Chapter 187: Sudden Changes in Cuihai Valley (Three-in-One)
Felibelle handed over a document with the patterns of three knight medals on it, as well as special symbols embedded inside.
The special symbols are three types of insects - gadfly, cantharis, and cockroach.
"This is... the exclusive knighthood medal required by the future Bernoulli family knights, right?" Duke saw the three kinds of bugs and knew who they were designed for.
Philiber did not deny: "That's it. The research content is to embed three patterns into three knight medals respectively, and to formulate the operation process of embedding patterns so that the card repairmen can modify the medals in the future." After finishing speaking
, , and waited quietly for Duke's reply.
The arcane mage has a special identity certificate - a spell card, which contains all the information about the arcane mage.
The green magic spirit card represents the spiritual apprentice, the blue magic spirit card represents the arcane mage, and the purple magic spirit card represents the great arcane mage.
Knights and spiritual envoys also have corresponding identification certificates.
The knight uses a medal, which is a special form of the spirit card, and is still essentially a spirit card; the spirit planter uses a ribbon, which is also a special form of the spirit card.
Medals and ribbons are both spiritual cards, so they naturally require the help of a card maker to make them.
"Medals and ribbons are variations of magic cards. It is not difficult for me to transform a magic card and develop a process that is convenient for the card maker. But Director Philiber, I am just a novice card maker. Why? You want to give me this project?"
Duke didn't quite understand. It felt like he was giving me the project on purpose, which was too good for him.
Philiber smiled and explained: "Because the income is not high...for this design job, novice card makers are usually hired, and you are the latest novice, so...originally I planned to ask Shanfeis to take over. "Yes, but he hasn't successfully made a card yet..." After
saying this, Duke understood.
Knights and spiritual envoys, as branches of spiritual arcana, are part of extraordinary power, and naturally need to record their identities.
There are specialized agencies responsible for both, and they will eventually be stored in the Magical Spirit Tower.
Medals and ribbons were also provided by the Magic Spirit Tower. However, when Master Bernoulli was preparing to establish a family, he needed to customize medals and ribbons with unified symbols for the family's vassals, so he approached the Magic Spirit Tower and requested a unified design.
Naturally, Faling Tower is not willing to pay a high price for such a trivial matter.
They selected partners among novice card makers to work with and conducted transactions in a project-based manner, which not only helped the card makers practice their skills, but also saved money.
"I'll take it, Mr. Director." Duke understood clearly and said, "By the way, don't the Bernoulli family want to design a ribbon?" "No,
Bernoulli is a Gu control scholar, and the family will definitely do the same in the future. The main purpose is to tame Gu insects, which requires a large number of Gu knights as vassals, so we designed an exclusive knight medal... There should be no special needs for spiritual planters." "Understood, this is a
medal designed for Gu knights."
Gu knights He is also a knight, but his contracted spirit beast partners are some artificially domesticated spirit insect females to control the insect swarm.
Bernoulli is a fourth-level arcane mage. The family he established must be huge, and there will be a large number of Gu knights as vassals.
After accepting the project, Duke will study it carefully.
There is no need to write a paper on this kind of subject, but you can make money directly after the results are produced. The price given by the Magic Spirit Tower is 120 gold dragons, which is equivalent to the price of a 2-ring arcane card.
"It's really cheap, but it's better than nothing." Today's Duke is no longer sensitive to the golden dragon.
He thought that he would worry about 23 Silver Dragons for several days, but now he gets a large amount of Gold Dragons every year, so he no longer has to worry about money.
The consulting fee for the Shenjiao City Hotel is 1,500 gold dragons a year; the dividends from Youshi Clothing Company's shares are worth thousands of gold dragons a year; the dividends from black snake spirit gold factory's dry shares are worth hundreds of gold dragons a year; Duke James The farm can also provide a lot of income later on.
I used to work on projects at Master Penrose Tower and resell some spiritual materials, and I also made a lot of money.
Hunting with the Broken Sword mercenary group, the spirit beasts you hunt can also sell a lot of golden dragons, in short, you will never be short of money again.
After leaving the director's office, Duke did not leave Faling Tower.
Instead, he went to the card department and asked for a few blank knight medals and spiritual plant ribbons, and looked at them carefully for a while.
"Xiao Yi, do you remember?"
"The internal spell model structures of the Green Knight Medal, the Green Knight Medal with Blue Stripes, and the Blue Knight Medal have been recorded, and the green ribbon, green background blue-edged ribbon, and blue ribbon internal spell models have been recorded. The record, the structure of the medal and the ribbon have also been memorized."
