Arcane Lord

Now that Niya has brought up the issue of heirs again, it also makes Xia Duo understand that Niya really cares about this matter, so this matter can indeed be put forward.

At present, a new covenant with Netheril is about to be signed. After that, even if the basic market has stabilized, with such a relatively stable external environment, the development of the Great Xia Territory can be expected.

As for the Northland Alliance, except for the constant threat of demons, there will be no major events for the time being. As for the Dragon Mad Lock, Sha Duo is also planning to go to the North Pole after signing the new alliance.

The problem is not big. The key is that these two major crises are not dependent on Xia Duo's will to a large extent. He can only try his best to find ways to actively deal with them, not to say that he will definitely be able to cover up the whole situation, or that he will definitely be needed. Go to the bottom of things.

For these two things, Xia Duo has corresponding plans and arrangements, and just follow them, but other things, such as continuing to study the mystery lock, exploring alien planes, developing the territory of the Tower of Time, etc., although Important, but not urgent.

You can completely divert some of your energy from these things to solve the problem of heirs first.

There is even no need to wait for the new covenant to be signed, and preparations can be started now. This is what Xia Duo thought and did.

…

the next day.

In the Tower of Time, Shado and Niya were studying how to create humans. Outside the Tower of Time, the investigation team invited by Seven Towers and Ye Erlan overnight from various countries in the North had arrived at Hengchun Square.

Accompanying the investigation team was Brenders, an old acquaintance of Shado. In the past, Brenders would have definitely been waiting for an opportunity to spy when he came to Shado's floating city, hoping to bring back some information to the Seven Towers.

Especially the situation related to the floating city's mystery lock that Xia Duo revealed not long ago when he proposed to use the floating city to make a deal with the Seven Towers made the Seven Towers even more interested.

But today Brundes had no intention of spying secretly. Instead, he was focused on keeping an eye on the investigation team hired heavily from the Northland Alliance.

Without him, the team had just checked Offa Square in Severton on the ground for nearly a night, but could not find many useful clues.

We can only confirm that the elf assassin who attacked Xia Duo was indeed a high mage, but does this still require such a high-level investigation team to investigate?

Everyone who was at the scene yesterday saw the unique saint form of the high mage under the elf magic system, as well as the large number of traces of elf magic left on the scene.

To be honest, Brundes was very disappointed with this investigation team, even if there was a dwarf searcher in the team who claimed to be able to accurately find the traces of a fly that flew over a year ago within the strong radiation range of the Underdark. Grandmaster.

"well!"

Brundes sighed silently in his heart. At the moment, he could only hope that these investigators could find some clues from Xia Duo, or at the worst, find Xia Duo's soul.

Even if war cannot be avoided in the end, Brundes is still more inclined to let Sha Duo be the initiator of the war. At least Sha Duo is a calm and rational person in his opinion, and will not let the war go. Completely uncontrollable.

Hengchun Plaza.

Brundes was not present when the assassination occurred yesterday. When he came to the floating city today, he was still shocked to see the body left by Sha Duo.

Since the founding of the Seven Towers, there has never been an assassination of a Grand Arcanist in Netheril! Not to mention doing it in such a fierce way in public.

Although Brundes has long given up the idea of ​​becoming a legend and is unlikely to become a Grand Arcanist in this life, his anger over this incident is not just because the target of the assassination is the Grand Arcanist.

But what is the impact of this incident? Will competition between countries become more intense in the future?

Today is Shador, tomorrow it will be Horn, or anyone in Netheril. In the past, when the relationship between Netheril, Cormanthor, and Erlan was tense, even if the two sides occasionally conflicted, they were very Tacitly control the intensity of the conflict.

The current incident has made Brundes smell the smell of war. He knows clearly from the Seven Towers that Badigal is already preparing for war. Although Horn is unwilling, this matter has long been separated from the Seven Towers. The scope is under control.

It’s not that you don’t want to join the war if you don’t want to!

"well!"

Brundes sighed again, looking at the twelve investigators looking around the statue of Chateau, he actually felt an inexplicable sense of humor, not because of the behavior of these investigators.

But before, no useful clues were found at the assassination scene directly on the ground. What do you find now when you come here?

Sure enough, after each of the dozen or so investigators examined it using their own methods, they all showed the same confused expressions they had shown when they were on the ground.

After a brief discussion, they decided that the most senior dwarf search master would report the inspection results to Brundes, "We have carefully inspected it, and this statue does not have any soul breath.

"But due to the existence of the seal itself, if further exploration is needed, I hope you can convince Lord Shado's followers to let us break the seal."

"It is impossible to break the seal. Although it is certain that Lord Xia Duo's soul is intact, it is most likely maintained by the seal on his body. If the seal is broken, who will take responsibility if something goes wrong? This responsibility!”

No matter who takes the responsibility, Brundes himself is unwilling to take on this responsibility, and even if Badigal comes, he will not be able to take it.

"I will inform the Tower of Time of your suggestions. If they agree, they will break the seal for further inspection. If not, then you can only think of solutions from other directions."

Speaking of this, Brenders couldn't help but complain, "You are all famous investigation and search masters in various countries in the North. How come you can't even investigate a mere assassination incident clearly!"

When the dwarf master heard this, he frowned, but because he really couldn't find any useful clues, even if Brundes' words didn't sound good, he didn't refute anything.

But the investigator from Cormanso thought differently, "How could this be just an assassination? This was clearly a long-premeditated and carefully planned assassination."

"The masterminds behind the scenes have been planning for an unknown amount of time. We have only been here for less than a day and have been in contact with the scene. The current discovery is enough to prove our ability.

"Besides, if you can do it yourself, there is no need to invite us over."

Although Investigator Cormanso's words were also not pleasant to hear, they did reveal a fact that Brendes found difficult to refute, that is - the time was too short!

Moreover, these investigators did investigate a lot of clues and even restored some details of the spells used by both parties at the time. However, these clues alone did not allow them to determine the identity of the assassin.

The latter is actually the real purpose of Qita and Ye Erlan's large sum of money to invite these investigators. What the scene is like and the details of the assassination at that time are not important. What is important is to determine the identity of the assassin.

As long as a result can be produced that can stand the test, no matter how outrageous the result is, it will be acceptable to all parties and highly anticipated.