Here, Xia Duo had just finished explaining the precautions, and over there, King Akaola quickly became familiar with his body in its new state. He sat up from the bed and called in Thalia who was waiting outside.
Perhaps knowing the importance of keeping King Mian alive, Talia walked up to King Mian as soon as he came in and asked with concern: "Did the spell succeed? How does King Mian feel?"
"The spell was successful. I feel very good. The elder is worried!"
At this time, Talia glanced at Xia Duo who was still in the secret room, and said gratefully: "Special Envoy Xia Duo, thank you!"
"Elder Taria, you don't have to be polite. Everything is for the common interests of the two countries. Now that King Mian is fine, I need to go back and report to the Severnton Council."
Xia Duo was firm in his intention to leave, and Elder Talia did not do much to persuade him to stay. However, a word from King Akaola made Xia Duo change his mind——
"The special envoy of King Comansuomian has made an appointment to visit them tomorrow. Special Envoy Xia Duo may wish to stay one more day and meet them with me."
Shado knew that the Crown Prince of Akora might be trying to use him as a shield when he said this, but on the other hand, perhaps it was also the Crown Prince of Akora who wanted to submit a petition to Netherilna.
Although Xia Duo's current identity is a secret envoy, it is not impossible to make it public if necessary.
In fact, after crowning Akora as the king and extending his life, his identity may no longer be kept secret. Even if Comanso cannot investigate, Akora may not be willing to keep it secret.
This is the same reason why Crown King of Akora is retaining people. The other party wants to have a deeper bond with Netheril, and correspondingly, Netheril must also respond.
Even if it wasn't him, Xia Duo, it would be someone else.
Now that he has participated in it, there is no need to avoid it. Isn't he the special envoy of Cormanso? Can he still be a cannibal?
…
Xia Duo naturally agreed to the invitation from the Crown Prince of Akola without hesitation, and that night, he stayed at the Akola Palace.
Of course, he also "ate" some food symbolically.
At noon the next day, accompanied by Prince Foss, Chateau first visited the capital of Akola, and then went to the hanging garden used to receive foreign guests.
Of course, unlike the Sun Garden in the capital of Irfalan, which is completely floating, the hanging garden in Akaula is just a suspended courtyard built on ancient branches.
When Xia Duo arrived, he happened to hear King Akora saying: "The King of Ilisel is very ambitious, and the root of his ascendancy is full of aggression. Although the Listal Forest is big, it is difficult to stop him."
Cormanso’s pace of expansion.”
Noting the arrival of Xia Duo, King Akaola did not stop and continued: "For this reason, we must find an ally that has no fundamental conflict with us to block the pressure from Cormanthor and win our survival.
, time for development.”
At this moment, other elves in the courtyard also noticed Xia Duo's arrival, and they immediately started talking——
"Humanity?"
"Why are humans here?"
"It was brought by Prince Foss!"
"Could it be that the allies mentioned by King Mian are humans? Is it Netheril? Or is it the four southern kingdoms?"
…
Although most of the elves were discussing, they did not take any further action, but there were exceptions. Xia Duo noticed an arrogant elf, raised the scepter in his hand and pointed at him.
The surging magic fluctuations could be clearly felt even from a long distance away, but Xia Duo did not react to it. Instead, he smiled and looked at the Akora Mian King on the throne.
Akora Crown King had a calm face and deep eyes. He could not see any joy or anger, and he did not say anything to stop him. But just when the elf's spell was about to be activated, Asbylan suddenly took action, stopped the other party, and scolded:
"How dare you be so rude to distinguished guests in front of the Crowned King? I wonder if the Celedis family has been comfortable for too long!"
Then, he introduced Shado's identity to all the elves - the special envoy of the Severnton Council of Netheril.
"Special Envoy Xia Duo, let me introduce to you all the members of King Mian's advisory group, as well as the senior Akora family director."
Shado smiled and nodded to the elves one by one. Through Asbylan's introduction and his own understanding of elven society, he discovered that the prototype of a parliamentary system had already appeared in Akora.
The actual power of the crowned king may be much lower than he previously imagined, and the real uncrowned king of Akora may be Asbylan who controls the advisory group!
Of course, now King Mian somehow managed to win over Elder Tria, who had just returned from the Elven Court, and appointed him as the new magic advisor.
To a certain extent, Espilan was suppressed, but it was obvious that Espilan was able to control the advisory group not just because he was a high mage.
Otherwise, other high mages may not be convinced by him. The so-called power should essentially be the ability to share the cake. As long as Asbylan can share the cake and satisfy more elves, other elves will support him.
As for the position of Crown Prince, its symbolic meaning is greater than its actual meaning.
Since the Kelsek family has monopolized the position of Crown Prince, except for the mother of the current Crown Prince, who is Asbylan's sister, none of them have died well.
The contemporary Crown Prince just caught up with a good opportunity, otherwise, he might not end well!
Of course, the fact that Prince Mian has little authority does not mean that he has no authority. Especially when Prince Mian and Asbylan were still uncle-nephew, power or something like that might just be a matter of coquettishness.
Xia Duo could tell that Asbylan still cared about Prince Mian. Whether it was because of power or family affection, it was difficult to fake that kind of caring look.
But as an outsider, he couldn't see through the real relationship for a while, but he only needed to know one thing - business was business.
No matter what the private relationship is, the King of Akora recognized by Netheril or the entire Northern Alliance is the crowned king, not the chief advisor.
…
After a brief introduction, the "House of Commons" composed of representatives of the upper-ranking families of Akora temporarily retreated to the edge of the courtyard, while the advisory group, most of whose members were senior mages, stayed behind, separated only by a thin layer of flower vines.
.
At this moment, Prince Foss reported: "The Cormanso envoy is urging us again."
"Bring them here." This time it was King Mian who spoke.
However, Asbylan also added, "Let them come from the street of the Arc de Triomphe!"
"yes."
Prince Foss responded and then left.
As for Xia Duo, he finally breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Asbylan's addition.
When he arrived, he passed by the Arc de Triomphe. At that time, Prince Foss introduced that the Arc de Triomphe was built to commemorate the time when Akora and Jelenstar fought off the drow invasion.
But the key point is that there is still an alliance on the Arc de Triomphe written by the crown princes of the two countries that will never betray them.