"Midsummer Mage."

Cal Mage, who was squatting in front of the stone portal and operating the communication device in his hand, immediately closed the box after seeing Zhao Xu coming over, and after not having the slightest gap, he stood up and greeted him.

Master Karl's robes are genuinely worn with the badge of a core member of the "Portal Strategy Team", and a series of awards for the completion of the portal on his resume show his experience.

When many of Arthur's cities needed to build portals, they needed to be accessed by the members of their team.

Otherwise, even if the town's association chapter leader was a Nine-Ring Mage, it wouldn't help.

Therefore, although Master Karl is only a five-ring mage, this is considered to be the best in the outside world, but he is only a middle-level in the association, and he is still greatly respected and entertained in the towns he goes.

Not to mention, he is only in his early forties, and he can break through himself to a higher level before entering old age.

It's just that no matter how arrogant Master Carl is, he won't despise the "Midsummer Mage" in front of him, who is only in his early twenties.

Even if the other party is just an "Earth player".

The twenty years old of Wuhuan is already a legendary powerhouse that means ironclad.

Or rather, "King James Decree".

Before he came over, he had been greeted by no less than three high-ranking members of the association, including his direct boss.

There is only one sentence in the content, as long as Midsummer's requirements are not too excessive, they will try to satisfy him.

However, this "satisfaction", Karl certainly definitely does not include the "liaison device" in front of him.

Only through this device can this portal be able to smoothly connect to the current network, otherwise it will be separated from the isolated island outside the network.

If this is not the case, Zhao Xu's portal is just one-way, teleporting to the designated location and then disappearing.

If he had to make it two-way, he would have to build an additional portal at the designated location, and he would have to garrison it there, otherwise anyone on the opposite side would be able to reach the portal on the Fallen Star side, which is the core area of the guild's residence.

"You guys continue to be busy, I've been quite curious about the subject of 'teleportation' recently, so I just came here to take a look." Zhao Xu said.

On the other side, his gaze was constantly scanning the dozen or so alchemists and Master Karl in the venue.

Hearing what Zhao Xu meant, Master Karl didn't say anything, he just glanced at the box of the contact device again, which had been closed, and had already concealed the secret inside, so he continued to calculate the value on a drawing board.

Carl, who has worked for many years, already has enough experience to deal with these "curious" mages.

Zhao Xu was also grinning at this, and sure enough, the sense of confidentiality was strong enough.

In fact, most of the work on the portal network has already been done in Mystra, and Carl is more about building an "interface" on his side.

Normally, a one-way portal costs 50,000 gold for materials and requires enough life energy, and the market price is 100,000 gold.

And Zhao Xu, a portal that is just connected to the network, only needs to pay half of the price, that is, 25,000 gold coins for material fees, and the market price is 50,000 gold coins.

Generally, this fee is paid by the local mage association, and Zhao Xu is all exempt this time.

Basically, the daily construction progress is about 1,000 gold coins, and according to the market price of 50,000 gold coins, it will take about 50 days to complete.

It's just that Zhao Xu didn't have more than one destination this time, and one more destination required an additional 25% of the gold coins, so it would be completed in about sixty days, which happened to be the crossing node of the earth.

In practice, standard portals with enough material are not mainstream.

Most organizations don't use portals very often, so many things are cheaper versions of restrictions, such as portals with a daily limit or even once every few days.

"Mr. Midsummer, your portal has multiple destinations, is it activated by a password?"

"Yes." Zhao Xu nodded.

"You don't need to set up a passwordless to teleport to another location, such as Abyss Purgatory."

"It doesn't need to."

Zhao Xu declined.

It's just that his gaze is locked on the box beneath Master Karl.

The access point to the Mage Guild is restricted to the towns that currently have portals.

Therefore, Zhao Xu could not choose the "Advent Land" that the earth crossed as the teleportation target, and the association would not agree.

Because this is the risk that the entire teleportation network is exposed to the Advent Lands.

But if he re-established a standard 100,000 gold coin portal, the daylily would be cold in 100 days.

Therefore, Zhao Xu is bound to use the portal of the "Advent Land" as an auxiliary door to the portal of Falling Star Town, so that he can control the 50-day manufacturing period of 50,000 gold coins.

This meant that he needed the key to the "liaison device" in Master Karl's hand.

As long as he doesn't access Mystra, the portals of "Falling Star Town" and "Advent Land" will be a hidden two-way passage that will not disturb the magical capital.

The problem is, Master Karl seemed to value the device more than his life.

For the average person, the operation of the portal is extremely mysterious and complex, and it is simply impossible to decipher.

But Zhao Xu, a five-ring mage with 29 intelligence and potential points, is not a problem.

