The secret conversation that took place in Selena's study lasted until nine o'clock in the evening.
Lape Chanel personally tested Li Nuo's "knowledge of all things" and was completely convinced.
In the entire Unas Circle, the number of wizards who have "knowledge of all things" can be counted on one hand, and there will definitely be no more than five people.
Except for Li Nuo, who is a first-level wizard, the other four have all become councilor-professor level beings, at least eighth-level wizards.
It is estimated that as long as Li Nuo is given enough time and room to grow, it is almost certain that he will become an eighth-ring wizard and enter the Witch Chief Council.
Lape Chanel's mentality is changing.
He gradually changed from a family leader who was invited to discuss dealing with pirates to an investor who wanted to place more bets on Li Nuo and invest in the other party's future.
Li Nuo accurately controlled Lape Chanal's change of mentality and asked Selina to take out the pre-written magic contract at the right time.
This magic contract not only mentioned the matter of helping the Chanal family uncover spies, but also mentioned the friendship between Lenno Jarvis and Selina and the Chanal family.
As long as Lape Chanal signs the magic contract, Li Nuo will have the status of advisor to the Chanal family.
Why is Li Nuo so interested in a trading wizard family?
This is related to his experience before time travel.
The prices of commodities, especially those of industrial raw materials, can directly reflect the direction of certain regions or the world as a whole.
For example, the price of natural rubber.
In the absence of natural disasters and sudden reductions in natural rubber production, if the forward price of natural rubber suddenly rises and the trading volume is huge, it generally indicates one thing:
Metal mineral production is about to soar.
How are the price changes of natural rubber related to copper production?
the answer is:
Transporting metal minerals causes a lot of wear and tear on tires. The environment in which mining trucks operate is very harsh, and tire consumption is staggering. As a result, transportation costs account for 10% to 20% of the entire copper mining cost.
This is one of the market phenomena that Li Nuo observed before crossing over.
Lape Chanel himself said that there is a lot of sensitive information in the family.
The price changes of raw materials like this are one of the sensitive information he refers to.
Knowing the price of raw materials was the first reason why Li Nuo valued the Chanal family.
The second reason is that the Chanal family has key "shipping data."
In the world before Li Nuo traveled through time, there was shipping data that reflected the prosperity of global trade, called the "Dry Bulk Freight Index."
House Charnar's shipping operations span the Ring of Unas, the Suman Islands, and the mainland of Cahir. The price, quantity and scale of the transportation business it undertakes can directly reflect the demand for a certain commodity in a certain region.
In the world before Li Nuo traveled through time, there were situations where the results of important activities were deduced based on a certain small commodity.
In this different world where wizards travel everywhere, although extraordinary power is rampant, the price information and transportation data are still valid and will not be easily influenced by extraordinary power.
And it is precisely because magical power is so attractive that things like price information and transportation data rarely attract the attention of high-level wizards.
Only wizarding families like the Chanal family, which started as wizarding merchants, would be interested in price information and transportation data that have nothing to do with magic.
To put it more simply...
In this world, delving into magic and meditation is the mainstream culture.
Business and trade are non-mainstream.
Man-made disasters such as rampant pirates will only have an impact on trading families like the Chanal family.
For the wizarding forces who can open the portal at any time, the so-called ocean routes, land transportation routes, etc. are all dispensable.
As long as the magic pocket is large enough, the cost of opening the portal will be evenly shared by dozens of large-capacity magic pockets.
The wizarding forces with deep foundation can completely use portals to replace trade routes.
Therefore, the Chanal family can only do business for small and medium-sized wizard families, and has never been favored by powerful wizard forces.
To be honest, after confirming that Li Nuo had "knowledge of all things", Lape Chanal felt flattered when he saw that Li Nuo was still willing to serve as his family's magic consultant.
"Thank you for your support of the Chanal family, Jarvis. I also didn't expect that a future councilor-level professor would become our magical advisor."
