Clinda slammed the teacup to the floor, breaking it into pieces of glass.
"This is ridiculous and ridiculous!" Clinda roared angrily, "How could the continuous slurry coating technology be invented by Duke!"
Aziguli didn't even look at the glass shards on the floor, but said calmly: "I have investigated and found that this technology has changed hands several times, but the original source was Lao Sam, the owner of Xiao Sam Shouka Shop, and Du
Ke used to work in Xiao Sam’s card repair shop."
"Ahem!" Clinda's old face turned red, "So what, who knows if it was invented by old Sam or Duke!"
"In any case, after this matter spreads, it will have a negative impact on Runwanjia."
"Who dares to make irresponsible remarks about the patent I bought with money?"
"Anyway." Aziguli looked at the man in front of her and sighed, "Clinda, why don't you just give in? The aura lamp is no longer enough to prevent Duke from getting the title of Erudite. Let's be slow in the future.
Let’s buy patents through Mantao.”
"No, I can't swallow this breath. Now the situation has been reversed by Runwanjia. I went out this time and discussed a lot of cooperation, which is enough to ensure that the Lingguang lamp will defeat the portable lamp in the market. Then you and I will ask Runwanjia
The Erudite Tower of Wucheng uses its strength. Does the Erudite Tower dare to take the risk and give the title of Erudite to Duke?"
"Infringement is infringement, Clinda, please see the reality clearly!" Aziguli reached out and knocked on the table, "The arcane mage of the Erudite Tower in Runwu City will not take the risk of violating the original intention and help us cover up.
In fact..."
"Actually what?" Clarinda asked.
"In fact, my twisted ring has already had some reaction. I can't hold on for too long. The infringement case must be concluded as soon as possible." Aziguli said.
"How could this happen? It's just a delay in the trial. Why would your twisted ring react?"
The Ring of Distortion is where arcanists hide their true hearts, protect their practice, anchor their true hearts, and reduce the risk of becoming a fallen demon.
"Because my heart tells me that the Lingguang Lamp is a plagiarized portable lamp. This is a fact that I cannot deny." Aziguli said coldly, "Every erudite Ta'ao master must set a erudite heart.
Once your heart is shaken, the consequences will be terrible."
"Huh..." Clinda gasped, and said after a long time, "I understand, even though you have pronounced the verdict, Runwanjia's actions will never stop. Even if the infringement is paid, I will still
Let’s fight this business competition!”
"Whatever you want." Aziguli said coldly.
Then she stood up and prepared to leave. When she opened the door, Clarinda suddenly shouted: "Wait a minute."
Aziguli turned around and looked at Clinda indifferently.
A painful expression flashed across Clarinda's face, and then she suppressed her emotions and said: "You know, I don't want people to laugh at me. Ever since my spiritual core was broken... In short, I will lose completely if I lose.
And never retreat halfway!"
Aziguli's heart softened and she said softly: "Oh, why bother."
"It's very necessary!" Clinda said sternly, "And it's not yet known who will win, and it doesn't matter the infringement of the aura lamp. As long as the portable lamp can be defeated and the giant of light is extinguished, everything will return to the way it should be. The ridicule at this time
The sound is just a little noisy."
"As you wish." Aziguli pushed open the door and walked out.
After Aziguli left for a long time, Clarinda called her assistant to clean up the broken glass in the office.
Then someone was sent to call the general manager, sales director and others of Runwanjia Spiritual Weapon Factory. They held a meeting in the office to continue to expand the scale of production, continue to sell at a loss, and carry out comprehensive promotional activities in cities and market towns in eight major regions. p>
Fighting from September to October, and then from October to December.
Runwanjia and the Giant of Light are like two big men fighting for their lives. They burned countless golden dragons and spread their two series of products, portable lamps and spiritual light lamps, to every corner of the wind breath field.
In ordinary households, almost everyone has one.
"25 Bronze Dragon is a portable lamp, 24 Bronze Dragon is a spiritual lamp!" A mercenary far away in Cuihai Valley held a lamp in one hand, "Hey, these two companies are competing, and hand lamps are getting cheaper and cheaper.
I don’t know what to think.”
"No matter what they think, as long as I take advantage," another mercenary chuckled.
"The hand lamp is very useful, but the brightness is not very good, the light does not shine very far, and the large searchlight is not convenient to carry."
