Lord of Arcane

Chapter 3256: Quick Interrogation: Feeling Lucky and Fearful

The Illuminati members captured this time are completely within a reasonable range, and they can be investigated openly after interrogation. Xia Duo has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, but he didn't expect it to come so easily this time!

An entire den was wiped out by a group of quickly trained high-level mages. After understanding the relevant situation, Xia Duo immediately transferred these Illuminati members to the floating city, and then transferred the villa demiplane that served as the temporary command center.

Evereska has left with Yongle City, so there is no need to leave the villa demiplane overlapping Evereska's original site. Xia Duo knows that many Evereska mages in the demiplane are very concerned about Evereska's current condition!

Just when Shado returned to Yongle City and prepared to make consciousness copies for those Illuminati members, he finally received a message from Elder Devin, along with Ambassador Tirion, the representative of Netheril to the Northern Alliance.

The former was mainly asking about Everska's current condition, while the latter was more concerned about why a good arrest operation had turned out like this, and why such a huge change had been made to Everska without informing all parties in advance.

Even with the explanations from Elder Devin and Elder Larian, this matter has caused quite a bit of confusion at the Alliance Headquarters, and representatives from various countries are now waiting for an explanation.

In response to Tirion's question, Shado simply gave an emergency explanation and mentioned that there would be further explanation later. As for Elder Devin, Shado's reply was more detailed -

"Thanks to the trust of the Council of Elders of Evereska, the transfer of Evereska is currently ongoing. The mazes in the city have not been seriously affected, and the current chaos will be resolved soon."

Xia Duo emphasized the maze locks in the city. With Elder Devin providing the maze lock authority, only a few areas or functions that were spatially bound to the deep terrain were temporarily paralyzed.

However, the main functions and related permissions were not greatly affected, and it would not be difficult to return to the previous state after proper repairs.

In addition, Shado also mentioned the follow-up arrangements for Evereska. He provided Elder Devin with two options:

“I can help you turn Evereska into a floating city. Before it is completed, Evereska can temporarily dock next to Yongle City.

"Or, we can level the original terrace, or even cut off a part of it, and put Evereska back to its original location. This way, the height will only be lowered, and the actual usable area of ​​the city will be expanded."

The place where Evereska was originally located was a plateau more than 300 meters high. As the name suggests, a plateau is a round table that is thin on the top and thick at the bottom, like a mountain with the tip cut off.

The most extreme case is to remove the entire plateau and connect it to the surrounding valleys to form a large basin surrounded by mountains.

If this is done, Everska's urban usable area will be maximized, increasing by almost seven or eight times.

In fact, Shado hoped that Everska would choose the latter option. Compared to transforming Everska into a floating city, even the most extreme option of removing the entire platform seemed very easy.

Floating cities have existed in the history of the elven world, and even now, there are still a large number of floating buildings in many elven cities.

The most typical and common one is the suspended walkway.

But maintaining the trail suspended in the air is undoubtedly more difficult than maintaining a city suspended in the air for a long time or even permanently. The reason why Shado was able to build a floating city was more dependent on Misera.

Otherwise he would never do such a cost-ineffective thing.

But he certainly couldn't hand Misera over to Everska, so he could only think of a way through conventional magic, which was too troublesome and would require too much time, energy and resources, equivalent to a super-large project.

Of course, if the transformation can be successful, it will also be a major advancement in the field of magic.

……

After Shado proposed two options, Elder Devin chose to transform Evereska into a floating city without hesitation, and the reason he gave was very simple -

Take advantage of the opportunity to transform the floating city to re-plan the maze of Evereska.

After hearing this reason, Shado immediately understood Everska's true intention. They were probably still upset about the Alliance's seizure of the authority over the maze, and wanted to take this opportunity to take back the authority, or to restrict the authority held by the Alliance.

Or as Elder Devin puts it – re-framing.

Of course, Shado expressed his support for this. Although Netheril gained benefits from this matter, such benefits were destined to be short-lived, and there were also compliance issues.

As the saying goes, "Do not do to others what you do not want others do to you." This situation is difficult for any country to accept. It is bullying Everesca because it is weak and has a limited territory. Otherwise, it would be better to directly allocate a piece of land or a city to the alliance headquarters.

Xia Duo considered more. If the alliance wanted to develop in the long run, internal fairness and justice were absolutely very important conditions. The alliance headquarters did have special significance, but it was not a reason to forcibly seize the authority of a country's maze locks.

He felt that it was sufficient to set aside a certain area to allow the Alliance Headquarters to build its own protective measures, and any more would be redundant.

It's just that he really can't express his opinion on this issue. Otherwise, although he won't completely isolate himself from Netheril, it will at least create a rift between him and other Netherese councilors.

So there’s no need to mention this matter, just do it.

When asked about it afterwards, it was simply because he was attracted by Everska's generosity and wanted to learn something from this big project.

This is a perfect excuse. Although the magic system is different, almost no Nether wizard would refuse such an opportunity if given one.

And this is actually what Xia Duo really thinks——

Cooperating with the contemporary top elven wizards of the main plane to explore the boundaries of arcane magic also involves a large number of engineering problems, which is also worthy of learning for the Nether wizards.

……

Xia Duo agreed with Elder Devin's choice, but there was a bigger trouble coming up, which was the explanation to the alliance. It was not a big deal for Xia Duo himself, but the situation was urgent and he had to resort to this last resort.

But how does Everska explain the plan to transform the floating city that will be attached to Yongle City for quite some time?

Fortunately, Xia doesn't need to worry about this problem. Since Elder Devin has made such a choice, the corresponding consequences or all problems caused should be solved by Everska. He is just an engineering partner.