There was a celebration in the tavern, and the matter of Duke successfully making the spirit card basically faded away in the Penrose Wizard Tower.
In addition to Shanfeisi, several other arcane mages can make cards.
Not surprising.
Duke only feels that his status in Penrose Wizard Tower has been improved and he can get more resources.
But unexpectedly, I received an invitation from Union Tower to internal supervisor Suktala the next day, inviting him to visit Master Suktala Tower.
The person who sent the invitation letter was Suktara's secretary: "Your Excellency Duke, my family would like to congratulate you on taking an important step in the field of card making. She asked me to tell you that maybe you can also work in the field of card making.
In addition, take a look more, Suktara Master Tower is always open to you."
"This..." Duke was really flattered, "Okay, I will take care of the matters at hand as soon as possible and go to visit Suktala Master Tower."
The secretary received the reply and left happily.
Duke was left feeling emotional in the office.
Ever since he was promoted to Arcane Mage, Suktala has been wooing him, hoping that he can go to Suktala Mage Tower for further studies and study the field of alchemy.
When he was investigating the forbidden area before, he also met Master Sukta Rao in person and received another invitation from him.
Until now, I’ve been invited again.
"Perhaps this is the trouble of genius, Master Sukta Rao, she wants to choose me as her successor."
Suktara is one of the sixteen 3-ring arcane mages in Shenjiao City. He serves as the internal supervisor in the Union Tower. Although he is not a member of the Five Towers Council, he is the internal supervisor of the internal affairs of the Black Dragon River and is basically equivalent to a deputy mayor.
functions.
Therefore, Suktara is considered to be of high authority.
At the same time, she is also an alchemist scholar and has profound attainments in alchemy.
Alchemy is not about turning something that is not gold into gold, but a systematic transformation of substances, somewhat similar to chemistry.
For example, most of the spiritual materials on spirit beasts must undergo alchemical processing before they can be transformed into truly useful materials. Or the spiritual gold extracted from ores can also be transformed into other magical items through alchemical processing.
And alchemy also plays an important role, which is to cast arcane weapons.
Let spirituality and matter be combined to become the raw materials for building arcane weapons, which can not only be absorbed into the spiritual sea, but also be embodied in reality.
Many arcane mages who want to forge arcane weapons will seek the help of alchemists. The more advanced the arcane weapons are, the more help they need from alchemists.
For example, if Duke wants to evolve the first-level sand eagle to the second-level, he may also need the help of an alchemist.
"Of course I have Xiao Yi. Xiao Yi and Yihuan Shaying are both constructed using the underlying logic of this world, so they don't need much alchemical help." Before Duke was promoted to Arcane Mage, he could make use of Xiao Yi's abilities.
,Improved Sand Eagle.
Now that he has become an arcane mage, Xiaoyi's database is also constantly expanding. It should be easy to improve and advance the sand eagle.
"But no matter what, Master Sukta Rao favors me so much that I should pay a visit due to both emotion and reason."
He has not yet scheduled a date to visit Suktala Master Pagoda.
After returning home from get off work, he received another party invitation sent by Joanna Bobcat. The entourage who sent the invitation also included Joanna's congratulations to him: "My lord, I highly praise you as a genius in studying knowledge. Please
You must appreciate her, she will ask you for advice in person."
"Is the party in three days? Please reply to your family and I will go." He dismissed Joanna's entourage casually.
Duke shook his head and laughed: "Asking for teachings...will Joanna also ask for teachings?"
Joanna is of the same line as her father, Jovis, and has no interest in learning, so she solidifies her spiritual core through elemental decomposition and follows the route of an arcanist.
The study of knowledge is the business of arcane scholars.
In addition to Suktara and Joanna, there are also many arcane mages he knows, who have sent him invitations to various parties and family banquets.
However, Duke did not agree anymore. Learning to make cards is not a big deal, and there is no need to make it too high-profile.
Joanna knew him first, and they were both consultants at the Shenjiao City Hotel. Suktara favored him the most, so she agreed to both of them.
After attending the small circle gathering organized by Joanna, Duke packed up and went to visit the Suktara Master Tower.
