Smack!

The teacup was slammed to the floor by Clelinda, shattering into glass shards.

"It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous!" Clelinda roared angrily, "How could it be that Duke invented the continuous supply pulping technology!" ”

Azgul didn't look at the glass slag on the floor, but said indifferently: "I have investigated, this technology has changed hands several times, but the original source is the owner of the Little Sam Shuka shop, Old Sam, and Duke was working in the Little Sam Shuka shop at the beginning. ”

"Ahem!" Clairenda blushed, "So what, who knows if old Sam invented it or Duke invented it!" ”

"Anyway, after this matter spreads, it will have a negative impact on Runwanjia."

"Who dares to make irresponsible remarks about the patent I spent money on!"

"Anyway." Azgul looked at the man in front of him and sighed, "Klelinda, it's better to take a step back, it's no longer enough to rely on the spiritual light to stop Duke from getting the Erudito title, let's slowly buy patents in the future." ”

"No, I can't swallow this breath, now the situation has been reversed by Runwanjia, I went out this time and talked about a lot of cooperation, which is enough to ensure that the spiritual lamp will defeat the portable lamp in the market. Then you and I will make a move to the Erudite Tower in Runwu City, will the Erudite Tower dare to take the risk and give the title of Erudito to Duke? ”

"Infringement is infringement, Klelinda, you see a little reality!" Azgul stretched out his hand and knocked on the table, "The arcane mage of the Erudite Tower of Runwu City will not take the risk of going against his original intention and help us cover up, in fact, ......"

"Actually, what?" Clelinda asked.

"In fact, my distorted circle has already reacted to it, and I can't hold on for too long, and the infringement case must be closed as soon as possible." Azgul said.

"How can this be, just delay the judgment for a while, how can your warped ring react?"

The Twisted Ring is the place where the Arcane mage hides his true heart, guarding his cultivation, anchoring his true heart, and reducing the risk of becoming a sinking demon.

"Because my heart tells me that the spiritual lamp is copied from the portable lamp, which is a fact that I can't deny." Azgul said in a cold voice, "Every erudite mage must have a learned heart, once shaken, the result will be terrible. ”

"Huhu ......" Clelinda gasped and said after a long time, "I know, although you have pronounced the verdict, Runwanjia's actions will never stop, even if the infringement is paid, I will fight this commercial competition!" ”

"Whatever you want." Azgul said coldly.

She got up to leave, and as she opened the door, Clelinda suddenly shouted, "Wait a minute." ”

Azgul turned around and looked at Clelinda indifferently.

Klelinda's painful expression flashed across her face, and she suppressed her emotions and said, "You know, I don't want people to see jokes, since my spirit core was shattered...... In short, I will lose completely, and I will never retreat halfway! ”

Azgul's heart softened, and she said softly: "Alas, why bother. ”

"It's necessary!" Clelinda said, "And it is not yet known who killed the deer, what about the infringement of the spiritual lamp, as long as it can defeat the portable lamp and extinguish the giant of light, everything will return to the way it should be, and the laughter at this time is just a little noisy." ”

"Whatever you want." Azgul pushed the door open.

After Azgul had been away for a long time, Clelinda called for an assistant to clean up the broken glass in the office.

Then send someone to call the general manager and sales supervisor of Runwanjia Spirit Factory, and hold a meeting in the office, continue to expand the scale of production, continue to sell at a loss, and carry out comprehensive promotional activities in cities and market towns in eight regions.

From September to October, and from October to December.

Runwanjia and the Giant of Light are like two big men who fight for their lives, burning I don't know how many golden dragons, and spreading the two series of products of portable lamps and spiritual lamps to every corner of the wind breath field.

Ordinary people's families almost have one lamp in their hands.

"25 bronze dragon is a portable lamp, 24 copper dragon is a spiritual lamp!" The mercenary who was far away in Cuihai Valley was holding a lamp in one hand, "Hehe, these two companies are competing, and the hand lamp is getting cheaper and cheaper, and I don't know what to think." ”

"Whatever it thinks, I'll just take advantage of it anyway." The other mercenary laughed.

"The hand lamp is very good, but the brightness is not very good, it does not shine very far, and the large searchlight is not easy to carry."

"Come on, it's much better than carrying a spiritual wind lamp before, which can't be lit up from a meter away, so it's too much better, you can be content."

