Chapter 299 Nightmare
"Kabuto, merge!"
After feeling the new colloidal fighting spirit of the 3-ring fantasy beast knight, Duke called Kabuto to merge again, and in an instant, a set of shiny black spiked armor was draped on his body.
From head to toe, no part was exposed, and even a pair of eyes were covered by a mask, leaving only two narrow transparent light films for seeing.
The Wasp Sword is in his hand, longer and thicker than before, and it also extends a little at the tail and is integrated with the armor on his hand.
It does not hinder the performance of various fighting spirit martial arts, but also ensures that the Wasp Sword will not be lost.
The colloidal Dou Qi spurts out, and the Dou Qi armor keeps changing along with the Dou Qi spurt, extending or shrinking, condensing spikes or gathering together into a knife.
Promoted from level 2 to level 3, Kabuto's transformed spiked armor became more and more agile, echoing Duke's every move.
This is a set of dynamic spiked armor that can breathe.
Duke lowered his head and glanced at the chest of the spiked armor. Under the shiny black luster, only he could see that there was a mark with a three-ring structure inside a circle. It was the mark of the knight's contract. From this mark, Duke can receive feedback.
That's about the new power that the spiked armor can unleash after being combined.
"Spiked field!"
Duke roared, fighting energy continued to pour into the spiked armor. In an instant, the spiked armor seemed to be burned red, emitting a black and red light.
Then the spikes poured out and shot out in all directions like a heavy rain. A small courtyard for martial arts training was plowed three feet by spikes. The walls and ground were all filled with bullet holes left by the spikes, but there were no spikes left behind.
The spikes shot out by the spiked armor are just imitations of fighting spirit.
"It's very fierce. It's about the same as being bombarded by a second-level arcane spell." Looking at the dilapidated martial arts training courtyard, Duke silently weighed it in his mind.
There are some skills that do not distinguish between friend and foe, so you need to pay attention to the situation when using them.
"Judging from the strength classification standard of arcane mage, the strength of the 3rd level advanced phantom beast knight can barely keep up with the pace of the 3rd level arcane mage after the combination. After the union is released, the 3rd level advanced phantom beast knight can only barely keep up. Higher than the 2nd level arcane mage."
Taken together.
The strength of a 3rd-level advanced fantasy beast knight is between a 3rd-level arcane mage and a 2nd-level arcane mage, and can be roughly judged to be at a 2.5-level level.
certainly.
There are too few Eudemons Knights, and there are even fewer high-level Eudemons Knights. They are even rarer than the Great Arcane Mage, and are rarely seen.
After undoing the combination and signaling Kabuto to rest, Duke himself returned to the tower to take a shower.
Naturally, the castle's service staff came to clean up the dilapidated small martial arts training yard to ensure that it would look brand new tomorrow and not delay Duke's next training session.
After taking a shower, Duke planned to sleep alone tonight without anyone to accompany him.
Sitting cross-legged on the bed, he started his daily evening classes that never stopped. He first looked inward at the sea of spirit and took a look at Xiaoyi's schedule.
Since being promoted to level 4 Arcane Earth Mage and having improved hardware, Xiaoyi's computing power has increased exponentially.
"Process One: Exclusive Meditation Method, Vision Resonance, Spiritual Boiling, and Projection Fountain. Hanging up consumes 3% of the power. Current Linghai Level, 4th Ring Earth Arcana Mage Scholar, estimated training progress is 1.11%, time budget is immeasurable." Hanging up
. The exclusive meditation method now only requires 3% of Xiaoyi's power.
In addition to the early buff blessing of Vision Resonance, there is also a new buff blessing of spiritual boiling, which doubles the speed of absorbing free spiritual particles from the outside world, and makes the spiritual particles more active after entering the spiritual sea.
In the past, it took a lot of energy to transport the spiritual particles in the spiritual sea and build arcane wonders.
Now it's a piece of cake.
It is precisely because the spiritual particles are as active as boiling that the Great Ao Mage will always dissipate the aura of spiritual particles to the outside world, forming an aura that oppresses others.
certainly.
