Arriving 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, which 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 signaled 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."
The territory of human beings seems to be afraid that others will not know their existence."
"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 inquire about information. However, the Elf Embassy did not recognize such special envoys.
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"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 Ye Erlan has inquired 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 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-"
Xia Duo shook his head. If he had not 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, so it wouldn't be a big problem if he kept a lower 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-ascension ceremony, 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 received 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 the emergence of a second ascendant in Netheril refer more to the elven countries other than Cormanthor that have the ability to prevent this, such as Elfaran and Erlan.
If Erlan hadn't been restrained by Sluvende, perhaps they would have taken more direct action to stop him.
As for Elfarang, there is a saying in Shado's hometown that "a biting dog does not bark." Don't look at the fact that Elfaran 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 Elfarang in the first place.
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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 Elfaran?
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, Ilfarang 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 Elfaran are basically at odds with each other after experiencing the incident of the Northern Alliance's Demon Restriction Treaty.
Originally, the two sides had a common enemy - Cormanthor, but 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 a clear upward trend. To say that Elfaran really has no idea at all, Shado would not believe it even to death!
If you really have no idea, why should you support Cormanthor’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 statement, because this statement is completely profit-oriented 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.
Shado believes that both humans and elves will have this consideration. For example, the small tacit understanding between Ilfaran and Cormanthor on the magic restriction treaty is definitely not enough to erase the huge ideals between the two countries.
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But then again, Ilfaran and Cormanthor are both from the same elven kingdom after all. Although there are conflicts that are difficult to bridge now, as time goes by and they are both in the Northern Alliance, they will gradually converge.
At that time, Netheril, as a kingdom of humans, will seem out of place between the two.
Of course, Shado is confident that he can bring Netheril (basic) to another level before that happens.