Chapter 185: Becoming Strong Again
. There was a celebration in the tavern, and the matter of Duke successfully making the spirit card basically faded away in the Penrose Wizard Tower.
In addition to Shanfeisi, several other arcane mages can make cards.
Not surprising.
Duke only felt that his status in Penrose Mage Tower was improved and he could get more resources.
But unexpectedly, the next day, I received an invitation from the Union Tower to the internal supervisor Suktala, inviting him to visit the Master Suktala Tower.
The person who sent the invitation letter was Suktara's secretary: "Your Excellency Duke, my family would like to congratulate you on taking an important step in the field of card making. She asked me to tell you that maybe you can also work in the field of card making. Besides, take a look more, Suktala Mage Tower is always open to you."
"This..." Duke was really flattered, "Okay, I will take care of the things at hand as soon as possible and go to Suktala Mage Tower. Visit."
The secretary received the reply and left happily.
Duke was left sighing in his office.
Ever since he was promoted to Arcane Mage, Suktala has been wooing him, hoping that he can go to Suktala Mage Tower for further studies and study the field of alchemy.
When he was investigating the forbidden area before, he also met Master Sukta Rao in person and received another invitation from him.
Until now, another invitation came.
"Perhaps this is the trouble of genius, Master Suktala, she wants to choose me as her successor."
Suktala is one of the sixteen 3rd level arcanists in Shenjiao City, in the Union Tower As an internal supervisor, although he is not a member of the Five Towers Meeting, he is responsible for the internal affairs of Heijiao River, which is basically equivalent to the functions of a deputy mayor.
Therefore, Suktala is considered to be of high authority.
At the same time, she is also an alchemist scholar with profound attainments in alchemy.
Alchemy is not about turning something that is not gold into gold, but a systematic transformation of substances, somewhat similar to chemistry.
For example, most of the spiritual materials on spiritual beasts must undergo alchemical processing before they can be transformed into truly useful materials. Or the spiritual gold extracted from the ore can also be transformed into other magical items through alchemical processing.
And alchemy also plays an important role, which is to cast arcane weapons.
Let spirituality and matter be combined to become the raw materials for constructing arcane weapons, which can not only be absorbed into the spiritual sea, but also be embodied in reality.
Many arcane mages will seek the help of alchemists if they want to forge arcane weapons. The more advanced the arcane weapons are, the more help they need from alchemists.
For example, if Duke wants to evolve the first-level sand eagle to the second-level sand eagle, he may also need the help of an alchemist.
"Of course I have Xiao Yi. Xiao Yi and Yihuan Sha Ying are both constructed using the underlying logic of this world, so they don't need much alchemical help." Before Duke was promoted to Arcane Mage, he could make use of Xiao Yi's abilities. , Improved Sand Eagle.
Now that he has become an arcane mage, Xiaoyi's database is also constantly expanding. Improved sand eagles and advanced sand eagles should be no problem.
"But no matter what, Master Suktalao favors me so much that I should pay a visit due to circumstances and reasons."
He has not yet set a date to visit Master Suktalao's tower.
After returning home from get off work, he received another party invitation sent by Joanna Bobcat. The entourage who sent the invitation also included Joanna's congratulations to him: "My lord, I highly praise you as a genius in studying knowledge. Please You must appreciate it, she will ask you for advice in person."
"Is the party in three days? Tell your Lord, I will go." He dismissed Joanna's entourage casually.
Duke shook his head and laughed: "Asking for teaching...Will Joanna also ask for teaching?" Joanna is
of the same line as her father Jovis and has no interest in learning, so she solidifies her spiritual core through elemental decomposition and becomes an arcanist. route.
The study of knowledge is the business of arcane scholars.
In addition to Suktara and Joanna, there were also many Arcane mages he knew who sent him invitations to various parties and family banquets.
However, Duke did not agree anymore. Learning to make cards is not a big deal, so there is no need to make it too high-profile.
Joanna knew him first, and they were both consultants at the Shenjiao City Hotel. Suktala favored him the most, so she agreed to both of them.
After attending the small circle gathering organized by Joanna, Duke packed up and went to visit the Suktara Master Tower.
