When they arrived at the intelligence room, Shado checked the archived intelligence while listening to Ava introduce the latest situation in Severton.
"Recently, there have been rumors about the ascension ceremony that your Excellency mentioned before, and it is related to an elf named Yerevan. It is said that the Seven Towers made a deal with the elf to prepare for the elf to ascend in Sevington. Divine ritual.”
"It's fake. Master Yerevan is a human being. He just has elf blood and looks like an elf." Sha Duo commented casually.
Even such outrageous rumors have come out, indicating that the negotiations between Seven Towers and other great arcanists are not going well, but this highlights his importance and allows him to take more initiative in the subsequent transactions with Seven Towers.
Then, Shado motioned for Ava to continue.
"This one should be somewhat related to the one just now. There are a lot more elves in Severton recently than in the past. I'm not talking about the Sluvend refugees who were resettled in the southern city, but the elf spies."
"Secret agent?" Xia Duo slowed down a little while flipping the intelligence documents in his hand.
"Yes, sir, he is the elf agent. This is no longer a secret in Severton."
Speaking of this, a rare smile appeared on Ava's face. Some of it was really funny, but most of it was ridicule. "Those arrogant elves are obviously doing secret work, but they appear in such a high-profile manner." It’s human territory, as if they’re afraid that others won’t know they exist.”
"Oh? How did they do it?"
"There is an anonymous bar in the dark alley of the old city. It is the largest underground intelligence trading center in Severnton. However, those elves openly pretended to be special envoys to go in to collect information. However, the Elf Embassy did not recognize such special envoys. .”
"Where do those elves come from? What information are they looking for?" Sha Duo asked.
"Mainly Ye'erlan, Cormanso also has some, but very few, and Cormanso's spies have become very low-key recently. Apart from the attitude of the Seven Towers towards Sluvende, what Yeerlan inquires about the most is the ascension ceremony."
After saying that, Ava added, "If you hadn't just said that Yerevan, the Ascended God, is a human being, I would have always thought that the Seven Towers had made a deal with Cormanso!"
"How to say?"
"The attitude between the Seven Towers and Cormanthor is a bit ambiguous. You should be familiar with Prince Ser's incident some time ago, but suddenly Prince Ser was released. Later, it was reported that the Seven Towers had made a deal with the elves to let the elves come to stop them. Wen Dun performed the ascension ceremony, and combined with the fact that the Cormanthor elves have become very low-key, it is difficult not to suspect that the Seven Towers' transaction partner is Cormanthor."
"Well-"
Sha Duo shook his head. If he hadn't met Master Yerevan long ago and understood Master Yerevan's origin and temperament, he might have been misled by such rumors.
As for the "Cormanthor elves have become low-key in Severton", if there is not another conspiracy brewing, it is most likely related to the negotiations between the Seven Towers and Cormanthor before.
According to what Shado learned, the Seven Towers had the upper hand in the negotiations. At least Cormanthor had sent the Nese Scroll back, and it wouldn't be a big problem to keep a low profile.
However, the Ellan elves inquired about the god-ascension ceremony, which gave Shado a hint of danger. In the previous princess's god-ascension ceremony, in addition to Netheril's need to verify the feasibility of the god's ascension, the elves may also need to verify it.
Now that the princess has successfully ascended to godhood, Netheril may need more verification, but the elves may have gotten enough information.
In other words, the elves will probably not allow a second person to successfully ascend to god in Netheril.
Shado had previously suspected that the elves used the ascension ceremony to harm Netheril, but the "elf" here largely refers to Cormanthor, or the main god of the elves.
The elves who do not allow a second ascendant to appear in Netheril refer more to the elven countries other than Cormanthor that have the ability to prevent this, such as Yin Erfaran and Erlan.
If Yeerlan hadn't been restrained by Sluvende, perhaps they would have taken more direct action to stop him.
As for Yin Erfalang, there is a saying in Sha Duo's hometown that "a biting dog does not bark." Don't look at the fact that Yin Erfalang is currently facing the orc tide that has been mentioned and detonated. You must know that the orc tide is not a major crisis for Yin Erfalang in the first place. .
It's just a useless trouble.
They have the ability to completely solve it, but they choose to let it go because they don't want to pay a potentially serious price. Even Netheril has the ability to solve all the large orc tribes in the territory, so why can't Yin Erfalang?
Just because there may be some price to pay, and the orcs are not in the territory, that's all.
As long as there is a sufficient reason, Yin Erfalang may not be unable to intervene, and Netheril's second god-ascension ceremony is a sufficient reason.
At least that's how it seems to Sha Duo.
Nowadays, Netheril and Yin Erfalang are basically at odds with each other after experiencing the incident of the Northern Alliance's Demon Restriction Treaty.
Originally, both parties had a common enemy - Cormanthor. However, with the establishment of the Northland Alliance, it was destined to be difficult for the three parties to have a serious head-on conflict, so the original alliance relationship needed to be reconsidered.
In particular, Netheril has shown an obvious rise. If Yin Erfalang really has no idea at all, Shado would not believe it even to death!
If you really don’t have any ideas, why support Cormanso’s magic-restriction treaty!
Think about it, the two enemies once stood together, but the allies stabbed each other, and now Netheril is suspected of having an affair with Cormanthor.
This confirms the famous saying on earth - there are never permanent enemies or permanent friends between countries, only eternal interests!
Of course, Xia Duo does not fully agree with this sentence, because this sentence is a complete profit theory and ignores the orientation of values.
The theory of profit is just a mathematical problem on paper, and the reason why intelligent creatures are intelligent creatures is not only having wisdom, but also morality, or values.
Therefore, Xia Duo also dislikes the so-called "purely rational mage". That kind of person may talk to you about interests with a smile one second, but may stab you several times for the sake of interests the next second.
Xia Duo believes that both humans and elves will have this consideration. For example, the small tacit understanding between Yin Erfalang and Cormanthor on the magic restriction treaty is definitely not enough to erase the huge ideals between the two countries. difference.
But then again, Yin Erfalang and Cormanthor are both from the elven kingdom after all. Although there are conflicts that are difficult to bridge now, as time goes by and they are in the Northland Alliance, they will gradually converge.
At that time, Netheril, as a kingdom of humans, will be caught between the two and look out of place.
Of course, Shado is confident that he can bring Netheril (basic) to another level before that happens.
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