These devices were given to him, and he could be even better than Master Karl did.

After exhaling a deep breath, Zhao Xu's gaze continued to fall on Master Karl.

The current Zhao Xu is no longer Wuxia Ameng, he has never thought about victory before defeat.

Really fail this time.

At that time, he will have to find a way to cast the "teleportation circle" of the nine rings in the "place of arrival".

Thinking of this, Zhao Xu smiled slightly.

He glanced at his dynamic bar prompt at this time.

[Adventurer Midsummer, you cast the four-ring holy warrior magic, "The Mercy of the Martyrs". 】

[Midsummer Adventurer, "Martyr's Pity" takes effect, you are immune to bruises, charm, coercion, stun, exhaustion, fatigue, nausea, trance, and shock, duration: 60/64 minutes (spell delay)]

Illusions!

A strange noise suddenly sounded at the door, as if someone was approaching and peeping there.

Master Karl, who was originally nervous, suddenly turned his head and shouted, "Who! ”

At this moment, Zhao Xu instantly let out an incomparably slight sound from his throat-

"Swift Burst!"

In an instant, this four-ring spell made Zhao Xu's whole body enter bullet time, as if time had been borrowed from the future, and everything around him stopped at this moment.

The magnifying glass that an alchemist had thrown to his apprentice was suspended in the air.

Zhao Xu glanced at the audience, and most of them were undoubtedly attracted by the abnormal noise just now.

At this time, he was beside Master Karl, and this mysterious chest with the portal key was also out of Karl's attention for the first time.

Just for a moment.

was stretched by Zhao Xu to a whole standard action time.

It was enough for Zhao Xu to cast the last spell.

But Zhao Xu squatted down lightly, just casually spread out the device and glanced at it.

It wasn't until a few seconds later that he closed the box and got back to his feet.

It was also when Master Karl was working on it that he opened the box so that it would not arouse suspicion.

Otherwise, Master Karl will definitely make all kinds of secret notes before sleeping, and Zhao Xu may be exposed if he is not careful.

And through the potential point to simulate the "manufacturing portal" specialty, coupled with reading a large number of classics in this area, Zhao Xu looked at the contents of the box, and there was no strange feeling at all.

Knowledge is the driving force behind all the actions of a mage.

Immediately, the time that Zhao Xu borrowed from the "future" also ended here, and the flow of time returned to normal.

The tossed telescope also fell firmly into the hands of the apprentice craftsman.

After being distracted, no one noticed what had just happened here.

Even if Zhao Xu is stronger, he can directly "stop time" with a spell that is extremely effective, and swagger to watch the box for a full five rounds.

At that time, it was useless to even keep everyone staring at the box.

And when he turned his head to see that there was nothing abnormal, Master Karl instantly turned around and immediately stared at his "contact device".

The box, made of winter wood, was still firmly in its place, and it was tightly closed.

It couldn't have been opened in an instant.

While Master Karl breathed a sigh of relief, he was also a little embarrassed, feeling that he was too suspicious.

At this time, Zhao Xu said directly, "I'll go see what's going on outside, and by the way, send a few more guards to patrol." ”

Zhao Xu, who succeeded in the target, left with a smile.

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"Got it?" Wang Ningwei watched Zhao Xu reappear in the wooden board room and asked curiously.

"That's for sure."

Zhao Xu nodded, and handed over the "key content" that he had just memorized.

Wang Ningwei also sighed at this time, "This Karl mage is also too cautious. ”

"Every time I use that chest, I use the True Vision Gem, although this high-grade artifact of 75,000 gold coins can only be used for 30 minutes a day without continuity, but it is enough to cover it." Zhao Xu agreed, "Otherwise, one of my secret eyes behind him is enough to peep." ”

"And he also uses ten minutes every day to cast a five-ring spell 'Mage Chamber', just to prevent detection spells."

"Even that treasure chest wouldn't be seen by the other craftsmen at all, otherwise I would have been able to read it from memory."

Regarding Master Karl's caution, Zhao Xu couldn't help but hold his forehead and sigh.

The mage has the means to learn the secrets.

It's just that when the other party is also a mage, he is prone to hitting a wall.

Unless he's a stronger mage himself.

"But it's okay, we didn't use the confusion control spell to obtain information, otherwise we wouldn't be able to hide it when Master Karl returns, so we don't have to worry about the other party getting the change key at any time and rushing for time."

Zhao Xu said, looking at the copied note in his hand, he said.

"Then I said, Midsummer, have you thought about it?"

Suddenly, Wang Ningwei said in a low voice, "Let whoever pass through that portal first and come to the safest Falling Star Town." ”

Wang Ningwei's voice was crisp, but it revealed a bit of cruelty.