Unlike Master Penrose's Tower which is more than 100 meters tall, Master Suktala's Tower is only fifty meters high.
However, the castle at the bottom of the tower occupies a much larger area and has a huge basement. All dangerous alchemy experiments are conducted in the basement.
"I'm glad you can come." Suktala greeted Duke personally and took Duke to visit his mage tower.
The alchemist has turned gray-haired.
According to the records in "The Spirituality of the Black Dragon River Land", she is already 160 years old, close to the theoretical age limit of 180 for a third-level arcane mage.
Most level 3 arcane mages will not live to be 180 years old, and only a few will exceed this age.
Ms. Suktara has no children. She has devoted her life to spiritual mysteries. She only had one short marriage. After the unfortunate death of her husband, she has been single ever since.
However, she has trained her elder brother and younger brother's descendants, but she has not been able to train them. The family has not yet produced a first-level arcane mage.
Therefore, Suktara is very urgent about his successor.
"Your Excellency Suktara, I'm sorry to bother you."
"You don't need to be so polite here. Get to know a few of my students. You can come and play anytime and anywhere in the future."
There are four arcane mages in Suktara Mage Tower. Work here.
One of them, Sorel, a 2nd-level arcane mage, served as a guide, and the remaining three were all 1st-level arcane mage, but they looked very young.
Duke greeted each other one by one.
The four Arcane mages all showed sufficient enthusiasm for Duke's arrival, but Duke was keenly aware of the perfunctory nature of it.
Apparently.
This enthusiasm was probably forced by Suktala rather than coming from their hearts.
"I have not recruited students for more than ten years, and my research in the field of alchemy has also stalled. Thanks to Sorel and others for helping me support the operation of the Mage Tower." Suktara himself has a fair face and does not look old. old-fashioned.
But after all, she is already 16 years old, and her energy is far less than when she was young.
"Your achievements in the field of alchemy are enough for those who come after you to look up to you." Duke praised him. He had already found a lot of journal documents before coming.
He browsed through Suktala's related papers in detail. Although many of the papers were incomprehensible and involved more spiritual and arcane knowledge than he knew, he still generally understood that Suktala's specialization was "ring-replicating spirits." material".
Ring copying spiritual materials, in short, are spiritual materials that can replicate the abilities of the "rings" in the spiritual sea.
For example, the ring of projection method that can only be used by the Great Ao Mage requires a large amount of ring copying materials to create a clone.
Suktara's grand goal is to use alchemical means to lower the standard of the projection ring that can only be cast at level 4 or above to level 3, or even level 2 or level 1.
If successful.
You can definitely get the title of Alchemy Sage, and even come to Offa Tower and get the seat of Chief Sage in Offa Tower.
Her current research is still far away from success, and she has stopped researching it in the past ten years.
"My height is not high enough for those who come after me to look up to me. There are seven alchemy scholars in this city, and their academic achievements are no less than mine." Suktala said calmly, "Even Sorel, with a few more years of accumulation, he can probably You have been awarded the title of scholar."
Duke was a little surprised, and then praised: "You have someone as your academic successor." "
No, although Sorel works in my mage tower, his research direction is life box. If you really want to be evaluated, it should be the title of life scholar."
"Life box?"
"A very interesting thing that can change your life form." Suktara smiled mysteriously, "If you are interested, you can follow Chat with Sorel. "
Changing life forms? "
Duke immediately thought of Bynes, the life scholar in the cabin in the woods. He studied soul containers and seemed to have an inexplicable connection with this life box.
By the time the visit ended, it was already noon.
Suktara left Duke to have lunch in the castle's restaurant. She had official business to deal with in the afternoon, so she left first.
Duke greeted Suktara's secretary and went straight to the Wonder Room in the Mage Tower.
Penrose's mage tower only has thirty-six arcane wonder structures. Suktala's status is not as good as Penrose's, but her mage tower has a full forty-two arcane wonder structures. The longer time goes by, the more The more money you have, the more wonders you can build.
Duke checked it carefully and found that there were eleven arcane spells here, which Penrose Wizard Tower did not have.
"I want to borrow the wonders room here to record some arcane wonders. Is it possible?" Duke asked Suktala's secretary.
