110 copper dragons, a desk lamp, and a portable lamp, Tom happily walked out of the store holding two small spiritual objects.
It was a little more expensive than buying the Lingfeng Lantern, but he thought what he got was better.
I got on my bicycle and returned home. My wife was making dinner. When she saw that Tom was not holding a spiritual lantern, she couldn't help but ask.
"Why didn't you buy the Lingfeng Lantern?"
"I didn't buy it." Tom walked into the kitchen cheerfully, "What are you going to cook tonight? Is it so delicious?"
"I've stewed a little bit of pork ribs to replenish my daughter and son's health. You can also eat a piece when the time comes. I haven't eaten pork ribs for a long time."
"Wow, this is great!" Tom's mouth watered with greed.
"You haven't said yet, why didn't you buy a lantern? Aren't you saying that you feel unsafe when walking at night without a lantern?"
"I didn't buy the Lingfeng lamp, but I bought other lamps, which work better than the Lingfeng lamp and are more energy-saving!"
Tom took out his portable lamp and desk lamp as if he were presenting a treasure, and demonstrated them to his wife, and he quickly gained her approval.
Compared with the old-fashioned Lingfeng lamps, new lamps such as portable lamps and table lamps are more convenient at a glance.
When his daughter came home from school and the family had dinner, Tom immediately took out the lamp and placed it on his daughter's desk.
Plug in the spiritual storage card, and the desk lamp blooms with light.
The whole desk is bright.
"Dad, the desk lamp is great!" My daughter was full of praise.
Seeing his daughter's happy look, Tom felt energetic all over: "Okay, you study hard at home and look after your brother. I'll send your mother to work."
A bicycle carrying the couple quickly reached the section of road without street lights.
While holding Tom's waist, his wife held a portable light to illuminate the road ahead for Tom. The feeling of light made the two of them feel safe from the bottom of their hearts.
"That's great." My wife said softly, "Now that you are going back alone, I won't worry about you anymore. Before, I was always worried that you would ride into a ditch or be robbed by someone."
"What do I have to rob? My pocket is cleaner than my face." Tom laughed, "But with the portable light, I am indeed bolder and dare to ride faster."
"I don't know which scholar invented the portable lamp."
"He must be a learned Tao master who is knowledgeable and knows the sufferings of the people. Only the learned Tao is the most devoted to us ordinary people."
……
Lamps are selling like hotcakes.
The factory of the Giant of Light Spirit Weapon Company operates three shifts 24 hours a day, but the supply still exceeds demand, and the cooing of the postman's owl keeps ringing.
All are letters sent to place orders.
"Tell the orderers that if you pay the full payment in advance, you can queue up first to order lamps. Those who only pay the deposit will go to the back!" Vuillard kept signing and stamping the supply order, with a pair of dark circles under his eyes.
But I am so excited.
He thought that Giant of Light's business would be popular, but he didn't expect it to be so popular. In just over a month, it ignited the enthusiasm of the people in the city.
"Coridia, contact the construction team as soon as possible. We need to expand the factory area and install two more assembly lines!"
"General manager, are you being too aggressive?" Coritia, who is the deputy general manager, worked for Youshi Clothing Company before and has never experienced such a hot sales situation. "Once consumers return enthusiastically, I'm afraid that
There will be a backlog of products."
"No, no, there are still many areas outside waiting for us to open up and expand. We must expand as soon as possible. This is what the chairman means."
Hearing that this was Duke's intention, Coritia did not hesitate: "Okay, I will execute it immediately."
Contact the construction team and go through the construction procedures. Driven by the tide of orders, the Giant of Light's factory has further expanded.
We are recruiting people all the time.
The assembly line of the factory needs workers, the sales team traveling to other places needs manpower, and even the company building needs to recruit a large number of clerks.
"A rising company." In the top-floor office of the Erudite Tower, after reading the sales data of Giant of Light, Erwin exclaimed.
