There was a celebration in the tavern, and the story of Duke's successful production of spirit cards was basically faded in the Penrose Mage Tower.

In addition to Shanfeis, several other arcane mages will make cards.

Hardly surprising.

Duke only felt that his status in the Penrose Mage Tower had improved a little and he could get more resources.

But unexpectedly, the next day, he received an invitation from the United Tower to the internal director Sukhtara, inviting him to visit the Sukhtara Mage Tower.

The invitation was sent by Sukhtara's secretary: "Your Excellency Duke, my lord would like to congratulate you on taking an important step forward in the field of card making. She asked me to tell you that maybe you can take a look outside of the card-making realm, the Sukhtara Mage Tower is always open to you. ”

"This ......," Duke was a little flattered, "Okay, I'll take care of the matter at hand as soon as possible and go to visit the Sukhtara Mage Tower." ”

The secretary received a reply and gladly took his leave.

Leaving Duke in the office lamented.

From the moment he was just promoted to the arcane mage, Sukhtara has been constantly wooing him, hoping that he can go to Suktara Mage Tower to study the field of alchemy.

When investigating the forbidden land before, he had also met with Master Suktarao in person, and was invited by the other party again.

Until now, the invitation has come again.

"Maybe that's the trouble of genius, Master Suktarao, who wants to choose me as her successor."

Sukhtara is one of the sixteen 3-ring mages in Shenjiao City, serving as the internal director of the United Tower, although he is not a member of the Five Towers Conference, but he is basically equivalent to the function of a deputy mayor in charge of the internal affairs of Heijiao River.

Therefore, Sukhtara is considered to be a high authority.

At the same time, she is also an alchemist, and her attainments in alchemy are profound.

Alchemy is not about turning something that is not gold into gold, but about a systematic transformation of matter, somewhat similar to chemistry.

For example, most of the spiritual materials on the spirit beasts have to be processed by alchemy before they can be transformed into truly useful materials. Or the spiritual gold extracted from the ore can also be transformed into other magical items through alchemy.

And alchemy also has an important role, which is to cast arcane weapons.

Let the spirit and matter be combined, so that they can become the raw materials for the construction of arcane weapons, which can not only be included in the spiritual sea, but also can be embodied in reality.

Many arcane mages want to forge arcane weapons, they will seek the help of alchemists, and the more advanced the arcane weapon, the more they need the help of alchemists.

For example, if Duke wants to evolve the first-ring sand eagle to the second-ring, he may also need the help of an alchemist.

"Of course, I have Xiaoyi, Xiaoyi and Yihuan Shaying are both built with the underlying logic of this world, but they don't need too many alchemy means to help." Before Duke was promoted to Arcane, he could use Xiaoyi's ability to improve the Sand Eagle.

Now that he has become an arcane mage, Xiaoyi's database is constantly expanding, and it should be easy to improve and advance Sand Eagle.

"But in any case, Master Suktarao is so fond of me that it makes sense that I should pay a visit."

He hadn't booked a date to visit the Sukhtara Mage Tower.

When he got home from work, he received an invitation to the party sent by Joanna Lynx, and the attendant who sent the invitation also accompanied Joanna's congratulations to him: "My lord, I praise you as a genius in research, please be sure to appreciate it, she wants to ask you for advice in person." ”

"Is the meeting in three days, reply to your family, I will go." Sent Joanna's entourage away at will.

Duke shook his head and smiled: "Ask for teaching...... Will Joanna also ask for questions? ”

Joanna is in the same vein as her father Jovis, and has no interest in doing studies, so she solidifies the spirit core by elemental decomposition and takes the Arcanist route.

And the study of learning is the business of the arcane scholars.

In addition to Sukhtara and Joanna, there were also many arcane mages he knew, and they all sent him invitations to various gatherings and family feasts.

However, Duke did not agree again, and learning to make cards himself is not a big deal, so there is no need to be too high-profile.

Joanna knew him the earliest, and they were both consultants of the Shenjiao City Hotel, and Sukhtara favored him the most, so he just agreed to these two.

After participating in Joanna's small circle gathering, Duke packed up and went to visit the Sukhtara Mage Tower.

Unlike the Penrose Mage Tower, which is more than a hundred meters tall, the Sukhtara Mage Tower is only fifty meters tall.

