The train station of the Lion City.

A steam sedan with the Lionheart's brass family crest parked at the entrance to the VIP tunnel.

has the face of the Lionheart, and there have been no accidents along the way.

In the back seat of the car, Ji Xun and Caterina sat side by side, chatting a few words from time to time.

Things went well tonight and both were in a good mood.

The Lion City is in the midst of a period of rapid development, and there are so many people coming and going, almost every half hour, a train departs back to the City of Innocence.

I didn't wait a few minutes,

Outside the car window,

"Woo, woo, woo" sounded three horns.

Seeing this, Caterina had a slight trace of regret between her eyebrows, and said goodbye: "The train is about to leave." I'll send you here, be careful yourself. ”

Ji Xun nodded: "Thank you, Miss Carter." ”

It's already a great deal to be able to deliver it here in person.

Hearing this, Katarina's pale blue eyes sparkled slightly, and she said disapprovingly: "You have saved me many times. This little favor doesn't need to be so polite. Besides, I think we're already friends, aren't we? If you need help in the future, you can come to me. It should be able to help somewhat. ”

"Okay."

Ji Xun smiled slightly.

Getting out of the car and closing the door, he waved goodbye to the blonde-haired Lionheart lady inside.

Caterina also responded with a shallow smile and whispered, "There will be a date later." ”

The moment he turned around, the corners of Ji Xun's eyebrows raised slightly, and he was thoughtful.

He walked straight to the train.

I have to admit that the two got along very happily all the way.

But in fact, when he was in the study before, Ji Xun had already discovered some changes in Katerina.

This eldest lady of the Lionheart family is completely defenseless against herself, and she can strip naked and change her clothes generously, and she may not have some other ideas.

Don't mind if it's true.

It's also true that it's intentional.

I don't mind, it's because the two of them are in a difficult life and death, and she really regards herself as a good friend;

What's more, I've already seen it anyway, show off my figure, let him feast his eyes, and I don't think it's a big deal.

And it was deliberate, maybe it was due to mood, but maybe there was also a hint of motive?

Ji Xun knows that his current identity is a bit special, after all, he has a close relationship with the "Thirteen Kamen Riders".

In addition to being a friend, it is definitely a good strategic ally.

Seduction?

Let's take it a long way.

But when it comes out, it's too superficial, and I underestimate him.

The elegance and reserve of a lady, the openness of a friend, and the cunning and teasing of a slight spring, Caterina showed them all just right.

Even if Ji Xun found out, he didn't feel anything bad.

From the first time he knew her identity in the Honglou gambling stall, Ji Xun could see that this Silver Mist Rose had extremely strong wrists and scheming.

It's just that I was still a little immature at that time.

And now Katarina, who is a hero, has the atmosphere of transforming into a superior person.

Her ability to "control and control" power and everything around her is slowly becoming apparent.

Under that elegant and beautiful appearance, there is also a kind of domineering that looks down on the world.

Just like the chaos in the banquet hall just now, she calmly killed a few brothers and brothers who were a threat to her.

But whoever is in a position of higher power must have this trait.

Absolutely kind people, can't sit in that position.

From the beginning, Caterina did not hide her purpose in front of him.

So Ji Xun found out and didn't care at all.

That's just the right scale, but I think it's a kind of personality charm that makes people get along very happily.

However, Ji Xun really has no interest in politics and power at all, he cares more about extraordinary power.

I don't say I'm happy, but I'm not happy either.

Caterina is indeed a good friend.

And after tonight, the Lionhearts may be about to change.

That friend of mine is about to bloom with his own brilliance.

Ji Xun's mind flashed and he stepped onto the train.

Ji Xun took the VIP car arranged by Katarina.

It also takes a lot less hassle.

At least you don't have to squeeze into an ordinary car and face the turns of various forces.

The VIP carriage has an exclusive service maid, and after serving a pot of hot tea, Ji Xun didn't let her stay in the carriage.

It takes more than half a day to train back to the city of innocence.

Ji Xun looked through the recent special issue of aristocratic newspapers on the shelves and learned about some of the things that had happened in high society recently.

After a while, the newspaper was almost finished, and he took out the gift he had given when they were separated before the ninth day of the new year.

Let's not talk about the scarlet card.

Ji Xun was more curious about the contents of the spell package.

Thinking that the train had already left Lion City a long way ago, he opened the package.

At this glance, it turned out to be a gray-black feather floating in mid-air.

"Angel Feathers?"

Ji Xun looked at the feathers overflowing with light and dark energy in front of him, and recognized a feather on the angel's wings at a glance.

It's not the first time he's gotten this feather.