"These two companies have only reduced the price, and they don't know how to put more effort into the product."

"Speaking of which, the portable lamp was invented by the Giant of Light Company, and Runwanjia is a large company that encroaches on other people's patents."

"Is the lawsuit decided?"

"The verdict is over, as was pronounced a while ago, in the future, every time Runwanjia sells a spiritual lamp, it will have to compensate the Giant of Light for the patent infringement fee of one or two copper dragons." The mercenaries had read the newspapers before, and there was news about it.

"Why is the Runwanjia still selling spiritual lamps, isn't this giving money to the Giant of Light?"

"People are not afraid of great causes, there is Master Arcane behind him, there is a lot of money, but he just doesn't pay patent fees, saying that he wants to postpone it, in short, he wants to drag the giant of light to death."

"It's so dark."

"What do you think, the methods of the old master of the arcane mage can be ruthless!"

"That's not right, there is an arcane mage master behind the Runwanjia, isn't there also an arcane mage master behind the light giant?"

"There are also levels between masters, can 3 rings be the same as 1 ring, I don't want to think about it."

"Okay, okay, there is less nonsense in the night operation, tonight our group will be tight, and catch more ferrets for sale." The head of the mercenary group scolded, "Recently, the situation in Cuihai Valley is not right, and I feel that a new wave of insects is about to break out, in short, after completing this mission, we will withdraw to Snake Head Town to rest for a while." ”

"Leader, what the hell did you say the Bernoulli family was doing, saying that they were going to hire someone to deal with the wurm, it's been half a year, and there hasn't been any movement."

"Don't worry about the above." The regiment commander scolded, "It doesn't matter when it hunts dragons, I wish the war would last for a few more years, let's also make a good deal for a few years, and when we earn enough, we will retire and go home to find a quiet community to enjoy as a security guard!" ”

"I don't want to be a security guard, I'm going to stay in Cuihai Valley, and when the time comes, I will join the Bernoulli family and become a vassal knight."

"As long as the Bernoulli family is a Gu knight and a one-eyed Bob, you will have to contract a bug when the time comes."

"What's wrong with contract bugs, my warthog king is already old, and he has no potential to advance to a 1-ring spirit beast in this life, so it's better to contract a bug."

Suddenly.

A mercenary in front of him issued a notice: "Found the ferret beast, hurry up, concentrate on the lighting, shine on it, fix it!" ”

I don't know how many lamps and lanterns, but the light emitted converged and illuminated the thorn bushes in front of them. Then a great knight mercenary lifted open the thorn bushes and grabbed a spirit beast that was slightly larger than a hound.

"Hey!" The big knight picked up the ears of the spirit beast, quickly took the chain handed by others, and tied the spirit beast strongly, "It's really a god, catch the ferret beast with a hand lamp, catch one by one, these ferret beasts don't know how to run." ”

"Ferrets are only nocturnal and extremely sensitive to light, and their eyes are blinded." One of the mercenaries on the team explained.

"How could I have had the opportunity to catch a ferret beast so quickly before, thanks to the portable lamp!"

"If you want me to say, thank you to the Giant of Light, and to the Duke who invented the portable lamp."

"Thanks to Master Duke." The head of the regiment took the ferret beast with a smile and stuffed it into a bag, "Let's go, continue to look for the next one, Lord Duke, we will catch more ferrets, and you will win this business war." ”

……

Autumn goes and winter comes.

The light war is in full swing, but Shenjiao City has entered the cold winter season, and the first snow has fallen.

In the playground of Sukhtara Castle, Duke rides a tall spirit horse.

A person silently practiced the "Imperial Dragoon Spear" on the horse, charged, sprinted, and the spear constantly practiced various fighting martial arts.

On his shoulder, a large fluffy squirrel sits on his stomach.

This squirrel is the long-haired meerkat-small pocket, Xiaodou and Duke train together, and the breath of one man and one beast has been drummed by the sea of blood, and the two have become one.

At this time.

You can see that on Xiaodou's forehead, a red mark is clear and bright, which is the mark representing the knight's contract.

The ring-shaped imprints are complex, with twists and turns, but eventually they form a line.

This is a closed loop.

"Drink!" Duke raised the knight's spear in his hand, and the boiling fighting spirit in his body poured out on the dummy on the charging path as the spear flew.

Rumble!

The dummy, made of spiritual gold, was blown apart.

