Lord of Arcane

This is the theoretical life limit of a Nese mage, which is about a thousand years.

Of course, this is only theoretical. In actual implementation, different life extension methods may require different auxiliary conditions, and they are not easy to achieve. It is already very remarkable to achieve half of the ultimate life span.

In addition, not all Nese mages want to have a long lifespan, including the great arcanists. Some of them are influenced by the early teachings of the Lord of the End of All Things and refuse to resist death, while some really don't care. .

The current teachings of the Lord of the End of All Things do not restrict resistance to death, but encourage mages to live more fulfilling lives through life extension, so that they can enter the realm of death in a more complete state.

Such doctrinal changes actually reflect the process of the mage class becoming the true rulers of Netheril, and it also means the cognitive bias of human priests towards death.

Such a huge difference in doctrinal changes did not arouse the resentment of the Lord of the End of All Things. This is enough to say that all human understandings of death may be included in death. Of course, it may also be the acquiescence and cooperation of the God of Death.

After all, God is not omnipotent. Even in his own field, he is willing to accept new knowledge, new insights, and new changes that are more beneficial to him, provided there are no competitors.

If there is a competitor, the competitor must be killed first. Any changes during the period will be labeled as heresy, and then the winner takes all.

In other words, with their new understanding of death, the Nese humans in the past actually had the opportunity to give birth to a new god in the realm of death, but this understanding was immediately accepted by the Lord of the End of All Things.

If anyone wants to use this field to become a god in the future, they will directly offend the Lord of the End of All Things.

These are not the speculations of Xia Duo alone, but the revelations or warnings left by the princess after she ascended to the gods, prohibiting Master Nese from ascending to the gods in the realm of death, so as not to offend the Lord of the End of All Things.

Just from the princess's revelation, we can get a glimpse of the cruelty of the competition to ascend to the gods. The same path is basically first come, first served, I will lose you!

Fortunately, Netheril has not yet developed to that level at this stage. At least until the next successful case of ascension to a god appears, there will not be too cruel competition for god ascension.

Once there is a next winner, it's hard to say. Maybe Xia Duo will take a seat first!

If god-level power is compared to nuclear weapons, then if others have it, it is best to have it yourself, otherwise you will always be angry. What is even more frightening is that the enemy has it. Even if there are restrictions on the use of this power, then you I also have trouble sleeping and eating.

From this perspective, the race to ascend to the gods will be more cruel than the nuclear arms race on earth, because in addition to the overwhelming power that can crush everything, the uniqueness of the road and the great advantage of the first mover also make it necessary for everyone to Spend everything you have to win the possibility of being a starter.

Unlike the nuclear competition, if others succeed, you may not be unable to succeed, and the experience of others can accelerate your own success. But in the god-ascension competition, if others succeed, it is almost impossible for other god-ascensioners in the same field to succeed.

Although Xia Duo prefers to advance through the pure arcane path, if he can foresee the upcoming threat of the new gods, then he will not be ignorant of adaptability. He will definitely find a way to advance to the gods first, or let someone he trusts advance first. god.

This will at least ensure that you survive, and then you will be qualified to talk about other things later.

If it weren't for the current limited understanding of the state of gods, uncertainty about whether the process of ascension to gods is reversible, and whether gods have any unspeakable drawbacks, Xia Duo would actually want to upgrade first and then develop civilization.

The efficiency of civilization led by gods and the civilization led by ordinary people are completely different concepts, and the difficulty is also completely different.

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In the remote conference hall, Xia Duo listened to the speeches of other congressmen, and his mind had drifted far away. The current situation made him realize that there might be a lot of changes in how to deal with the demons in the future.

But no matter what, there are at least two things that are certain that all countries in the North, including Netheril, can agree on, and that is -

The Illuminati must be eliminated and overhauled.

As for how to deal with the demons found out, all countries in the North need to make a joint decision. Xia Duo himself actually doesn't have many ideas. As long as the demon descendants don't mess with him and don't carry out any indiscriminate attacks outside, he can completely accept the existence of the demon descendants.

When he was in the projection plane, he also served as the leader of the demons! Generally speaking, he is sympathetic to the demons themselves. He mainly does not cause trouble and everyone can be well!

While Xia Duo was deep in thought, he suddenly heard someone calling his name——

"Congressman Xia Duo, you are the only one here who has had direct contact with the devil. I want to know if the devil can really be detected? If so, what should we do?"

"Of course it can be detected, but it is limited to the bloodline itself. If a person is a human but his thoughts are towards the devil, then this method cannot detect it. Even if the will is firm, even mental spells can't be detected. It may not be possible to judge.”

Chateau does not deny the limitations of existing testing technology, but for comprehensive testing, blood testing is enough. It is impossible to conduct a ideological review on everyone. This is unrealistic.

“But the existing detection methods cannot determine whether the target is a demon with just one spell, or it can be said that it is, but the cost is too high and is not suitable for comprehensive detection.

“If you want to carry out comprehensive testing, set up a specialized testing laboratory, or send the collected blood samples to the Northland Alliance for testing.

"However, considering that blood itself has uses other than detecting demons, my suggestion is to introduce technology from the Northland Alliance and then build a testing laboratory of our own."

Blood, especially blood involving the entire population, must not be left in untrusted hands. Even for testing, you need to find someone you can trust to do it.

In this regard, the elven countries are one step faster than Netheril. After all, the elves had the need to detect demons before, but humans did not.

"What about the efficiency of testing? Test one by one? Or can we test in batches?" a congressman continued to ask.

Many of these people may have never understood the situation related to demon detection before today, and now they can only ask Xia Duo, who already serves in the Northland Alliance.

At this point, Xia Duo even had more say than Badigal. When asked, he recalled a little and then told everyone:

"The detection efficiency is relatively high, mainly because it can be mixed and tested, and the blood collected in an area is mixed together for one-time testing. The key to the demon detection is to detect the abyssal breath in it.

“If the total samples in an area detect the abyssal aura, then the area can be re-examined and divided into multiple blocks to identify the source of the abyssal aura step by step.

“This can be accomplished through the blood collection stage, where a person’s blood is divided into multiple portions for subsequent testing. What is cumbersome about this is not the testing process, but the backtracking, positioning, and blood collection processes.

"For Netheril, the ideal situation may be that the detection can be completed only once. Of course, this will only happen if there is no demon in Netheril.

"If there is a demon descendant, the actual number of detections will not be much. First, test once in total, and then once in half. You can locate the specific territory within a few times.

“After that, the territory will be screened in the same way until the demon target is found.

“If the initial blood collection is not enough, repeat collection will be performed after narrowing down the target area.

"In short, at a practical level, this is completely achievable."