What makes Rhodes regretful is that the only "Original Soil" in the Material Hall has been exchanged.
The exchanger is one of the rising stars, Feixue of Cloud Village.
She is building her soul weapon, a petite bayonet.
The element is a rapier found by an expedition team in a dead ruins. It is made of unknown materials and can greatly bring out the characteristics of Feixue's moon blade.
Feixue couldn't put it down and wanted to use it as a base to create a soul weapon.
After careful discussion, the masters and scholars of the Jinworth Society agreed with her choice.
Soul Forging Master Lei personally formulated the plan and is currently forging it.
Since it has been used, Rhodes has nothing to do. Fortunately, he is already a second-level combatant, a member of the inner hall in the Palace of Fire, and is qualified to issue required tasks.
This task will be put on the long-term demand list until it is completed by a strong person or a certain team.
As Rhodes is one of the highly regarded rising stars, his request will be given priority. This task will be marked as urgent and quickly put on the long-term list.
However, source materials are hard to come by, so Rhodes can only wait.
Afterwards, he went to the White Tower for an appointment, hoping to find out the real culprit behind the scenes with the help of Meredith, the owner of the White Tower.
Dalin agreed to the request, but asked him to do the long-delayed psychic test.
Rhodes could only go to the psychic laboratory first.
It is worth mentioning that because of the continuous successful psychic upgrade rituals for Rhodes, Mina has been promoted to a senior researcher at the Industrial Machinery Research Institute and serves as the main person in charge of the psychic energy laboratory in the Palace of Fire. p>
The tester this time is naturally this old acquaintance.
She is very familiar with Rhodes inside and out, both body and soul.
Therefore, this inspection can be regarded as a familiar task, and a new report will be released soon.
Subject——Rod
Psychic Level: 10
Maximum psychic strength: 3045 thousand ticks
Maximum psychic output: 600 thousand ticks
Average spiritual pressure: 90 thousand moments
Estimated total amount of psychic energy: 45 tracks
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"Little Rod, I really didn't expect to see this day so soon."
Mina caressed Rhode's strong chest, her golden eyes full of fascination.
"You have become a strong man in Trolian and a pillar of mankind, but you are still so young... In the future, it is possible to cross the chasm of transcendence and go further."
Rhodes looked at her soft little hands with some dissatisfaction as she touched her body everywhere.
"Sister Mina, have you finished the test? I have something else to do."
Mina touched his perfectly coordinated muscles over and over again, and said softly: "No, little Rod, would you like to have a baby with me?"
Poof!
Rhodes almost burst into tears and looked at her in surprise, wondering why the topic had suddenly jumped to such a big topic.
"Aren't you going to devote yourself to the cause of truth?"
Mina replied: "Of course, pursuing the fundamental principles of all things is my eternal pursuit. The movement of life is also one of the natural operating rules of all things. The pursuit of the mysteries of life is naturally within the scope of my career. I personally
Is there anything strange about going into battle to do research? The most important thing is..."
She paused and showed a proud smile.
"Our child must be extremely outstanding. He has inherited not only my smart mind, but also your excellent talent. He also has strong strength and understanding of the truth, and will definitely become the savior of mankind."
Rhodes covered his eyes and expressed his refusal: "Let's talk about it later, I'm not free now."
Mina snorted: "Little Rhodes, let me tell you, there are not many outstanding women like me. You guys who have trained psychic powers into your brains simply cannot understand how high my intelligence is."<
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"In addition to intelligence, I also have beautiful appearance. Look at my snow-white skin, smooth face, rosy mouth and flexible tongue. Aren't you excited?"
To be honest, when a beauty like Mina stands in front of him and shows off her beauty, it would be a lie to say that he is not moved.
But Rhodes is now not only in danger, but at least it is a very urgent situation. The next invasion may come at any time, and he has many things to do now, and giving birth to a child is definitely not among them.
Moreover, with his current status, it doesn't matter how much tenderness he enjoys as long as he survives the crisis. There is no need to rush.
Rhodes thought for a moment and then said: "Sister Mina, I am very envious of your beauty. Of course I am willing to have children with you, but I am currently in the period of rapid growth and cannot change my state for the time being."
In Trorian, there is a concept that growth requires "momentum".
Once the "momentum" is interrupted, the extraordinary growth rate will also be interrupted, so maintaining the "momentum" is a very important thing.
Mina licked her lips and said with a slight regret: "Okay, little Rod, you are unlucky and you missed the best opportunity."