The secretary responded respectfully: "Your Excellency has told you that you can come to the Mage Tower to visit anytime, anywhere, including these wonder rooms." "Thank you
Lord Suktara for me." Duke chose a wonder room and walked in .
In about three hours, he gained insights into the new wonders in the wonder room and simultaneously recreated this magnificent wonder in the spiritual sea.
So Duke took his leave and prepared to continue again tomorrow.
"When I record these eleven arcane wonders, I will have forty-seven arcane wonders. I can watch them anytime and anywhere to improve my understanding of rings!" ... In the next half month
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Duke Either continue to practice making 1-ring spirit storage cards in Penrose Mage Tower, or observe the arcane wonder structure in Suktara Mage Tower.
The days were very fulfilling.
Every Thursday afternoon, he would receive instruction from Penrose and accumulate more card-making knowledge; at other times, he would occasionally meet Suktara, who would tell him some interesting stories about alchemy, which subtly attracted Duke's attention. interest.
"Sir, Lord Suktara is so kind to you." Murali would often sigh with emotion.
Although Penrose began to pay attention to Duke, he was still in power in the United Tower and his main focus was on handling government affairs.
Duke rarely sees each other except Thursday afternoon.
But Suktara was different. After Duke came out of the Wonder Room, he would often receive invitations from her to chat in the office or coffee shop.
This made Duke sigh with emotion: "Yes, Ms. Suktara is an elder who is enthusiastic about supporting the younger generations." "
If you come here to study, Ms. Suktara will definitely teach you everything and help Mr. You achieved success earlier." Mulali complimented, "With your wisdom, sir, you will definitely succeed in any field!" "My
wisdom...I am not wiser than other arcane mages, I just work harder. That's all." Duke shook his head.
His little assistant was obviously melted by Suktara's enthusiasm.
In fact, he himself was not melted. The enthusiasm of a third-level arcane mage, even in words, wanting to entrust the entire mage tower to his heart, was difficult to resist.
But Suktala's class was not easy to take.
Duke didn't think that he and Xiaoyi could easily try the alchemy direction of replicating spiritual materials with their current abilities.
Alchemy focuses on the transformation of substances and requires a lot of experimentation with materials.
The function of Xiaoyi is mainly data calculation, which is not very helpful for material experiments. It is more suitable for the field of card making.
However, Mulali blindly worshiped Duke: "I think sir, you not only work harder than others, but you are also wiser than others." "I agree with
your judgment, but little Lili, you don't understand many things. , so just do your job well and be cautious in your words and deeds in other aspects." Duke's tone was gentle, and he made no secret of the meaning of the knock.
Mu Lali, who was a little erratic, suddenly became solemn and did not dare to talk nonsense anymore.
She is not qualified to decide Duke's choice.
Back at No. 17 of Beverly Manor, Duke changed into his home clothes and went to the breeding room to practice blood refining with Kabuto.
Duke gave him a meal of chicken soup a while ago, and Kabuto has been practicing very hard these days.
He challenged the black-spotted serval cat every day and failed repeatedly, but unknowingly, his physical fitness and spiritual power were growing rapidly.
"Chiji!" After eating the spirit beast meat, Xiao Dou couldn't wait to practice.
Duke touched its head and signaled it to take a rest first.
He held the chick that had just emerged from the sea and looked at the cardboard box in the corner. In the cardboard box, a plump maggot was sleeping soundly.
This is Little Red, a descendant of Queen Red Branch.
Compared to the size of a fist at the beginning, it has now grown to be as thick as an adult's arm, and its body has a strong spiritual aura.
However, it is still a larva and needs to pupate before it can mature.
"Little Red is a bit stupid, Duke, he might be a fool." The chicken suddenly said something without any clue.
"Why do you think so?"
"I've seen many little bugs like this in the nest of red branches. They can communicate with me using the pheromones you mentioned, but Xiaohong can't. It's just a fool. No matter how I call it, it doesn't respond."
The chick was hatched by ants, so it is born with the ability to communicate with ants using pheromones.
"Maybe it's because it's still young and not yet old enough to communicate," Duke said.
