Chapter 19: Hydra's Golden Bow, the Man of the Mountain
After testing the earth-fire dual-line plastic energy method, the elemental affinity was a little ridiculously high.
Although these two systems of witchcraft can only be used as a supplement to their own combat power, with the continuous improvement of Zhu Peng's wizard rank, their value will inevitably increase.
However, unlike what Zhenna thought, Zhu Peng's ridiculously high spell bonus effect was not entirely from the bloodline.
Every time he cast the two series of earth and fire energy shaping spells, Zhu Peng could feel the great Dan between the void and the real at the dantian, and the "defense" and "hell" talisman on it had an echoing effect.
They are called "defense" and "hell", but in fact, what is the real meaning of these two sigils, Zhu Peng is not very clear, maybe defense can be called "earth" or "heavy", maybe Hell can be called "fire" or "burning".
When activating the "Earth, Defense" effect, a pale white aura will appear under Zhu Peng's feet, and his own physical defense and even the defense power of his surrounding companions will skyrocket.
When activating the effect of "fire and burning", Zhu Peng's own fire control ability, aggressiveness, destruction, and lethality will be greatly improved, but it cannot form an aura and spread to other units, and the "Hell Fire" Jindan Fu Seal is far more illusory and vague than the "Defense", and Zhu Peng's comprehension in this regard is also lacking.
Of course, gaining defense is a matter of course in the world of meditation, and obtaining Hell is an accident in the world of mental imagery, not because there is no comprehension at all, but the level of comprehension in this regard is obviously not as high as the former!
Just now Ellie ran away crying, Zhu Peng originally planned to go over to comfort this little sister who was a little mentally fragile, but was stopped by Marina Akizuki.
"If my brother goes now, I'm afraid things will get worse and worse, Ellie is so strong. Marina said with her head tilted, and then she smiled.
"Brother go and go about his own business, I'll comfort her there, after all, I'm not too young, if I don't become a wizard, I should have my own children now, how can I still be so willful, always trouble you, brother." ”
“...... Well, that's fine. Zhu Peng thought about it for a while, this is also the truth, after all, Zhenna is Ellie's sister, and if she goes, it should be more effective than going by herself.
After making a decision, Zhu Peng changed his clothes and returned to the Custer family mansion from the underground through the identification of the magic array, this mansion was transformed from the original body of the church, and each room was decorated with armor people with sharp weapons, but it was not just decoration, if someone did not break through the identification magic array, the sleeping gargoyle in the armor would wake up.
These gargoyles are the 2.0 version of the transformation of Ma Qianrong, who has been promoted to a second-order wizard, and their combat power has been greatly improved, and they also have wings on their backs, densely scattered in the key places of the entire mansion, closely guarding the secrets of the Custer family.
After Zhu Peng left, Akizuki Mana ordered his subordinates to clean up the site.
The Custer family is also a test to breed some of the most loyal henchmen, because the owners of the Custer family are wizards, which is not a secret in itself, so there is no need to kill anyone who knows.
It belongs to the level of non-propagation, non-proliferation, but it is not strictly guarded.
After all, this world has been enslaved by the wizarding world for tens of thousands of years, and the status of the identity of the wizard in the hearts of the people is close to that of a god.
However, those who can come to the basement are the most faithful servants who have been tested after all, and most of them are orphans and widows, who rely entirely on the Custer family to have a good life and a bright future, such as the middle-aged woman in front of Truth Nai, who has a somewhat mean and sharp face.
She was originally the wife of a butcher in Norka Town, and later the alcoholic butcher was killed in a brawl, she was widowed with an unexpectedly smart and handsome son, and the life was difficult and difficult to imagine, and the poverty and pain for more than ten years tortured a handsome little daughter-in-law into a vicious and mean woman.
When the Custer family arrived, Marina made her the head maid, giving her a higher salary than the other maids, and also found her somewhat clever son a decent job in the mine.
The simple trick of buying people's hearts has become irresistible because of the strong and abundant capital, and now the woman called "Ai" in front of Akizuki Shina is already loyal to the Custer family.
Of course, it is not purely because of gratitude, but because everything she has now is given to her by this family, Ai has suffered for more than ten years before she has regained her dignity and happiness, and now whoever wants to touch the Custer family, she will not hesitate to prepare poisoned wine for it.