Unlike Master Penrose's Tower, which is more than 100 meters tall, Master Suktala's Tower is only 50 meters high.
However, the castle at the bottom of the tower occupies a much larger area and has a huge basement. All dangerous alchemy experiments are conducted in the basement.
"I'm glad you can come." Suktala greeted Duke personally and took Duke to visit his mage tower.
This alchemist has turned gray-haired.
According to the records in "The Spirituality of the Black Dragon River Land", she is already 160 years old, close to the theoretical limit of 180 years old for a third-level arcane mage.
Most level 3 arcane mages will not live to be 180 years old, and only a few exceed this age.
Ms. Suktara has no children. She has devoted her life to spiritual mysteries. She only had one short marriage. After her husband unfortunately passed away, she has been single ever since.
However, she has trained her brother and his younger brother's descendants, but she has not been able to train them. The family has not yet produced a level 1 arcane mage.
Therefore, Suktara is very urgent about his successor.
"Your Majesty Suktara, I'm sorry to bother you."
"You don't need to be so polite here. You should get to know some of my students. You can come over and play anytime and anywhere in the future."
Suktala Mage Tower, there are four arcane mages working here.
Among them, Sorel, a 2nd level arcane mage, serves as a guide, and the remaining three are all 1st level arcane mage, but they look very young.
Duke greeted each other one by one.
The four arcane mages all showed sufficient enthusiasm for Duke's arrival, but Duke was keenly aware of the perfunctory nature.
Obviously.
This enthusiasm was probably forced by Suktara, rather than coming from their hearts.
"I have not recruited students for more than ten years, and my research in the field of alchemy has also stalled. Thanks to Sorel and others for helping me support the operation of the mage tower." Suktara himself has a fair face and does not look old.
old state.
But after all, she is already 16 years old, and her energy is far less than when she was young.
"Your achievements in the field of alchemy are enough for those who come after you to look up to you." Duke praised him. He had already found a lot of journal documents before coming.
He browsed through Suktala's related papers in detail. Although many of the papers were incomprehensible and involved more spiritual and arcane knowledge than he knew, he still generally understood that Suktala's specialization was "ring-replicating spirits."
Material".
Ring copying spiritual materials, in short, are spiritual materials that can copy the abilities of "rings" in the spiritual sea.
For example, the ring of projection method that can only be used by the Great Ao Mage requires a large amount of ring copying materials to create a clone.
Suktara's grand goal is to use alchemical means to lower the standard of the projection ring that can only be cast by 4th level or above to 3rd level, or even 2nd level, or 1st level.
If successful.
You can definitely get the title of Alchemy Sage, and even come to Offa Tower and get the seat of Chief Alchemy Sage in Offa Tower.
Her current research is still far away from success, and she has stopped researching it in the past ten years.
"My height is not high enough for those who come after me to look up to me. There are seven alchemy scholars in this city, and their academic achievements are no less than mine." Suktara said calmly, "Even Sorel, with a few more years of accumulation, he can probably
Won the title of scholar."
Duke was a little surprised, and then praised: "You have someone as your academic successor."
"No, although Sorel works in my mage tower, his research direction is life boxes. If he really wants to be awarded, he should be awarded the title of life scholar."
"Life box?"
"A very interesting thing that can change your life form." Suktara smiled mysteriously, "If you are interested, you can talk to Sorel."
Change the form of life?
Duke immediately thought of the life scholar Bynes in the cabin in the woods. He studied soul containers and seemed to have an inexplicable connection with this life box.
By the time the visit ended, it was already noon.
Suktara left Duke to have lunch in the castle's restaurant. She had official business to deal with in the afternoon, so she left first.
Duke greeted Suktala's secretary and went straight to the Wonder Room of the Mage Tower.
Penrose's mage tower only has thirty-six arcane wonder structures. Suktala's status is not as good as Penrose's, but her mage tower has a full forty-two arcane wonder structures. The longer time goes by, the more
The more money you have, the more wonders you can build.
Duke checked carefully and found that there were eleven arcane spells here, which Penrose Wizard Tower did not have.
"I want to borrow the wonder room here to record some arcane wonders. Is it possible?" Duke asked Suktala's secretary.
