Inside the Emerald King City.

The young king listened to the news.

"Baron Black Snake......"

The king evokes distant memories.

He had almost forgotten that there was such a family.

According to the laws of the kingdom, Baron Levi is indeed the rightful heir to the Tulip Collar and the Storm Lord.

But because the Duke of Montenegro made such a stir up, the royal family originally wanted to open one eye and close one eye to take back these two territories.

The Black Snake family had been silent for too long, and he thought that the heir, Levi, would not care about this matter.

Unexpectedly, because of the disaster of the snow demon in the north.

Levi, who didn't want to come to the south, had to come to the south.

The king summoned his ministers to discuss the matter.

In the end, everyone agreed.

That's the end of it, don't mention it again.

After all, the kingdom itself is unreasonable.

The kingdom, which has just come out of a long war, is fragile, leaking on all sides, and dying.

The kingdom doesn't want to make a big deal anymore.

And now Baron Levi, it seems, is already a top knight like his father, and even the Red Willow Divine Sword in the Seven Divine Swords of His Majesty is not his opponent.

Baron Levi was at that time, and at this time, there was no need to fight with a top knight.

Besides, the Black Snake Knight and his soldiers sacrificed their lives for the country before, although Levi finally knew that it was the Duke of Montenegro who did it, and it had nothing to do with the kingdom.

However, the kingdom acquiesced to the Duke of Montenegro's subsequent dove occupation of the magpie's nest, which was also a loss, and it made the Duke of Montenegro continue to expand, and finally became a catalyst for rebellion.

Therefore, everyone thought about it, and letting Baron Levi return to the territory is the most suitable choice at present.

With the gifts of the kingdom, the messengers set out towards the tulip collar.

Not long after that, within the Storm Territory, Zhenguo Shenjian also led his team to evacuate this place.

In the year 1014, the last days of the end of the year.

Levi also received a reply from the kingdom.

For his own actions, the kingdom is allowed.

Originally, it was legitimate, and the kingdom could not say anything.

Otherwise, the foundation of the power of the nobles will be shaken, and the king, the "alliance leader", will not be able to sit steadily.

Naturally, Levi also replied, expressing his gratitude and loyalty to the kingdom, and patted the new king's ass.

Later, Duke Hongliu also came with a black face and a ransom to take his son and the army away.

Levi also happily released people.

If the eyes can kill, the old eyes of the Duke of Red Willow can kill themselves countless times.

After all, he had abolished their family's rising star, the life seed of the Red Willow Divine Sword.

But the old guy couldn't say anything, and he also got compensation from the kingdom.

Moreover, even his own son is not this Levi's opponent, Levi's current strength is only stronger than the Black Snake Knight back then.

Gradually, the great nobles of the south knew that the powerful "black snake" had returned, entrenched in the tulip collar.

Levi's fame also began to spread on a small scale.

The titles of "Giant Bear Lord" and "Black Snake Lord" also began to spread slowly.

Although this is not the effect that Levi wants to achieve, it is also something that cannot be helped.

Keeping a low profile is not to be wronged, sometimes, you still have to have a little bad reputation, so as to avoid some trouble.

Of course, there must be a degree to this.

Now that's it, and then you can live a peaceful life, people can be famous, but not too famous, and the fattest pigs are the easiest to be sent to the slaughterhouse.

"Anyway, we can live a little more stable in the future."

Levi murmured in his heart.

He had heard that the Snow Demon of the North had appeared on the edge of Count Silvermountain's domain.

This made him glad that he had moved to the south.

If you are still staying in the north and worrying about Blue Frost every day, how can you still practice.

People sometimes just have to be soft.

Face the scourge of the Snow Demon in Icewind City.

Levi could only wish the old friend of Earl Silver Mountain to tide over the difficulties.

After reclaiming the tulip collar and the storm collar, Levi was not very happy in his heart.

With so many territories, it's a hassle in itself.

Especially the storm collar and the tulip collar are not next to each other.

There is also a shortage of talent in his current territory.

Levi's focus is always on cultivation, and it is impossible to waste too much energy on the territory.

