After getting the attitude of Evriska and Netheril, Shado did not contact the Thorn Society directly. Instead, he slightly modified the Netherese Magic Introductory Manual that Cousteau had brought before, and then
Ask Rachel to send someone there.
This implies the other party's permission, but does not give any formal commitment. If the situation is not right in the future, it can be easily cut. If the situation improves, there will be no problem in further cooperation.
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After dealing with the incident involving the Thorn Society, Xia Duo returned to the alliance headquarters. Although the current public computing power pool is in a stable state, it will still be inseparable from his presence for quite some time.
It's just that now that the initial high-pressure stage has passed, Xia Duo doesn't need to keep an eye on the alliance headquarters all the time, as long as he can be contacted and rushed there as soon as there is a problem with the computing power pool.
The rest of the time, he stayed in the office, either reading through various materials collected in the Alliance Archives, or transferring his consciousness back to his original body, busy with matters concerning the Territory and the Tower of Time.
After arriving at the headquarters that day, Xia Duo first walked around the gateway control hall and made sure there were no problems before returning to his office.
After a moment, Doom from the Demon Intelligence Research Laboratory personally held a secret box and knocked on the office door, "Advisor Xia Duo, I heard that you were back, so I sent you the information as soon as possible."
"You are so well-informed, you are worthy of being an intelligence agent!"
"The Demon Intelligence Research Laboratory has special authority within the alliance headquarters and can retrieve the whereabouts information of most personnel. Advisor Xia Duo, please don't think that I have an informant in the Lingsi Network Research Center."
"how could be!"
Of course, Shado doesn't think that Doom has the ability to arrange for capable elf mages to come over and act as spies, but it is almost inevitable to persuade some mages who have joined the Lingsi Network Research Center to provide some less important information through various channels.
of.
"Have you brought the information I asked for?"
"I brought it, but this part of the information is highly confidential. Consultant Xia Duo, you have no right to keep it, and you can only view it in my presence."
"No problem, I understand."
After Shado agreed, Doom handed over the secret box and provided the unlocking key. Shado opened the secret box and found a stack of thick elf paper, also known as wood pulp paper, lying quietly inside.
Although the paper style was the same, after a brief inspection, he determined that the information was not written by the same person, but by multiple people. Some of the words were transcribed by hand, and some were transcribed by spells, which looked a bit strange.
Too harmonious.
Of course, the text form is not what Xia Duo is concerned about. What he is really concerned about is the content of the written records - the summary results of comprehensive testing in various countries in the Northland in the past month or so.
"Shocking!" Looking at the data on the paper, Xia Duo couldn't help but sigh.
Although I had long expected that there would be quite a lot of demons found in the elven country, I never expected that there would be so many! The hardest-hit areas were Erlan and Cormanthor.
Especially Ye Erlan, this time he found over 10,000 demon descendants, and Cormanso was not far behind either, there were close to 10,000!
As for Netheril, although abyssal breath infection has also been detected, it is more of the residual effects of previous drow attacks. Some were not purified at the time, and some were infected while conducting relevant research in private.
Some of the demons who were detected were also elf traders from abroad.
The ones that are more "pure" than Netheril are probably Irusk and Akora. There are not even many spellcasters in the former country, and the demons probably don't care about them at all.
As for Akora, before it was closed to the country, there was a large-scale purge of demons. After it reopened, it was even more open to Netheril. Even if the demons wanted to get over, it would be difficult for them to find a normal way.
Of course, there are dwarves, but the demons among the dwarves were not transformed by the demon elves. Instead, they were on the front line of the war and were the most polluted. Even the battlefields back then have not been completely cleaned up until now.
Many dwarves were infected by the breath of the abyss, and even became serious enough to become the first generation demons.
The first demons in the main plane were elves infected by the aura of the battlefield abyss. In the original Crown War, in order to become the final winners, Arivanda and Ilysri used almost every possible means, and summoning demons was only one of them.
That's all.
This kind of demon descendant who was directly infected by the breath of the abyss is called the first-generation demon descendant. It has suffered all kinds of pain and received almost no positive benefits.
Later, the so-called longevity of demons refers to the descendants of demons whose bloodline has been stabilized. Their existence itself can be regarded as a miracle. One hundred demons cannot give birth to a normal demon, and most of them are just a mass.
It is not uncommon for blood fetuses to give birth to demons.
There are also demons transformed by spells whose bloodline is relatively stable and can enjoy a lifespan far longer than that of normal elves.
Only a very small number of these demon descendants currently discovered in the main plane were born naturally, and the vast majority were transformed through ritual spells.
But this does not mean that the relationship between these demons is all strangers. In fact, those demon families are still normal elf families on the surface. They only come when they are near the end of their lifespan or have children and have no plans to reproduce.
Only then will the demon be transformed to obtain the benefits of the demon.
This is clearly recorded in the information brought by Doom. Many of the detected demon families only regard the transformation ritual as a special life-extending spell, and the main body of the family is still a normal elf.
This is also the fundamental reason why it was so difficult to eradicate demons in the past. The special bloodline of demons, and even this special culture, has been deeply rooted in the normal elves.
If you don't cut off your thoughts, even if you kill all the demons detected now, if an elf wants to extend his life in the future, he will still think of the demons.
Even if all the relevant spells are destroyed, it doesn't take much to re-research. Just find some civilians and let them be infected with the abyss until they naturally transform into demons. This is ready-made research material.
It is also because of this current situation that all countries in the alliance absolutely abide by the previous resolutions and treat demons that are not involved in vicious incidents with leniency or even not at all.
Otherwise, do you really think that high-level officials in various countries are good people who abide by laws and regulations?
"Huh--"
Looking at it, Sha Duo suddenly discovered a doubt. He noticed that the number of demons in the Kingdom of Elam recorded in the information Doom brought was very small. Calculated according to the population ratio, Bisluwend
All much lower!
But you must know that General Cruz, who came to power after the split of Sluvende, was actually a rebel who smuggled into the modern era from ancient times and resisted the senior officials of Sluvende who were seriously infiltrated by demons at that time.
After he came to power, he carried out a large-scale purge of demons. If Sluvende hadn't opened up to its neighbors, it might have been even cleaner than Akora.
However, the proportion of demons detected in the Kingdom of Elam is lower than that of Sluvend, which is very puzzling. (End of this chapter)