Chapter 240: Magic Arrow

Huh—

Xia Duo, who had been sprinting, suddenly twisted his body and stopped, then ran back; this sudden change in movement almost caused him to fling his shovel away.

Although he was single-mindedly thinking of heading to the center to search for treasures, he was not prepared to let any treasures he might encounter along the way slip by.

While running, he also kept his mind focused at all times, observing his surroundings with Magic Vision; although the Magic Net environment here was abnormal, preventing him from casting Magic, simple observation was still possible.

Just a moment ago, he had caught a glimpse of a faint Magic Aura!

Although Xia Duo did not know the exact time this ruin had fallen into decline, judging by the fact that even the stone walls had begun to disintegrate, it must have been quite a long time ago.

He speculated that it had to be calculated in at least centuries; if one were to exaggerate, a millennium would not be strange.

What kind of Magic Item could remain in ruins for a hundred or a thousand years and still retain a Magic Aura?

In all likelihood, it was a good treasure!

……

Arriving at the place he had passed earlier where the Magic Aura existed, Xia Duo observed carefully; the aura was weak but exceptionally tenacious.

Judging from the distortion marks this Magic Item left on the Magic Net String, this was not any kind of Magic Item he had seen before, or perhaps this was the unique nature of Elven Magic items?

Xia Duo carefully brushed away the loose soil with his hands, layer by layer, strand by strand, not daring to use any force, looking exactly like an archaeological site on Earth.

Magic Items are different from ordinary objects; one cannot just shovel them away. If one accidentally damaged it or triggered some mechanism that caused the Magic Item to activate and injure oneself, that would be a tragedy.

For an unknown Magic Item, one could never be too careful, and the reason he dared to touch it was that after hundreds or thousands of years, this thing was basically stable.

As long as he didn't do anything reckless, it was highly unlikely that problems would arise.

There was not much loose soil, and it was mixed with some leaves that had long since rotted and turned to ash, no different from dust, with only a few leaf stalks and veins not completely decomposed.

Soon, Xia Duo saw a part of this Magic Item's appearance—

It seemed to be some kind of hollow Mithril ornament, in a tubular mesh shape, about the same thickness as a water pipe on Earth, perhaps even thinner.

What Xia Duo saw at the moment was only a part, about two fingers long, inserted diagonally into the ground; the space inside the tubular Mithril structure seemed to be soil, but it differed in color from the surrounding soil.

The surrounding soil was grayish-black, while the soil inside the tubular Mithril structure was deep black.

And this Mithril tubular mesh, while called a mesh, was not woven from Mithril threads but was formed as a single piece. At first glance, it appeared to have no pattern, but as soon as one looked at it with Magic Vision, every single Node was connected to a Magic Net String.

It was extremely exquisite and profound.

Xia Duo continued to sweep away the soil, but at this point, he seemed to have reached the ground level; the soil quality was harder than the loose soil, and using his hands was no longer appropriate.

It was not that he lacked strength, but that his fingers lacked the necessary precision; Xia Duo worried about affecting the Magic Item, so he took out his Dagger and, carefully starting from the periphery, shaved away the soil bit by bit.

He continued until he had cleared the area around this Magic Item, leaving only the tubular Mithril structure inserted diagonally into the earthen platform.

"This has really turned into archaeology!"

Xia Duo took a deep breath, took out his water skin and gulped down two mouthfuls, then washed his hands; as for the dust on his face, he was in no rush to wipe it off.

He felt that doing this kind of work was even more tiring than fighting a grizzly bear in the forest!

But for the sake of the Magic Item, Xia Duo endured it; he still couldn't dig directly, he had to first build a support for the exposed Mithril structure.

It wasn't that the Mithril material itself couldn't support it, but he was worried that it might suddenly tilt while digging, causing the unknown part underneath to undergo some strange change.

Xia Duo did not have X-ray vision; all he could see was the aura. He could not see the specific object buried in the soil, and even if he had X-ray vision, he would have to worry about whether it could be used normally here.

To build a support, he had to go outside the Mythallar to find materials; almost everything he could see here was unusable (the living trees he saw were actually outside the Mythallar, and walking over to them meant leaving the Mythallar).

Although it seemed quite troublesome, finding a Magic Item was far more profitable than finding some Gemstone or Mithril!

Xia Duo was actually happy to do so.

Walking out from the very edge of the ruins, he arrived outside the Mythallar; Xia Duo first summoned a mass of clear water to wash himself thoroughly, then refilled his water skin.

Only then did he cut a branch from nearby and enter the Mythallar.

……

Next was cutting the branches to build the support; the leaves could even be used as brushes, and Xia Duo's archaeological operation became increasingly smooth.

The sky inside the Mythallar was synchronized with the outside world; the sun tilted west, and it grew dark inside the Mythallar, but by this time, Xia Duo had already completed the vast majority of the work.

This Magic Item was now completely presented before Xia Duo!

It was about a foot long; at the end inserted diagonally into the ground, the Mithril structure converged into an arrowhead, and it was also covered with a layer of Adamantine structure.

If nothing went wrong, this should be a Magic Arrow.

It was just that its specific function could not yet be determined; the only thing that could be certain was that it was lethal, as no one would add a "healing" function to a Magic Arrow.

Furthermore, judging by its length and thickness, this one-foot-long Magic Arrow could only be considered the arrowhead part; there should be another section behind it.

If one were to speculate based on the proportions of a normal arrow, this complete Magic Arrow would have to be at least two meters long; an arrow of this length would either be launched mechanically or the Elves had some special technique.

Of course, Xia Duo preferred to believe that this arrow was only a foot long and was launched by Magic; perhaps this was what truly fit the essence of this arrow—

A Magic Item.

And after determining that this Magic Item was an arrow, Xia Duo did not dare to move it easily; this was just like defusing a landmine—heaven knows when this dud would explode.

Of course, a Magic Arrow might not necessarily explode, but it was certainly some kind of lethal Magic, and Xia Duo did not dare to test it with his own body.

Could it be that he could only watch it and not have it?

Setting aside the fact that it was a Magic Item, he could not give up on the material of this Magic Arrow alone; it was both Mithril and Adamantine.

Especially the Mithril; Xia Duo had never seen so much Mithril before!

A rough estimate was about half a pound.

And that flower-shaped Mithril ornament he had found last time was estimated to be about as heavy as a leaf; compared to the Mithril structure of this Magic Arrow, it was simply not worth mentioning.

He believed that as long as he could get this thing to Seventon, there would definitely be plenty of Arcanists fighting to buy it; of course, it might just be "fighting"~

Seeing that it was getting late, Xia Duo stopped agonizing over it; in any case, this thing wouldn't run away while it was here, and he prepared to come back to study it tomorrow.

He didn't even want to dig for other treasures anymore; there was an old saying from his hometown—"A hundred birds in the forest are not as good as one bird in the hand."

However, before leaving, he still quickly noted down a set of elements (the minimal steps for operating the Magic Net) at the end of the Magic Arrow to study when he returned.

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