"Impulsiveness is the devil, chick."

Faced with the chicken's proposal to attack the Green Sea Valley, Duke could only refuse so tactfully.

The Emerald Sea Valley is the target of the Arcans of Bernoulli, and the medium-sized spiritual fountain is even more in the bag, and the ancient spirits in it obviously have long belonged.

"Eat Lingjing chicken, when you evolve into a 3-ring elf, maybe Bernoulli can give us a face and return your grandmother...... In short, don't worry, he won't give it, just wait for me to be promoted to the 4th ring, and ask him for it in person! ”

"But I'm afraid my grandmother will also be made into a specimen."

"Surely not, the spirit of the ancients is so valuable that no one wants to make it into a specimen."

"Are you sure?"

"Pretty sure, and for sure."

"I'm in a much better mood, Duke, give me the spirit crystals to eat, I want to grow up quickly and save my grandmother!"

Rattle, a spirit crystal was chewed by a chick.

After eating one piece, he ate another, and took the New Year's meal that Duke had prepared for him, all at once.

"Forehead ......" burped and dangled in mid-air.

Duke carefully observed the chick and determined that every time the chick ate the spirit crystal, there were subtle changes in the chick's body.

It is mainly concentrated on a pair of small short legs where the tail joins the head.

It's still disproportionately short, but it's a little bit bigger, not obvious, if it weren't for Xiaoyi's outstanding image analysis ability, he wouldn't have noticed this subtle change at all.

"At this growth rate, I'm afraid I have to eat several tons of spirit crystals to grow matching hind legs, right?"

Duke pondered.

"In addition to a pair of hind legs, this also has to grow a pair of front legs, tsk, how many tons do you have to eat if you rely on spirit crystals alone?"

With a yawn, the chick hit Duke's stomach headlong and went back to rest.

It prefers Duke's sea of air to Beverly Manor.

Although the spiritual seed gifted by the mysterious vine has not yet matured, as long as it is next to the spiritual seed, the chick can feel that its body is slowly growing with the spiritual seed.

Evolution is an instinct of living beings, and so are chicks.

"Xiaoyi, report the process."

"Good master, there are five processes running at the moment...... Step 1: Exclusive Meditation ...... Stage 2: Arcane Shield Wonders...... Process 3: R&D of the production of a ring of spirit storage cards...... Process 4: Sand Eagle 1.5 Special Effect Bullet Edition...... Process 5: Interactive Program ......"

Arcane Shield Wonders with 53 days left to complete.

The R&D of the production of the first ring of the spirit storage card needs to cooperate with Duke to personally experiment on the card material, and the rest of the time, the research and development progress is slow.

Therefore, Xiaoyi can also squeeze out part of the power for the research and development of the Sand Eagle 1.5 special effect bullet version.

"Everything is moving steadily, it's good ......"

The New Year passed quickly, and before the snow had melted, Vivian, Mulari, and the others rushed back and continued to live their lives around Beverly Manor Seventeen and Duke.

January 7, 4413 in the Storm Calendar.

The Penrose Mage Tower, which had been on holiday for more than a week, has returned to its former bustle.

"Good morning, Leadman."

"Good morning, Oriana, are you having a good New Year?"

"Good morning to you, Dellas, McChell......"

"Good morning, Sanfez."

Duke greeted him all the way, took the ladder to his office on the seventeenth floor, had a cup of coffee, and read the newspaper.

Immediately, he went to the laboratory on the fifth floor to draw the magic models of the mage's hand and the arcane shield for the research team, and used it for the group members' spiritual material comparison experiments.

After doing this, he returned to the office again, asked Mulali to apply for a batch of blank spirit cards back, and then silently practiced on the blank spirit cards.

With Xiaoyi, the production and research and development experiment of the 1-ring spirit storage card was repeated.

With the cooperation of hands-on experiments, Xiaoyi's "One Ring Soul Saving Card Production and R&D" process has made rapid progress, and it has been advancing rapidly.

In the afternoon, Vikas came over: "How is Lingka's practice, have you encountered a lot of problems in the middle?" ”

"With a lot of trouble, it's hard to make it as easy as you do."

"Haha, it's not easy for me, that's a step I've only done after decades of continuous improvement of my skills. You're just starting out, and if you work hard for two or three years, you should be able to make it successful...... As long as one is successfully made, one law can be used for ten thousand laws, and it will be easy later. ”

Two or three years.

