The naturalist meeting started from morning to night, and in the evening, more than 100 people ate a working meal at the Drizzle Hotel, and then dispersed after eating.

Cowley's men had already contacted the game, but no one had invited Duke to come over and play cards.

Duke simply took Vivian, Mulari, Mula Shan and others to Runwu City to visit the night market and visit this large city with a population of nearly 20 million.

The inner city is full of tall towers, each taller than the other, and at night it is lit up like a light show. Especially after changing the strong lights, there is no fear of consuming spiritual energy at all, and the inner city is as clear as daylight.

A dazzling array of shops, neon-lit signs, and a constant stream of people.

Cosmopolitan in all its glory.

However, Duke prefers to visit the outer city to the glitz and glamour of the inner city, and sees many dirty and dilapidated low buildings, as well as a patchwork of shacks, and even sees crime taking place every time he passes through the alleyway.

Robbery and theft are common.

"It doesn't seem to be any different from Shenjiao City." Mulali sighed.

"Where the people at the bottom live a similar life." Duke hurried through the streets, and after a few crimes, he became relentless.

There is a huge sense of separation between the arcane mage and ordinary people.

This sense of separation is greater than that of the third brother on the earth, the sense of separation between the high castes and the low castes, but it is not a simple gap between the rich and the poor.

Because whether it is Runwu City or Shenjiao City, most of the low-level people live a decent life, at least they will not go hungry. However, the life of the arcane mage class is like heaven, free of diseases and disasters, living a long life of hundreds of years, and everything is available.

"Ordinary people still have to experience human suffering in birth, old age, sickness and death, alas, but I eat and drink well every day, and I deserve it......" Duke shook his head.

Vivian, who has always been silent, suddenly said: "My lord, you have done a good job, whether it is private morality or public morality. You have never oppressed ordinary people, and you have invented strong lights to dispel the darkness for the people, and the people are grateful to you. ”

"I haven't done enough." Duke sighed.

Then he looked at his female knight again: "Vivian, I found that you are actually very talented in speaking, talk more in the future, don't always be silent." ”

Vivien nodded, "Yes." ”

Then he returned to his usual rigidity, quietness, and conscientiously did his job as a captain of the knights, and was not pampered and arrogant.

Duke also restrained his sympathy and wandered the streets of the city from the perspective of a bystander.

Observe the scenery of this era and this world.

Towering chimneys, day and night, emit billowing smoke, and are blown out of the city by a constant arcane-unrelenting wind.

Factory machines roar incessantly, trucks line up to pull goods from the factory, and workers ride bicycles to and fro in shifts. In this huge city, there are ugly pictures and beautiful moments, and the misery of life has not rubbed the smiles on people's faces.

"I can do something...... Duke thought to himself.

When the people on the street began to thin out, Duke and his entourage returned to the inner city and returned to the Drizzle Hotel to rest.

The naturalist conference lasted for three days.

Duke didn't take the stage again for the next two days, basically just listening to other polymath giving academic reports, and then discussing the current development of naturalism and imagining the future of naturalism.

"The harvest is huge." Duke really felt that this academic conference had come to the right place.

Let him have a clear understanding of the development of naturalism in the entire Seven Towers Federation and even the entire human society, and also know what he should work hard in the future.

"If we say that the current human society belongs to the era of Hongda Aofa, like the era of the first industrial revolution and the second industrial revolution. Then what I want to do is to lead mankind into the era of the third scientific and technological revolution and even the era of Industry 4.0. ”

"Times like these."

"It can be called the Age of Cave Micro Spirituality!"

Duke was full of pride in his heart, as if he had seen a bright future led by himself: "Compared with the difficulty of technological upgrading, the extraordinary power of spiritual arcane law can bring about changes that will be faster, more violent, and more expansive!" ”

There was no delay in Runwu City.

The day after the naturalist meeting, Duke returned to Shenjiao City with Azgul, Dinkig, Glovewin, and Neville.

Cowley and Bovis also plan to continue to stay in Runwu City to visit friends.

"At this meeting, Duke has made a lot of limelight, especially Lord Jefferson Rockbird, who is very optimistic about your future!" Dinkig smoked a cigar and said casually to Duke, "I even invited you to join the Erudite Tower in Runwu City." ”

"Well, it's more polite." Duke replied.