Rhodes glanced at her in surprise, hesitated for a few seconds and then asked: "Why?"
Mina explained: "The information you gave last time caused a sensation among major scholar groups and academic organizations in the capital. We saw a brand-new, complete system that has nothing to do with psychic energy, but it can
It can better explain many phenomena, and some of us want to use this to establish a newer system, a system that has nothing to do with psychic energy."
She paused, looked into Rhodes' eyes, and said seriously.
"The power it develops may be used by ordinary people. You know, we have a population of nearly 100 million, and the total number of fire bearers with psychic power does not exceed 500,000. If a large number of ordinary people
If we can pick up weapons and join the battle against the black mist, even if we just clear the dust on the battlefield, our defense pressure will be greatly reduced."
"This new society is called the Society of the Soulless, and I am one of them. I will soon devote myself to it. Unless it succeeds, I will not consider having children."
Rhodes was stunned and suddenly realized that if this thing was successful, it would bring him a lot of divinity!
Although it may not necessarily have a great effect, when human power is so scarce, having more power and more means is definitely a good thing!
Of course, it is impossible for Rhodes to devote all his energy to this. Even if he did, it would not be of much use. What he had learned throughout his life had been completely written out and given to the scholars in the royal city. Compared with his intelligence alone,
He is not much better than them.
How should I insert it to get more results?
Rhodes thought for a few seconds and immediately thought of a way. Looking at Mina's shining eyes, he said: "Sister Mina, I have actually thought about what you are talking about for a long time. I think that the core of this system is
, lies in the utilization of energy."
"If we can replace the energy source, such as a spiritual gun, which does not use psychic energy to fire, but uses some kind of gunpowder, steam, or steel to fire, then wouldn't it be a weapon that everyone can use? It may not be as powerful as a dedicated weapon
It is a psychic firearm, but it should be more than enough for ordinary people to destroy dust-level monsters."
"Moreover, if you study in depth, you will find that the biggest role of this system lies in production and manufacturing. I don't know exactly how to do it, but you can refer to the psychic elevator in Fanxing Town, which allows a building several hundred yards deep to
The underground city has become a living place."
"Finally, I personally suggest that you change the name of this society. The Soulless are too vulgar and unimpressive. Let's call it Brotherhood of Steel."
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Rhodes almost regretted it.
He originally just wanted to point out the direction and find a few shortcuts for them, so that he could gain a little more divinity before the stars shine next time.
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Mina was so excited that she insisted on not letting him go, asking him to come up with more ideas.
It wasn't until Rhodes was completely hollowed out that not even a drop could be squeezed out, Mina let him walk out of the psychic laboratory.
What Rhodes didn't expect was that his test wasn't over yet.
Just after walking out of the laboratory, several more scholars and masters came to the royal city and asked him to conduct tests at the training ground so that they could obtain various specific data of Rhodes and formulate better battle plans and growth systems.
There is no doubt that the first item is the test about the stars. Rhodes was unhappy to find that the translator continued the previous tradition and randomly translated the names of the stars, as if it was intentional.
"Well, this fire can rotate and pull out white lines, so let's rename it 'white silk'!"
"The effect of this fire is so strange. It increases pain? It is as ethereal and invisible as the wind? Well, I think it can be named 'gout'."
"This fire is so strong, very strong, with a powerful impact, like a mad beast!"
"Yes, its name should be 'Crazy Rush'!"
Rhodes is really unbelievable.
[Star Shuttle] can actually be translated as "white silk", and [Wind Phantom] has become "gout".
[Power of the Titan] is the most outrageous, it actually became a "crazy rush".
Is this a name that anyone can come up with?
Rhodes wanted to give the translator who was so proud and winking at him a slap in the face.
But after thinking about it, it didn't matter. On the contrary, it could further conceal the existence of the dream for him and avoid violating the taboos of the dream and the royal city at the same time, so he pinched his nose and admitted it.
Then comes the second item.
The damage that can be caused by a full blow without using special characteristics.
The tester placed the impact crystal. Rhodes could hit the mark on the crystal to about 3000 with a bare-handed punch, use soul combat skills to hit it to 5000, and use "soul blow" to hit it to 9000, which is three times the original value.<
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If you use the long sword "Starry Night", the power will be roughly doubled.
If it becomes "psychic", its power can be doubled.
The recorder recorded Rod's value and marked it with the word "medium".
Rhodes asked curiously: "Is this data average among second-level combatants?"
