"Your reason?"

Archduke Russell looked very patient, but, who would dare to test his patience?

"I don't think I have the qualifications for you to solicit it personally, let alone twice, but I believe that Your Highness didn't do it at will. I want to know where my value is, otherwise I don't want to make a choice lightly even if it is death. ”

"Don't think too complicated, what do you think is the most valuable thing about yourself?"

"Know-it-all?"

"Yes." The Grand Duke clicked on the book that Wang Shui had just opened on the desk and said, "I need your strength, I need you to join the Russell family's research team to study mobile armor and weapons, that's all." ”

"Me? Although I am a well-versed, my knowledge system is not perfect, and with the resources of the Russell family and the [Elira Empire], there should be no shortage of top researchers, right? ”

was still asking questions without knowing whether he was alive or dead, but Wang Shui seemed to vaguely think of something.

"Scientists are not omnipotent, and the more powerful the researcher, the narrower their research direction becomes, to the point where no one but themselves will be able to set foot in their field, even if they leave behind detailed research reports and samples.

As they are buried in history, those top research results will also be buried for them. ”

"So, when you encounter something that requires archaeological technology and something that ordinary people can't learn, you need the power of a knower...... But I'm just a know-it-all who hasn't grown up yet? ”

The Grand Duke nodded:

"What I want is you who haven't grown up. You're the 42nd know-it-all I've recruited, and the ones before you have all achieved success in various fields, but they all have one thing in common – paranoia.

In addition to the [limitations] of their own emotions, those who know will also show paranoia about knowledge that is difficult to grasp. If they can't be conquered for a long time, they, or you, will lose interest in other knowledge, and their learning ability will be locked in a certain direction, even if that direction is just an unimportant, replaceable technology. ”

Wang Shui's heart shook violently, and he finally couldn't control his expression.

"It seems that you have already encountered it, and you are locked by some kind of knowledge." The Grand Duke's tone was certain.

Yes, Wang Shui thought of his botanical research, thought of his way here, except for memorizing information, he has been studying plants the rest of the time!

Obviously, botany did not bring him much direct improvement in combat power, and it was of average help to the development of the base, but he had been immersed in research for about two months.

"Your level is still very low, and your knowledge reserve is relatively small, so you can still be saved.

As long as you have a large amount of professional knowledge in a short period of time to satisfy you, you will return to the state of erudition, and then scientifically arrange erudite learning, which can basically prevent paranoia.

You're arrogant, aren't you? The arrogant learning bonus effect is relatively poor, but the stability is very good, and you have good potential. ”

"Thank you for the reminder," Wang Shui bowed again, just by the reminder of the Grand Duke, it was not too much to bow.

"But I still think that the dream system is more conducive to my development, and the fantasy world of accelerated time is too important for those who know it, and in the fantasy world, there is always technology that is difficult to do in the main world.

If you can accept it, I would like to develop in the dream system first, and when my knowledge accumulation reaches a bottleneck and research starts to get difficult, it will not be too late to join the Russell family.

The family only needs to provide me with a lot of keys to the fantasy world and the knowledge I need to learn eruditely. ”

Wang Shui thinks that this reason is very good.

And he really thinks so, treating the system boss as a school, and when he learns almost, he comes out to find a job, how normal it is.

"You don't think time acceleration has no side effects, do you?"

"Huh?"

Both of them were stunned, the Grand Duke didn't expect Wang Shui to say such childish words, and Wang Shui really didn't know.

"[Fantasy World Creation] is indeed unique to the dream system, but [Time Acceleration] isn't it?

Do you simply think that acceleration is not burdensome because your body has not aged after every time you experience acceleration, and your excess memories will be slowly deleted? Acceleration rules in fantasy worlds, hasn't anyone told you? ”

"I ......" Wang Shui was speechless for a while, and a picture of a puddle of meat sauce flashed in his mind.

"Don't you really know?!" Even Sylvia exclaimed.

For a while, the depressing atmosphere in the room was actually alleviated by Wang Shui's cuteness.

"Hahaha, you guy, I see that you are easy at handling things, and your mind is not bad, I didn't expect to hahaha, I didn't expect to be a reckless man.

[Time Acceleration] technology is not a secret, it is nothing more than wrapping a certain physical space in a [Time Bubble] to accelerate the deduction of the world through huge computing power.

Locking the state of the body with a time marker can keep you from aging, but the soul cannot be locked, you have to experience the deduction of the world yourself, so after the acceleration is over, in order to synchronize the soul and the body, you have to go back to the soul. The process of backtracking is to strip away the excess soul and dilute it.