"Very good!"
Duke returned the medal and ribbon to the Card Department, and then prepared to leave the Magic Spirit Tower.
While leaving, he ordered Xiaoyi: "Add a new process to embed the three spirit insect patterns on the file I just looked at into the Knight Medal, and organize the embedding steps into steps that a card maker can operate. ..."
"Good master, I have added a new process for you." Xiaoyi responded quickly, "Process 4: Knight Medal Integration, R&D consumes 22.5% power..." "Reducing the R&D power of
Sand Eagle 1.5 special effect bullet version, Increase the power consumption of process four to 32.5%."
"Good master, the adjustment has been successful."
The meditation method and the construction of illusion arcane wonders take up most of the power, so the power that can be allocated to the process with the added subject is not much.
We can only reduce the research and development power of the Sand Eagle 1.5 special effects bullet version first.
Taking a look at the progress chart, which showed the development progress of Sand Eagle 1.5 Bullet Special Effects Edition, Duke shook his head. The progress was less than one-third.
The development of this special effect bullet is more difficult than previous versions.
"And to be precise, this can only be regarded as the Sand Eagle 1.51 bullet special effects - physical version. It is relatively difficult to develop hollow bullets, shotguns, and armor-piercing bullets for the bullet itself. Wait until the Sand Eagle 1.52 bullet special effects - elemental version will be the real big one Challenge."
Sand Eagle 1.51 Bullet Special Effects - Physical Version, Sand Eagle still belongs to the category of firearms.
When the Sand Eagle 1.52 Bullet Special Effects - Elemental Edition is released, the Sand Eagle will truly become an arcane weapon, releasing arcane powers such as thunder, fire, freezing, venom, etc.
"Slow down, just slow down, it's very safe now, don't worry." Duke thought.
...
Regarding the design of the knight's medal, Xiaoyi only spent a day and a night before formulating a detailed plan.
Duke used a 1-ring slide card to record this plan.
The slide card is a common civilian card. Like the spirit storage card, it has rings from 1 to 3. Its function is to record and play back images.
To Duke, this is an alien version of television.
Since the invention of the slide card, the entertainment industry has rapidly emerged, and national singers and photo idols have quickly become popular throughout the federation.
However, the slide card has a huge flaw, that is, it cannot record coherent images. It can only play pictures like a slideshow and play sounds like a tape.
This also led to the fact that movies, television and other entertainment were never born in the Seven Towers Federation.
"In the final analysis, the capacity of the slide card is insufficient, and the picture playback cannot be consistent. Even a three-ring slide card cannot achieve the number of frames that meets the viewing needs." Duke checked the recorded content of the one-ring slide card in his hand.
He learned when he was on Earth that when the frame rate of the picture seen by the human eye exceeds 10-12 frames per second, it will be considered coherent.
However, to achieve movie-viewing-level effects, at least 24 frames per second must be met.
"The frame rate of the slide card is too low and the capacity is even lower... If I overcome the technical problems and develop movie cards, TV cards, and music cards based on the slide card, I will probably not be able to claim the title of Card Making Sage!" Duke began to think again.
With the knowledge of the earth, Duke has too many things he wants to achieve in this world.
Suddenly.
A flash of inspiration flashed through his mind, and Duke's eyes suddenly shone: "Why do I always stare at a single spiritual card? The capacity and frame number of a slide card are too low, and it can only be used as a store sign or poster. If Countless slide cards combined?"
Thinking of this, he suddenly became enlightened.
The arcane mages of the Seven Towers Federation are extremely smart, but they are limited by their own cognition - they always want to make a big splash on a spirit card, and believe that their skills can play countless tricks on a spirit card. .
But the upper limit of a spirit card is too low.
Even if it is upgraded to a 3-ring slideshow card, its small capacity may not be enough to play a video, and it cannot do many tricks.
"A 1-ring slide card stores several pictures, and then countless 1-ring slide cards are connected in series through a machine to play the images intermittently to reach a speed of more than 24 frames. Wouldn't it be possible to play real videos?"
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. Duke couldn't help it anymore: "This is a promising idea!"
The next moment, he made a decision: "From now on, I will specialize in slide cards! Once I understand the slide cards, I will I started to invent movies... No, it should be called Spirit Shadow or Phantom... It doesn't seem appropriate, so let's call it film and television!" When
TV and movies are put together, they are called film and television.