Jefferson Rock Sparrow has lived hundreds of years, what kind of genius has not been seen, and Duke does not think that his current performance is really much brighter than those geniuses. After all, he is currently mainly studying, and the bright light technology is more like a flash of inspiration.

So if people are polite, he won't take it seriously.

Dingkig didn't say much about this, but asked: "What are your plans for the future, I remember when you won the Outstanding Erudite Invention Award, you said that you still have a lot of naturalist inspiration, and the Giant of Light should continue to grow, right?" ”

As soon as Duke heard this, he understood Dinkig's thoughts, and said with a smile: "The Giant of Light is currently seeking to transform, from a single lamp production to a comprehensive spiritual artifact production, but my positioning for it is to take the patented production route. ”

"Patented production route?"

"Yes, we only produce spiritual artifact products that we have the patent for, of course, if we can obtain permanent patent authorization for other spiritual artifacts, it is not impossible to produce." Duke continued, "In short, the Giants of Light do not want to be stuck. ”

"This idea is good, the reason why Runwanjia failed is the failure at the patent level, and it is difficult to really monopolize the industry by relying on agents alone."

"That's true."

"However, if the Giant of Light wants to take the patent route, it is okay in the Black Jiaohe Land, but I am afraid that there will be many obstacles in other cities."

Duke looked at Dinkig with a smile: "It is precisely because of the difficulty that more like-minded partners are needed, Your Excellency Dinkig, are you interested in attaching to the Giant of Light?" ”

Ding Jige did not agree immediately, but said with a smile: "Do you know that many shareholders of Runwanjia have plans to withdraw their capital? ”

"Oh, what do you mean?"

"The Giant of Light has the potential to become bigger and stronger, I know that there are many people who want to take this express train and contribute money and efforts, I wonder if you have any plans to accept it?"

Although Runwanjia was only defeated in the battle of lamps.

And Clairenda alone bears most of the responsibility, and has alleviated the predicament of Runwanjia by selling the shares of Xibidi.

But defeat is failure.

In the face of the rising sun of the giants of light, Runwanjia has become a situation where the sun is setting, and the mages on this big ship do not want to be silent with the big ship, so they have to look for a new big ship.

Duke Luo groaned and responded, "I don't object, but the decision-making power of the Giant of Light can only be in my hands, and you need to trust me 100%. If they agree, I welcome you to join the Giants of Light. ”

"Don't take board decisions?"

"Don't take it." Duke smiled lightly, unwavering in his attitude.

Perhaps the board of directors can make collective decisions more risk-averse and make relatively correct decisions, but this is not what Duke wants.

Only when the Giant of Light is completely under his control will he be willing to grow the Giant of Light step by step and achieve his goals with the help of the Giant of Light.

Lead mankind into the age of cave spirituality.

"I understand, I'll talk to you when I go back, and I'll give you an answer later." Dinkig already understood Duke's attitude.

The rest depends on how the shareholders of Runwanjia will make their choices.

……

After two days and two nights of flight, the Shadow Chaser airship successfully landed at the Sukhtara Mage Tower, and it felt extremely wonderful to return to its own territory.

"Tsk!" Xiaodou can't wait to go out and play.

"Levin, take Xiaodou out and have fun." Duke waved his hand.

Levin, who grew stronger and stronger, still looked stupid as before, and after agreeing, he took Xiaodou to play in the castle.

As for Duke.

First, I went to meet Sukhtara, who had not yet gone to work at the Union Tower: "Teacher, I'm back." ”

"I'm back." Sukhtara smiled gently, "Did you gain anything from participating in the naturalist conference this time?" ”

"I have gained a lot, I have a clear understanding of the whole naturalist study, and even my cultivation path has risen a bit." Duke replied.

According to Xiao Yi's progress prediction, his current cultivation progress at the level of the 1st ring has reached about 58%. Thanks to the promotion of strong light technology, the people who enjoy the strong light in the entire Seven Towers Federation continue to promote his understanding of spiritual mysteries.

And this naturalist conference, the exchange between polymato, boosted his understanding of spiritual mysteries.

After coming and going, the cultivation progress has already passed the halfway point.

And he has not been promoted to arcane mage for two years.