There was no way, he could only recruit talents with a lot of money to help him govern the territory.

Before, it was only necessary to manage the Blackwater Valley, and the talent problem was not very prominent.

Today's tulip collar and storm collar are all fragrant and sweet.

Levi knew that there must be many people who coveted his territory.

The recruited talents are definitely not as good as the ones they have cultivated.

But Levi can't help it, his heart is not in this territory, and now he is a lord, purely because he doesn't want to give away his family's property to others.

"Don't mess with me, I'm really easy to get along with, really ......" Levi said to himself in his heart.

I hope that the great nobles in the south will be more interesting, otherwise there may be fewer of the few great knights in this world.

Basically solving the matter of the territory, Levi practiced with peace of mind, waiting for the burning of the fire paper.

The year 1015 of the Sacred Hui calendar, New Year.

Levi gave a speech at the City of Flowers, officially announcing his return.

The kingdom also sent messengers to congratulate him.

This came as a surprise to Levi.

More than ten years have passed since Levi crossed into this world.

He also grew from a little boy to a twenty-five-year-old macho man.

He is two meters tall, with strong muscles, an angular face, and a rough beard.

This is the shape of Li Wei now, which is getting farther and farther away from the original intention of the young man and the white-faced child.

On the contrary, there is a feeling of Tsui Hark's version of A Chinese Ghost Story Yan Chixia.

Levi also went to the Blackwater Valley and took the two generals to the tulip collar, and Levi hid them in the dense forest behind the Flower City, and listed this area as a forbidden area.

He did this solely for the safety of his people.

Two big knight-level giant beasts, if someone who is not interested in it enters, there is a high probability that there will be no return.

With these two giant beasts sitting in Flower City, ordinary enemies don't know how they died when they come.

The years passed, and in the blink of an eye, another half a year had passed.

Levi has moved into Flower City for more than half a year.

Big cities also have the benefits of big cities.

At least Levi doesn't need to go into town frequently to go to the Shine Tavern.

After all, you have it in your own city.

It's just that Levi basically lacks nothing now.

So the number of visits to the Shine Tavern is also decreasing.

Most of the time, he was practicing.

Occasionally, I go to the Shining Tavern to eavesdrop on other people's conversations.

Or to see if the pyroxene has been found.

The meditation method is still a little proficiency a day, and the thunder can't move.

But it's a good thing for pranayama.

After all, there is still a lot of time left after practicing meditation every day.

During this time, Levi spent all this time practicing the breathing method.

He now sleeps no more than three hours a day on average, and sees the City of Flowers at 3 a.m. every day.

With his current physique and physical fitness, he really doesn't need so much sleep.

Three hours was enough for him to rest efficiently.

Under such a liver explosion, the breathing method progressed rapidly.

However, Li Weixing's breathing method also has a focus.

Because the black snake has been stuck at the ninth-order limit for a long time.

Therefore, during this period of time, Levi focused on practicing the Elephant Tortoise Breathing Method, an excellent quality defensive breathing method.

After more than half a year of hard work, this breathing method has been carried out to the limit by Li Wei.

Levi ——————

Tortoise breathing method: 9th order (limit, can be broken), special effect: weevil (gaseous).

……

The weevil armor effect after the ninth limit of the Elephant Tortoise Breathing Method is essentially similar to the black scale effect of the Black Snake Breathing Method.

And Levi tried it, and the defensive power of the weevil armor was not much different from the black scales.

But the weevil makes itself look like a turtle.

The beauty is not as good as the black scales.

Today's Levi body surface is covered by layers of gaseous carapaces like turtle shells.

Suddenly, Levi noticed a problem.

The Elephant Turtle Breathing Method and the Black Snake Breathing Method can be run at the same time.

However, the special effects of the elephant armor and the special effects of the black snake can only appear one at a time.

"It seems that the special effects still can't be simply repeated and stacked." Levi sighed with emotion.

He thought to himself, if the weevil effect and the black scale effect could be superimposed, then he would not fuse the tortoise breathing method into the black snake breathing method.

But now it seems that Li Wei thought about it more.

It's like two extraordinary defenses can't be easily stacked at the same time.

