"Consultant Xia Duo, sometimes I really don't understand you. When you were in the south, you could destroy a city of civilians without hesitation, but in the north, you are not even willing to accept the risk of an ordinary mage. After all,
Which one is the real you?"
Kalish originally thought that someone who could kill civilians without hesitation would not care about the risk his plan would pose to ordinary mages, but he never expected that the biggest obstacle to this plan was Shado.
After hearing Kalish's words, Xia Duo couldn't help but sneer in his heart. If the other party knew a little bit about the Daxia Code, he would not say such substandard words.
Perhaps the other party has already understood it, but still regards the Daxia Code as his unique skills and means of maintaining rule, rather than the spirit shown in the code itself.
Kalish, or many people in the current era, cannot understand the meaning of the people, and only regard the people as the objects of rule, rather than the main body of the country or organization.
For example, Everriska has also communicated and cooperated with Shado, and is even now introducing some contents from the Bactrian Code to reconcile the class conflicts in Everriska, but in essence Everriska
Ska sees this type of reform more as a means to maintain rule or improve international competitiveness, rather than really wanting to improve the situation at the bottom.
So now, it is completely understandable for Shado to say this to Kalish. As for killing civilians without hesitation in the south, that is just the collateral damage of the war.
No one can guarantee that civilians will not be harmed during the war.
In fact, judging from the proportion of psychic mages in Zhamdas, which is as high as more than 80%, the civilians in and around Toxent City cannot be called civilians at all, but should be potential armed forces.
In that case, in order to achieve the effect of a quick counterattack, it was certainly impossible for Xia Duo to identify one by one who was harmless to him, and then send a notice to those people to evacuate before launching a strike.
This is unrealistic.
Even now, although Shado feels sorry for the civilians of Zhamdas who died in that attack, if he had to choose again, he would still choose to strike decisively.
If Kalish wants such a case to accuse him of being duplicitous or trying to undermine his persistence in his ideas, then he can only say - he is overthinking.
"It doesn't matter which one is the real me. What matters is that you, who proposed the new artifact plan, are willing to make some risk control considerations for the Northland mage group?"
Seemingly seeing signs of Chateau relenting, Kalish was also willing to say something dramatic:
"Of course I am willing, but the plans I proposed cannot satisfy everyone, especially you, Consultant Xia Duo, which makes it difficult to implement my plan from the beginning."
"Then let me give you an idea. If you want to collect arcane wisdom, you may be able to collect it in batches in advance instead of collecting it in real time during the ceremony. This way, if an accident occurs, there will still be a chance to remedy it."
Kalish is interested in arcane wisdom, isn't Shado himself interested? As long as the risk is controllable, what if the other party actually creates an artifact?
From the very beginning, he had clearly told the other party that the artifact plan could not contain uncontrollable factors, but Kalish's attitude had been very firm in the past.
Even now, Kalish is still noncommittal about the idea proposed by Shado. In fact, he is resisting. This guy hopes to collect arcane wisdom from the computing power pool in real time during the process of building the artifact.
In Shado's view, arcane wisdom should be a database of arcane magic at the consciousness level, a collection of the knowledge of magic by all arcane mages participating in the plan. This should be a resource that can be collected in advance.
I just don’t know why Kalish insists on collecting them in real time during the ceremony. Maybe it has something to do with psychic energy, or maybe Kalish has some ulterior motive.
For Shado, spiritual power is unknowable, so he is more willing to believe that Kalish has some small thoughts that are detrimental to the Northland mage.
This time, the communication between the two froze again. Sha Duo had actually expected such a result. He smiled and said to Kalish:
"Actually, it would be too optimistic to say this now. The envoy of Jamdas is now in Everesca, and we still need to pass this level before we can follow up."
"I understand, and I would like to thank Consultant Shado for the information provided. Next, I will prepare the materials for the confrontation with the envoy Zhamdas, so I will not entertain you anymore. I will invite you as a guest again when I have the opportunity in the future."
"Okay, then I won't bother you."
Although this meeting brought new doubts, most of the goals before coming here have been achieved. Now that Kalish issued the order to expel the guests, Shado ended the meeting smoothly.
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After leaving the Yunding Tower, Xia Duo hesitated and did not return to the alliance headquarters immediately. Instead, he turned around and came to the Golden Maple Manor halfway up the mountain. Today he was lucky, Larian happened to be at home.
After meeting, Xia Duo did not mince words and directly asked the other party what he thought of the new artifact plan, "Since the last time we said goodbye, so many things have happened. I don't know what Elder Larian's plan is for Kalish now."
view?"
"To be honest with Advisor Shado, I actually regret it. This plan has already exceeded my expectations. It's just that the Council of Elders is still in a wait-and-see state about this plan. It depends on how Kalish will deal with Zamda next.
Ambassador Sri Lanka."
"So, Evereska is actually more inclined to support Kalish's plan?"
This is the first time that Shado has clearly learned about a country's attitude towards Kalish's plan. On the Netheril side, although Iolum said that everyone is sensible and will not believe in Kalish easily, based on Shado's
My judgment is probably not very optimistic.
And now, Kalish has also revealed the attitude of the Council of Elders in Everriska, and it must be said that it is quite in line with Shado's prediction.
"The differences of opinion within the Council of Elders are actually quite large, but we have to admit that the supporters do make up the majority. After all, Kalish's plan does not require us to take risks ourselves, it is just to provide some convenience to the other party."
Larian's words reminded Shado of the sudden change in Erlan's attitude before, and he couldn't help but ask: "Did Kalish make any promises to you in private?"
"At the very beginning, he promised that he would make a deal with the Alliance and let a psychic mage from Evereska take charge of the artifact. I don't know if it happened later. At least I didn't receive any promises."
This hint couldn't be more obvious, and Shado immediately understood that the supporters of the Evereska Council of Elders had most likely received a private promise from Kalish.
As for what the promise is, let’s not say whether Larian knows it or not. Even if he knew it, he would not be able to reveal this kind of news.