Chapter 192 The mediocre arcanist (three in one)

  The reputation of Bernoulli's Mage Tower in Shenjiao City has quickly fallen to the bottom as the insect swarm invasion continued to ferment.

   All the newspapers are playing up this matter.

   The reason for the invasion of the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon was attributed to Bernoulli's earth arcanist's reluctance to face it head-on, and wanted to drive the local arcanist, knights, and mercenaries to work for him.

  Obviously behind these newspapers, there are people such as Keyston Rage.

  But Bernoulli has been reluctant to come to the frontier of the war in person, and he has indeed been criticized by people. You must know that he is the protagonist of the war.

  The Cuihai Valley development war was an application submitted by Bernoulli to Offata himself.

   "The local arcane mages in Shenjiao City already dislike foreign arcane mages. They came here to launch a pioneering war, and they even had a lot of complaints against the Black Snake family." Duke thought in his heart, "If Bernoulli doesn't change his reputation, after the establishment of Cuihai Town, not many people will be willing to go."

  The blame in the newspapers is more of a warning to Bernoulli from Keyston and others.

  If Bernoulli cheats and tricks again, Shenjiao City will never cooperate with him, support him, and continue to wage war against Cuihai Valley.

  Duke read a page of "Daily Shenjiao City".

  The door of the office finally opened, and Erwin, the earth arcanist who had met once before, sent another middle-aged arcanist out in person.

   When the middle-aged arcanist passed by, he smiled gently at Duke, and then entered the spiritual ladder.

   "Duke, come in and talk." Erwin, the earth mage, looked at Duke with a friendly smile, turned and entered the office.

   Duke followed.

   "My lord, what do you want from me?" Duke asked.

   "I told you before that you have the talent of a polymath, right? I remember that you had an epiphany under the No. 3 mine in Cuihai Valley?" Erwin asked, he still remembered the scene of meeting Duke, "How many visions do you have now?"

   "I'm ashamed. After that epiphany, I didn't get another chance, so there are still nine visions."

  For visions that are exclusive to meditation, the timing is very important if you want to be enlightened. Even a genius like Duke with understanding is difficult to achieve epiphany often.

   "Nine types are already pretty good, and should be in the forefront among 1st-ring arcane mages." Erwin said with a smile.

  His assistant brings Duke coffee.

  Duke thanked him politely, and responded: "Thanks to the accumulation of the spiritual apprenticeship stage, otherwise we would not have achieved so many visions."

   "Keep working hard, you have just been promoted, spirituality favors you, and you have enough time to meet opportunities." Erwin said perfunctorily, maybe he didn't think there was anything about the nine visions in his heart, "I heard from the following people that you have applied for a lot of patents recently?"

   "Yes." Duke replied frankly.

   While reading the newspaper outside, he thought why Erwin was looking for him. It could only be that the recently registered patent was too high-profile.

   "So these patents, are you thinking of it yourself?" Erwin looked at the information in his hand, "Portable lamp, miner's lamp, desk lamp, searchlight... You have improved the spiritual wind lamp, which is indeed a good direction for improvement, and opened a new company?"

   "Um, yes."

   "The development is very good. There are very few new arcanist masters who can do things like you, and you are still so young, one year younger than Kylia, right...Have you considered coming to work with me after graduating from Penrose Master Tower?"

  Duke was a little embarrassed by such a solicitation: "I haven't thought about it so much for the time being, I just want to learn the card making technology well."

   "It's right to think so, but you are talented in natural history, don't let this talent down, you can think about it more."

  Ervin then chatted with Duke for a while, and then said: "Okay, that's all for today, I have to go to the Union Tower for a meeting later."

   "Then I will take my leave first."

  Dizzy came over, fainted away.

  Duke couldn't figure out what this Erwin Earth Arcane Mage was thinking.

  I couldn’t figure it out, so I stopped thinking: “Whatever, I’ll do mine.”

  After Duke left, Irwin's secretary walked into the office, refilling Irwin's cup while persuading him: "Grandpa, you are too abrupt to do this. Your Excellency Penrose is also a member of the Five Towers Conference. You must respect it."

   "What respect, I didn't compete with him for students." Erwin snorted.

   "But you bluntly said that letting Duke come to work under you is different from robbing Lord Penrose's students. Many arcanists outside have expressed dissatisfaction with your actions."

   "Let them be dissatisfied. Natural history is the foundation for the long-term development of the Seven Towers Federation. How can vulgar people understand my approach."

   "You can definitely enroll a few more students."

   "What do you know." Erwin glanced at his great-grandson, "If the whole family thinks like you, I think it's better not to start a pioneering war in the future, and it will decline sooner or later... I really have to use the mage tower to grab students, so that people will hate me, understand."

  The secretary didn't know what to think of, and suddenly sighed: "Actually, when the Black Snake family sent someone to contact you, Grandpa, you can take over completely. The Cuihai Valley development war belongs to our family."

   "Hehe, what about the black jade horseshoe crab, are you going to hunt and kill it?"

   "How can I, grandpa, you know a lot of people."

   "It doesn't matter how many people you know. See if Bernoulli can't sit still now, and he sent students to me for help, and asked for help from Runwu City. Even if the hunt for the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon is really completed, Cuihai Valley will give away half of the resources!"

   "Then I can keep half of it..."

   "Go away, short-sighted kid, why did I give birth to you bastards, none of you can inherit my will!" Erwin slapped the table angrily, "Next time you talk nonsense to me, go back to your hometown and don't follow me!"

  …

   "Sir, when will Ms. Kiria come? I really want to see this beautiful girl as soon as possible."

  The little assistant sat on the bench, talking boredly.