"Grandpa, this is just a spiritual wind lamp that has changed its appearance. How can it become hot?" The secretary was a little puzzled.
"This is not a simple change in appearance. This is a great progress in natural history. It is no less than the invention of the Lingfeng lantern and the Lingfeng wall lamp. It is enough to change people's living habits." Erwin praised that the Lingfeng lantern is similar to a lantern.
, the spiritual wall lamp is similar to an electric lamp.
"However, this is not novel at all. It is like a car light that can be moved at will."
"With your brain, sometimes I really wonder if you are my blood... The principle of a portable lamp is not much different from that of a car lamp, but who would have thought of changing the car lamp and holding it in your hand? Natural history is often a
The flowering of ideas.”
"Okay, Grandpa, but do you really want to commend the Giant of Light and His Excellency Duke?" The secretary's tone was still somewhat disapproving.
Erwin shook his head, a little disappointed with the descendants of his own blood.
This is already the best fourth generation of the family, so he will be chosen to take him with him. Unfortunately, he has not received spiritual blessings, his brain is average, and his vision is even narrower.
But after all, it was his own species, and Erwin could not be more demanding. He just said in a calm tone: "The purpose of the Erudite Tower is to benefit the bottom of society and promote the development of the entire federation from the bottom. The portable lamp can do this, why not
Commendation?"
As a secretary, Esco naturally did not dare to overturn Erwin's decision: "Then I will draft a commendation plan and submit it to the standing meeting of the Knowledge Tower for discussion."
"Well, let's draft it." Erwin said with little interest.
There are some unrealistic fantasies in my heart: "It would be great if this Duke was my great-grandson. When the Nutao family gave birth to Kylia, old Christian's face almost burst from laughter. If I had a great-grandson like Duke,
My grandson can smile even more exaggeratedly than Christian!"
What a pity.
Duke is not his great-grandson. His great-grandson is the average-minded Esco in front of him. He is indeed calm in doing things, but his only advantage is calm.
At the age of twenty-two, he is still a four-star spiritual apprentice.
There is no sign of being promoted to five stars.
"Is spiritual arcane magic so difficult to understand? I had no one to teach me, but just by taking public classes, I was able to be promoted to arcane mage at the age of twenty!" Erwin thought angrily, "Esco followed me every day and gave me advice every day.
He explains spiritual arcana, why can't he be promoted?"
At the same time.
Duke, who was being talked about and compared by Erwin, was not immersed in the joy of the Giant of Light's booming sales and his soaring worth.
As something like a flashlight is destined to be popularized, it is natural that sales will be hot.
What he is concerned about is whether the patent for portable lamps will be infringed by other manufacturers of spiritual weapons and then make portable lamps privately.
Currently, Runwanjia Spiritual Weapon Factory is his key target.
"Duke, shouldn't you treat us? Now you have joined the ranks of the big bosses." Oriana coaxed, "We can only earn some affiliate fees. You, the big boss, don't treat us."
It’s a delicious meal, is it true?”
"No problem, Shenjiao City Hotel, I will be the host tonight. There are no restrictions on drinks and delicacies. You can eat as much as you want!"
In fact, Duke has not yet received a copper dragon's dividend from the Giant of Light.
However, he recently cooperated with Xina to repair almost all the damaged arcane cards of the mercenary group on the front line of the Cuihai Valley's open war, so he made a lot of money. There are more than a thousand gold dragons in the spirit dragon card. I have money in my hands and don’t panic in my heart.
"This is the arrogance of the big boss. I must eat more than 100 golden dragons tonight!" Oriana announced loudly.
That night, everyone gathered at the Shenjiao City Hotel.
Instructor Penrose did not go, and he rarely got involved in the students' social interactions, but Duke invited another arcane mage.
Sanfisi.
"I'm touched that the big boss still remembers me. I must eat more tonight." Shanfeisi gave Duke a big hug as soon as they met.