Lape Chanal said cheerfully, with a lot of respect in his words:
"I now fully believe in your personal ability to uncover spies. When I return to the manor, I will immediately prepare the charter investigation letter and deliver it to you using a magic messenger. With it, you can enter and exit when necessary The territory of the Chanal family has boarded the ship in the name of the Chanal family."
As Rappe Chanal spoke, he picked up the magic pen and left his name on the magic contract.
Li Nuo also signed his name.
Selena served as a witness and left her name between her and the two signatures.
The magic contract turned into white light and split into two, shooting into the chests of Li Nuo and Lape Chanal.
The magic contract officially comes into effect.
Li Nuo can do it safely and boldly.
"Chanal, I will start investigating the spies from tomorrow." Li Nuo said:
"In three days at the earliest and seven days at the latest, I will uncover most of the undertide spies in the Chanal family. For the few undertide spies who follow the ship and wander at sea, you need to notify the guards on the ship to arrest them. "
"Okay, no problem. You can communicate with me personally about catching spies without going through my housekeeper and family."
Rappe Chanel gave her magic postal code for mail delivery.
Li Nuo wrote down this magic postal code consisting of numbers and characters.
From then on, he was able to communicate directly with the other party.
Seeing that it was getting dark and late at night, Rappe Chanal stood up and left, and tonight's secret talk ended.
Li Nuo accompanied Lape Chanal on the public vehicle, got off halfway, and returned home.
Snowwing is as clingy as ever.
Li Nuo picked it up from his feet, rubbed the cat's chin and belly, and took two deep breaths.
Dinas heard the movement on the first floor and came from the second floor with a happy face:
"I successfully registered for the exam! I can take the wizard level exam the day after tomorrow."
"Do I need to go to Unas Ring?" Li Nuo asked.
Dinasi rushed forward, hugged Li Nuo and said:
"No need, all exams will be held on the professor's side."
Li Nuo gently rubbed the other person's face:
"I'm sure you'll be fine. You might even get full marks on the test."
Dinasi happily gave Li Nuo a kiss:
"You are so kind, Li. Thanks to your extraordinary ability, otherwise just your endorsement would have made me lose a lot of hair. When I become a fourth-ring reborn witch, my teleportation range will be much expanded. I will definitely be able to help you then..."
In the past two months, Dinas saw that Li Nuo was so busy, and she had been unable to help him, and inevitably felt a little disappointed in her heart.
In the final analysis, it was caused by her being too weak.
On the one hand, the healing and defensive effects of her current rebirth spell require her to cast the spell on the spot.
But if she follows Li Nuo into the battle, it will inevitably hinder Li Nuo.
On the other hand, the teleportation distance of "Reincarnation Teleportation Technique" is really not enough, currently only about 120 kilometers.
At most, she was within the offshore range, helping Li Nuo travel between the sea and home faster.
These two shortcomings will be resolved after Dinas reaches the fourth level.
After she becomes a fourth-level rebirth witch, she can buy the fourth-level spell blueprints for "reincarnation teleportation", "secondary reversal of death" and other spells from the professor - which means that the upper limit of the spell level is raised from the current level 39. to level 49.
The transmission range of "Rebirth Teleportation Technique" has been greatly increased, tripling from the current more than 120 kilometers to nearly 400 kilometers.
"Level Reversal of Death" was originally a healing spell that required reading.
It will evolve into "Reverse Death Blessing", becoming a spell whose healing effect lasts for 60 minutes after a single cast.
Within 60 minutes, as long as Li Nuo is injured, the healing effect will be automatically triggered, without the need for Dinas to maintain a spellcasting state.
Other spells, such as "Secondary Carrion Rebirth", "Secondary Defense Death Barrier", "Toxin Suppression", etc. will be transformed, greatly increasing the spell effect and duration.
This is the transformation of a normal wizard from a wizard student to a fourth-ring wizard.
Since these spells are included in the "Ascension Fortress", after the spell effect is improved, the spell casting cost will not change much.
