No surprises.

Ants bite elephants to death.

Under the indiscriminate bombardment of the many 1st and 2nd ring arcane mages of the airship team, the 5-ring spirit worm, the black jade scorpion, which was already injured, struggled to break through the airbag of an airship before he died unwillingly.

The airship, which had been punctured through the airbag, had to make a rapid forced landing.

Then the arcane mages and crew members on the airship were quickly transferred to other airships and continued to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the remaining black jade scorpions.

However, the black jade scorpion that was not injured was not so easy to kill.

A 1-ring arcane mage like Duke couldn't break the defense at all, and the sand eagle was in his hand, and he shot the black jade scorpion solidly, but the effect was nothing.

Therefore, the help that Duke can provide is the instantaneous arcane shield to help the Ring airship defend against the arcane attacks of the black jade scorpion.

The rest of the time, he was paying attention to the dragon hunting battle not far away.

Under the bombardment of the airship brigade, the black jade horseshoe crab dragon became more and more courageous, and its two chelicerae broadswords had already slashed three airships. Duke even saw with his own eyes that an arcane mage was slashed by a black jade horseshoe crab dragon when he glided to the ground for a short distance after the airship shattered.

At that time, he slashed the instantaneous arcane of the body protection, and then the whole person was split in two.

An arcane mage, just like that, died.

"Master 2 Huanao, in front of Wulong, you can't carry a knife." A hint of sadness came to Duke's heart.

At the same time, he is also more vigilant: "In the face of spirit beasts and all kinds of dangers, you must take preserving yourself as the first priority, and don't be strong!" ”

The mighty black jade horseshoe crab dragon is still raging.

The battleship Bibo, led by the cold airship brigade, flew out a ball like a red sun, and the speed seemed to be slow but it was actually fast.

Glued directly to the black jade horseshoe crab dragon's back armor.

The black jade horseshoe crab instinctively sensed the danger, and the long needle on its tail circled, as if it had injected itself into the back armor.

In an instant, the black jade horseshoe crab dragon seemed to be enveloped by an extraordinary force, and directly turned into a shining obsidian statue, which was as black as ink, but could reflect the brilliance of the sky.

Almost at the same time, the ball like a red sun burst open.

That moment.

Duke, who was far away on the Ringship, only had time to see the dazzling light flicker, and it engulfed the whole world in an instant.

Before he could regain his vision and remember what had happened, the Loop airship was blown by a strong wind and nearly fell from the sky.

Duke grabbed the handrail and kept his body steady.

Staring at the center of the battlefield, the ground there seemed to have been bombed by an atomic bomb, leaving behind a huge circular crater, and at the bottom of the pit, the black jade horseshoe crab dragon still maintained an obsidian-like sculptural posture, not destroyed by the explosion.

"Is this all right?" Duke was horrified.

The red sun ball that flew out of the battleship Bibo just now was like a small atomic bomb exploding, and the ground was all scorched for ten miles.

The black jade horseshoe crab dragon in the center of the explosion was unscathed.

"Can you even resist a nuclear bomb?"

Although Duke didn't know what kind of means the red sun ball flew out of the battleship Bibo, there was no doubt that it definitely had the power to destroy the world - the form of the explosion was very similar to a nuclear bomb, and the power was definitely far greater than that of a nuclear bomb, after all, it was an extraordinary power.

Before the shock had subsided, suddenly the obsidian sculpture at the bottom of the pit clattered to shatter.

A layer of black crystals fell to the ground, and a small black jade horseshoe crab dragon jumped out of it, this huge scorpion-like monster, looked around the airship team, and fled into the distance without looking back.

The airship brigade did not pursue.

Almost every airship and battleship had varying degrees of damage, especially the Bibo battleship led by it, the keel was cracked, and it was almost broken in two.

"Whew."

