However, Xia Duo's sudden appearance made the two people in the small workshop suddenly quiet. Before Xia Duo could speak, the old man pulled the middle-aged man to his knees and kept begging for mercy:
"Sir, please spare my life. This kid lost his mind for a moment and deceived you. I am willing to sacrifice all my property, just to ask you to spare his life!"
As he spoke, he pulled the necklace off his neck and held it in front of Sha Duo with both hands, "Sir, this is a treasure I obtained in the ruins when I was young. Please let us go!"
"..."
Xia Duo was a little confused. Before he opened his mouth, he was offering family property and treasures. Did he seem so inhumane?
In the final analysis, the buyer and seller are mutually supportive. Even though he knew the item was fake, he still bought it. He had some thoughts of fishing for law enforcement. However, he could be regarded as demining the mines for this family. If it were another mage,
Maybe it really costs both money and life.
Of course, other mages may not be able to find each other as easily as Sha Duo. [Detection] is a 4-level spell. Just for a fake that cost only 10 gold coins, it is not worth wasting a 4-level spell.
But now that Xia Duo is here, his trip will definitely not be in vain.
He first picked up the necklace and carefully observed the bead-shaped pendant on it, and found that it was exactly as he had guessed before. It was a magic item that could detect spells.
Although Xia Duo did not cast [Identification Technique], the magic on the pendant was not encrypted at all, and was added through [Magic Constancy Technique].
This discovery greatly reduced the value of this pendant to Shado. Although [Magic Constancy] seems to be much more flexible in making magic items, and can even add spell effects to the human body, its stability is worse than using mithril components.
a lot of.
Moreover, the threshold for casting spells is very high. Basically, no matter how many levels of magic effects need to be added, it must be at least one level higher in spell casting difficulty. This involves a cycle of elements, because this [Magic Constancy] is not a specific spell, but
It is a technology.
This is inconsistent with the research direction chosen by Sha Duo. What he needs is a manufacturing method with a lower threshold, so as to expand the range of spellcasters capable of participating in manufacturing, and at the same time promote the iterative update of various spells.
After checking it carefully, Xia Duo threw the necklace back into the old man's hand and said calmly: "Get up first!"
When throwing away this necklace, Xia Duo was really reluctant to part with it. He could get this magic item worth over ten thousand without paying almost any price, and it fully complied with the standards of behavior of Master Nese. He would not
Does anyone blame him for this.
but--
Almost no need, does not mean no need at all. What he needs to pay is actually a little faith and a little principle in his heart. He actually does not fully agree with the current environment of Netheril.
He and Master Nese's three views are still different. Although they have been more or less affected by being here for so long, there are some principled things that cannot be changed.
Fishing for law enforcement, and then coming to kill people and seize wealth. Ask yourself, how could Xia Duo not be able to do it? Even if he didn't kill people and only took wealth, Xia Duo would still feel a little disgraceful.
If it's an enemy, it doesn't matter. Just like the arcanist Aquilaine of the Hawke Territory, Shado's sneak attack is a matter of course. Even if there is a more "weird" method, he doesn't mind trying one or two.
But since the two sides are not enemies, there is no need to resort to such deception.
Although Master Nese does not admire justice, he also rejects evil. Even evil people do not necessarily like to associate with evil people.
If it were the protagonist of a novel written by Xia Duo before his time travel, perhaps the first sentence he would say is - "How dare you mess with my mind with just a common thing!", and then he would kill or chop, and finally touch the corpse.
.
This may seem pretentious or half-hearted, but when it comes to Xia Duo himself, regardless of reality or his own will, he is still unwilling to accept this magic item.
However, not wanting magic items does not mean not wanting people.
Of course, there are still some questions that need to be asked clearly before this.
Seeing that the two of them were still kneeling on the ground tremblingly, Xia Duo said again, "Stand up! I don't want to say it a third time!"
In fact, Xia Duo is very disgusted with this form of kneeling at every turn. Although it seems a bit cool and condescending, but from another perspective, will he one day encounter a being who requires him to kowtow on the ground?
Of course it doesn't matter if others kneel to you, but it will be uncomfortable when it's your turn to kneel to others.
This bad habit must be resolutely banned. You and I are both great arcane masters, even the seeds of high-level gods. Why should I kneel to you? If everyone has such a belief, perhaps this is a world suitable for the development of civilization.
So far, Xia Duo has not been asked to kneel down by anyone, but he knows that if a great arcanist asks him to kneel down and salute, he will have no room to refuse.
Although spell casters can be regarded as having their own great power and do not need to use various complicated rituals to highlight their authority like ordinary people in power, there is no guarantee that there will be people who like this.
Every time he thinks of this possibility, Xia Duo becomes agitated.
If you are not as strong as others, you can do nothing.
…
The old man and the middle-aged adventurer in the small workshop finally stood up after Xia Duo's two orders, but they were still trembling and cautious, fearing that the mage in front of them would hit them with a spell.
"Tell me, how many people have you deceived like this?" When asking, Xia Duo used the trial spell and inquiry learned from [Projection Plane Arcane Empire] without leaving any trace.
In fact, it is spiritual magic.
[Inquiry] is similar to the [Realm of Honesty] that Leiden once used. It can determine whether the target in the spell field is lying, but there is no holy power involved. It is pure arcane magic and is quite easy to use.
"Sir, we just brought it from Shiboden to Seventon yesterday, and we only shipped one item, and it was bought by you." The middle-aged man seemed a little aggrieved in his tone.
It was the truth, but not lying does not mean that he did not conceal anything. Xia Duo continued to ask: "Then did you lie to other people before coming to Severton?"
"..." The expression on the middle-aged man's face began to struggle, and finally his face collapsed. Just as he was about to speak, the old man said first: "Sir, we only sold a few before, and we made it clear in advance that they were just ordinary silver jewelry.
They themselves think it is mithril."
"Oh? Why did you become more courageous when you arrived at Severington?"
When Xia Duo bought it, the middle-aged man had agreed that it was a mithril jewelry. He didn't dare to say that in other places, but he said so in Sevington. Did he think that the mages in Sevington were stupider than those in other places? Or did he?
Are you saying you plan to do just one job and not come to Severington?
He glanced at the ball of silver-white metal threads that had fallen to the ground. The appearance of silver and mithril was still very obvious. The appearance of the ball of metal threads was no different from mithril threads.
If Xia Duo hadn't come into contact with mithril often, he would have been deceived by them. The skills of these two people are really not bad.
"Where did you know the style of this kind of jewelry?" After two ordinary questions, Xia Duo finally asked the real question.
The middle-aged man looked confused and just looked at the old man. The old man didn't hide anything, "Sir, when I was young, I found a damaged ancient magic weapon in the ruins. It had many complicated mithril structures. I took it apart and sold it.
Yes, later, later——"
"Later, you felt that selling just one item was not enough, so you started to fake it?" Xia Duo helped him tell the rest of the story.