Chapter 3296: Bad news comes one after another
The innovation of plane exploration technology indirectly contributed to the prosperity of the airship industry, and then promoted the prosperity of the commodity economy in Netheril. The speed of communication and the variety of goods in various places have been greatly improved.
In the lounge, Shado recalled the huge territory of Netheril and was full of expectations for the future. However, the more hope he could see, the more he hated the existence of the Illuminati.
Why can't they calm down and develop well? If they have to make trouble, it would be fine if they were limited to the Elven Kingdom, but they have to involve the entire North and even the entire main plane.
If you think Elan is destined to be great, why not join it and help it develop? You must know that the Elan region is now independent. Although the territory is small, there are so many unowned lands in the main plane, and no one restricts it from development.
As for Netheril, it is not that they don't want to go to various places in the main plane to enclose land, but they are really powerless. The land they have already enclosed has not been fully developed. If they go outside, the stall will be too big and the power will be dispersed.
Other countries in the North are similar. Even those small countries are unable to expand abroad because of the lack of population. As long as the population keeps up, they will definitely expand abroad.
The most typical example is Irusk. At the beginning, it was a small human tribe on the border of Ilfarang. It relied on the protection of Ilfarang's maze and gradually grew stronger.
Now it has been supported to become an independent country. Although it still has to rely on Ilfarang for the time being, the weak will always grow. Such a small country has actually begun to expand overseas.
In this regard, Ilfarang not only did not stop it, but provided more advanced ships and technology to help Irusk expand overseas. In the final analysis, the big countries do not want small countries to take advantage of themselves.
On Earth, small countries hold a referendum to join the big countries, and the big countries refuse, and then spend a lot of money to support the small countries, begging them not to join themselves. This is also true.
Today's North has entered the era of alliances. If small countries are rotten, the big countries will definitely have a headache, but if small countries are too motivated, the big countries will also feel pressure.
Obviously, Irusk is far from being a country that makes Ilfarran feel pressured, and is even on the verge of being rotten. After all, Irusk itself is a country that was forcibly integrated. In terms of size, it is not even as big as a city in Ilfarran. Irusk people dream of joining Ilfarran.
They even moved their families to Netheril, but they were rejected by Netheril.
In the eyes of the Nether wizards, Irusk people are no different from the wild people on the Langas Plain. The only difference is that Irusk people have established a country and are a member of the Northern Alliance, with voting rights in the Alliance Assembly.
Are there more differences besides this?
Irusk people have not even developed primitive witchcraft, while the Langas people have long developed a mature shaman system.
From this point of view, Irusk people are more like wild people than Langas people.
Of course, whether it is the Irusk or the Langas, in the eyes of Shado, they are all alien races, just like the Netherese, the Muran, the Orientals and even the various elves, but they are also equal.
If this kind of speech is placed in the elf world, it may be regarded as heresy, but this is indeed Shado's true idea.
Although he is an alien race, he himself is in a foreign land. To the people in the foreign land, he himself is also an alien race. "Alien" is just a distinction, not discrimination.
Shado will not regard these alien races as inferior or superior existences, but equal intelligent species like him.
So in his territory, the Netherese, the Langas, the Muran, and even the elves are no longer racial distinctions, but are closer to the concept of hometown and native place, and may even be further subdivided.
And all these foreigners have formed the Daxia people together under the guidance of the Daxia order.
Even the demon elves, as long as he can control the bloodline or is willing to accept the operation of stripping the demon bloodline, Shado will treat them equally.
It is with this idea that Xia Duo attaches great importance to the Northern Alliance. He does not want this alliance, which he himself helped to establish, to eventually disintegrate.
This further increased his hatred for the Illuminati.
At the same time, he also took seriously the potential risks south of the Southern Territory that Iollum reminded him of. There are not many people in the territory at present. If the situation is urgent, at most they can be brought to Yongle City.
Even if the entire Southern Territory is turned into a blank land, it is nothing more than another development. Isn't this how it was in the past!
Compared with the threats of orcs and trolls, which are not actually crises, Xia Duo is more worried that the Illuminati will know the existence of Plitatis, which is the real bomb.
Xia Duo also reminded Iollum, but he doesn't know whether it is useful or not. This is also the thing he is most worried about at present.
However, no matter how worried he was, his plan would not be shaken. In the floating city laboratory, he confirmed with the alliance headquarters whether Representative Ye Erlan had sent an entry permit. After receiving a negative answer, he continued to devote himself to the work of analyzing the magic weapon.
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The next day, for Xia Duo, he had actually entered and exited the time acceleration array countless times, and the perceived time had passed for a year or two. Only then did he understand Nia.
If there is no special statistics, it is easy to ignore the loss of time and have no concept of specific time if you are always busy with your own things.
Shado now has the same feeling. The best way for him to maintain normal time with the main plane is to contact the computing pool operation and maintenance personnel at the Alliance headquarters as soon as he comes out of the time acceleration array to confirm the current time and the situation of the Yerlan representative.
The result disappointed Shado. Until the second day of the main plane time, after he asked the operation and maintenance personnel countless times, the answer he got was always - no, no, the entry permit has not been sent to the Lingsi Network Research Center!
Just when Shado suspected that something had happened in Yerlan again and was about to contact the other party in person to urge him, Tirion brought Shado another bad news -
When Cormanso failed to find the underground passage suspected of drow lurking in the country, Ilfarran also found traces of drow activities, which were even more serious.
Ilfarran found the underground passage, and it was near the capital Erintar!
If it is said that the traces of drow found by Cormanthor before were just a possibility, and now the passage connecting the Underdark has been clearly discovered, this means that the traces of drow found before are likely to be left by drow, not just the arrangement of the Illuminati.
The only thing to be thankful for now is that the underground area directly corresponding to Erintar is far away from the activity area of drow or gray dwarves, but the underground passage is not straight from top to bottom like a well, but there is a high probability that there are twists and turns.
Where the underground passage found in Erintar leads to is still unknown for the time being. If it happens to be connected to an aggressive race, it will be fun.
It is really possible to trigger a war again. Although the enemy may not be the drow, the drow will definitely not miss such an opportunity. They were defeated last time, and this time they have a chance to make up for it. Wouldn’t they be tempted?