However, the castle at the bottom of the tower occupies a much larger area, and there is also a huge basement, where all the dangerous alchemical experiments are carried out.

"I'm glad you're here." Sukhtara personally greeted Duke and took him on a tour of his Mage's Tower.

The alchemist was gray-haired.

According to the above information in "The Spirituality of the Black Jiaohe Land", she is already one hundred and sixty years old, close to the theoretical limit of 180 years old for the 3rd Ring Ao Master.

Most of the 3-Ring Arcane mages do not live to be 180 years old, and only a few exceed this age.

Childless, Ms. Sukhtara devoted her life to spiritual mysteries, only having a brief marriage, and following the tragic death of her husband, she remains celibate.

However, she has cultivated the descendants of her elder brother and younger brother, but she has not been able to cultivate them, and the family has not yet come out of a 1-ring mage.

So for his successor, Sukhtara is very urgent.

"Your Excellency Sukhtara, I'm sorry to disturb you."

"You don't have to be so polite here, you know a few of my students, and you can come and play anytime and anywhere in the future."

Sukhtara Mage Tower, where four Arcane Mages work.

One of them, the 2-Ring Arcian Mage Sorel, serves as a guide, and the other three are all 1-Ring Arcane Mages, but they don't seem to be young.

Duke greeted each other one by one.

The four arcane mages all showed enough enthusiasm for Duke's arrival, but Duke was keenly aware of the perfunctory situation.

Apparently.

This enthusiasm was probably forced by Sukhtara, not from their hearts.

"I haven't recruited students for more than ten years, and my research in the field of alchemy has stopped, thanks to Sorel and they have helped me support the operation of the Mage Tower." Sukhtara himself has a childish face and does not look like an old man.

But after all, she is one hundred and sixteen years old, and her energy is far less than when she was younger.

"Your attainments in the field of alchemy are enough for those who come after you to look up to." Duke complimented that he had already searched for a lot of journal literature before he came.

After going through Suktara's relevant papers in detail, although many of the papers were incomprehensible, and the spiritual arcane knowledge involved exceeded his cognition, he still generally figured out that Suktara's direction of specialization was "ring replication spiritual materials".

Ring replication spiritual material, in short, is a spiritual material that can copy the ability of the "ring" in the spiritual sea.

For example, the projection ring method, which can only be used by the Great Arcian mage, requires a large number of ring copy materials to make a clone.

Sukhtara's grand goal is to reduce the standard of projection rings, which can only be performed with more than 4 rings, to 3 rings, or even 2 rings and 1 ring, through alchemy.

If it works.

You can definitely get the title of Alchemy Sage, and even King Offata, and get the seat of the chief alchemy sage of Ofata.

Her current research is still 108,000 miles away from success, and she has stopped research for more than ten years.

"My height is not high enough for those who come after me to look up to, there are seven alchemists in this city, and their academic achievements are no less than mine." Sukhtara said calmly, "It's Sorel, and after a few years of accumulation, you will probably be able to get the title of scholar." ”

Duke was a little surprised, and then praised: "You have an academic successor." ”

"No, although Sorel works in my Mage Tower, his research direction is the Life Box, and if he really wants to be evaluated, he should be awarded the title of Life Scholar."

"Life box?"

"It's a very interesting thing that can change your life form." Sukhtara smiled mysteriously, "If you're interested, you can talk to Sorel." ”

Changing life forms?

Duke immediately thought of the life scholar Baines in the forest hut, who was studying the soul container, and seemed to have an inexplicable connection with this life box.

By the time the tour was over, it was already noon.

Suktaraleduk had lunch in the castle's dining room, and in the afternoon she had business to attend to, so she left first.

Duke greeted Sukhtara's secretary and headed straight for the Wonder Room of the Mage's Tower.

With only thirty-six Arcane Wonder structures, Sukhtara is not as tall as Penrose, but there are forty-two Arcane Wonder structures in her Mage Tower—the more time passes, the more you can afford to build more wonders.

Duke examined it carefully and found that there were eleven arcane arts, which were not found in the Penrose Mage Tower.

"I want to borrow the Wonder Room here and record some arcane wonders, I wonder if it's possible?" Duke asked Sukhtara's secretary.