The speed at which the exclusive meditation method absorbs spiritual particles is far greater than the speed at which spiritual particles escape from itself.
Even in places where the spiritual energy dries up, the boiling spiritual particles in the spiritual sea of the Great Arcana Master will bring projections from the real spiritual sea. Along with their own spiritual particles, they will escape outwards and then be absorbed back by the exclusive meditation method, thus maintaining a minimum level. consumption status.
This kind of state, which is like living on subsistence allowance, is the exclusive ability of the Great Ao Mage - the Fountain of Projection.
As long as you clear away the fog of spiritual arcana, you will have the ability of the fountain of projection, as if you have dug a super weak spiritual spring for yourself.
Even if the Great Ao Mage is in a desperate situation, he can rely on the Fountain of Projection to slowly accumulate spiritual energy to save himself.
"A great arcane mage who normally clears the fog of spiritual arcane magic should have a fountain of projection, but a great arcane mage who relies on the spiritual path to sneak across may not have a fountain of projection." Duke already understood why others would care about him. Take the road of consonance.
The lack of the projection spring does not seem to affect anything. After all, the Great Ao Mage rarely falls into desperate situations and there is always spiritual energy to absorb.
However, the lack of this ability will greatly restrict the future exploration of spiritual arcana.
"Process 2: Sand Eagle 2.4 Instant Kill Edition, research and development consumes 50% of the power. The current research and development progress is 56.72%, and the time budget is 15 days." On the process table, the progress has increased from one digit after the decimal point to two digits after the decimal point.
It represents that Xiaoyi’s prediction accuracy has been sublimated.
"Before the promotion, the budget for the instant kill version of Sand Eagle 2.4 took hundreds of days. After the promotion, Xiaoyi's power has been greatly improved. It only takes ten days to complete the research and development... It's really dozens of times faster. I The stronger Xiaoyi is, the stronger he will be!"
Duke was filled with emotion.
As for the instant kill version of Sand Eagle 2.4, it is his next plan for the second-ring Sand Eagle, which is to increase the bullet speed and achieve the effect of instant kill.
The current muzzle velocity of the second-ring Sand Eagle bullet is approximately one kilometer per second.
However, the range of the Second Ring Sand Eagle has reached several kilometers or even more than ten kilometers. In other words, to shoot a target ten kilometers away, the bullet needs to fly for more than ten seconds.
This speed is obviously too slow. By the time the bullet arrives, the target will probably be far away.
Therefore, he planned to speed up the bullet speed of the second-ring sand eagle and strive to reach the maximum value. No matter how far away he fired, he could hit the target within one second.
"Only in this way can we surprise and kill the opponent outside the sight range of the target." Duke wants to be a sniper. If he misses a hit, he will immediately flee thousands of miles away, coming and going without a trace, regardless of whether he can kill or not. Neither of them let the other party know of their existence.
He showed a smile: "When the Sand Eagle 2.4 instant-kill version is successfully developed, the Sand Eagle in my hand will be a sniper Gatling." The thought flashed
through his mind.
Duke has already looked at the follow-up of the process table: "Process Three: Arcane Weapon Armor, research and development consumes 46% power. The current research and development progress is 22.32%, and the time budget is 26 days. Process Four: Interactive Program, 1% power is reserved."
Not many processes have been opened, and several projects before the promotion are still maintained.
"The fourth ring of orbit has appeared, and now it is possible to build new arcane wonders and new arcane weapons... According to the original plan, when the Sand Eagle 2.4 instant kill version and the arcane armor are developed, it will be launched in the fourth ring Build a defensive arcane wonder on the ring orbit."
Take life-saving measures before slowly building the second and third ring orbits.
By the time evening classes were over, the night was already deep.
Duke was lying on the bed and his breathing gradually became longer, and he had already entered a beautiful dreamland. In the dim room, Xiao Dou was lying on a chair covered with blankets, and he also fell asleep with his arms stretched out. His schedule had already been Same with Duke.