"Come on, it's much better than before when I was carrying a spiritual wind lamp that couldn't illuminate even one meter away. Just be satisfied."
"These two companies have only cut prices, but they don't know how to put more effort into their products."
"Speaking of which, the portable light was invented by the Giant Company of Light. Runwanjia took advantage of being a big company to usurp other people's patents."
"Has the lawsuit been decided?"
"The verdict was announced a while ago. From now on, every time Runwanjia sells a spiritual light lamp, they will have to compensate the giant of light for the patent infringement fee of one or two bronze dragons." The mercenary had read the newspaper before and introduced this.
news.
"Then why is Runwanjia still selling spiritual light lamps? Isn't this giving money to the Giant of Light?"
"Don't be afraid of a big business. There is Master Arcana behind him. He has a lot of money, but he refuses to pay royalties and says it will be postponed. In short, he will drag the Giant of Light to death."
"It's so dark."
"What do you think? The methods of arcane mages are so ruthless!"
"That's not right. There is a Master Arcane Mage behind the Runwan Family. Isn't there also a Master Arcana Mage behind the Giant of Light?"
"Masters are also divided into levels. I don't even think about whether the 3rd ring can be the same as the 1st ring."
"Okay, okay, let's stop talking nonsense during night operations. Our group will work harder tonight to catch more ferret beasts for sale." The leader of the mercenary group scolded, "The situation in Cuihai Valley is not right recently, and I feel like it's going to happen again.
A new wave of insects breaks out. After completing this mission, we will retreat to Sheshou Town to rest for a while."
"Captain, what do you think the Bernoulli family is doing? They said they wanted to hire someone to deal with Yalong. It's been half a year and there's not even a single movement."
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"Don't worry about the things above." The leader scolded, "No matter how long it takes to hunt dragons, I hope that the pioneering war will continue for a few more years, and we can make a good profit for a few more years. When we make enough, we will retire and go home to find a quiet community.
Go and enjoy your life as a security guard!"
"I don't want to be a security guard. I plan to stay in Cuihai Valley and join the Bernoulli family as a vassal knight."
"The Bernoulli family only wants Gu Knight, One-Eyed Bob, and you will have to contract a bug when the time comes."
"What's wrong with contracting with an insect? My warthog king is already old and has no potential to advance to a level 1 spirit beast in this life. It's better to contract with an insect."
Suddenly.
A mercenary from the front issued a notice: "We have found the ferret beast, hurry up, concentrate on lighting, blind it, and target it!"
The light from an unknown number of lamps merged together, illuminating the thorn bushes in front of them. Then a knight mercenary opened the thorn bushes and grabbed a spirit that was motionless and slightly larger than a hound.
Beast.
"Hey!" The great knight picked up the spirit beast's ears, quickly took the chain handed to him, and tied the spirit beast firmly. "It's so damn amazing. I can catch the ferret with a light, and I can catch every one accurately."
, these ferrets don’t even know how to run away.”
"The ferret is only active at night and is extremely sensitive to light. If its eyes are illuminated, it will directly cause blindness." A mercenary accompanying the team explained.
"I never had the opportunity to catch a ferret so quickly before, thanks to the portable light!"
"If you ask me, I have to thank the Giant of Light and Mr. Duke who invented the portable lamp."
"I have to thank Master Duke." The group leader took the ferret with a smile and stuffed it into a bag. "Let's go and continue looking for the next one. Master Duke has favored us. Let's catch more ferrets. Sir, please
Then win this business war."
……
Autumn passes and winter comes.
The light battle is in full swing, but Shenjiao City has entered the cold winter season, and the first snow has already fallen.
On the playground of Suktala Castle, Duke rides a tall spiritual horse.
A person silently practiced "Imperial Dragon Lance" on the horse, charging, sprinting, and spearing various fighting spirit martial arts.
On his shoulder, there is a big furry squirrel.
This squirrel is clearly the long-haired mongoose - Xiaodou. Xiaodou and Duke trained together, and the auras of one person and one beast have merged into one under the influence of the sea of blood.
At this time.
You can see a clear and bright red mark on Kabuto's forehead, which represents the mark of the knight's contract.
The ring-shaped imprint is very complex, with twists and turns, but it eventually connects into a line.
This is a closed loop.
"Haha!" Duke raised the knight's spear in his hand, and the boiling fighting spirit in his body flew up with the spear, all pouring out on the dummy on the charging road.