The secretary replied respectfully, "Your Excellency has explained, you can come to the Mage Tower anytime and anywhere, including these Wonder Rooms. ”

"Thank you, Lord Sukhtara, for me." Duke chose a room of wonders and walked inside.

In about three hours, the new wonders in the wonder room will be insightd, and this magnificent wonder will be reproduced simultaneously in the spiritual sea.

So Duke took his leave, and prepared to come back tomorrow to continue.

"When I record these eleven arcane wonders, I will have forty-seven arcane wonders, observe them anytime and anywhere, and improve my knowledge of the ring!"

……

For the rest of the month, Duke will either continue to practice making 1-ring spirit cards at Penrose Mage Tower, or observe the Arcane Wonder structure in Sukhtara's Mage Tower.

Life has been very fulfilling.

Every Thursday afternoon, I will be taught by Penrose to accumulate more knowledge about card making; At other times, he occasionally ran into Sukhtara, who would tell him interesting stories about alchemy, which subtly attracted Duke's interest.

"Sir, Lord Sukhtara has been so kind to you." Mulali often sighs.

Although Penrose began to pay attention to Duke, he was the ruler of the United Tower after all, and his main focus was on handling government affairs.

Duke barely saw each other except Thursday afternoon.

Sukhtara, on the other hand, often receives invitations from her to chat in offices and cafes after coming out of the Wonder Room.

This made Duke sigh as well: "Yes, Ms. Sukhtara is an elder who is enthusiastic about supporting the younger generations. ”

"If you come here to study, Master Sukhtara will definitely teach you everything and help you achieve your achievements earlier, sir." Mulali complimented, "With your wisdom, sir, you will definitely succeed in any field!" ”

"My wisdom...... I'm no wiser than the other arcane mages, I'm just working harder. Duke shook his head.

His little assistant has obviously been melted by Sukhtara's enthusiasm.

In fact, he himself has not been melted, the enthusiasm of a 3-ring mage, and even beyond the words, it is difficult for people to parry if he wants to entrust the entire mage tower.

But Sukhtara's class was not easy to pick up.

In the alchemy direction of reproducing spiritual materials, Duke didn't think that with his and Xiaoyi's current abilities, he could try it easily.

Alchemy focuses on the transformation of matter, which requires a lot of material experimentation.

The function of Xiaoyi is mainly data computing, which is not of great help to material experiments, and the field of card making is more suitable for it.

Mulali has a blind admiration for Duke: "I think that sir, you are not only harder than others, but you are also wiser than others. ”

"I agree with your judgment, but Xiao Lili, you don't understand many things, so just do your job well, and be cautious in other aspects." Duke's language is gentle, and the meaning of the beating is undisguised.

Mu Lali, who was a little fluctuating, suddenly became solemn and didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore.

She wasn't in a position to decide Duke's choice.

Back at Beverly Manor Seventeen, Duke changed into his home clothes and went to the breeding room to blood with Xiaodou.

A while ago, he was poured a meal of chicken soup by Duke, and Xiaodou has been cultivating very hard these days.

Challenge the black spotted serval every day, and fail again and again, but unconsciously, physical fitness and spiritual power are growing rapidly.

"Tsk!" After eating the spirit beast meat, Xiaodou couldn't wait to cultivate.

Duke touched its head and motioned for a break.

He hugged the chick that had just come out of the sea and looked at the cardboard box in the corner, in which a fat maggot was sleeping.

This is Little Red, the offspring of the queen mangrove branch.

Compared to the fist at the beginning, it has grown to the thickness of an adult's arm, and the spiritual aura on his body is rich.

However, it is still a larva and needs to be pupated before it can mature.

"Red is a little silly, Duke, it could be a fool." The chick suddenly said without a head.

"Why do you think so?"

"I've seen a lot of these little insects in the mangrove branch's nest, they can communicate with me, communicate with the pheromones you said, but Xiaohong can't, it's just a fool, no matter how I call it, it doesn't respond."

Chicks are hatched by ants, so they are naturally able to use pheromones to communicate with ants.

"Maybe it's because he's still young, not old enough to communicate." Duke said.

"Maybe......" Chick was noncommittal, "Anyway, I feel like Xiaohong is ruined, a fool who can't speak, it's really boring." ”

"Whether it's interesting or not, it's your goddaughter."