Moreover, my brother is too easy to talk to, and the others have little interest and talent in management, and when Marina manages the Notakast family, she also needs such a sharp, mean, and even somewhat vicious woman as a knife in her hand.
"Ai, tell someone to deal with it, and everything will return to its original state. Truth Nai casually pointed to the training ground that had been turned upside down by Zhu Peng and Ellie, and then turned around to leave.
However, at this time, the head maid Ai suddenly said behind her: "Miss, there is a document that has been on your desk for a long time and has not been signed, it is about a business in the mine, and you need to take the time to look at it." ”
“...... Got it. "Unless the amount is relatively huge, even if it is the income and expenditure of the Thunder Crystal Mine, Zhu Peng has gradually handed over the authority to Zhennai over the years.
The black-haired German-Japanese mixed-race girl hesitated a little when she returned to the mansion through the identification of the magic array, she thought about her sister's character, and felt that it would be good for Ellie to cry, and after a while, Akizuki Marina finally chose to go in the direction of her room first, her brother's business can't go wrong, even if her brother doesn't care so much, but at least she can't make any mistakes in her own hands.
At this time, Zhu Peng, in his study, was flipping through books on earth-fire dual-system plastic energy witchcraft, and the whole room was surrounded by a pile of drawings, which were full of various design sketches and parameters that had been experimentally measured.
With the improvement of the wizard level, Zhu Peng now designs and manufactures strategy, tactics, and battle cards, and can no longer rely on pure inspiration and luck like he did in his apprenticeship, because there is more and more witchcraft knowledge involved, and the materials that need to be invested are becoming more and more high-level and expensive.
After becoming an official wizard, Zhu Peng had the habit of drawing sketches and reserving experimental parameters, and as the wizard level improved, before each card was made, Zhu Peng drew more and more sketches, prepared more and more pre-verification experiments, and reserved more and more experimental parameters.
After being promoted to a second-order wizard back then, when designing and portraying the Red Flame Steel Armor Dragon, Zhu Peng neglected it a little because he had the content of the design blueprint and related knowledge reserves that the old necromantic wizard had back then.
As a result, a large number of precious magic materials were invested, and the red flame steel armor dragon finally depicted only had dark blue quality, and after this result came out, it hurt so much that Zhu Peng's heart twitched.
But he also learned a lesson, every time the card is made, Zhu Peng is now cautious, and if he doesn't do it with confidence, he won't make it easy again.
Zhu Peng's current strategic card is only a realm card that has just been promoted to the second order: "Soul-bound Green Grassland/Desperate Corpse Bone Plain", dark blue quality.
There is only one Enhancement Card: "Demon Blood Fury", blue quality.
The remaining five are all tactical summoning cards, making the following magic cards: Mutated Stinky Muddy (Gold Quality), Infernal Demon Arthur (Gold Tier 3), Parasitic Heart Dark God (Blue Quality), Red Flame Steel-Armored Dragon (Dark Blue Quality), and Midnight Spider Andariel (Dark Gold Quality).
Except for Arthurs, the Infernal Demon Dog, who was forcibly promoted to the third order or even the first rank of the legend, the other four summoning magic cards were all second-order.
(Now I have a Loan-Developed Doghead, a fully fleshed Kogas, a Steel Bobby, and a Spider, and a Four-Protector and a Barbarian King...... Uh, no, I'm not a barbarian king, I'm an elegant and decent mid-laner wizard, not a barbarian who puffs out his muscles and wields a big sword to slash people everywhere...... has been a martial artist for too many years, and he always subconsciously mispositioned. According to conventional tactical thinking, I should next portray a pure output demon. )
(However, if you are purely exporting demons, with your vitality and defensive toughness, I am afraid that it will be difficult to survive the terrifying attack and sorcery of high-level wizards, and if you die too many times in a short period of time, or the unit suffers too much damage, the card will be broken...... Or, should I make a high-sensitivity and high-stealth explosive assassin demon?)
