Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1392 Examining Memory and disinfecting All
Colin and the others didn't have any resistance to Xia Duo's behavior of checking his memory. Maybe they didn't have the privacy awareness like Xia Duo, or maybe they thought it was useless to refuse.

But in any case, Xia Duo's spell went smoothly, almost perfectly restoring the scene where the four people met Tove at that time. Although there are certain subjective elements in it, it is not far from the real situation.

But looking at it, Xia Duo discovered some small actions of Tove. The other party not only talked with Colin and others, but also seemed to cast spells secretly.

This discovery made Xia Da furious, which was simply provocative, but because the scene was reproduced from the memories of Colin and others, many details, especially those related to spells, could not be well restored.

Just based on some small movements of casting spells, it cannot be concluded that Tove is casting spells.

But since there are doubts, Xia Duo can't sit idly by.

After stating that the elves might cast spells on them secretly, Colin and the others agreed to Xia Duo's further inspection without any hesitation.

"President, what do you think the elves might have done to us?" Jess asked nervously.

"Don't worry, it's possible that some detection media was placed on you, or it affected your mind at the time. What it is, you can't know until you check it."

After a brief explanation, Xia Duo began to examine the bodies of Jess and the others one by one, from the outside to the inside, from the present to the past, not even the soul was spared.

It was eventually concluded that the four were indeed under the influence of some sort of spell, but time had almost erased any traces.

As for the detection medium that continues to exist, Xia Duo did not find it on Colin and others, perhaps it did not exist from the beginning, or it may have been transferred to a certain corner of the Tower of Time.

At this moment, Xia Duo had a deeper sense of identification with Niya's previous decision to adjust the authority of the portal and restrict the members of the Tower of Time to go out!
Of course, there are communication controls inside and outside the Tower of Time. If there is no control and the communication is allowed to enter and exit, wouldn't scrying spells also be able to freely enter and exit through communication spells!
Such an obvious loophole, it is impossible for the designer of the Tower of Time, the Arcanist Saville, to keep it. Even the new background communication of the magic net, the Tower of Time also specially set up control measures for it.

Although the new and old communication controls of the Tower of Time cannot determine the information of the communicator at the other end of the communication, nor can they know the content of the communication, but the communicators inside the Tower of Time count as one, and all of them are recorded.

Xia Duo asked Ta Ling and learned that there were a total of [-] internal and external communications in the Tower of Time in the past few days, all of which were within the normal and legal communication authority, and there was no illegal communication without authority.

This means that either there is a problem with the sixteen communications where the identity of each correspondent can be found, or Tove's detection medium has not been exposed.

Of course, the premise of this speculation is that Tove did indeed place a movable detection medium on Colin and others.

But in any case, an all-round routine "disinfecting" inside the Tower of Time is inevitable.

Generally, a "disinfecting program" of this level may not be activated once a year or two, and the maintenance cost of one activation is at least calculated in tens of thousands of gold coins.

In the past, Xia Duo might have thought about it, but after making a profit from the mass production of magic items, and having recently touched 10,000+ arcane crystals, he made this decision now without blinking his eyes.

……

After confirming that Colin and the others did not have Tove's backhands, Xia Duo let them go back first. Of course, the non-existent training class was also arranged for them.

After that, he notified Niya to start the comprehensive disinfecting process of the Tower of Time.

And Niya's actions were also very fast, almost without any waiting. Xia Duo, who had just finished the interrogation, received a notification from Ta Ling——

"Alarm, the Tower of Time is about to start a comprehensive disinfecting process. In order to avoid accidents, all members immediately stop their work and return to their respective residences. This disinfecting process will last for 120 minutes."

Immediately afterwards, Xia Duo heard a series of sounds of functional facilities being closed——

"The Arcane Garden is closed——

"The library is closed—

"The public floor is closed——

"..."

Seeing this, Xia Duo immediately teleported to Niya's study on the top floor. Niya was still staying here, as if she was waiting for Xia Duo to come back. When she saw Xia Duo, she immediately asked worriedly:

"What's going on with Colin? Is Tove doing something?"

Xia Duo nodded and explained: "Tove may have placed a detection medium on Colin and the others. I can find it. Anyway, let's disinfect it first. Anyway, the Tower of Time is not short of that little money now."

Just as he was speaking, Xia Duo felt a huge magic calming field appear out of thin air, and the originally lit projection window next to the two of them went out instantly.

Not only the projection window, but also the various magic items on Xia Duo and Niya lost all their magic aura at this moment.

Fortunately, the spell stabilization field comes and goes quickly. If one stays in such a strong stabilization field for a long time, one magic item on Xia Duo's body counts as one, and it is estimated that none of them will last until the end.

Of course, none of the various practical spells blessed by Xia Duo survived the calming field.

Fortunately, he was inside the Tower of Time, otherwise, even if there were still a few times to stabilize the field, Xia Duo would immediately bless himself with at least one evasion detection spell.

Without this spell on me, I feel too insecure.

……

After the spell suppression field passed, Xia Duo then perceived several scouting fields involving different levels, and then the spell suppression field again.

This cycle has been repeated many times, and various spells to remove magical or non-magical abnormalities have to be counted during the period to complete a comprehensive disinfecting process.

The total duration is 120 minutes estimated by Tarling.

During the disinfecting period, Xia Duo and Niya stayed in the study on the top floor. The projection window was temporarily unusable, so the two chatted over tea.

After the disinfecting was completed, the projection window was lit up again, but the angle of view of the central square of Savile Town that Niya had set before had been reset and turned blank.

However, Xia Duo was not in the mood to reset the detection angle of the projection window at the moment. After drinking the last sip of tea in the teacup, he stood up and said to Niya:
"I'll go meet Tove for a while. Anyway, the cost of disinfecting the Tower of Time must be charged to her account!"

"I'll be here to watch you and provide support at any time."

Xia Duo nodded and didn't say anything else. He took one last look at Niya and resolutely teleported to the public floor, preparing to go to Savile Town through the portal.

(End of this chapter)