Chapter 1397: Inquiring about Details, Northern Accent

After briefly greeting the four of them, Xia Duo got straight to the point, "I assume you have all guessed it; there is no advanced training class. However, if your answers to what follows satisfy me, the advanced training class will not be a problem."

"Xia Duo, what do you want to ask?"

"President, is it because of that Elf?"

"We have been thinking about it here and only found one common point among the four of us, which is that we just returned from Savile Town and all had contact with that Elf."

"……"

The few of them guessed what Xia Duo wanted to ask in just a few words. Xia Duo nodded in acknowledgment, "It is indeed because of that Elf. Tell me about the process of meeting her. Kelin, let's start with you!"

"Alright."

Kelin responded, but did not start speaking immediately. Instead, he pondered for a moment, seemingly recalling the scene at the time, before beginning to recount from the start:

"I went to Savile Town after accepting a mission to train at the Military Camp. After completing the mission, I went home to take a look, and without any delay, I immediately prepared to return to the Tower of Time.

"But while passing through the Central Plaza, I encountered that Elf. She was the one who took the initiative to greet me at the time. After all, she was an Elf, and I might have been a bit dazed then, so whatever the other party asked, I said."

"She mainly asked questions in two areas: one about Savile Territory, and one about the Tower of Time. However, they were all questions that were very easy to inquire about, so I didn't take them to heart at the time.

"It wasn't until I returned to the Tower of Time and was told to attend an advanced training class, but no one came to contact us in this room, that I realized that Elf might have been problematic."

After Kelin finished speaking, there was a look of regret on his face. Seeing this, Xia Duo signaled for the other three to begin. One of the New Mages named "Jiesi" grabbed the lead:

"My situation is somewhat similar to Kelin's. I also met that Elf in the Central Plaza. The other party claimed to be a friend of Patriarch Aoruipusi of the Silver Leaf Family. I believed her, but I didn't believe her completely.

"She also asked questions about Savile Territory and the Tower of Time. Because they were all pieces of information that could be easily inquired about, I answered them all.

"However, when the other party asked about the internal system of the Tower of Time, I didn't tell her the current system, but used the previous system of the Tower of Time to brush her off."

Speaking of this, Jiesi wore an expression of 'I am very smart.' However, upon thinking that others might not necessarily be like him, he couldn't help but feel a bit discouraged. Before the others could start recounting their own experiences, he asked Xia Duo a question in return:

"President, who is that Elf? Is there something wrong with her?"

"She is a business partner of mine. As for problems, of course there are some, but it is currently still in the speculation stage. You don't need to have any psychological burden."

"You scared me to death! I thought I had inadvertently become someone else's spy!" Jiesi patted his chest and said with a look of lingering fear.

Regarding this, Xia Duo was noncommittal. He knew that with the strength of that investigator Tuofu, she could completely obtain enough intelligence without having any direct contact with Jiesi and the others.

The reason she acted so exaggeratedly might also have been to alert him.

However, what needed to be asked still had to be asked; perhaps he could discover some details that the other party had overlooked!

……

Next, the other two also separately recounted the entire process of their meetings with Tuofu. Like Kelin and Jiesi, they were all intercepted by Tuofu at the Savile Town Central Square.

More accurately, it was at the northwest corner of the Central Square.

That is the only way to the old site of the Tower of Time. Currently, the Small Semi-Permanent Portal connecting the Tower of Time to Savile Town is located right next to the old site of the Tower of Time.

"By the way, Jiesi, you should have only just started coming into contact with Elvish not long ago. How did that Elf communicate with you? Was it through a psychic Spell or Netherese?"

"It was Netherese! And it seemed to carry a very heavy northern accent!"

Jiesi seemed to have thought of something and even deliberately imitated Tuofu's accent. Xia Duo had been in Seventon for a period of time recently and was no stranger to the Seventon accent.

Especially certain tones deliberately changed to fit Elvish vocabulary, which, to an Elvish expert like Xia Duo, appeared exceptionally obvious.

In this instant, he even had a speculation outside the topic—was the accent change in Seventon brought about by the Elves?

Coupled with some people deliberately imitating it, it quickly became popular.

It is just that here in Nan Jing, although it seems closer to the Elven Kingdom, in reality, there are fewer opportunities to come into contact with Elves. It was only in the last two years that the Silver Leaf Family moved to Savile Town, which made the Elves here less rare.

That Tuofu not only took the initiative to talk to humans but also spoke Netherese, which truly broke Xia Duo's consistent impression of Elves.

Come to think of it, Xia Duo didn't seem to have heard any Elf speak Netherese yet!

Even Aoruipusi of the Silver Leaf Family, when communicating with him, spoke Elvish. It wasn't that Aoruipusi couldn't speak Netherese, but rather that Xia Duo had never thought that the other party would speak Netherese.

This is just like in Xia Duo's hometown, when seeing a foreigner, one would always subconsciously use a foreign language to communicate with them, as if in the Subconscious, one had already determined that the other party would not speak Chinese.

That "would not," is it "cannot," or is it "don't want to"?

Is this arrogance? Or is it inferiority?

As his thoughts drifted, Xia Duo was somewhat unwilling to face this question. However, at present, Elves are indeed stronger than humans in many places, and even Elvish itself is clearly superior to Netherese, so it wouldn't matter to speak it.

As the saying goes, "Learn the superior techniques of the barbarians to control the barbarians." When one becomes strong in the future, it will be the Elves' turn to take the initiative to speak human language.

Right now, humans clearly haven't reached that level yet, so Tuofu's action appears particularly suspicious.

Thinking this way, Xia Duo asked several more key questions in succession, and Kelin, Jiesi, and the others answered them one by one. Finally, Xia Duo proposed wanting to reconstruct the scene at that time.

"Xia Duo, what are you planning to do? How do you need us to cooperate?"

"It's very simple. You just need to keep recalling the scene of your contact with that Elf while I am performing Spellcasting."

Xia Duo said it was simple, but it was actually not easy. Psychic Spells are easily interfered with by subjective will, especially by those who have some understanding of psychic Spells, who can make targeted misdirections.

Of course, he could also go to the Savile Town Central Square to trace the past history of that area, but Tuofu is a powerful Mage after all, and he might end up tracing nothing at all.

Additionally, there is the point that one might encounter Tuofu at the Central Square.

Even if one doesn't encounter her, the other party might be paying attention to that place; otherwise, how could it be that every time a member of the Tower of Time passed by there, they would be sought out.

One can be a coincidence, but if everyone is like that, then it is not a coincidence.

Regardless, looking at the memories of Kelin and the others first will always serve as a certain reference.