Vivian, who successfully broke through to the level 1 Grand Knight, officially assumed the position of Captain of Duke's Guard Knights and began to form a Guard Knights team.
When early humans first set foot on the wild continent, the Knights were the trump cards on the battlefield.
Now that arcane mages have risen, knights have taken a back seat and become security personnel responsible for local security or protecting arcane mages.
The Knights have long existed in name only, and the Cavaliers are the common standard.
"We can slowly look for members of the Guard Knights. If we find a good one, we will arrange to live on the tenth floor of the third building of Huanshuiyuan." Duke thought for a while and said, "As for you, you should continue to live here and listen to me at any time.
Let’s arrange it.”
Since moving into Villa No. 17, Vivian has accepted her fate, so she did not refuse: "Yes, sir."
After a pause, Vivian asked: "Sir, do you have any standards for selecting members of the Knight Guard?"
"I hope my quality will be higher and my family background will be clean."
"Understood."
"Just remember, it's better to have less than to waste. I don't have an urgent need to protect the Cavaliers."
"Yes."
Looking at the rigid Vivian before she recovered, Duke said: "You don't need to be so tense in front of me, relax a little, I have no relatives, so I treat you all as my family and friends.
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"I understand your kindness, but as a guard knight, I cannot relax at all and need to stay alert at all times."
I can't understand Vivian, she is sometimes stubborn.
Duke shook his head helplessly: "Okay, it's up to you, but you've made a breakthrough. I'll give you two days off and go home to rest."
"My lord..."
"Don't refuse, this is an order."
Vivian pursed her lips: "Yes!"
The next day, Duke signaled his driver, Royce, to take Vivian home first and then to Penrose Wizard Tower.
After Vivian got off the bus, Mulali helped Duke beat his legs and whispered: "Sir, it seems that Sister Vivian doesn't want to go home."
"Why?" Duke leaned on his seat and enjoyed the assistant's service comfortably.
"I don't know very well, but I can feel that Sister Vivian is quite resistant to family. Maybe she doesn't like her own family."
"Really?" Duke said casually.
But in his heart, he thought of the time when Assistant Vikas recommended Vivian to him as a guard knight, but he didn't seem to care about Vivian's attitude.
And Vivian seems to be more afraid of Vikas than family affection.
"And speaking of it, it seems that I have never asked about Vivian's parents?" Duke thought in his mind. He always thought that Vivian's family was harmonious.
But based on some small details, it seems that this is not the case.
So he said to Mulali: "How much do you know about Vivian?"
"Not many, sir. Sister Vivian is very boring and doesn't like to talk. When I see her, she is basically practicing."
"Do you know about her family situation?"
"I heard from Vikas's assistants that Sister Vivian's father seems to be Vikas's illegitimate son..."
"Huh?" Duke turned to look at Mulali, "Illegitimate child?"
"Yes, sir, it is very common for an arcane mage to have one or two lovers." When Mulali said this, a blush appeared on her face, "Instructor Vikas is a second-level arcane mage, so he should...
There should be quite a few illegitimate children."
Duke didn't say anything else. Illegitimate children are indeed very common.
The law of the Seven Towers Federation is monogamy, but the law is difficult to restrain the powerful, so arcane mages generally have lovers.
The great knight at the bottom and the great spiritual envoy also have lovers.
At least Duke knew that Boss James had several lovers, all of whom were kept on the farm over in Snakehead Town.
Enter the mage tower, do experiments in the morning, and continue classes in the afternoon.
"Okay, the 1-ring spirit storage card has been successfully made. I have already talked about all the important points. You can go back and think about my process of making the card. You have to figure out the rest by yourself." Vikas said,
Handed the 1-ring spirit storage card to Duke.
Duke stood up and thanked you: "Thank you for your teaching and wasting your time all afternoon."
"I am an assistant tutor, and teaching falls within the scope of my work. There is no need to be so polite to me. On the other hand, you are too busy working and studying. You have to learn from Shanfei in this regard. He sneaks out to socialize when he has time.
