Woodcarving? Xia Duo immediately remembered the slightly mysterious wood carving, the material of Ava's wood carving was a tree that was very precious in the elven realm, and the wood carving characters had a sense of not being unknown.

The masked man wanted this thing, Xia Duo could roughly guess it, but Xia Duo had already sold it, and the masked man could find out that he had taken some things with him, didn't he know that he had already disposed of those things?

As for the account book, this Xia Duo is in charge, but this thing is obviously written by Old Neil himself, otherwise the masked man would have gone to Old Neil to ask for it, how could it have a chance to fall into Xia Duo's hands?

"It's useless for me to hold the ledger, it's already burned!"

"How so?!" The masked man was a little surprised, but mentioning the account book was a casual mention of him, he could get the best, and if he didn't get it, he didn't need to offend the people of the Mage Tower for an ethereal treasure, especially those who had just received a reward.

He was more concerned about the existence of wood carvings than about the ledger, and if this was also burned, he would be angry.

"What about the wood carvings?" The masked man asked. The eager tone, even if it was carefully disguised, was still noticed by Xia Duo, which made Xia Duo regret selling the wood carving again.

"The wood carving has been sold, you have investigated me, you must know who it was sold to!"

"Impossible! Turner, you didn't end up selling! The masked man subconsciously retorted, but he quickly reacted, Xia Duo didn't need to lie to him at all, after all, if Xia Duo knew the purpose of that wood carving, how could he possibly take it out!

And once it is taken out, with what he knows about Turner, how can he not stay!

"This damn Turner!" The masked man scolded hatefully, and when he thought that Turner had swallowed the wood carving, the masked man wanted to kill Turner immediately and ask him to hand it over.

"Sorry, Master Chardo, excuse me!" When he was done, he hurried away. Xia Duo looked at the figure of the other party gradually moving away, and he felt that the other party was likely to pounce, which made him even more curious about the role of the wood carving.

But he didn't, and after thinking about it too much, he didn't want to, and after walking the last section of the stone path, Xia Duo returned to the Mage Tower. …… The first thing he did when he went back was to go back to the dormitory to check the two ledgers, before he only thought that they were hidden accounts or deliberately kept evidence or something, so he didn't pay much attention to it, just put it in the dormitory.

But the masked man put the two ledgers together with the mysterious wood carvings, and Xia Duo immediately valued them at 500 gold coins, which may be worth far more than 500 gold coins, based on the wood carving quotation of the black market middleman Turner.

Opening these two ledgers again, Xia Duo carefully inspected it with the meaning of treasure hunting, and he was afraid that everything would be more serious, and this look really made Xia Duo find some clues.

The secret is not in the ledger itself, but in the two pieces of paper that record the secret text of the symbols held in the ledger.

Overlapping these two palm-sized pieces of parchment, facing the candle flame, I saw that the symbols and secret texts on the front and back of the two parchments were actually connected - vaguely forming a map!

Xia Duo hurriedly took out a piece of loose parchment, and then carefully identified the map against the secret text drawings while copying it on another piece of paper.

It was a long strip of map two fingers wide and one finger long, which Xia Duo copied for most of the time, and most of the time was spent identifying traces.

The ink on the secret text paper itself is not clear, and it is a bit of a stretch of time to see through the marks on the other one on top of each other, but it may be easier if there is a strong light source.

But the interior of the room itself was soft with natural light, and it was difficult to see through the parchment, and Xia Duo looked at the flickering and occasionally suddenly dimming candle flame, and only then did he copy the map completely.

There is a special marker in the picture, and if there is any treasure, it should be here.

Now that the map is available, there are suspected treasure spots, but the question is - where does this map represent?

Naturally, it is impossible for the map of Otherworldly Rao to have an accurate scale and relatively uniform standard landmark symbols like the maps that Xia Duo has seen on Earth.

Here may be someone casually drawn, the scale is completely based on feeling, the landmark symbol is even more arbitrary, this kind of map unless it is really lucky, just meet the familiar, otherwise who can recognize it!

At this time, Xia Duo's first instinct was to go to the library to look up map-related books, to see how the locals drew maps, and whether there were some conventional symbols and the like.

But he quickly dismissed the idea, it was just a suspected treasure map, and it might be just a trap that old Neil had carefully designed to find out.

Even if it is really a treasure, how to excavate, how to transport, and how to deal with it are all problems, at least it is difficult for Xia Duo to swallow a big treasure alone.

Rather than this, it is better to study it slowly in the coming days, which can be regarded as a pastime and entertainment after studying magic.

The top priority is to become an official mage as soon as possible, only by becoming an official mage can it be regarded as a real change of land, and the status of the official mage is far from being comparable to that of an apprentice.

The apprentice wants to be called when he sees the official mage

"Adults", and only official mages can be regarded as having relatively complete immunity, and it is generally difficult to be killed by people using the rules.

Even if a superior wants to kill a low-level mage, as long as he doesn't die on the spot, there are many ways to get shelter before or after the fact.

Whether it is to take refuge in other lords or the Arcane Federation, the worst can save a life. For practical reasons, Nessreel is not rich on the outside, on the contrary, the empire is in a period of active exploration and struggle against the wilderness, and any official mage is a valuable talent.

Even with an apprentice isn't that bad. Just look at Xia Duo's situation, the Mage Tower is quite peaceful and stable, if you really want to retire here, it is not impossible, at least skilled apprentices are much more useful than novices.

Xia Duo had already understood the basic principles of the 0 ring spell and the shallow nature of the magic net, but he had never been able to touch the deep magic web.

It's good if there is no way at all, but Xia Duo obviously has a way, but he can't achieve it for various reasons, which is really worrying.

It takes time to study on your own, and if you want to exchange for 1 ring spell learning scroll, the permission is not enough, and you need to complete at least 1 year of territory tasks to get the exchange permission.

Of course, you can also go through the back door or something, this kind of back door may or may not be there, but the price you need to pay is definitely not acceptable to Xia Duo.

Xia Duo believes in the right way of nature, and the speed of self-research has actually reached the fastest at the moment, because self-research requires the use of a spell laboratory, and the time he can carry out spell casting experiments is quite limited.

Outside of experiments, in addition to recharging himself in the library, he can only communicate with the people in the study group, hoping to collide with something useful and speed up his progress.