Duke smiled and didn't say anything.

According to his current experimental progress, in another ten and a half days, Xiaoyi will be able to thoroughly study the production of the 1-ring spirit storage card.

After Vikas left, Duke continued his boring repetitions.

Failure after failure will be very great torture for ordinary people, and it is impossible to predict when they will succeed, and they cannot know whether they will make progress or not.

But with Xiaoyi's assistance, watching the progress on the schedule increase little by little, Duke is full of motivation.

In his view, every failure is a bit of progress leading to success.

So he can happily hide in the office, practice making 1 ring spirit card all day, and repeat it every day.

"You're saying that Duke consumes an average of nearly two or three hundred blank spirit cards every day?" In the top office, Penrose asked his secretary with a little curiosity.

Secretary Lefsky nodded and responded: "My lord, it's true, when the card making department reported to me, there were quite a few complaints, thinking that His Excellency Duke consumed too many blank spirit cards, and guessed whether he was secretly carrying them out of the tower." ”

"So, he didn't carry it out of the tower, but really hid in the office and practiced on these blank spirit cards?"

"Yes, sir."

"What about the discarded blank spirit cards, bring me a few." Penrose commanded suddenly.

Lefsky has been a secretary for decades, so he was naturally prepared, and directly took out a few blank spirit cards that had been discarded from his pocket: "These are a few blank spirit cards that I randomly pulled out from the consumables consumed by Lord Duke. ”

Penrose took it and pulled out a spirit card and placed it in his hand.

Psionic energy reaches into it.

Soon "hissed": "Are you sure you took it right?" ”

"No, sir." Lefsky doesn't know why.

Penrose put down the one in his hand and replaced it with another discarded blank spirit card, and quickly raised his eyebrows after the spirit energy reached in.

Then continue to replace it until you have checked all the discarded blank spirit cards on the desktop.

He exclaimed, "I asked Vikas to teach him how to make spirit cards, and it's only been a few days, and it's not even half a month." ”

Lefsky quickly replied: "You were on December 21 last year, and I asked you to inform Lord Vikas to teach Lord Duke how to make cards. ”

"Aside from the New Year's Day, he's been practicing for less than half a month......," Penrose laughed in disbelief, "It's interesting, it's interesting, Lefsky, tell the card making department that supplies are open to Duke." ”

"Yes, sir."

After replying, Lefsky asked curiously, "My lord, what did Lord Duke do to make you feel so happy?" ”

Penrose leaned back in his chair with a hint of a smile: "This genius arcane mage, I don't know if I can become a genius card maker...... I've never believed in genius design, but this time, it seems that there is something to look forward to. ”

……

The unlimited supply of Mage Tower's consumables made Duke very satisfied, spending other people's money to improve his abilities.

Wonderful, wonderful.

Since the consumables are not allowed to be taken out of the Mage Tower, the Duke card-making experiments are done in the office, and other things are done after work.

Today he stepped on the ointment of work, went to the castle under the mage tower, and walked into a café.

"My lord, here!" James, who had been waiting here early, waved his hand.

"Wait, Boss Jade." Duke walked into the private room and asked the waiter for a cup of strong coffee, "I'm a bit busy at work." ”

"I also just came here for a while, and I walked around the castle, thanks to your protection, this is the first time I have walked into the Mage Tower, and it turns out that this is what it looks like here." James' expression was wide open, and he was genuinely amazed.

The Mage Tower is not a forbidden place, but it is rarely accessible to outsiders except for the relevant service personnel and some spiritual apprentices.

James, as the 1st Ring Great Spirit Planter, is about the same as the 1st Ring Great Knight in terms of status.

But in the eyes of the mage, it may be no different from a civilian.

Without permission, you can't enter any of the mage towers at all.

"The Mage Tower is like this, compared to the Union Tower, the Faling Tower, the Elemental Tower, the Erudite Tower, and the Observation Tower in the city, you should have been to these five towers, right?"

"Yes, I have been there, but you have forgotten that I have only been to the office halls of these towers, and I have never been there...... In fact, the highest floor I went up to in my life was the seventh floor, the seventh floor of the Union Tower, and there was a farming conference held at that time, and I had the honor to attend. ”

Shenjiao City is not a modern society with many high-rise buildings.

Although there are many towers in the city that are more than 100 meters high, ordinary people rarely have the opportunity to enter, such as an invisible ceiling that confines ordinary people to the lower floors, and the upper floors can only be entered and exited by arcane mages like Duke.