"Fortunately, this black jade horseshoe crab dragon is not really able to resist nuclear bombs, it should be some kind of magical means and escaped the catastrophe." Looking at the direction in which the black jade horseshoe crab dragon was gone, Duke felt a little better, "This is like a nuclear bomb's red sun ball, maybe it is the mysterious weapon of Keystone Fury!" ”

Woooooo

Dozens of airships on the battlefield sounded their whistles together to celebrate resisting the insect tide crisis.

The flight attendant brought the red wine, and the Vikas guide motioned for everyone to raise a glass together: "The invasion of the insect tide that has not been seen in Shenjiao City for a hundred years has finally been eliminated by our concerted efforts, everyone, and have a drink to celebrate this hard-won victory." ”

Although there was a suspicion of putting gold on his face, he did his best to resist the insect tide, so Duke and the others raised their wine glasses one after another.

Drink the wine in a glass of wine.

The red wine after the victory in the battle is extraordinarily pure.

"Although I didn't succeed in dragon hunting, I also became a dragon slayer warrior, great!" Sanfeth had already begun to revel, and he didn't know how he identified himself as a dragon slayer.

Duke also fired a few shots at the black jade horseshoe crab dragon, and the bullet really hit the black jade horseshoe crab dragon.

Sanfiz just watched the battle from afar.

"I saw that an arcane mage was killed, it seems to be Rangnick, the guide of the Elwin Mage Tower, do you see clearly?" Oriana said suddenly.

Vikas guide frowned, "Rangnick, are you sure?" ”

"I'm sure an arcane mage is dead, but it's not that Rangnick didn't see it."

"Isn't it, an arcane mage has died?" Shanfeisi was stunned for a moment, and the intoxication of the dragon slayer warrior just now quickly subsided.

Several other people present also fell silent.

In the mind of the Arcane Master, death is a very distant concept, for no other reason, the Arcane Master's physical fitness has long been transformed by the power of spirituality, and if nothing else, there is only an ending of old age and death.

And the protection of the Seven Towers Federation for the arcane mage ensures the personal safety of the arcane mage, and it is difficult to have an accident.

Shenjiao City has been peaceful for a long time, and there has been no case of an arcane mage dying due to an accident for many years.

Even if Baines, a life scientist who was removed from the Faling Tower, hid in a cabin in the woods, the end was just an old death, not an accidental death.

In the end, it was Vikas who broke the silence: "Rangnick...... Maybe it's just a choice to return to the origin of spirituality and integrate into the arcane law itself, everyone can see a little bit, and in a few decades, maybe in the real sea of spirituality, you and I can meet again. ”

The Arcane Master of the Seven Towers Federation believes that spirits take care of themselves, and after death, they will not disappear like ordinary people.

Rather, they will be swallowed up in the sea of spirituality, wandering in the sea of true spirituality.

The return loop, moored on the tarmac of the castle, Duke and the others returned to Penrose Mage Tower and took the spirit ladder to the top floor.

Look out over the land.

With the mage tower in the western suburbs as the dividing line, the east side is still as prosperous as in the past, and the west side is as if it has been plowed over, with corpses all over the field, most of them are spirit insect corpses, and a small part are the corpses of people, knights and contract spirit beasts.

At this time, the mercenary group and the knight team were picking up loot on the devastated ground.

Vikas Mentor glanced at it, then turned around, "You guys are waiting in the Mage Tower, I'll go to the Union Tower to get the information." ”

Duke also left, and he was going to take a look at the Duke James Farm to see how much damage was done to the farm.

"Sir." Mulali followed behind Duke, no smile, her face full of worry, "I don't know what's going on in Snakehead Town." ”

"Don't worry, the insect tide is coming towards Shenjiao City, it is caused by the Great Ao Mages who lured the black jade horseshoe crab dragon over, and it should not invade the surrounding market towns." Duke didn't know the specific situation, so he could only selectively comfort his little assistant.