But this one is several times more intense than the one last time.

Don't look at it as a small feather, the last time the hunchback Lao Duan touched it, he was scorched by the black flames on it.

Ji Xun didn't dare to be careless, the hellfire on his palm was instantly covered, and he lightly touched the feather.

I immediately felt a burning stinging pain when I started it, but fortunately it wasn't fatal.

He pondered in his heart, "It seems to be a flame higher than the level of the [Hellfire] law."

This is the source of the energy and laws that Queen Catherine used to use the fire forbidden spell at every turn before.

I didn't have time to look closely at it last time, and I couldn't understand it.

Now that there is plenty of time, Ji Xun thought of something, put on the clown mask, and his whole body surged with mana: "Demon solution!" ”

A terrifying aura swept through the carriage, and a clown phantom appeared behind him.

With the blessing of the super high comprehension and cognition of the magic solution, Ji Xun looked at the feather again, and the picture in front of him was different.

On the blade-like feathers, a trace of delicate texture is clearly visible, and under the illumination of the light, the naked eye can see the soft silk threads of the law.

Seeing this, Ji Xun was also surprised: "It's not the fire element?" ”

Originally, I thought that the flame was some kind of fire element.

It turned out to be not.

It's something he still doesn't understand.

The angelic personality is too high to know, and it is normal that this gray flame cannot be understood.

But he looked at the strands of free law threads on the feathers, and faintly felt familiar.

Think about it carefully, hey, isn't this the [dark matter crystal] stripped from the corpses of those monsters in the ruins of Xia Mucheng. Unknown dark energy?

"The law of high positions?"

Ji Xun didn't bother with anything he couldn't understand.

On the contrary, he was more interested in the state that feathers could float in mid-air.

I tried it last time, and holding feathers makes people "weightless".

I've tried it now, and it's still okay.

"Is this 'repulsion' or what?"

Ji Xun also felt very curious.

Comprehending the mystic technique of "Attracting the Heavens", he has mastered "a certain gravitational force" to a certain extent.

He clearly felt that this power and the power on the feather were two completely different law powers.

It is the same as the elements of fire and water, the law of complete opposites.

Thinking of this, Ji Xun played with the feathers, and became more and more curious: "Tsk. It's interesting."

He thought in his heart, if he could comprehend this "repulsion", wouldn't he be able to fly?

Whoever understands it, one hand "gravity" and the other hand "repulsion".

It's exciting to think about that picture.

And his intuition told Ji Xun that the high-level laws recorded in these various transcendent classics must involve the secrets of the higher levels of this world.

It's worth taking a closer look.

Ji Xun meditated, read books, and studied feathers in the carriage.

I don't know how time flies.

Until the long whistle of "woo woo woo" came from my ears again.

Only then did Ji Xun know that the train had arrived at the Nugget Pier in Innocence City.

Got out of the car.

Ji Xun poured out of the station with the crowd full of laughter, and was also slightly sideways by the lively scene at the station.

Steel and rivets have built new buildings, and the station is nearly ten times larger than the last time he left.

There are also dozens of times more trains stopping at the train station.

Profit is the best driving force for development, and now the Old World is completely like an open-pit gold mine, and anyone who goes there can find gold.

This also attracts people from all over the federation.

Workers at the Nuggets Docks are busy unloading large quantities of cargo from the ruins of the Old World from the trains, operating a variety of heavy robotic arms.

Ji Xun walked out in the crowd, pricking up his ears to listen to what the returning hunters and mercenaries were talking about.

Only then did I find out that it was not only the Lion City of the Lion Heart and the Cross Demon New City of the Cao Family, but also the entire Old World that was being excavated almost everywhere.

There are open camps everywhere.

Ruins, treasures, secret places, mysterious legends.

It makes people seem to see the glory of the Talon Dynasty 3,000 years ago, and the mystery is being unraveled little by little.

These adventurers who returned alive brought back too many treasures and intelligence, and also attracted more and more people to the depths of the Old World.

Ji Xun listened all the way, and unconsciously came to the abyss rift.

After the fall of Honglou, the Brotherhood also became a vassal of the Lionhearts, and the City of Innocence was completely ruled by the federal nobles.

There are obviously countless times more garrisons here than before.

Not only the pier was built into a steel castle.

Patrols of various well-equipped noble legions can also be found everywhere, like a military fortress.

The reason why it is strictly guarded is that Ji Xun has read the newspaper before and knows the reason.

The most important reason is that some unknown forces of the dead have tried to blast the docks, trying to completely destroy this passage to the Old World.

said that it was an unknown force, but Ji Xun guessed that it must be some big nobles.

