Chapter 1261: A Slip of the Tongue, Returning to the Astral Plane

Generally speaking, such a secretive matter as possessing a Resurrection Covenant is known only to the person involved; others can mostly only deduce it after a resurrection event occurs.

Just like this time, before Kelifu was resurrected, no one knew he possessed a Resurrection Covenant. Furthermore, whether Kelifu, who has faith in the Lord of Radiance, would be willing to use the Resurrection Covenant was also a question.

Before today, the vast majority of people had not considered this possibility.

As for why Saide knew, that stemmed from the other party involved in the Resurrection Covenant—the Death Priest Morton!

His guild leader Zhenna and Bailun had a relationship akin to teacher and student, and Bailun had a good personal friendship with Morton. Morton certainly would not proactively reveal information about the purchaser of a Resurrection Covenant, but "letting it slip" was not impossible.

Especially since Morton, as an undead, was accustomed to communicating with others through his mind and thoughts; information mixed into such communication was more abundant.

Saide only happened to learn of this news during a private meeting of Great Arcanists, but he dared not spread such news, nor did he even dare to mention it to Zhenna.

It was only after the Seven Towers announced the investigation results of Kelifu's death that he belatedly notified Zhenna and decided on the strategy of acquiring Gold Coin Exchange Vouchers from the Guanghui Zhi Ta.

It was also because this incident happened too suddenly and the Seven Towers acted too quickly; if Saide had known of Kelifu's death immediately, he would have notified the guild leader at once, and perhaps many of the farces could have been prevented.

Of course, all of this had to be decided by the guild leader; as for Saide's own intentions, he was more inclined to use this to seek greater benefits.

……

After continuing to listen to the reports of several managers, Saide suddenly felt a bit bored and intended to end this briefing, but just at this moment, a manager hurried in to report:

"My Lord, the Halan Territory Lord, Archmage Charles Halan, is outside; he requests a meeting with you."

"Hm? The Halan Territory Lord?"

Saide frowned; he truly could not recall any intersection between himself and the Halan Territory Lord, and he was even somewhat unfamiliar with the name Halan Territory.

Although the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce was massive in scale, it was not so large that it had established branches in every territory of Netheril.

The Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce would not go to territories that clearly lacked a commercial atmosphere or commercial value, or territories that had serious disagreements or disputes with the chamber.

In Saide's impression, the Halan Territory did not seem to have much of a commercial atmosphere; such a territory belonged to a secondary development target in the planning of the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce.

Now that the Halan Territory Lord had suddenly come knocking, Saide really could not guess the other party's purpose for a moment.

However, turning away a Netheril Lord and an Archmage was not the hospitality philosophy of the chamber, and since the briefing was a bit boring, Saide quickly ordered:

"Treat him well, I will be there immediately!"

"Yes."

……

Not mentioning how the Halan Territory Lord made contact with the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce, after Kelifu explained the matter of his resurrection to the Seven Towers and the Arcane Union in Seventon, he returned to his territory.

Kelifu had no heirs, and after losing him as the sole lord, the territory inevitably fell into a series of chaos. After returning from Seventon, he immediately took heavy-handed measures to rectify and sort out the order.

But at the same time, perhaps realizing the weakness of the territory's order, and perhaps to avoid such a situation from happening again in the future, Kelifu chose a successor—

His student, Maersi, who was of Commoner origin, had performed steadily during this incident and had almost integrated all the forces belonging to the Guanghui Zhi Ta, without causing any overly serious consequences.

Based on this alone, Kelifu believed that Maersi was qualified to be his successor.

Of course, if the people of the Guanghui Zhi Ta had supported someone else at the time, the successor Kelifu chose now would have changed accordingly.

While this certainly involved reasons of ability and attitude, luck also accounted for a large part.

……

Four days later, the fifth day of June.

At noon that day, Xia Duo finally received notification from Kelifu. Before heading to Giles Tower, he instructed Dailike to send the nine Demon-Slaying Arrows to the Halan Chamber of Commerce.

Of course, he also knew that perhaps by the time he returned from the Astral Plane, Dailike might not have even reached the Halan Chamber of Commerce yet, but he had indeed delivered the goods according to his latest agreement with the Halan Territory Lord before heading to the Astral Plane.

Giles Tower.

Arriving here again, Xia Duo felt many emotions; he did not expect that after experiencing death once, Kelifu would still choose to head to the Astral Plane through Giles Tower this time.

However, regarding this point, Kelifu also had an explanation, saying that the summoning magic array of the Eternal Holy Spirit Suo En was at Giles Tower, so if the three of them wanted to head to the Astral Plane together, they could only pass through Giles Tower.

Soon, Xia Duo arrived at the Projection Hall of the Plane Exploration Layer, where he saw Suo En and Kelifu. Kelifu had a smile on his face and seemed to be in a good mood, while Suo En was as cold and unapproachable as before.

Seeing Xia Duo enter, Suo En immediately said: "The person is here, then let's set off!"

"Lord Xia Duo, is there anything else that needs to be prepared?" Kelifu asked.

"No, everything is ready, let's go!"

……

The projection process was almost exactly the same as the last time, and this time, having been prepared, Xia Duo clearly saw the generation process of the Astral Projection Avatar from nothing to existence.

Projecting a part of the essence of the main body into the Astral Plane itself could form a materialized body, but the Astral Projection Avatar further introduced a certain Astral Plane characteristic, forming a special "protective shell" that merged with the projection of the main body.

As long as it did not suffer special damage related to the soul or mind, even if it died, the consciousness would automatically return to the main body without suffering any harm.

Situations like Kelifu's, where the death of the avatar implicated the main body, were ultimately rare.

According to Suo En, in the nearly three-hundred-year history of Giles Tower exploring the Astral Plane, there had been only six such incidents where the death of a projection implicated the main body, including this time with Kelifu.

Suo En was an Astral Mage of Giles Tower before becoming an Eternal Holy Spirit, so his words had high credibility; now as an Eternal Holy Spirit, he had even less reason to lie.

In addition, the Astral Projection Avatar was a technology researched by Giles Tower only after Suo En became an Eternal Holy Spirit; in fact, the only one whose Astral Projection Avatar death implicated the main body was Kelifu alone.

No one else had encountered such a thing.

Not only that, Kelifu also mentioned that the Astral Projection Avatar could exist not only in the Astral Plane but also in the Material Plane.

In other words, the Projection Avatar that Xia Duo had been longing for to replace his main body for travel, while simultaneously being able to cast spells and use Magic Items normally, was something Giles Tower already possessed!

Upon learning of this situation, Xia Duo did not know whether to be happy or sad, or perhaps both.

What made him happy was that this matter finally had a lead; what made him sad was that Sikumu would certainly not let him obtain this technology easily!

"Sigh—"