The first mate followed the captain's ass with a spear, and although the other party was only a woman, he still raised his spirit.

The captain took a step ahead of the first mate and approached the window.

The room was pitch black, and it was impossible to see what was going on with the naked eye, but the captain grinned, the other man was not armed at all, and a woman alone could not resist two strong men at the same time.

Considering that on the ship, there would be no accidents at all, the captain directly kicked open the rotten wooden door.

"Whoa!"

The night breeze seemed to stand still for a moment.

The captain who broke through the door saw a pair of golden pupils.

A sharp chirp suddenly sounded in the vast sea, and the sound and waves spread more than ten kilometers away, and even the sea surface produced layers of ripples.

The captain's fat body fell limply, blood spilling from his eyes, mouth and nose, and his chest slumped limply.

His internal organs had been shattered.

......

"You mean, he won't sell?" Rand grimaced, the mine purchase contract in front of him.

"No, sir. You misunderstood what I meant, it's not that he won't sell, it's that we can't afford it. Touron coughed, "The lord of Eagle City is an old miser, and the price is so high that if all our money is used to buy asphalt ore, we will have to deduct some from the weapons production line." ”

"The production line can't be stopped. Rand shook his head decisively, the weapons manufacturing factory is the main industry that the air crossing has long been on the right track, considering the quality and safety issues, it is absolutely impossible to embezzle funds from the factory, "How much does he ask? If I'm not mistaken, this kind of thing should be very cheap, right?"

"120,000 silver coins, not including miners and serfs, this old fellow saw that we had to run to Eagle City hundreds of miles away, and grasped our eagerness to buy the price, and if we bought the mine, we must buy it together with the serfs who mined. Touron licked his lips, "I've talked to the other party several times, but nothing has worked, this old guy doesn't eat hard and soft." ”

"Eagle City, it's the territory of the Sika Deer family," Rand frowned, "Their family should be my father's vassals, how can they be so faceless?"

"Well, you probably didn't know, but the lords of Eagle City have always been close to Lord Ron, so ......" Touron didn't continue.

No wonder the other party dared to be so tough, and even dared to knock on his own bamboo pole, it turned out to be a battle.

"Looks like I'm going to take it myself. Rand thought silently.

......

"Magic can be evolved. Snow was dressed in gray court robes and tapped the blackboard with a stick in a decent manner, "There is no doubt about it. ”

"Starting from level one, you can evolve several times. After each successful evolution, the mana will increase exponentially, and the ability to extend, such as my devouring ability, will be enhanced with a perceptual ability after evolution. Snow introduced: "The demon seed that has just completed the awakening will not change its pupils. Once it starts evolving, the color of the pupils will slowly change, and when the ability is used, the pupils will turn golden. The more powerful the magic, the more noticeable this change becomes. ”

"Is there an end to evolution?" asked Oak.

"So far, in all the known records of the continent, the highest level of evolution demon seed that has ever appeared is five times, and it is a flesh enhancement system. Snow opened the ancient book, "Even the Holy See was helpless against him, he alone was enough to face a cavalry company of five hundred people, but unfortunately, he failed in his sixth evolution, and the powerful magic dissipated, and even his own flesh collapsed with it." ”

"The consequences of evolutionary failure are severe. ”

"How can you judge whether you have reached the boundaries of evolution?"

"You can think of your body as a container, and the magic is in the water inside the container, and when the amount of water reaches the critical point of overflow, then you are close to evolution. Snow warned Orc: "The process of evolution is extremely dangerous, don't try it until you know for sure." ”

Snow glanced at Oak, naturally understanding what he was thinking, no one could easily resist the temptation of increasing his magic power several times, but thinking of the process of evolution and the almost meager success rate, Snow felt that it was better to be safe.

"Will it be painful?" Oak hesitated, then asked.

"Yes!" Snow said earnestly, pausing to unfasten his clothes, revealing a shockingly dented scar on his chest, "This is the mark of my first evolution, and it almost killed me. ”

Snow remembered that he had hidden in a cave with young Connor in his arms in order to escape the Holy See, and in desperation, he decided to take the risk and try to evolve.

As he tried to touch the threshold with his magic, an accident struck.

The intense, unbearable pain came like thunder, he felt the bones of his whole body rubbing against each other and spasmed, the great pain made him howl, he wanted to faint, but now his mind was clearer than ever, he could only rely on his own will to endure the pain.

After an unknown amount of time, when the sharp pain gradually wore off, Snow got up dazedly, and found that his pupils had turned pale gold.

There is only a fine line between success and failure.

He thought he could barely bear the pain, but at the thought of Connor, Snow gritted his teeth and persevered.

"If I were given another chance, I wouldn't try to evolve forcibly without preparation. It was a taste more terrifying than death. Snow gasped.

Perhaps feeling that his tone was too low, Snow smiled: "Of course, according to the different magic power of each person, the difficulty of evolution is also different, for example, the evolution of Connor's ability is very simple, the more powerful the magic, the more difficult it is to evolve, and the elemental ability, it is recognized as the most difficult to evolve." ”

"So that means that after the successful evolution of the elemental system, the increase is also the largest?" Oak asked suddenly.

"It can't be said that the degree of increase mainly depends on the amount of magic contained in your body, if you compare the contained magic power to a water source, some people are streams, some people are big rivers, some people are lakes, according to different capacities, the degree of increase will also be high and low. Snow seemed to suddenly remember something, and asked, "You can mobilize your magic power to look inside and observe the amount of your magic power." ”