"Well, I can show you around my office." Duke said casually.

James stood up excitedly: "Really, my lord, thank you so much, I want to stand on the high floor in my life and take a look at our Shenjiao City!" ”

"Let's go to my office and talk." Duke simply picked up his coffee cup.

James followed behind him and ascended the ladder.

When he entered the office on the seventeenth floor, standing in front of the window and carefully looking at the distant land, James, who had realized his dream, had his hands trembling a little.

I don't know if it's scared or excited.

It took a while to calm down: "Let the adults see the joke." ”

"Nothing." Duke took a sip of his coffee, "This time the owl has a little letter to ask you to come over, there is something important to discuss." ”

"Your Excellency, please speak." James was in a good position.

Although he partnered with Duke to start Duke James Farms as a business partner, it doesn't mean that he can be his equal.

Even if Duke just let Levine take a stake in the farm.

"I'll show you a ...... Stuff. When Duke said this, he suddenly thought that if the chick heard it, he called it "something", and he was afraid that he would have to scold, "Remember to keep it secret after reading it." ”

James nodded hurriedly: "Don't worry, my lord, my mouth is the tightest." ”

Duke patted his stomach, and the next moment, the chick reluctantly came out of the sea of qi, shaking his head and slanting at James: "Duke, why are you calling me, who is this person, the fat head and big ears are so ugly, spicy eyes!" ”

"Don't tell the truth." Duke touched the chick's head.

The green tadpole floats and swims on the table, how beautiful it looks, and its jasper-like body exudes a refreshing plant fragrance.

"Ahhh......h Ah......h

He is the 1st Ring Great Spirit Planter, and every Great Spirit Planter will have an ethereal dream in his heart.

That is, to cultivate a 2-ring elf spirit plant and give birth to a elf.

After the contract, he was promoted to the 2nd Ring Elf Envoy.

So when the chick appeared in front of him, even if he didn't know what the elf looked like. But the rhythm that originated from the sea of qi made him realize in an instant, this is the dream that has come true, and the great spirit plant envoy has seen the elf!

Pity.

The elf is not his, and can only be looked at twice.

"Ahhh......h This is...... My lord, this is ......" James has been incoherent.

"This is a chick, an elf who has completed an elven contract with me." Duke was in a good mood for James's excitement, and said with a smile, "So, in front of you is not only a 1-ring mage, but also a 2-ring elf envoy. ”

"It's incredible, it's incredible!" James swallowed hard and tried his best to suppress his excitement, "Your Excellency, my lord...... It's incredible, elves, legendary elves to appear in front of me! ”

"Dead fatty, stay away from me, be careful that I let Duke bite you!" The chick didn't like James' eyes, giving it goosebumps.

Duke's face darkened: "If you can't speak, shut up." ”

The chick grinned nonchalantly: "You shouted me out, and you told me to shut up, Duke, you're still not my brother!" ”

"Come in, you!" Duke grabbed the chick and shoved it straight into his stomach.

Stuffing the chick back into the sea of air, he rearranged his clothes and said to James, "As you can see, I am a 2-ring elf envoy...... That's why I'm going to let you buy a lot of land near Penrose Mage Tower and reclaim it as a farm. ”

The chick entered the sea of qi, and James had regained his composure: "What do you mean by that this farm is centered on the 2-ring elf spirit plant, and the spirit plant is cultivated for sale?" ”

"Yes, one is to make money, and the other is to help the chicks evolve."

"I understand."

"So you've been doing this lately, remember to cover it up, I don't want too many people to know who I am."

In case it is known to other arcane mages, it will be troublesome to borrow a chick from him for research, whether you refuse or agree.

James nodded and replied: "I understand, please rest assured, I will arrange the confidentiality measures of the farm, and my team of spirit planters, I will sign a confidentiality contract with them one by one, and I will never reveal your situation." ”

"Then you go and do it as soon as possible, and if you don't have enough money, come to me...... Oh yes, the body of the chick is the 2-ring Gyokuro, and the farm mainly grows various Gyokuro-related varieties. ”

"Gyokuro?" James immediately thought, "Gyokuro cultivation is mainly greenhouses, I plan to open a greenhouse planting area in the center of the farm, specifically planting greenhouses, and planting greenhouses and mushrooms in the outer area, my lord, do you think it's okay?" ”

"You are professional in this area and do what you think." It is Duke's principle that professionals do professional things.