At this moment, the moonlight outside the house shone in, and an ink-colored ice flower condensed on the originally reflective glass, as if it had been frozen.
Soon the ink-colored ice flowers began to spread, spreading from the glass to the entire window, and then spread from the window into the house, engulfing the tables, chairs, and benches, dyeing all the walls and furniture in the room with a thick layer of ink-colored ice flowers, all the way to the chair where Xiao Kabuto was sitting. .
"Hiss..." Before Xiao Kabuto could scream, he was completely engulfed by the ink-colored ice flowers and froze into an ink-colored ice sculpture.
Although he couldn't move or breathe, Kabuto's eyes could still move.
He watched in amazement as the ink-colored ice flowers spread all the way to the bed and towards Duke under the quilt.
Seeing that Duke was about to be engulfed by ink-colored ice flowers, an anxious and frightened look flashed through Xiao Kabuto's small eyes, but he couldn't make any sound.
I could only watch helplessly as the ink-colored ice flowers spread into the quilt.
However, the next moment, countless slender vines suddenly grew on Duke under the quilt, which actually resisted the spread of the ink-colored ice flowers.
Xiao Dou's eyes flashed with surprise.
Then they saw Duke standing up from the quilt, completely naked and wearing only a pair of boxers, but at this moment, his whole body was wrapped with shadowy rattan, covering him with a layer of clothes made of green leaves.
"The Sinking Demon!"
Duke didn't look panicked at all. The ink-colored ice flowers in the room revealed the strong aura of the Sinking Demon, which was a spiritual aura like decay.
The spirituality that should be fresh and fragrant seems to have been thrown into the toilet and marinated for hundreds of years. Every spiritual particle is stained with a disgusting stench, making people hate this smell from the depths of their souls, and combine it with all other people. associated with all kinds of filth.
A few years ago, he smelled this decadent spiritual aura on the fallen demon Miguel.
The 3-ring combination arcane-primordial armor was instantly put on his body. Duke held it in his right hand, and the second-ring sand eagle appeared in his hand.
Puff puff!
A series of shots were fired at the window.
The glass with ink-colored ice flowers spreading across it withstood the power of the armor-piercing bullet, leaving the window intact.
Then, as if being angered, the ink-colored ice flower quickly grew long and thin black hair, making the whole room seem to become some kind of demon's intestines, squirming to swallow up everything in the room.
"Nightmare!" In Duke's other hand, he held a moonlight cage jade pendant taken out from the exclusive starry sky, but it could not be broken. This allowed him to quickly judge his situation, "It is not the real world, but the fall. A nightmare created by demons!"
His heart was as calm as water, and he looked at the thicker and thicker black hair, swallowing the room smaller and smaller, and thought silently.
"There are two ways to attack the Sunken Demon. One is a real battle with real swords and guns in the real world. This is how the Sunken Demon Miguel attacked me last time; the other is to create a nightmare and break the ring of distortion in the nightmare. , thus making people fall!"
At this moment.
He was pulled into the nightmare, and it was obvious that the Sinking Demon wanted to swallow him up unconsciously and become one of them.
"Obviously the Sinking Demon can't attack me in reality, and instead pulls me to sink in the nightmare." Duke wanted to laugh, but held it back.
The wriggling black hair was about to swallow up the entire room. In the dark room, Duke could still see.
With the faint light emitted by the energy armor on his body, he could barely distinguish the shape of the object.
But what he relies on is not his own eyes, but the arcane weapon Tongtian that has been condensed by him. The arcane weapon Tongtian has countless sensing methods, so that everything around him cannot escape Duke's detection.
"It's time to work, Xiao Kabuto, don't pretend to be dead." He jumped up, stepped on the black hair on the floor under his feet, and touched towards Xiao Kabuto's stool.
The rattan and green leaves on his body turned into a pair of shoes, supporting him to walk on the black hair without being harmed by the black hair.
This is the power of the vine of protection and mystery.
