The new Ember Demon Knife is not as long as it used to be.

Even the blade on the handle of the Ember Demon Knife was almost up to the tip of Levi's nose when it stood up, and it was okay to say it was a long knife, and it was no problem to say that it was that kind of horse chopping knife, the length was about the same as that of an ordinary two-handed broadsword.

When he did it, he didn't really want to. It's just that at that time, the technology was not exquisite enough, but too many materials were used, and I didn't want to give up, and I didn't have the level to further forge the blade, so I could only make a big long knife in the end.

And this time, with the improvement of the technical level, although a lot of materials were added, the length of the Ember Demon Knife did not increase but decreased.

The new Ember Demon Knife is almost one meter three, and its length has returned to its more normal appearance, which is longer than the average long knife, but it is not as bulky as the two-handed greatsword.

Relatively speaking, the new Ember Demon Knife made Levi feel more handy.

The long knife with a total length of one meter and three, with two hideous magic horns at the gauntlet, is entangled forward, and the whole shape is more domineering than the previous appearance of this knife.

In fact, in this forging, there are many places, and Levi still feels a little regretful.

The most concentrated point is that he did not use the power of Ebbs's pair of magic horns to the limit.

The level of the new Ember Demon Knife has probably reached the appearance of a lower-level artifact. But this is not the limit of this knife, there are some places, he obviously feels that he can actually do better when making it.

But after two failures, the third time his design was more conservative, and the production was also based on caution and consideration of the success rate, and many places did not achieve the extreme.

According to his estimation, if the power of the 'withering horn' is used better, the level of this knife should be able to reach the level of a mid-level artifact.

It's a bit of a pity. If he can get better materials in the future, or if the level of infinite alchemy is further improved, he may be able to make this knife better.

Regardless, however, this was the second artifact he had made with his own hands, and the third he now owned. The power of the new Ember Demon Knife and the effect of the special effects still made him feel very satisfied.

With two new artifacts in hand, his combat ability has soared.

The 'Shield of the Divine Volcano' provides quite excellent defensive capabilities, and it only needs to be injected with power to activate, and it can resist attacks of ordinary elemental skill levels without affecting his combat, which is already very satisfying.

And the upgrade of the Ember Demon Knife has once again increased the power of his damage output.

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Levi made his own god costume and stayed at home for two or three months. In the past two or three months, the situation outside has changed again.

In fact, immediately after the Battle of Jinyang Pass, the political situation in the kingdom became tense. The Norsman authorities preemptively struck ahead, and they maintained the usual tone of the past about Princess Yasha's trip to Jinyang Pass, claiming that Duke Jiang Yunliang had kidnapped Her Royal Highness the princess and plotted against her, and what happened in Jinyang Pass was an order from Her Majesty Queen Main to rescue the princess, but it failed.

And on the Jinyang Pass, it naturally means that Norsman intended to assassinate Her Royal Highness the princess and imprisoned Queen Main, and he is an out-and-out thief of a great country.

The war of words between the two sides was very intense, but in fact, the Jinyang Pass side still suffered a lot on the public opinion front.

The Norsman government controls Westdum, and much of the propaganda in Jinyangguan, and even some articles written by Princess Yasha herself exposing the Norsman Prime Minister, are difficult to publish in Westdum. Only in private there are some 'rumors' circulating, but the scope of the circulation is not widespread.

With the gradual escalation of the war of words, the forces of the two sides, which had maintained considerable restraint in the past two or three years, are now slowly unable to restrain themselves.

While Levi was in retreat and working on the Ember Blade, something big happened.

This incident has been dubbed the 'Vilun Guard Tower Conflict' by various newspapers and broadcast media.

The Weilun Watchtower is a place in the eastern border of the kingdom, that is, the area under the actual control of Jinyang Pass, bordering the kingdom's official territory. According to the custom of the kingdom, this place should be under the management of the official army of the kingdom and the Jinyang Guangong, and the troops of both sides will rotate every three months to garrison the Velun guard tower.

However, this time, the local troops of Jinyangguan stationed at the Weilun sentry tower refused Wang's routine change of guard, and the two sides confronted each other for two days, and on the third day, they opened fire on each other, and a fierce military conflict broke out.

The attitude of the Jinyang Pass side was very tough, and the troops of Jinyang Pass opened the fire first, and the attitude was also very obvious: "It is absolutely impossible for you to enter the Weilun guard tower, unless the real sword and gun are shot down." ”

As a result, the final result ended with the retreat of the king.

The whole conflict, in fact, did not last long. They shelled and opened fire on each other for two days, and the next day there was a brief hand-to-hand exchange. By the third day, Wang's ** team had already retreated under the orders of their superiors, and did not continue to force the Vilun watchtower.

In a military conflict, the combined number of troops participating in the battle on both sides has just exceeded 1,000, and the fighting for two or three days is not fierce, and the total casualties on both sides do not exceed 50.

Jinyangguan and the Norseman government have secretly clashed in various aspects in the past few years, and the number of deaths is much higher than that.

However, this time the impact was very large.

In the past, no matter how dead people were, the secret agents, secret agents, and experts of intelligence organizations on both sides secretly came out, and that was only in secret. This time, however, it was an open, undisguised military conflict that was covered on a large scale by the broadcast and news media.

Public opinion is in turmoil, and this is the appearance of the Kingdom of Vestum about to start a civil war.

But a month later, the civil war still didn't start. But the tension of the situation can be felt by many people.

In addition to the more fierce scolding and overwhelming reports in the news media between the two sides, a more direct manifestation is that the flow of people between the Jinyangguan area and the Westdum area has become very difficult. Whether you want to get from Jinyang Pass to Westdum, or vice versa, you have to go very closely, and most of the roads are blocked by the army.

These are very obvious signals, there are a lot of rumors outside, some say that they will not fight, and they will eventually negotiate and settle; Some also said that in fact, the front line has become a pot of porridge, but the government has blocked the news.

And this round after round of trends did not affect Levi. Except for Wilde's secret visit once and some information obtained from the Brotherhood, he no longer cared about the affairs of the outside world and devoted himself to cultivation.