"It's boring!"

The chick yawned and crashed headlong into Duke's sea of qi, which now rarely comes out except for eating some spirit crystals.

The prosperity of the human world has no attraction to it at all, and once the curiosity passes, only yawns remain.

"Tsk!" Xiaodou came over again, seeking blood refining.

Duke was too lazy to cultivate by himself, and directly instructed Xiao Yi: "Add a new process, "General Blood Refining Method." ”

"Okay master, I've added ...... for you" Xiao Yi quickly took over the sea of blood and began the blood refining method that could not be shaken every day.

Xiaodou yawned and fell asleep on the table.

However, he was only halfway through the blood refining before Duke raised his eyebrows and laughed out loud.

Directly interrupted the blood refining method, dropped the sleepy pocket, and quickly ran to the large terrace on the third floor: "After four months of hard work, this moment is finally completed!" ”

Then the mind moved.

A luminous shield made of psionic energy quickly appeared in front of him—1 Ring Arcane-Arcane Shield!

It was already night, and the arcane shield was like a crystal, silently hovering in front of Duke, mysterious lines looming.

It seems that it can be broken, but it is actually indestructible.

This is the arcane shield spectacle he has just built, which lasted more than four months, day and night, and finally can be instantaneous.

"Your Excellency!" Vivien arrived quickly.

Alarmed by Duke's laughter, she came to see what was going on, and when she arrived, she saw the crystal shield floating in front of Duke.

White, transparent, and about a man tall, it could cover Duke's entire body.

"Congratulations, sir!" Vivien immediately recognized that it was the 1-ring Arcane-Arcane Shield, and instantly understood, "Successfully built an Arcane Wonder!" ”

"That's right!"

Duke snapped his fingers, and the arcane shield in front of him immediately dispersed.

But in the next second, on the right side of his body, another arcane shield condensed, so fast that it was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, which could be called instantaneous.

"Come, Vivien, attack it!" Duke stood with his hands in his hands.

Vivien didn't refuse, pulled out the saber he was carrying, and his fighting spirit was running, and the "Swift Sword Technique" was cast, and it was already slashed heavily on the arcane shield.

Bang dang!

The sound was loud, but there was only a crack on the crystal-like surface of the arcane shield.

"It's hard, my lord, I can't break it." Vivien withdrew her long sword, feeling a little lost in her heart, what about the Great Knight of the 1st Ring, who couldn't even break the defense in the face of the Arcane.

Duke dissipated his arcane shield and continued to command, "Come, attack me!" ”

Vivien commanded: "Be careful, my lord. ”

"Don't worry, I'll hide if necessary." Duke smiled indifferently.

The Swift Sword Technique was cast again, and the cyan fighting energy spewed out on the long sword, and Vivien had already stabbed Duke's heart.

But when the Fighting Spirit Sword was about to reach Duke's body, an arcane shield appeared in front of him without Duke actively releasing it.

Bang!

The sword shattered, the blade rebounded, and the arcane shield cracked a little.

Vivien didn't stop, but turned around and turned behind Duke's back, and another sword slashed at Duke's neck with a cyan sword.

When the sword was close to his neck, the arcane shield in front of Duke disappeared in an instant.

Behind him, an arcane shield instantly appeared, blocking Vivien's sneak attack, and there was no damage except for a little crack.

"Whew!" Three attacks in a row, all of which failed to break the defense.

Vivien sighed helplessly.

Unless he can shatter the arcane shield with a single blow, Duke will be able to unleash an unlimited instantaneous arcane shield, blocking all space for sneak attacks.

The spirit involved in the arcane wonder is extraordinary, and without Duke's deliberate guidance, the arcane shield can also sense danger anytime and anywhere, and then instantly protect the body, which is the true reliance of the arcane mage to rule the vast land of the Seven Towers Federation.

Frontal combat, an invincible arcane turret.

In the face of sneak attacks, you can also instantly use arcane defenses and be invincible.

"The Arcane Wonder has been completed, and the strength of the adults has made me unforgettable." Vivien put away her sword and stepped aside.