"How about studying at Scott's Wizard Tower?" Duke asked.
After leaving Penrose Mage Tower, Shanfis applied for several Mage Towers and finally entered Scott Mage Tower.
"Well, it's definitely easier than in Penrose Mage Tower, but it's a bit uncomfortable to suddenly switch to the field of life...Although Instructor Scott Yihu is gentler than Instructor Penrose, but...how should I put it, he is a workaholic.
Right."
Scott Yihu, 3rd level arcane mage, life scholar, chairman of Shenjiao City Hospital.
His uncle is Stephen Yihu, Viscount Yihu, a fourth-level arcane mage, chief director of the Elemental Tower. The two of them can be said to be two masters of the same discipline.
However, Stephen Yihu loves war the most. After serving as the chief director of the Elemental Tower, his participation in any pioneering war is indispensable. Scott Yihu, unlike his uncle, has a compassionate heart and is committed to improving the medical level.
.
It should be noted that the vast majority of people in need of medical treatment are ordinary people who have never opened the Three Seas and have no money to pay high medical expenses.
As for ordinary ailments and minor injuries, one treatment card can basically solve them.
The diseases that cannot be cured are basically intractable diseases and some special physiological lesions, which are extremely difficult.
Therefore, there is no money to be made in the field of medicine.
"I followed mentor Scott and came into contact with many patients, the kind who were terminally ill. My heart was heavy, but I was very motivated." Shanfeisi said with emotion, "Maybe I should have joined this field a long time ago, for
Ordinary people end their suffering."
"It's gratifying that you can find your own value." Duke praised.
Shanfeisi laughed: "Are you always so old-fashioned when you talk? If you don't know, you think I am your son!"
"I would never give birth to a son as ugly as you."
"Get out!"
With Shanfeis joining in, the meal was a lively one. Everyone knew that Duke was making a lot of money now, so he didn't miss out on the delicacies. The meal was worth 270 gold dragons.
Duke didn't care and swiped the card happily.
Moreover, he is also the consultant of Shenjiao City Hotel. He can eat and stay in the hotel for free, and he can also get a 20% discount when treating guests, which is a small savings.
Wait until work the next day.
At noon, Penrose came back from the Union Tower and immediately summoned all the arcane mages in the Mage Tower.
"There is a new action. After many meetings and discussions in the United Tower, and discussions with Master Bernoulli Tower, the Cuihai Valley evil spirit removal operation was officially launched. We will help Master Bernoulli Tower to clean up the evil spirit in Cuihai Valley for a fee." Bernoulli's Mage Tower paid for it, and arcane mages from Shenjiao City gathered together to go to Cuihai Valley to destroy the evil spirit, as well as the evil plants and evil creatures infected by the evil spirit.
"Teacher, where is the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon?"
"We will clean up the evil spirits, and the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon will definitely be happy to see the results. It will restrain the Black Jade Scorpion clan." Penrose replied.
"Have you not contacted the Arcane Master yet to come and hunt the Black Jade Horseshoe Crab Dragon?" Assistant Leadman asked with a frown.
"Bernoulli has contacted everywhere, but asking an arcane mentor to participate in the pioneering war involves too many interests. So far, no arcane mentor has clearly agreed to Bernoulli's request." After a pause, Penrose continued: "In my opinion, Bernoulli may not want to invite an arcane mentor to participate in the battle."
"Without the Arcane Master participating in the battle, who can kill the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon?"
"Who knows, in short, this time everyone can really treat it as a trip and go for a walk in the Cuihai Valley forest. There will be no danger."
As the ruling class of the Seven Towers Federation, when encountering difficulties that cannot be solved, it is natural for the Arcane Mage to come forward to solve them. After being guaranteed that the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon would not come out to cause trouble, many airships took off from the Mage Tower and flew towards Cuihai Valley. On the Loop, Duke looked at the scenery on the ground and had forgotten how many times this was the first time he went on a mission in an airship.