At the same time, he laughed violently, only to feel that the fighting qi in his body seemed to have a chain reaction, and as he used his fighting qi martial arts, all of these fighting qi broke through the critical value and leaped to another level.

Fighting temperament changes.

It becomes thicker, tougher, longer, sharper, lighter, and more explosive.

The two completely different natures were manifested in the new quality of fighting qi at the same time, the roar of the sea of blood was even more surging, and a steady stream of new quality fighting qi burst out, making his whole person seem to have endless power.

The knight's spear was raised again, and with a casual blow, the golden dummy in front of him was smashed to pieces.

The power is several times stronger than the previous full force attack.

"Hearty!" Laughing, Duke rode back to the rest area of the playground, tossing the knight's spear into the crowd.

A big knight got up in an instant, caught the knight's spear, and exclaimed by the way: "Congratulations, sir, break the shackles and advance to the 1st ring of the Great Knight!" ”

"Congratulations on your advancement!"

"Congratulations, sir."

The big knights in the rest area congratulated Duke one after another, and Vivian, who was the captain of the guard knights, also looked at Duke with shining eyes.

Xiaodou stood up on Duke's shoulder, as if all these greetings were for him, and sneered triumphantly.

Duke had calmed down his excitement and regained his consistent indifference: "It's a matter of course, two days ago, I have reached the critical point of breakthrough when Xiaodou advanced to the 1st ring spirit beast, but I have always had something, and I didn't choose to break through until the weekend rest." ”

"My lord, do you want to practice charging together?" Vivien proposed.

"Forget it, I won't practice, I'll leave the little pocket, and you continue to train it." Duke threw his pocket down and chose to slip away.

Become a great knight and strengthen your fighting spirit.

He has already achieved his goal of stacking armor, so he doesn't have to spend more energy cultivating Dou Qi, as for the 2-ring Phantom Beast Knight, he needs chance, and it's useless to rely on penance alone.

Back in Tower 2, just finished taking a shower.

Then I saw Butler Morris waiting in the hall with an acquaintance - it was Suktara's assistant Subotan.

"Lord Duke, are you resting?" Su Botan asked with a smile.

Duke patted his forehead and sighed in his heart: "The teacher really doesn't let me go for a minute, it's rare to have a weekend break, and you still have to call me over!" ”

After complaining a few words in his heart, he replied calmly: "Okay, wait a while, I'll have a cup of tea and set off." ”

It was rare to meet a teacher who was willing to give him his money, and Duke didn't want to miss such a good opportunity, so as soon as the tea was finished, he went to the Mage Tower with Su Botan.

Teaching is no longer in Tower 1.

Because the basic alchemy knowledge has already been taught, the rest of the teaching needs to be completed with experiments, so it is placed in the mage tower.

"Teacher." Entering the lab, Duke said hello.

The silver-haired Sukhtara, judging from her posture, could not tell that she was one hundred and sixty years old, with ruddy skin and bright eyes, which could be called a crane-haired childish face.

It is the spiritual energy that nourishes the body at all times, keeping the body youthful and energetic.

Even today's Duke can feel the blessings of spiritual energy on his body, so that he is always at the peak of his state, and he does not have to worry about the aging and deterioration of his physical functions - even if he is only seventeen years old now, and he has not yet reached the age of eighteen.

"Come on, the teacher has prepared an interesting experiment today, which can help you better understand the transformation of spirituality and matter."

Sukhtara beckoned and continued to fiddle with the instruments and tools on the table.

"Teacher, have you been in the lab for a long time?" Duke immediately gave Sukhtara start, "You've been working too hard this time, you need you to preside over the work over the United Tower, and you'll be busy teaching me when you return to the Mage Tower." ”

Sukhtara glanced at Duke with a kind smile: "How many times have I told you, there is no need to feel sorry for the teacher, although the teacher is old, his energy is not bad at all." ”

She pointed to the experiment she had designed and said, "Come and see, after these spiritual materials are processed, they can be refined into the 'Core of Terra Silk' material, which is a common material for refining quasi-arcane weapons, and among the keel of the airship, there is the core material of Terra Silk. ”

On the table were dozens of untreated spiritual materials, including ore, metal, bones, and some wood.

