Arcane Lord

With the foreshadowing of the previous topic, Shado naturally talked about the ongoing decisive battle between the Northern Alliance and the Illuminati, and he once again raised the confusion about the change of the timeline to Envoy Richie:

"I confirmed with Envoy Ted before, and he told me not to worry about the so-called timeline change, but now the Northern Alliance has really received such an attack, so I want to confirm with Envoy Richie again, about the timeline, what is the difference between the perspective of the Envoy and mortals."

"This question-"

Envoy Richie hesitated for a moment, did not overturn Ted's statement, but also gave his own answer: "I can't sense the existence of the timeline, but you really don't need to worry, because Netheril is a place favored by my Lord.

"As for whether the past can be changed, I can't assert it, but changing the past involves all aspects, and the cost should not be something that mortals can afford.

"I am more inclined to believe that the so-called timeline change is just an illusion with the added effect of changing reality, but of course it is not ruled out that there is such a spell.

"But again, Netheril is a place favored by our Lord, and your enemies can't change the history of Netheril no matter what they change."

"In fact, it has changed!" Shado immediately pointed out the loophole in the words of Richie's envoy, "Not long ago, I personally experienced an effect similar to the time loop at Mount Tanza. According to my judgment, it should be the continuous creation of new timelines to replace the current timeline that caused such an effect.

"In this case, even if Netheril has not undergone visible changes, it must have been affected through me as a contact medium."

What Shado didn't say was whether the so-called favor of the Lord of Light was to protect Netheril from being affected 100%, or just to ensure that the fact that he had signed a human-god contract with the Nether people would not be affected.

The difference between the two is still very large.

But talking about the latter inevitably involves the exploration of the essence of the Lord of Light. Facing a envoy, Shado still couldn't mention this issue frankly.

So we can only find a way to let Richie the Divine Envoy understand it himself.

But Xia Duo is destined to be disappointed. If the Divine Envoy knows everything, then he is not a Divine Envoy. Richie the Divine Envoy was stunned for a few seconds, and did not directly respond to Xia Duo's doubts, but just repeated again and again:

"Since Master Xia Duo can sense the changes in the timeline, it seems that he can ignore that form of attack. Isn't this the best embodiment of my Lord's favor?"

It is really difficult for Xia Duo to refute this, because when he was at Tanzan Peak before, he was able to break the cycle to a large extent by borrowing the power of the Divine Envoy.

And the power of the Divine Envoy can undoubtedly be attributed to the Lord of Light in the end.

If it were only Xia Duo himself, then even if he could make his consciousness transcend the timeline, his body would not be spared, and he could only compete with Daphne in the end.

Although he is confident that he can beat Daphne, whether he is confident or conceited can only be verified in practice, and now, when he has already influenced Daphne's manipulation of the timeline through the power of the Divine Envoy, it is actually impossible to verify.

Xia Duo is not a conceited person, and he really can't say that he must be better than Daphne, so he can only think that what Richie said is moral and cannot be refuted.

But Richie is an existence that is immune to time-related magic, which makes Xia Duo have no chance to give him a personal experience.

Or in Richie's cognition and reality, time-related magic really does not exist, and people who have contact with him can also use his characteristics to be immune to the influence of time-related magic.

This makes the communication between the two sides on this topic completely incomprehensible. Even if Xia Duo can realize such cognitive bias, he can't prove it at all, at least he can't give evidence that Richie can be convinced.

He can only rely on the past understanding of both parties to barely confirm this fact.

Moreover, Xia Duo is not sure whether the other party will think that he is deliberately guiding something if he repeatedly emphasizes it, so Xia Duo simply doesn't dwell on this topic next, and instead asks the other party to help go to some specific places for blessings.

Actually, it is anchoring the past.

But this request was rejected by the God Envoy Richie, "Unless the Illuminati you mentioned has completely plunged into the abyss and has shown enough annihilation tendencies, otherwise, as a God Envoy, I really have no reason to interfere in the war in the mortal world."

Fortunately, Xia Duo did not expect to take God Envoy Richie to the local battlefields one by one, and he still had a second-best plan-

"In this case, please ask God Envoy Richie to stay in Yongle City for the time being, or continue to go to the Dark Region to help. However, many things in the mortal world also involve faith and the abyss. I hope that God Envoy Richie will allow me to ask for advice from time to time."

Using the God Envoy to anchor the past does not necessarily require the God Envoy to be present in person. Xia Duo has tried it before in Tanzan Peak, and it only needs to be contacted through communication.

Even if it is not to avoid being discovered by the Illuminati, he can use the holy seal given by Ted and Richie to anchor himself.

But if the God Envoy has come to the main plane and can let the God Envoy take the initiative to communicate, it is better to try this method and anchor with the holy seal as the last insurance.

If the two gods fail to respond in time, Xia Duo can use the holy seal to anchor the past.

…

After finalizing the contact matters, Xia Duo talked with the envoy Rich about what he had seen in the Underdark. He had only experienced the Underdark in the projection plane before, and the envoys had different perspectives, so the two sides still had a lot to talk about.

For example, regarding the unique radiation environment of the Underdark, the mainstream view of the main plane is that the magic network has changed, but the envoy Rich believes that it is the radiation of the ground veins, and the magic network just conforms to such changes.

However, the ground veins are not unique to the Underdark. There are also ground veins on the surface. The density of the magic network strings within the influence range of the ground veins on the surface is often denser than in other areas.

To a certain extent, it also makes the energy absorption efficiency in the corresponding area higher than in other areas.

Therefore, the site selection of many wizard towers will give priority to building on the ground vein nodes to obtain higher energy absorption efficiency. Of course, this is only for wizard towers. For individuals, it is almost impossible to reach the energy absorption limit of the magic network.

If it is just a personal wizard tower, there is actually no need to build it on the ground vein node. It is stronger than a personal spellcaster wherever it is built. If it is an organization's wizard tower, choosing the ground vein node is almost an inevitable choice.

However, the ground vein nodes on the surface do not produce any radiation, and the rules of the magic network are completely consistent with other regions. Unlike the Underdark, it is almost like two independent planes compared to the surface.

The most important thing is that except for the main plane, other planes do not have a unique environment similar to the Underdark on the main plane. Most of them do not even have an underground world, and even if there is, there is no radiation.

Therefore, Xia Duo still doubts about the statement made by the Envoy Rich that the ground veins cause the radiation environment in the Underdark.