"Maybe..." Xiaoji was noncommittal, "Anyway, I feel that Xiaohong is useless and a dumb fool who can't speak. It's really boring." "
Whether it's interesting or not, she is your goddaughter."
"It's boring!"
Xiaoji Yawning, he plunged into Duke's aura, which rarely came out except for eating some spiritual crystals.
The prosperity of the human world has no attraction for it at all. Once the curiosity is over, all that is left is yawning.
"Jiji!" Xiao Dou came over again, seeking blood refining.
Duke was too lazy to practice by himself and directly ordered Xiao Yi: "Add a new process, "Universal Blood Refining Method"." "
Okay master, I have added it for you..." Xiao Yi quickly took over the blood sea and started unshakable blood refining every day. Law.
Kabuto also yawned and lay down on the table to sleep.
But only halfway through the blood refining, Duke raised his eyebrows and laughed out loud.
He directly interrupted the blood refining method, dropped his sleeping bag, and quickly ran up to the large terrace on the third floor: "After four months of hard work, it is finally completed at this moment!" Then a thought came to him
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A luminous shield transformed from psychic energy quickly appeared in front of him - a 1-level arcane magic shield!
It was already night, and the arcane shield was like a crystal, floating quietly in front of Duke, with mysterious lines looming.
It looks like it can be broken by a bomb, but it is actually indestructible.
This is the miracle of the arcane shield he just built. After more than four months of continuous construction day and night, he can finally cast arcane magic instantly.
"Sir!" Vivian rushed over quickly.
She was alerted by Duke's laughter and came to see what was going on. When she arrived, she saw the crystal shield suspended in front of Duke.
White light, transparent, about the height of a person, it can cover Duke's whole body.
"Congratulations, sir!" Vivian immediately recognized this as a level 1 arcane-arcane shield, and instantly understood, "Successfully built an arcane wonder!" "Correct answer!"
Duke
snapped his fingers, and the arcane shield in front of him The shield immediately dispersed.
But the next second, another arcane shield appeared on the right side of his body. The speed was so fast that it was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, and it could be called instantaneous.
"Come on, Vivian, attack it!" Duke stood with his hands behind his back.
Vivian did not refuse, and drew out the sword she carried with her. With her fighting spirit circulating, she used the "Swift Sword Technique" and struck the arcane shield heavily.
Bang!
The sound was loud, but there was just a crack on the crystal-like surface of the arcane shield.
"It's very hard, sir. I can't break it." Vivian took back the sword, feeling a little disappointed. So what if the 1st level knight was facing an arcane mage and couldn't even break through the defense.
Duke dispersed the arcane shield and continued to order: "Come, attack me!"
Vivian responded: "Sir, be careful."
"Don't worry, I will hide when necessary." Duke smiled lightly.
"Swift Sword Technique" was used again, cyan fighting energy spurted on the long sword, and Vivian had stabbed Duke's heart.
But when the fighting spirit sword light was about to reach Duke, an arcane shield appeared in front of him without Duke taking the initiative to release it.
Bang!
The sword light dissipated, the sword blade rebounded, and the arcane shield cracked a little.
Vivian did not stop, but turned around, behind Duke, and slashed at Duke's neck with another sword emitting cyan light.
When the sword light came close to his neck, the arcane shield in front of Duke disappeared instantly.
An arcane shield instantly appeared behind him, blocking Vivian's sneak attack. There was no other damage except for a little crack.
"Huh!" He attacked three times in a row, but failed to break through the defense.
Vivian sighed helplessly.
Unless the arcane shield can be shattered with one blow, Duke can instantly cast the arcane shield without limit, blocking all sneak attack spaces.
The spirituality involved in the arcane wonders is extraordinary. Without Duke's deliberate guidance, the arcane shield can sense danger anytime and anywhere, and then instantly protect the body. This is the real basis for the arcane mage to rule the vast land of the Seven Towers Federation.
In frontal combat, it is an invincible arcane turret.
In the face of sneak attacks, you can still cast arcane defense instantly, making you invincible.
"The arcane wonder has been completed, and your strength has already impressed me." Vivian put away her sword and stepped aside.
