Colin put the remaining cone rounds back into his pocket.
Then, with some pain, he took out six magic stones and handed them to the three apprentices who were holding the photo crystal next to him and had astonished expressions on their faces.
After improving the ammunition of Missing Art, its power is obviously improved than before.
Once hit, you will either die or be injured.
However, he did not expect to be able to deal with Barney so quickly.
This is probably because Barney did not use defensive witchcraft.
As for the reason why defensive magic was not used——
Perhaps Barney was overconfident in his adaptive mimicry's hiding ability and nimble-footed dodge.
Adaptive mimicry is indeed very powerful, and you can barely detect anything out of the ordinary based on vision alone.
But since the golden four-leaf clover was strengthened, Colin's five senses have been greatly improved.
Although adaptive mimicry makes Barney disappear visually,
But the strong smell of women's perfume on his body obviously cannot be covered up by adaptive mimicry.
Relying on his extraordinary sense of smell, although he could not determine Barney's precise location, he could still feel the general direction.
Therefore, he directly used the Missing Technique to fire several cone bullets in a covering and covering the general direction, and eliminated Barney without any effort.
After all, the speed of the cone bullets fired by the Missing Art has long surpassed that of many rifles in previous lives... Barney obviously couldn't react, even with his nimble steps.
...Perhaps, I could barely avoid it later by relying on my reaction speed improved by the second limit-breaking solar breathing method, coupled with my nimble steps.
After putting away the photo crystal handed over by the watching apprentice, Colin walked towards Barney's body, leaned down and took off the black money bag from his waist.
I opened it and roughly counted, there were about thirty magic stones inside.
Colin couldn't help but feel joy on his face. This not only made up for the remuneration he had just paid, but also got an unexpected fortune!
It's a pity...except for the things left on the body now, the rest of Barney's inheritance will be confiscated by the school.
...This may be to prevent members of the school from deliberately launching a duel in order to plunder each other's resources.
Colin searched carefully again, but only found a few incomplete witchcraft manuscripts.
It should be something that Barney has been researching recently...it is not complete and of little value.
…
The next day.
It's Colin's turn to take the shift.
He came to the inspection office and prepared to hand over the photo crystal to Flower.
I walked to the office door and was about to knock on the door.
"Come in." Flower's voice suddenly came from inside.
Colin was startled for a moment, then pushed the door open and entered.
But it's not surprising. After all, he didn't approach quietly, so it was normal for Flower to notice him.
After entering, he was startled again.
In addition to Berkeley, there were two other people standing in the spacious office.
"Your Excellency Berkeley, Lord Price, and Captain Flower." He quickly greeted them respectfully.
But I feel a little strange in my heart,
'Why can I see Berkeley everywhere...and this time Lord Price is actually here...'
Inexplicably, he thought of the last time he met Berkeley in Barton's office at the West Guard Office.
It stands to reason that Berkeley rarely appears in the west of the city, and Price is even rarer...
"Colin..." Flower was a little surprised when he saw that it was him who pushed in, and couldn't help but ask: "Didn't you have a duel with Barney yesterday?"
"A duel?" Berkeley on the side became interested and asked aloud, "What duel?"
"That's it..." Flower briefly described the causes and consequences behind it.
"It was wise not to accept the duel." Berkeley nodded to Colin and sighed inwardly.
'I never expected that a great opportunity would be wasted due to such reasons.
Maybe... someone is on duty that night and can catch their tail.'
Maybe he really felt regretful, Berkeley sighed again:
"Well, Barney, I've seen him before. I've warned him a long time ago to recognize himself, but I didn't expect him to be so..."
"Stupid." The Lord of Price City on the other side made a concise conclusion, and added, "The punishment of one year of mining is still too light."
Flower nodded, as if thinking of something, he turned to look at Colin and asked:
"So...what do you want to see me for?"
Colin finally had a chance to interject. He paused and said:
"...Captain Flower, Barney is dead. This is the photo crystal from yesterday's showdown."
He took out the photo crystal and handed it over.
Flower was startled and took the photo crystal.
Berkeley raised his eyebrows and glanced at Colin. Even Price's usually calm face showed a trace of ripples.
Flower opened the photo crystal,
Three projections appeared out of thin air and gradually converged, forming a picture whose angles can be adjusted.
The three of them watched together.
The battle process is not long, and it ends quickly.
After seeing the photo crystal, they were all a little silent.
"...It seems you have made great progress, Colin."
After a while, Berkeley was the first to praise, "You are very talented in improving witchcraft."
He recognized that Colin was using the missing shot technique that he had exchanged with him, but it was obviously improved.
Although I don't know how much it consumes, in terms of power, it is at least average among the witchcraft used by intermediate apprentices.
"I just have occasional inspiration...Thank you for your compliment," Colin said calmly.
When dealing with Barney, he did not use the true power of the Missing Art. In fact, in order to hide the gold paper, he has been controlling the power of the Missing Art since the limit of the Missing Art was broken.
Except for the time against the black-maned giant pig king, I only used my full strength in my basement.
And every time we will carefully handle and destroy the used iron targets.
As for the black-maned giant pig king, he later went to see its body in person. Perhaps because of its strong recovery power, nothing could be seen at all.
He was not worried that the three people from Berkeley would discover anything strange because of the image crystal.
The specific changes in witchcraft are difficult to observe with the naked eye when casting spells. It is like a clock. All clocks can rotate the hands, but how many gears are used inside it is difficult to accurately judge just by looking at the appearance.
All in all, as long as the complete model and theory of the Limit Breaking Missing Technique are not exposed, no one will be able to see that this originally ordinary Missing Technique has changed beyond recognition.
The reason why Berkeley was able to tell was probably from the fact that the power of the Missing Art displayed in the shadow crystal was obviously different from the original, as well as the ammunition that was completely different from the ordinary Arrow Missing - the cone bullet.
Berkeley smiled, as if he suddenly thought of something, turned to the Flowers and suggested:
"I just don't know who to choose. How about asking Colin to help? What do you think?"
"Okay." Price nodded calmly.
"Okay." Flower also nodded, and then explained to Colin:
"Colin, do you remember what I said about murderous eucalyptus yesterday?"
"Remember, Captain Flower."
"Very good, what we want you to do is to assist Regina in investigating this matter."
"...Yes." Colin nodded, not thinking anything was wrong.
Since you are a member of the Inspection Division, you will be responsible for handling matters such as investigations sooner or later, but now it is just earlier.
"Regana is already at No. 79 Tulip Street. Go find her." Flower said again.