Such a cultivation speed is enough to be called terrifying, you must know that most arcane mages have to precipitate in the 1 environmental realm for more than ten years or even decades in order to consolidate their cognition of spiritual arcane law, so that the spirit core will continue to be distorted, entangled, and outlined, until they are promoted to the 2nd ring.

"Yes, this is also the reason why the teacher does not prevent you from attending academic conferences, spiritual arcane law is not made behind closed doors, it can be used to attack jade and communicate with people, in order to help you comprehend faster and expand your cognition faster."

After a while, Sukhtara continued: "But since you are back, you should take care of yourself and continue to design and forge the Touch of All Souls with your teacher. ”

"Good!" Duke gladly yes.

Casting the 1st Ring Arcane Artifact - The Touch of All Souls was definitely an important learning opportunity for him, and for no other reason, on the way back from Runwu City, the third Arcane Wonder in his spiritual sea, the Healing Arcane Wonder, had been completed.

Arcane Shields, Illusions, and Healing, the three Arcane Wonders did not fill the orbit of the 1 Ring Core.

He can also free up a spare place to forge a mysterious artifact of his own.

After all, the nine-ring Xiaoyi and the one-ring sand eagle are all companion arcane weapons, which do not occupy orbital space, which gives him too much help.

"If there is a chance in the future, maybe the sea of qi and blood can also be refined into arcane weapons by me, and they will not occupy orbital space...... In this way, I have four arcane weapons, and I don't need to occupy the ring track, which is too much better than others! ”

At present, he has not yet thought about what type of arcane weapon he wants to cast, and plans to learn the technology of casting arcane weapons first, and then think about it.

"Then the teacher will go to the Union Tower to order a meal first, and when we finish eating in the evening, we will start casting the Touch of All Souls."

"Yes."

Sending Sukhtara to the shuttle, Duke himself asked the driver to drive the shuttle, and then left the Sukhtara Mage Tower.

Instead of going to work at Penrose Mage's Tower, he went to the Spirit Pond Farm.

Changing into a wide arcane mage robe and putting on the hood as well, Duke directly called the chick out, and then merged with the chick.

Elven form descends.

The figure suddenly rose to more than two meters.

Pointed ears, pale face, turquoise pupils, flowing blonde hair, and significantly stronger physical fitness than before, all made Duke happily indulge in it.

"What a pleasure it would be to be able to stay in elven form all the time!"

"You're thinking about fart, you're trying to exhaust me!" The chick's voice suddenly sounded in his heart, scolding and complaining.

"Hehe, quiet!"

"Not really!"

"I'm going to cast a spell on your Ji Yulu, if you are not quiet, I can't cast a spell with peace of mind." Duke scares chicks.

This undoubtedly poked the chick's soft underbelly, and the grunting sound gradually faded away.

Duke was wandering around the Lingchi Farm, and Xiaoyi hung up the breathing method, enveloping the surrounding area of two or three kilometers in breathing resonance.

Whether it is Ji Yulu or Gyokuro, or other plants planted, such as blowing snow pillars, they are all slowly born in the resonance of breathing. The forces of nature cycle to strengthen the roots of these plants and allow them to thrive.

After two hours, the elven form was suddenly lifted, and Duke returned to his height of 1.8 meters.

The chick also condensed its body, panting and looking at Duke: "Quick, give me the spirit crystal, I haven't been so tired for a few days!" ”

"Don't worry, let me check your body." Duke took the chick by the tail and examined it carefully.

Compared with Xiaoyi's previous records.

The tail is a little shorter, and the hind legs are getting thicker and thicker, and the front end is already about to divide into five toes...... Congratulations chicks, you're evolving a little bit towards a frog again! Duke smiled and took out the spirit crystal and stuffed it into the chick's mouth, "Come on, work hard, and strive to evolve into a big elf as soon as possible." ”

Quack, quack, the chick chewed the spirit crystal and swallowed it in one gulp.

Then he rolled his eyes at Duke, and was about to crash into Duke's stomach, when he suddenly stopped: "Duke, I haven't seen Kikyo for a few days, tell the blonde big wave girl, let her bring Kikyo over tomorrow to play." ”

"Okay." Duke agreed.

The chick hit him headfirst on the stomach and disappeared.

"Sir, will you go back?" Mulali came over and asked.

