After learning the new runes and the somewhat sluggish imperial Chinese, the red dragon Iser withdrew from the relief stone wall without looking back and slipped out to have fun.

Surdak stood in front of the relief stone wall, knocked on the stone wall with his hand, the touch was cold and hard, and a layer of faint mana fluctuated on the relief stone wall, blocking the penetration of his spiritual perception, and sure enough, as he thought, he could not enter the plane where the red dragon Isel lived.

He guessed that some kind of magic barrier was probably imprisoned on the portal, since it involved the red dragon Isser, it was likely that Lord Johannes left, and the magic power on this portal had not been attenuated for hundreds of years, and it seemed that the core center should be a very powerful magic array.

He was very curious about the back of the relief stone wall, but he thought that it should be where Isser had been living all along, if there was no accident, it should be a small plane there, he wanted to go in and have a look, but he couldn't get through this stone wall after trying several methods, so he could only calm the curiosity in his heart, and concentrate on studying those runes, hoping that he would be able to learn the real dragon language as soon as possible.

In the past few days, Surdak has stayed in the treasure chamber to study the language of runes, and his learning speed has improved recently, probably because he is familiar with the way those runes are written and drawn, and he has learned the 20th rune 'Lamb' in just a few days, and the learning process is also very smooth.

According to Lance, the magic spells recited by the magicians are actually a series of magic symbols derived from the ancient elves, and after the magicians awaken the magic pool, after entering the primary magic academy, they first have to learn the reading and writing of the ancient elves, as long as they learn some simple ancient elves, they can learn some of the simplest elementary magic.

Surdak didn't know if those ancient elven words would have magic fluctuations and short-term magic gains when they were successfully drawn, but the rune language he had learned so far had a very obvious effect, and each rune had a very unique magic effect, which was short and effective.

The spiritual power has basically recovered as before, but the Zhihai in the body has changed a lot, and the two-sided four-armed demon god statue that was originally floating in the endless void now occupies almost all the space of the Zhihai.

He could feel that the statue was as large as the Endless Void, so large that the upper body of the Demon God statue contained the entire sea of stars, and the lower half of the statue was a dark star that was constantly devouring all matter.

As the sea of spiritual consciousness slowly recovered, those lit nodes lit up again, and they were filled with a majestic divine aura.

Since he was colonized into the keel, although Surdak was overloaded with strength due to the lack of bearing capacity, but under such a huge oppression, his body has also become much stronger, both in strength and physical strength, and he has increased a lot every day, but unfortunately he can't wear that 'Shield of the Earth' magic pattern structure, so his combat effectiveness is much worse than before.

Now Surdak's body has almost completely fused with that dragon bone, after absorbing the nutrients of the body and becoming a part of Surdak's body, the dragon blood in Surdak's body has been further strengthened, so his physique is also slowly strengthening invisibly, and the burden caused by the dragon bone to him is also slowly reduced.

After entering the eighteenth level, the knights basically have to prepare for breaking through the second turn, although the fighters at the peak of the first turn break through the shackles, and there are no one who can become the powerhouses of the second turn, but Surdak still makes some preparations for this matter.

If a knight of the first turn wants to become a powerhouse of the second turn, he needs to comprehend the knight's holy seal, and he needs to have a steady source of power in his body.

For magicians, the source of the power of the so-called second-turn powerhouse is the contract partner they have signed, the elemental envoy. This kind of contract partner allows mages to use the contract partner, the elemental envoy, as a medium and a bridge, to draw a large amount of mana from the surrounding space and cast powerful fourth-level group magic when performing large-scale magic.

The source of the strength of the warrior comes from himself, first of all, let the strength and speed of the body, and the physique reach the peak through training, through meditation to allow himself to see clearly, and gather a kind of attributeless qi in the body, which is constantly circulating in the body, forming a source of power that is completely different from that of the magician, only in this way can he have the opportunity to obtain the source of strength.

Surdak is currently standing at the nineteenth level, and he already has the conditions to find the source of his own strength and the Knight's Holy Seal, but Surdak's spiritual consciousness is relatively special, and he doesn't know when he will be able to comprehend it......

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In the winter in the county of Osorno in the province of Bena, the vast expanse of the land is covered with snow, and the mountains are dyed white.

Constantinople is located in the center of Osorno, so it is considered a transit and distribution center for the Tarapakant region, the city is built on a huge red rock, the most difficult part of the city is to dig a basement and a well, and there is a lake under Constantinople.

When winter comes, the lake is covered with snow, and there are some workshops around the lake, not only the largest firescale bomb manufacturing workshop in Bena City, but also the largest blacksmith workshop in Bena Province, which is one of the few logistics cities in Bena City that specializes in the production of military supplies.

After nine days of arriving in Constantinople, Surdak took Aphrodite off the magic airship.

The airport docks in Constantinople were extremely busy due to heavy snowfall, and as Surdak stepped down from the tower, he saw the magic airship full of cargo turn on the float and quickly rise into the air.

The second time he came to Constantinople, Surdak had a deeper understanding of the city, compared to the comfort and tranquility of the city of Highlandza, the city is more like a war monster with all its might, the industrial area here is shrouded in layers of smoke, even in winter, the life of the people in the city is still extremely busy, even the pace of pedestrians on the street is hurried,

In the distance, the Mage's Tower and the chimneys of the Workshop District are opposite each other, and to the north of the city is the centuries-old Owen Family Castle.

Surdak did not see the temple of Liberty in the city, so to speak, the entire Constantinople is based on the Irving family castle, a circle from the red rock as the center to the surrounding area, originally this is only the center of the Irving family's territory, after hundreds of years of development, it has formed a small city with a population of less than 500,000.