After all, in just a few months, too many mechanical drawings and high-level and even super-level secret treasures have been discovered in the Old Continent.

Families like the Cao family and the Lionheart family, which have been laid out first, have already received huge benefits.

This has given them signs of threatening the positions of other elites.

And there is a momentum to lead by far ahead.

It can be expected that if the development of the Old World continues, the entire federal high society will inevitably usher in a major reshuffle.

Naturally, there are many old-fashioned people who do not want to see this scene.

It's not surprising that it causes trouble.

Ji Xun took the cable car again to cross the bottomless chasm, and in a short time, he returned to the City of Innocence.

There have been so many outsiders pouring in, and this once exiled city is now a brightly lit prosperity.

Downing Street is much more lively than before.

All kinds of taverns, gambling stalls, and wind and moon fields have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the streets are full of people.

The pedestrians were no longer all adventurers, and there were more well-dressed gentlemen and ladies in the streets, who were obviously wealthy people from elsewhere.

The once dilapidated buildings have also been renovated and repaired in large numbers, and beautiful small western-style buildings are lined up one after another.

Without Hong Lou, the Crime City Gangster Brotherhood is dominant, and gang members can be seen everywhere on the street.

However, you can still see sheriffs on steam motorcycles patrolling the streets.

Chaos and order coexist.

There are all kinds of signs that the city of innocence is developing in the direction of a prosperous new city.

Ji Xun walked around Downing Street roughly, bought a bunch of the latest information from intelligence merchants, and without much delay, rode his motorcycle straight to the headquarters of the Hunter Guild on Gro Street in Nancheng District.

Master Merlin's laboratory is located underground in this neighborhood.

Ji Xun skillfully used the steel cable to slide down the pipe for a hundred meters, and soon came to the mouth of the huge abandoned sewage pipe.

Master Merlin was not seen by outsiders.

Last time, it was because of Dong Jiuye's appointment that he and Dong Qi could meet.

This time, Ji Xun didn't know if Master Merlin was in the laboratory, and he knew very well that it was not something that could be entered casually, so he simply waited at the mouth of the pipe.

He also endured loneliness.

While waiting, I continued to read and study the classics.

Good luck.

It didn't take long for a slight sound of footsteps to be heard at the mouth of the pipe.

Ji Xun looked up, and a fat, tall and cute chinchilla carrying an orange lantern appeared in his field of vision.

It was the second time he had met, and he knew that this chinchilla could talk, so he stood up and greeted him with a smile: "Hello, Mr. Chinchilla." ”

Fat Totoro seemed to remember the last time he saw this human, and glanced at him, "The master told me to take you in." ”

As he spoke, it took the lantern, turned around and walked into the depths of the dark corridor.

Ji Xun also followed.

The last time I came, I was still preparing to refine the career card of the advanced second-order [Qigong Master].

Now the strength is more than ten times stronger than before.

But the stronger you are, the more you can clearly perceive the deadly danger hidden around you when you walk in the dark corridor.

It was right not to rush in.

Going all the way down the familiar road, it didn't take long for Ji Xun to come to a familiar super laboratory.

What catches your eye is the large and small experiment jars, soaked in the green liquid with all kinds of strange creatures.

However, Ji Xun glanced at it, and obviously found that it was not the same as last time.

There are obviously some black technology devices that do not conform to this era in the research equipment; There are also some limbs of unknown super-level creatures among the soaked specimens.

After thinking about it for a while, Ji Xun also guessed that these eighty percent were newly discovered treasures in the old continent.

Now that the land is in full swing, a large number of high-grade treasures have been found and transported back to the City of Innocence.

As one of the "Three Legendary Card Makers of the Federation", Master Merlin is also on the front line of the ruins of Innocence City, so he naturally has first-hand good things in his hands.

And those top-level treasures can only be truly valuable in the hands of masters of this level.

When Ji Xun came in, he was watching Master Merlin in a white coat busy next to an instrument.

He didn't bother either.

Just wait quietly.

This is half an hour.

Master Merlin was so immersed in the study that he seemed to have completely forgotten that the guests had come.

When the work in hand seemed to be over, the old man breathed a sigh of relief, and then suddenly came to his senses, looked back at Ji Xun and said, "Oh, I almost forgot, someone is here." ”

Ji Xun was not surprised when he heard this, and saluted with a smile: "I've seen Master Merlin." ”

Master Merlin doesn't have a good temper, but Ji Xun thinks it's easy to get along with.

If you have something to say, don't play with those vain things.