The dream system helps the awakened retain the function of learning and training memory, but the stripping of a large number of souls is unavoidable. ”

The Grand Duke smiled and said a lot, and Wang Shui already understood: "So ...... said"

"So every time time time time accelerates, it will damage the soul, and the more memorable and more learned, the more damage will be serious. Moreover, the more high-level transcendents are, the more difficult it is to recover naturally. ”

Wang Shui reined in his spirit, and his gaze became serious.

"With your current second-order situation, you can only accelerate once every four months at the earliest, and when the acceleration ratio is around 300, the acceleration time cannot exceed 10 days." This sentence was Sylvia's prompt, and she originally thought that Wang Shui knew.

"However, there is some truth to your proposal, and there is indeed some incredible knowledge in the fantasy world." The Grand Duke suddenly changed his words.

"I agree with you, but erudition must be cautious, you have to learn according to the safe zone that other knowers have stepped on, some knowledge is more dangerous than paranoia, and you also need to raise your own level to withstand more knowledge."

This kind of face is given, what else can Wang Shui say?

"Thank you again for your patience and help, I am willing to be your help."

Wang Shui finally chose to bow his head, but he was a chicken thief, he did not say that he would join the Russell family, but to become the help of Grand Duke Russell himself.

"Interesting, your courage is much stronger than yours, okay, I'll pay attention to you, don't let me down."

With that, the Grand Duke got up and seemed to leave.

"Don't you need to sign a contract or anything like that?"

"The system can detect the contract on the awakened person, it's not necessary, and besides, a verbal agreement is enough, isn't it?"

Before leaving, the Grand Duke wrote the simplest agreement to Wang Shui with his eyes - "Be obedient, or disappear".

There was a moment of silence in the room.

"Hug your thighs." Sylvia, who watched the whole process, sighed.

"It's not easy, what I want to buy for my thighs is my future."

"But he offered a lot of money, and even came to solicit you in person, if it were me, I would agree."

"As soon as he spoke, I knew I couldn't refuse, and what he needed me to do would never be as light as he said, but if I continued to refuse, it would only be death......

Alas, it's just a change of boss to continue working, and the dream system isn't much better, it doesn't tilt resources towards me.

I'm more concerned about the fantasy world and the acceleration of time than the future, and the consequences of soul stripping, are they really serious? ”

Wang Shui returned to his seat, looking at the book in front of him but unable to concentrate, he wanted to hear the opinion of Sylvia, the former fifth-order awakened person.

"Seriously, it's not really, even if it's a fifth-order awakened person, you can go to the fantasy world to escape for a year or two and relax your spirit, but if you can reach the fifth order, it's enough to have fun in reality, otherwise you will have to take care of your soul when you come back.

As for you, as long as the soul is strong enough and recovers quickly enough, it's no problem to go to a few more worlds, and the system will make calculations and prompt the soul before it may be irreversibly damaged. ”

Is this a blessing in misfortune, Wang Shui has not been prompted, he should still have a lot of time to become stronger.

"In the future, you should be cautious in the choice of fantasy world."

Wang Shui sighed with emotion and lay on the desk.

He had always felt that he had run out of time, but tonight felt a little long and boring.

Eventually, his somewhat wandering attention fell on the card book in the tray in the corner of his desk.

This seems to be for me, right? But Witt didn't seem to say anything.

Wang Shui picked it up and wanted to open it to take a look, and the card album was directly connected to his system interface:

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【Secret Card Book: The End of the Journey (Gold)】

[Deck: 1]

[Secret Card: 132/1000]

[Trait: Traveler: In non-competitive mode, the effect of secret cards containing the "Travel" tag is increased by 100%, and the stability of spatial effects is increased by 350 (anchor value). 】

[Trait Champion: The card album automatically maintains the status of the secret card, and when the durability of the secret card is higher than 30%, it can be quickly repaired, and when it is lower than 30%, the holder can send the secret card to any "secret society" store to enjoy free repair service. 】

[Note: With this card album only, remember that Mr. "Ritter Spark Russell" won the championship with the "Traveler" theme deck in the 995th "Star Field Society Master Invitational!] 】

[Commemorative number: Russell-013]

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Wang Shui immediately sent the message to Sylvia and searched for it on the Internet himself.

Then, he easily found the information in the card album.

