Chapter 3199: The Illuminati’s Temptation

Chapter 3190 The Illuminati's Probe

The next morning, Shado arrived at the Alliance headquarters early. After checking the operation status of the computing pool as usual, he returned to his office, preparing to wait for news while continuing to communicate and inquire with Rodas.

When working, time often flies. At about noon, Shado finally received a crucial message, but it was not related to Zhamdas or Kalish, but from his "chicken" Person in Terminus.

Since helping the Illuminati to transport supplies last time, Person has been completely controlled by the Illuminati again, but because of this, he has gained the trust of the Illuminati, and this time, Person received another order-

Attack and destroy the magic weapon factory invested and built by Shado and Yeerlan in Elan!

Shado was very angry when he received this news. He hadn't even gone to find the Illuminati yet, and those guys came to him first. He wanted to close the net immediately, but he couldn't let go of the big fish that hadn't been hooked yet.

At most, if we close the net now, we can only catch some peripheral members of the Illuminati, and Person will be exposed.

But if we don't close the net, will we let them attack the factory we invested in Elan?

Shado was immediately caught in a dilemma. After thinking about it, he sent a message to Orips, who was busy building a factory in Elan. He asked him:

"How many people do we have in Elan now? Where are they?"

"There are currently 40 to 50 people in Elan, including the ones in my family. Some of them are following me to handle some clerical work, some are scattered in various construction sites as construction apprentices, and some are training local technicians in the completed magic tool factories as magic technician training instructors."

"How many factories have been built so far?" Shado asked again.

"Two, one produces computing power pool connectors, and the other produces gateway components. Now the local elf technicians in Elan have started trial production under the training of our people, and will soon be able to carry out related production activities independently."

"Have you seen any abnormal signs recently? Including the Yeerlan side."

"It seems not. I have also heard about the situation in Everiska, but Yeerlan has not made any small moves here. They disagree with you, Lord, on the issue of new artifacts, but they are completely consistent in developing Elan. They will not go against their interests."

"One more thing, how many people are going back to the territory for the festival?"

The reason for asking this is that the time point of the Illuminati's attack obtained by Shado through Person is on the day of Midsummer Festival, which is also a point that makes him particularly angry.

Although he is not a believer of the Lord of Light, Midsummer Festival is a grand celebration day recognized by the territory and even the entire Netheril. The Illuminati chose to launch an attack on this day, which is obviously full of malice.

And then Orepus's answer also made Xia Duo feel distressed--

"None. They said that the lord is so good to them, and they don't need extra holidays. Seizing the time to train and study is the best way to repay the lord."

Xia Duo was not surprised by such an answer. When he was still an apprentice, many apprentices in the Tower of Time did not celebrate the Midsummer Festival.

When he took over the Tower of Time, he did not force everyone to participate in the Midsummer Festival. Instead, he closed some facilities in the tower on the day of the celebration, indirectly encouraging apprentices and mages to relax outside.

But even so, there are still a lot of apprentices or new mages who are unwilling to waste this day.

And this time, although there may be an attack by the Illuminati next, Xia Duo still did not force those lords to return to the territory. On the one hand, this is the will of those lords, and on the other hand, it is also because the cost of a round trip is not low.

And the cost of stopping work must be calculated. After all, the elves do not celebrate the Midsummer Festival. Once his people withdraw, the elves will most likely stop working.

In addition, doing so may also cause misunderstandings on the part of Yeerlan.

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After learning about the situation in Elan in detail, Xia Duo interrupted the communication. At this time, he still hadn't made up his mind whether to close the net immediately. Fortunately, there were still two or three days before the attack time that Person was notified of - that is, Midsummer Festival.

If the attack came soon, he would rather miss the opportunity to catch the big fish and close the net immediately. After all, the lives of dozens of people were not trivial.

But since he was given time to prepare, he still hoped to achieve the best of both worlds as much as possible - neither let the people be harmed by the attack, but also let the attack continue, so as not to expose Person's "chicken" attribute.

After weighing the pros and cons, Xia Duo finally found a solution that was close to the best of both worlds. First of all, it was difficult to change Person's attack plan. After all, the Illuminati was not his subordinate, and it was impossible to completely avoid his people during the attack.

Secondly, it was impossible for him to equip the people with too abnormal protective measures. In this way, the Illuminati would know that the people were well prepared as soon as they attacked, and then they would suspect every participant in the plan.

It should be a matter of time before they suspect Person.

Therefore, the Illuminati's attack plan can only proceed as scheduled, and the factory must also pretend that it is unprepared. In this case, if it were on Earth, there would be only one choice: to close the net immediately.

But in the magic world, Shado has another choice -

Let those people be attacked, even if they are killed by the Illuminati, they can be resurrected later.

Although it is not fair to let the people be attacked and killed once, this is the only possibility that Shado can think of after weighing the pros and cons.

Only in this way can we protect the people without exposing Person, and then get the opportunity to play the long game, and the price is just that the people are frightened once.

Thinking of some details of the police handling cases on TV in his hometown, Shado gradually strengthened his idea. If there is no risk at all, it would be the best, but how can everything go as planned in reality? After all, there are still certain risks.

…

In the next two days, Shado activated the soul summoning array in the Tower of Time, and asked Oripus to lock the people in Elan one by one. This is also a mature plan in [Projection Plane·Remnants of the Empire].

In fact, he also has a plan of "soul amulet", but the characteristics of this plan are too obvious, and it is inevitable that the Illuminati will detect abnormalities, so he chose remote soul summoning.

Both options have their own advantages and disadvantages -

The "Soul-storing Amulet" has a higher safety factor, but the cost is also higher;

The "Soul Summoning" has a slightly lower safety factor, but the more people die, the lower the overall cost of preserving souls. Of course, if there is only one soul, then the "Soul-storing Amulet" is still cheaper.

After all, the cost of building a soul-storing array is not a small amount.