"Take a trip to Penrose Mage's Tower."

Penrose's Mage Tower was still the same as before, quiet, except for Instructor Vikas, who liked to wander around, and everyone else stayed either in the office or in the lab.

Dangdang.

Duke knocks on Kiria Fury's office door.

As soon as Assistant Jiss opened the door, he welcomed Duke in, and after bringing tea, he consciously closed the office door.

"Duke, you're back from a meeting?"

"Hmm."

"Attending an academic conference for the first time, what experiences and feelings can you share?" Kiria has a shallow smile on her face, giving the impression that she is full of collagen.

Girls of this age are indeed rich in collagen.

Besides, if you are still an arcane master, I am afraid that for decades or hundreds of years, collagen will rarely be lost.

"Feel it, I have benefited a lot, but after three days of meetings, I feel that I am still a little transparent, and I need to work harder, otherwise few polymath will take the initiative to discuss with you." Duke spoke of his true feelings.

Audit-based, low participation.

"Take your time, you're only eighteen years old, maybe the grandson or great-grandson of those polymaths...... It's normal for your grandchildren to be older than you and don't like to discuss with you. Kiria smiled and comforted.

"Come to think of it, if a seven or eight-year-old kid sits at a table with me and discusses spell models, I'll be awkward."

"Haha."

"By the way, the chick misses the bellflower, why don't you bring the bellflower tomorrow?"

"Okay, the bellflower is also chattering at home, the number of elves in Shenjiao City is limited, and they are all hidden deep by the big family, and it is rare for the bellflower to meet such a companion as a chicken."

"Do you know how many elves there are in the Black Jiaohe Land?"

"I asked my grandfather, and he couldn't say for sure, but there should be five or six. The three spirit plant scholars in the local city should all have contract elves. ”

"Outlets too?"

"Yes."

"Hmm." Duke has the heart to communicate with other elf owners and exchange tips on raising elves, but it's better to think about it.

On the one hand, there is no time, and there are too many distractions.

On the one hand, I feel that even the Nutao family doesn't know how to cultivate elves, and it's probably in vain to ask others, elves are too mysterious.

Fortunately, the elves have a long lifespan, and Duke still has a lot of time to help the chicks evolve.

"Okay, I'm here to talk about this, and I'm leaving."

"See you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow."

Leaving Kiria's office, Duke went to Vikas's office and sat down, gossiping a few gossips.

Now Vikas has said goodbye to academic research completely and is messing around all day.

"You can rest assured, I will take care of your research group." Vikas said, "If you give the experiment process, Team Leader Dellas and these people can give you a safe and secure experiment, and there will be no problems." ”

"You've helped me a lot."

Duke basically adopts a free-range approach to the topics arranged by his tutor, and he only needs to formulate a process, collect data, and then let Xiaoyi write a paper.

There is no time to lose.

Only in this way will he have more energy to study other fields.

"If you want me to say, it's still the mentor who values you." Vikas sighed, "After working in the Penrose Mage Tower for so many years, I have never seen a mentor who is so tolerant of you and is at your disposal. ”

"yes, the mentor is very good to me."

"But isn't it, I remember when I was younger, when I came here to study, I would be scolded by my tutor for not paying attention to my schoolwork. Even Oriana, Balza, and Bronque, if they make mistakes now, the mentor will scold them all the same, but for you, never before. ”

Vikas said enviously.

Duke asked rhetorically, "Is it possible that I never made a mistake?" ”

Vikas was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "You kid! ”

But after he had laughed, and when he thought about it, it seemed that this was really the case, and he had never seen any mistakes in Duke.

Especially when writing papers, it seems that Duke has never been called back and revised once.

"It's really terrifying!" When Duke left, Vikas sighed, "Maybe I will be able to witness the rise of an arcane teacher in my lifetime...... Duke, with his current talent, should be able to be promoted to Mentor of Arcane! ”

……

After taking care of the chores, Duke threw himself into the casting of the Touch of All Souls.

"The processing technique of the material, you still have to continue to practice, the Ice Heart Jade Bead needs to use spiritual energy to stabilize the performance, and wait until it is critical, and then inject the prepared water velvet silk...... "Sukhtara is a qualified teacher, teaching Duke by hand.

Duke took out twelve points of attention and followed Sukhtara's instructions to deal with it.