Li Nuo patted Dinas on the shoulder and said:
"I have just reached a magical contract with Lape Chanal to help him uncover spies. In the future, I may have to travel frequently between sea and land, and I may also have to dive into the bottom of the sea and face dangerous underwater caves. You learn After the fourth-level spell, you can go to the sea with me and be ready to use the "Rebirth Teleportation" to help me at any time. A transmission distance of 400 kilometers can already solve many thorny problems. "
"Okay~" Dinasi raised the corners of her mouth, her eyes curved into crescent moons, and she moved closer to Li Nuo and "gnawed hard".
Li Nuo threw the snow-winged cat in his hand into the cat cage to avoid getting in the way...
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Li Nuo's thinking was very clear when it came to uncovering family spies.
When he killed Parika, a high-level undertide spy, at sea, he discovered traces of many undertide spies from the other party's memory fragments.
The Chanal family deployed a total of 50 teams of sea patrol wizards on the Starfall Sea.
In Parrikar's memory, there are undercurrent spies in at least 10 teams.
The undercurrent spies of these 10 teams are controlled by the captains of each team.
The situation of these 10 captains is the same as that of Parika. On the surface, they are sixth-ring deep-sea combat wizards who graduated from the deep-sea branch, but in fact they are sixth-ring terror sail wizards, genuine high-level undercurrent spies.
They and Parika all obey the orders of the Darkscale elders.
From this, it is not difficult to see the spy network of the Pirate Kingdom:
The superiors of ordinary undertide spies are senior undertide spies, and the latter's superiors are elders of dark scales.
Li Nuo's first thought was to find out the Dark Scale Elder.
But after using "Water Technique" to travel back and forth on the Starfall Sea several times, he discovered something unusual from three high-level undertide spies.
The way the other three received information from Elder Darkscale was similar to the "online teaching" of wizard students, both through dreams.
In other words, in the Dreadsail Pirate Kingdom, the position of "elder" corresponds to the chief professor of Unas Ring.
The difference is that the minimum requirement for a lecturer professor is six rings, while the elders of the Dread Sailing Pirate Kingdom need to have a minimum strength of seven rings.
Just like the professors "huddled" in the Unas Ring, the Darkscale Elders have always been inside the Dreadsail Pirate Kingdom and will never enter the waters near the Suman Islands.
Li Nuo even speculated that this so-called "Dark Scale Elder" was not a human being. He was most likely a siren from the Siren Kingdom.
It's very troublesome to track down such an enemy.
After thinking twice, Li Nuo temporarily gave up the idea of searching for the Dark Scale Elder.
He turned his attention to digging for clues about pirates' plundering of ocean-going ships.
After this investigation, Li Nuo almost burst into laughter.
The Chanal family has a total of 33 ocean shipping companies here in the Suman Islands.
Each transportation company has at least 20 magical mechanical ships.
Li Nuo used deconstruction techniques to observe these 33 ocean shipping companies.
He found that there were at least two undercurrent spies in each company, and they were both in the position of arranging ship shifts...
These guys calculated the voyage and sent some magical mechanical ships transporting important cargo through the uninhabited deep sea area in the middle of the night.
The night is dark, windy, and the waves are rolling, which is a good time for pirates to plunder ocean-going ships.
Li Nuo wrote down the ship information.
He casually killed two undercurrent spies and handed over to Rappe Chanal. Then, following the guidance of the ship's information, he came to the ambush location planned by the pirates to guard the pirates.
Li Nuo has already thought about it.
He wanted to catch spies and clean up pirates. He wanted to do both.
Only sending the heads of one or two spies to Chanal every day proved that he was working hard.
At the same time, he must show up at the place where pirates commit crimes in advance every time and wipe out the pirates.
After this operation is successful several times, the pirates will realize that there is a problem with the intelligence network they have installed in the Chanal family.
They will immediately make adjustments to their intelligence network.
By then, it might be possible for him to discover the traces of the Dark Scale Elder through "Psychic Tracking" and Deconstruction.
This is Li Nuo's plan.
Let's start with the first raid on pirates tonight.
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Treasure Sea Area No. 149.
The sea temperature is 26 degrees.
The sea surface wind speed was 18 kilometers per hour.
