Chapter 1448: Completion of Construction, Green Vine Tribe

Next is the encapsulation.

The encapsulation of general Magic Items can fully integrate with Mithril Components on both the magical and material levels, serving the purpose of protecting the energy circuit.

However, Daiwei String Components cannot integrate with ordinary materials, or rather, they cannot integrate with normal materials at all, and they are themselves extremely unstable.

So-called encapsulation is merely wrapping them in ordinary materials, much like putting an "outer garment" on a normal Magic Item; the form is greater than the substance.

For a Spellcaster, having it is the same as not having it, but for an ordinary person, it can prevent a considerable amount of accidental contact and damage.

Considering the special shape of this Portal, which differs from ordinary Portals, Xia Duo decided to use stone materials mixed with lead powder for the encapsulation.

This allows the material itself to possess a certain degree of anti-Scrying properties.

In fact, disregarding external factors, Xia Duo would prefer to use ice or Crystal for the encapsulation, as this would make the Portal's design more aesthetically pleasing.

But for now, he still has to consider the reality that the Daiwei String is not yet suitable for public disclosure.

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Compared to the previous production process, the encapsulation was much simpler; Xia Duo used his Bloodline Ability to summon a large amount of pure water, mixed it evenly with the prepared lead powder, and then transformed the whole thing into stone.

A small amount of lead powder was also affected and transformed into the special stone, but the vast majority remained.

Afterward, by applying Protection and anti-Scrying Magic, a Portal that looked only slightly larger than an ordinary Portal was completed.

Come to think of it, aside from labor costs, in the future, the cost of this Portal might be concentrated more on the lead powder, and if ice were used for encapsulation, the cost would be almost zero. (Arcane Crystals are not necessarily needed, and even if they were, the future cost would be very low.)

If the problem of miniaturizing Daiwei String Components can be solved, perhaps using a Portal to go to the bathroom when leaving the house will become a reality.

However, in a future where Teleportation Spells and teleportation facilities are prevalent, the regulation and control of teleportation behavior must also keep up in a timely manner, otherwise the consequences it triggers might be more serious than losing teleportation itself.

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After the Portal was completed, Xia Duo let Jibu and Maka go to rest, while he returned to the Tower of Time to use the more convenient Scrying device within the tower to conduct Scrying on the several large tribes on the Langas Plain that were about to launch a siege on the Grey Eagle Tribe.

According to Maka, large tribes triggering public outrage and being besieged had happened before, but for a tribe like the Grey Eagle Tribe, which had only been in contact with the Netherese slightly more frequently, to trigger such public outrage was somewhat abnormal.

Maka suspected that someone was specifically coordinating this behind the scenes, and it was very likely targeted at Daxia Territory.

Otherwise, there are so many tribes in contact with the Netherese, and some tribes have even been secretly controlled by the Netherese for a long time, yet those large tribes have never launched an invasion!

On the contrary, large tribes would deliberately avoid tribes secretly controlled by the Netherese when conducting autumn and winter campaigns.

In the eyes of the Langasi, the consistent image of a Netheril Lord is greedy, cruel, and extremely powerful; if not necessary, they generally would not provoke one.

Xia Duo felt that Maka's suspicion was somewhat far-fetched, more like he was complaining, venting, or distancing himself, but it was still necessary to be on guard.

The Langas strategy is an important part of Xia Duo's plan; if there really is someone with ulterior motives, they must be discovered and eliminated as early as possible.

Inside the Detection Room.

Xia Duo took a deep breath and activated the Scrying device in front of him, which he still didn't quite understand to this day. Soon, the Crystal Ball displayed a view from high above, seemingly somewhere on the Langas Plain.

In the very center was a small blank area, as if it had been artificially erased; based on experience, that is generally where the Ancestral Spirit Hall of a Langas Tribe is located.

In previous Scrying attempts, Xia Duo had also seen this image; this was the area where a large tribe called "Green Vine" had lived for generations.

Seeing this result, Xia Duo couldn't help but frown. He indeed did not know divination spells, but he did know how to achieve an effect close to divination by setting search criteria.

He did not directly search for the reason for the abnormality of those few large tribes; on one hand, searching might not necessarily yield results, and on the other hand, he was worried about being detected by someone with ulterior motives who might be present.

He chose to use the traces of outsiders as a clue and focused his inspection on those few large tribes.

The image currently fed back by the Scrying device was the only area among those large tribes that had traces of outsiders—the Green Vine Tribe.

Xia Duo had heard Maka mention this tribe more than once; its strength was far greater than the Grey Eagle Tribe, and more importantly, the Green Vine Tribe was one of the few large tribes on the Langas Plain that did not need to migrate.

It didn't matter for small tribes, as there were few people anyway, but large tribes had populations ranging from tens of thousands to over a hundred thousand. Staying in one place for a long time easily exhausted the resources of that area.

Therefore, every few years, large tribes would migrate to find areas with more abundant food, and the conflicts and even wars that occurred during this period were another story entirely.

Being able to survive for a long time without needing to migrate meant that the Green Vine Tribe did not lack food, and not lacking food could bring about significant population growth.

It could be said that if Maka were to list the tribes that might unify the Langas Plain in the future, the Green Vine Tribe would definitely be on it.

Such a tribe, even Xia Duo was quite wary of.

It wasn't about their power, but rather their deep-rooted influence on the Langas Plain, which outsiders could hardly shake. If they were to call out, they might be able to gather all the Langasi to resist together.

However, such a local tyrant was a major obstacle to Xia Duo's recruitment plan, and even without the siege of the Grey Eagle Tribe, he would have clashed with them sooner or later.

Perhaps it had already begun.

It was just that the interference of another force seemed to be mixed in.

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The Scrying device in the Tower of Time was convenient to use; even a low-level Mage could easily use it as long as they mastered the method, but in terms of flexibility during the Scrying process, it was not as good as a Spellcaster performing it personally.

Xia Duo did not intend to rely solely on this fixed, inanimate object to complete the Scrying; he relied more on the anti-Scrying facilities here, which were far stronger than what a Spellcaster could achieve on their own.

Because it was an external object, it could be "stacked" almost without limit, and its actual effect was already close to absolute protection.

It was not impossible for Xia Duo to achieve this level of anti-Scrying protection through his own Spellcasting, but that would be too much effort.

Performing the Spell himself and making slight adjustments to the Scrying conditions, Xia Duo quickly locked onto some traces left by outsiders in the Green Vine Tribe.

There weren't many, only one spot, which was outside a stone building near the Ancestral Spirit Hall of the Green Vine Tribe. From this stone building alone, one could see the strength and ambition of the Green Vine Tribe.

Of course, the focus of Xia Duo's attention was not on the building itself, but on an open space outside the building.