The secretary responded respectfully: "Your Excellency has told you that you can visit the Master Tower anytime and anywhere, including these Wonder Rooms."
"Thank you Lord Suktara for me." Duke chose a wonder room and walked in.
It took about three hours to gain insight into the new wonders in the wonder room, and simultaneously recreate this magnificent wonder in the spiritual sea.
So Duke said goodbye and prepared to come back tomorrow to continue.
"When I record these eleven arcane wonders, I will have forty-seven arcane wonders. I can observe them anytime and anywhere to improve my understanding of rings!"
……
In the next half month, Duke will either continue to practice making 1-level spirit storage cards in Wizard Penrose Tower, or he will observe the arcane wonder structure in Wizard Suktala Tower.
Life is very fulfilling.
Every Thursday afternoon, he would receive teachings from Penrose and accumulate more card-making knowledge; at other times, he would occasionally meet Suktara, who would tell him some interesting stories about alchemy, subtly attracting Duke's attention.
Interest.
"Sir, Lord Suktara is so kind to you." Mulali would often sigh with emotion.
Although Penrose began to pay attention to Duke, he was still in power after all, and his main focus was on handling government affairs.
Duke rarely sees each other except Thursday afternoon.
But Suktara was different. After Duke came out of the Wonder Room, he would often receive invitations from her to chat in the office or coffee shop.
This made Duke sigh with emotion: "Yes, Ms. Suktara is an elder who is enthusiastic about supporting the younger generations."
"If you come here to study, Lord Suktara will definitely teach you everything and help you achieve success earlier." Mulali complimented, "Sir, with your wisdom, you will definitely be able to succeed in any field.
!"
"Am I wise... I am not wiser than other arcane mages, I just work harder." Duke shook his head.
His little assistant has obviously been melted by Suktara's enthusiasm.
In fact, he himself was not melted. The enthusiasm of a third-level arcane mage, even in words and in words, wanting to entrust the entire mage tower, is difficult to resist.
But Suktala's class is not easy to take.
Duke does not feel that he and Xiaoyi can easily try the alchemical direction of replicating spiritual materials with their current abilities.
Alchemy focuses on material transformation, which requires a lot of material experiments.
The function of Xiaoyi is mainly data calculation, which is not very helpful for material experiments. The field of card making is more suitable for it.
However, Mulali blindly worshiped Duke: "I think sir, you not only work harder than others, but you are also smarter than others."
"I agree with your judgment, but little Lili, you don't understand many things, so just do your job well and be cautious in other aspects." Duke said in a gentle tone, tapping
The meaning is undisguised.
Mu Lali, who was a little erratic, suddenly became solemn and did not dare to talk nonsense anymore.
She is not qualified to decide Duke's choice.
Back at No. 17 of Beverly Manor, Duke changed into his home clothes and went to the breeding room to refining blood with Kabuto.
A while ago, Duke fed me a meal of chicken soup. Xiao Dou has been practicing very hard these days.
He challenged the black-spotted serval cat every day and failed repeatedly, but unknowingly, his physical fitness and spiritual power were growing rapidly.
"Chiji!" After eating the spirit beast meat, Xiao Dou couldn't wait to practice.
Duke touched its head and indicated that it should take a rest first.
He held the chick that had just emerged from the sea and looked at the cardboard box in the corner. In the cardboard box, a plump maggot was sleeping soundly.
This is Xiaohong, the descendant of Queen Ant Red Branch.
Compared to the size of a fist at the beginning, it has now grown to the size of an adult's arm, and its body has a strong spiritual aura.
However, it is still a larva and needs to pupate before it can mature.
"Little Red is a bit stupid, Duke, he might be a fool." The chicken suddenly said something without any clue.
"Why do you think so?"
"I have seen many such little bugs in the nest of red branches. They can communicate with me using the pheromones you mentioned, but Xiaohong can't. It is just a fool. How do I call it?
No response."
Chicks are hatched by ants, so they are born with the ability to communicate with ants using pheromones.
"Maybe it's because he's still young and not old enough to communicate," Duke said.
"Maybe..." Xiaoji said noncommittally, "Anyway, I feel that Xiaohong is useless and a fool who can't speak. It's really boring."
