Arcane Lord

Since the matter involved confidential information, Septalis did not respond to Shado immediately, and did not even confirm or hint at Shado's mention of "Ilfarran and Belluno have trade", only saying that the matter would be reported to the country.

Shado calculated the time and said to Septalis: "This matter is very important. Please keep it in mind, Ambassador, and it is best to reply to me before noon today."

Because Shado was going to summon the envoy at noon, in order to get the matter of going to Belluno before skipping this period, he could only ask for a reply time in a slightly impolite manner.

Septalis was indeed dissatisfied with this, but what he cared more about at the moment was that Shado knew that Ilfarran and Belluno had trade, and if he did not figure this out, it would be his dereliction of duty.

As for the prophecy that Shado said, he did not believe it at all. He had never heard that Shado had such a strong prophetic ability before.

After reluctantly agreeing to reply before noon, Septalis immediately found an excuse to leave the reception room.

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After Septalis left, Shado began to reflect on whether he was too radical in doing so.

If there is any accident that causes him to fail to collect the power of time in this timeline, if there is no other source in the future, it may make the Illuminati take the lead in the timeline.

But considering that reshaping the timeline from such a "past" node is inherently risky, Shado made up his mind that as long as Ilfaran did not reply to him before noon, he would immediately shake off the other party and go directly to Belluno to get the time gem first.

Of course, the ideal situation is that Ilfaran agrees to help, so that he can go to the bottom of the sea in the name of the alliance after summoning the messenger.

At that time, the situation may be the same as in the previous timeline, and Queen Tess of Belluno will personally take down Dali.

But at present, the Illuminati has not yet launched the final decisive battle, and the sense of crisis on the alliance side is not enough, and Belluno may also have some other thoughts or misjudgments.

This is the disadvantage of reshaping the timeline. Those major events in history often have both contingency and inevitability. The farther away from the original node, the greater the variables.

But considering the benefits of reshaping the timeline, this disadvantage is not unacceptable, but you have to be more cautious and never think of playing with time, otherwise you will eventually be played with by time.

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While waiting for Ilfarran's reply, Xia Duo prepared to try to make a key prop. He had an idea when he was in the star realm before, but due to the environment of the star realm itself, he was unable to try to make it.

And now, although he has just reshaped the timeline or "returned to the past", he must use every opportunity to make the key prop he envisioned.

Yongle City.

Xia Duo opened the time acceleration array without hesitation. This is also an important trump card for him to defeat the Illuminati. The Illuminati's plan is urgent and strict. How can the Alliance overtake it?

The time acceleration array is undoubtedly a magic weapon that can maximize all favorable conditions. In the previous timeline, Xia Duo has obtained a method to collect and even use the power of time with the help of the time acceleration array.

Now, he will use the time acceleration array again to make a truly decisive key prop, which may become the turning point of this war.

Ritual site No. 1, inside the time acceleration array.

With the help of the time acceleration effect, Xia Duo once again sorted out the relevant details of the key props to be made this time, as well as the action plan for this timeline, and then began the first production.

Soon, the first mithril component of this prop was made. This is a hollow mithril ball the size of a normal human eyeball. The interior is hollow, and only the spherical shell looks like it is woven from countless mithril filaments.

But in fact, this is a one-piece molding, and in order to ensure precision, it is directly molded at one time through magic, and then it is stored in the suspension field, which is incomparable to ordinary hand-rubbed mithril components.

Just such a small hollow mithril ball, if it is pressed into mithril grains and sold, the price may exceed 10,000 gold coins.

Of course, Xia Duo's actual cost is not high, otherwise he may have to give up portability and choose limited cost, but even so, in order to refine the mithril needed for this experiment, it is also very expensive.

The [Element Extraction] method of refining mithril cannot achieve the goal of refining as much mithril as possible even in theory, because of the transmutation reaction of the elements of the substance, the higher the purity of the mithril, the more loss in practice.

For example, for the high-quality mithril with a purity of nine nines that Xia Duo is using now, at least fifteen grams are wasted due to the transmutation reaction of the elements for every gram refined.

It can also be simply understood that fifteen grams of standard mithril can only be refined into one gram of high-quality mithril with a purity of nine nines.

If the purity requirement is reduced by two levels, that is, 99.99999%, this is still high-quality mithril, but the loss of refining one gram of mithril with this purity drops sharply to about 9 grams.

If the purity requirement is further reduced to 99.99%, which is usually referred to as high-quality mithril that meets the requirements for making fine magic tools, about 2.5 grams of standard mithril is enough to be refined. (Standard mithril is three nines purity)

And this is just the cost. If purchased from outside, even if it is just the high-quality four-ninth mithril, it is impossible to be only 2.5 times the price of standard mithril.

The higher the purity, the faster the price rises, far exceeding the rate of increase in the cost of the material itself, which can also be regarded as a manifestation of technical cost.

And now, the human eye-sized hollow mithril ball made by Xia Duo, converted into mithril for sale, costs at least 10,000 gold coins, and this is just a component required for the experiment.

If Xia Duo did not master the mithril refining technology and needed to buy mithril from outside, he would not be determined to use mithril. In all likelihood, he would give up portability and choose the arcane string material, which is cheaper for him.

But now, if he refines it himself, the cost is certainly not low, but it is not as exaggerated as the market price. In fact, it ignores the technical cost and labor cost, and the remaining material cost is almost negligible.

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After the first hollow mithril ball, Xia Duo successively made eleven hollow mithril spherical components with similar shapes but different diameters, and conducted simple verification after each one was completed.

Since it was directly shaped by magic, as long as the magic design was fine, the finished product would most likely be fine. Xia Duo made twelve mithril components in a row this time, and not a single one had any problems.