Chapter 1136 Contract Credit Investigation and Demon-Slaying Arrow Thoughts

Regarding Chateau's offer, Charles Harlan accepted it directly without any counter-offer, and then said with an expression of embarrassment:

"Lord Shado, this order is very important to me. If you don't mind, I hope to sign a sacred contract."

Generally, the higher a spellcaster reaches a high position, the more they will avoid signing sacred contracts to prevent being taken advantage of by people with malicious intentions.

Although being on the Lord of Radiance's blacklist does not cause any substantial harm to the spellcasting itself, the potential impact is huge.

Similar to the bank credit investigation in Xia Duo's hometown, although it seems inconspicuous and has no sense of existence, there may be obstacles at some point.

Sha Duo has only signed three or four sacred contracts since his time travel, but except for the marriage contract with Niya, all others have been completed and ended.

Xia Duo is not opposed to signing another one now. Coming from a credit society, he actually quite agrees with the sacred contract. As long as he is careful enough and leaves room for the contract, he can fully utilize the positive aspects of the sacred contract.

Although Xia Duo was not a professional lawyer before time travel, in such an environment, he believed that he knew as much as any of the Lord of Glory's law envoys about the various terms of the contract and some of the possible hidden dangers!

A large society with a population of one billion has far more complex internal rules and phenomena than a small society with a population of one million in Netheril.

Xia Duo is also well-informed. As long as Lord Harlan doesn't play tricks, if he really dares to play tricks, he will let the other party know what it means to be crushed by civilization.

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The contract was drawn up by Lord Harlan, and Xia Duo just nodded. There were indeed loopholes in the contract, but it was not aimed at him, but left room for both parties.

This is a common practice for signing sacred contracts between spellcasters. As long as one party is willing to pay a certain price, the entire contract can be overturned, which is equivalent to liquidated damages.

As for how high this price is, it depends on the specific situation.

Without such a sacred contract, almost no one above the level of a high-level mage dares to sign it. This is almost clearly telling the other party that there is a conspiracy in this contract!

The contract that Xia Duo signed with Lord Harlan this time had a very high penalty of over one million gold coins.

Even the Grand Arcanist may not be able to come up with this amount of liquidated damages at once, but the two parties agreed that various materials, such as mithril, fine gold, five-color gems, arcane crystals, etc., could be used to pay the price below the market price. A discount of 30% of the price.

If you breach the contract once, almost a mage tower will be gone. In this case, both parties will naturally not breach the contract easily.

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After the contract was signed, the atmosphere in the reception room suddenly became relaxed, and the two parties once again talked about the initial purchase and sale of Hallanside Manor.

"Lord Xia Duo, the manor can be delivered in advance, but I need to obtain at least one demon-slaying arrow within three days."

"Okay, no problem, but are you sure you want to customize the demon-slaying arrow with 300,000 gold coins?"

"certainly!"

Lord Harlan nodded fiercely, "To be honest with Lord Shado, for every demon-slaying arrow from Prince Pasteur, you can receive an order of demon-slaying amulet first!"

"I see!"

In this way, Xia Duo understood that a demon-slaying arrow only cost 40,000 to 50,000 yuan, and an order for a demon-slaying talisman, although he was not sure how much, must have a profit of more than 40,000 to 50,000 yuan.

Correspondingly, the dwarves harvested a large number of demon-slaying arrows at almost no additional cost.

These demon-slaying arrows are used on the battlefield. If you kill a drow mage or drow priest who can summon demons, you can also greatly reduce the demand for demon-slaying amulets.

If there are enough demon-slaying arrows, there may not even be a need to purchase demon-slaying amulets.

Of course, 40,000 to 50,000 demon-slaying arrows cannot be used in large quantities like ordinary arrows, but this trend still worries Xia Duo.

At present, Netheril is still in the stage of human combat to a large extent. Even if spellcasters jointly cast spells, this nature will not change.

But magic weapons like Demon-Slaying Arrows are different. Although the cost is high, they can be manufactured and stockpiled in large quantities, similar to missiles on Earth.

The most critical thing is that the emergence of long-range heavy weapons will change the concept of war and also increase the cost of war.

This would allow wealthy elves and dwarf nations to use their power to harm others.

Perhaps Cormanthor released the demon-slaying arrow technology to show deterrence through such means. After all, they suffered heavy losses in the drow war not long ago, and such deterrence is exactly what they need.

But there should be techniques to defend against Demon-Slaying Arrows, or supporting techniques (magic) that go with Demon-Slaying Arrows. After all, Demon-Slaying Arrows actually increase Netheril's war capabilities.

There is no reason for Cormanzo to only give benefits and not dig holes.

The more Xia Duo thought about it, the more he felt that there was a pit in it. For a moment, he didn't know where the pit was. Maybe he really needed to study the demon-slaying arrow carefully, as well as the magic arrow in the portable space!

It's a pity that most of the knowledge and experience gained by Sha Duo as a senior mage in [The Birth of Projection Plane Cormanso] were personal achievements, and not many involved war spells and war technologies.

Moreover, except for strategic weapons like the "Devil-Slaying Arrow", which he had seen in [Projection Plane Maiyelita Sukanwisa], he had almost never seen it in other projection planes.

Maybe it was lost, maybe it was hidden.

But at that time, Shado projected that [Mayelita Sukanwisa] was just a child and had no access to the secrets of war.

If he could have free access to it, then what he wanted to know most was the knowledge of the Mystic Locks and the Mage Group. After all, in that era, magic arrows were not uncommon and not high-end. The Mystic Locks and the Mage Group were the main force in the war.

I just didn't expect that Cormanso in the main plane would suddenly take out a "Devil-Slaying Arrow", and he didn't know how many hidden cards he had. This made Xia Duo, who thought he knew Cormanso very well, somewhat panicked.

For the time being, the demon-slaying arrows did not pose much of a threat to him, but the magic sword in his pocket might not. If it was in good condition, it might be possible to kill a senior arcanist with one arrow.

Of course, spears and shields always trade off. Xia Duo has been digging up that magic arrow for quite some time, and he also has some experience on how to protect it.

But no matter what, the threat level of the elven countries, especially Cormanthor, in his mind has been raised by more than one level.

At the same time, the necessity of dwarves as allies has once again risen by more than one level.

This underground war must not allow Danzo to perish!

In this regard, Shado can actually not provide much help. Even if he needs allies again, it will not be his turn to go to the underground body to participate in the battle. Providing logistical support is his greatest support, and it is also the greatest support for Netheril. !