Arcane Lord

"Yueguan family?"

Hearing such a name, Xia Duo didn't need to search his memory. He could immediately tell that this was a high-ranking family. Anyone whose name involves "sun", "moon" and "star" belongs to Comanso. High-ranking family.

Most of its members are gold elves, and of course there may be moon elves, but at most they are these two, and the others are absolutely impossible to exist.

Even if there is some love that transcends class, it is difficult to have a good ending.

After Xia Duo briefly traced his memory, more information about the Yueguan family also appeared in his consciousness.

Let’s not talk about the Moon Crown Family on the projection plane for now. Although it is related to the main plane, it only has some reference functions and is of little significance. However, the [Moon Crown Family] on the main plane is an out-and-out high-ranking family. .

Its family history can be traced back to the Crown War, before the birth of Cormanthor, and this family has hardly declined since its establishment.

There have been high-ranking mages among family members for generations, and there are even some outstanding ones who are famous in history.

This family is famous not only in Cormanso, but also in the entire elven world.

It is extremely unlikely that the Cormanso investigator pretended to be a member of the Moon Crown family, but Shado had never heard of any conflict of interest between the Moon Crown family and the Saville Territory.

In addition, the leader of Oripus just mentioned that he had contacted the Moondew Rose family, which was related to the elf refugees, but the other party did not issue a commission.

What's more, how can a declining family with the "name of the moon" afford to hire a truly high-ranking family?

In fact, the elf refugee killed by the drow assassin was not a member of the Moondew Rose family, but was just the child of their neighbor's couple.

Their neighbor couple had all died during the Drow War.

How could the dead elves issue any commissions? Not to mention using the name of the Moondew Rose family.

This made Xia Duo more and more certain that the so-called investigator's statement about being entrusted by the Moon Dew Rose Family was probably just a casual mention. Maybe the other party didn't even know the specific situation of the Moon Dew Family.

What's the other party's real purpose?

"Chief Oripus, what else do you know about that investigator?"

"Lord Shado, the other party is a member of a higher-ranking family. I dare not test too much, but from my limited contact with the other party, it seems that the other party does not care about investigating the truth of the death, but cares more about the Savile Territory itself."

Oripus' answer made Shado's eyebrows jump. Sure enough, it was true, but it was not enough to reveal the other party's true purpose, so he simply stopped, looked directly at Oripus and asked:

"Chief Oripus, what do you think the other party might be here for?"

Oripus hesitated and said one possibility - "Could it be because of our spice smuggling business?"

But after he finished speaking, he shook his head, "Impossible. We have only put in the two most common spices, 'Ivory Pepper' and 'Bay Leaf'. How could it attract the attention of the Yueguan Family? "

However, although he said these words in a positive tone, he was actually very unsure. If anyone had the greatest risk of spice smuggling, it was undoubtedly the Silver Leaf family.

The other two cooperating parties, whether it is Lord Chateau or Lord Collins, even if the smuggling behavior is exposed, at most they will stop doing it or change their partners, but the Silver Leaf family will really be in trouble.

Strictly speaking, this is already an act of treason, and it is said that it is still a joint act with humans, which is even more intolerable in Cormanthor.

For a moment, Oripus was afraid to see the investigator again.

"Lord Chateau, do you think that investigator is really here for spice smuggling?"

well--

Xia Duo didn't expect this. If the other party came because of spice smuggling, it might be more troublesome.

This means that the Saville Territory will be in Cormanso's sight for a long time, which is really not good news for Chateau.

Of course, the most unlucky one is the Silver Leaf family. If the Yueguan family wants to participate in smuggling and get a share of the pie, that's fine. But if the other party comes to crack down on smuggling, then the entire Silver Leaf family will be wiped out. It may not be impossible.

However, since the investigator is still staying safely in this manor, maybe the matter is not as serious as imagined.

Chateau comforted Oripus for a few words, and then stopped talking. The two soon came to a flower garden near the river bank on the north side of the manor.

The Cormanthor investigator named "Toff" is here!

…

Just as Shado stepped into the courtyard, the arcanist's instinct made him realize that this Toph investigator was not simple.

In this small courtyard, the Magic Network environment is almost separated from the outside world, forming a relatively independent private domain.

The core of Netheril's arcane magic system is arcane fire, which is a private magic network. Is there no elf magic system that can compete with it?

The arcanist uses arcane fire to control the magic network, and even has a high degree of control over the external environment of the magic network, while the elf mage uses his high degree of integration with the magic network to allow the external environment to automatically align with his own will. echo.

The so-called field is actually the area where the magic network is highly consistent with itself. In fact, there is no very strict physical distinction. In the field, the difficulty of casting spells decreases and the speed of spell casting increases.

The only thing that remains unchanged is the spell itself, but when the prerequisites are reduced so much, the change in direction is equivalent to an increase in the spell's effect.

Without arcane fire and private magic network, it is almost impossible for ordinary spellcasters to defeat the high elf mage, even the legendary mage.

Of course, Xia Duo did not think that the person in front of him was a high mage. At most, he was just a senior mage with outstanding talent. It was just that the probability of becoming a high mage in the future was very high.

On this side, Xia Duo even had the idea of ​​​​keeping the other party completely in the territory of Nese.

As the saying goes, "The other's hero is my enemy." Another high-level mage in Cormanthor may not cause a strategic imbalance between the two countries, but it will definitely encourage the other's arrogance.

In the future, if we both belong to the Northland Alliance, there will be many disgusting things happening!

If a serious problem in the future can be solved now in advance, why not do it?

It's a pity that the other party is not without resistance. Even if Xia Duo can successfully eliminate her here, what price will it cost?

And the most important thing is that the other party is not without origin. Once such a talented mage dies, the Yueguan family behind him will probably go crazy to seek revenge on him.

Since the establishment of the family during the Crown War, the Moon Crown family has never had a disruption in the inheritance of high mage. Perhaps this talented "Toff" investigator died, and the Moon Crown family would have no successor. .

Then how crazy they will be when they take revenge!

Thinking of the very likely horrific consequences, Sha Duo decisively gave up the idea of ​​attacking "Toff" here.

"Pity!"