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"I prefer studying card making to socializing." Duke smiled and left the office.
Returning to his office, he looked at the time and saw that he would get off work in an hour, so he continued to practice the blank spiritual cards.
"Xiaoyi, report the progress!"
"Good master... Process 3: Making a one-ring spirit storage card, research and development consumes 26% of power. The current research and development progress is 97%, and the time budget is 3 days."
"Not bad, keep working hard, it will be time to accept the results in three days!"
Putting aside some distracting thoughts, Duke focused on making a 1-ring spirit storage card. Three days passed in a flash, and it was still this office.
Duke put a new blank spiritual card into the ring press.
Irrigation and spiritual canals have been completed, and the spliced blank spirit cards are suitable for card making. Xiaoyi quickly calculates, and on the Dou Qi holographic screen, the projection of the spell model of the spirit card with modified details is given, as well as the energy line placement point of each stroke.
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He held the psychic pen, took a deep breath, and cooperated with Xiaoyi to start drawing energy lines.
One stroke after another, the energy lines are merged in the force field of the ring pressing device, and then compressed into the central area of the card material by the ring pressing device.
After a few transactions, the card core has been determined.
The card-making process is progressing smoothly, with Duke constantly adjusting his techniques and Xiaoyi constantly assisting in calculations, constantly adjusting the accuracy of the spell model.
One person and one machine, maintaining a high degree of concentration, completed more than 80% of the energy line drawing without realizing it.
"Xiaoyi, it's a critical moment again. This time, let's try not to let anything slip."
"Good master."
After a few more strokes, the energy lines compressed into the core of the card by the ring pressure device have already outlined the rough spell model of the spirit storage card.
There are only a few details remaining.
This part is quite energy-consuming. Duke must pay great attention and cooperate with Xiaoyi's powerful computing power to complete the final step of calibration.
Card making is not simply about drawing and carving spell models. Each stroke will have unexpected effects, and Xiaoyi needs to make adjustments at any time.
This is a synchronous operation between man and machine.
Soon, the final stroke was reached, and Duke remained unmoved, all his excitement was wasted by previous failures again and again.
At this time, he was just like a robot, maintaining a stable state, cooperating with Xiaoyi's calculation results, holding the psychic pen steadily, and simply sketched an energy line in the air.
Start the ring pressure instrument.
The ring pressing instrument quickly compresses the last energy line into the card core, and then the energy line spontaneously connects with the first energy line end to end, forming a closed loop.
The light flashes little by little, indicating that the spell model has been perfectly embedded in the card core.
No failure.
Duke was a little stunned, even a little disappointed. The countless failed card-making experiments during this period had almost made him form a conditioned reflex.
It seems that failure is what runs through life, not success.
Until Xiaoyi's voice brought him back to reality from his trance: "Congratulations to the master for successfully producing a 1-ring spirit storage card. The production and development of the 1-ring spirit storage card has been completed. The data in the database is running normally, and the 1-ring spirit storage card can be opened at any time.
The production work of Chu Ling Card."
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In late December last year, I started learning to make cards. On January 23 this year, I successfully made a 1-ring spirit storage card, which took only one month.
Duke leaned on the sofa chair and turned the sofa chair in one direction to face the office window.
You can overlook the entire Shenjiao City from the window.
The location closest to Penrose Mage Tower is a large factory with thick smoke, but the constant level 1 arcane spell - Endless Wind blows away the black smoke and does not affect Penrose Mage Tower.
The fingertips are turning the freshly baked 1-ring spirit storage card, which has been wrapped in a cover. When the psychic energy is triggered, you can see lines flashing on it.
This is a sign that the magic model inside the Lingka is running normally.
"This is a success... It's just the most basic 1-ring spirit storage card, but it took Xiaoyi and I a full month of hard work, and no less than four thousand blank spirit storage cards were discarded... As you can imagine
, how difficult it is to make a card!"
Duke was filled with emotion.
In the past, Xiaoyi did all the research and development on his own. He had never participated in it, so he did not understand the difficulties and obstacles involved.