"I thought that after being promoted to Arcane Mage, I could just lay back and relax, but I didn't expect that as an Arcane Mage, I would still have to work hard."
I complained for a while.
The airship also sailed slowly through Sheshou Town without stopping, flying towards the safe passage ahead, and finally landed in a wide area.
This is the agreed place, and you can see that many mercenary camps have been densely set up around it, all waiting for the Arcanist Master to arrive.
Long before the Arcanist Master set out, the mercenary mission center in Snakehead Town had already issued a clearing mission.
Without the cooperation of a large number of mercenaries, it will definitely be difficult to clean up all the changes caused by evil spirits just by relying on arcane mages to release arcane spells.
"Our number is Area 354. Vivian, please inform all mercenary captains who have taken the task of Area 354 to come and see me." Duke got off the airship and handed a map to Vivian. That was the task.
Area map.
Union Tower has long drawn a map near Cuihai Valley and divided it into numbers to facilitate the execution of tasks.
Ordinary people have completed all the preliminary work, and only arcane mages can carry out the remaining tough battles.
After a while, seven or eight group leaders rushed over, including Xina of Broken Sword.
Duke glanced around at the group leaders, wrote down their appearances, and said calmly: "For this mission, follow the command of Captain Xina and collect all things related to the evil atmosphere in area 354 on the map.
Erase."
Seeing that the group leaders listened attentively, and no one acted carelessly or refused to obey his orders, Duke continued: "When encountering resistance from 2-ring spirit beasts, my escort knights will assist you in killing them.
I will take action for spiritual beasts with level 3 and above!"
Then he asked loudly: "Do you understand everything?"
"Understood, sir!" the group leaders responded quickly, not showing any contempt because Duke was only a 1st level arcane mage.
"Then, take action!"
Following Duke's order, Captain Zina led the team and led all the mercenaries to area 354 on the map.
After arriving at the designated location, without Duke having to worry about anything, Xina arranged the various mercenary groups. Each mercenary group searched in one direction, with five hundred meters as the width of their respective cleaning areas, and moved forward close to each other.<
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Duke followed in the middle, riding his own spirit horse, and leisurely followed each mercenary group.
"Jiji!"
Little Dou is having fun, jumping around in the forest.
Duke left it alone and took more activities in the wild, which was beneficial to Kabuto's growth. Moreover, Kabuto was very smart and would not stray too far, and he was alert enough to avoid danger.
He just asked Xiaoyi to hang up the "Rainfall Breathing Method" and monitor the surrounding environment through the Dou Qi holographic screen.
Occasionally, I will join the battle and use my mage's hand to crush several spiritual beasts, thereby increasing my proficiency and speeding up the progress of the mission.
Wait until evening to set up camp.
The team cleared an open space and placed the tents together to ensure that the camp was safe enough.
It was getting dark, and bonfires were lit. Duke found that there were many mercenaries who had bought lamps such as portable lamps or headlamps.
There are also those particularly bright searchlights. Basically every mercenary group has purchased several of them.
The mercenaries standing guard climbed up to the nearby big trees and kept scanning the surrounding area, looking for any spiritual beasts to quietly approach the camp.
"Sir, the portable light you invented is really useful, especially this kind of searchlight. With it, camping at night can't be safer." Zina came over to Duke's place for dinner. "It just consumes too much spiritual cards.
A 1-ring spirit storage card cannot last for long."
"It was originally designed to use a 2-ring spirit storage card."
"The 2-ring spirit storage card is more painful to use. Everyone still likes to use the 1-ring spirit storage card to deal with it. Use it when there is an emergency, and use a portable light when there is no emergency."
While chatting, the topic of evil plants came to mind, and Zina asked: "Sir, time is too short. We have not many snow blowing pillars and fang lichens that we have hoarded at Broken Sword. We suddenly need to clear them all. How can we still get rid of them?"