According to the train of thought in his heart, Zhu Peng finally drew two types of design drawings for summoning demons:
One is a vague humanoid holding a huge and gorgeous Hydra Golden Giant Bow, people are not the point, the point is that the Hydra Golden Giant Bow represents a strong terrifying output ability, if this card is drawn, it represents the innovation of Zhu Peng's overall combat methods, all summoning demons are no longer fighting separately, cooperation between each other, and continuous output of team will become the focus of future development.
But this kind of card with extreme tendencies, even if Zhu Peng can draw it, I'm afraid it will be difficult to keep, high-level wizards are not blind, and one is more shrewd than the other, when the time comes, Zhu Peng summons this card during the battle, and they all smash all the powerful spells, and Zhu Peng can't stop it?
Go up and block it yourself, or let the demon block it?
Which one makes the demon go up and block it?
Can you stop it?
The other is the image of a huge black-robed skeleton coming out of the mist of the mountains, the assassin class summons the demon, Zhu Peng thought for a while, and first gave it a name: The Man of the Mountain.
This name represents a very powerful and mysterious inheritance in the earth's martial arts world: the old man in the mountain.
The old man in the mountain, the master of the ancient Muslim assassination of martial arts, in the martial arts circles of Western countries and the Arab world, is equivalent to figures like the Chinese Dharma and Zhang Sanfeng.
Zhu Peng is proficient in martial arts, and even has a powerful force behind him, over the years, through his high-level authority in the Chinese Warriors Association, he has read many mysterious and strange martial arts in another world, among which he also has his own opinions on assassination martial arts and shadow fighting spirit.
Summoning demons is not how to depict them, they are portrayed as they want, and behind each demon represents a concept of wizards and corresponding sorcery knowledge.
Of course, after the card is completed, each demon may have a different development than the wizard's original intention due to his own circumstances.
For example, the Purgatory Demon Dog Arthurs, when Zhu Peng portrayed it, it was just a jackal with a certain foundation in the martial arts of a long-handled axe, and now he has the opportunity of the Purgatory Devil, and the purgatory fire on his body, the knowledge of soul and flame, and even Zhu Peng is studying and learning.
For example, the Red Flame Steel Armor Dragon, if it weren't for the selfless old necromantic wizard who had a soul arrow, Zhu Peng didn't have the current necromantic sorcery skills, he wouldn't have been able to portray it.
Each summoning demon basically represents a research direction for wizards.
Zhu Peng's deep understanding of the martial arts system has made almost all of his summoning demons have a certain combat bonus effect, and on this basis, he can be expected to create an assassin-type summoning demon: The Man of the Mountain, which can be predicted to be very powerful. Of course, material input must also be guaranteed.
(But in this way, it has become a pattern of each fighting its own and fighting its own battle.) Thinking a little annoyed, Zhu Peng pushed away the materials in front of him, pushed the door and walked out of the study.
The sun is setting south, and the sunset outside is beautiful.
In the martial arts arena outside the window, surrounded by a group of mercenaries covered in steel armor, the old and strong Ma Yongzhen was practicing martial arts with Sun Ye, who was holding a pure steel iron rod.
In the past two years, Ma Yongzhen's dragon king's divine power and fighting spirit have become more and more pure and profound, but at this moment he does not use the power of fighting energy, and simply uses marksmanship and martial arts itself to practice with Sun Ye, but Sun Ye inspires a fierce fighting spirit to shoot with all his might, picking up iron rods and sticks to attack, Sun Ye's four-dimensional attributes in this state are higher than Ma Yongzhen's, but in the face of the old man's superb and sharp spearmanship, faster speed, The stronger force did not bring victory to Sun Ye, but the more he fought, the more anxious he became, and he made mistakes repeatedly, and finally his fighting strength was squandered, and he was smashed out of the arena circle by Ma Yongzhen with a shot.
"Boy, you are not good at this gun and stick art, Monkey King? You are simply embarrassing Sun Dasheng. "Ma Yongzhen was born as a gangster, and he still believes in the old-school boxer:
Master, Master, like Master and Father, I taught you the art of eating and living, and you will be my son in this life. Admitting and scolding, and taking feces and urinating are all deserved.
Although Sun Ye did not worship Ma Yongzhen as his teacher, in the past two years, Ma Yongzhen has not given Sun Ye less guidance on his martial arts industry, and he scolded him twice, which is reasonable.
