After leaving the First Court, Xia Duo did not carry out the mission immediately. It took a month. Although he would not really wait until a month later to start taking action, there was no need to go now.
Returning to his residence, Xia Duo first checked the scroll box, which is a standard box for the trial court. However, the scrolls inside are different, and the most important one is the [Dimensional Anchor].
Now that we know that the other party entered the empire by teleportation error on the front line, it is impossible not to prevent the other party from teleporting again. Although this possibility is very small, after all, the frontline soldiers rarely have high-level mages, and most of them are mid-level and low-level mages.
Combined casting.
But there is such a thing as a magic scroll. Humans have it, and "demons" also have it!
In addition to [Dimensional Anchor], there are also some protective spells and scrolls that restrict spells, but the most common ones are judgment spells. Sha Duo probably guessed the function of these scrolls.
It seems that the citizens of Little Goat Town are also going to be screened.
After putting the scroll box away and putting it aside, Shado took off the [Spell Reversal Ring] he had just put on at Osk's side and observed it carefully.
Due to a lot of surveillance in the Arcane Empire, he didn't use any of his own magic items. This year, he only had a judge's standard robe and a lightness ring. This ring was the only one he had ever seen.
It ranks among the best among magic items.
The whole body is gray, with less obvious silver patterns on the surface. It looks very ordinary, but under the magic vision, the dense strings of the magic network are connected to the ring. At first glance, it looks like a small marshmallow.
According to Osk's instructions, Shado carefully connected some of the magic network strings to himself in a specific order until the magic aura stabilized and tended to disappear.
Xia Duo did not try to analyze the [Spell Reversal] on the ring. This spell was something that he himself had not mastered, let alone "Eddie", it was too late.
Connect the ring to itself, play with it for a while and then put it on your finger again. The next step is the detailed plan.
It is foreseeable that Osk even took out the [Spell Reversal Ring], and there will definitely be detection spells to follow, so the actions he can take must be in line with his current identity and personality.
"Eddie" has just become an intermediate mage, and the only third-level spell he knows is [Flying]. Except for flying, he cannot display any other third-level spells.
Even if the original low-level spell is upgraded to a higher level, it will be difficult to get around it in terms of time.
Therefore, if it can be solved with a scroll, it is best to use a scroll. The ideal situation is that there is no need to take any action on your own.
Of course, for "Eddie", it takes time to get familiar with scrolls, especially spells like [Dimensional Anchor]. If Sha Duo used it himself, real-time casting would not be a problem, but "Eddie" would need
Extra practice.
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In the next few days, while Sha Duo went to the Fourth Court to retrieve past case files about "Little Goat Town", he also practiced unfamiliar spell scrolls in the spell practice field of the Trial Court.
By the time everything was "prepared", it was already three days later.
On this day, Xia Duo led 100 ordinary soldiers and set out from Jilan City. Not long after leaving the city, he realized that he was being targeted by the detection spell. He knew where he came from without even thinking.
Little Goat Town is not far from Jilan City, less than ten miles away. Unlike Savile Town and Linshui Village in the main plane, all towns here are connected to Jilan City by highways, and the transportation is very convenient.
In the past, the main industry of Little Goat Town was raising sheep to supply the production of parchment. Later, papermaking was invented, and parchment was only used to make magic scrolls. Daily consumption was greatly reduced, so Little Goat Town began to reduce production. Now it mainly produces
Planting, wheat, oats, carrots, etc.
On the way to Little Goat Town, Xia Duo recalled the records he saw in the Fourth Court case file. According to the latest census, there were more than 2,000 residents in Little Goat Town.
Excluding those who died of natural causes over the years and those who were eliminated from apprentice schools and magic colleges, the total number will not change much.
It is not an easy task to find two hidden "demons" among two thousand people. After all, reality is not a game. The boss always stays in place waiting for players to fight and defeat them repeatedly.
If there was too much movement, they might just run away, so where would he be able to complete his mission?
When they were still some distance away from Little Goat Town, Xia Duo ordered the team to stop, "You stay here and come over immediately when you see my signal!"
After receiving the hand crossbow and dagger prepared in advance from a soldier, and after agreeing on a signal with the captain, Xia Duo set out on his own.
If he can reveal his identity as a high-level mage, then he can bring people there, and the teleportation is not impossible to track. If the other party cannot teleport, even ordinary people can surround and kill them.
But now, we can only follow the plan.
After activating the ring of lightness and using [Invisibility], in this "Eddie" body, Sha Duo actually regained the agility of his original body, and ran towards Little Goat Town without any difficulty at all.
When approaching the town, Xia Duo slowed down. Unfortunately, even if he slowed down, the footprints left on the ground could not be eliminated. Fortunately, people often walked around here, and the footprints were messy. As long as they didn't look for it deliberately, who would have thought that
What about an invisible man suddenly coming in broad daylight?
While [invisibility] could last for a while, Xia Duo found a house and got in. Inside, a young woman was cooking. Xia Duo didn't want to waste time and immediately cast the judgment spell - [Instruction], and then appeared.
Body shape, commanded:
"Keep quiet and don't panic. I am a Level 4 judge of the Trial Court and I am performing a secret mission. I have a few questions to ask you."
[Instruction] This spell is somewhat similar to [Confusion Effect], but it has a certain coercive effect, but it is not 100% effective. It is a psychic spell that extends to the mind. Some people are naturally more resistant, so there is nothing you can do about it.
Compared with spells, perhaps the official identity is more effective. Anyway, Xia Duo couldn't tell whether the person in front of him was because of the spell or the clothes he was wearing. In short, the other party was obedient.
Continue to cast [Inquiry]. This spell can cover an area. It is a bit wasteful to use it to ask a person alone. However, for the sake of caution, Xia Duo still used it.
"Have there been any strangers in your town lately?"
"No."
Didn't lie? Xia Duo was not surprised. The so-called devil would not reveal his identity and appearance openly. Otherwise, the townspeople who had been educated by the empire would directly report him, and he might even be tricked to death.
"Is there anyone in town who suddenly doesn't show up much lately?"
The woman thought for a while and finally shook her head, but she made a guess, "Sir, the men in this town have to take roll every day when they go to work. Only pregnant women are likely to suddenly not show up."
"Has anyone died in the town recently?"
"have."
"who?"
"The mayor's man, I heard that he was bitten by a wild wolf when he was at work a few days ago."
"..." Xia Duo was speechless. Are there any wild wolves nearby?
There have been no large forests near Jilan City for a long time. They have all been turned into farmland. There is only a hill near Little Goat Town. However, according to the records of the Fourth Court, in the past few decades, there has never been an incident of wild wolves attacking people.