The old man glanced at Ji Xun and understood something, and said directly: "You are here to ask me to refine a third-order career card?" ”

As he spoke, he also praised him: "You are in a very good state." ”

But that's all, after saying that, he turned his head and continued to be busy with his own research.

Ji Xun was not surprised that the other party could see that now his state attribute was full.

He didn't hide his purpose, and said directly: "I do have a request for the master." ”

But also know the rules of equivalent exchange.

Last time, Dong Jiuye spent a lot of favor to ask this master to help, Ji Xun didn't feel that he had that face.

Asking someone else to do something requires a little courtesy.

He directly took out a containment card, and said, "I went to the Old World, met some dragonborn creatures in an alien dimension, and also got some material samples by luck."

"Dragonborn?"

When Master Merlin heard this, he immediately became interested.

He turned his head to look.

Originally, I was just a little interested.

After all, I've received so many good things lately that I can't study them.

But looking at the containment card in Ji Xun's hand, the old man's pupils shrank significantly: "Epic material? ”

What Ji Xun took out was naturally the [Red Dragon Blood] he got in "The Battle of Ironforge Fort" last time.

This kind of dragon blood, which is relatively pure dragon blood, definitely has a fatal temptation for a top master like Master Merlin.

Sure enough!

Ji Xun just took out the card, and before he could react, he "swished", and looked at Master Merlin, who was still dozens of meters away just now, and suddenly appeared in front of him.

The old man snatched the containment card with a glittering eye, examined it, and exclaimed, "It's really dragon's blood!" ”

"Hmm."

Ji Xun didn't mind things being robbed, he originally wanted to give them to him.

After all, you have to count on this one for the career cards, spell cards, or something you may need in the future.

And looking at Master Merlin's expression, I knew that this person was not small.

But at the same time, he also exclaimed in his heart: "What a fast speed." ”

This legendary card-making master is also extremely strong.

Master Merlin got the [Red Dragon's Blood], and in the blink of an eye, he teleported in front of the instrument again, muttering to himself and preparing to start studying it immediately.

"Hahaha, it's the blood of the legendary dragon! I finally have a sample of this mythical creature with a complete genetic chain."

"Now, the plan is finally ready for the trial phase."

"Ah, such a good material, where should I start researching?"

“.”

Ji Xun looked at this posture, and the old man was about to immerse himself in the experiment again, as if he was going to forget about him again.

He hurriedly spoke: "Master, I still have something to ask for this time. I'd like to ask you to help me refine my class card. ”

Saying that, Ji Xun directly took out the refining template of the [Dragon Slayer Warrior Beowulf].

Sure enough, Master Merlin patted his head and said, "Oh, I almost forgot again." You kid sent this good thing to refine the career card. ”

Originally, he thought that Ji Xun was like last time, and he needed his advice and then refine the cards.

But looking back, Ji Xun had already come up with a template.

Master Merlin glanced at it, and his eyes lit up again: "Yo, it's the exclusive version of the legendary hero?" It's very rare. ”

Another teleportation, holding the information in his hand, and confirming after a glance: "Tsk, this is still a rare 'unique template' that has not been recorded at present." Something superb! ”

There are not many things that can make this kind of legendary card maker look at the whole Federation.

However, this kind of unique refining template is one of them.

This kind of "philately" happiness is something that ordinary people can't experience at all.

Master Merlin looked at the template, glanced at Ji Xun again, and couldn't help but praise again: "You have experienced a very difficult extradimensional space?" Otherwise, it would not be possible to get a career card of this quality. Hey, boy, it's not bad. ”

Ji Xun smiled and acquiesced.

As he spoke, Master Merlin had already looked at it carefully, and said, "This template is more suitable for your current situation than any career card I know. Gee. What about chance. However, in order to get the most out of this class card, it is very difficult to find the materials you need."

Without waiting for the old man to finish speaking, Ji Xun took out a bunch of dragon descendant materials he had obtained before and said, "Master, can you read these?"

What is it like [Rift Girl's Scissors (Cangold)], [Earth Dragon's Might (Gold)], [Demonized Dragon Eagle's Grasp (Yaoyin)], [Fire Dragon's Magic Stomach Pouch (Gold)].

In addition to the materials, some corpse materials were also taken out.

Anyway, these things can only be sold for money if they are kept in the season, so it is better to do personal favors.

Seeing so many dragonborn materials in front of him, the expression of Master Merlin on the opposite side suddenly became rich.

He looked at Ji Xun, as if he had seen a treasure, and was pleasantly surprised: "You kid still have so many dragonborn materials?!" ”

Just now, I felt that a drop of dragon blood was not enough.

Now there are so many over-the-top materials that can be hoked

It was just perfect!

(End of chapter)