Now he and Xiaoyi are working hard to make cards.
The difficulty was experienced very deeply, so the feelings were also very profound: "It is so difficult for me to have a small art, but what about other card makers... Forget Vikas's guidance, just rely on time... Can Instructor Penrose become a card maker?"
Card scholars’ strength is evident!”
He admired Master Penrose's strength in his heart, but Duke did not take himself lightly.
With his small skills, his talent in the field of spiritual arcana is no less than that of any arcana scholar. He can make cards in more than a month, which is proof.
He turned back to the sofa and rang the rope bell on the table.
Mulali, who was bored outside the office trimming her nails, soon walked in with a sweet smile: "Sir, what are your orders?"
"Send this spirit card to Director Vikas' office."
"Yes sir."
Mulali took the spirit card and left with light steps.
After her second grandfather "sent" her to Duke, after the initial hesitation, Mulali felt that her life was pretty good now.
Eat well, drink well, and work easily.
Moreover, the boss I followed was also a talented arcane mage. He was similar in age and had a peaceful personality, so he didn’t feel restricted at all.
Soon she entered Director Vikas' office and sent the spiritual card over: "Sir Vikas, my husband asked me to give this to you."
"Duke gave it to me?" Vikas raised his eyebrows and picked up the spirit card on the table.
Seeing clearly that this was a level 1 spirit storage card, Vikas' pupils suddenly dilated and he did not hesitate to inject spiritual energy into the spirit card.
The lines light up and the spirit card is activated.
Vikas couldn't help showing a trace of shock on his face. He quickly noticed that in this 1-level spirit storage card, one of the energy lines of the spell model had Duke's signature.
This is the card maker's signature, an industry custom.
It has nothing to do with anti-counterfeiting - only card makers can make products like Ling Card, and it is impossible for ordinary people to counterfeit them. It is too easy for card makers to make money, and there is no need to resort to fraud.
"Hiss!"
Vikas saw Duke's signature clearly and immediately stood up and said, "Mulali, right? Your boss is still in the office?"
"Here you are."
"I'm going to see him."
Without any delay, Vikas rushed to Duke's office with this spirit card. As soon as they met, he asked in a trembling voice: "Duke, is this the spirit card you made?"
"Isn't it signed by me, Assistant Vikas?" Duke smiled back.
Vikas asked seriously: "This kind of thing cannot be done falsely!"
"There will be no lies."
"Unless you make a spirit storage card on the spot, I won't believe you." Vikas put his hands on the table and stared at Duke, "It's not that I don't want to believe you, it's just that this is too unexpected.
I thought that even with your talent and understanding, it would take a year to achieve this!"
After a pause, Vikas added: "Sanfisi has been studying for two and a half years, and has been learning card making with Lidman for more than a year, and he has never succeeded once!"
Duke did not answer.
I just stood up and picked up a blank spiritual card, turned on the card-making equipment that had not been put away on the table, and started to repeat the steps of making spiritual cards.
Assistant Vikas stood opposite, watching Duke's every move.
Irrigating card materials and digging spiritual canals, Duke carried out meticulously according to the plan formulated by Xiaoyi, and soon successfully drew 90% of the energy lines. However, at this moment, among the energy lines in the card core,
If there is a conflict between them, the card material will be directly melted.
Duke looked up at Vikas.
Vikas did not speak, but just looked at Duke.
So Duke took out a blank spiritual card again and repeated the previous steps: "My current card-making success rate is not high."
Each blank spirit card has different card materials. Although there is Xiaoyi's assistance, in the end, there is insufficient success experience to ensure 100% success.
However, as the number of times he successfully creates cards increases, Xiaoyi's database will become more and more complete, and the success rate will naturally increase.
A few minutes later.
As Vikas watched with wide eyes, Duke did not fail again, but successfully made another 1-ring spirit storage card.
When the spirit card was wrapped in a cover and handed to him, Vikas was still in a daze: "Is it successfully produced?"