Can I stock up?"
"You can continue to stockpile, but there are some changes. In the future, a special evil area will be planned with Well No. 3 as the center to produce these evil plants."
"Are we planning a special area? I'm afraid it won't be very big and the competition inside will be fierce."
"It doesn't matter. I can make a fortune if I can. I'm not short of money. Your job is to carefully search for the spiritual materials I need for me. This is the key point."
"Yes, sir." Zina responded.
The Giant of Light made a lot of money, and Duke no longer took this petty profit seriously. He told Zina to arrange this mission, and he went to bed early.
The mission progressed very smoothly, and we did not encounter any third-ring spirit beasts for three days in a row.
However, by the fourth day, the team had advanced to the mountains that separated Cuihai Valley and Sheshou Town, and in the boundless virgin forest, a powerful spiritual beast was finally alerted by the team.
"It's the 4th ring spirit beast - the Running Thunder Beast!" Zina saw this spirit beast that started to roar, and quickly ran to Duke, "Sir, this spirit beast is too powerful, should you retreat first and go to Duke?
Are other clearance teams asking for help?"
"Level 4? The Running Thunder Beast is not good at defense, right?" Duke touched the middle finger of his left hand.
There is a puppet core ring on it, and the six-legged spiritual puppet jar that has solidified six kinds of 3-ring arcana is carried on the back of a spiritual horse.
Xina didn't understand why: "The running thunder beast is theoretically strong in attack and weak in defense, but it is level 4 after all and has a huge body. Casual attacks cannot cause much damage to it."
"Kill first and then we'll talk. If you can't do it, retreat immediately and ask for help!" Duke made a decision, "Xina, you are in front!"
Zina sighed inwardly, but still followed Duke's instructions seriously.
Duke quickly climbed up the branches of a big tree, took out his companion arcane weapon, the Sand Eagle, and silently aimed at the running thunder beast in the distance.
"If it had been before, I would have taken a detour immediately after hearing the 4th ring, but now..."
In Sand Eagle's sight, you can clearly see the figure of the Running Thunder Beast, which is a huge tiger-like beast.
While roaring, you can see tiny lightnings flickering on its body.
Under the command of Xina, the mercenary group has quickly formed a knight formation, but it can be seen that the mercenaries have no desire to fight. They are purely for self-protection and to leave in time when things become impossible. Duke didn't care, he just wanted the mercenaries to resist a wave of attacks from the running thunder beasts first, so that he could have enough hunting time.
"Switch...armor-piercing bullets!"
Following Duke's instructions, the inside of the Sand Eagle pistol in his hand seemed to be deformed, making continuous clicking sounds.
When the sound stopped, Duke felt that the original thirty-round magazine had become twelve rounds.
However, the volume and length of each bullet are much larger than the previous ordinary bullets. They are folded and stored in the magazine in a way that violates the physical structure.
"So."
Duke took a deep breath: "It's hunting time!"
The trigger was pulled, the bullet came out of the chamber, and the huge recoil made Duke's arms blessed with fighting spirit almost lose his grip.
Flames exploded at the muzzle of the gun.
The armor-piercing bullet penetrated from the flames, and the bullet holder that wrapped the warhead disintegrated immediately after exiting the chamber. The tail fin inside stabilized the warhead, which was thin and long, like a needle. But it had an extraordinary speed, drawing out in the air
A ripple.
There was no sonic boom. The sonic boom had already been generated before it was discharged from the chamber and was completely absorbed by the silencer.
The running thunder beast, which looks like a huge tiger, is preparing to show off its power in the face of the mercenaries who dare to challenge it. The tiny lightnings all over its body have grown rapidly, making it like a god wrapped in thunder and lightning.
But this is the time.
The running thunder beast was trembling all over. It felt a breath of death enveloped itself, but it didn't know where this breath came from.