The sea surface is slightly undulating, with wave heights of 0.5 meters.
Slight whitecaps, overcast conditions and poor light.
The water is 80 meters deep, in the sea where the moonlight cannot shine.
Ten pirate ships emitting faint green light were moving silently towards their designated destination, driven by the water flow array.
Inside the portholes of the pirate ship, the sirens roared and hissed, gathering in the largest cabin on the middle deck.
This was originally a ship restaurant used by humans for gatherings, but now it has become a scene where the sea monsters perform some weird rituals.
Four totem poles smeared with blood stood in the center of the scene.
There are many bone spikes extending outward on the totem pole, with bloody stumps and pieces of unknown origin stuck on them.
On the floor around the totem pole, there were bloody patterns composed of dirty blood and bone fragments.
The leading siren stood in front of a totem pole about two meters high, opening its large mouth with an inverted triangular head, revealing its terrifying sharp teeth.
He spread his arms and howled loudly.
The sea monsters behind him made the same movements and roared crazily at the totem pole.
The high-pitched screams became louder and louder, and there were slight changes on the four totem poles.
The pillar, stained red with blood, twisted a few times like an arm with its skin peeled off.
Along with a few sticky sounds, four indifferent eyes opened in the center of the four totem poles.
Each totem pole has an eye.
These four eyes glanced at the sea monsters on the scene, and then exploded with a bang, turning into blood beads flying in all directions, and got into the eye sockets of the sea monsters.
The forked horns on the siren's head were originally dark green.
But after the blood drops penetrated into their eyes, their tentacles instantly turned red, like red-hot iron bars, blooming with dazzling light.
At the same time, their eyes were scarlet, bone spurs sprouted from the joints on their bodies, and their bodies swelled, becoming even bigger.
The same scene appeared on ten pirate ships at the same time.
This is obviously a kind of combat preparation before the war, involving abominable sacrifices, full of distortion and filth.
The sirens received help from some kind of power and became powerful and cruel.
The feedback from deconstruction intuitively shows the changes before and after.
The original Krakens had combat prowess around level 50.
After being strengthened by the totem pole, their combat effectiveness increased sharply, reaching a maximum of level 65, and they suddenly became existences comparable to six-ring combat wizards.
Ten pirate ships, each with 100 sirens, brought the total number of sirens to one thousand.
The types of Kraken include Tide Hunters who are good at tracking, Tide Guards who are good at defending ships, and Tide Warriors who are good at attacking.
Facing such a group of pirates with a strong team strength, Li Nuo saw some clues.
The last time he saw pirates and pirate ships, there was no sign of totem poles.
This was the first time he saw a totem pole on a pirate ship that could open his eyes and strengthen the siren.
Li Nuo observed secretly, thought for a while, and came to the conclusion:
The pirates will flexibly allocate the number of Kraken based on the strength and value of the objects they plunder.
When the number of Kraken reaches 1,000, the pirates will invest in totem poles that strengthen the Kraken.
Li Nuo is hidden in the water 30 kilometers away from the pirate ship.
He used his "mental vision" to secretly observe the pirate ship and threw out a handful of deconstruction techniques.
"Hmm... After these sea monsters were strengthened, their minds became crazy and bloodthirsty. They acquired the characteristic of "bloodthirsty addiction", and their "psychic blood bar" should also have grown a lot. "
Li Nuo thought about the deconstruction results in his mind:
"Due to limited combat data, the system cannot predict the specific length of the "spiritual blood bar."
"I have to use "Psychic Bombing" to attack a sea monster before I can get the relevant combat data. If the Kraken's "spiritual health bar" is too long, I may have to find another plan to annihilate them all..."
Li Nuo used the word "total annihilation".
If others heard that he was a first-level wizard trying to annihilate 1,000 sirens who were as good as fifth-level combat wizards, they would only laugh at his stupidity and arrogance.
But Li Nuo was not joking. He did have a way to wipe out all the sea monsters at the scene, and the method was not only using "mind bombing" and scraping. (End of chapter)