"The Arcane Shield is good, but it's also flawed." Duke was able to face up to his own shortcomings, "First of all, the defense is not comprehensive enough, and if it is a two-sided attack, it is difficult to defend at the same time. Secondly, if the attack power is too strong, directly break the arcane shield......"

Touching his chin, Duke pondered, "If I can directly break through the arcane shield, I will seem to be dead with any defense." ”

"My lord, there are many spirit beasts that can break the arcane shield, but if you want to break the arcane shield by sneaking attacks, no spirit beast can do it."

"It seems that this is true, you can't break the arcane shield by sneaking up on the spirit beast that hurts people, and if you can break the arcane shield, there is no need to sneak attack......"

At this, Duke laughed again.

The sense of security has been improved again, and now there is no need to be afraid to go camping in the wilderness, and no one can easily stab him.

"Sir, what makes you so happy?" Butler Morris walked over.

"You're just in time, butler Morris, and have someone go to the cellar to get a bottle of vintage wine, and have a drink with me tonight."

"As you wish, sir." Morris was just about to turn around.

Duke added, "Take two bottles of red wine, Vivien and Mulari have a little to drink, and some more spirits to share with the others." ”

……

Dead.

After taking a shower, Duke sat cross-legged on the large bed in the bedroom, and only lit a small lamp at the head of the bed.

Closing his eyes and looking inwardly at the spiritual sea, on the first ring orbit of the ring system, a ring of sand eagles and arcane shields slowly moved.

Duke's gaze crossed the first ring of orbit and cast it into the spirit core within.

Originally, the spirit core was absolutely circular, but when he successfully released the 1-ring Arcane-Mage's hand, a bulge condensed on it, and now it condensed a bulge on it again.

This bulge represents a major recognition of the mysteries of the spirit, and as this major awareness increases, it means that the nucleus advances from 1 to 2, and eventually these bumps form every corner of the ring, until a second ring is inserted.

"All the knowledge of the world, of the spiritual mysteries, will be reflected in the ring!" Duke looked at his ring, and a sense of accomplishment rose up.

But soon he suppressed his distractions and looked at the first orbit seriously.

"It's time to build a new arcane wonder!"

Without thinking about it again, he had already chosen his second arcane wonder, the Illusion, a long time ago.

Illusion is the most complex arcane in the 1-ring arcane spell model.

With no attack and no defense, it is a pure auxiliary type of arcane that can unleash an illusion around the caster, thus changing the surrounding light and shadow layout, deceiving the five senses of the outside world, and even deceiving the spirit.

"The 1-ring fantasy card is the mercenary's favorite arcane card, and it is the best way to hunt in disguise!"

When ambushing spirit beasts, you can use illusions to cover yourself, and when you dodge spirit beasts, you can also use illusions to cover yourself, and this is a life-saving hole card when necessary.

"Ordinary arcane mages don't really like to build illusion arcane wonders, Gain needs to make room for defensive arcane and offensive arcane, unlike me, I don't need to attack arcane...... The Sand Eagle is my best attacking Arcane. ”

Below 3 rings, any arcane attack is not as good as the sand eagle's burst strafing.

Therefore, Duke didn't need to think about any attack arcane, and the auxiliary arcane with special effects became his choice.

"Xiaoyi, add new progressions, build a fantasy arcane wonder."

"Okay master, new processes have been added for you." Xiaoyi quickly responded, "Process two, fantasy wonders, the building consumes 60% of the power. The current construction progress is 0.0%, and the time budget is 246 days. ”

The speed at which Arcane Wonders can be built, limited by the Meditation Method and the Spirit Sea itself, could not be faster.

"Well, 246 days, that's a bit long, but I don't care, it's all time I've earned." Duke was in a good mood.

Other arcane mages need to work hard to build an arcane wonder, and it takes a year or two to build an arcane wonder.

The little life that extends is basically used to build arcane wonders.

Duke handed over the arcane wonders to Xiaoyi to build, without consuming his own time, and a few years of life extension is a few years of earning for nothing - promoting an arcane mage can prolong his life, 1 ring arcane mage can generally live to one hundred and two, and ordinary people can live to be about seventy or eighty years old.

"Whew!"

Duke opened his eyes, glanced at the starry sky outside the window, and sighed silently: "It's getting stronger again!" ”

Ask for tickets~

(End of chapter)