Chapter 1324: Moon Crown Family, Intent to Kill Arises

"Moon Crown Family?"

Upon hearing such a name, Xia Duo did not need to exhaust his memory to immediately judge that this was an Upper Family; any name involving "Sun," "Moon," or "Star" in Cormanthor belonged to an Upper Family.

Its members were also mostly Gold Elf, though there could be Moon Elf, but at most it was only these two types; there was absolutely no possibility of others existing.

Even if some love transcending class occurred, it was very difficult to have any good ending.

And after Xia Duo briefly traced his memory, more information regarding the Moon Crown Family also presented itself in his consciousness.

The Moon Crown Family of the Projection Plane was not worth mentioning for now; although it had a connection with the Main Plane, it only had some reference value and was of little significance, but the 【Moon Crown Family】 of the Main Plane was an out-and-out Upper Family.

Its family history could be traced back to the Crown War period, even earlier than the birth of Cormanthor, and this family had almost never declined since the day it was established.

High Mages appeared in every generation among the family members, and there was even no lack of some outstanding individuals who were also famous in history.

This family, let alone in Cormanthor, was renowned even if placed in the entire Elf World.

The possibility of that Cormanthor investigator impersonating a member of the Moon Crown Family was extremely small, only, Xia Duo had never heard of any conflict of interest between the Moon Crown Family and the Savile Territory.

Plus, Patriarch Aoruipusi just mentioned that he had already contacted the Moon Dew Rose Family, which had a relationship with the Elf refugees, and the other party had not issued any commission.

What's more, how could a declining small family bearing the "Yuezhiiming" afford to hire a real Upper Family?

In fact, that Elf refugee killed by the Drow Assassin was not a member of the Moon Dew Rose Family either, but just the child of their neighbor couple.

And their neighbor couple had already all died during the Drow War.

How could dead Elf issue any commission? Let alone falsely using the name of the Moon Dew Rose Family.

This made Xia Duo increasingly certain that the so-called investigator saying they were commissioned by the Moon Dew Rose Family might just be a casual remark; perhaps the other party did not even know the specific situation of the Moon Dew family.

Then what was the other party's true purpose?

"Patriarch Aoruipusi, what else do you know about that investigator?"

"Lord Xia Duo, the other party is a member of an Upper Family; I dare not probe too much, but from my limited contact with the other party, the other party seems unconcerned with investigating the truth of the death, but instead cares more about the Savile Territory itself."

Aoruipusi's answer made Xia Duo's brow twitch, thinking to himself that it was as expected, but this was not enough to reveal the other party's true purpose, so he simply stopped walking, looked straight at Aoruipusi, and asked:

"Patriarch Aoruipusi, what do you think the other party might have come here for?"

Aoruipusi hesitated for a moment and stated a possibility—"Could it be because of our spice smuggling business?"

But after saying it, he shook his head himself, "Impossible, we have only introduced 'Ivory Pepper' and 'Laurel Leaf', these two most common ordinary spices, so how could it attract the attention of the Moon Crown Family?"

However, although he said this in a tone of certainty, he was actually very unsure in his heart; if one were to talk about who had the greatest risk in spice smuggling, then undoubtedly it had to be the Silver Leaf Family.

For the other two parties in the cooperation, whether it was Lord Xia Duo or Lord Collins, even if the smuggling behavior was exposed, at most they would just stop doing it or change a partner, but the Silver Leaf Family would really be in trouble.

Strictly speaking, this was already a kind of treasonous behavior, not to mention colluding with humans to betray one's own side, which was even less tolerated in Cormanthor.

For a time, Aoruipusi did not even dare to go see that investigator again.

"Lord Xia Duo, do you think that investigator really came for the spice smuggling matter?"

Sigh—

Xia Duo had not thought of this angle; if the other party came because of the spice smuggling matter, then it might be quite troublesome.

This meant that the Savile Territory would enter Cormanthor's field of vision for a long time, which was truly not good news for Xia Duo.

Of course, the unluckiest one would be the Silver Leaf Family; if the Moon Crown Family wanted to participate in the smuggling to get a share, it would be nothing, but if the other party came to crack down on smuggling, then the total annihilation of the Silver Leaf Family was not impossible.

Only, from the fact that the investigator was still staying safely in this manor, perhaps things were not as serious as imagined.

Xia Duo comforted Aoruipusi a few words, after which they did not converse further, and the two soon arrived at a Flower Courtyard near the riverbank on the north side of the manor.

That Cormanthor investigator named "Tuofu" was right here!

Just as Xia Duo stepped into the courtyard area, the instinct of an Arcanist made him realize that this investigator Tuofu was not simple.

In this small courtyard, the Magic Net environment was almost separated from the outside, forming a relatively independent private Domain.

The core of the Netheril Arcane Magic System was Arcane Fire, was the private Magic Net; could it be that the Elven Magic System did not have an existence capable of contending with it?

Arcanists used Arcane Fire to control the Magic Net, and even had quite high control over the Great Magic Net environment outside, while Elven Mage used their high compatibility with the Magic Net to make the external Great Magic Net environment automatically echo their own will.

The so-called Domain was actually a region of high compatibility between the Magic Net and oneself; in fact, there was no very strict physical distinction. In a Domain, spellcasting difficulty decreased and spellcasting speed increased.

The only thing that remained unchanged was the spell itself, but under the condition that the prerequisites were lowered so much, it was indirectly equivalent to an increase in spell effect.

Without Arcane Fire, without a private Magic Net, an ordinary Spellcaster was almost impossible to defeat an Elven High Mage, and even a Legendary Mage was no exception.

Of course, Xia Duo did not think the person before him was a High Mage, at most just a senior Mage with outstanding talent; it was just that the probability of becoming a High Mage in the future was very high.

Just this one meeting, Xia Duo even gave birth to the thought of keeping the other party completely within the borders of Netheril.

As the saying goes, "one man's hero is another man's enemy"; one more High Mage in Cormanthor might not trigger a strategic imbalance between the two countries, but it would definitely embolden the other party's arrogance.

In the future, as both belong to the Northland Alliance, who knows how many disgusting things will appear!

If one could solve a future confidant's trouble in advance now, why not do it?

It was just a pity that the other party was not without the ability to resist; even if Xia Duo could successfully eliminate her here, how much of a price would he have to pay?

And the most critical point was—the other party was not without a background; once such a talented genius Mage died, the Moon Crown Family behind her would probably go crazy to seek revenge on himself.

From the beginning of the family's establishment during the Crown War period until now, the Moon Crown Family had never had a situation where the High Mage inheritance was interrupted; perhaps if this talented investigator "Tuofu" died, the Moon Crown Family would have no successors.

Then how crazy would they be when they took revenge!

Thinking of that terrifying consequence that was highly likely to occur, Xia Duo still decisively gave up the idea of ambushing and killing "Tuofu" here.

"What a pity!"