"Whether it means it or not, she is your goddaughter."
"It's boring!"
The little chicken yawned and plunged into Duke's air sea. Now, except for eating some spiritual crystals, it rarely comes out.
The prosperity of the human world has no attraction for it at all. Once curiosity passes, all that is left is yawning.
"Jiji!" Xiao Dou came over again, seeking blood refining.
Duke was too lazy to practice by himself and directly ordered Xiao Yi: "Add a new process, "Universal Blood Refining Method"."
"Okay master, I have added it for you..." Xiaoyi quickly took over the blood sea and started the unshakable blood refining method every day.
Xiao Kabuto also yawned and lay down on the table to fall asleep.
But only halfway through the blood refining, Duke raised his eyebrows and laughed out loud.
He directly interrupted the blood refining method, dropped his sleeping bag, and quickly ran to the large terrace on the third floor: "After four months of hard work, it is finally completed at this moment!"
Then an idea struck.
A luminous shield transformed from psychic energy quickly appeared in front of him - a 1-level arcane magic shield!
It was already night, and the arcane shield was like a crystal, floating quietly in front of Duke, with mysterious lines looming.
It looks like it can be broken by a bomb, but it is actually indestructible.
This is the miracle of the arcane shield he just built. After more than four months of continuous construction day and night, he can finally cast arcane magic instantly.
"Sir!" Vivian rushed over quickly.
She was alerted by Duke's laughter and came to see what was going on. When she arrived, she saw the crystal shield suspended in front of Duke.
White light, transparent, about the height of a person, can cover Duke's whole body.
"Congratulations, sir!" Vivian immediately recognized that this was a level 1 arcane spell - arcane shield, and immediately understood, "Successfully built an arcane wonder!"
"Correct!"
Duke snapped his fingers, and the arcane shield in front of him immediately dispersed.
But the next second, another arcane shield appeared on the right side of his body. The speed was so fast that it was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, and it could be called instantaneous.
"Come on, Vivian, attack it!" Duke stood with his hands behind his back.
Vivian did not refuse, she drew out the sword she carried with her, her fighting spirit circulated, and she used the "Swift Sword Technique", which hit the arcane shield heavily.
Bang!
The sound was loud, but there was just a crack on the crystal-like surface of the arcane shield.
"It's very hard, sir. I can't break it." Vivian took back the sword, feeling a little disappointed. So what if the 1st level knight was facing an arcane mage and couldn't even break through the defense?
Duke dispersed the arcane shield and continued to order: "Come, attack me!"
Vivian took the order: "Sir, be careful."
"Don't worry, I will hide when necessary." Duke smiled calmly.
"Swift Sword Technique" was used again, cyan fighting energy spurted on the long sword, and Vivian had stabbed Duke's heart.
But when the fighting spirit sword light was about to reach Duke, an arcane shield appeared in front of him without Duke taking the initiative to release it.
Bang!
The sword light collapsed, the sword blade rebounded, and the arcane shield cracked a little.
Vivian did not stop, but turned around, moved behind Duke, and slashed at Duke's neck with another sword spitting out cyan light.
When the sword light came close to his neck, the arcane shield in front of Duke disappeared instantly.
An arcane shield instantly appeared behind him, blocking Vivian's sneak attack. There was no other damage except for a little crack.
"Hoo!" He attacked three times in a row, but failed to break through the defense.
Vivian sighed helplessly.
Unless the arcane shield can be shattered with one blow, Duke can instantly cast the arcane shield without limit, blocking all sneak attack spaces.
The spirituality involved in the arcane wonders is extraordinary. Without Duke's deliberate guidance, the arcane shield can sense danger anytime and anywhere, and then instantly protect the body. This is the real basis for the arcane mage to rule the vast land of the Seven Towers Federation. p>
In frontal combat, it is an invincible arcane turret.
In the face of sneak attacks, you can still cast arcane defense instantly and remain invincible.
"The arcane miracle has been completed, and your strength has already made me unforgettable." Vivian put away her long sword, raised her hand and stepped aside.