But this old-school boxer didn't think that Sun Ye grew up in the 21st century, and in his concept...... Master?
Master, teacher, is what he recognizes, I learn something from you, you can use me, go out and look back and know who you are.
It's just that the situation is stronger than people at this moment, Sun Ye can only cower in the scolding of Ma Yongzhen and the coaxing of the mercenaries around him, barely pulling out a smile, but his expression is unusually stiff.
Ma Yongzhen was at the moment when he was fierce, he didn't notice that the mercenaries of the Shining Golden Bird Mercenary Group around him were also a group of stupid and stupid, and they couldn't detect it, and it was useless to detect it.
However, Sun Ye's strangeness, at this moment, Zhu Peng, who was looking down in front of the window on the third floor of the mansion, noticed that as a great master of the Dandao Fairyland generation, Zhu Peng was far beyond ordinary people in terms of telepathy, ears and eyes, although he was standing in front of the window on the third floor of the mansion and looking down, it was almost as if he was standing next to Sun Ye.
Looking at this young man's somewhat hideous and unconvinced look, and feeling the anger faintly coming from his heart, the corners of Zhu Peng's originally smiling mouth gradually tightened.
Although he is similar to Sun Ye in age, he grew up with the pure yang swordsman Zhang Yuan in the deep mountains and old forests, although Zhang Lao swordsman does not have the habit of shooting people or even humiliating his disciples, but he visits old friends from time to time, Zhu Peng is familiar with such things as the master beating his apprentices.
It wasn't until he became a pure yang immortal and the three views were fully formed that Zhang Yuanfang's body gradually failed, so he found a landlord in the city...... That is, Lin Qian's father, who supported him for the rest of his life, and Zhu Peng also went to college under the arrangement of Lin Qian's father.
Therefore, Zhu Peng's thinking concept is actually more outdated than Ma Yongzhen in the mixed society in some aspects: Master, teacher, master, as long as you are beaten and scolded on the premise of improving your art industry, you can't be resentful, if you are resentful, it means that you have a problem with your character.
Of course, if the teacher is for personal gain, or simply simply humiliates the students, this kind of person has no qualifications to be a teacher in the heart of Zhu Peng's old-fashioned thinking.
The master-apprentice relationship is corresponding, just like the father-son relationship, the master tries his best to teach his students, just like a father raising his son, as long as the starting point is good, even if there is a deviation, you can also repay a relatively tolerant attitude.
However, if the master or some people in the 21st century are morally corrupt and insult the word "teacher", they do not teach them in serious class, they do not deceive students to go to their own places to make up for classes, and they humiliate students from ordinary families at will, such people are like fathers who abandon their children and give up their responsibilities, and naturally they are not qualified to enjoy rights, that is, they are not worthy of respect, and they should be spurned.
A father who abandons his children is not qualified to come back in the future and ask his children to support him, just like a teacher who forgets his responsibilities and only deserves to be disgusting.
"Mr. Sun Ye's performance just now seems to have made you very dissatisfied, Baron. The look on your face just now...... It's like the sun setting outside the window, it's completely darkened. The voice of an old man came from his ears, but Zhu Peng didn't seem surprised, he looked at the martial arts fighting that continued in the arena outside the window, exhaled softly, and then turned around.
What I saw was an old man in a dress with gray and white hair and some age spots on his face. He does not have the temperament of a big family butler, and with a sword at his waist, he looks a little nondescript.
The old man was not wearing a noble sword in the tradition of the Duchy of St. Rudin, nor a large broadsword commonly used by field mercenaries, but a special long sword in between, somewhat similar to the two-finger wide prismatic sword of the Huaxia Han sword.
This old man is the old leader of the Glorious Golden Finch Mercenary Regiment, and the teacher of the current leader of the group, Yalei, Zachar.
"The elderly, it's not a good habit to peep into people's privacy...... What's more, I am a nobleman, nobles have a lot of privacy, as an old mercenary, you should know that the less you know the secrets of nobles, the longer you live. ”
"How can you say such a scary thing baron, let alone something private that you would do in the hallway. In fact...... Even if the old man finds out any of your secrets, you don't have to worry at all, the Shining Goldfinch Mercenary Regiment is very interested in becoming your private soldier. "People grow old and become fine, and oil glides over people, and this is the kind of Sachar.
