Arcane Lord

Although Xia Duo did not believe in the Lord of Glory, he still completed the entire blessing ceremony meticulously. On the one hand, the Lord of Glory is a real and great existence, on the other hand, it is out of the lord's duty.

In Shado's hometown, there is a saying of "Shinto teaching", that is, educating the people through the preaching of ghosts and gods, or by extension, educating the people with the help of mystery. It is similar in Netheril.

The Lord of Glory is real and true, but it is also true that the lords use the teachings of the Lord of Glory to rule their people.

After the blessing ceremony, it was time to distribute the holy water. Xia Duo had the experience last year and was able to do it with ease this year. He handed bottles of holy water to the enthusiastic citizens and encouraged them from time to time.

The holy water distribution will continue until the sun goes down. Of course, Shado and Niya cannot always distribute holy water here. It only takes a few words to show that the lords and the people are enjoying themselves. A dedicated temple priest will take over later.

…

Returning to the inner garden of the temple, Sha Duo and Niya no longer just sat drinking tea and chatting. Instead, they each took out their own spell notes and entered a state of research.

Occasionally I raise my head, take a sip of tea, chat for a few words, and plunge into the world of magic again.

I don't know how much time passed, but a temple priest suddenly arrived, interrupting Sha Duo's working state, "Lord Sha Duo, Mrs. Patty wants to see you, and she showed you your personal emblem."

"Mrs. Patty?" Niya had already closed the notes in her hand when she heard the sound, and looked at Sha Duo, her eyes seemed to be inquiring.

cough--

"Let her come here!"

Shado first spoke to the priest who came to report, and after he left, he explained to Niya, "Mrs. Patty hired me to be the mage consultant of her chamber of commerce. On this day last year, the employment contract was terminated. ”

Today last year was the time when he and Niya got married under the witness of the Lord of Glory. When Xia Duo said this, Niya lowered her head to read her notes again.

Shado could understand that Nia suspected that he and Mrs. Patty were having an affair. He himself once suspected that Lord Epps and Mrs. Patty were having an affair!

In this world, a widow who does not master magic but has a lot of money looks like there is someone behind her.

…

After a while, Mrs. Patty brought a gust of fragrance to the tree where Xia Duo was. The fragrance was very good, but Xia Duo frowned. If it was some kind of poison, then he probably ran away. No more.

Or maybe there is a colorless and odorless smoke-type poison, wouldn’t it mean that you don’t even know how you died?

But then, Xia Duo laughed at himself. He was really used to being persecuted and delusional. Not to mention how rare the colorless and odorless smoke-type poison is, and it is not necessarily possible to inhale a certain amount if it is dispersed in the air.

Furthermore, he also has the bloodline ability [Control of Wind], which allows him to control the surrounding airspace. It is not easy to get close to the poisonous gas. That is to say, he was in the temple today, so he did not control the surroundings.

If he were outside, Xia Duo would at least control the airspace on the surface of his skin. Any smoke that wanted to get close had to pass through at least one layer of airspace filtering. It was almost impossible to poison him in this way.

"grown ups!"

Mrs. Patty's voice immediately brought Shado's thoughts back to reality. He raised his head and glanced at this young and beautiful widow who also controlled a chamber of commerce. Time had long erased the sadness on Mrs. Patty's body, but -

"Mrs. Patty, you have to come here in this situation. Is there anything important?"

"Sir, I -" Although Mrs. Patty was facing Sha Duo, her eyes always drifted to Niya from time to time.

Sha Duo understood immediately and answered for her: "Are you looking for Niya?"

"Yes." Mrs. Patty seemed to be worried that Shaduo would be blamed, so she quickly explained, "I have something very important that I must report to the lord."

At this time, Niya finally put down the notes in her hand and raised her head, "What's the matter? Tell me!"

"Yes, Lord Lord!"

When Niya spoke, Mrs. Patty finally breathed a sigh of relief, "That's it. Your Excellency, you should know the relationship between the Liaton Chamber of Commerce and the elves. Yesterday, they suddenly contacted me and said they wanted to come to Savile Town to stay for a while. I I don’t dare to agree, I want to tell the lord first.”

"Why don't you agree? It's just elves. It's not like elves have never been to Savile Town before. Even if they stay temporarily, it's not a big deal, right?" Sha Duo suddenly interrupted.

"My lord, that is not the case."

Mrs. Patty seemed very anxious, "They are planning to come with the whole family. This has never happened before. This is very unusual!"

"It can't be such a coincidence, right?!"

Shado glanced at Niya and met her equally surprised expression. The two of them had just talked about the war between Cormanthor and Drow in the morning. Unexpectedly, in the afternoon, they heard that some elves wanted to come here for refuge. .

Is the war developing too fast and the situation is really not good? Or is it simply that the elves are too afraid of death and don't want to take any risks?

"The elf didn't say why he came to Savile Town temporarily?" Sha Duo spoke again.

Mrs. Patty shook her head, "They didn't say the reason, they just said they wanted the whole family to come and stay temporarily."

"Then how many elves are there in their entire clan? How many spellcasters are there? What level is the strongest one?" Sha Duo asked again.

Whether they are really temporarily staying or really taking refuge, those elves want to come to Savile Town, so the number of spellcasters is very important.

Currently, the Tower of Time is not in Savile Town. Even though it can guide spells far beyond its reach, this level of spell deterrence is not very high for real spellcasters.

It is better to have as few spellcasters as possible.

But Mrs. Patty's answer made Xia Duo feel even more stressed, "As far as I know, there are less than a hundred official members of the Silver Leaf family, and more than half of them are spell casters. The strongest one is an elder of their family, Ferber. Si’s ancestor, it is said that he once fought against the Grand Arcanist Savile.”

But Niya suddenly smiled, "The elder you are talking about is called O'Brien Silverleaf, right?"

"Yes, how did the lord know?" Mrs. Patty was very surprised.

Regarding this question, Niya did not reply. She just said, "I know about this. The celebration is still going on. Go back. There is no need to refuse them. Just let them come over. I happen to have some questions to ask them. !”

"this--"

Mrs. Patty was hesitant, but the lord had already said so, and she couldn't say anything else, so she bowed to Shado and Niya, and then left.

…

After Mrs. Patty left, Shado immediately asked Niya, "What's the problem with O'Brien Silverleaf? Why did you agree to let the elf come over just by mentioning this name?"

"Don't worry, that O'Brien Silverleaf is almost similar to a human high-level mage."

Mentioning this name again, Niya couldn't help but laugh again, "I saw this name more than once in the notes left by my ancestors. At that time, when our ancestors first came to the south to open up new lands, a group of elves came to look for trouble.

"At that time, the ancestor was fighting against an elf mage named 'Orlando'. The ancestor easily won. Then, with a look, O'Brien Silverleaf, who had come to look for trouble with him at the time, was frightened to the ground. So the ancestor would appear from time to time. This incident was mentioned in various notes.

"If the strongest among the elves in the Silver Leaf Family is O'Brien, there is no need to worry. After the ancestor disappeared, O'Brien once secretly came to Savile Territory, but was discovered by my grandfather, and then gave him a severe lesson. This This is O'Brien's real battle record.

"It's probably the level of high-level human mages. Even if they have improved over the years, they will not be beyond the range of the Savile Territory. On the contrary, the first-hand information they bring about the drow is more important."

"..."

It turns out that the real situation is like this, Xia Duo listened thoughtfully, feeling that the so-called "Silver Leaf Family" is just an elf version of "ordinary people", and the so-called fight is just to put gold on his face.

It's really an elf.