Arcane Lord

Although Xia Duo has received several years of elf magic education in the projection plane, as well as the experience and knowledge of many high-level mages, the specific degree of compatibility between the main plane body and the magic network will be greatly compromised.

When casting uncomplicated spells, even if they are of high level, he can forcefully control himself to fit into the magic network in a short period of time. However, for a complex and long spell linking process like the Demon-Slaying Arrow, if the casting time is too long, there will be many accidents. .

Similar to the success rate of a spell cast within 10 seconds being 90%, the success rate within 100 seconds is only about 0.9^10≈35%.

Specifically, the casting process of linking the core mithril component of the Demon-Slaying Arrow to the Demonic Network lasted for more than four minutes. After only one attempt, Xia Duo roughly judged that the success rate of this process was not even 10%.

This does not mean that casting a spell ten times will definitely result in one success, but each time is calculated with a 10% success rate. If you are unlucky, you may not succeed even once in 100 times.

Of course, if you are lucky, it is not unimaginable to succeed once or twice.

"So, elven magic is really not my thing!"

Xia Duo sighed, threw the scrapped mithril components aside, and prepared to concentrate on processing them later. He now wants to continue making the tube-mesh mithril components that are the core of the demon-slaying arrow.

However, compared to the first time when he only made one, this time, he made twenty in a row. Obviously, Xia Duo was not very confident about something as mysterious as luck.

But in a short period of time, he could not find a way to improve the compatibility of the magic network, so he could only rely on quantity. Lord Harlan only needed to obtain a demon-slaying arrow within three days.

Xia Duo didn't believe that he couldn't succeed even once in three days!

As long as the core of the Demon-Slaying Arrow is completed, there will be almost no magic involved in the follow-up, and even an ordinary person can complete the follow-up production.

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While Xia Duo was busy making demon-slaying arrows all night long, someone finally convened the much-anticipated meeting of the Grand Arcanist Federation in Severton.

The convener was not Magnar, who had a good personal relationship with Cliff, nor was he the neutral arbiter Iolum, nor was he a double-minded person with evil intentions like Lord Hawke.

But Scoum!

When everyone learned that the convener was Skum, everyone had different reactions, not to mention the great arcanists of the Seven Towers who were insiders of the investigation results.

When Doleson Hawk learned that Skum had convened a joint meeting of Grand Arcanists late at night, he did not go to the Arcane Federation immediately. Instead, he went to the Cormanthor embassy first and stayed for nearly half an hour before leaving in a hurry.

And Magna and others also talked in secret for a long time before heading to the conference hall together. By the time all the participants arrived, the sky in the east of Severnton was already filled with fish belly white.

Inside the hall.

Although it was an informal meeting convened at short notice, the temporary meeting had a default theme. After everyone gathered, Iolum directly gave the first opportunity to speak to the Seven Towers.

But not the others, as well as the dozen or so federation directors who were watching from the outside, all looked at Badigal with expectant but hidden scrutiny.

After the princess ascended to the gods, Badigal seemed to become the representative of the Seven Towers to the outside world. However, this time, Badigal did not stand up. It was Skum who stood up. This time he announced the investigation of Cliff's death on behalf of the Seven Towers. result.

The moment he stood up, the eyes of many people changed instantly, especially those of the great arcanists, who showed almost undisguised suspicion.

However, before hearing the investigation results, those few people did not raise any questions and just watched Skoum's performance quietly.

After Skoum stood up, he first said with a sad face, "I feel very sorry for the death of Cliff, the first great arcanist in Netheril to die unnaturally in the past seventy-three years."

Everyone in the congregation was unconvinced about Skoum's performance, and their focus was still on the investigation results of the Seven Towers.

Skum seemed to have noticed everyone's urging glances, and immediately changed the subject, "Although this was just an accident, Seven Towers still tried its best to investigate possible doubts about the incident. Now let me explain it to you."

Hearing that the Seven Towers had determined this incident, everyone's eyes changed again, either disappointed, expecting, or ridiculed, but they still did not interrupt Skum's speech.

While Skoum was talking, he took out a transparent crystal with flashing light and threw it towards the center of the ring-shaped conference table, that is, in the middle of the conference hall. Then the changing and distorted light and shadow in the middle of the hall suddenly became clear.

It was a reception room with an obvious style, with various sun patterns everywhere, but the whole place did not appear messy, but full of order.

There are only two people in the reception room in the projection screen, but these two people are undoubtedly strangers to the great arcanists and the joint committee directors in the conference hall at this moment.

Only a handful of people recognized the identities of the two people in the projected image - they were Lord Leisen and his son, and they were also Cliff's students!

Just when everyone was confused, Skum's explanation came quickly: "This is the source of the incident, the scene where Cliff met the Lord of Shado in the South at Lesen.

“Since both of them have been blessed with spells to avoid detection, we cannot trace their images and direct voices when the scene needs to be preserved for review.

“But their conversation did not use a soundproof barrier, and Seven Towers still found a way to trace the traces left by the sound of their conversation hitting the wall.

"After restoration, we know the whole story of the incident. Now please listen to the scene sound we restored -"

Following Skum's words, the projection screen in the center of the hall began to move, but only the process of the two Lords of Leisen saluting to the air could be seen, but the sound could be heard.

When they heard the sentence "Did Mr. Cliff come here because I asked Lord Leisen about the experimental accident?", everyone in the hall couldn't help but show doubts.

Why is this involved in some experimental accident?

As the projection screen continued, everyone quickly understood the cause of this incident and had a clearer understanding——

The ruins of dreams, the power of death, and the resurrection of the dead!

As soon as these keywords came out, everyone couldn't help but agree with the investigation of the Seven Towers. How could such secret and bizarre information be known if it hadn't been traced back to the conversation between Cliff and Shado at that time!

But there are doubters. After watching the projection with only sound, Doleson Hawk immediately interrupted Skum's continued introduction and raised his own questions:

"How to prove that this video is the real scene that day? I think it shouldn't be difficult for Seven Towers to fake an image or a sound!"