Chapter 3219: Seeing Excited State Magic Artifacts Again

Smuggling detected again?

Xia Duo couldn't help but wonder if Yierlan had some sort of agenda regarding him, but if they truly had an agenda, there would be no need to ask Iolum to tip him off in advance.

"Could it be that smuggling has really been detected again?" Xia Duo immediately fell into deep thought.

How much time had passed since he last discovered the Illuminati using the Void Warehouse for smuggling! Moreover, ever since that incident, he had arranged for Aoruipusi to conduct regular inspections of the Void Warehouse.

Could it be that someone had slipped through the net?

Thinking of this, Xia Duo very much wanted to go to the Void Warehouse to inspect it immediately, but since Iolum was still here, he could only briefly introduce the current situation to Iolum, and then handed over the inspection records of the attack site from the daytime to him.

"Teacher, since you just arrived, please get acquainted with the situation first. If you have any questions, ask Kulas. If you want to visit the site in person, you can also look for Feilifa; at worst, you can take the Alliance Observer along. I will go handle the smuggling issue mentioned by Yierlan and will be back soon."

After speaking, Xia Duo summoned Kulas, letting him accompany Iolum to understand the situation, while he himself returned to his exclusive tent, settled his avatar, and then turned his consciousness back to his main body.

Aoruipusi was still in Ailan and could not be summoned urgently, so Xia Duo first went to the semi-plane where the Void Warehouse was located. Compared to how it looked when the Void Warehouse was first built, there was now an additional floating platform opposite the area where the warehouse was located.

Xia Duo's first stop was under that platform, where some tools needed for inspecting the Void Warehouse were stored, as well as the most important inspection records left by Aoruipusi.

And this time, the depositor had changed, and the affiliated chamber of commerce was also one that Xia Duo was equally familiar with. If there were no surprises, this chamber of commerce named "Suoleisi" should be like the Rus Chamber of Commerce, both being newly established chambers of commerce.

It was just that Xia Duo was not the only one operating Void Warehouses in the market; many Elf chambers of commerce also operated Void Warehouses, and it was even possible that those chambers of commerce operating Void Warehouses were directly controlled by members of the Darkness Society.

Of course, Aoruipusi must have arranged for new Mages to do this work in the end. The most important task for Apprentices was to learn, not to work; instead, it was the many new Mages who needed work arranged for them so they wouldn't be idle.

As for the Stasis Space Warehouse, the vast majority of items stored by users did not have magic reactions. In fact, although the inspection records did not explicitly mention what items were stored in the Stasis Space Warehouse, based on Xia Duo's experience from his own previous inspection, Elves used the Stasis Space Warehouse more for storing fresh vegetables rather than anything else.

Therefore, Xia Duo's requirement for Aoruipusi was that regular space warehouses could be inspected daily or even on a longer cycle, but the Stasis Space Warehouse needed to be inspected every time a deposit or withdrawal occurred.

Only those things that required time stasis for preservation were more suitable for the Stasis Space Warehouse.

This meant that the preparations the Darkness Society had made for their final struggle were likely almost complete, and they were just waiting to pick an auspicious day to start!

The vast majority stored Magic Items, or items that users deemed needed to be kept secret and were thus sealed. At the same time, most of these records with magic reactions also appeared in the regular space warehouses.

Furthermore, querying the more detailed purchase records of the Void Warehouse revealed that the Stasis Space Warehouse purchased by the Elf from the Suoleisi Chamber of Commerce was also renewed until January of next year, just like the Rus Chamber of Commerce.

It might even be an important component of a certain ritual spell!

Conversely, if a magic reaction appeared within a Stasis Space Warehouse, it was highly likely to be strange and abnormal. Last time, Xia Duo discovered an Excited State Magic Artifact stored by the Darkness Society inside a Stasis Space Warehouse.

The only difference was probably the identity of the depositor. Last time, the depositor of that Excited State Magic Artifact was an Elf named "Aimeidiya," who belonged to the Rus Chamber of Commerce of Evereska.

Opening the thick record book, only the first few pages had written records. The date marked on the first page was one week ago, and the records were normal.

This was, of course, very time-consuming, but the Tower of Time was never short of Spellcasters. At the same time, due to the existence of tools, the actual inspection process was nothing more than taking a detection Magic Artifact and going over every warehouse.

"Let me see what exactly you inspected!"

Of course, these were all aimed at regular space warehouses. Besides these, there were also Stasis Space Warehouses. The latter were much easier to inspect, not only because of their small quantity but also because their interiors were in a state of stasis; as long as one did not interfere with the items stored within, no matter how one inspected or used them, it was impossible to discover anything.

The most recent one was yesterday, when a primary inspection and a re-inspection were conducted on all Void Warehouses in use. The primary inspection found thirteen warehouses with magic reactions.

At the same time, he believed that the Darkness Society must have created more than just these two chambers of commerce, and must have created more than just those two Excited State Magic Artifacts.

Even if one conducted direct Scrying on the items stored within, it would almost never leave obvious traces of inspection on items in a state of stasis.

Very soon, Xia Duo finished reading all the inspection records and found that the warehouses where magic reactions were detected were still in the minority, though during the re-inspection, the specific causes could basically be determined.

If something abnormal appeared, one just had to switch to another detection Magic Artifact and go through it again. This job, let alone for new Mages, could be handled by Apprentices after a little training.

Of course, at that time he still couldn't be one hundred percent sure that the Magic Artifact was stored by the Darkness Society, but this time an Excited State Magic Artifact had appeared in the Stasis Space again, and it was clearly of the same style as the one discovered previously.

Because the Void Warehouse itself was operated by others, users were first of all unlikely to store extremely precious items; secondly, for regular items, storing them in a regular space warehouse was sufficient and even cheaper!

"No, no! If the Darkness Society were fully prepared, shouldn't they just launch a surprise attack on the Magic Artifact Factory in Ailan and proceed directly with the Time-Involving Ritual?"

Coupled with the fact that an Excited State Magic Artifact of the same style as the Rus Chamber of Commerce was stored in the warehouse, Xia Duo could almost conclude that these two chambers of commerce were created by the Darkness Society!

The re-inspection was a further examination of those thirteen warehouses. It was conducted without causing any impact on the interior of the warehouses, using the same indirect Scrying method Xia Duo had used initially—that is, inspecting the environment outside the corresponding warehouse (still within the semi-plane) to judge the state inside the warehouse.

Although the Ailan attack incident might have exceeded the expectations of many, as for the event itself, it should still reveal the Darkness Society's lack of confidence in their final struggle.