Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1758 A Little Twist in the Gilded Department

"The next topic is about the magic restriction treaty."

Iolum's words immediately attracted the attention of the people of the Seven Towers, which was different from the order of the topics disclosed in advance, especially Schum, whose eyes were obviously filled with emotion.

But Iolum completely pretended not to see it, and continued:

"The Northland Alliance recently established a new [Supermagic Incident Evaluation and Investigation Department], and the person in charge is a high-level mage from Evereska, and of course a respectable elder.

"Below the person in charge is the [Audit Committee], which is composed of spellcasters with a certain reputation in the Northland. I was fortunate to be nominated by Badigal, and I was recognized by the representatives of the Northland Alliance countries, and I was also among them.

"All review committee members will have several investigation teams responsible for the investigation of super magic incidents outside their country."

Having said that, Iolum paused for a moment, his eyes swept over the different faces of the people, "Perhaps some people will say, what does this so-called investigation team have to do with us?
"What I want to say is that the results of the investigation team's work are directly related to Netheril's super magic share. For details, you can refer to the information sent by Hatchenis, Hatchenis—"

"Yes, President."

Hechenis in the auditorium immediately got up, first handed out a stack of manuscripts to the grand arcanists, and then cast a spell to distribute a copy to each of the senior mages in the auditorium.

Xia Duo opened the manuscript and looked at it. He noticed immediately that the document specifically mentioned that although Comanthor also had mages on the review committee, the investigation team did not have them.

The working process of this newly established department is that the elf chief priest directly hired by the alliance headquarters is responsible for monitoring and recording the super magic events in the Northland.

After that, the investigation team from the country not involved will go to investigate, and the audit committee will decide whether to identify it as a super magic incident based on the investigation report.

There is a special comment on how to identify it in the materials, to the effect that if the person directly responsible cannot be found, it should be assumed that it never happened.

Take Xia Duo's use of equation magic near Wolf God Mountain and being monitored by divine magic as an example. As long as the investigation team can't confirm that it was him who cast the spell, even if the incident happened within his direct or assumed territory, it is not considered his doing.

In other words, the magic restriction treaty in the future will be more about restricting high-end magic facilities and equipment, rather than a certain spellcasting.

Is it possible to expect a group of "Second Generations of Law" who may only count on gold-plated in the Northland Alliance to track down and investigate high-level mages or grand arcanists?

Of course, if there are a large number of witnesses who have not been cleared, or if the spell is cast in public, then there is no doubt that there is no way to cover it up.

But magic facilities are difficult to hide for a long time. Even if the second generation of the investigation team can't do it, there are "parents" who can help. This is easy to determine.

Basically, seeing this, Xia Duo understands the nature of this so-called investigation team. It is probably a private transaction for various countries. If you don’t remember me once, I will remember you less once.

Iolum said it seriously, saying that it is directly related to Netheril's super magic share, but the most malicious Comanthor was excluded from the investigation team, which gave people a lot of room for imagination.

Of course, Xia Duo felt that Iolum might really want to use these metamagic incident investigation teams to gain more room for Netheril to maneuver.

At the end of the manuscript, Xia Duo took a rough look, mainly about the work process and benefits of the investigation team. From his point of view, this is indeed a very good second-generation gold-plated place.

The work is simple, the benefits are excellent, and you can often go abroad, and you can get in touch with all kinds of spellcasters, which will help you broaden your horizons.

If you want to mix, you can mix, and if you want to work hard, you can also have room to play.

If it wasn't for Xia Duo who is now considered "successful and famous", he would have thought of going there for a while.

Just as he was dreaming about the manuscript on the table, someone already eagerly asked about the quota, "Master Iolum, how many quotas are there in the investigation team under your name?"

"There are a total of 40 places. I can give each of you a place, and the rest will be placed in the Austrian Law Federation. Those who are interested in this aspect can sign up by themselves, and I will pick out suitable candidates."

After Iolum finished speaking, Magna, who had just asked about the quota, immediately asked again, "Can the master give a few more quotas? I can understand the master's concern, but this matter is closely related to us, and I don't feel relieved if there is only one quota. "

With Magna leading the way, Braun followed immediately, "Master Iolum, the members of the investigation team need strong investigative capabilities. Most of these people are under our people, why not directly allocate places?"

There are quite a few people who have the same idea as Braun, including Xia Duo. He also thinks that it is better to directly allocate quotas. There are not many "casual practitioners" in Netheril now!

All mages with normal "development" belong to various mage tower organizations, and it can even be said that they are inextricably linked with the seven towers.

Of course, it would be inappropriate to allocate all of them to grand arcanists. Perhaps like the super magic share, it is more reasonable to divide half first, and then reserve half for free registration.

It's just that the number of places is too small, and almost half of them go to one person.

Thinking about it this way, it's not unreasonable for Iolum to make such a distribution.

Xia Duo has figured it out, but others are not necessarily, or just unwilling to figure it out, first Magna, then Braun, after that, Hawke, Vader, also expressed their need for more (sure) quota.

In the end, except for the three from the Seven Towers, Brod, Shadow, and Byron, everyone, including Jenna, questioned Iolum's distribution plan, especially, even Cross jumped out.

Seeing that Cross also jumped out, Xia Duo immediately realized that these people might not be interested in drinking.

Iolum also thought of this, and his face was a little ugly. At this moment, he realized that he might have given these people a chance by temporarily moving this topic to the front.

As for the three from the Seven Towers, Schom looked like he was watching the excitement, while Horn and Harris realized that if the Seven Towers were unwilling to concede on the investigation team quota, then the sanctions against Cross would be imposed. I'm afraid there will be twists and turns.

Thinking about it this way, both of them couldn't help but glanced at Iolum with some resentment, and finally they looked at each other, and they both saw the determination in each other's eyes, so Horn immediately said:

"In my own name, I will give up the quota given by Master Iolum, but I still reserve the right of Kiran Tower members to register themselves."

Harris later said something similar to Horn.

This made Schom a bit unacceptable, but in this case, unless he was willing to show the discord within the Seven Towers in public, he had no choice but to give up.

Apparently, Schum was not that stupid yet, and the look on his face disappeared in an instant, and he announced with a cold face that he would give up the fixed quota.

As for the few who didn't come, Iolum didn't assign them to them from the beginning, so it was impossible to say whether to give up or not.

(End of this chapter)