"Open cinemas, make movies and TV shows, cultivate stars... I want to be an entertainment industry oligarch in the Seven Towers Federation and even the world!"
The dream is grand, but it is not difficult to realize.
Duke knew that what he needed to do now was to lay a solid foundation, first invent the video card or video card machine, and then register the patent before discussing the follow-up.
So he applied for a batch of blank spiritual cards from the Spiritual Materials Department of Master Penrose Tower and began to focus on learning to make slide cards.
With Xiaoyi following up at all times and having complete experience in making soul storage cards, the progress of the slide card production went smoothly.
In less than five days, Duke successfully produced his first slide card.
At the same time, he also went to the Faling Tower and handed over the previously designed Knight Medal plan to Philiber.
"The design was completed so quickly?" Felibelle was a little surprised as she held the 1-ring slide card with the plan. "It only took six days, and the time I gave you was one month." "The difficulty is not that big, so it's
not It will take too long." Duke responded with a smile, and then received the funding of 120 gold dragons.
Philiber sighed: "I believe now that you have made the right choice, and that you will make outstanding achievements in the field of card making. It is a pity that Lord Suktara has to find another arcane mage who can inherit what she has learned. "
Suktara-sama will find it."
"Let's not talk about it anymore. You have proved your talent. I still have several projects in hand that I can cooperate with you."
Felibelle decided to investigate Duke. Invest and provide Duke with priority on the topics at hand.
However, Duke refused with a smile: "Sorry, Director Filibre, I feel that my foundation is not solid enough. I am not ready to take on any more projects outside the tower at this stage. I want to focus on studying for a while." "Really
, Then after you finish your studies, we can cooperate again." Felibelle did not force it.
On the contrary, I admire Duke's performance.
If you are an arcane mage who only cares about making money through research, you will not be able to go far in the research field. Only by knowing how to make choices and making up for your own shortcomings can you have better development prospects.
"Hi, Duke."
As soon as he arrived at the stairway and waited for the stairway, he heard someone saying hello.
Duke looked back and saw that it was Joanna Bobcat, and asked curiously: "Joanna, why are you here?" "
I work in Faling Tower, so of course I will be here. What I am curious about is you, why are you here?" We're in the Faling Tower, do you have anything to do with Director Felibelle?" Joanna asked, this floor is Director Felibelle's office.
"I have completed a research project and need to hand it over to Director Philiber."
"No!" Joanna exclaimed, "Are you able to take over research projects from outside now? This progress is too fast."
" Don't be so surprised, it's just a very simple content." "
That's pretty awesome. I've been promoted to arcanist for several years and haven't even written a paper... Come to my office and talk." "
You're an arcanist. , I am an arcane scholar, this is different." Duke said.
"There is no difference. Arcanists can also get the title of scholar, but I inherited my father's will, so I have no interest in academic research. I prefer war. You know, I have been in Cuihai Valley during this time. Join the war."
"Are you joining the war in Cuihai Valley?"
"Of course, Bernoulli's Wizard Tower has mobilized an army of bugs. We have to compete with them for resources, otherwise those bugs will eat everything." Joanna said, sighing again He took a breath and said, "It's a pity that they wanted to hunt the Black Jade Scorpion King. My father sent me back." "
He did it for your safety."
The Black Jade Scorpion King is a 7-ring spirit beast, and its life level has been transformed. Although it is a great arcane mage, it is a huge threat to ordinary arcane mages.
"I understand, so I came back obediently, but there will always be regrets, right... But you know, I personally participated in killing a 5-ring black jade scorpion, and my arcane magic hit the black jade scorpion. It's like being tickled, it's so exciting!"
"I don't know what it feels like. The strongest spiritual beast I have ever faced was just a 3-ring swamp crocodile." Duke laughed.
But in her heart, she thought of Xiao Hong, who was raised in her villa.
Xiaohong is of the bloodline of the 5-ring burrowing army ants. When mature, she will have a powerful ant colony and will not be much weaker than the Black Jade Scorpion.
"So, I really want to face the 7-ring Black Jade Scorpion King directly."
As Joanna was talking, her assistant knocked on the door and came in: "Sir, there is an urgent letter from Snakehead Town, concerning your father, Lord Jovis!"
"What happened to my father?" Joanna took the letter and quickly opened it and read it.
Duke saw the change in her expression and couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong?"
Joanna looked serious. After putting down the letter, she took a deep breath and said: "A terrifying giant insect appeared in Cuihai Valley, suspected to be the 9th Ring. Bernoulli, E. Irvine and Williams, the three arcane earth mages, had their projection ring broken and my father was seriously injured!" "
Nine rings!" Duke was startled and asked quickly, "Master Jovis, are they safe now? ?”
