Colin and others did not have any resistance to Sha Duo's behavior of checking his memory. Perhaps they did not have the same sense of privacy as Sha Duo, or they thought it was useless to refuse.
But no matter what, Shado's spell went smoothly and almost perfectly restored the scene when the four people met Toph. Although there was a certain degree of subjectivity in it, it was actually not far from the real situation.
However, after looking at it, Shado noticed some of Toph's little actions. She was not just talking to Colin and others, but she also seemed to be casting spells secretly.
This discovery made Xia Duo very angry. It was simply a provocation. However, because the scene was recreated based on the memories of Colin and others, many details, especially those related to spells, could not be restored well.
Just by looking at some small movements of casting spells, it cannot be concluded that Toph is casting spells.
But since there is suspicion, Chateau cannot sit idly by.
After stating that the elves might secretly cast spells on them, Colin and others had almost no hesitation in accepting Shado's further inspection and immediately agreed.
“President, what do you think the elves may have done to us?” Jace asked nervously.
“Don’t worry, it may just be that some detection medium was placed on you, or it may have affected your mind at the time. The specifics will not be known until after examination.”
After a brief explanation, Shado began to examine the bodies of Jace and others one by one, from the outside to the inside, from the present to the past, even the souls were not spared.
It was finally concluded that the four people were indeed affected by some kind of spell, but time had almost erased any traces.
As for the continuous existence of the detection medium, Shado did not find it in Colin and others. Maybe it was not there from the beginning, or it may have been transferred to a certain corner of the Tower of Time.
At this moment, Shado had a deeper sense of recognition for Niya’s previous decision to adjust the portal permissions and restrict the members of the Tower of Time from going out!
Of course there are communication controls inside and outside the Tower of Time. If there is no control and communication is allowed to come in and out, wouldn’t it mean that detection spells can also be freely entered and exited through communication spells?
Such an obvious loophole would have been impossible for the original designer of the Tower of Time, Grand Arcanist Xavier, to keep it in place. Even with regard to the newly emerged background communications of the Magic Network, the Tower of Time had specially set up control measures for it.
Although the old and new communication control of the Tower of Time cannot determine the information of the communicator on the other end of the communication, nor can it know the content of the communication, the communicators within the Tower of Time are all recorded one by one.
Xia Duo asked the tower spirit and learned that there were a total of sixteen external communications within the Tower of Time in the past few days, all of which were within the normal and legal communication permissions, and there was not a single illegal communication without permission.
This means that either there is something wrong with the sixteen communications in which the identity of each correspondent can be traced, or Toph's detection medium has not been exposed yet.
Of course, the premise of this speculation is that Toph did place movable detection media on Colin and others.
But no matter what, a comprehensive routine "disinfecting" inside the Tower of Time is inevitable.
Generally, a "disinfection program" of this level may not be started once a year or two, and the maintenance cost of starting it once is calculated in at least 10,000 gold coins.
If this had been done in the past, Xia Duo might have considered it, but after making profits from the mass production of magic items, and having recently touched hundreds of thousands of arcane crystals, he now makes this decision without blinking an eye.
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After confirming that Colin and others had no back-up tools left by Toph, Shado let them go back first. Of course, they also arranged for them a training class that did not exist in the first place.
After that, he notified Niya to start the comprehensive elimination process of the Tower of Time.
And Niya also acted very quickly, with almost no waiting. Sha Duo, who had just completed the summons, received the notification from Talling——
“Alert, the Tower of Time is about to launch a comprehensive disinfection process. In order to avoid accidents, all members should immediately stop what they are doing and return to their respective residences. This disinfection process will last for 120 minutes.”
Immediately afterwards, Xia Duo heard a series of sounds of functional facilities being closed——
“The Arcane Garden is closed——
“The library is closed——
“The public floor is closed——
…”
Upon seeing this, Sha Duo immediately teleported to Niya's study on the top floor. Niya was still here, seemingly waiting for Sha Duo to come back. As soon as she saw Sha Duo, she immediately asked worriedly:
“What’s going on over there with Colin? Did Toph do something?”
Shado nodded and explained: "Tov may have put a detection medium on Colin and the others. I can find them. Anyway, let's disinfect them first. Anyway, the Tower of Time is not short of that little money now."
Just as he was talking, Xia Duo felt a large-scale spell-suppressing field appear out of thin air, and the projection window that was still on next to the two people was instantly extinguished.
Not only the projection window, but also the various magic items on Sha Duo and Niya's bodies have lost all their magic aura at this moment.
Fortunately, the spell's calming field comes and goes quickly. If he is in a calming field of this strength for a long time, it is estimated that none of the magic items on Sha Duo's body will last until the end.
Of course, none of the various practical spells blessed by Sha Duo survived after the calming field passed.
Fortunately, he was inside the Tower of Time, otherwise even if there were several attempts to stabilize the field, Shado would have immediately blessed himself with at least one evasion detection spell.
Without this magic on me, I feel too insecure.
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After the spell calmed the field, Xia Duo next sensed several detection fields involving different levels sweeping past, and then there was another spell calming field.
This cycle is repeated several times, including various spells to remove magical or non-magical abnormalities, to complete a comprehensive elimination program.
The total duration is 120 minutes as estimated by Taling.
During the disinfection period, Xia Duo and Niya stayed in the study room on the top floor. The projection window was temporarily unavailable, so the two of them made tea and chatted.
When the disinfecting was completed, the projection window lit up again, but the perspective of Savile Town Center Square that Niya had set previously had been reset and turned blank.
However, Xia Duo was not in the mood to reset the viewing angle of the projection window at the moment. After drinking the last sip of tea in the cup, he stood up and said to Niya:
“I’m going to meet Toph for a while. Anyway, the cost of a complete elimination of the Tower of Time must be recorded in her account!”
“I will be here to watch you and provide support at any time.”
Sha Duo nodded and said nothing more. He said nothing. He took one last look at Niya and resolutely teleported to the public floor, preparing to go to Savile Town through the teleportation gate.