Boom!
The dummy made of spiritual gold was blown to pieces.
At the same time, he burst out laughing, and felt that the fighting spirit in his body was like a chain reaction. As he performed the fighting spirit martial arts, all the fighting spirit exceeded the critical value and leaped to another level.
Fighting temperament changes.
Becoming thicker, tougher, and longer, becoming sharper, lighter, and more explosive.
Two completely different natures were expressed in a new quality of fighting spirit at the same time. The roar of the sea of blood became more surging, and a steady stream of new quality fighting spirit burst out, making his whole person seem to have endless power.
The knight's spear was raised again, and with a casual blow, the spiritual gold dummy in front of him was smashed into pieces.
The power is several times stronger than the previous full blow.
"Enjoyable!" Duke laughed, riding back to the rest area of the playground, throwing the knight's spear into the crowd.
A great knight stood up instantly, caught the knight's spear, and praised: "Congratulations, sir, for breaking the shackles and advancing to the first level of great knight!"
"Congratulations, sir, on your advancement!"
"Congratulations, sir."
The great knights in the rest area congratulated Duke one after another. As the captain of the guard knights, Vivian also looked at Duke with shining eyes.
Little Kabuto stood up on Duke's shoulder, as if these congratulations were all for him, chirping proudly.
Duke has calmed down his excitement and returned to his usual calmness: "It will all come naturally. Two days ago, Xiao Dou advanced to the 1st Ring Spirit Beast, and I have reached the critical point of breakthrough. However, I have been busy, so I waited until the weekend to rest before I chose to break through." "Sir, do you want to practice charging together?" Vivian suggested.
"Forget it, I won't practice anymore. I'll keep Kabuto and you can continue to train it." Duke threw Kabuto down and chose to run away.
Become a great knight and strengthen your fighting spirit to protect yourself.
He has achieved his goal of stacking armor, so there is no need to spend more energy cultivating fighting spirit. As for the 2nd level fantasy beast knight, it requires opportunity, and hard work alone is useless.
Back to Tower 2, I just finished taking a shower.
Then he saw Butler Morris waiting in the hall with an acquaintance - Subotan, Suktala's assistant.
"Your Excellency Duke, have you rested well?" Subbotan asked with a smile.
Duke patted his forehead and sighed in his heart: "The teacher really doesn't let me go for a minute. It's rare to have a weekend off, but he still has to call me over!"
After complaining for a few times in his mind, he replied calmly: "Okay, wait a moment, I'll have a cup of tea and then set off."
It's rare to meet a teacher who is willing to teach you everything, and Duke didn't want to miss such a good opportunity, so as soon as he finished the tea, he followed Subbotan to the Master's Tower.
Teaching is no longer in Tower 1.
Because the basic alchemy knowledge has been taught, the remaining teaching needs to be completed with experiments, so it is placed in the mage tower.
"Teacher." Duke said hello after entering the laboratory.
Suktara, who has silver hair, can't tell from her posture that she is already 160 years old. Her skin is rosy and her eyes are bright, making her look like a child with white hair.
This is spiritual energy that nourishes the body at all times and keeps the body young and energetic.
Even Duke today can feel the blessing of spiritual energy on his body, allowing him to be in peak condition all the time without worrying about the aging and degradation of his body's functions - even though he is only seventeen years old and has not yet reached the age of 17.
Eighteen years old.
"Come on, the teacher has prepared an interesting experiment today, which will allow you to better understand the transformation between spirituality and matter."
Suktara waved and continued to play with the instruments and tools on the table.
"Teacher, have you been in the laboratory for a long time?" Duke immediately started to attack Suktara, "You have been working too hard during this period. You are needed to take charge of the work in the Union Tower, and you are still busy when you return to the Mage Tower.
Teach for me.”
Suktara glanced at Duke with a kind smile: "How many times have I told you, there is no need to feel sorry for the teacher. Although the teacher is old, his energy is not bad at all."
She pointed to the experiment she designed and said: "Come and see, after processing these spiritual materials, they can be refined into the 'Core of Tersi' material. This material is a commonly used material for refining quasi-arcane weapons, and for airships."
Within the keel, there is the core material of Tersi."
Dozens of unprocessed spiritual materials are placed on the table, including ores, metals, bones, and some wood.
