"My lord, the matter you have explained has been arranged, and everything is under control. ”

After the luncheon, Kadaqiu did not return to his mercenary station, but as he passed through an alley, he whispered into the empty shadows, in a respectful but inaudible tone, let alone a passerby, and even if it was in his ear, it was difficult to hear what he was saying—perhaps not only because he used a small voice.

"Well, that's good, but don't let your guard down, and don't give me any more trouble until Klasson arrives. ”

Even more bizarre, nothing in the air replied to him, with a voice that only he could receive.

"Understand, please leave it to me, my lord. ”

Leaving this confident reply, Kadaqiu continued to take steps and disappeared silently at the entrance of the alley······

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On the other hand, the little people also have their own way of jointing.

The young guys are diligently tidying up the messy table - the mercenaries are basically old and coarse, and it is impossible to talk about table manners, and the "battlefield" they leave behind is no problem to describe it as unsightly.

Bill casually walked into the reopened tavern, and said to the guy in a hurry, "Hey, Martin, why haven't you opened until now? Prepare me some freshly baked white bread and cooked meat, the imps in the house are hungry, and I promised to give them a good meal today." ”

The guy put down what he was doing and laughed loudly: "Why are you suddenly so arrogant? You have recently made a fortune? It can't be that you have done a lot of work, right?"

"Can I think you're slandering me?"

"I'm sorry, but I can't think of anything else. ”

"I can't think of any other way to greet you than to beat you up. ”

"Oh~ Please, how long has it been since we've been in touch? Maybe it's time for me to treat you to a drink again. ”

"That's what you said. ”

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The two have obviously known each other for a long time, and they joke with each other and do not attract the attention of others at all.

The guy took out a couple of large bags full of hot food from the kitchen and handed them to him: "Here, a total of three silver coins, our boss said, I don't want you for the fraction." ”

Except for Bill, no one saw the guy's eyes twinkle at him.

Bill quietly took the food, took out four shiny silver coins from his bosom, and put them in his hands.

"Let's go, wait for you to invite me to drink next time. ”

"Well, definitely. ”

After Bill left, the man walked to the corner and spread his palms, quietly picked a silver coin and put it in his pocket, and the snickering joy in the depths of his eyes was not seen by anyone······

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In the Rose Manor, Lartes is practicing magic according to the study task assigned to him by Albert before leaving.

Yes, just yesterday, Albert gave everything in the manor to Radis, and after leaving him some props, he officially said goodbye to him, stepped into the portal in style, and walked cleanly.

Not to mention how disappointed he was, Ratis went on with his daily life, researching, studying, eating—in this respect, father and son were not much more than the same.

At this moment, a slight wave of magic power suddenly came from a metal object inlaid with various colored gems around Radis's waist, which caught his attention.

Radis picked it up and saw that the yellow one of the red, yellow and blue tricolor gemstones was already lit up.

This is a communication alchemy prop created by Radis himself, with limited functions and no specific information transmission, but only to distinguish the severity of the situation by the color that lights up, how to use it Laces has already taught Bill.

If nothing of note happens, Bill sends a message once a day to make the blue gem light up and tell him not to come, if there is something to report in person, the yellow gem will be bright to remind him to find a time to go, and if the red gem is lit, it is a big event that needs to be rushed by Latis immediately.

"Oh, what's going on in the town again? Maybe the mercenaries are ready to unite······ Well, let's go and see it tomorrow, I still have to do intensive training after reading the book, I really don't have time today. ”

Laces knew this, put away his props, and continued to plunge into the ocean of knowledge - about magic, he still has a lot to learn not long after he has just been promoted, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in magical strength, which is his basic and cannot be ignored.

As the materialization of magic materializes, the boundaries between fantasy and reality become more and more blurred, and mages at this time have begun to get rid of the shortcomings of secondary spells - that is, most secondary spells have fixed power and cannot use protective spells.

In other words, although a high-level apprentice cannot use a small part of his own magic power to guide the outside magic power to form a low-cost, high-power, and cost-effective first-order spell like a formal mage, he can already change the amount of his own magic power to control the upper and lower limits of the power of the spell.

