Arcane Lord

After waiting for almost half an hour, when Shado's patience was about to run out, an elf with a dress that was obviously out of place in this tavern walked in from outside.

In an instant, the noisy environment in the tavern suddenly became quiet, and even more than half of the guests wanted to get up and leave immediately, but the elf was blocking the door, and for a while no guest dared to walk over.

However, the guests inside did not leave, and the newly arrived elf had no restrictions. He walked quickly into the tavern lobby, glanced back and forth, and finally set his eyes on Shado.

But he left quickly. If you didn't observe carefully, you wouldn't even notice the pause. At the same time, the private communication had already started:

"Excuse me, are you Master Athos? Lord Osmantus sent me here."

"I am." Shado replied, and then asked, "What did he say?"

"My Lord asked me to take you into the Starry Library. You need to change your clothes before entering. It's not convenient here. Please follow me."

"Yes."

Shado agreed, then threw a gold coin tip on the table, and quickly left the tavern behind the elf with obvious noble marks on his body.

On the way, Shado asked the other party how Osmantus allowed him to enter the Starry Library secretly. For this question, the elf was well prepared and didn't even hesitate. He immediately answered Shado:

"In the past six months, the maze technician responsible for visitor authority verification in the Starry Library is a nephew of my Lord. He can postpone the news of your entry into the library until the end of the month at most. Of course, this is if you don't actively reveal your identity."

"Do you know who I am?" Shado suddenly became curious.

"I know, but you are just the Athos Mage today."

"Okay!"

Shado didn't ask any more questions, and even slowed down his pace. He just followed the other person from a distance. After all, he still looked like a human at the moment. Although he had been disguised and was not his true appearance, it was still quite eye-catching to walk with an elf like this.

Soon, the two walked through two blocks one after the other, and finally came to a quiet community built on the end of the branch. On the way, Shado changed his appearance again and became a moon elf with golden pupils.

In the community, the elf took Shado to a private villa surrounded by green trees. There was a family of elves living in the villa, but Shado's arrival did not disturb them.

Under the control of Osmantus's subordinates, Shado seemed to have come to another dimension of the villa. Until he changed his clothes and left, the family did not notice it at all.

After leaving the villa, the elf seemed to sense Shado's doubts and took the initiative to explain: "The family of my master's mistress lived there just now."

"..."

Shado was speechless, but even more curious. He asked the elf: "What is your relationship with Osmantus? How come he even told you about the existence of his mistress?"

The elf tradition advocates monogamy, but such traditions and even rules can never become a burden to the superiors. However, Shado was somewhat shocked to see that he showed his unconventional side to outsiders so undisguisedly.

He felt that perhaps this was the true nature of diplomats, and perhaps it was also a true portrayal of the superiors in the elf society. All traditions and rules were subsidiary, and strength and interests were the foundation.

However, for Shado's question, the elf showed a hesitant attitude for the first time, but after hesitating for a while, he still told the truth:

"I am the illegitimate son of Lord Osmantus."

"..."

Shado was shocked again. It turned out that there were elves in this world who used illegitimate children as tools! It must be said that in just a short while today, his impression of Osmantus has changed one after another.

But he was also a little confused. Why did the other party do this?

He didn't think that all this was the elf in front of him acting on his own. Without Osmantus's explicit consent, he didn't believe that a bastard who was used as a subordinate tool had such courage!

If he couldn't figure it out, Xia Duo would not think about it. Anyway, it was not a big deal.

...

Soon, Xia Duo followed the elf who claimed to be the bastard of Osmantus and came to the level where the upper branch Starry Temple was located.

The Starry Library is an annex of the Starry Temple and a public library open to the public.

Speaking of which, Xia Duo is not completely unfamiliar with this place. He came to the Starry Temple to attend the commendation celebration dinner after the Metriel incident.

But at that time, he didn't expect that one day in the future he would secretly go to the Starry Library.

Although it is an annex of the Starry Temple, it is not inferior to the main building of the Temple in terms of building area. During this journey, although Tevimansa is under martial law, there are still elves coming in and out of the entrance of the Starry Library.

And judging from the elves' dress, most of them are civilians. After asking Olin, the illegitimate son of Osmantus, Shado learned that the upper family members of Tevimansa almost never come to the Starry Library.

It's not that they look down on the collections of public libraries, but that the upper family members can remotely visit the Starry Library while sitting at home and view various books and materials according to their own permissions.

This was beyond Xia Duo's expectation. He thought that the current era no longer had the form of remote access to libraries like in ancient times, but he didn't expect that Yeerlan still kept it.

In ancient times, this form of library was very common, and there were even special types that only supported remote access but not offline reading.

However, this remote access method has a higher risk of authority leakage than ordinary offline reading, and the relevant authority can even be hijacked remotely.

Unless you are very confident in your own technology, rashly opening remote access will only add a little joke to the almost stagnant magic world.

It seems that Yeerlan should be quite confident in the field of remote authority verification, which inevitably ignites Xia Duo's passion to compete with it.

But forget it this time. This time he has something to do. If there is a chance next time, he will definitely try the quality of this library in protecting against remote intrusion.

...

As Olin said, as long as Xia Duo himself does not show any abnormality and is not reported by other visitors, he will not attract any attention.

These visitors came to the library to find the information they wanted, and generally they would not cause any trouble. In the hall on the first floor of the library, Xia Duo saw several remote projections with only the upper body floating.

This is how the members of the upper family of Tevimansa remotely visit the library, using the spell projections with specific functions provided by the library.

Even these upper family members did not do anything to the civilian visitors in the library. In fact, these upper family members could do something.

For example, expulsion.

Of course, strictly speaking, the library is required to provide a quieter environment. In this case, directly expelling civilian visitors has become the most convenient way for the library.