For Duke, Mulali trusted her very much, and her spirits were slightly uplifted when she heard this: "Well, I think so." ”

Immediately, the group left the Mage Tower and took the Tiger car to the farm, the destruction of the farm was better than expected, perhaps because it had not had time to cultivate the spirit plant Yulu here, and the spirit insect just passed by here, and did not destroy the greenhouse.

"Thank goodness!" Boss James breathed a sigh of relief, "The farm can be regarded as preserved, and the initial investment has not been wasted." ”

"It's okay, as long as Ji Yulu is okay, even if the farm is completely destroyed, it can be rebuilt." Duke said indifferently.

Compared with the evolution of the chickens, the money on the farm is not important at all, even if he is willing to pay to raise the chickens, the elf is the key.

Since the farm is fine, Duke chooses to plant Ji Yulu again.

After going back, Duke thought of one more thing: "Mulali, take my public account Linglong card, go and buy a shuttle in installments and come back, there is no shuttle only relying on a car, and it will take too much time to go back and forth." ”

The sedan was not fast enough.

The speed of the shuttle is comparable to that of the maglev train, which is the best means of travel in the urban area, and if it is not for the poor defense effect, there is no problem with the travel route.

It's a shuttle that costs thousands of gold dragons at every turn, and Duke can't afford it in full for the time being.

Fortunately, the shuttle agent provides installment payment, and Duke was reluctant to buy it before, but now he has experienced a bug crisis, so he gritted his teeth and chose to pay in installments.

The procedures are handled quickly, and the agent has a special team to run the procedures.

At the end of the day, Mulari had already driven the shuttle back to the Mage Tower, but Duke did not get started immediately.

He was in a meeting in Penrose's office.

Penrose returned with Vikas Mentor, and as one of the sixteen 3-ring mages in Shenjiao City, he participated in the entire dragon hunt operation in its entirety.

"No one expected that the Black Jade Horseshoe Crab Dragon's revenge would be so heavy, and it would be hundreds of miles away to attack Shenjiao City and pursue Williams and Erwin." Penrose said solemnly, "Thankfully, Lord Keystone was able to repel the bug. ”

"Mentor, is the dead arcane mage Rangnick?" Oriana asked.

"Not only Rangnick, but also two 1-ring arcane mages are also dead, the Black Jade Horseshoe Crab Dragon's means are too strong, and we lack combat experience to protect them."

Shenjiao City has been peaceful for too long, except for the group of arcane mages who often go to the battlefield, the rest of the arcane mages are all closed all day to study, and they are too unfamiliar with the battle.

After a pause, Penrose continued, "After a brief discussion in the United Tower, it has been decided to hold a public funeral ceremony for the three arcane masters in three days' time, with all the arcane masters participating. And for the descendants of the three arcane masters, refine the bloodline of the spirit beast. ”

"Refining the bloodline of spirit beasts?" Shanfeisi exclaimed, "Can the descendants of ordinary arcane mages also refine the bloodline of spirit beasts?" ”

Penrose glanced at Shanfiz and seemed to know his thoughts: "To refine the bloodline, you need the help of the arcane master, there is only one arcane master in the wind breath realm, without his nod permission, ordinary arcane mages don't think about such a good thing." ”

Shanfiz smiled, embarrassed to say more.

He did have the idea to work for the benefit of his descendants and refine the bloodline of the spirit beast, so that future generations could get in touch with the transcendent faster.

However, when he heard that the arcane teacher needed to intervene, he died down.

Only Arcane Masters with 7 rings and above can be called Arcane Mentors, and there are not many Arcane Masters in the entire Seven Towers Federation.

Just 1 Ring Arcane Mage, I'm afraid that I can't even enter the door of the Arcane Master's house, let alone ask the Arcane Master Mentor to refine the spirit beast bloodline.

"Mentor, what spirit beast bloodline can Rangnick's descendants get?" Bronk asked.