Even though he is a 2-ring elf envoy, it has nothing to do with hard work, it is all about luck and hitting the chick.

James was promoted from the 0-ring spirit plant servant, step by step, to the 1-ring spirit planter, with many years of planting experience and business experience.

When it comes to spirit plants, James is more professional.

James, who had received a new assignment, responded with joy: "Yes, sir! ”

Making money is secondary, and being able to get in touch with the 2-ring elf Ben Lingzhi - Ji Yulu is the most precious opportunity for him.

Perhaps in the process of taking care of Ji Yulu, he continued to learn more about elves.

Ask Duke for another lesson or two.

It will give him a slight opportunity to cultivate his own elves, so as to be promoted to the 2-ring elves who are haunted by his dreams.

……

After seeing James off, Duke got into a Tiger car and returned to his home at Villa 17 at Beverly Manor.

"Sir." Butler Morris greeted him at the gate, took Duke's coat, and followed Duke into the house, "There is a happy event today, Captain Vivien's contract companion, the Black Spotted Serval, has successfully broken through to a 1-ring spirit beast, I will let the kitchen celebrate a little." ”

"Well, the black spotted serval has broken through, it's time to celebrate!" Duke said.

The promotion of the Black Spotted Serval to a 1-ring spirit beast means that it will soon be able to feed back to Vivian and help Vivian break through the 1-ring Great Knight.

Entering the villa, he soon saw Vivian, who was feeding the black spotted serval.

Duke exclaimed, "Congratulations, Vivien, my captain of the 1st Ring Grand Knights. ”

"Thank you, sir." Vivien stood up, with an uncontrollable smile on her face, looking bright and moving, "Mimi didn't disappoint me. ”

In the past, Vivien always gave people a stereotypical impression that she was beautiful but lost her agility.

Now at this moment, there seemed to be a light blooming on her body, which made Duke have a sense of amazement in his eyes: "Butler Morris has already arranged a celebratory feast for you, and besides, I will arrange some fresh and high-grade spirit beast meat for Mimi, don't feed it with jerky." ”

Vivien hurriedly excused herself: "Don't be so polite, my lord, Mimi is used to eating jerky." ”

"You're my knight, it's right to celebrate for you and Mimi." Duke couldn't refuse, admiring Vivien's bright colors, and turned his gaze to the black spotted serval.

Squatted down and touched the head of the black spotted serval.

Separate the hair on the top and take a closer look at the knight's contract mark on your skin.

The imprint is the intuitive embodiment of the power of the contract, and the same is true of the knight's contract imprint, when the contract spirit beast evolves to 1 ring, this imprint will form a complete ring.

On the top of the head of the black serval cat, there is a complete ring.

"Xiaoyi, write down this ring mark completely." Little by little, Duke parted the hairs and looked for the details of the ring.

Xiao Yi was in the sea of spirits, and with Duke's gaze, he reproduced this ring mark little by little.

Recognize the ring, study the ring, understand the ring.

It's something that any arcane mage would do every day.

Mu Lali, the assistant who had been following Duke, finally found an opportunity at this time and congratulated Vivian: "Sister Vivian, congratulations, the 1st ring knight, my sister is really good, and the safety of my husband will be protected by my sister." ”

In the face of Mulali's compliment, Vivien replied reservedly: "Your Excellency is a noble arcane mage, although my strength is still weak compared to my adult, if anyone dares to threaten your adult, Vivien will stand in front of you to stop it!" ”

"Sister Vivien, when you protect adults, will you also protect me by the way?" Mulali asked sweetly.

Vivien spoke softly, "I don't have this obligation, but I'll protect you, Sister Mulali. ”

"Thank you, Sister Vivien."

"It's all for adults, so you don't have to be so polite."

After the two finished speaking, they looked at each other and smiled.

Butler Morris walked over with a cup of freshly brewed green tea: "Two ladies, Chef Virginie has made a few cups of tea, you might as well go over and have a drink to get rid of the cold." ”

Duke had already recorded the contract mark on the head of the black spotted serval, got up and took the green tea, and said, "You all go and rest, I will also go upstairs to change my clothes." ”

Change your clothes and lie down on a rocking chair on the large terrace for a while.

With a vindictive spirit, the cold weather does not have much effect on him, and it is the same in winter or summer.

