Lord of Arcane

Chapter 123 Suspected Treasure Map (Happy New Year's Day! Subscribe!!)
Small wood carvings?
Xia Duo immediately thought of the little mysterious woodcarving. Aiwa said that the material of the woodcarving is a kind of tree that is very precious in the kingdom of elves, and the characters in the woodcarving have an indescribable meaning.

The masked man wants this thing, Xia Duo can roughly guess, but Xia Duo has sold that thing long ago, the masked man can find out that he took some things by the way, doesn't he know that he has already disposed of those things Yet?

As for the account book, this Xia Duo kept it, but it was obviously written by Old Neil himself, otherwise the masked man would have gone to Old Neil to ask for it, how could it have fallen into Xia Duo's hands?
"The account book is useless to me, it has been burned!"

"how come?!"

The masked man was a little surprised, but he just mentioned the account book in passing. If you can get the best, it’s fine if you don’t get it. There is no need to offend people in the Mage Tower for an illusory treasure, especially those who have just received a reward.

Compared with the ledger, he cared more about the existence of the small wooden carvings. If this was also burned, he would be pissed off.

"What about the little wooden sculpture?" The masked man asked repeatedly.

The eager tone, even though it was carefully concealed, was still noticed by Xia Duo, which made Xia Duo regret selling the small wood carving again.

"The woodcarving has already been sold. You have investigated me, so you must know who it was sold to!"

"Impossible! Turner said you didn't sell it in the end!" The masked man retorted subconsciously, but he quickly realized that there was no need for Xia Duo to lie to him. After all, if Xia Duo knew the purpose of the wood carving, how could it be possible? Take it out!
And once it was taken out, based on what he knew about Turner, how could he not keep it!
"Damn Turner!"

The masked man cursed bitterly. Thinking of Turner's possession of the wood carving, the masked man wished he could kill Turner right away and ask him to hand it over.

"Sorry, Master Xia Duo, for the interruption!"

After speaking, he left in a hurry.

Xia Duo looked at the figure of the other party gradually going away, and he felt that the other party was probably going to miss out, which made him even more curious about the role of the small wooden carving.

But he didn't, and he didn't even think about it. After walking the last section of the stone road, Xia Duo returned to the mage's tower.

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The first thing Xia Duo did when he went back was to go back to the dormitory to check the two ledgers. Before that, he only thought they were secret accounts or deliberately kept evidence, so he didn't pay much attention to them, and just put them in the dormitory.

But the masked man put the two ledgers and the mysterious woodcarving together to ask for them. Xia Duo immediately valued them at 500 gold coins. Referring to the quotation of the woodcarvings from black market middleman Turner, the actual value of these two ledgers may be far more than 500 gold coins. gold.

Opening these two ledgers again, Xia Duo carefully inspected them with a sense of treasure hunting, fearing that everything is true, this really made Xia Duo discover some clues.

The secret is not in the ledger itself, but in the two sheets of paper that record the symbolic secret text sandwiched in the ledger.

Overlapping these two palm-sized parchments, facing the candlelight, I saw that the symbols and secret texts on the front and back two parchments were actually connected——

Vaguely formed a map!
Xia Duo quickly took out a scattered piece of parchment, and while carefully distinguishing the map from the secret script drawing, he carefully copied it on another piece of paper.

For this strip-shaped map that is two fingers wide and one finger long, Xia Duo spent more than half an hour copying it, and most of the time was spent on identifying the traces.

The ink marks on the secret script blueprints themselves are not very clear. If they are stacked together, it will take a lot of time to see through the marks on another sheet. If there is a strong light source, it may be easier.

However, the interior of the room itself is filled with soft natural light, and it is difficult to see through the parchment. Facing the flickering candles that occasionally dimmed suddenly, Xia Duo's eyes were sore, so he took this small map I copied it completely.

There is a special marked point in the picture. If there is any treasure, it should be here.

Now there is a map and a suspected treasure spot, but here comes the problem——

Where does this map show?

Naturally, it is impossible for the maps of the outsiders to have precise scales and relatively uniform landmark symbols like the maps Xia Duo has seen on Earth.

This may be someone's random drawing, the scale is based on feeling, and the landmark symbols are arbitrary. Unless this kind of map is really lucky and happens to meet a familiar one, no one will recognize it!

At this time, Xia Duo's first reaction was to go to the library to search for books related to maps, to see how the locals draw maps, and see if there are any conventional symbols and the like.

But he quickly dismissed this idea, it was just a suspected treasure map, maybe it was just a trap carefully designed by Old Neil after finding out.

Even if it is really a treasure, how to excavate, how to transport, and how to deal with it are all problems. At least it is difficult for Xia Duo to monopolize a big treasure right now.

Rather than doing this, it is better to study it slowly in the days to come. It can be regarded as a pastime and entertainment after studying magic.

The top priority is to become an official mage as soon as possible. Only when you become an official mage can you truly change the world. The status of an official mage is far from that of an apprentice.

Apprentices have to address formal mages as "Master" when they see formal mages, and only formal mages have relatively complete immunity. Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for people to use the rules to kill them.

Even if a high-ranking person wants to kill a low-level mage, as long as he doesn't die on the spot, there are many ways to get protection before or after the event.

Whether it is to seek refuge with other lords or the Austrian Law Federation, at the worst, it can save a life.

For practical reasons, Netheril is not without strong enemies outside and rich inside. On the contrary, the empire is in a period of active development and fighting against the wilderness. Any official mage is a valuable talent.

Even having an apprentice isn't that bad.

Just look at Xia Duo's situation. The Mage Tower is still peaceful and stable. If you really want to live here for the rest of your life, there is no way out. At least skilled apprentices are much more useful than novices.

Xia Duo has already understood the basic principles of 0-ring spells and the nature of the shallow layer of the magic net, but he has never been able to touch the deep magic net.

It would be fine if there is no solution at all, but Xia Duo obviously has a solution, but it can't be realized due to various reasons, which is really worrying.

It takes time to research by yourself, and if you want to exchange a ring 1 spell learning scroll, you don't have enough authority. You need to complete the territory task for at least one year to get the exchange authority.

Of course, you can also go through the back door. There may or may not be such a back door, but the price that needs to be paid is definitely not acceptable to Xia Duo.

What Xia Duo believes most is of course the righteous way, and the speed of self-research has actually reached the fastest at the moment, because self-research requires the use of a spell laboratory, and the time he can conduct spell-casting experiments every day is quite limited.

Outside of experiments, apart from recharging himself in the library, he can only communicate with people in the study group, hoping to collide with something useful and speed up his progress.

　I wish you all a happy new year! !

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