Chapter 1243: Announcing the Investigation Results, the Blank Space in the Past Footage

Although Xia Duo had received several years of Elven Magic education in the Projection Plane and possessed the experience and knowledge of multiple high-level Mages, his compatibility with the Magic Net in his Main Plane body was significantly discounted.

When casting uncomplicated spells, even high-circle ones, he could forcibly control himself to match the Magic Net for a short time, but for a complex and lengthy spellcasting link process like the Demon-Slaying Arrow, the excessive casting time led to more accidents.

For instance, the success rate for a spellcasting duration within 10 seconds was 90%, but for 100 seconds, the success rate dropped to only about 0.9^10 ≈ 35%.

Specifically regarding this spellcasting process of linking the core Mithril Component of the Demon-Slaying Arrow to the Magic Net, which lasted over four minutes, Xia Duo roughly judged after a single attempt that the success rate for this process was not even ten percent.

This did not mean that one success was guaranteed every ten attempts, but rather that with each attempt calculated at a 10% success rate, if luck were poor, one might not succeed even once in 100 attempts.

Of course, if luck were good, succeeding in one or two attempts was not unimaginable.

"So I've said it before, Elven Magic really isn't my thing!"

Xia Duo sighed, tossed the scrapped Mithril Component aside to be processed later, and prepared to continue crafting the tubular Mithril Component for the Demon-Slaying Arrow core.

However, compared to the first time when he only made one, this time he made twenty in a row; clearly, Xia Duo was not very confident in something as metaphysical as luck.

But in the short term, he could not find a way to improve his Magic Net Compatibility, so he could only rely on quantity; Lord Halan only needed to obtain one Demon-Slaying Arrow within three days.

Xia Duo did not believe he could fail to succeed even once in three days!

As long as the Demon-Slaying Arrow core was completed, the subsequent steps would involve almost no Magic, and even an ordinary person could complete the rest of the production.

……

Just as Xia Duo was busy working through the night to rush the production of the Demon-Slaying Arrows, in Seventon, the highly anticipated meeting of the Council of Great Arcanists was finally convened by someone.

The convener was not Magna, who had a good personal relationship with Kelifu, nor was it Iolum, the neutral arbitrator, and certainly not a two-faced schemer like Lord Huo Ke.

It was Sikumu!

When everyone learned that the convener was Sikumu, their reactions varied; the Great Arcanists from the Seven Towers, as insiders of the investigation results, were set aside for the moment.

When Duolaisen Huo Ke learned late at night that Sikumu had convened the Council of Great Arcanists, he did not head to the Arcane Union immediately, but first went to the Cormanthor Embassy, lingering for nearly half a quarter of an hour before leaving in a hurry.

And Magna and the others also held a long secret discussion before heading to the conference hall together; by the time all attendees had arrived, the eastern sky of Seventon had already turned pale.

Inside the hall.

Although it was an informally convened emergency meeting, the emergency meeting already had a default theme; once everyone was present, Iolum directly gave the first opportunity to speak to the Seven Towers.

Rather than the others, the dozen or so Councilors of the Union who were listening from the periphery all cast expectant yet secretly scrutinizing gazes toward Badijiaer.

After the Princess's Ascension to Godhood, Badijiaer had become the external representative of the Seven Towers, but this time, Badijiaer did not step forward; it was Sikumu who stepped forward, as he was representing the Seven Towers to announce the investigation results of Kelifu's death.

The moment he stood up, the expressions in many people's eyes changed instantly, especially those of the Great Arcanists, which were filled with barely concealed suspicion.

However, before hearing the investigation results, those few did not raise any objections, merely watching Sikumu's performance quietly.

After rising, Sikumu first said with a sorrowful expression, "Regarding the first Great Arcanist in seventy-three years of Netheril to die an unnatural death, I feel great regret for the death of Kelifu."

Regarding Sikumu's performance, the attendees were noncommittal; their focus remained on the investigation results of the Seven Towers.

Sikumu seemed to notice the urging gazes of the crowd and immediately changed the subject, "Although this was just an accident, the Seven Towers still did our utmost to investigate the potential suspicious points of the event; now, let me explain them to you all."

Hearing that the Seven Towers had already characterized the event, the expressions in the crowd changed again—some disappointed, some expectant, others mocking—but they still did not interrupt Sikumu's speech.

As he spoke, Sikumu took out a shimmering, transparent crystal and threw it toward the center of the circular conference table—that is, the center of the conference hall—and the originally shifting and distorted light and shadow in the center of the hall suddenly became clear.

It was a Reception Room with a distinct style, filled with various Sun Emblems everywhere, yet the overall effect was not cluttered but full of a sense of order.

There were only two people in the Reception Room in the projection, but these two were undoubtedly strangers to the Great Arcanists and Councilors of the Union in the conference hall at this moment.

Only a very small number of people recognized the identities of the two in the projection—they were the father and son of the Leisen Territory, who were also students of Kelifu!

Just as everyone was confused, Sikumu's explanation came quickly: "This is the source of the event, the scene where Kelifu met with the Lord of the Xiaduo Ling from Nan Jing in the Leisen Territory.

"Because both of them had cast the Avoidance of Detection spell, in a situation where we needed to preserve the scene for re-examination, we had no way to trace their images or direct audio.

"But their conversation did not use a Soundproof Barrier, so the Seven Towers still managed to trace the traces left by the sound of their conversation hitting the walls.

"After Huanyuan, we learned the ins and outs of the event; now, please listen to the scene audio we have restored—"

Following Sikumu's words, the projection in the center of the hall began to move, though one could only see the process of the Leisen Territory duo bowing to empty air, yet the sound could be heard.

And upon hearing the sentence, "Did Lord Kelifu come because I asked about that experimental accident in the Leisen Territory?", the people in the hall could not help but show expressions of confusion.

How did this get involved with some experimental accident?

As the projection continued, everyone soon gained a clearer understanding of the cause of this matter—

Dream Ruins, Death Authority, Resurrection Spell!

Once these keywords appeared, the crowd could not help but have a bit more recognition for the Seven Towers' investigation; how could they have known such secret and bizarre information if they hadn't truly traced the conversation between Kelifu and Xia Duo at the time!

But there were also skeptics; after watching the segment of the projection that only had sound, Duolaisen Huo Ke immediately interrupted Sikumu's continued introduction and raised his own question:

"How can you prove that this footage is the Reality of that day? I think for the Seven Towers, forging a piece of footage and a piece of audio shouldn't be a difficult task!"