"Is this the full 1-ring contract seal?"

Looking inwardly at Linghai and looking at the contract structure reproduced by Xiaoyi, Duke pondered carefully and observed the subtle structure of the imprint.

Xiaodou also has a contract mark on his head, but it is incomplete.

The chick does not have a contract mark on him, but when the chick merges with him or hides in the sea of air, it will conjure up a contract mark on him.

However, the Elven Contract Mark and the Knight Contract Mark are not the same way as each other.

"Very interesting ring structure...... However, the data sample is too small to analyze the reason, and when I collect it slowly, I may be able to analyze something. ”

The mind withdrew from the spiritual sea.

I just saw Xiaodou running over.

Without waiting for Xiaodou to come over, Duke scolded solemnly: "Mimi has been promoted to the 1st ring, what about you, Xiaodou!" ”

"Twitter......" Xiaodou was stunned.

Duke continued: "The gap between you and Mimi is getting bigger and bigger, I replaced it with you, and now I can't eat jerky at all, and I have to practice hard until midnight every day!" What about you, you look at your growing belly, you eat better than Mimi, but your strength is so much worse, why? ”

Xiaodou lowered his head in shame.

"It's sweat, between you and Mimi, the difference is sweat!" Duke summed it up.

Xiao Dou poured down a bowl of poisonous chicken soup, and immediately lifted his spirits, and on the spot on the large terrace, he stimulated the curing arcane-spike.

Then jump off the big terrace and run left and right around the yard, constantly releasing your energy.

"Shame and courage, my little pocket is still a good child." Duke smiled and praised Xiaodou's hard work.

Speaking of which, Xiaodou is not yet 3 years old.

The growth period of the spirit beast is slower than that of ordinary beasts, and it is still a child.

However, Vivian's Black Spotted Serval is only a little over 3 years old, and it is not an adult Black Spotted Serval, and the blood refining method has promoted its growth.

Duke has a limited number of blood trials per day, and the training time with Xiaodou is even shorter, which is also a factor that limits Xiaodou's growth.

"I don't have time to cultivate Douqi, so I can only let Xiaodou be diligent and train by himself." Duke felt a little guilty in his heart.

It was decided to ask Levine to add food to Xiaodou in the evening.

……

Not long after the Black Spotted Serval broke through the 1st ring, about five days later, Vivian successfully broke through to the 1st ring of the Great Knight, and his fighting temperament changed and his strength skyrocketed.

"My lord, this feeling is like a state of vindictiveness from a loose state to a state where it can be restrained." On the large terrace at night, Vivien explained to Duke the changes after his breakthrough, focusing on the state of vindictiveness.

"Hmm, describe it carefully."

"Before the breakthrough, my fighting spirit was like riding a horse, and you needed to control it, but now my fighting spirit is like writing, and I can master it without controlling it...... In short, the current vindictive spirit seems to be an instinct of mine, which is amazing. ”

Duke held out his hand, and Vivien was stunned for a moment, then took Duke's hand.

Between the two shaking hands, Duke's fighting spirit had already entered Vivian's body along the palm of his hand, and stimulated Vivian's fighting energy.

The two fighting spirits were entangled with each other, and soon Vivian's fighting spirit crushed Duke's fighting energy.

"Don't stop, you try to attack me with your vindictive spirit." Duke reminded.

Vivien nodded, "Offended, my lord." ”

Immediately, a fighting spirit rushed into Duke's arm, and this fighting spirit was like a snake, condensed, agile, and vibrant.

Rao is Duke turned his whole body with fighting energy, and it was difficult to drive this snake out.

In the end, it was only by relying on Xiaoyi's micro-manipulation and with the use of the Douqi Armor that he successfully strangled the snake, and then defeated Vivian's Dou Qi.

"The master's fighting spirit is very exquisite, and it is much better than Vivien!" Vivien was genuinely impressed.

She had practiced with her own knight instructor like this, and once the instructor's fighting spirit rushed into her body, she couldn't expel it at all, so she could only admit defeat.

But this time, she didn't release the water at all, but she was still defeated by Duke.

Under Duke's control, the weak fighting spirit is like a knight, and he wins the battle with a weak attack.

"The fighting spirit after the breakthrough is indeed very strong." Duke savored the feeling just now, "soft and rough, soft is the palm, rough is the cocoon......"

(Three chapters in one, all of which will be updated in the future~)

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