Hmm······ In a simpler way, for example, if you use a secondary fireball spell, if the medium apprentice casts it, the cost is 5, the spell strength can reach 8, and the spell cost will not change, even if you have a lot of mana, but using a secondary fireball spell will always cost 5 points, no matter if you use other methods that slightly change the spell model or special spell tuning techniques to increase the actual lethality of the spell, but the essential cost does not change, and you cannot increase the basic power of the spell by increasing the mana consumption。

And the advanced apprentice also uses the secondary fireball technique, he can choose to increase the spell consumption or reduce the spell consumption to adjust the basic power of the spell, the advantage of this is undoubted, the flexibility and applicability have been greatly improved, as long as they are not stingy with magic power, the same spell they can exert several times more basic power and more powerful lethality, this is the biggest difference between the advanced apprentice and the medium apprentice.

Moreover, high-level apprentices can use orthodox protective magic that cannot be used by mid-to-low-level apprentices, because only a high concentration of solid-state magic can form the basis of protective magic, so even if it is only a secondary protective magic, it must be used by high-level apprentices, and the survivability of the two is too different from this alone.

Don't think that the use of spells at the level of Radis Demon Evil seems to be able to erase this gap at the level of actual combat, so he thinks that he himself can ignore the advantages of a high-level apprentice, in fact, after becoming a high-level apprentice, his spell application course has ushered in a new room for improvement.

Previously, he could modify the spell model, change the spell operation mode with mental power, increase the activation speed of the spell through training, etc., so that he had a spell power far beyond the same secondary spell, but in fact, the elemental missile is the elemental missile, no matter how he changes, how much mental power should be consumed, is how much mental power is consumed, the basic power of the spell is actually the same, but the effect after changing the form is different-

- If the basic power of an ordinary elemental missile is 3, it can blow up a small tree after flying out, while the improved elemental missile of Latis can shoot through huge rocks if it is a high-speed rotating spike enhancement type, and it seems that the latter is more lethal, but its basic power is actually still 3, which is the difference between basic power and actual effect, and the basic power cannot be changed when he is still a medium apprentice.

And now, if he adapts to the casting method of a high-level apprentice, and then uses the same elemental missile, by increasing the spell consumption and injecting more magic power, even if the elemental missile shot is still the same effect, I am afraid that the things that can shoot through are not just rocks, it is estimated that even harder granite is not a problem.

This is the difference brought about by the increase of basic power, which has nothing to do with the specific effect of the spell, but simply increases the lethality from the strength of the spell.

It is not false to say that with the quality of Latius in all aspects, if he doesn't care about consuming a lot of magic power, he can even increase the lethality of secondary spells to the basic power of first-order spells, and with the actual increase brought by his spell casting skills, I believe that before the magic power is exhausted, it will not be much weaker than that of a regular mage- It's just that in his opinion, the gains outweigh the losses, and when he really wants to fight, there are many more spells with the same power that can be emitted with the help of his own magic channel, and he forcibly upgrades the secondary spell to a first-order spell, where is it more convenient than directly using an external force to use a regular first-order spell?

And this kind of thing is not something that all high-level apprentices can do, sufficient spell use skills, mental power comparable to that of a formal mage, and huge magical support far beyond Tongji are indispensable, and these are not the conditions that a normal high-level apprentice can have, so for most people, the gap between an apprentice and a formal mage is still a distance that is difficult to cross.

All in all, Radis needs to familiarize himself with the combat methods that can be done by the real "self suitable for the realm of advanced apprentices" as soon as possible, which will greatly increase his basic magic strength, not to ask if he can beat a formal mage without using external plug-ins and props, at least to ensure that he can open five or five - not that he has to give up foreign objects, but his own profession can be stronger than one point, even if he can't use it now, it is also a point of confidence, a heritage.

What? You say he's so ambitious? Isn't it too arrogant to think about skipping the challenge when he just became a senior apprentice?

This question is explained in Albert's original words: "You can't even do the challenge of these indigenous mages who have never seen the world, how dare you say that you came out of the holy mountain in the future? How can you be embarrassed to say that you are talented? How can you be worthy of my hand-in-hand teaching?"

Don't be bound by the so-called rank, that is only a basic objective factor, and the battle depends on one's own ability and the quality of all aspects! Is it true that the enemy's rank is higher than yours and you will automatically admit defeat?"

Laceis was convinced of this, and was putting it into practice, and after all, the foundation was there, and he didn't think it was a difficult thing to do - although he hadn't really used his magical prowess to fight a full-fledged mage, that didn't affect his confidence at the moment.