay for Mithril.

He wanted the plane exploration technology of Gilles Tower, but he still couldn't get it.

It is more about the improvement of political status. As for the actual benefits, it is not much more than that of senior arcanists. If someone has no intention of getting involved in power disputes and only wants to make money or do research, then choosing to hide himself may not be a bad thing.

Just like Jenna before, from this point of view, his previous judgment may be valid or not.

But in any case, Xia Duo still believes that it is better to be open, not only him, but also others. Power and politics are not something you can completely get rid of if you don’t want to participate, or life itself is a part of politics.

Giving up the right to participate is actually entrusting the decision-making power to others. To put it more seriously, it is giving up the power to control destiny, and you can only follow the trend in the future.

This is something Xia Duo strongly disagrees with.

He prefers that all people actively participate in political life, speak out for themselves, and make decisions for themselves. Unfortunately, in the current era, only Arcanists are able to do this!

Unlike in the Red Heart Alliance, even an ordinary person can participate in the decision-making of major national affairs. Of course, ordinary people in the Red Heart Alliance are actually spellcasters, but they may not be engaged in research work.

In fact, the experience of the Red Heart Alliance cannot be completely copied to Netheril. Even if it is all in the magical world, the Red Heart Alliance is very special.

At first, they were close to a group of refugees, and at the same time they were rejected and even hated by the mainstream society. After a little development, they had to face strong external pressure.

Only in this way has the result of the Red Heart Alliance being united as one.

Putting it in Netheril, Xiaduo estimated that even if the end of the world is coming tomorrow, there will still be a large number of mages who only consider their own special status and special abilities, and will maintain the old times when the end comes. idea.

They might as well consider the old era to be older, but they are unwilling to go back to the past completely. After all, they are too selfish to overwhelm the public interest.

In other words, in the eyes of those mages, only they themselves are the overall situation. There is no big problem in thinking this way, but it cannot reach the level of "big selfishness is great publicity". Too low-level selfish desires are almost useless.

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Xia Duo thought about it, but he didn't point out the fact that Said had become a great arcanist, but from this he thought of the idea of ​​breaking the situation for the people from the sweet water plane to return to the main plane.

As long as there are a few more great arcanists on the main plane, which will dilute the authority of the Seven Towers, in order to maintain their authority, the Seven Towers will inevitably win over the Nethers from the other plane, and compromise is not a problem.

Next, regardless of whether the Seven Towers are willing to accept it or not, the power of the small group of people above them will be diluted. Taking this opportunity, it may be possible to rebuild the Severton Covenant.

Change the fixed seat of the Seven Towers in the Severton Council.

The Sevington Council is said to be the highest authority in Netheril, but in fact, the identity of the Grand Arcanist, who is the actual ruler of Netheril, is not manifested there at all.

If it is not the lord, it does not even have the right to attend the meeting.

But completely ignoring the Grand Arcanists is not enough, so there was a joint meeting of Grand Arcanists of the Arcane Federation, which made the rights and responsibilities of the Arcane Federation and the Severton Council unclear.

One side has legal authority, the other side has actual power, and being entangled with each other is not good for anyone.

Xia Duo wanted to make the Austrian Federation become orthodox, but the existence of Netheril itself is inseparable from the Severton Covenant. In other words, it is impossible to do it alone without the Lord Council established based on the Severton Covenant.

If you can take this opportunity to combine the two, you can only use the status of Grand Arcanist as the condition for obtaining the upper-level decision-making seats of the Sevington Council, while the lord will be the supporter of the Sevington Covenant System and the lower-level participants of the council.

It seems to be more reasonable, and of course it also changed the dominance of the Seven Towers legally.

If it can be done, then the Seven Towers will be just a larger mage tower organization alliance in Netheril in the future, similar to the Verdant Tower Alliance in the south of the core area.

And because the number of great arcanist seats is actually related to the power of a mage tower organization in the overall framework of Netheril.

Although for a while, the Seven Towers may still occupy the top, but as long as the system is established, their power will only become more and more diluted, especially when Xia Duo has started to popularize education in the southern border.

Of course, this is an ideal situation. The Seven Towers can also popularize education and even form cliques, but this is not a bad thing in itself for Xia Duo.

He only regards the southern border as the basic area for direct control, as long as he can influence the rest, whether it is the development of the Great Xia Territory or the development of other places in Netheril, they will actually promote each other.

As long as the seven towers are pulled down from the "altar", everyone can get a preliminary full development.

In this case, as long as this can be done, even if Ye Erlan is actively lured to intervene, or even pay a certain price for it, the actual result is likely to be more beneficial than harmful.

Otherwise, whether it is the return of the alien plane, the development and growth of the southern border, or the growth of other territories or mage tower organizations, it will have an impact on the existing Severton Covenant system.

One or two times may be able to survive, and the collapse will be inevitable if the number of times is too high. Then rebuilding the covenant may be the only option. Thinking ahead and doing it in advance can minimize the consequences of the collapse of order.

There are not many such opportunities, and Xia Duo feels that it is necessary to seize the present opportunity.

(End of this chapter)