"The nightmare corroded my spiritual sea. At this moment, the guardian vine of mystery finally comes in handy." Duke felt happy in his heart.
The Guardian and Mysterious Vine had no use at all before and could only protect the spiritual sea.
But Duke has always had smooth sailing, and no external evil has invaded his spiritual sea. Even when he was affected by divine evil, it did not affect his spiritual sea, but only shook his five senses. Therefore, the Vine of Guardian Mystery has never been used.
Now it finally works.
Poof!
Gunshots rang out, and the black hair on Xiao Kabuto's body was hit one after another by armor-piercing bullets, but there was no damage at all.
Duke frowned slightly, then thought of something, and directly switched the second-ring sand eagle to the special-effect bullet-element version, and bombarded Heimao again with elemental bullets.
At this moment, the black hair was finally shattered, and Kabuto jumped out unharmed: "Ho ho ho!"
Then he hit Duke and turned into a pool of dark liquid, condensing into a jet black and shiny spiked armor, covering Duke's body. Wrap it up and down.
At this moment, Duke had several layers of armor on his body.
The Spiked Armor is a layer of armor, the Energy Armor is a layer of armor, and the Guardian and Mysterious Vine is a layer of armor, but he is not satisfied yet.
"Oak Spirit, come out to work!"
"Okay, Lord Duke."
Oak Spirit flew out of the air sea, gently held Duke's extended finger in his mouth, and then turned into a pool of brown liquid. into Duke's body.
Pull, stretch.
Duke instantly entered the Avatar form, his height skyrocketed to three to four meters, and a pair of bat-like fleshy wings sprouted from his back.
The spiked armor pulled along with his figure, still firmly covering any part of his body.
The same is true for Yuan Neng Armor.
The arcane weapon Tongtian has been embedded in the spiked armor, and has differentiated into thousands of strands, constantly sensing all the information around it.
"In this way, the Avatar form, the guardian secret vine, the spiked armor, the energy armor, and the arcane weapon reach the sky, which is a total of five layers of armor. This feeling is really good. It makes me feel like facing the fallen demon directly, and It feels like you can blow it up with one punch."
Duke clenched his fist, feeling extremely safe in an instant.
He condensed the two-ring sand eagle in his left hand, and held the wasp sword in his right hand. Facing the increasingly turbulent black hair, he roared.
boom!
The second ring sand eagle fired, and countless elemental bullets were fired. There was no fixed target, so they shot wherever they pointed.
The spiked armor has transformed into a spiked realm, and the black thorns explode wildly, attacking up, down, left, right, and back without distinction. With endless fighting spirit, the attacks are endless.
Boom boom boom!
The black hair was poured out with such powerful firepower that it was rolled around, and the room that was originally swallowed up was vomited back bit by bit.
"You dare to attack me with this little strength?" Duke transformed into a humanoid turret. Under his powerful and continuous firepower output, the black hair was blown to pieces in a short time, turning into black smoke and dissipating, and then The whole room was restored to its original state.
The black hair completely disappeared, leaving only a few ink-colored ice flowers still hanging on the window of the room.
The entire room seemed to be indestructible, and the bombardment did not leave any traces in the room.
He held the Wasp Sword upside down and put his foot on the window. The window that could not be blown open by bombs was kicked open by him.
next moment.
He chased the ink-colored ice flowers extending out of the window and rushed out of the window. In an instant, the entire scenery changed.
There was no other room anywhere, and the place where he stood was the twisted ring in the center of the spiritual core.
Behind it is the portal of the Twisted Ring, which leads to the original intention of his protection. The Sinking Demon launches the nightmare attack in order to force Duke to open the portal, thereby getting involved in Duke's original intention, and twisting Duke into a new Sinking Demon.
He looked forward and saw that the ink-colored ice flowers had engulfed the entire spiritual sea and stretched their tentacles towards his spiritual core. At this moment, these tentacles were trying to shrink back.
Duke glanced down at himself.
Originally there were five layers of armor, but at this moment all the armor quietly disappeared, and he was just a thought looking inside the spiritual sea.