The recorder nodded: "Probably because your fire does not passively enhance your melee physical attacks. Your physical means are not particularly destructive, but the transformation efficiency of turbulent spiritual energy is quite high. Your soul combat
The skills are very proficient and suitable for long-term combat, but not suitable for high-intensity close combat."
Rhodes nodded and agreed with this statement. He rarely used close combat in front of powerful monsters.
However, with the [Giant Power], things are different.
The third item is psychic defense.
It is to test how much attack he can withstand after converting his spiritual energy into stasis.
Rhodes currently has 3,000 kilometres of psychic energy. It takes about two seconds to reach a completely stagnant state, and the attack power he can withstand is about 10%.
After being psionic, that is to say, if Rhodes hits himself, his unarmed attack cannot break the defense, and even using "Starry Night" cannot break the psionic defense.
Unless the attacking Rhodes also uses psionic transformation.
In battle, whether the defense is broken is a very important criterion. It is very unwise to directly attack with psychic energy.
Even if you can withstand it, the consumption of spiritual energy will be very large.
The best way is to dodge. If you really can't dodge, convert your psychic energy into a stasis state and open up your psychic defense.
So judgment is very important, and monster attacks are usually directly related to psychic energy.
The recorder recorded Rhodes's value again and marked it with the word "excellent", indicating that this was a very strong value among second-level combatants.
The fourth item is to test the power of fire.
However, due to the many inconveniences of Rhode's Fire, only the Star Shuttle was tested in this project. Rhodes's current complete Star Shuttle can hit 8,000, and he can hit ten at the same time, which is 80,000.
[Star Shuttle] is still Rhodes' current main combat method, but it consumes a lot of spiritual energy and is not suitable for long-term combat.
Rhodes originally wanted to test [Giant Power], but after using it, he will fall into a weak state. Even if it is only turned on for half a second, he will be weak for several hours.
I can only give up.
After the four items are completed, there are some secondary items, such as speed, reaction force, drug resistance, resistance, etc.
After Rhodes finished one by one, a tester stood solemnly in front of him and handed him a badge with both hands.
"Congratulations, Lord Rhodes, you are now an official Level 2 combatant. This is your badge. From now on, your weekly salary and supplies will be adjusted to Level 2 combatant status."
Rhodes took the badge and said with a smile: "Don't be so anxious, maybe I will become a first-level combatant soon."
The tester bowed slightly: "That's really lucky for mankind. I wish you a fire with you all the way. Goodbye."
"Goodbye."
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After bidding farewell to the testers, Rhodes finally left the Palace of Fire and came to the White Tower.
This huge white tower that reaches the sky is located next to the cliff of the upper city. The tall tower is even higher than the Dead End Mountain Range, and half of it is beyond the range of the holy fire and submerged in the black mist.
It has been a long time since Rhodes last entered the White Tower.
The White Tower has not changed at all.
The only change is that more people came to greet him.
Surrounded by a group of apprentices, Rhodes quickly arrived at the top of the White Tower and met Meredith, the Lord of the White Tower.
Compared with last time, Meredith looked much haggard, her beard was full of forks, her robe was wrinkled, and her face was full of exhaustion.
He is still sitting on the huge astrological disk, with a giant rotating spherical astrological device floating behind him.
The moment he saw Rhodes, his eyes lit up.
"Little Rod."
He said kindly: "You are here, ah... you are already a second-level combatant. I am very happy. Your growth has far exceeded my expectations."
Rhodes was very surprised. He originally thought that these prophets would say that his growth was within his expectations.
"Uh, Sir Meredith."
He hesitated for a moment, then asked.
"My growth is not what you expected?"
Meredith looked at him gently, her eyes full of kindness.
"Little Rhodes, we are just prophets. We can only vaguely see the direction of the future from the changes in the stars, the changes in the sun and the moon, the disturbance in the spiritual world, the touch of intuition, and some clues, and those are usually very vague.
As for the lake, we often don’t know what our original prediction was until after the fact.”
Behind him, Meredith's most proud student Yin Yetta said: "No one can predict a person's achievements. People are miracles with infinite possibilities."
Meredith smiled and said: "Yes, we are a beam of light in this dark world. It is precisely because of our existence that the world has not completely fallen into the cold and dead darkness."
He floated down from the astrological disk, held Rhodes' hand, and his eyes became solemn for a moment.
"Your destiny is still strange. The trajectory of the future is lost in colorful flashes, but it is full of black ominousness and unspeakable terror. I seem to see an endless abyss and a black tide that can swallow up the universe."