It has been more than half a year since the Glorious Golden Finch Mercenary Group settled in Noka Town, although it is very rare, Zhu Peng has seen Saga strike twice, and when dealing with the stabbing sword, the long sword with two fingers wide on his waist will be unstoppable. When dealing with the epee, Saga will use ethereal, subtle swordsmanship, using skill and experience to complement false moves to quickly kill opponents.
Ma Yongzhen once fought with this old man, because it was only about victory and defeat, not life and death, and he actually had his own victory and defeat.
In the world of the heavens, the vast majority of martial artists in the plane are relatively rough because of the existence of fighting spirit, although there are also skilled in skills, but there are very few, and the old man Saga is the kind of sword art that is slowly sharpened in the fight and bloody battle, purely in terms of marksmanship and swordsmanship, between him and Ma Yongzhen.
It's just that Ma Yongzhen has a wizard's daughter who constantly changes his bloodline, strengthens his body, and even blesses him with witchcraft, which is incomparable to Old Man Sagar, but in any case, in this world, he can cultivate to the point of a third-order swordsman, and he can only be said to be old and strong.
There are legends in Santiago in the Bright Continent, but these legends are basically recruited by the major royal families, or they dominate one side, and it is difficult for the people and even ordinary nobles to come into contact with them, and the old and current leaders of the Glorious Golden Bird Mercenary Group are all third-order swordsmen, and it is no wonder that they will become a gold medal mercenary group and be recruited by Akizuki Shina with a high salary.
The current village and town of Blanton Norka has 500 musketeers forming a parade self-defense force outside, and 300 full-time mercenaries and heavy armored swordsmen inside.
Especially in this turbulent era, countless officials, wealthy people and even big nobles are willing to make friends like the Custer family, just in case there is a way to save their lives.
And the old man Saga in front of Zhu Peng is even more ruthless, he wants to marry his cute granddaughter who is only twelve years old to Zhu Peng, although anyone with a discerning eye can see that Baron Custer and his two sisters are very ambiguous, but Lao Saga sighed that your circle is really messy, and he did not hesitate to launch his granddaughter...... Because no matter how good her sister is, she can't become a noble wife, and even if she gives birth to a child, she can only be said to be an illegitimate child.
In front of the old man who enthusiastically promoted his twelve-year-old granddaughter, Zhu Peng's mind suddenly flashed through the criminal law regulations: "Start in three years, the maximum death penalty", and then turned around and fled.
Of course, it's not that he's really afraid of the criminal law of the past, but Zhu Peng really doesn't have such a good stomach, and he treats the twelve-year-old little fat girl, even if the little girl is indeed very cute and white.
That evening, a group of Earth remnants dined together at a round table in the hall.
The meal sharing system is very good, but you can divide the meal in the morning and noon, but you have to be together in the evening, Zhu Peng's request is to strengthen the concept of everyone in a team, and it is also convenient to communicate some things.
Left knife and right fork, it is difficult for foreigners to learn Chinese chopsticks, but Chinese people learn from foreigners to use knives and forks, and they can quickly find the know-how to use them without being taught, Zhu Peng because he usually takes pills such as King Kong pills, and occasionally makes some witchcraft food by himself to recuperate his body, so when he eats, he just maintains a normal man's appetite, tastes it lightly, and eats it quickly.
Wiping the corners of his mouth with a napkin and taking another sip of his drink, Zhu Peng said casually: "Sun Ye, you have been learning martial arts with Uncle Ma recently, how are you doing?"
"Uh......" Sun Ye, who was eating, was suddenly named by Zhu Peng and was stunned for a moment.
"No, this kid has no foundation, and his understanding and perseverance are also a little lacking, and he hasn't started yet. Ma Yongzhen didn't think about it so much, and said directly while chewing his bloody meat chops with his head down.
The straightforward words made Sun Ye's face a little dark, and Ma Yongzhen was also lightly beaten by the daughter beside him.
It stands to reason that Ma Yongzhen was born as a gang boss back then, and she has seen a lot of intrigues, so she shouldn't be so sincere.