"In reality, I should still be lying on the bed soundly asleep, and so should Kabuto... But the fusion with Kabuto, and the fusion with the rubber spirit should also be real. It happened in the nightmare space. To me, Kabuto and Kabuto For the Oak Spirit, these are just dreams."
It can also be understood that everything before is a spiritual projection.
The Sinking Demon uses spirituality to create a mirror world, which is the nightmare space, and just pulls Duke, Kabuto, and Oak Spirit into it.
Without thinking any more, Duke's mind looked at the retreating ink-colored Binghua and smiled lightly: "Xiao Yi, I have already felt the nightmare attack. Next, I will leave it to you to clean up the battlefield. It is best to completely keep the Sinking Demon. "
Good master, as you wish." Xiao Yi's voice rose from all directions in the spiritual sea, "The location of the nightmare has been locked and is being captured." Xiao Yi
's voice did not fall.
The entire spiritual sea suddenly boiled, and countless meditation methods and mysterious visions of the tree king tore apart the ink-colored ice flowers directly in the surge.
In the blink of an eye, the ink-colored ice flowers that swallowed up the entire spiritual sea were swept away.
Only three small black spots remained in the spiritual sea, which were particularly conspicuous.
Gradually, these three little black spots turned into three fallen demons, with black smoke billowing from their bodies, white bones looming in the smoke, and will-o'-the-wisps flickering in the holes in their eyes.
"Three!" Duke was overjoyed, "Xiao Yi, you are awesome, you actually caught three fallen demons!"
Xiao Yi replied: "With the authorization of the master, Xiao Yi can control all the three fallen demons in the spiritual sea. After the invasion, Xiaoyi had locked onto their true bodies, mobilized the power of the spiritual sea, and locked them in place... However, according to Xiaoyi's analysis, these three fallen demons were just clones." "Clones?" Duke raised an eyebrow
. .
As early as when the Sinking Demon invaded Duke's spiritual sea and created a nightmare space with the help of spiritual projection, Xiaoyi had already noticed and reminded Duke.
After confirming that Xiaoyi could lock down the Sinking Demon, Duke signaled Xiaoyi to let him go and experience the nightmare attack in person.
In other words, everything in the nightmare space just now was caused by Duke's deliberate connivance.
"Nightmares, like arcane mages, have the ability to condense clones." Xiaoyi grabbed the three fallen demon clones.
This clone is not consistent with the shadow of the clone condensed by the arcane mage. It is more like a part cut off from the fallen demon.
"Rotten spiritual aura!" Duke frowned, "Control them, don't let them leak aura and pollute my spiritual sea... By the way, Xiaoyi, what do these three fallen demon clones have? What's the use?"
Xiao Yi responded: "Based on the owner's previous conversations with the eight Huiyue arcane instructors, Xiao Yi concluded that the effect of the Sinking Demon's clone can be captured as an extra ring orbital slot, similar to the second ring Sha Ying, Du Where are Ke Zhixing and Jiuhuan Xiaoyi."
"Well, I remember!" Duke nodded.
When he returned to the Seven Towers Federation from the Grand Duchy of Broken Ice, he personally received several Moonlight Cage Jade Pendants from the eight Huiyue Arcane Mentors.
And chatted with every Huiyue arcane instructor.
Especially after getting clear information about the Sinking Demon, I learned that the Sinking Demon can not only sneak attack in reality, but also create a nightmare space and break through the arcanist's twisted ring.
The nightmare space is equivalent to being under hypnosis. The arcane mage will unknowingly reveal his flaws, and then the fallen demon will take advantage of them and break through the ring of distortion. The seeds of the inner demon will be left in the ring of distortion. When the seeds sprout, they will lose their original intention. .
Thus he degenerated into a fallen demon.
"Before the sage Wuweiwu invented the Ring of Distortion, the arcane mage ancestors would accidentally lose their true intentions and degenerate into fallen demons... Although the Ring of Distortion is a great invention, no matter how safe the lock is, it can still be picked open. The risk."