"Yes, didn't you say that one method can solve all problems? Once you have a successful experience, it is not difficult to succeed again." Duke clapped his hands and stopped making cards.
Vikas put the previous spirit storage card and this new spirit storage card into his pocket: "When the mentor comes back, I will share this good news with the mentor. Please be patient and wait... Unexpected
You are so talented in the field of card making..."
Soon.
Vikas left Duke's office with endless emotions.
However, when he got off work, Mentor Penrose did not come back. As the ruler of the Union Tower, he had too many official duties to deal with.
Duke went off work as usual.
Only Vikas had been waiting in the Mage Tower, and it was not until eight o'clock in the evening that Teacher Penrose, who was slightly drunk, returned to the Mage Tower.
Wizard Tower Castle is Penrose’s home.
"Teacher, you are finally back." Vikas rushed over immediately.
"It's Vikas, you're still here so late, why don't you go back and rest?" Penrose stood in the castle hall, surrounded by a group of servants to change his clothes.
"There is something very important that I want to report to my instructor."
Penrose, who had changed into home clothes, motioned for Vikas to sit down and sent the servants away before he asked: "What's the matter?"
"Teacher, take a look at this." Vikas handed over two 1-level spirit storage cards.
Penrose took it in his hand and narrowed his eyes slightly. He had already checked the two spirit cards with his spiritual energy, and said in a calm tone: "Well, Duke has successfully created the cards?"
"Teacher, you don't seem... surprised?"
"What's so surprising? Levski has been keeping an eye on his card-making progress for me. Counting the time, it's only been in the past few days." Penrose seemed not to be surprised at all, and his tone was as calm as usual.
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But Vikas was keenly aware that Mentor Penrose's hand was shaking slightly as he held the Lingka.
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"Genius!"
Every time Secretary Levsky brought over Duke's spiritual cards that failed to practice, Penrose couldn't help but sigh in admiration when he saw signs of improvement on them.
Card making is a field that looks simple but is actually quite difficult.
With his level as a card-making scholar, when he first came into contact with card-making, it took him half a year to successfully make his first spiritual card.
But he asked Vikas to teach Duke how to make cards. In just one month, Duke's card making progress soared like a rocket.
At that time, the failure card that Levski brought for the first time and the drawing progress on it shocked him.
Almost every day from then on, Levski would bring one or two failure cards for him to check Duke's practice progress.
Progress is getting faster day by day.
What takes others a week to achieve, Duke can often achieve in just one day.
Such an amazing and outstanding talent really frightened Penrose. Combined with the previous inspection of the research team, he found that Duke had learned most of the spell models, so he had to admit that he had really encountered a genius arcanist this time.<
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Not the kind of pseudo-genius who occasionally receives spiritual blessings.
So.
When Vikas came over with the 1-ring spirit storage card made by Duke, Penrose was not surprised at all, he had expected it.
But he couldn't control the excitement in his heart: "Where is Duke?"
"He's off work."
"Tomorrow morning, ask him to come to my office." Penrose said calmly, "You should also go back and rest early."
What did Vikas want to say? I always felt that the instructor's mood shouldn't be so dull. You know, he had been excited all afternoon.
Learn how to make cards in one month, this is the real genius of card making.
However, seeing Penrose's indifferent response, he could only suppress his inner excitement: "Yes, mentor, I'll go back right away."
Wait for Vikas to leave.
Penrose sat on the sofa, lost in thought.
To be honest, he has no idea of looking for a successor. After all, he is only eighty-six years old. As expected, he still has eighty or ninety years to live. There is enough time for him to study spiritual arcana and enjoy squandering.
And he also enjoys the honor of being the only card-making scholar in the entire Black Dragon River Land.
He even plans to delve deeply into the field of card production and seek opportunities to break through the fourth-level earth arcane mage. Then everything will be different.
"But talent is hard to find, especially a dazzling genius like Duke... With the talent he has shown, given time, he may become another card-making scholar... It took me fifty years to get the title of scholar, and he,
Ten years? Five years?"
Penrose feels uncomfortable when he thinks that ten or five years from now, the title of card maker scholar will no longer be unique.