"Rangnick, as a 2-ring arcane mage, we will apply for a 5-ring black jade scorpion bloodline for him, and the other two 1-ring arcane mages will apply to use a 4-ring vicious bumblebee and a 4-ring angry bull to refine the bloodline to soothe the sacrifices of the three arcane mages."

The bloodline of the spirit beast is to refine the bloodline spirituality of the spirit beast into the human bloodline, so that the human race inherits the spirituality of the spirit beast.

Once the spirituality of the spirit beast in the bloodline is stimulated, it can be of great benefit.

For example, the black snake bloodline of the black snake family, refined from the 5-ring spirit beast - multi-headed black-necked snake, once promoted to the 1st ring, it can stimulate the black snake bloodline and greatly improve its strength.

This kind of spirit beast bloodline may be a chicken rib for a high-level arcane mage.

But for the knights of the family, it is equivalent to improving the strength of a level - the same two 1-ring knights, the knights with the bloodline of the spirit beast will crush the knights without the bloodline of the spirit beast.

The same is true for low-level arcane mages, with more spirit beast bloodlines, it's like having an extra instantaneous arcane.

Many small nobles, it is difficult to give birth to a high-level arcane mage in several generations, and it is by relying on the family's bloodline knights and bloodline arcane mages to maintain their status.

The higher the level of the spirit beast, the stronger the bloodline.

But at the same time, there will be drawbacks, that is, the difficulty of awakening the bloodline will also increase accordingly.

is also a bloodline knight, the bloodline refined by the 5-ring spirit beast, maybe the 1-ring knight can awaken; The bloodline refined by the 7-ring spirit beast may have the probability of awakening only the senior 1-ring knight; And the bloodline refined by the 9-ring spirit beast is likely to require the 2-ring phantom beast knight to awaken.

Therefore, for the arcane mage who wants to start a family, the 9-ring bloodline is not necessarily a good thing, and the bloodline of the 5-ring and 7-ring is a better choice.

"Mentor, is there any news from the nearby market town, and has the snake head town also been invaded by the insect tide?" Duke asked.

"The news hasn't come yet."

In the end, Master Penrose simply gave a holiday to everyone who was not in high spirits: "Everyone is tired today, tomorrow the Mage Tower will rest for a day, and everyone doesn't have to come." ”

……

The brand new shuttle is parked in the castle parking garage.

It's a pity that because of his concern for Snakehead Town, Duke lost the excitement of changing his new car and returned to Beverly Manor with a worried little assistant.

"Messaging is too far behind." Looking out the window at the rapidly receding landscape, Duke thought to himself.

Airship battles need to rely on flag language communication, and postman owls need to deliver letters between market towns and cities, and it is impossible to communicate in time.

"But there seems to be a special way of communication between big cities, and there is no need to rely on owls to deliver letters...... Moreover, the projection ring method of the Great Ao Mage, the idea descending on the clone, is also a quick remote communication...... What I'm going to make up is basic communication! ”

When he got back to the villa, he made a list and asked his entourage to go outside to buy materials.

He wanted to find out the existence of electromagnetic waves.

No, to be precise, it should be called spiritual magnetic waves, because there is no such energy as electricity in the Wild Continent, and Duke had tried hand-cranked power generation before, but to his surprise, he didn't even receive electricity.

Later, he finally understood that the material structure of the Barren Continent may be fundamentally different from the material structure of the earth.

One is the physical world and the other is the otherworld.

After all, the underlying logic of the world is different, so it makes sense, there are similarities and similarities, and there are also very different places.

"If there is no electricity, then I will find something similar to electricity - psionic energy!"

The entourage quickly bought back the materials he wanted, some spiritual gold silk threads and spiritual gold poles, and he wanted to use these materials to make simple antennas to receive spiritual magnetic waves in the surrounding air.

Thanks to the fact that when he was on Earth, he had dismantled the TV antenna in his rural hometown and had a certain understanding of the antenna.

