Arcane Lord

The latest website: For a while, Xia Duo regretted agreeing to the invitation of the Great Emperor Karin Shan. He thought it might just be a relaxing and pleasant sightseeing trip. By the way, there might be some things to talk about, but in general it will be very relaxing.

But now it seems that it is not so simple. The domestic instability of Karin Shan, and the assassination of the elf prince just happened not long ago, Xia Duo suddenly had a premonition—

By the time Karim comes, he will inevitably be involved in this matter!

As the floating city continues to deepen, although he still maintains a state of communication with Fadilla, Shado is also seeing more and more ground scenes through [Wide Area Detection] or other passive information gathering spells.

From a high altitude, you can see the vast desert from west to east, from north to south, all the way to the seaside. Only on the edge of two rivers that run through the desert and join the sea to the west, and one joins the sea to the south, there are more deserts. Oasis distribution.

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

Of course, that's a lot more than Netheril.

And Kalim, where Xia Duo is going, is at the southernmost end of the Kalin River that runs through the desert and flows south into the sea. Looking at this journey, Xia Duo saw the exquisite and skillful fighting posture of the Kalinshan scholars. I saw the sight of the common people struggling to survive.

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

The biggest problem in this is the water source. Controlling the water source in the desert is equivalent to controlling the lifeline of everyone. Even a very clever spellcaster, if he doesn't know how to summon water, it's still thirsty.

And although almost all citizens of Karin Shan can cast spells, most of them only know some simple bloodline magic, and they also happen to awaken the water element bloodline in a country where the wind element bloodline is the mainstream.

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

If Shado is a local Pasha, and his mind is a little bit more vicious, as long as he hears someone with an awakened water element bloodline, he will immediately kill them.

In the worst case, it can be reported to the top, asking the "great" Sir Pasha to maintain the stability of this class order.

If you think about it according to this line of thinking, I am afraid that someone in Karinshan will deliberately deal with the water-related spells in the blood magic system.

If this is the case, Shado dares to conclude that the ruling class of Karinshan is born and will die because of water!

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The speed of the floating city is not slow. It didn't take long for Xia Duo to receive a message from Niya, and she had already seen the magnificent city of Kalim on the coast in the distance.

The buildings in the city are tall and magnificent, with many towers, almost all buildings have pointed arch tops that sparkle with colorful brilliance in the sun, full of exotic customs.

In addition, perhaps to facilitate heat dissipation, the main surfaces of most of Karinshan's buildings have been smeared with a white fine sand, which emits a hazy white light in the sun.

Nia liked this architectural style very much, and the voice of the communication was full of joy and cheerfulness, until she saw the scene in a small village near a small oasis not far north of Dukalim!

Listening to Niya's angry and even slightly uneasy tone, Xado quickly adjusted the target of [Wide Area Detection], and soon found the small village that Niya mentioned.

It was a super-micro settlement with only a dozen or so families living in it. In the middle was a low building made of stones, with a structure similar to a cellar, and at the bottom was an infiltrated sink made of gravel.

Outside the stone building, a circle of wooden houses was almost evenly surrounded, and there were two rows of unknown dead trees growing outside the wooden houses, blocking the wind and sand from the north and west.

Of course, from the scattered small yellow leaves, it can be seen that the dead trees are not dead, but a drought-tolerant plant that is relatively common in deserts and almost absent in the north.

If there is no accident and no ruler above, this small village should be a paradise that can survive in hardships.

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

But reality is reality after all. Although Chateau took a step later than Niya to observe, the tools scattered outside the wooden house and the long series of horseshoe prints extending westward into the desert can also be seen that there has just been a man-made disaster.

Of course, from the perspective of [Wide Area Exploration], Xia Duo could clearly see that the four big men on horseback and masked to the west were recklessly singing a wild song.

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

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

So, Xia Duo, who was at the right time, saw the most evil side of human nature—

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

Although Xia Duo could not understand the Kalinshan language, 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 note, it is obviously a little instinctive spell of the water element bloodline.

Niya should have seen the robbery by the sand thieves and the rebellion of the villagers after being robbed. Xia Duo asked, and it was true, and also mentioned that the girl had just made some clean water, but the villagers were still not satisfied. I still want to squeeze more, but the bloodline power is limited and needs to be recovered, so there is a sad persecution scene that Xia Duo saw.

Through the exploration outside the village, Xia Duo estimated that it would take at least a day for the villagers to walk from the village to the nearest oasis. If he wanted to bring water back, he would be drunk by the transporters before he walked back to the village. .

Or the transporter was tired and lay down.

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

One is to collectively abandon the village to go to the oasis and become Pasha's obedient slave; the other is to force the girl of the water element bloodline to make clean water for everyone, temporarily delaying a wave so that the water in the cellar tank can recover.