Lord of Arcane

Chapter 249 Elf Nightlife Examining Oneself
After dinner, Xia Duo and Grada strolled around the city, half to eat, half to have fun. The nightlife in Sukanwisa City is quite rich. On the corner of the street, a group of elves can often be seen watching the bards perform.

Occasionally, these onlookers even put on a show themselves.

"Athos, are we going to watch a magic duel or a sword duel?" Grada asked.

Xia Duo thought for a while, and replied almost subconsciously: "Look at the swordplay!"

"I knew I would say that, hurry up, or I won't be able to find a good position in a while."

Grada pulled Xia Duo through the streets and alleys, and soon came to a place similar to the opposite platform. At this time, there were already people fighting on it.

There are also elves in a circle around it, and some people even cast spells and float in mid-air.

Like a crazy little tiger, Grada led Xia Duo to the front row. When an elf accused him, Grada laughed triumphantly.

"Athos, look! It's the 'Sword of the Star', so powerful!"

Xia Duo looked at the opposite platform, and the "Sword of the Star" that Grada was talking about was a black-haired elf standing on the platform, with the same skin color as them, copper-colored,
And the sword in the hand of this "Sword of the Stars" is shining with the brilliance of the stars, perhaps that's how the name "Sword of the Stars" came about.

Grada shouted excitedly, causing the surrounding elves to unconsciously make a gap, and Xia Duo also moved away a little.

Soon, an elf under the stage jumped on the spot, onto the opposite platform, and swung the sword in his hand without saying a word. Xia Duo noticed that although this was a swordsmanship duel, spells were not completely prohibited.

An unknown spell was condensed on the challenger's sword, and the people around him did not object, as if it was a matter of course.

And the "Sword of the Star" responded very quickly, drawing the long sword in his hand and pointing it away, the challenger's spell was disintegrated.

At the same time, a beam of starlight sprinkled from the top of the "Sword of the Stars", followed by a series of sword body blows. The "Sword of Stars" shrouded in the starlight looks very good, even if Xia Duo saw it, he would be impressed. envious.

The elves' swordsmanship is exquisite, sensitive, seemingly graceful, but has hidden murderous intentions. Xia Duo can't understand it, but judging from the reactions of the surrounding elves, especially Grada, the two elves fighting on the stage should be quite powerful .

After a while, the challenger suddenly took a few steps back and stopped, "I will challenge you next time!"

After finishing speaking, he left the opposite platform, and in the audience, Xia Duo noticed that an elf gave the challenger flowers, and the challenger accepted them one by one.

If the loser is like this, then the winner will be even more honored, and the people around him cheered in unison and sent gifts.

Grada looked at the popular "Sword of the Star" on the stage, jumped and shouted, very enthusiastically, and then the "Sword of the Star" fought a few more times, winning every game.

And this also pushed the atmosphere of this area to a climax. A group of elves spectators cheered and shouted. Some elves used spells to summon good wine and wine, and drank with the surrounding elves.

Even Chateau and Grada were given a large glass. This wine was similar to the one that Chateau drank in the Tower of Time, but the taste of the wine was lighter, and it could almost be regarded as a kind of juice.

After drinking, Grada took Xia Duo to wander around the city again, and even went around the white tower and walked through the suspended passage once.

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After playing until after midnight, Xia Duo returned to his "own" home - a small manor next to Grada's house.

The two are very similar, but "my home" is neither guarded nor lifeless, as if it has decayed for a long time, and I return to "my" room by instinct.

Only now did Xia Duo have time to think about his own state. Today, too many times he relied on "instinct" to do things. The most obvious thing was that he didn't know Elvish at all before, and he was able to communicate with elves normally.

This is really weird!
He dug out an old book from "home", Xia Duo compared the text on the book and began to identify it.

"Krona's Cooking Notes"?
Is it Corona next door?Xia Duo continued to look through the text. At first glance, the meaning of the text emerged in his heart. It was a text recording Krona's life at home, including the experience of getting along with the Athos family.

Of course, it mainly focuses on making food, similar to food blogs with stories on the earth.

But when Xia Duo observed carefully, he found that he didn't recognize any of these words.

Perhaps it was really the projection spell of the Arcane Federation that allowed him to replace the elf named "Athos" in some form, which allowed him to observe and experience the projection world from the perspective of "Athos".

Then Xia Duo wandered around this "home" again, and he felt a sense of familiarity everywhere he went, and sometimes he could even blurt out words like what is this and what is that.

But in the interior where this layer of inexplicable familiarity was removed, it was Xia Duo's real feelings—strangeness, curiosity, and a hint of excitement and fear.

I dug out all the books in the "family", there are more than ten books in total, except for the "Krona's Cooking Notes", there are also several books that record life.

The remaining half are books related to magic and martial arts, such as "The Enlightenment of Mysteries", "The Enlightenment of Swordsmanship", "Phyllis' Art of Attack" and the like.

You can probably tell by the name.

Xia Duo didn't read these books at the first time, anyway, he had plenty of time, and if he wanted, he could even stay here for the rest of his life.

The key is to look at oneself, that is, this elf named "Athos", Xia Duo unbuttoned all the clothes almost without hesitation, and then touched all the way from the ears to the soles of the feet.

Each part has a sufficient sense of familiarity, but if you experience it carefully, it also has a sufficient sense of strangeness.

"After all, it's not my real body!"

And Xia Duo is also worried that in this interlacing of familiar and strange feelings, there will be cognitive errors, and in the end it will either be schizophrenic or completely assimilated.

Either way is not acceptable to him.

After examining the body, Xia Duo began to examine the spirit, or the essence. He didn't have much experience in this, and he could only look at it from the perspective of contacting the magic net.

On the main plane, Xia Duo can touch the second layer of the magic net, and as far as he knows from Grada, Athos can only do a few tricks, not as good as Grada, and even belongs to the bottom of the entire "class" .

Generally speaking, swordsingers don't have the best magical talents, because the best show their talents early on to become mages.Athos is 42 years old this year, but he has only mastered a few tricks, which is enough to explain the problem.

Although elves do not officially become adults until they are 100 years old, in fact, elves develop at a similar rate to humans. It is only a long-lived society that naturally thinks that under 100 years old is not (psychologically) mature enough.

And looking at Grada's appearance, the underage elf may be really immature. A 40-year-old elf can act like a baby, but if it is replaced by a human, the picture will not be too beautiful!
(End of this chapter)