"The second solution's [b-010-Big Eater] talent is very compatible with this Vampire Ring. No wonder the ring fell into this guy's hands."
Su Lun looked at the white-faced young man with thoughtful eyes.
This is the second professional with this talent that he has encountered.
The last one was the captain of the Ninth Fleet of the North Sea Fleet, "Admiral Gluttony" Ixir Paion, who had died in the Land of Underworld.
This talent is very powerful. It can swallow foreign objects and turn them into one's own use. The physical combat power will be very strong.
The Vampires also have the talent of absorbing the essence and blood of others to restore and strengthen themselves.
The Vampire Ring and the [Big Eater] talent are a perfect match.
Although it is not difficult to see people with rare talents in top aristocratic families. Because many talents have a probability of being passed down through blood, aristocratic families usually choose to combine with commoners with some rare talents to give birth to children. If the base is large, level B or A
There are always a few children of super talented people.
But second level talent is hard to come by.
"Although this Augustus is only at the sixth level, his combat power cannot be measured by the ordinary sixth level. It's a bit tricky."
Su Lun immediately judged in his mind that this guy was very strong.
He secretly sighed again that there were so many weird masters in Lingdun.
I met a mysterious "curator" before, and now here comes this old immortal who is pretending to be young.
This was something he wasn't sure he could beat.
The Rodriguez family is a firm supporter and promoter of the "Freedom of Belief Act" and is almost 100% a believer in that alien god.
Nature is the enemy.
When Su Lun saw the ring, the first thing that came to his mind was how to kill this person.
But after thinking about it for a moment, he still felt that he didn't have much certainty.
At least it's impossible to do anything here.
"Why don't you ask the powerful Lingdun gangster king next time?"
Su Lun thought of a safer plan.
Without this ring, the old guy would most likely die suddenly on the spot, and most likely it would be impossible to obtain it through normal exchange of interests.
But the "Shadow Lord" claims to be omnipotent, what if he succeeds?
It would be best if you don't do it yourself.
Su Lun didn't feel anxious anymore after thinking about it.
Before long, the top ten finals of the puppet competition began.
The host's passionate opening speech kicked off the show, and the contestants first came to the stage to show off their faces. Siblings Yabok and Kama were among them.
When Su Lun saw this, he also guessed that Young Master Alex was probably here to cheer Kama on.
Su Lun didn't feel anything bad.
Although the two Kama sisters are his disciples, they have their own paths to follow in the future.
The host of the Puppet Conference briefly introduced the backgrounds of the ten contestants selected from the preliminaries, covering almost all the current mainstream puppet schools.
But except for the Boyle machine puppet lineage of the Kama siblings, who are outsiders, the other eight are disciples of the elders of the Linton Puppet Masters Guild.
After all, the puppet master relies heavily on external objects to increase his combat power. The stronger the puppet, the stronger his combat power is.
A puppet master may not necessarily be rich, but a powerful puppet master must be rich.
It was said to be a national conference, but in fact it was just a group of small nobles fighting among themselves.
Albock is only six years old, and his short stature stands out among the row of contestants.
He is the only one who is a first-level professional, and the others are all second-level professionals.
But Su Lun is still very optimistic that his disciple can win the first place.
Yabo was a little absent-minded after he came on stage, and seemed to have no interest in this kind of competition. He probably guessed that his teacher would come to watch the competition, so his eyes searched around the crowd, and soon fell on Su, who was sitting in an inconspicuous corner.
On Lun.
Looking up, Su Lun smiled and nodded to show encouragement.
Seeing that his teacher was also watching the battle in person, Yabok suddenly felt a little more energetic.
The pace of the game is not too fast. This kind of combat with a strong academic style is very interesting to watch. But in the eyes of a puppet master like Su Lun, it is just for fun.
However, he has also seen the fighting styles of several mainstream schools of puppet professionals.
The weapon flow is crude, the curse flow is weird, the beast puppet flow has all kinds of weird monster puppets, and the element flow has a dazzling variety of puppet spells.
The cheers at the scene were also getting louder and louder.
It has to be said that the battles between fellow puppet masters are more interesting than other professions.
It was obviously two people fighting, but in the ring there was the sound of a small group fighting.
The various puppets clashed with each other, making the audience excited.
But the control skills of these second-level puppet masters were too immature in Su Lun's opinion. If they really faced him, those fancy puppets might not even have a chance to take action and would be paralyzed on the spot.
