Chapter 1826: Tool-Tree, Old Era

After the blessing, Xia Duo noticed Xize had opened a Semi-plane passage, and he thought to himself, could the harp sent by that Master Tuomier be stored inside?

Xize's private treasury, or something else?

With so much external information, it was naturally inevitable that the brand-new memories of Elder Xilin's long life were unlocked; only then did Xia Duo realize that Xilin, as an Elder of the Sharwen Tree Council, also held the duty of a treasury manager.

Moreover, as a treant, Xilin couldn't exactly open a hole in his own body to store things, which meant the treasury was also a part of Xilin.

But in reality, according to the memories of Xilin that Xia Duo had learned, this guy had never even touched the things in his private treasury; thinking about it, it made sense—a treant is naturally nurtured by the world, so why would he need so many external objects?

The items in Xilin's private treasury were mostly things made from materials that had naturally fallen off his body or were discarded during maintenance, such as the two harps made by Master Tuomier this time.

Furthermore, over the countless years in the past, basically as long as an Elf came to take them, Xilin didn't care at all; it was called a private treasury, but in reality, it was still the public treasury of Sharwen.

In Xia Duo's view, Xilin was purely a tool-man!

No, it should be said, a tool-tree!

After Xize left, Xia Duo once again stimulated his Bloodline Power, using Positive Energy as a fulcrum to analyze the external Natural Force.

Just as he had speculated at the beginning, with the Bloodline Power as a comparison, he very easily completed the analysis of the external Natural Force.

As his perspective shifted, Xia Duo couldn't help but say the name of a plant in his heart—Grass!

He saw that Xilin was surrounded by dense Magic Net Strings, the brilliance of which was enough to rank among the top few Xia Duo had ever seen.

At this moment, he didn't even need to think; he could immediately draw a conclusion—Xilin had been arranged by the Sharwen Elves to act as a Mythallar Node!

It really was just a pure tool-tree!

Of course, whether he was a Mythallar Node or not, there was one thing Xia Duo was very certain of, and that was—now that he was in this ancient tree body, it was very difficult to move freely.

If he were to move, unless all the surrounding Elves were dead, he would definitely be discovered.

In fact, from the time he became a Mythallar Node until now, Xilin had never moved; in Xilin's past memories, there were memories of moving, but he didn't like that feeling.

Later, after becoming a Mythallar Node, he could not move easily, which actually suited Xilin's wishes even more.

Regarding this, Xia Duo could only sigh that different races and different life forms have completely different mindsets.

Fortunately, it was not a rare thing for a Spellcaster to create avatars or projections; Xia Duo himself had mastered more than one avatar or Projection Spell.

Now there was only one problem before him—how to bypass the Elves' line of sight and cast an avatar or Projection Spell.

Xilin was on one hand an Elder of the Tree Council, and on the other, he managed the Council's treasury; the area where he was located could be said to be a sensitive zone that received much attention.

Let alone Netheril Magic, even Elven Magic would likely be monitored in real-time; who, when, and what was done should all be recorded on file.

Like Xia Duo just experimenting with his Bloodline Power on Xize, that was already considered out of line; it must have been because Xilin had displayed similar abilities before, which was why it didn't arouse suspicion.

If he rashly displayed a strange magic that was completely different from Elven Magic, even if the Elves didn't doubt Xilin's identity, they would likely come over to ask a thing or two.

And what Xia Duo needed to do most was to avoid having too much interaction with the Elves; he knew too little about the treant race, and his past performance experience was useless here—he might just reveal a flaw in some inconspicuous performance.

Unless Xia Duo obtained all of Xilin's memories and achieved a considerable degree of familiarity and understanding.

"So it has come to this step!"

Xia Duo sighed in his heart; actually, he really didn't want to completely adopt the perspective of another existence, although he could eliminate the change to his own Personality caused by external memories through Meditation Training, it was ultimately a high-risk matter.

And more importantly, Xilin was the longest-lived existence Xia Duo had ever projected into; even the hundreds-of-years-old Drow Brandon, or the hundred-plus-year-old new King of Cormanthor, were considered youngsters in front of Xilin.

Xia Duo didn't know at all how long Xilin had lived; even Xilin himself didn't know how old he was. Before Sharwen was established, Xilin had already awakened his consciousness on his own.

To this day—Xia Duo had heard Xize mention a few days ago that Evereska was preparing to establish a city-state, which meant that using the time of Evereska's city-state establishment minus the time of Sharwen's founding was Xilin's conservative age.

Xia Duo learned from the Main Plane that nearly two thousand years after Sharwen was established, Evereska established its city-state; before that, Evereska was merely a shelter hidden in the mountains, where anyone could go.

The Projection Plane probably wouldn't be much different, which meant that Xilin had been awakening his consciousness for at least two thousand years; before awakening self-consciousness, perhaps there were still some ignorant consciousnesses, and memories existed.

Calculating it this way, the risk of contamination would have to increase quite a bit.

If he could, Xia Duo did not wish to go through such a thing.

But if he wanted to conceal his Spellcasting, he had to completely control the Mythallar Permission he possessed; yes, although Xilin was a tool-man, as a de facto Mythallar Node, he also possessed Mythallar Permission, and it was quite high.

It was just that in the past, Xilin didn't care about these things at all, and the relevant memories were also very few; after Xia Duo had contact with several Elves, he hadn't been able to trigger memories related to the Mythallar at all.

The little bit he knew now only appeared after he stimulated it by switching his Magic Net perspective, but more memories could not be obtained this way.

Of course, if an Elf used the Mythallar in front of him, it could also trigger some memories, but obviously, the efficiency of this was simply too low.

The Elves also knew that Elder Xilin was a treant, so they wouldn't come over to bother him usually; the one who came the most was that Elf named Xize, who, as Xilin's spokesperson in the Tree Council, would come over from time to time to report the situation.

And like Alwen and those gardeners, they only came once a year.

The most critical thing was that Xilin was a treant and could not move at will, which made it impossible for Xia Duo to take the initiative to look for clues to trigger memories.

"Sigh—come on then!"

He had already recovered his Spellcasting ability, and he had also confirmed the era this Projection Plane was currently in, which was indeed before the discovery of the Nether Scroll; how could Xia Duo give up now!

You must know that one of the main goals he chose to enter the Projection Plane was the Nether Scroll!

For this, Xia Duo had long ago asked Iolum about the location where the Nether Scroll was originally discovered; now the only thing blocking him was how to conceal the movements of his Spellcasting.

Once this problem was solved, the rest would be like a dragon entering the sea, free to cast as he pleased.