Sukhtara looked at Duke's movements and said, "You have to practice the operation, your talent in comprehension is the strongest the teacher has ever seen, there is no one. However, in terms of hands-on operation, it is much worse than your understanding, so you must practice and practice more in this area. ”

"Yes."

Comprehension is blessed by Xiaoyi, but the operation has to be practiced by Duke himself, and the gap is natural.

Fortunately, Duke is still a big knight, and his fighting spirit has greatly increased the coordination and stability of his body, and he has improved his operating talent.

So.

Time passed day by day, and in a blink of an eye, it was August.

The casting of the Touch of All Souls has reached the final stage, and Sukhtara is completely out of his hands, only responsible for the sound guidance, and the rest of the work is done by Duke.

"Well done, kid."

"It's okay, teacher."

"There is no need to be modest, your talent in alchemy has surpassed everyone else." Sukhtara's satisfaction with Duke has long been on the charts.

The one-and-a-half-month casting process of the arcane artifact has strengthened her opinion.

Perhaps in the process of getting started, Duke will stumble a little, but the entire process and idea of casting the arcane weapon, Duke has not made any mistakes, and even more accurately than Suktara himself.

That's talent.

Unparalleled talent.

A few days later, the casting of the Touch of All Souls was announced, and Shanfiz, who had been waiting outside the laboratory for a long time, rushed to the laboratory table as soon as Sukhtara agreed to come in.

Looking at the stage, a whip made of crystal, breathing gradually became shorter.

"All the materials have been refined, Sanfes, next, you can refine it yourself and complete the final step of the activation process." Duke said indifferently.

Sanfiz didn't answer, just nodded heavily.

Then, in the laboratory, the final step of refining this delicate crystal whip began.

Half a day later.

The crystal whip was completely refined by him, and as his mind guided it, the crystal whip slowly disappeared on the test bench.

"Whew!"

Sanfiz let out a long breath.

Duke looked at him a little nervously, "How is it, everything is working properly with this arcane weapon, right?" ”

Shanfiz's face was ugly, and his brows were tightly knit, as if there was something wrong with the refining of the Touch of All Souls, which made Duke feel a little uncomfortable.

"What the hell is going on, Sanfès?"

The Touch of All Souls is led by the teacher, but most of the details are actually made by Duke. It can be said that its success or failure is the most direct test of Duke technology, and its results will be related to whether the information collected by Xiaoyi is correct during the casting process.

Sanfis kept his head down and did not speak.

Duke couldn't help but turn his head to look at Sukhtara, but saw a faint smile on the corner of his teacher's mouth, not at all flustered or embarrassed by failure.

This made Duke's heart move.

Then he slapped Shanfiz violently: "You scare the ghost!" ”

"Hahahaha!" Shanfiz laughed suddenly, "I'm scared, hahaha, I know that your kid's confident performance all day long is pretending, in fact, many times you don't have a bottom, yes and no!" ”

"Get out of here." Duke's expression returned to calm, and Xiaoyi also successfully verified the technology of casting arcane weapons, which can be safely included in the database.

Shanfiz was overjoyed: "Haha, I'm scared silly!" ”

It's just a prank, and Duke doesn't care about it at all: "Go back quickly, try the effect of the Touch of All Souls, and I won't leave you to eat." ”

Sukhtara suddenly said, "You go to the Scott's Mage Tower with Sanfis and use it to examine the patient's body to see if there is any deviation from the function we envisioned." If there is an error, you can take it back and correct one or two. ”

"Yes, Teacher." Duke replied.

Shanfiz also laughed enough, and hugged Duke's shoulder: "Let's go, let's go directly to Shenjiao City Hospital to check on the patient, and I'll invite you to drink at night!" ”

Sukhtara hurriedly admonished, "Don't get drunk, Duke has to take lessons with me in the evening." ”

"Received, Lord Suktara, you didn't get paid to help me forge the arcane weapon, how dare I delay you from giving Duke a lesson." Shanfiz also had a clear priority, "I just invited Duke to dinner, and I sent him back after eating." ”

The two left the laboratory, took the shuttle directly, and went to Shenjiao City Hospital to begin experimenting with the effect of the Touch of All Souls.

Ask for tickets~

(End of chapter)