However, these top ten are actually at the level of very good puppet masters among normal people.
It's not like Su Lun has harvested about one or two hundred years of control experience by relying on the [Reaper] talent, which is naturally difficult for others to match.
After playing a few rounds, we entered the semi-finals.
There are a few notable scenes.
But what surprised Su Lun was that Yabok actually lost!
This guy made it all the way to the semi-finals by relying on his excellent silk control skills without even using a puppet.
But in the last match, he faced Elsa Bach, the close disciple of Grandmaster Aubrey who was most expected to win the championship. He actually lost within two rounds.
"Is this kid Aberke trying to control his ranking?"
Su Lun's eyes twitched slightly, and after thinking for a moment, he revealed a sudden smile.
Others looked at the excitement and thought that Aberke was really unbeatable, but as a teacher, Su Lun knew his disciple very well.
I just took a look around, and there are indeed some good ideas among the top ten.
But no one can be a match for Aberke.
Although the others are all second level, they have one more career advancement and one more alchemy equipment than him. But the second level [Seven Apertures Exquisite Heart] seems to be cheating, and they are not players at the same level at all.
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It's like Arbock fought all the way through the battle without ever using the Eight-Armed Spider Spear breeding equipment. Others even thought that his alchemy breeding equipment was some kind of amplified and controlled hidden breeding equipment.
Su Lun thought dumbfounded: "This kid is probably here for the third place prize."
He looked at the third prize in the display cabinet. It was a copy of the "Core Structural Diagram of the Heart of the Four Color Elements" personally marked by Van Hormone, the first alchemist in the Luying court three hundred years ago. It is also currently on the market.
The most authoritative and detailed version of the energy core structure.
The palace collection cannot be obtained through ordinary channels.
This is also a good thing that even Su Lun covets before the game.
Although it was the prize for third place, in his eyes, its value was countless times higher than all the other top ten prizes combined.
But this kind of knowledge treasure is far less valuable to the noble contestants than a good puppet that can immediately improve their combat power. Because if they want to learn knowledge, there are collections in the royal library and in the private warehouses of the nobles.
You can always buy all kinds of profound classics with money and trust.
Therefore, this knowledge is the third prize.
"You're interested"
Su Lun looked at the corners of his eyebrows and smiled.
Yabok himself is now exposed to the knowledge of the core of non-energy, so this prize is obviously won for him as a teacher.
Su Lun had even guessed that he was willing to participate in such a boring competition in the first place, probably just for the prize.
As for the first and second place silk costumes and puppets, they are not attractive to Aberke at all. With Su Lun as their teacher, the puppet master, their siblings have no shortage of good puppets.
Sure enough, Yabok lost a game in the semi-finals. Later in the third-place qualifying match, he eliminated his opponent within a few seconds and won third place without any suspense.
I don’t even have to act for a moment.
This result made Su Lun in the audience dumbfounded.
The melon-eaters were also confused.
Is this the end?
They originally thought it would be a fierce battle, but they didn't think about that first-level brat. Even when they took out the puppet, they just showed off, and then directly used the secret method of controlling the thread with one hand to deprive the opponent of the right to control the puppet.
, ended the battle.
It also set a record for the fastest race time among the top ten.
It’s the difference between the practical school and the academic school.
Noble students have never experienced life-and-death fights. Normally, academy-style competitions usually require a good-looking and handsome fight, with all kinds of big moves coming and going.
But I don't want to think that in a real actual battle, a small flaw is enough to determine the outcome.
But even so, you usually have to put on a show to give your opponent some face.
Abel did not.
Su Lun also felt that his disciple was doing well after being imprisoned in the "Heart of the Puppet" for five years, but his character and emotional intelligence were hard to describe.
"That little brat named Albock Boyle is so arrogant. He actually defeated Master Vogt's favorite disciple Roy. Oh my god, look how dark Master Vogt's face is.
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"It's just good luck. Roy's puppet was much better than that kid. He just lost because of his carelessness."
"Those country people are very aggressive and will fight to the death for a small profit. The fight just now was obviously a sneak attack, and there was no gentlemanly manner at all. If they were to fight openly and openly, there was no way that boy could be Roy's opponent.
Huh~ This kind of victory, if it were me, I wouldn’t even disdain it if I could win!”
"No! This is obviously a trick. Just to win a game, there is no gentlemanly manner at all. It's really embarrassing to call him a noble."