Then, before it could figure it out, it suddenly felt something abnormal in its right eye, followed by a pain that penetrated deep into its brain.
Make it go crazy in pain, twist its body crazily, and let the lightning all over its body run wildly.
The nearby trees were struck by lightning and immediately burned into a pile of charcoal.
However, the breath of death did not dissipate. Instead, it became stronger and stronger. The running thunder beast felt that his mind was in chaos, and the only thought left was to escape.
Since it grew into a fourth-ring spirit beast, it has not escaped for a long time.
However, before the running thunder beast could turn around, the remaining left eye felt pain again, and both eyes were exploded by armor-piercing bullets, making him completely blind.
Moreover, the armor-piercing bullet has been shot from the eye socket into the brain of the Running Thunder Beast, causing the Running Thunder Beast to lose part of its brain function and lie directly on the ground, leaving only incompetent rage and lightning-type arcane magic that can be activated without the need for brains. p>
Zila, bang...
The running thunder beast at this moment is like ball lightning, firing lightning randomly without any clue.
On the branches of the big tree in the distance, Duke had a faint smile on his lips and shot two armor-piercing bullets in succession, dealing a fatal blow to the running thunder beast.
All that's left is to slowly grind it to death.
"Fortunately, in time for the mission, Xiaoyi successfully improved the special effects of the Sand Eagle 1.51 bullet - the physical version, which can load more powerful armor-piercing bullets!"
In addition to armor-piercing bullets, Duke can also choose blank bullets and shotgun shells.
However, the most powerful single-point strike is naturally the armor-piercing projectile, which is why he dares to challenge the fourth-ring spirit beast.
"Die!" Duke continued to pull the trigger.
The armor-piercing bullets were fired like crazy, and the lightning released by arcane magic could not be stopped at all, and they were nailed to the rampaging thunder beast one by one.
Sentence this 4-ring spirit beast to death.
The mercenaries who were confronting the Thunder Beast were stunned by the sudden change and had no idea what was happening. They saw the eyes of the Thunder Beast explode one after another, and then the Thunder Beast lay on the ground, roaring.
Release lightning.
"It's Lord Duke who has taken action. Everyone, block the lightning attack!" Xina shouted.
Without any instructions, the first-level knights in the front row raised their shields one after another, and their fighting spirit resonated, forming a huge wall of fighting spirit.
Boom!
Thunder and lightning struck the wall of fighting spirit, trembling in circles.
But without the guidance of the running thunder beasts, these headless fly-like lightnings cannot concentrate their strength to penetrate the wall of fighting spirit.
The wall of fighting spirit successfully divided the battlefield.
Ensure that the mercenaries can cooperate with Duke unscrupulously outside the wall and bombard the running thunder beasts with various fighting spirit martial arts.
The armor-piercing bullets streaked through the air one by one, inflicting heavy damage to the running thunder beast.
In less than two minutes, the thunder and lightning on the running thunder beast's body had dimmed, leaving only tiny lightning bolts that still flickered around from time to time.
Duke used his index finger as a pivot to spin the Sand Eagle pistol in a circle, then jumped off the tree and walked quickly towards the Running Thunder Beast.
The mercenaries quickly made way.
Although they don’t know what kind of arcane spell Duke cast, everyone knows that if Duke hadn’t taken action, the Running Thunder Beast would be enough to defeat all the mercenaries.
No matter it is a 1-level knight, a 0-level knight, or a pseudo-1 level card warrior, they can't stop the thunder beast's lightning attack.
Only arcane mages are the unstoppable kings of this world.
"Go and check the life and death of the Running Thunder Beast." Stopping ten meters in front of the Running Thunder Beast, Duke stopped calmly.
"Yes, sir!" Several mercenaries who were not afraid of death cautiously approached the body of the Running Thunder Beast, and then stabbed the Running Thunder Beast hard with their weapons.
The running thunder beast showed no response and was completely dead.