Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1320 Cooperation Conjecture
At the time of the joint performance of the two elves, the flowers and plants in the flower garden began to shake slightly with their melody.

Seeing this scene, Xia Duo didn't know whether to lament that the elves can play, or to feel sorry for his afternoon being wasted!
But fortunately, the concert of the two elves failed to last after all. At the beginning, Orepus could keep up with Tove's rhythm, but later it might be that he was not familiar with the tune and couldn't keep up with Tove's rhythm. up.

After discovering this situation, Tove also lost interest in continuing to sing.

But Xia Duo could tell from Tove's expression that the other party still had something to say. Xia Duo didn't want an informal meeting to become the other party's private concert, so he quickly changed the subject:
"Ms. Tove, I heard Patriarch Oripus mention that you came to Savile Territory to investigate the truth about Ryan's death? If you need any help, please speak up."

In fact, up to now, Xia Duo has obtained most of the information he wants to know, and it is difficult to know the rest if he continues to use this method.

It's better to end the meeting as soon as possible and go back to discuss with Niya.

Sure enough, when Xia Duo talked about the purpose of Tove's trip, Tove's expression quickly turned cold, "Humans are really impatient! It's boring!"

That's what he said, but Xia Duo didn't hear the meaning of anger from the other party's tone, and it was more of an upset caused by the interruption of interest.

Of course, complaining about the impatience of human beings is also the real intention of the other party.

"I have already investigated, but Ryan died at the hands of drow, which has nothing to do with Savile Land. But I have another thing to do—"

Having said that, Tove turned his attention to Orepus, "I didn't expect the Yinye family to be so bold as to cooperate with humans in smuggling spices!"

As soon as these words came out, Orepus's slender ears trembled suddenly, and his body also began to tremble, but his only courage still supported him to stand here, and subconsciously cast a look at Xia Duo for help.

Xia Duo sighed in his heart, before others said anything, you were scared, if you really met someone who came to investigate smuggling, wouldn't you just collapse on the ground in fright?
In fact, the Orepus authorities were fans, and when the treason was pointed out, they were immediately terrified, but Xia Duo could see that Tove had no intention of asking for guilt.

On the contrary, it looks like a joke!
Whose joke are you looking at?It's unlikely for humans, but it's not a joke about the Silver Leaf family, is it?

If Tove is an ordinary elf, maybe there is such a possibility, but for Tove, who comes from a famous family and is very likely to become a high-level mage, watching the jokes of the Silver Leaf family is somewhat too low-level.

Then it is to watch Comanthor's joke.

The high-ranking family and Mianwang are not necessarily of the same mind. This has long been an open secret that all parties have seen through. Smuggling has damaged the interests of many related families, but more importantly, it has damaged Mianwang's majesty.

For a while, Xia Duo made up a lot of thoughts, for example, the Yueguan family was very dissatisfied with the millennium-long rule of Cormanso crowned king, and wanted to make trouble.

And now, perhaps just saw an opportunity.

This kind of speculation made Xia Duo feel very excited, and at the same time decided to add fire to it. He walked between Tove and Orepus, and blocked Tove's teasing and scrutinizing eyes for Orepus. Greeted up:
"Could it be that the Yueguan family is also interested in the spice business?"

Xia Duo didn't talk about smuggling, as if he was discussing a normal business, "With the status of the Yueguan family in Cormanso, do you still care about this benefit?"

Hearing this, Tove was obviously taken aback, but she quickly realized and smiled, "The high-ranking families sometimes lack money!"

"So, we have a chance to cooperate?"

"Of course, apart from this time, there will be more opportunities for cooperation in the future!"

At the same time, Orepus, who had just been frightened out of his composure, was also relieved at this moment. Hearing that Xia Duo had reached an agreement with Tove so easily, his jaw almost dropped.

"Two, two—"

"Patriarch Orepus, don't worry, Ms. Tove doesn't mean to ask for guilt." Xia Duo comforted.

"me--"

For a while, Orepus still couldn't react. He still couldn't understand why the upper family supported smuggling for money.

However, this situation now seems to be the ideal state he once envisioned.

In the past, didn't he just want to find a high-ranking family to endorse the smuggling?Now that he has it, it's just that it is too easy to get, so he is so worried about gains and losses.

Xia Duo would not be too worried. Even if the smuggling was discovered, it would be nothing if he would stop doing it in the future and lose some money at most, but he could understand Orepus.

……

After setting a preliminary cooperation intention, Tove didn't stay any longer, but left a sentence that he would send family members to supervise and assist in this matter, and left directly.

Xia Duo guessed that the other party might have other matters, so he came here just as a side trip.

But Xia Duo always had doubts about the excuse she said at the beginning to investigate the truth of Ryan's death. It's just that the other party covered it up very well, and he couldn't get more information.

It's not a big deal at all, Ryan's family has long since died under Zall's hands, and the Yuelu Qiangwei family, which is old with his family, has not issued any investigation commissions.

Perhaps this matter was really just an excuse that Tove thought of on the spur of the moment.

……

After returning to the Tower of Time, Xia Duo didn't go anywhere else, but went straight to Niya's study.

Niya has been paying attention to Xia Duo's itinerary. Even if she didn't directly use detection spells on the other party in order to avoid misunderstandings by the Comanso investigators, she watched Xia Duo's movements from a distance.

Here Xia Duo has been to the Tower of Time, and Niya already knew it. Now that Xia Duo came to the study, she couldn't wait to ask her most concerned question:
"are you OK?"

"I'm fine, don't worry, the conversation went well and there was no conflict."

When she heard that there was no conflict, Niya immediately felt relieved, and then asked:

"Then what is the real purpose of the other party? Could it be to investigate the so-called truth behind the death of an ordinary elf?"

Regarding this question, Xiaduo thought for a while, and then expressed his conjecture, "It may be for the spice smuggling business with Lord Collins, or there may be other purposes, such as testing my relationship with Netheril. Attitude, wooing me tends to Comanso, or simply votes for Comanso."

Judging from the potential information hidden in Tove's words, the other party does have the intention of wooing, but Xia Duo is very clear that there is no room for him to develop, and he will only be regarded as a tool man in the past.

Therefore, he pretended that he didn't understand Tove's temptation. Anyway, what he showed was that he could only speak standard Elvish, and the underlying information had nothing to do with standard Elvish.

(End of this chapter)