Rhodes' heart sank, knowing that this wise prophet must have seen the signs of invasion.
"Sir Meredith, can you see the details?"
Meredith shook her head slightly.
"Your destiny is very strange. I have never seen it before and I can't interpret it. Of course, you don't have to worry. This may also be my illusion. Recently, we have spent too much energy on the ancient god's plan and the prophecy of the source.
”
The "Ancient God Project" is a plan to find the Ancient God of Destiny, but he has never heard of the "Prophecy of the Source".
Yinyeta saw his doubts and explained: "The teacher was inspired by stargazing and saw a terrifying and desperate future, but the scene was too vague. The teacher hopes to use the prophecy of the source to get a clearer picture.
Prophecy."
Meredith sighed softly: "The prophecy of the source is the ultimate prophecy. It requires a very high price, and the price of this prophecy is far beyond what we thought. We have made great efforts,
But there are still several conditions that have not been met."
Rhodes couldn't help but ask: "What conditions?"
Yinyeta answered for the teacher: "
The rest doesn't matter, it's not important. We can ask Wangcheng to issue a task to find for us, the most critical and most important thing is the soul core related to destiny."
"The core of the soul related to destiny? What is that?"
Yin Yetta said in a deep voice: "What we can think of now is the legacy of the Ancient God of Destiny. Because of this, the Ancient God's plan must be carried out, but our many explorations and searches have failed. The only clue left is
I'm leaving you."
Rhodes was surprised: "Me?"
"Yes."
Yinyeta nodded and stared at him with bright eyes: "You have the aura of the ancient god of destiny. Asa calls you the son of destiny. The book of destiny cannot affect your destiny, even when you are very weak.
, we guess that you may have a certain relationship with the Ancient God of Destiny, and there may be a part of it in your soul."
Rhodes said horrified: "What do you mean?"
Meredith said gently: "Little Rhodes, you don't know that beings with strong wills will not be eliminated so easily. Even if their souls are annihilated, their wills may still remain in the void. At the right time,
Time condenses into soul again."
Rhodes was surprised: "You mean, they can be reincarnated?"
Meredith smiled and said: "Reincarnation? This adjective is very appropriate, you can think so."
"But generally speaking, what the human soul acquires is only a fragment of it, and it only occupies a part of the human soul. Therefore, we suspect that your soul contains part of the Ancient God of Destiny, and therefore inherits some of its characteristics.
”
Yinyeta said: "Therefore, we can use this to trace its origin, and then find the main existence of the ancient god of destiny, and it is possible to find the core of the soul related to destiny."
After hearing this, Rhodes finally understood all this, and couldn't help but ask in his mind: "Book, what does this have to do with the doomsday cultists who attacked me?"
The Book of Knowledge was repairing the obelisk and casually replied: "I don't know."
"I don't know? Then why did you ask me to come to the White Tower?"
"Me?" the Book of Knowledge asked strangely: "I didn't say, did I let you go to the White Tower?"
Rhodes frowned and recalled carefully for a moment. The memory was indeed correct, and the book of knowledge could not deceive its owner. At most, it would choose not to answer, and it could not answer wrongly intentionally.
Then, this leaves only one possibility: the Book of Knowledge has indeed forgotten this matter subjectively.
Why is this?
Rhodes was confused, but he didn't show it. Instead, he asked them the question directly. Of course, he didn't mention the dream or the invasion. He just said that the doomsday cultists were harassing him and causing a lot of disturbance to him.
Yinyeta frowned: "Doomsday cultists? Are these bugs in the gutter worthy of wasting our prophecies?"
But Meredith stopped him.
"Wait a minute, Yinyeta, my intuition tells me that this matter is vaguely related to us. Maybe the key lies in the great leader Asa and the book of destiny."
Yinyeta's eyes flickered, and he was obviously suspicious, but not sure.
"No matter what, let's use Rhodes' soul as the source to perform a retrospective prophecy."
Meredith agreed to his suggestion.
Later, in the prophecy hall, Meredith and Yinyetta, as well as dozens of prophecies and apprentices, held a huge prophecy ceremony for him.
Rhodes was a little nervous, but not too worried. The existence of the dreamland should not be discovered like this.
The Book of Knowledge also gave an affirmative answer, but it sneered at the claims made by Meredith and others.
"The owner of the dream cannot be the reincarnation of any ancient god."
"The Ancient God of Destiny must have died long ago. The Book of Destiny may have been made from the fragments of his soul. It cannot be compared with the noble and great me."