"Although the arcane shield is good, it also has flaws." Duke was able to face up to his shortcomings. "First of all, the defense is not comprehensive enough. If it is attacked from two sides, it will be difficult to defend at the same time. Secondly, if the attack power is too strong, it can directly break the arcane shield... "
Touching his chin, Duke pondered: "If I can directly break the arcane shield, I will die regardless of the defense I use." "
Sir, there are many spiritual beasts that can break the arcane shield, but if you want to break it by sneak attack, Arcane shield, but no spiritual beast can do it."
"It seems to be true. Spiritual beasts that can hurt people by sneak attacks cannot break arcane shields. Those who can break arcane shields don't need sneak attacks..." At
this point, Duke laughed again.
The sense of security has been improved again. Now he doesn't have to be afraid even if he goes camping in the wild. No one can stab him easily.
"Sir, what makes you so happy?" Butler Morris came over.
"You're here just in time, Butler Morris. Let me go to the wine cellar to get a bottle of old red wine. Let's have a drink with me tonight." "
As you wish, sir." Morris was about to turn around.
Duke added: "Bring two bottles of red wine, Vivian and Mulali will also drink some, and get some strong liquor to share with the others."
...
It was quiet at night.
After taking a shower, Duke sat cross-legged on the big bed in the bedroom, only lighting a small lamp on the bedside.
Close your eyes and look inside the spiritual sea. On the first orbit of the ring system, a ring of sand eagles and arcane shields are slowly moving.
Duke looked beyond the first ring of orbit and towards the inner spiritual core.
Originally, the spiritual core was absolutely round. When he successfully released the 1st level arcane spell - Mage's Hand, a bulge condensed on it. Now, a bulge condensed on it again.
This bulge represents a major understanding of his spiritual arcana. When this major cognition continues to increase, it means that the spiritual core is promoted from level 1 to level 2. Eventually, these bulges will form each energy line of the ring. Corner until the second loop is nested.
"Everything you know about the world and the spiritual arcana will be reflected on the ring!" Duke looked at his ring, feeling a sense of accomplishment.
But he soon suppressed his distracting thoughts and looked at the first orbit seriously.
"It's time to build a new arcane wonder!"
Without thinking about it, he had already chosen his second arcane wonder - Illusion a long time ago.
Illusion is the arcane spell with the most complex spell model among level 1 arcana spells.
There is no attack power or defense power. This is a simple auxiliary type of arcana that can release an illusion around the caster, thereby changing the surrounding light and shadow layout, deceiving the five senses of the outside world, and even deceiving spirituality.
"The 1st level illusion card is the favorite arcane card of mercenaries, and it is the best way to disguise hunting!" You
can use illusion to cover yourself when ambushing spiritual beasts, and you can also use illusion to cover yourself when avoiding spiritual beasts. If necessary, this It's a life-saving trump card.
"Ordinary arcane mages don't really like to build illusions and arcane wonders. Gein needs to make room to build defensive arcana and offensive arcane spells, but I am different. I don't need to attack arcane spells... Sand Eagle is my best Attack arcana."
Below level 3, any arcane attack is inferior to Sand Eagle's continuous fire attack.
Therefore, Duke did not need to consider any attacking arcana. Illusion, an auxiliary arcana with special effects, became his choice.
"Xiao Yi, add a new process to build an illusion and arcane wonder."
"Okay master, I have added a new process for you." Xiao Yi responded quickly, "Process two, illusion and wonder, the building consumes 60% of the power. The current construction progress 0.0%, time budget is 246 days."
The construction speed of arcane wonders is limited by the meditation method and the spiritual sea itself, and cannot be faster.
"Well, 246 days is a bit long, but I don't care. These are all the time I earned." Duke was in a good mood.
Other arcane mages need to work hard to build arcane wonders, and it takes one or two years to build an arcane wonder.
The lifespan that is extended is basically used to build arcane wonders.
Duke handed over the arcane wonders to Xiao Yi to build, without consuming his own time. A few years of life extension would be a few years in vain - being promoted to an arcane mage can extend his life. A level 1 arcane mage can generally live to one hundred and two years, while ordinary people are about You can live to be seventy or eighty years old.
"Phew!"
Duke opened his eyes, glanced at the starry sky outside the window, and silently sighed: "He has become stronger again!"
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