Lord of Arcane

Chapter 533 Magic Bead Intention
However, Xia Duo's sudden appearance made the two people in the small workshop suddenly quiet. Before Xia Duo could speak, the old man pulled the middle-aged man to his knees and begged for mercy:
"My lord, please spare my life. This kid has lost his mind and deceived your lord for a while. I am willing to give up all my property, and I just ask my lord to spare his life!"

As he said that, he even tore off the necklace from his neck, held it in his hands and handed it to Xia Duo, "My lord, this is a treasure I obtained in the ruins when I was young, please let me go!"

"..."

Xia Duo was a little dazed, he hadn't spoken yet, and he was offering his family property and treasures. Could it be that he looked so unkind?
In the end, both the buyer and the seller are willing, and he bought it even though he knew it was fake, and he had some thoughts of fishing and law enforcement, but he can be regarded as clearing mines for this family. Maybe it really cost both money and life.

Of course, other mages may not be able to find each other as easily as Xia Duo. [Detection] is a 4-level spell, and it is not worth wasting a 10-level spell just for a fake that only costs 4 gold coins.

But since Xia Duo is here, he definitely won't make the trip in vain.

He first picked up the necklace, and took a closer look at the bead-shaped pendant on it, and found that it was just as he had guessed before, it was a magic item capable of detecting detection spells.

Although Xia Duo didn't use the [Identification Technique], the magic on this pendant was not encrypted at all, and it was added through the [Magic Constancy Technique].

This discovery has greatly reduced the value of this pendant in Xia Duo. Although [Magic Persistence] makes magic items seem to be much more flexible, and can even add spell effects to the human body, its stability is worse than using Mithril components. a lot of.

Moreover, the casting threshold is very high. Basically, no matter how many rings of magic effects need to be added, at least one higher ring of difficulty is required. This involves element circulation, because this [Magic Constancy] is not a specific spell, but is a technology.

This is inconsistent with the research direction chosen by Xia Duo. What he needs is a manufacturing method with a lower threshold, so as to expand the range of spellcasters who are capable of participating in the manufacturing, and at the same time promote the iterative update of various spells.

After careful inspection, Xia Duo threw the necklace back into the old man's palm, and said calmly, "Get up first!"

When throwing this necklace, Xia Duo really felt a little bit reluctant. He could get this magic item worth over ten thousand without paying any price, and it fully complied with the standards of Nether mages. Anyone accuse him of this.

but--

Almost no need, does not mean no need at all. What he needs to pay is actually a little belief and a little principle in his heart. He actually does not fully agree with the current environment of Netheril.

His three views are still different from those of Nether Mage. Although he has been more or less affected by being here for so long, there are some principled things that cannot be changed.

Fishing to enforce the law, and then coming to kill and steal money, ask yourself, Xia Duo can't do it anyway, even if he doesn't kill people, but only steals money, Xia Duo feels a little disgraceful.

If it's an enemy, it doesn't matter, just like the Arcanist Aquiline of the Hawkland, Xia Duo did a sneak attack as a matter of course, and even if there is a more "strange" method, he doesn't mind trying one or two.

But the two sides are not enemies, so there is no need to practice such tricks.

Although Master Nether does not advocate justice, he also rejects evil. Even the evil ones may not necessarily like to be with the evil ones.

If it was the protagonist of a novel written by Xia Duo before crossing over, perhaps the first sentence he would say would be - "A mere vulgar thing, dare to use it to mess with my mind!", and then kill or chop, and finally touch the corpse .

This seems to be more pretentious or secondary, but on Xia Duo himself, regardless of reality or his own mind, he is still unwilling to accept this magic item.

However, not wanting magic items does not mean not wanting people.

Of course, some questions still need to be asked before this.

Seeing that the two were still kneeling on the ground tremblingly, Xia Duo said again, "Stand up! I don't want to say it a third time!"

In fact, Xia Duo is very disgusted with this form of kneeling at every turn. Although it looks a bit cool and superior, but from another perspective, will he encounter an existence that needs him to kowtow to the ground one day?
Of course it doesn't matter if others kneel down, but when it's my turn to kneel down, I feel uncomfortable.

This kind of bad habit must be resolutely banned. You and I are both grand arcanists and even the seeds of God Gao Miao. Why should I kneel to you? If everyone has such beliefs, perhaps this is a world suitable for the development of civilization.

So far, Xia Duo has not been asked to kneel down, but he knows that if a great arcanist asks him to kneel down and salute, he has no room to refuse.

Although the caster can be regarded as having great power on his own, and does not need to highlight his authority through various complicated etiquette forms like ordinary people in power, but there is no guarantee that someone will be good at it.

Every time he thinks of this possibility, Xia Duo becomes restless.

The strength is not as good as that of a human being, so there is nothing to do.

……

Under Xia Duo's two orders, the old man and middle-aged adventurer in the small workshop finally stood up, but they were still trembling and cautious, for fear that the mage in front of him would hit him with a spell.

"Tell me, how many people have you deceived like this?" While inquiring, Xia Duo unobtrusively cast the trial spell - Inquiry learned from [Projection Plane Arcane Empire].

It's actually mind magic.

[Inquiry] is similar to the [Field of Honesty] that Layton once cast. It can judge whether the target in the spell field is lying, but without the participation of holy power, it is pure arcane magic, which is quite easy to use.

"My lord, we just came to Severton from Shiboden yesterday, and only one item was sold, and your lord bought it." The middle-aged man seemed aggrieved in his tone.

It is the truth, but not lying does not mean not concealing, Xia Duo continued to ask: "Then did you deceive others before you came to Severton?"

"..." The expression on the middle-aged man's face began to struggle, and finally his face collapsed. Just as he was about to speak, the old man took the lead and said, "My lord, we only sold a few before, and we clearly stated in advance that they were just ordinary silver jewelry. They themselves think it is Mithril."

"Oh? Why did you become more courageous when you arrived at Severton?"

When Xia Duo bought it, the middle-aged man agreed that it was Mithril jewelry. He didn't dare to say that in other places, but he said so when he arrived in Severton. Did he think that the mages in Severton were more stupid than those in other places?Or are you planning to get one vote and never come to Sevington?

He glanced at the clump of silver-white metal wires that had fallen on the ground. The appearance of silver and mithril was still obvious, and the clump of metal wires looked no different from mithril wires in appearance.

If it wasn't for Xia Duo's frequent contact with Mithril, he would have been deceived by them. The craftsmanship of these two people is really not bad.

"Where did you know the style of this kind of jewelry?" After two ordinary questions, Xia Duo finally asked the real question.

The middle-aged man looked at the old man in a daze, and the old man did not hide it, "My lord, when I was young, I found a broken ancient magic weapon in the ruins. It had many complicated mithril structures. I disassembled it and sold it. Yes, later, later—"

"Later, you felt that selling only one piece was not enough, so you started to fake it?" Xia Duo helped him to say the following.

"Yes."

"..."

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