After Suktara waited for Duke to identify the spiritual materials one by one, he pointed to another pile of mud-like spiritual materials: "These are the spiritual materials that I have processed. It is called 'Swallow Holding Mud', which is made by swallows holding mud."
The nest, made of clay, is the main material of the mage tower and other buildings."
She told Duke: "Come, help the teacher make the core of Tersi first."
"Okay."
Duke skillfully mastered spiritual materials, guided the spiritual energy with his thoughts, and processed it through alchemical techniques.
With the help of Xiaoyi, every step of material processing can be perfectly controlled, which is much easier than drawing spell models on card materials.
Even if Duke closes his eyes, he can follow Xiaoyi's steps and refine the materials.
While handling the materials, Suktara looked at Duke's technique with her peripheral vision. The more she looked at it, the more satisfied she became. Maybe there was still a little sluggishness in the technique, but the control of the steps and spiritual energy was no better than that of an old alchemist like her.
What a difference.
It has only been more than three months since Duke studied with her.
It only takes two months to officially start alchemy.
To be able to handle materials so skillfully in just two months, in Suktara's heart, Duke was born to be an alchemist.
"This child is right to study with me!" Suktala sighed in her heart countless times, "If I hadn't persisted, his talent as an alchemist would have been buried...Thank you for the spiritual blessings.
I have a master-disciple relationship with him."
Not long after, the materials were processed.
Duke turned to look at Suktala: "Teacher, what should we do next?"
The kindness in Suktara's eyes almost overflowed: "Child, next we will fuse the materials to make the core of Tersi."
The process is somewhat complicated and the operation is even more delicate.
However, with the help of Xiaoyi, Duke still completed the preliminary work excellently, and cooperated with Suktara to successfully create a beaker of Tersi Core.
"The core of Tersi can be stretched very long, try it." Suktara said with a smile.
Duke pulled it with his hand. The core of Tersilk, which looked like mucus, turned out to be like noodles. It could be pulled out for several meters without breaking.
Even if you pull it to the thickness of a hair, you still can't break it.
"This is the core of Tersi. It is drawn and woven into one strand, and then added to the keel of the airship. Even if it is attacked by a 3-ring arcane spell, it will be difficult to break the keel... But it is still not perfect and has the endurance
Limit."
Suktala said and sighed: "Faced with the dragon's attack exceeding the upper limit, the core of Tersi can't do anything. Otherwise, there would be no arcane mage sacrificed in the last insect wave." p>
A little emotion.
She brought the topic back: "What we have to do now is to stir the Tersi core solution and the swallow mud together, and then you can feel it carefully and feel what will happen between these two alchemical materials.
changes."
She poured the entire core of Tersi mucus into the mud.
Duke quickly injected spiritual energy into it, and then followed the perception of the spiritual energy to carefully experience the changes. This is the secret of alchemy.
At first, there seemed to be no collision between the two materials.
But as the solution continued to mix, the spirituality contained in it began to come into contact, and this contact was like setting off fireworks, shooting up in all directions.
Countless spiritual beings arise, die, and change in it.
Through the perception of spiritual energy, Duke was soon deeply shocked. He seemed to feel that these transformed spiritualities were gathered into a living life, and then died and dispersed in a short period of time. The spirituality was chaotic, and the life was mixed.
Constantly changing.
And his spiritual energy soon couldn't stand the spiritual impact in the material, and was involved in it, joining the transformation sequence.
When Duke came back to his senses, he saw that after the two materials were mixed in the vessel, it was like a pot of thick paste boiling, with thick bubbles coming out.
Then a few drops of the mixed viscous material broke away from the paste as the bubbles exploded, and then tried hard to climb out of the container as if they had grown legs.
However, before climbing to the outer mouth of the vessel, it lost power and slowly slid down, falling into the paste.
"This..."
"Do you feel like these materials are alive?" Suktara sighed, "This is the power of life."
"The power of life?"
"Yes, all spiritual materials must breed spirituality, and spirituality is constantly transforming with all things. Spirituality is the source of our birth and the nourishment for our growth, but in the end, we will all return to spirituality and return to the spiritual sea.
”
Suktara continued: "In the eyes of the alchemist, the spiritual sea hits the waves on the shore and molds the complex world and all things. We pick a drop of sea water and throw it into the spiritual sea to restore its original appearance.