"Although the arcane shield is good, it also has flaws." Duke was able to face up to his shortcomings. "First of all, the defense is not comprehensive enough. If it is attacked from two sides, it will be difficult to defend at the same time. Secondly, if the attack power is too strong, it can directly break the arcane shield...
”
Touching his chin, Duke pondered: "If I can directly break through the arcane shield, it seems like I will die no matter what defense I use."
"Sir, there are many spiritual beasts that can break arcane shields, but if you want to break arcane shields by sneak attacks, there are no spiritual beasts that can do it."
"It seems to be true. Spiritual beasts that hurt people with sneak attacks cannot break the arcane shield. If you can break the arcane shield, there is no need to sneak attack..."
At this point, Duke laughed again.
The sense of security has been improved again. Now I don’t have to be afraid even if I go camping in the wild. No one can stab him easily.
"Sir, what makes you so happy?" Butler Morris came over.
"You're here just in time, Butler Morris, let me go to the wine cellar to get a bottle of old red wine, and have a drink with me tonight."
"As you wish, sir." Morris was about to turn around.
Duke added: "Bring two bottles of red wine, Vivian and Murali will also drink some, and get some spirits to share with the others."
……
Dead of night.
After taking a shower, Duke sat cross-legged on the big bed in the bedroom, only lighting a small lamp on the bedside.
Close your eyes and look inside the spiritual sea. On the first orbit of the ring system, a ring of sand eagles and arcane shields are slowly moving.
Duke looked beyond the first ring of orbit and towards the inner spiritual core.
Originally, the spiritual core was absolutely round, but when he successfully released the 1st level arcane spell - Mage's Hand, a bulge formed on it, and now a bulge formed on it again.
This bulge represents a major understanding of his spiritual arcana. When this major cognition continues to increase, it means that the spiritual core is promoted from level 1 to level 2. Eventually, these bulges will form each energy line of the ring.
Corner until the second ring is nested.
"Everything you know about the world and the spiritual mysteries will be reflected in the ring!" Duke looked at his ring and felt a sense of accomplishment.
But he soon suppressed his distracting thoughts and stared at the first orbit seriously.
"It's time to build a new arcane wonder!"
Without thinking about it, he had already chosen his second arcane wonder—Illusion a long time ago.
Illusion is the arcana with the most complex spell model among level 1 arcana.
It has no attack power and no defense power. This is a simple auxiliary type of arcana that can release an illusion around the caster, thus changing the surrounding light and shadow layout, deceiving the five senses of the outside world, and even deceiving the spirituality.
"The 1st level fantasy card is the favorite arcane card among mercenaries and is the best way to disguise hunting!"
You can use illusions to cover yourself when ambushing spiritual beasts, and you can also use illusions to cover yourself when avoiding spiritual beasts. This is a life-saving trump card when necessary.
"Ordinary arcane mages don't really like to build illusions and arcane wonders. They need to make room to build defensive arcana and attack arcana. But I am different. I don't need attack arcana... Sand Eagle is my best
Attack Arcane."
Below level 3, any arcane attack is inferior to Sand Eagle's continuous fire attack.
Therefore, Duke does not need to consider any attack arcana. Illusion, an auxiliary arcana with special effects, becomes his choice.
"Xiaoyi, add new processes and create illusions and arcane wonders."
"Good master, a new process has been added for you." Xiaoyi responded quickly, "Process two, fantasy and wonder, the building consumes 60% power. The current construction progress is 0.0%, and the time budget is 246 days."
The construction speed of arcane wonders is limited by the meditation method and the spiritual sea itself, and cannot be faster.
"Well, 246 days is a bit long, but I don't care. These are all the time I earned." Duke was in a good mood.
Other arcane mages need to work hard to build arcane wonders, and it takes one or two years to build an arcane wonder.
The little bit of life extended is basically used to build arcane wonders.
Duke handed over the arcane wonders to Xiao Yi to build, without consuming his own time. A few years of life extension would be a few years in vain - being promoted to an arcane mage can extend his life. A level 1 arcane mage can generally live to one hundred and two years, while ordinary people are about
You can live to be seventy or eighty years old.
"Hoo!"
Duke opened his eyes, glanced at the starry sky outside the window, and silently sighed: "He's become stronger again!"