"We have returned to Snake Head Town. The nine-ringed giant insect was diverted by the airship. I don't know what happened next. My father didn't write it." "Don't be nervous, Joanna. Mr. Jovis
will be fine."
"No, I have to go home and wait for my father..." Joanna was very panicked, as the 9-ring spirit beast was already the ceiling for spirit beasts.
Spiritual beasts of this level are often called Yalongs.
Humans have not seen anything with 10 rings, and it is only mentioned in legends. The 10-ring spirit beast is called a dragon - it is not the same species as the dragon that evolved from the phantom beast. The dragon is the evolution of the phantom beast, and the dragon is the legendary beast. There is a huge gap between the two.
The 9-ring spiritual beast next to the dragon is the sub-dragon. It is said that the life level of the sub-dragon will transform into the legendary dragon.
Therefore, Yalong often has great magical powers.
Joanna hurried back, and Duke also left the Faling Tower.
After getting into the Tiger car and looking at Mulali humming softly beside him, he felt a little worried, wondering what was going on in Sheshou Town.
"9th ring spirit beast, Yalong!"
"Back then, the 7th ring Black Jade Scorpion King almost destroyed the Snakehead Town... I never expected that there was a Yalong hidden in Cuihai Valley!" Everyone
thought that 7 The Ring Spirit Beast - Black Jade Scorpion King, is the ruler of Cuihai Valley.
"I hope this dragon will not invade Sheshou Town." Many of Duke's acquaintances live in Sheshou Town, as well as Mulali's family. "It is only a medium-sized spiritual spring. It not only contains ancient spirits, but also grows Two tree kings, and now there is a dragon..."
Thinking about the shells shed by ancient evil things under Well No. 3, this Cuihai Valley seems to hide a big secret.
Duke didn't tell Mulali about the situation in Cuihai Valley, fearing that she would worry.
Go straight to Penrose Mage Tower, continue to study the slide cards, and wait patiently for the latest news from Cuihai Valley.
However, before he could study the slide card for a while, he heard a piercing alarm sound that echoed throughout the mage tower.
Buzz!
Buzz!
Buzz!
"What's going on?" Duke rushed out of the office.
I happened to see Shanfeis running out of the office, with his hair in a mess and looking around inexplicably.
Stimulated by Duke's learning of card making, Shanfeis basically stayed at home these days, studying card making all day long.
"Duke, what's going on? The mage tower is on fire?"
"I don't know."
Ding dong, the door of the spiritual staircase in the spiritual staircase room opened, and Assistant Leadman came over with several knights: "The spiritual beasts are invading, everyone follow me. Let me go downstairs to the castle together, ready to fight against the spirit beasts at any time!"
"Invasion of spirit beasts, what?" Shanfeis scratched the chicken coop's hair, "This is Shenjiao City, Assistant Lidman, are you kidding me? Lidman
looked at Shanfeisi coldly: "I never joke."
Duke patted Shanfeisi on the shoulder: "It may really be an invasion of spiritual beasts. I have received news before, over there in Cuihai Valley Something unexpected happened."
"Cuihai Valley?" Shanfeisi was stunned, "It's a forbidden area... I understand!"
The matter of the forbidden area has been sealed by a contract, and Shanfeisi couldn't tell it, but it was obvious that he believed that this Invasions of spirit beasts are related to forbidden areas.
The group hurried downstairs, joined several other arcane mages, and climbed onto the wall of the castle.
The piercing buzzing sirens have resounded throughout Shenjiao City, and Duke and others also saw the forest to the west. It seemed that there was a large army passing by, and the whole thing began to tremble.
The birds were frightened and flew away, then seemed to be preyed on by something.
Duke quickly jumped up to a sentry tower on the outer wall of the castle. With a slight movement of his right hand, the Sand Eagle pistol materialized in his hand.
He raised the pistol and looked through the scope.
From the mirror, I saw what was happening in the distance. It was countless spiritual insects hunting birds and rushing towards Shenjiao City.
"No, Ji Yulu!" Duke suddenly thought.
So he hurriedly jumped down from the sentry tower and said to the two guides Lidman and Vikas: "I have to go to my farm!" "
Drive my shuttle and go back as quickly as possible!" Vika Assistant Si knew about Duke's farm, "If you can't save anyone, don't risk your life blindly!" "
I know!"
