The sun is setting in the west, dusk is approaching, and the surface of Lake Mehter reflects the dusk sunset, which is extraordinarily peaceful.

However, as soon as Xia Duo turned around, the unstoppable busy work on the side of the big ship of the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce was a little incompatible with this peaceful environment, and Miles had just summoned him not long ago, because the task of collecting fish-man slime had not yet been completed, and the archmage would not come over until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

It depends on how productive Miles is.

And Miles has also decided to let his workers collect all night, and be sure to complete the task by noon tomorrow, so that when the archmage comes over and clears the fish-people here, he can return immediately.

Xia Duo didn't have a problem with this, he just ordered his fleet to strengthen the vigilance, and after ordering the fleet to stay away from the big ships of the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce, he also personally arranged the vigilance magic.

Before going to bed, Xia Duo slightly adjusted the type and ring level of the magic net storage spell, mainly tending to concealment and maneuvering, such as illusion, invisibility, flight, teleportation, and the like.

As for breaking spells, one is to forcibly smooth the magic net [Spell Countermeasures], the other is to use his own knowledge to [Spell Countermeasures], the former is a specific spell, but Xia Duo doesn't think he can completely remove the archmage's spell, so it's okay to have a magic scroll to spare.

However, the [Spell Countermeasure] has no fixed momentum, and it is completely based on his own knowledge to play on the spot, and the snowmelt competition in early May has not been long ago, Xia Duo has learned a lot of experience, and he is still a little confident in this regard.

Even the archmage is not completely invincible.

But his purpose was not to engage in a spell confrontation with the archmage, Xia Duo knew that even if he won the spell confrontation, it would not make much sense, and if the archmage really wanted to run, he would not be able to catch up.

The main thing is to make sure that you can get out of it.

The magic net storage spell is almost instantaneous, and the only drawback is probably that any spell must be stored in advance, and it will be used up when it is used, and it will not recover on its own.

But as an additional spell system independent of itself, this deficiency can be completely ignored, and I don't know how many mages are counting on the magic net to store spells for food!

Although Xia Duo does not completely rely on the magic net to host spells, he also attaches great importance to this aspect, but his on-the-spot spell casting ability is quite qualified, so in the magic net storage spell, he has always been for the purpose of running away, always ready.

This time it's just a slight tweak, to better deal with possible archmage enemies.

……

A peaceful night.

The expected fish-man attack or archmage raid didn't happen, and the first thing Xia Duo did when he woke up was to get a bunch of status spells, such as [Avoidance Detection], [Magic Alarm Clock], [Delayed Teleport], [Long-Term Armor] and the like.

Most of these spells last for more than 24 hours, and Xia Duo will brush them every day when he gets up, especially when he is away from home, and he can't forget them.

With this in mind, Xia Duo began to wash up and eat, which he had resupplied at the Gilles Tower before leaving, and although it wasn't very tasty, it was not bad.

After breakfast, Xia Duo came to the outside deck, the first mate Ruth had already arranged for someone to fish here, and the other boats in the fleet were similar, but this time they were not to "fish" for the fish people, but Xia Duo ordered that the food consumption on the ship be supplemented with a catch subsidy.

Looking at the big ship of the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce, Miles had already gotten up, and was talking to a person who looked like a steward on the deck, Xia Duo waved his hand, and the other party immediately responded, and also waved his hand, and at the same time teleported:

"I'm sorry, Lord Shado, for delaying your trip."

"It's okay, it's just one more day to wait." Xia Duo was very generous, but he still asked about the situation of the collection mission, after all, he could go back early if he could.

"It will probably be done by noon, and Archmage Timothy will come over at that time, and ask Lord Xia Duo to help search for the location of the fish-people at that time."

"Well said."

……

Next, whether it is fighting or searching, it is necessary to maintain a good state, Xia Duo did not go to do any spell research, but sat quietly at the bow of the ship, as if looking at the scenery.

But in fact, he was sorting out materials in his personal space, books copied from the Gilles Tower, the [Projection Plane], and records of his past experiments.

He has done similar sorting before, but every time he reorganizes it, he will have different ideas, which is probably "learning and learning" and "learning from the past"!

This time, he arranged a library-like format in the corner of his personal space, and put all his notes and materials in a category so that he could easily read them again next time.

Moreover, this time he no longer classifies from the perspective of application, such as protection, defense, support, etc., but classifies from the principle of spells, which are roughly the three major systems of [Creation], [Change] and [Mind] that are currently mainstream in Nesser.

The field of [plane] that Xia Duo is currently mainly studying is across the two departments of [creation] and [change], and the proper interdisciplinary field is the field.

The purpose, of course, is to make better use of the carry-on space.

As for the [Mind] system, the series of judgment spells that Xia Duo brought back from the [Projection Plane] is that it is called [Mind Spells] in Netheril, but he is not ready to study it in depth, and he can use it.

In addition to having already chosen the future research direction, more importantly, when he saw the [Pioneer Scepter], he had no research motivation, others even made magic items that were immune to psychic spells, and he also got one, no matter how much motivation he had!

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Although this scepter is not completely immune to all psychic spells, at least for now, Xia Duo has indeed not seen any psychic spells that can break through the protection of the [Pioneer Scepter].

Occasionally, Xia Duo also refers to this scepter as the [Psychic Protection Scepter].

……

It was noon, and Miles had completed the collection task ahead of schedule, and the workers had returned to the cabin to rest, but Miles had not released control of the "corpse" fish-man gathered at the bow of the ship.

"Lord Shado, Archmage Timothy has set off and is coming over soon!" Miles sent another message.

Xia Duo didn't reply, just got up silently, stood at the bow of the boat, and looked at the big ship of the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce not far away.

Well, it's a little far, and it's beyond the scope of [Delayed Teleportation].

If it's an ordinary mage, there's probably nothing you can do about it at this point.

But Xia Duo had long been aware of the principle of [Delayed Teleportation], and he just stylized the caster's own active identification and turned it into a specific spell that could be automatically recognized.

It's not that with this spell, the ability to recognize teleportation is gone, there is still one.

Moreover, its own active ability and the passive ability of spells can basically be compared to "Seiko products" and "mass products", and there is a gap between the two.

In fact, although he couldn't interfere with the possible teleportation over there, it was still okay to detect it in advance, even if the amount of advance was small.

But even the amount of advance for automatic spell recognition is very small, but the spell will be automatically delayed (can be turned off), and after the caster recognizes the teleportation, it is basically too late to actively delay.

As a result, spells can have both convenience and limitations.