Lord of Arcane

Chapter 3215: See the Excited State Artifact Again

Smuggling found again?

Xia Duo couldn't help but wonder if Ye Erlan had any ideas about him, but if she really had any ideas, she wouldn't have to ask Iolum to tip him off in advance.

"Could it be that smuggling has really been discovered again?" Xia Duo suddenly fell into deep thought.

How long has it been since he last discovered the Illuminati smuggling in the Void Warehouse? And since that incident, he has arranged for Orepus to regularly inspect the Void Warehouse.

Could it be that there was a fish that slipped through the net?
Thinking of this, Xia Duo wanted to go to the Void Warehouse to check again immediately, but Iolum was still here, so he could only briefly introduce the current situation to Iolum, and then handed him his inspection record of the attack site during the day.

"Teacher just got here, let's get to know the situation first. If you have any questions, ask Kulas. If you want to go to the scene in person, you can also go to Philippa. At most, you can bring the alliance observers with you. I'll go deal with the smuggling problem that Yeerlan mentioned, and I'll be back soon."

After saying this, Shado summoned Kuras and asked him to accompany Iolum to understand the situation first, while he returned to his own tent, placed his avatar, and regained consciousness.

Orepus is still in Elan and cannot be summoned urgently, so Shado first went to the half-plane where the void warehouse is located. Compared to the appearance of the void warehouse when it was just built, there is now a floating platform opposite to the area where the warehouse is located.

Shado's first stop was on this platform, where some tools needed to inspect the void warehouse were stored, as well as the most important inspection records left by Oripus.

"Let me see what you checked!"

I opened the thick notebook, but only the first few pages had written records. The time marked on the first page was a week ago, and there was nothing unusual in the record.

The most recent one was yesterday, when an initial inspection and a re-inspection were conducted on all the void warehouses in use. The initial inspection found that sixteen warehouses had magical reactions.

The re-inspection is a further inspection of the sixteen warehouses, which is carried out without causing any impact on the interior of the warehouses. The indirect detection method originally used by Xia Duo is also used, that is, to check the environment outside the corresponding warehouse (still within the demiplane) to determine the status of the interior of the warehouse.

Of course, this is all for conventional space warehouses. In addition, there are stagnant space warehouses. The latter are much easier to inspect, not only because of their small number, but also because their interiors are in a stagnant state. As long as they do not interfere with the items stored therein, they cannot be discovered no matter how they are inspected or used.

Even if the objects stored therein are directly detected, there will be almost no obvious inspection traces left on the objects in a static state.

Therefore, Shado's requirement for Orips is that regular space warehouses can be inspected once a day or even longer, but stasis space warehouses need to be inspected every time storage and access occurs.

This is certainly very time-consuming, but what the Tower of Time lacks the least is spellcasters. At the same time, due to the existence of tools, the actual inspection process is nothing more than passing the detection instrument through each warehouse.

If any abnormality occurs, just use other detection tools and try again. This job can be done by an apprentice after a little training, let alone a new wizard.

Of course, Oripus would definitely arrange new wizards to do the work in the end. The most important task for apprentices now is to study, not to work. On the contrary, many new wizards need to be assigned jobs to prevent them from being idle.

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Soon, Xia Duo finished reading all the inspection records and found that there were quite a few warehouses where magical reactions were detected, but during the re-inspection, the specific causes could basically be determined.

The vast majority of them are used to store magical items, or are sealed items that some users believe need to be kept confidential. At the same time, most of these records of magical reactions also appear in regular space warehouses.

As for the stagnant space warehouse, most of the items stored by users do not have magical reactions. In fact, although the inspection record does not clearly mention what items are stored in the stagnant space warehouse, based on Xia Duo's experience from his last inspection, he believes that the elves use the stagnant space warehouse more to store fresh vegetables rather than anything else.

Because the Void Warehouse itself is operated by others, firstly, it is unlikely that users will store extremely valuable items there. Secondly, for regular items, it is sufficient to store them in regular space warehouses, which is even more cost-effective!
Only those things that require stagnation time to preserve are more suitable for stagnation space warehouses.

On the other hand, if a magical reaction occurs in the stagnant space warehouse, it is likely to be unusual and abnormal. Last time, Xia Duo found an excited state magic weapon stored by the Illuminati in the stagnant space warehouse.

Of course, at that time he couldn't be 100% sure that the magic weapon was the one stored by the Illuminati, but this time an excited state magic weapon appeared again in the stagnant space, and it was obviously of the same style as the one discovered before.

It may even be an important part of the same ritual spell!

The only difference is probably the identity of the depositor. The last time the excited state magic weapon was deposited by an elf named "Emedia", who belonged to the Russ Chamber of Commerce in Evereska.

This time, the depositor was changed, and the chamber of commerce it belonged to was also an unfamiliar chamber of commerce to Xia Duo. If nothing unexpected happened, this chamber of commerce named "Sores" should be a newly established chamber of commerce like the Russ Chamber of Commerce.

And by checking the more detailed purchase records of the Void Warehouse, it can be known that the Stasis Space Warehouse purchased by the elves of the Solace Chamber of Commerce is also renewed until July of next year, just like the Russ Chamber of Commerce.

In addition, the warehouse contains excited state magic weapons of the same style as those of the Russ Chamber of Commerce. Xia Duo can almost conclude that these two chambers of commerce were set up by the Illuminati!
At the same time, he believed that the Illuminati must have created more than just these two chambers of commerce, and must have created more than just those two excited state artifacts.

However, Shado is not the only one operating the Void Warehouse on the market. Many Elf Chambers of Commerce also operate Void Warehouses. It is even possible that those Chambers of Commerce operating Void Warehouses are directly controlled by members of the Illuminati.

This means that the Illuminati is likely almost done preparing for its final stand, and all that’s left is choosing an auspicious day to start!

"No, no! If the Illuminati were fully prepared, they wouldn't have suddenly attacked the magic weapon factory in Elan. Wouldn't it be better to just conduct the time-related ritual directly?"

Although the Elam attack may have exceeded many people's expectations, this incident itself should still reveal the Illuminati's lack of confidence in its last stand.