Arcane Lord

Colin and others did not have any resistance to Sha Duo's behavior of checking his memory. Maybe they did not have the same sense of privacy as Sha Duo, or maybe they thought it was useless to refuse.

But in any case, Shado's spell went smoothly and almost perfectly restored the scene when the four people met Toph. Although there was a certain subjective component in it, it was not far from the real situation.

But as he watched, Shado noticed some of Toph's little moves. The other person was not just talking to Colin and others, but also seemed to be casting spells secretly.

This discovery made Xia Duo very angry. It was simply a provocation. However, because the scene was reproduced from the memories of Colin and others, many details, especially those related to spells, could not be restored well.

Just based on some small movements of casting spells, it cannot be concluded that Toph is casting spells.

But since there is suspicion, Xia Duo cannot sit idly by.

After stating that the elves might secretly cast spells on them, Colin and the others immediately agreed to Xia Duo's further inspection without any hesitation.

"President, what do you think the elves may have done to us?" Jace asked nervously.

"Don't worry, it may just be some detection medium placed on you, or it may affect your mind at the time. The specifics will not be known until after examination."

After a brief explanation, Xia Duo began to examine the bodies of Jace and others one by one, from the outside to the inside, from the present to the past, even the souls were not spared.

It was eventually concluded that the four were indeed under the influence of some kind of spell, but time had almost erased any traces.

As for the continuous existence of the detection medium, Shado did not find it in Colin and others. Maybe it was not there from the beginning, or it may have been transferred to a corner of the Tower of Time.

At this moment, Shado had a deeper sense of recognition for Niya's previous decision to adjust the portal permissions and restrict the members of the Tower of Time from going out!

Of course there is communication control inside and outside the Tower of Time. If there is no control and communication is allowed to come in and out, wouldn't it mean that detection spells can also be freely entered and exited through communication spells?

With such an obvious loophole, it was impossible for the original designer of the Tower of Time, Grand Arcanist Xavier, to keep it in place. Even with regard to the newly emerged background communications of the Magic Network, the Tower of Time also specially set up control measures for it.

Although the old and new communication control of the Tower of Time cannot determine the information of the communicator on the other end of the communication, nor can it know the content of the communication, all the communicators inside the Tower of Time are recorded one by one.

Xia Duo asked the tower spirit and learned that there were a total of sixteen internal and external communications within the Tower of Time in the past few days, all of which were within the normal legal communication permissions, and there was not a single illegal communication without permission.

This means that either there is something wrong with the sixteen communications that can reveal the identity of each correspondent, or Toph's detection medium has not been exposed yet.

Of course, the premise of this speculation is that Toph has indeed placed movable detection media on Colin and others.

But no matter what, a comprehensive routine "disinfecting" inside the Tower of Time is inevitable.

Generally, a "disinfection program" of this level may not be started once a year or two, and the maintenance cost of starting it once is calculated in at least 10,000 gold coins.

If this had been done in the past, Xia Duo might have considered it, but after making a profit from mass-producing magic items, and having recently touched hundreds of thousands of arcane crystals, he now makes this decision without blinking an eye. .

…

After confirming that Colin and the others had no backup plan left by Toph, Shado let them go back first. Of course, they also arranged for them a training class that did not exist in the first place.

After that, he informed Niya to start the comprehensive elimination process of the Tower of Time.

And Niya also acted very quickly, with almost no waiting. Sha Duo, who had just completed the summons, received the notification from Talling——

"Alert, the Tower of Time is about to launch a comprehensive disinfection process. In order to avoid accidents, all members will immediately stop what they are doing and return to their respective residences. This disinfection process will last for 120 minutes."

Immediately afterwards, Xia Duo heard a series of sounds of functional facilities being closed——

"Arcane Garden is closed——

"The library is closed——

“The public floor is closed——

"..."

Upon seeing this, Xia Duo immediately teleported to Niya's study on the top floor. Niya was still here, seemingly waiting for Xia Duo to come back. As soon as she saw Xia Duo, she immediately asked worriedly:

"What's going on over there with Colin? Is Toph doing something?"

Shado nodded and explained: "Tov may have put a detection medium on Colin and the others. I can find them. Anyway, let's disinfect them first. Anyway, the Tower of Time is not short of that little money now."

Just as he was talking, Xia Duo felt a large-scale magic calming field appear out of thin air, and the projection window that was still on next to the two people was instantly extinguished.

Not only the projection window, but also the various magic items on Sha Duo and Niya's bodies also lost all their magic aura at this moment.

Fortunately, the spell's calming field comes and goes quickly. If he is in such a strong calming field for a long time, it is estimated that none of the magic items on Sha Duo's body will survive until the end.

Of course, none of the various practical spells blessed by Sha Duo survived after the calming field passed.

Fortunately, he was inside the Tower of Time, otherwise even if there were several attempts to calm the field in the next few times, Xia Duo would have immediately blessed himself with at least one evasion detection spell.

Without this magic on me, I would feel too insecure.

…

After the spell calmed the field, Xia Duo next sensed several detection fields involving different levels sweeping past, and then there was another spell calming field.

This cycle is repeated several times, during which various spells to remove magical or non-magical abnormalities are also included, and a comprehensive set of elimination procedures is completed.

The total duration is 120 minutes as estimated by Talling.

During the disinfection period, Xia Duo and Niya stayed in the study room on the top floor. The projection window was temporarily unavailable, so the two of them made tea and chatted.

After the disinfection was completed, the projection window lit up again, but the perspective of Savile Town Center Square that Niya had set previously had been reset and turned blank.

However, Xia Duo was not in the mood to reset the viewing angle of the projection window at the moment. After drinking the last sip of tea in the cup, he stood up and said to Niya:

"I'm going to meet Toph for a while. Anyway, the cost of a full-scale elimination of the Tower of Time must be recorded in her account!"

"I'll be here to watch you and provide support at any time."

Sha Duo nodded and said nothing more. He said nothing. He took one last look at Niya and resolutely teleported to the public floor, preparing to go to Savile Town through the teleportation gate.