Most of the markets here are directly related to the Owen family, and unlike the Christie family in Highlandsa, who have an absolute say in Constantinople, the city's parliament and chamber of deputies are more of a meaningless ornament.

After finding a hotel in the middle of the city near the workshop area, Aphrodite was still very interested in such a small city where she could breathe fresh air freely.

Unlike Bednar City, where you can see adventurers, mercenary groups, witchers, and magicians, Aphrodite has to be careful to avoid their sight, so she can barely go anywhere in Pena.

Constantinople is similar to the city of Highlandsa, so there aren't many professional witchers and mages in the city, so Aphrodi has much more room to move around than she does in Pena.

Surdak gave the innkeeper a tip and asked him which blacksmith's workshop in the city could produce the finest armor.

The waiter of the inn replied without thinking about it: All the better blacksmith workshops in the city are controlled by the Owen family, and as long as you see the blacksmith workshop with the Owen family emblem on the plaque, you can basically produce high-quality ironware, the only difference is that most of the blacksmith workshops here are controlled by the Owen family, so the division of labor is very clear, if you want to buy a complete set of armor, it is far more convenient to go to the blacksmith workshop than the Owen trading firm.

It was not too late, and Surdak was not too hungry, so he and Aphrodite walked out of the hotel and into the workshop area.

As the waiter of the inn said, the ironware made by the blacksmith workshop here, each of them is very single, but because each workshop processes a large number of the same kind of iron, these irons are very well forged, and each workshop has some very convenient special molds, Surdak walked to several blacksmith workshops, when the owner of the workshop heard Surdak say that he wanted to buy some armor parts, he said that he wanted to buy a complete set of armor, and it was more convenient for the trading house.

After spending most of the day in the workshop area, Surdak had no choice but to return to the central street of the city, where he looked for a trading house with the Owen family crest.

At the first intersection of the central street near the South Gate, a large trading house straddles this street to form a huge arch, this is a four-story building, two hundred meters long from east to west, Surdak also noticed this place when he came to Constantinople last time, but he did not expect it to be the trading house of the Owen family.

Opposite the comptoir is a square, there are many magic caravans loaded with goods parked in the square, and the entrance of the merchanthouse is also very lively, many merchants come out of the merchanthouse with a large number of goods, load the goods into the magic caravan on the street, and then drive the magic caravan full of goods from the south gate out of Constantinople.

The trading house looked like a supply transfer station, and business was booming.

Boxes of goods are loaded onto trucks, counted, checked, and finally driven out by horse-drawn wagons, a set of processes are carried out in an orderly manner.

Surdak and Aphrodite glanced at each other, such a large-scale trading house is rare even in Bena City, the two walked into the trading house with the flow of people, and met an employee of the trading house head-on, seeing Surdak's chest. The former noble insignia immediately became very respectful and said: "My lord, what do you need, our trading house has a wide variety of goods, so it is divided into several areas, where cotton cloth, linen and wool are mainly sold, as well as some silk threads and semi-finished clothes, and wool and leather are also ...... here."

"I want to see a set of metal armor!" Surdak interrupted the introduction of the staff of the comptoir and glanced inside the comptoir.

Countless cloths almost filled the shelves, and the merchants in front of the counter were also choosing various fabrics, and the merchants brought out bundles of fabrics from the shelves and piled them on the counter.

"Infantry or cavalry armor?" The comptoir employee asked.

Marquis Luthor suggested that Surdak form a more mobile cavalry battalion, although the investment is a little larger, but it can gain more military merits during the war, Surdak has already thought about it, and said without hesitation: "Cavalry." ”

The clerk of the merchant house hurriedly led Surdak through the cloth and daily necessities area, and came to the freight yard that looked like a large warehouse, where there were dozens of metal armors, all the armor was arranged very neatly, and there was no wooden counter here, there were many other buyers in this large warehouse, the merchant bank employee stood in front of a row of steel busts and introduced:

"We have a complete set of ordinary half-body armor, this kind of half-body armor is the best choice for the primary cavalry, although it does not have a piece of armor and leggings, but when choosing a war horse to wear armor, you can choose the kind of armor with leggings, this complete set of half-body armor defense is average, usually needs to be carefully maintained with grease, otherwise it will soon rust, each set of armor needs three gold and fifteen silver."

The staff of the trading house saw Surdak's lack of interest, and knew that the baron in front of him did not take a fancy to this kind of primary armor, so he hurriedly pointed to the side with his hand and introduced: "There is also a complete set of silver-plated half-length armor here, this armor effectively prevents the problem of corrosion and rust in the wet rain, this is the first choice for the formation of the pro-guard, and the cavalry wears this kind of silver-plated armor, which can almost be used as an honor guard." ”

"Is there anything better, what I need is the kind of full-cover armor that the knights of the guard battalion wear." Surdak stood in the warehouse, looking around, and he could already see the sets of full-covered armor, which looked very similar to the standard armor of the guard battalion.

The staff of the trading bank hurriedly walked over there with Surdak, and said as he walked: "There is a full-cover heavy armor, this kind of armor is commonly known as an iron can, and its defense is very good, but the fly in the ointment is that it is too heavy, and there are very strict requirements for cavalry and war horses, and the cavalry with insufficient strength will soon be crushed by such heavy armor." ”

Walking in, Surdak found that these full-covered armors were just as the employees of the trading house said, these full-covered armors were a little crudely made, and one statue was placed on the ground, more like some sculptures.

"Is there anything better?" Surdak pondered for a moment before saying that he didn't want to buy back some useless cans.

"Of course! Please follow me. The comptoir staff immediately led Surdak to the other side of the warehouse.