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Yabok won so easily that the crowd in the audience did not watch in excitement, but everyone became excited.
The nobles naturally took on the role of Roy and felt that they could not win with force;
The common people stood beside Arbok and cheered for his victory.
But in the eyes of a true expert, the gap in strength can be seen. The old guys in the Puppet Masters Guild saw Yabok's exquisite control power. They all had very strange expressions, but no one dared to speak.
They have naturally heard of the Boyle machine puppet lineage. The machine puppet lineage was once one of the most glorious puppet heritages in the empire. But in the past two hundred years, the Boyle family has declined, gradually disappeared from the public, and even withdrew from the imperial capital.
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Unexpectedly, the two siblings who suddenly appeared this time really muddied the waters in the field of puppet professionals in Lingdun.
Su Lun listened to the mixed reviews with no emotion at all.
After all, from now on, regardless of honor or slander, it is the path that the siblings have to take.
On the other hand, Kama successfully advanced to the finals and faced Elsa Bach, who is also a female puppet master.
This competition for first place was very lively.
There were two more female puppeteers, which naturally attracted cheers from the audience.
Karma is not like her brother who has a monster-level puppet talent, she is a normal person.
But because his family was wiped out, he has been thinking about revenge and practicing his puppetry skills all these years, so his fighting ability is naturally not bad.
And the other Elsa, who was accepted as a close disciple by Grandmaster Aubrey, is naturally extremely talented. She is also a high-ranking noble and has no shortage of money or good teachers. So whether it is puppets, employment materials, or colonial clothing,
, are her best choices for fusion, and her strength is naturally not weak.
The strong rivalry was very lively.
"Secret Technique·Ten-man Cunning Soldiers!"
"Elemental Secrets·Storm Song and Dance Troupe!"
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In the arena, both sides used the Puppet Master's signature crowd tactics.
The collision between mechanism puppets and elemental puppets is inextricable.
Su Lun saw that Kama was still able to control more than a dozen puppets with ease, and it was obvious that he had not wasted his skills these days.
Under the ring, Young Master Alex also applauded his support from the bottom of his heart. From the smile on this young man's face, it can be seen that there is indeed light in his eyes.
Su Lun was not only watching the game, but also silently observing the group of high-ranking nobles who came to watch the game.
Especially the one wearing the vampire ring named August.
Suellen listened carefully to the conversation of those people and discovered that Elsa was August's cousin.
What a damn cousin!
What is a wolf in sheep's clothing doing among the small sheep?
This guy also bickers with Alex from time to time, arguing about who can win the championship. After all, their respective fathers are political enemies, so it makes sense that they have a bad relationship.
But if Su Lun thinks that his guess is correct and that August is an old monster from the Rodriguez family, then in terms of scheming, none of these small nobles combined will be the opponent of August.
Could it be that he came to join in the fun just to disguise his identity?
Su Lun was a little confused and observed everything silently.
After fighting for a long time, a bunch of puppets were scrapped, but the two women in the ring still couldn't decide the winner.
In order to ensure relative fairness before this competition, the use of puppets above level three was not allowed.
But seeing that there was no winner in the fight, the organizers temporarily changed the rules and allowed the two to use any puppet they could control.
This rule is obviously a bit out of line.
Really compared to the puppets, how could the Boyle lineage, a down-and-out little nobleman, be able to compare to Elsa, a big nobleman who was also the disciple of the president of the puppet guild?
Sure enough, once the rules were changed, Elsa directly took out a set of fourth-level [Elements·Seven Dwarfs] golden puppets.
The seven elemental puppets of earth, wind, water, fire, light, darkness and wood each have their own magical uses.
This is the advanced version of Grandmaster Aubrey's set of dark gold puppets.
Although Elsa is only at the second level and cannot be fully controlled, this set of puppets is both offensive and defensive. Even against a real fourth-level professional, she is almost invincible.
When this set of puppets appeared, it really showed how the noble puppet master fought.
It also allowed the audience to see the power of money.
Just when everyone thought Kama would be defeated, the only descendant of Boyle's puppet line also took out the [Thousand Hands War Demon] passed down from her family.
Although it was only part of the body, when the machine puppet came on, the faces of everyone in the audience became strange, expecting, sighing, shocked, and confused.
Karma's controller has dozens of puppet arms with various mechanisms, whirring in the ring. The use of steel ropes, hinges, poison needles, and poison gas instantly brought the final to another climax.