After Suktara waited for Duke to distinguish the spiritual materials one by one, he pointed to another pile of spiritual materials like mud: "These are the spiritual materials I have handled, it is called 'swallow bit mud', swallow bit mud makes a nest, this swallow bit mud material is the main material of buildings such as the mage tower." ”

She said to Duke, "Come, help the teacher make the core of the Terrasi first." ”

"Okay."

Duke is skilled in getting started with spiritual materials, using his mind to direct spiritual energy, and processing it through alchemical techniques.

With the help of Xiaoyi, every step of the material processing can be perfectly controlled, which is much easier than drawing a spell model in the card material.

Even if Duke has his eyes closed, he can follow Xiaoyi's steps and refine the materials.

Sukhtara worked on the materials and looked at Duke's technique with her spare eyes, and the more she looked at it, the more satisfied she became. There may still be a little stagnation in the operation of the technique, but the control of steps and psionic energy is not much worse than that of her, an old alchemist.

It has only been more than three months since Duke studied with her.

It has only been two months since I officially started alchemy.

It took two months to be able to handle materials so skillfully, and in Sukhtara's mind, Duke was born to be an alchemist.

"This kid is right to follow me!" Sukhtara didn't know how many times, and sighed in his heart, "If it weren't for my insistence, this alchemist talent of his would have been buried...... I am grateful for the spiritual providence that has given me and him this mentoring relationship. ”

In a short time, the material has been processed.

Duke turned to Suktara, "Teacher, what's next?" ”

The kindness in Suktara's eyes almost overflowed: "Child, the next step is to fuse the materials and make the core of the Terri. ”

The process is somewhat complicated, and the operation is even more delicate.

However, with Xiaoyi's assistance, Duke still completed the hand-to-hand work excellently, and cooperated with Sukhtara to successfully make a beaker of the core of the ear silk.

"The core of the thread can be stretched very long, you try." Sukhtara said with a smile.

Duke pulled it with his hand, and it looked like a core of slime, but when it was pulled up, it looked like a noodle, and it would not break for several meters.

Even if you pull it to the thickness of a hair, you still can't break it.

"This is the core of the Tercel, which is drawn and woven into a strand and then added to the keel of the airship, which is difficult to break even if it is attacked by the 3-ring arcane...... However, it is still not perfect, and there is a limit to what it can endure. ”

Suktara said, and sighed: "In the face of the attack of the wurm beyond the upper limit, the core of the Tercel is powerless, otherwise in the last insect tide, there will be no sacrifice of the arcane mage." ”

A little emotion.

She pulled the topic back: "What we have to do now is to stir the core solution of the Terra Silk with the swallow bit mud, and then you feel it carefully and feel what kind of changes will burst out between these two alchemy materials." ”

She poured the core slime of the Terse into the swallow mud.

Duke quickly injected psionic energy into it, and then followed the perception of psionic energy, carefully experiencing the changes in it, which were all mysteries of alchemy.

At first, there didn't seem to be any collision between the two materials.

But as the solution kept mixing, the spirituality contained in it began to come into contact, and this contact burst out in all directions like fireworks.

Countless spirits are born and died and transformed in it.

Through the perception of psionic energy, Duke was soon deeply shocked, as if he felt these illusionary spirits, converging into a living life, and then dying in a short period of time, spiritual chaos, life mixed, constantly changing.

And his psionic energy quickly couldn't stand the spiritual impact in the material, and he was swept up in it and joined the transfiguration sequence.

When Duke came back to his senses, he saw that in the vessel, after mixing the two ingredients, it was like a pot of viscous paste boiling open, bubbling thick bubbles.

A few drops of the mixed viscous material broke away from the paste as the bubbles burst, and then they struggled to climb out of the vessel as if they had grown legs.

However, before he could climb to the outer mouth of the vessel, he lost momentum and slowly slipped and fell into the paste.

"This ......"

"Do you feel as if these materials have life?" Sukhtara sighed, "This is the life force. ”

"Life force?"

"Yes, but in all spiritual materials, spirituality must be born, and spirituality is transformed into all things at all times. Spirituality is the source of the birth of you and me, and it is also the nourishment for the growth of you and me, but in the end, we will all return to spirituality and return to the sea of spirituality. ”

Sukhtara continued: "In the eyes of the alchemist, the spiritual sea laps on the waves on the shore, casting all the things in the world. We take a drop of seawater and throw it into the spiritual ocean to restore it to its original appearance, and this process is alchemy. ”

"So, this is the principle that after the spirit material has been alchemized, it can be cast into the spiritual sea?" Duke asked softly.

