Chapter 1256: Iron Wood Encapsulation, Foreign Trade Seconds

Having recovered his full strength, Kelifu once again obtained the Advanced Rank permission for the Guanghui Zhi Ta that he had previously left behind in the secret chamber.

With the permission in hand, he no longer had to worry about being attacked by the Guanghui Zhi Ta itself while inside it.

Although Kelifu did not believe his group of students would do anything to him, he still had to consider the possibility of the Guanghui Zhi Ta falling into the hands of others.

Other successors might not necessarily wish to see him, the original owner, exist.

At this moment, Kelifu was only one final step away from gaining complete control over the Guanghui Zhi Ta—re-creating the tower spirit!

And before that, he was not prepared to have any contact with anyone from the outside world.

……

Seventon, Arcane Union.

Having bought a crate of Iron Wood from the trading district, Xia Duo quickly returned to the laboratory; he could not wait to see what the Demon-Slaying Arrow would look like when completed.

Not much different from the encapsulation of Mithril Component Magic Items in Netheril Magic, there were also two ways to encapsulate the Demon-Slaying Arrow.

One was purely physical, involving no magic at all: first make the arrow core, insert it into a tubular Mithril Component for support, then make the outer shell, and slide it on to form a complete Demon-Slaying Arrow.

If one were more meticulous, one could carve fine, mesh-like grooves inside the shell corresponding to the shape of the Mithril Component, ensuring that the Mithril Component would not undergo any deformation when the arrow body was flying at high speed or accelerating sharply.

The other way was purely magical, which was also the encapsulation method Xia Duo wanted to adopt—

Using a specific encapsulation spell to change the form of the corresponding encapsulation material, making it completely fix the core Mithril Component, and some could even affect the form or even the Magic Aura of the Mithril Component because of this.

If the first method was similar to a wire duct when laying electrical wires, where the wires could still move, then the second method was more like the circuits and the substrate in an integrated circuit being completely fused together, making it less susceptible to interference from external forces.

Specifically for the Demon-Slaying Arrow, its design blueprint came with an encapsulation spell—

A Transmutation spell specifically targeting the material of Iron Wood, which could make the form of the Iron Wood change according to the Spellcaster's will.

Of course, apart from that, it had no other effects.

Xia Duo highly suspected that this encapsulation spell was just something Keman temporarily cobbled together; their own country should have encapsulation spells with more effects.

Such as hiding the Magic Aura.

The Drow were not blind; the Magic Aura of a fine Magic Item could be seen from far away, let alone when it was close to them.

Elves did have some Elite archers who could hide the Magic Aura emitted by magic arrows when shooting, but most could not. (This requires the archer to also know magic.)

Xia Duo had seen magic arrows in the Projection Plane 【Maiyelita Sukanweisa】, and none of them carried a Magic Aura.

Although Maiyelita was an ancient Elven Kingdom from tens of thousands of years ago, and the Demon-Slaying Arrow did not belong to Maiyelita, since Keman had inherited the Demon-Slaying Arrow, Xia Duo had reason to believe that they had also inherited the encapsulation spell for hiding Magic Aura.

Of course, a Mage could also cast a spell to hide the Magic Aura before the archer shot, but the more ideal way was to hide it directly during the manufacturing process of the magic arrow.

"Perhaps this is the necessary defect of export-type magic arrows!" Xia Duo sighed.

Regarding this, he did not meddle in other people's business, but instead followed what was indicated on the design blueprint and simply performed a general magic encapsulation.

As for how to handle it later, that would be for the Dwarves to worry about; anyway, it was not that they did not understand magic, it was just that it differed from Netheril Magic and Elven Magic.

……

There were no accidents with the encapsulation of the Demon-Slaying Arrows; the scene Xia Duo had once imagined of the Demon-Slaying Arrows exploding during the encapsulation process did not actually happen.

By around noon, he had finished encapsulating all ten arrows.

Quietly lying on the laboratory bench, if not for the fact that they were emitting a dazzling Magic Aura, and if not for the fact that they still had a sharp tip at one end, Xia Duo would have thought they were ten wooden sticks.

They were simply too plain; let alone Elves, even Xia Duo, a human, felt that these wooden arrows, which looked entirely as if they had been carved from wood, were too crude.

But regardless, he had completed all ten Demon-Slaying Arrows to be used for the trade of the Halansaide estate.

Next, he could complete the trade. Thinking this, Xia Duo grabbed the Demon-Slaying Arrows and prepared to summon Dailike, but after a moment's thought, he put away nine arrows and kept only one in his hand.

Only then did he contact Dailike.

……

In the Reception Room.

Xia Duo raised his hand to control the single remaining Demon-Slaying Arrow to fly in front of Dailike, then instructed: "Go to the Halan Chamber of Commerce and give this arrow to President Jalasuo."

Xia Duo had already spoken to Dailike about the trade with the Halan Chamber of Commerce yesterday, so when the other party received the arrow at this time, there were no questions; they simply responded and turned to leave.

After Dailike left, Xia Duo sat quietly for a while, pondering his next plan.

Initially, he left Nan Jing to go to the Leisen Territory to find a way to erase the contact level between a Spellcaster and the Magic Net—that is, in the usual sense—to lower the Spellcasting Level.

Coming to Seventon was only because Kelifu would only provide the details of that experiment if he explored the Dream Ruins.

Now that Kelifu was dead, perhaps he could go to the Leisen Territory again; without Kelifu's presence, the Leisen Lord would surely not be as tight-lipped as before.

As for after leaving the Leisen Territory, that would naturally be returning to the Tower of Time. Xia Duo decided that if he were to come out again next time, it would definitely be after he became a Great Arcanist.

Thinking this, he prepared to get up and head to the Leisen Territory.

But just at this moment, the 【Magic Net Background Communication Management Spell】 that Xia Duo maintained almost constantly suddenly received a message that was almost impossible to appear—

It came from a Kelifu who had long been confirmed dead!

The 【Magic Net Background Communication Management Spell】 was an auxiliary spell developed by Giles Tower, which not only avoided the predicament of low-to-mid-rank Spellcasters being harassed by countless junk messages but also allowed those at the level of High Mage and above to have a stable and secure communication receiving channel while maintaining the effect of the Avoidance of Detection spell.

This was an extended function that general Communication Spells did not possess.

For general communication, once a target was under the effect of an Avoidance of Detection spell, unless one was within visual range or it was confirmed that the target was in a certain area where regional fuzzy broadcasting could be performed, it was impossible to send a message to the target.

The message Xia Duo received at this moment was encrypted with Kelifu's Magic Mark, rather than being an anonymous message without any identification marks.

But how could this be?

Not to mention that Xia Duo had seen with his own eyes Kelifu turn into fly ash in front of him, the investigation results of the Seven Towers could not be wrong, right?

If he hadn't died before, and the Seven Towers hadn't discovered it, yet had seriously investigated the cause of death and announced it to the public.

If that were really the case, this would truly be a huge blunder!

Xia Duo shook his head; he did not think this possibility was very high, but he still "clicked open" the message, with curiosity occupying most of his thoughts.