This scene also stunned the people under the ring, shouting that it was wonderful.
Except for Young Master Alex and those who had seen the [Mechanism War Demon] on the cruise ship, everyone else was shocked when they looked at the Boyle family's inherited treasure.
"Is this still a puppet?"
"Oh my God, what is this? Can a puppet be made like this?"
"Don't you know this? A hundred years ago, Boyle's line of machine war demons were already invincible in the field of puppet professionals. I heard that part of them is missing. Now it seems that they only have a hundred arms."
"This is too shameless. She is hiding in the machine puppet and can't be hit. How can Miss Elsa win?"
"Why didn't you say it was unfair when you changed the rules just now? Well, since we are all fighting for foundation, let's see who has the deeper foundation."
"That's right, puppets are part of the puppet master's strength, so there's nothing fair or unfair about it."
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Su Lun looked at the fierce battle on the stage, with a glint of light flashing from time to time in his eyes.
If there is no restraint, the complete [Mechanism War Demon] can have an almost unbeatable and absolute defense even among fifth- and sixth-level professionals.
After using this move, Karma probably cannot be defeated.
Before taking out the puppet of the family's legendary mechanism, Su Lun also clearly noticed that Kama had seen himself under the stands.
As if asking for permission: Teacher, can I use it?
Su Lun nodded.
Only then did Miss Kamana dare to fight with all her might.
She probably wanted to prove something in front of her teacher, and also to vindicate the inheritance of their Boyle puppet lineage. She showed a very serious attitude towards this competition.
She needs a victory to prove herself.
Su Lun understood Kama's mood very well.
Because it's really not easy for her.
She was obviously at an innocent age, but she was burdened with too much.
The hatred of genocide and the heavy burden of inheritance all rested on the shoulders of the little girl who was less than ten years old at the time.
In order to take revenge, he endured humiliation and heavy burdens for many years beside his enemies in the pirate circle.
One person silently guarded his trapped brother and practiced his puppet skills hard.
That kind of sadness cannot be expressed clearly in a few words. She needs an outlet to vent her emotions.
Su Lun looked at the eyes that glanced at him from time to time even during the battle, and showed an encouraging smile.
Karma is no longer afraid
This "National Puppet Master Competition" has been going on until now, and no one expected it to happen.
The audience was in for a treat, witnessing a truly exciting battle between the puppet masters.
This competition also attracted many newspapers in London, and reporters also took pictures of the two puppet masters who shined in the finals.
It is conceivable that tomorrow's report will surely set off a wave of puppets in London again.
But in the eyes of the nobles, the so-called competition is actually their default gilding.
The aristocratic lady, who had never experienced any setbacks since she was a child, became increasingly angry.
She has always been number one since she was a child, and she will never allow herself to be second!
But Karma’s family legacy [Mechanism War Demon] is too strong to lose.
It is not easy for both sides to win.
Because it has now been changed to an unlimited competition, Miss Elsa, who has been unable to win for a long time, becomes increasingly unwilling and takes out a costly cursed object.
This did not scare the nobles and ladies who were watching the battle.
Fortunately, we were stopped by the organizer, and in the end it was a draw and tied for first place.
In this way, a puppet master competition that caused some minor disturbances came to an end.
Su Lun blended in the crowd and was inconspicuous. The award ceremony was going on, and he did not leave young Alex to celebrate with Kama.
Instead, he left the arena with the crowd.
At the door, I met Yabok who slipped out after taking the prize.
Su Lun smiled and said, "Why don't you stay and take a photo?"
Yabok spread his hands and said, "Teacher, this kind of competition is so boring. If it weren't for the prize, I wouldn't come."
Su Lun raised his eyebrows noncommittally and said, "It would be good to get to know more of my peers. Other puppet master factions also have a lot to offer."
Yabok said seriously: "I came here because of the teacher's teachings. But they are too weak, especially the nobles who only use puppets as tools. No one really appreciates or understands the art of puppets."
.Those old men in the puppet union are pretty good. When I can defeat them in two years, I will definitely come to them to learn from each other."
Su Lun chuckled after hearing this.
He also knew that his disciple was not arrogant, but really bored.
In the eyes of geniuses, professionals of the same level are not considered opponents at all.
Su Lun didn't say much. He only thought of some situations that he had guessed before, and warned: "Be most careful. Lingdun is not peaceful recently. If you encounter problems that cannot be solved, contact me as soon as possible."