"Yes and no. We know that the spiritual ocean is boundless, but we don't know where it exists, so we just put this drop of water into what we imagine as the spiritual sea, which is the spiritual sea for each of us. ”

There was a pause.

Sukhtara sighed again: "Sorel, he just saw this process and felt that alchemy was a process of sacrificing the basics, so he wanted to find the true spiritual sea...... So he switched careers to study the Life Box. ”

Looking at Duke, she said, "I thought about whether to give you this lesson so soon, I'm afraid that you will also learn from Sorel to study the origin of life." But the teacher believes that you are not Sorel, that you will not be deceived by the sea of true spirituality, that you are a born alchemist. ”

"Uh." Duke wanted to say that he would not refuse to come, and he wanted to intervene in any field.

But after thinking about it, he still replied affirmatively: "I don't know if I'm a natural alchemist, but I think alchemy is more worthy of my study, the transformation of matter and spirituality, this is a grand topic, I will do my best." ”

"Good boy, the teacher really didn't mistake you." Sukhtara couldn't help but take Duke's hand, "The future of the alchemist should be entrusted to you to revitalize." ”

This moment.

Duke is no longer just Sukhtara's heir, but also the son of the spiritual favor of revitalizing the alchemist.

A sense of sacred mission permeates Sukhtara's heart.

made her hate to have to sleep, and stuffed all the alchemy knowledge to Duke, so that Duke could revitalize the alchemist.

Looking at the teacher's eyes, Duke couldn't help but shudder.

It's finally time for lunch.

Duke finally got a chance to catch his breath, he hurried back to Tower 2, and after eating, he ordered Morris: "If Assistant Subotan comes to me in the afternoon, just say that I have something to deal with, and tell the teacher not to wait for me." ”

Then he hurriedly left the Sukhtara Mage Tower, not thinking about where to go, in short, not staying in this Mage Tower that was being pulled to class at any time.

"Sir, you don't seem to like going to Master Sukhtara's classes." The little assistant secretly laughed at him.

Duke glared: "What do you know, a combination of work and rest!" ”

Although he enjoys studying spiritual arcane, he is not willing to stay in the laboratory all day and be a "Frankenstein".

Enjoying life is just as important.

"My lord, do you just wander the streets?" Royce, the driver of the shuttle, asked.

After thinking about it, Duke said, "Let's go to the Giant of Light headquarters." ”

"Okay."

The headquarters of the Giant of Light is still in the original small building, but the new headquarters is already being planned, but there is no money to build it for the time being.

The company's funds have been invested in the light war, and Runwanjia has fought hard in the entire field of wind and breath.

Basically, for every portable lamp sold, the company loses ten copper dragons.

This is still not a big deal, after all, selling 2 million lamps and lanterns is only a loss of 20 million copper dragons, which is equivalent to about 2,000 gold dragons.

The entire Shenjiao City has a population of 9 million, and the market is so big, expanding to the entire Fengxi field, more than 200 million people, and how many lamps and lanterns can be sold. Even if you have a portable lamp, it will only lose 200,000 gold dragons.

The real big deal lies in the publicity costs, channel costs, and various labor costs.

For this commercial war, nearly 100,000 gold dragons have been spent on the account of the Giant Company of Light, and it is about to bottom out.

"Sir, we currently only have three regions, and our sales volume exceeds that of Runwanjia." After arriving at the headquarters of the Giant of Light, Vial reported his work ashamedly, "Runwanjia is basically not selling spiritual lights, but giving them away for free, costing about 28 copper dragons, and they sell 14 copper dragons. ”

The financial manager Mu Lusi was also there, and then complained: "Where is this discount promotion, it's a broken bone at all!" ”

"It's okay, keep spreading, they break bones, we break bones." Duke didn't care, "I'll act after the year, and then it's time for Runwanjia to jump...... In addition, I will often go to Boxue Tower to complain and ask Runwanjia to compensate me for the patent fee. ”

The patents for technologies such as portable lamps are in Duke's hands, so Runwanjia needs to pay him for patent infringement.

Speaking of which, Duke simply didn't listen to the work report: "Let's go, Xiao Lili, let's go to the Boxue Tower to continue the appeal, and we will stay in the Boxue Tower this afternoon!" ”

Ask for tickets~

(End of chapter)