Duke still remembered that the then Speaker of the Senate, Andrei Primrose, was rarely sober and warned him: "The nightmare is not difficult to deal with, but the difficult thing is to guard the door. As long as you guard the door and don't forget your original intention, the nightmare will be dealt with. There is nothing you can do, they are just a group of clowns who took advantage of the situation." "
When the nightmare is solved, the clone of the fallen demon will remain in the spiritual sea like a great tonic. The clone is an arcane weapon and arcane wonder with several rings. , Wouldn’t it be wonderful. Duke boy, all I can say is that if you encounter a nightmare, stay safe and wait for the rest to enjoy the big tonic!"
Andre Evening Primrose was talking and laughing. He laughed: "The stars are afraid that I will degenerate into a fallen demon, but I will never do it. My original intention is like the bright moon in the sky, and no one can change it..." Before he finished speaking
.
André Evening Primrose's eyes became unfocused and confused.
After coming back to his senses, Duke looked at the three fallen demons that were wrapped like rice dumplings by Xiao Yi with spiritual particles. He smiled slightly and said: "My original intention may not be stable, but with Xiao Yi protecting me, how can it be just a sinking demon?" The devil can capture it."
After a pause, he continued: "Moreover, most people only have a flaw in their twisting ring, which will lead the sinking demon to launch a nightmare. My twisting ring has no flaw, and the sinking demon insists on coming. This is not the case. Can you send me supplements?"
At this time.
Xiaoyi has analyzed the levels of the three Sinking Demon clones: "Master, one of the Sinking Demon clones is at level 6, and the other two are at level 5." "Hmm!" Duke touched it
. Chin, said happily, "That is to say, my fifth ring orbit has two more slots, and my sixth ring orbit has one more slot... This, I really want Sinking Mordor to attack me a few times, how many more slots will there be? Slot!"
Then he ordered: "Refining one of the 5-ring clones first, and after refining it, build the arcane wonder, the 5-ring compound arcane-bright gem." "Good master.
"
"In addition, on the second ring of orbit, build a 2-ring arcana - Stoneskin; on the third ring of orbit, build a 3-ring arcana - Grip of Thunder; on the fourth ring of orbit, build a 4-ring compound arcana - Earth of the Earth A. When you have time, you can refine the 6-ring clone and build an arcane wonder, the 6-ring composite arcana - the Grasp of the Meteor."
Duke laid out a series of work steps.
Then he showed an enthusiastic smile: "From level 1 to level 6, there is a whole set of arcane wonders, all of which can be linked together. It's wonderful!" Level
1 Arcane - Arcane Shield.
2nd level arcane - elemental shield.
3rd level arcane - elemental armor.
Among them, the linkage of the 1st and 2nd rings can form a 2-ring combination arcane-element arcane shield, and the linkage of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd rings can form a 3-ring combination arcana-element armor.
The arcane wonder that Duke is planning to build, the 4-ring composite arcana-Armor of the Earth, is formed from three arcane spell models: arcane shield, elemental shield and elemental armor, through a special nested combination of structures. A new arcane spell.
The 5-ring composite arcane spell - Brilliant Gem - is based on the spell models of these three basic arcana spells, and the spell model of the 2-ring arcane spell - Stoneskin is introduced, and then combined through special nesting.
The 6-ring composite arcana - Grip of the Meteor, is based on the spell models of the above four arcana spells, and introduces the 3-ring arcana - Grip of Thunder, and then undergoes complex reorganization.
"When all these arcane wonders are completed and linked from level 1 to level 6, I can combine them into a 7-level forbidden spell - Grasp of the Immortal!" Arcane wonders can be linked to each other, and forbidden spells are the superposition of several linked arcane spells. The more powerful arcana formed.
Loren Sankago's 6th level clone can cast forbidden spells, which means he has established a set of linked arcane wonders on his own.
Duke will do the same.
"And I have a lot of empty slots. Maybe I can build another attack-type forbidden magic wonder linkage system..."
(End of this chapter)