Soon, an antenna made of Lingjin was erected on the large terrace of the villa, and one end of the antenna was connected to a basin of water with Lingjin wire.

He poured psionic energy into the basin of water as he unleashed the mage's hand arcane magic into the courtyard.

The mage's hand of luminous light was fleeting.

There was no response in the basin.

"Through the 'antenna' I designed, it stands to reason that the spiritual energy in the basin should be able to vibrate the spiritual energy in the basin, thus forming water waves on the surface of the water...... But it didn't, is my antenna not accurate enough, or is the principle wrong? Duke shook his head, and then communicated with Xiaoyi.

"Master, please command."

"Help me analyze whether the experimental principle of the spiritual magnetic wave is wrong."

"Master, the experimental principle of the spiritual magnetic wave needs more actual measurement data to judge whether the principle is valid." Xiaoyi responded.

"Okay." Duke had no choice but to reorganize his experimental ideas and design a new antenna.

He was busy until midnight before taking a shower and falling asleep, and he was ready to spend a long time observing the possibility of spiritual magnetic waves.

It will not deny the existence of spiritual magnetic waves just because it cannot be detected for a while.

Following.

The weather was just right and the sun was shining.

The postman owls in the market towns such as Snake Head Town have all arrived at the United Tower and reported their safety to the United Tower in Shenjiao City.

Not a single market town was attacked.

Beverly Manor Villa 17 also received a letter from the Postman Owl that the Black Snake family had evacuated from the Castle and would no longer send missions to the Valley.

"Xiao Lili, are you relieved now?" Duke handed the letter to Mulari.

The girl suddenly laughed happily: "Uh-huh." ”

Without going to work, Duke stayed at the villa and continued his experiments with the Psychic Magneto, constantly improving the antenna structure to find traces of the presence of the Psychic Magneto.

Three days passed in a flash, and on March 19, a grand public funeral ceremony was held in Shenjiao City.

The bodies of the three arcane mages who died in the insect tide have been pieced together and are ready to be buried at the Linghai Pier in the north of the city.

Linghai Pier is not a real pier, but a high platform.

Public burial is not about burying the body in the ground, but about burning the body with the light of psionic energy, and burning the body until there is nothing left.

The mages believed that spirits could crush everything, and souls would return to the true sea of spirits.

"Returning to the spiritual sea is the destination of all arcane masters, and although they can no longer explore the temple of spiritual arcane, they can become one with spirituality. Wherever the spiritual sea extends, the arcane master can see where it is, and work with the spiritual sea. ”

Vikas muttered softly as he looked at the corpse that was being burned by the psionic light.

Duke doesn't believe that.

People cannot be resurrected after death, and what is integrated with spirituality is nothing more than the ecological cycle of material decomposition and return to nature.

"Actually, there are a lot of arcane mages who don't believe in this statement, and Baines from the forest hut is one of them."

Duke reads Bynes's lab notes, and can clearly feel Bynes's thirst for immortality.

That's why Bynes embarked on a forbidden experiment, studying the soul container, preparing to transfer his soul to the container for eternity.

"May the spirit still be cared for, and may the spiritual sea be eternally sheltered." Earl Keystone Fury personally presided over the public funeral ceremony, using the light of psionic energy to burn the bodies of the three arcane mages, "Rangnick, Bills, and Dzeko, partners in the journey of exploring the truth, after a short separation, we will finally meet again." ”

"Woo woo woo ......" The family members of the three arcane mages whimpered and cried on the side.

Then the three hundred and sixty-nine arcane mages in Shenjiao City, except for a few who went out and did not return, all the rest, as well as several arcane mages from the Bernoulli Mage Tower, picked up a small blooming daisy and placed it on the high dock where there was no body.

Mourning with a little daisy.

"Am I going to do the same one day, and burn the corpse on a high platform?" Sanfis put down the little daisy and turned back to Duke.