, this process is alchemy."
"So, this is the principle that after spiritual materials are refined, arcane weapons can be cast into the spiritual sea?" Duke asked softly.
"Yes and no. We know that the spiritual sea is boundless, but we don't know where it exists, so we just put this drop of sea water into the spiritual sea of our imagination, which is the spiritual sea of each of us." There was a pause.
Suktara sighed again: "Sorel, he just saw this process and felt that alchemy was a process of discarding the basics and chasing the last, so he wanted to find the real spiritual sea... so he changed his career to study the life box." p>
Looking at Duke, she said: "I had previously considered whether to give you this class so soon, for fear that you would also imitate Sorel and study the origin of life. But the teacher believes that you are not Sorel, and you will not know how to do it."
Bewitched by the true sea of spirituality, you are a born alchemist."
"Uh." Duke wanted to say that he would accept anyone who came and wanted to get involved in any field.
But after thinking about it, he still answered affirmatively: "I don't know if I am a natural alchemist, but I think alchemy is more worthy of my study. The transformation of matter and spirituality is a grand subject, and I will try my best."
For."
"Good boy, the teacher is right about you." Suktala couldn't help but hold Duke's hand, "It's up to you to revitalize the future of alchemists."
This moment.
Duke is no longer just the successor in Suktara's mind, but also the spiritually favored son who revitalizes the alchemists.
A sense of sacred mission filled Suktara's heart.
It made her wish she could sleep endlessly and give all her alchemical knowledge to Duke, so that Duke could revitalize the alchemists.
Looking at the teacher's eyes, Duke shuddered involuntarily.
Finally it was time for lunch.
Duke finally got a chance to breathe. He hurried back to Tower 2. After eating, he told Maurice: "If Assistant Subbotan comes to see me again in the afternoon, just tell me that I have something to deal with and ask the teacher not to wait."
Me."
Then I left the Suktara Master Tower in a hurry, not thinking about where to go. In short, I didn’t want to stay in this Master Tower where I could be dragged to class at any time.
"Sir, you don't seem to like going to Suktara Sahib's class." The assistant laughed secretly at him.
Duke glared: "What do you know, balance work and rest!"
Although he likes to study spiritual arcana, he is not willing to stay in the laboratory all day and be a "Frankenstein".
Enjoying life is equally important.
"Sir, are you just strolling on the street like this?" Royce, the shuttle driver, asked.
After thinking for a while, Duke said: "Let's go to the headquarters of the Giant of Light."
"Okay."
The headquarters of the Giant of Light is still in the original small building, but the new headquarters is already being planned, but there is no money to build it for the time being.
The company's funds have been invested in the lighting war, and they will fight head-to-head with Runwanjia in the entire field of wind and breath.
Basically, for every portable lamp sold, the company loses ten copper dragons.
This is still not a big deal. After all, after selling 2 million lamps, it only lost 20 million copper dragons, which is equivalent to about 2,000 gold dragons.
The entire Shenjiao City has a population of 9 million, and the market is only that big. Expanding to the entire Fengxi area, there are only more than 200 million people. How many lamps can be sold? Even if everyone has a portable lamp, they will only lose 200,000 yuan.
Golden Dragon.
The real big ones are publicity costs, channel costs and various labor costs.
For this commercial war, the Giant of Light Company’s account has already spent nearly 100,000 gold dragons, and it is about to bottom out.
"Sir, we currently only have three regions, and the sales volume exceeds that of Runwanjia." After arriving at the Giant of Light headquarters, Viard reported his work shamelessly, "Runwanjia basically does not sell aura lamps, but sells white lights."
For free, the aura lamp costs about 28 copper dragons, and they sell it for 14 copper dragons."
Financial manager Mu Lusi was also there, and complained: "This is not a discount promotion, it's just a broken bone!"
"It doesn't matter, keep spreading. If they break bones, we will break bones too." Duke didn't care at all. "I will take action after the year, and then it will be time for the Runwan family to jump in... In addition, I will also go to the Erudite Tower often.
Appeal and let Runwanjia pay my patent fees."
The patents for portable lights and other technologies are all owned by Duke, so Runwanjia needs to pay him for patent infringement.
At this point, Duke simply stopped listening to the work report: "Let's go, little Lili, let's go to the Erudo Tower to continue our appeal, and we will stay in the Erudo Tower this afternoon!"