Weevils and black scales can't be stacked at the same time.

In that case, Levi has nothing to be nostalgic for.

He integrated the Elephant Turtle Breathing Method into the Black Snake Breathing Method, plus a superficial defensive breathing method that he had obtained before.

Levi's black snake breathing method broke the limit again.

Levi ————

Black Snake Breathing Method: Ninth Order (1/150000), Special Effect: Black Scale (Gaseous).

……

"The Black Snake Breathing Method can continue to practice again, and when the Black Snake reaches the tenth-order limit, I should be at the same level as the former Imperial Fist and the Duke of Montenegro in terms of cultivation."

After the Black Snake broke the limit, it was already beyond the scope of the excellent quality breathing method.

It should be a genuine perfect quality breathing method.

Levi left the castle and went into retreat for half a year.

The fire paper was still silent.

Levi always carried the fire paper with him, for fear of missing the call.

"The efficiency of wizards is really low."

Levi couldn't help but complain.

His stomach growled, and the whale sac was empty.

And the bag of gluttony seems to be hungry too.

He asked his servants to prepare a large table of food for him.

And a whole cow was prepared for the Gluttonous Bag.

Next, it's the "gluttonous time" of the two big stomachs.

While eating, Levi listened to the report of the newly recruited officials of Flower City on the situation in the territory.

The financial and military aspects of the territory, these two core departments, were all held by Levi's group of people brought out of the Blackwater Valley.

One is in charge of money and the other is in charge of the army, both of which are very important, especially those who are in charge of money.

Flower City is not Blackwater Valley, and the annual financial income, even for Levi, who is now rich, is still a lot of income, and Levi can't give it up.

In addition to this, Stormwind's income is not to be underestimated.

This is also the reason why the Duke of Montenegro wants to take these two territories no matter what.

So far, everything is normal in the territory.

Much better than Levi had imagined.

may be because the residual prestige he left some time ago is still there, and everyone is honest at present.

And their neighbors are also showing kindness to themselves in various ways.

After all, he is still young, and he is at the peak of his strength.

Just a top-tier knight is enough to intimidate the vast majority of enemies.

What's more, the three-headed giant bear in the north under his command who tore countless enemies by hand, and the well-equipped red-blooded cavalry, left a deep impression on the others.

The Northern Bear was originally a symbol of fierceness and could tame the three-headed giant bear as a pet, and Levi was in the impression of others as a rude, savage, and violent Northern barbarian.

Such people are unreasonable.

If you can, don't mess with it.

The hypocritical southern aristocrats naturally understand this truth.

Finally, Levi heard a report on law and order problems in the territory.

"Lord Lord, there have been some strange murders in the territory recently, and the subordinates have low strength, so there is no way to find out who the murderer is, but the subordinates guess that the murderer should not be a person." The sheriff reported uneasily.

"Oh? Not people. ”

Levi didn't care much about the affairs of the territory.

But as soon as he heard that the murder might not be human, he was not sleepy.

He smelled the scent of evil spirits.

"It just so happens that my Longwei Seal is almost the third order, let's see which lucky guy is here to deliver takeaways." For the sake of the proficiency of the Seal of Liver Dragon Might, Levi's Evil Spirit Dust was basically running out.

Now there are only a few must-haves left for actual combat.

I'm worried that there will be no evil spirits to catch.

He wondered if he should open an exorcism office.

When the time comes, let some lords who have been tormented by evil spirits pay to remove their spirits, and they can get evil spirit dust and money, and the lords can be safe.

Wouldn't it be beautiful to have the best of both worlds, a win-win situation.

"Take me to see the dead, but I want to see who are the ones who dare to make trouble in my territory." Levi sneered.

The sheriff took Levi to the morgue.

Levi looked at the three bodies in the morgue.

"The wounds on the bodies of these three victims are almost the same, and the subordinates suspect that they should be the same...... People so-called. ”

The sheriff lifted the white cloth, and Levi looked at the corpses, which had a slight stink.

"What about the heart?"

Levi suddenly found that these corpses had no heart.