Duke bent down and put down the little daisy, and replied lightly: "As long as you can die of old age, you won't be burned." ”

"Well, I'm sure I'll try to die of old age, of course, it's better if I can get old and not die."

"Think beautifully."

The little daisy was released, and the public funeral ceremony ended, and big names like Keystone Fury had to be interviewed by reporters.

Naturally, Duke and the others did not have a reporter to interview, so they returned to the Mage Tower and continued their work.

In the afternoon, Falingta sent a letter to Duke, and when he opened it, he found a receipt of publication from the Magi Tower of the Sage of Malottave.

"Hello Master Dukeao, the article "Analysis of Practical Spiritual Materials of Novel Exotic Spirit Beasts in Cuihai Valley" submitted by my journal has been reviewed by the review editor of my journal and has certain academic value, and it will be approved and will be published in the next issue of "Runwu City Spirit Card".

"Beautiful!" Duke clenched his fists and excited, "The first paper was passed, although it was published in a local journal, but it was also the first step in scientific research!" ”

I didn't tell anyone about this joy, and I was going to wait for the next issue of "Runwu City Spirit Card" to be released.

After reading the letter.

Calming down the excitement, Duke returned to the table and began to study the Psionic Magnetic Wave Antenna, preparing to design a more accurate antenna to observe the Psychic Magnetic Wave.

Drawing ideas on paper and collecting structural data for several materials, Duke instructed Xiaoyi: "Simulation calculations." ”

"Okay master, I'm simulating the operation for you, and the process will take about three days." Xiaoyi responded.

After the experiment gradually got on the right track, Duke no longer needed to repeat the experiment step by step, and could leave it to Xiaoyi to simulate.

When unknown data emerges in the simulation, Duke needs to take over and experiment in reality.

So after Xiaoyi took over, Duke made time to continue to study the goal he had set before-1 ring slide card.

"It's a lot of fun to be busy every day." Looking up from the lab table, Duke stretched.

Dangdangdang.

Mulali knocked on the door and came in: "Sir, Supervisor Vikas has asked you to come to his office and prepare a new research topic for you." ”

"Yes." Duke replied lightly.

He wasn't that keen on the subject of the Mage's Tower, but he still went to Vikas's office.

Vikas didn't talk nonsense and went straight to the point: "There is a new research topic coming out in the past few days, and I think it is more suitable for you." ”

"What is the subject?"

"Research on the substitution effect of the new spiritual materials in the Cuihai Valley in the spiritual energy release channel and the spiritual energy infusion channel of the spirit storage card." Instructor Vikas handed a document to Duke, "It's a batch of topics distributed by the mentor, and I picked this one for you." ”

Duke looked at the file and asked, "The mentor is studying the spirit card?" ”

"Yes, the tutor is a card-making scholar in the field of civilian cards, and he has improved the structure of many civilian cards, and can get a lot of research resources from Union Card Stores." Vikas smiled.

Union Card Shop is a large company that spans the entire Seven Towers Federation, and almost all the spirit cards in the entire Wind Breath field are made by Union Card Shop.

Even if it is just a local branch in Shenjiao City, it can still be described as a daily income.

The entire Shenjiao City can be comparable to the income of the United Card Store, which is basically the Xibi Diling Mining Company that excavates the spirit mine.

As the only card-making scholar in Shenjiao City, Penrose was specially hired as a consultant by United Card Stores, and was able to share a large amount of profits from United Card Stores every year. At the same time, it is also necessary to do some necessary research on the improvement of spirit cards for the Union Card Shop, and the entire Mage Tower is basically in the service of this.

After a moment's thought, Duke took on the topic: "I'll start working on it as soon as possible." ”

The subject is not difficult, he can coordinate and command, and the specific experimental operations can be completely handed over to the spiritual apprentices to carry out.

With Xiaoyi to help him design a plan, he doesn't need to bother much.

Ask for tickets~

(End of chapter)