"Lord Xia Duo is really optimistic! But it is true that you already have a floating fortress. When facing the Seven Towers, you are indeed much more calm than those of us who don't have one yet!"
"hehe!"
Sha Duo did not directly respond to this question. He knew that Vader's secret complaints included some tests of him and his attitude towards other people owning the floating city.
In this regard, he was actually already preparing to provide Mythra to the great arcanists of Netheril when he was at Evereska. Not only the physical object, but also the technology was not out of the question.
After all, the Seven Towers already exist. If there are no others, it will most likely lead to an imbalance of power between the two sides and cause some situations that Xia Duo does not want to see.
Of course, this is just a possibility.
The overall power of the Seven Towers is greater than the sum of all powers except the Seven Towers, but from the past to the present, the Seven Towers have maintained the current balance of power, and this may not be the case after acquiring the Floating City.
Because this world is not just an isolated Netheril, the situation in the North and even the main plane affects the whole body. In the foreseeable future, the Seven Towers will still be inseparable from the support of others.
This is one of the reasons why Xia Duo is optimistic. No matter how cleverly designed the God Ascension Order is, it is just a current assumption or allocation of the future. Reality will not follow the designer's arrangements, and it will be whatever it wants.
Outside of Netheril, there is a wider world than here. Once the idea of ascending the order of gods touches the interests of the outside world, will the outside world sit back and watch all this happen and leave the future to a few people in the Seven Towers?
In this case, no matter whether there is a chance to complete the order of divine ascension, it is always necessary to unite all the forces that can be united to jointly resist the pressure from the outside world.
Another reason is that inside the Seven Towers, the Seven Towers are not a specific person, but an interest group composed of countless people. There are seven main forces visible to the naked eye.
In the future envisioned by the Ascension Order, the superior is eternal and limited. Even if we can agree with this vision, there is still a question about who will take the specific position!
Even if the front is blank now, it is impossible to let the current superiors go first come first served. This kind of distribution involving eternal interests cannot be made casually.
Xia Duo had no doubt that there were also a large number of opponents of the Ascension Order within the Seven Towers.
In the final analysis, the so-called "Order of God Ascension" is just a little rumor among the current controllers of the Seven Towers, and it has not even been discussed publicly.
The worries of Chateau, Wade and others are only worries about such a possibility. There is nothing wrong with this saying that people who have no long-term worries must worry about the near future, but if the worries are excessive and even affect normal decision-making, then it is unnecessary.
The reason why he is preparing to open Mythra to other great arcanists is just to deal with the fact that "the Seven Towers already exist", rather than to oppose the order of ascension - something that does not exist in reality.
Of course, in this process, it can indeed play a certain role in curbing the formation of the order of divine ascension!
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Until he left the Tower of Wisdom, Shado didn't mention anything about Mythra. He didn't like Vader very much, and if letting him suffer for a while would bring him happiness, he would do it.
Furthermore, one would not cherish something that can be obtained easily. How could a strategic facility like Mythra be easily obtained by Vader and the others?
The main purpose of his trip was just to confirm Vader's attitude towards the order of divine ascension and the current situation of the Seven Towers. Now that he knew it, of course he had to leave. The rest could be discussed in detail at another time and on another occasion.
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Except for Vader, Magna's attitude is the same as before, but the root of his opposition to the order of divine ascension is not out of concern for the development of the Austrian civilization, but out of the common people's dissatisfaction with the elites controlling everything.
Therefore, Shado actually does not trust Magna as much as he trusts Vader, because whether Magna admits it or not, he has in fact become the elite he hates.
If you cannot objectively recognize reality, you can still make objective and rational judgments.
To put it simply, Shado suspected that Magna's opposition was only based on emotion. Once such emotions subsided or were recharged by the Seven Towers, the opposition would no longer be firm.
To put it more seriously, Shado believed that the reason why Magna opposed the order of divine ascension was simply because it was the Seven Towers who dominated the order, not himself.
When I saw Magna again, the other person still acted "simple" and "frank" enough, almost no different from the last time they met.
As for the Seven Towers mentioned by Xia Duo who have obtained the key technology of the floating city, Magna bluntly said that it can be traded and he also wants to get a share.
Not looking for Shado or Seven Towers, but looking for Iolum.
This made Shado almost speechless on the spot. What made Magna think that the Seven Towers could obtain the key technology of the floating city from Iolum, and he could also obtain it from Iolum?
Is it a conspiracy to betray Xia Duo and others? Or threaten with opposition?
Maybe some embellishments would be used, but Xia Duo felt that this might be the truest thought in the other person's heart.
Of course, Xia Duo will not judge in the void just based on his feelings. For now, Magna is generally trustworthy, just not as much as Vader.
As for Cliff, Shado's situation with him and Wade was reversed. He had great faith in Cliff personally, but he didn't have that much faith in Cliff's ability to persist in opposing the Ascension Order.
The reason is that what Cliff is opposed to is not the order of divine ascension itself, but just that the intervention of mortals ascension to the mortal world may lead to bad consequences.
In other words, as long as the Seven Towers can make a certain commitment to their behavior after ascending to God, Cliff will change from opposition to support on the spot.
To a certain extent, Shado and Cliff are opposed to the same thing. The difference is that Cliff believes in the promise of the Seven Towers, while Shado does not.
Even if you swear in front of the Lord of Glory, there are too many ways to get around it.
Not to mention that the order of divine ascension itself is also a very bad ideological orientation for magic civilization. Sha Duo is absolutely impossible to let it appear in the world!
Of course, if he just asked about Cliff's attitude, Shado didn't have to go there in person. He had already determined Cliff's attitude. This time he went to Cliff's territory mainly to inquire about the results of the last investigation.
About the Illuminati, and the Kingdom of Elam.
If he can get the results he wants, the Northland Alliance will return to its previous state of thirteen member states.
However, Xia Duo is not very optimistic about this, because judging from the fact that he has not received a reply from Cliff recently, either the investigation has not yet concluded, or the result may not be what he thought.
(End of chapter)