Duke didn't take anyone with him, he directly drove the shuttle of Assistant Vikas and rushed forward like lightning. Heading towards Duke James Farm, he rushed to the greenhouse in the center of the farm before the spirit insect army arrived.
Got off the shuttle.
Then he saw James digging for Ji Yulu.
"James, there's no need to dig." Duke interrupted James, calmed down his breath, and then quickly used breath resonance to draw Ji Yulu into the sea of qi.
"Sir, you are here!" James was overjoyed. "I heard the siren and rushed to protect Ji Yulu. This is the hope of the farm!" "Well done." Duke was very pleased that James could
protect Ji Yulu as soon as possible. Yulu, "Let's go, get on the shuttle, the insect wave has invaded."
Others on the farm didn't know what was going on, and some were still packing things.
While driving the shuttle, Duke shouted loudly: "Everyone hide, the insect tide is invading!"
"Where to hide, ah, where to hide..." An aunt was carrying a bucket and was at a loss. The farm was in the suburbs. , except for a few rows of staff dormitories, there was no place to hide.
Shenjiao City has been established for hundreds of years and has never experienced an insect invasion.
"Sir, leave them alone and leave quickly." James urged from the side. He didn't care at all about the life and death of ordinary people.
Duke frowned.
Looking to the west, the flying spirit bugs were about to arrive at the farm. Looking in other directions, an airship had already taken off.
Especially at Penrose Wizard Tower, the knight escorts have rushed out of the castle and started to rescue ordinary people.
"Flee toward Wizard Penrose's Tower, hurry up!" Duke shouted loudly.
Then he said to James: "It's your turn to drive the shuttle. I let you drive it and then you drive it. Now wait here." "
Sir, we have to escape..."
"Shut up."
Duke held the sand eagle in his hand. Looking at the western sky, raising your hand is a shot.
In the distant sky, a fast-flying spirit insect was shot in the head and fell downwards in a parabola.
As he kept firing, the spirit insects that rushed to the farm were being killed one after another like rain.
James next to him was dumbfounded. He only saw Duke holding a small silver-black thing, his fingers moving constantly, and there was no other movement at all. There was no arcane mage bombarding him with arcane spells. Fried style.
But he could see the spiritual insects in the sky ahead falling one after another.
His eyesight was good and he could see very clearly. Several spiritual insects that flew very fast and very close exploded into a ball of blood.
"Arcana, this is an arcane!" James shouted in his heart.
Then he shouted loudly: "Sir, the farm workers have run out, let's retreat too, there are too many bugs!" "Drive slowly
, protect the workers and join the Knight Guards." Duke had calmed down, and now he is None of the low-level spiritual insects could survive a round of bullets from the Sand Eagle Gun.
Shooting is just like a lawn mowing game.
The shuttle started slowly and silently followed the fleeing workers. Duke sat in the passenger seat, stretched out the window with one hand and fired continuously into the sky.
The subtle pop-pop sound of gunfire was lighter than the sound of the wind.
With Duke's protection, not a single spiritual insect on the farm could attack the fleeing workers, and within a short time, they were able to survive the arrival of the Knight Guards.
Seeing that the workers were protected, Duke continued to shoot, but just told James: "Go to the castle." "
Yes, sir!"
The shuttle was extremely fast and entered the castle in a flash.
Duke put away his Sand Eagle pistol, stepped onto the city wall, and joined the Arcane mages. At this time, many arcane spells have been released on the city wall, bombarding the insect swarm in front of them.
"You go and guard the middle part of the city wall." Assistant Lidman ordered.
Duke nodded and headed to the middle part of the city wall. Instead of shooting with the Sand Eagle pistol, he began to release the arcane spell of the Mage's Hand.
boom!
The huge shining hands gathered together and grabbed a few spiritual insects in front. With a gentle grip, the spiritual insects were crushed into rotten flesh.
The castle of Penrose Mage Tower, with the support of several arcane mages, is like a copper wall and an iron wall, blocking the invading insect tide from the outside.
While Duke was skillfully casting spells, the mage's hands struck up and down, left and right.
While looking around.
Many airships appeared in the sky, all coming from other directions in Shenjiao City. A large number of arcane spells poured out from the airships, bombing the ground, and combined with the mage tower castle, they formed a joint air-ground arcane fort.
There are also groups of knight escorts interspersed in the suburban lanes, forming a mobile defense line.
The mercenary group also joined in, following behind the knight escort, excitedly hunting every spiritual insect that slipped through the net.
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