"When the subordinates found it, the heart was gone." The sheriff shuddered at the thought of such a heart-digging maniac, hidden in the shadows of the City of Flowers.

Levi carefully observed the corpse.

The first corpse was an ordinary person with a missing heart and a shriveled body.

The second corpse was a full-fledged knight, apparently a minor nobleman, and likewise, his heart missing.

"Officially, knights are not opponents, they may be evil spirits."

Levi's inner analysis.

But he had yet to see an evil spirit attacking with a heart.

According to Levi's understanding, evil spirits are creatures that generally do not attack physically, they all attack souls directly.

For example, the Soul Snatcher Sister, the Water Nymph are all like this.

If it is a physical attack, then the evil spirit must also be an entity, and the spirit state cannot carry out a physical attack.

"Could it be that evil spirits are still physical?" Levi muttered to himself.

"I know, you continue to increase patrols and investigations, the prisoner may be a person, but in the form of digging out the heart, disguised as some kind of monster, used to hide people's eyes and ears, if you find a possible enemy, don't do it, report to me first."

Levi said.

Now look at it, whether the murderer is human or not.

In short, ordinary knights should not be opponents.

"Yes, sir!"

The sheriff gasped and retreated, as if pardoned.

Staying in front of the two-meter-tall lord, it was a little difficult to breathe.

Levi closed the door.

He released Tutan.

Now he was in a hurry, so he asked Tutan.

Tutan was also an apprentice wizard.

His insight must be far beyond his own.

When Tutan saw this death, his face was solemn.

"This kind of death, if you exclude the kind of mischievous human murderer, then the closest and most likely is the handiwork of the blood clan."

"Bloodline? Isn't it an evil spirit? Levi asked.

"It shouldn't be an evil spirit, the heart of the deceased is missing, and the blood of the whole body has been drained, like a number of corpses, it should be a blood clan. According to the research of wizards, the creatures of the blood clan have appeared in the world for a long time, and they have never been far away. They come from the intersection of multiple planes in ancient times, and they are monsters left behind in our world after the creatures of certain planes invaded our world. ”

"Be careful, the blood clan is not an ordinary evil spirit or snow demon so easy to deal with, the evil spirit is actually some mortals with strong obsessions combined with the demon tide to give birth to the aberration, the snow demon is the blue frost invasion, infected mortal undead aberration, although they have some supernatural qualities, but the strength is limited.

But the Bloodlines themselves are powerful creatures of some plane, they are as powerful as the legends, and, unlike the legends of the troubadours, the Bloods are not afraid of the so-called silver, nor are they afraid of the sun, they are not afraid of garlic, although they do not like the sun, but they do not die when they meet the sun, as in the story.

Even for wizard apprentices, the bloodline is not a very easy thing to deal with, and the powerful bloodline, even official wizards will have a headache, my advice is to report this matter to the church, and let the church send a professional to deal with it. ”

Tutan said.

"The church? Counting on them? ”

Levi couldn't help but think of the evil spirits in Icewind City that had been doing evil for more than half a year, and the current church was a group of rabble.

Not even a dangerous evil spirit can handle it, let alone a blood clan.

"Do you have any books like the Bestiary? As a wizard apprentice, monster general knowledge should be a compulsory course, otherwise how to deal with monsters. Levi asked.

He is very short of such things now, he needs to make up some monster knowledge, so that he can know each other and his confidant, and face these monsters who have recovered from the demon tide, and be more calm.

In the pot of equivalence, a thin booklet appears.

"Knowledge is money, and things like monster manuals are also very valuable, after all, the knowledge of many monsters is the unique research results of some wizards, and it is generally not easy to give to others, but I am relatively basic, they are all common monsters, according to the principle of equivalent exchange, the soul of a knight, this manual belongs to you." Tutan said worriedly.

"No problem." Levi casually found a condemned prisoner from the dungeon, and then exchanged the booklet from Tutan.

Franconian Wizard's Monster Handbook.

"Looks like you still have a lot of good stuff here." Levi looked at Tutan with a smile.

Seeing this, Tutan immediately slipped back into the pot.

Levi shrugged, returned to the castle, and began to make up for it.

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