He thought about suppressing Duke and maintaining his absolute status.
But this is not realistic. The registered arcane mages of the Magical Tower are all strongly protected by the Seven Towers Federation, and ordinary means of suppression have no effect at all.
They can't kill each other, and ordinary methods will not have any deterrent effect.
Unless he leads Duke to a path of no return, such as researching prohibited human experiments or defecting to the Seven Towers Federation, and then being expelled from the Faling Tower.
But Duke doesn't look like a fool.
So Penrose could only suppress the dark side of his heart and thought silently: "If it is destined to be unable to suppress Duke, then help him and help him stand out early... After all, he is the arcane mage who walked out of my Penrose mage tower!
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After finishing his ideological work, Penrose felt relaxed.
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The next day, Duke received the notice from Vikas and immediately entered Mentor Penrose's office.
"Tutor, are you looking for me?"
"Sit down." Penrose said in a kind tone, "Instructor Vikas has given me your 1-ring spirit storage card to look at. Being able to learn how to make the card in such a short period of time is enough to prove your hard work during this period.
Genius also needs to be watered by sweat."
"You're right, I think so too."
"Now that you have learned the most basic card making, I will teach you personally. I don't have much free time, so the teaching time will be every Thursday afternoon."
Duke said happily: "Thank you, mentor!"
It is undoubtedly a great joy to be personally taught by a card-making scholar. Penrose's casual advice may allow him to deepen his understanding of rings and spiritual arcana.
"In addition, you should finish the research topic in your hand as soon as possible and summarize a paper, and I will help you revise it."
"Yes."
"When this topic is over, I will choose a new topic for you to help you become familiar with the research in the field of card making as soon as possible."
"Thank you, tutor."
Coming out of Penrose's office, Duke couldn't help but laugh.
In the Penrose Mage Tower before, he was basically a little transparent. Except for the tutor Vikas who cared about him more and the Shanfeisi who was closer, he was not close to the other arcane mages, and the Penrose instructor paid little attention to him.
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But things are different now. After showing off his card-making talent, Instructor Penrose had to face up to his existence.
"This wave has brought in a lot of resources!"
With Penrose's personal teachings and the resources of the Mage Tower, it is foreseeable that my card-making skills will continue to improve in the future.
The improvement of skills will also promote the understanding of rings, thereby improving one's own cultivation progress.
Be promoted to Level 2 Arcane Mage as soon as possible.
In the afternoon, the news that Duke successfully produced a 1-level spirit storage card spread in Penrose Wizard Tower.
It was Assistant Vikas who got the signal from Penrose and spread the news.
"Wow, no, Duke!" Shanfeisi, the first monster, shouted, "I haven't learned how to make cards yet, and you have already secretly made spirit cards?"
"It's just good luck." Duke waved his hand modestly.
"This cannot be explained by luck. You have successfully set a new pace for card makers in this city. There is no one in the entire Wind Breath field who can learn to make cards faster than you!" Oriana said with envy, "
You'll be as successful as your mentor!"
"I'm only in the field of card making, and I'm only half way there. I still need more efforts."
"To be too modest is to be proud, Duke, you may be able to go further than us in the field of card making. Anyway, congratulations to you." Blanc said with a smile.
Galba also congratulated him, but he didn't seem so sincere.
Especially when he saw Oriana complimenting Duke, a jealous look flashed under his smile.
Then even Lidman, who was always aloof, knocked on Duke's office door: "Come here and congratulate you."
"Thank you." Duke extended the invitation, "I plan to treat you all to a drink at the Castle Tavern after get off work. Please be sure to appreciate it, Director Leadman."
Lidman thought for a while, nodded and said: "Okay."
Then he stood up and left.
"Mu Lali, send Lidman to help me."
"No need."
After sending Leadman out of the office, Mulali came back with excitement on her face: "Sir, I can't believe it, you have become a card maker!"
Duke raised the corner of his mouth: "Little Lili, you have to learn to get used to this kind of thing by your side in the future."