Limited to 1,000 championship memorabilia in the world, each card album contains the complete champion deck with a lifetime warranty.

As for the abbreviated numbers after the price, they don't have any practical significance, and they are just for everyone.

"I think you should check it out, it's clearly more than you deserve." Sylvia whispered euphemistically.

After all, even if she sold all the fifth-order hunting groups she used to have, it would be far less than a fraction of this card album.

Wang Shui was very obedient, and he went out directly to find the manservant Werther and asked.

Witt kept a perfect courtesy smile and said:

"Of course it's yours, Lord Benjamin, it's not convenient for us to protect you in the dream system, so we're giving you this deck, hoping that you can protect yourself with it and with your own strength."

"Is this also a test?" Wang Shui immediately thought of it.

"Of course, no, if you encounter a crisis that you can't handle, please contact us as soon as possible, this deck is to give you time to react.

By the way, your identity has been permanently filed, and from tonight onwards, you are the real [Benjamin · M. Russell].

However, Lord Duke prefers that you keep a low profile, and the researchers should not get too involved in combat or anything like that. ”

"But, why give it to me so early?"

"Sure enough, you noticed it, there has been a little turmoil recently, but I will always be by your side, don't worry."

Of course, Wang Shui was very relieved, after all, it was the protection of the Russell family, and if the family couldn't protect him, it was useless to worry.

He came to the single sofa and sat down, holding the fortune in his hand, and his excitement was difficult to suppress for a while.

And Werther, who has been standing beside him, always reminds him of the extremely confident sentence at the banquet-

"I'll take care of the rest."

"Werther, I have a question for you."

"Of course, I know everything."

"Are you...... Seventh Order? ”

Werther smiled even more:

"Of course not, the Seventh Order requires not only talent, effort, and resources, but also sufficient insight and experience, as well as the necessary luck. I'm only at the sixth order, and I've been stuck at level 69 for many years. ”

"A lot means...... Three-digit? ”

Wang Shui adjusted his tone carefully, but it was obvious that he was using this kind of funny to lighten the mood, and Werther just smiled and shook his head:

"I'm about your age, just more talented."

Witt's statement did not satisfy Wang Shui, and he continued to ask: "The talent is so strong that you are not afraid of the seventh-order demon hunter [Li Junqing]?" ”

"Of course not, Li Junqing is not an ordinary person, in the seventh order, he is also one of the few people who can fight the most, but I have the Russell family behind me, I only need to drag him for a few seconds, and everyone will be safe."

Wang Shui was a little confused, in his worldview, the single force of the transcendent world is extremely strong, and it is also promoted like this on the Internet, those legendary characters are not ordinary happy grudges, they are literally upset in the sense of the word.

Seventh Order, isn't it strong enough?

"How do you define combat effectiveness? What is the significance of ranking? And what's the point of a battle master? In the end, it's all about fighting forces? ”

"Of course it makes sense." Werther replied with Wang Shui's muttering,

"Personal combat power is the threshold for people to be qualified to fight for power, which is very meaningful.

The battle power competition of the middle and low ranks mainly depends on the level, and before the third order, the transcendents of the high level will generally have stronger combat effectiveness.

After the third order, the battle master system is a very helpful reference, which is stronger and which is weak, you will know after fighting.

Of course, in my opinion, there is no difference below the gold badge, and getting the crystal badge means that the combat effectiveness has reached a new stage.

In the crystal stage, the traditional level is no longer comparable to the influence of technology and combat thinking, and it is even less obvious than the bonus brought by the transcendent class.

Of course, the above is to exclude the interference of the epoch-making strategic weapon of mobile armor, but in the end, it is necessary to fight for it. ”

As he spoke, Werther pointed to the ceiling, his tone becoming a little emotional.

After that, he also took out a crystal badge and showed it to Wang Shui, with a number "31" written on it, followed by a sword-shaped star.

Wang Shui thought thoughtfully and analyzed in a low voice:

"In other words, when you and Li Junqing fight, it is actually a demon hunter who can't fight the Russell family?"

"The Demon Hunter Organization is quite large, even larger than the Russell family, but because of their purpose and organizational structure, their power is far less concentrated than that of the family.

However, you don't have to worry about who's afraid of whom, we have a pretty good relationship with the Witcher Order.

Just like this alchemy exhibition, after we learned about the planetary level destruction crisis, didn't Mr. Li Junqing also come to help in person? ”

Oh, so we have such a good relationship.

Hey, wait! What crisis?!

(End of chapter)