  Duke read a book, while coping casually: "He will come when it is time."

  He felt a little sour in his heart, and felt that the arcane mages in Shenjiao City were not as noble as they imagined, they were just a bunch of stinky feet.

  At the age of sixteen, he was promoted to an arcanist, and at most he was called a genius arcanist.

  No one called him the proud son of heaven.

   Now Kylia Nutao was promoted to Arcane Mage at the age of 18, and before she even showed up, a group of people outside praised her as the girl of heaven.

  Put down the book.

  Duke finished the coffee on the table and handed it to Mu Lali: "Go make another cup, I'm going to start working."

  His office occupies half a floor, and there is a private laboratory inside, where various experiments can be carried out directly in the office.

  Psychic wave capture experiment, slide card superposition experiment, are all carried out here.

  However, there is no progress for the time being, and Duke also gave up the illusion of immediate results, and is preparing for a long-term struggle. Anyway, all consumables can be allocated to his research group in the tower, and Penrose Mage Tower will pay for his own experiments.

   "Sir, your coffee is here." Mu Lali happily delivered the coffee.

   "Happy?" Duke asked.

   "Can you guess why I'm happy?" Mu Lali kept a secret, looking at Duke with a look of anticipation on her pretty face.

   raised his eyebrows.

  Duke held his head high, squinted his eyes, and said calmly: "Is it Kylia Raging Wave, who came to the Mage Tower to report?"

   "My lord, you are always so wise!" Mu Lali admired, "How did you guess it? I didn't reveal anything?"

   "You have been looking forward to Kiria, and I don't need to guess to know how happy you are now."

  "Vikas' assistant came to inform that we will have dinner at the castle tavern in the evening, and welcome Ms. Kiria to join the big family."

"I see."

   "One more thing, sir, you must not have guessed it." Mu Lali secretly laughed.

   "What's the matter?" Seeing Mu Lali's cute look, Duke stretched out his hand and pinched her face.

  Mulali not only did not avoid, but looked at Duke with charming eyes, and said in a tired voice: "Ms. Kiria's office is arranged next to ours. The original Sanfiz's room, she is our neighbor."

   "Speak well!" Duke patted Mu Lali on the head, "Don't act like an adult."

   "I've grown up, sir!"

"hehe."

   "It's true, I'm sixteen years old. In my hometown town, there were many marriages at the age of sixteen. Sir, don't treat me like a child."

  Duke tapped Mu Lali on the forehead: "Cultivate well, don't think about things."

   After dismissing the little assistant, he calmed down and continued his experiment. He was busy until he got off work at night before going out.

  After arriving at the tavern, I found myself the last one to arrive.

   "I'll be waiting for you, Duke. Come, let me introduce you." Assistant Vikas was the most enthusiastic in communication. He turned his head and said to the wavy blonde girl who stood up from the sofa chair, "This is the genius arcanist and genius card maker, Duke!"

  Duke smiled and stretched out his hand: "Hello."

   Kylia Nutao turned around, and the first impression he gave Duke was that he had an elegant temperament and an innate aristocratic demeanor.

  The facial features are beautiful and delicate, besides the beautiful face, there is a trace of baby fat.

  The large arcanist robe conceals her figure, but through the undulations on the outline, one can still imagine that her figure is tall and plump.

  Promoted to be an arcane mage at the age of eighteen, her talent may not be called the girl of heaven, but with her temperament and famous family background, it is not at all abrupt to describe her as a girl of heaven.

   "Hello, Duke, I've heard of you, the youngest Arcane Mage in Shenjiao City, and it's a great honor to work with you." Kylia's voice was beautiful, with a hint of firm strength in its softness, which made people feel good when they heard it.

  She is at least 1.7 meters tall, and wearing a pair of high heels, she looks taller than Duke.

  Duke is currently 1.8 meters tall. I don’t know if there is room for him to grow taller.

  During the handshake, although Duke felt that the opponent's hand was soft, he could tell that the opponent was shaking hands with great strength.

   “I am also honored to work with Ms. Kiria.”

  The two smiled politely at each other.

   "Come, sit down, let's eat, drink, and chat." Assistant Vikas continued to enliven the atmosphere, "It's everyone's fate that Kylia can come to our Penrose Mage Tower. As the first step in the field of spiritual arcana, we must help her more."

   Drinking and chatting, the atmosphere becomes active.

  Duke was not very enthusiastic at the wine table. He had the mentality of a bystander who stayed out of the matter. He looked at his noble colleagues in the past and greeted Kylia.

   Until the dinner party is over, each separates.

   "Sir, Ms. Kiria is so beautiful, she is the most beautiful and elegant lady I have ever seen."

  The little assistant has been overwhelmed by Kiriya's demeanor, as if she has found her idol in life.

  Beautiful, with a good family background, talented, and pleasing personality, this may be every woman's imaginary self.

   "And she is so approachable, she doesn't have any airs when talking to us."

   "Really." Duke looked out the window, noncommittal.

  He is not stupefied, the experience before and after the time travel, let him see very clearly that this kind of beautiful girl from a wealthy family may indeed be approachable on the surface, but the arrogance in her heart is absolutely repulsive, and the amiability is just their outward gesture.

  He thought back to his brief conversation with Kylia in the tavern.

  Beautiful is of course beautiful, probably the most beautiful woman he has met since time travelling, with blond hair and big waves, beautiful facial features and baby fat, tall and slender figure with faintly visible plumpness.

  Speaks softly but without any artificial taste.

  Aesthetically speaking, it all depends on his point.

  But Duke clearly felt that the other party was not that silly and sweet.

  Although the short communication can't tell the depth of the other party's thoughts, but from the point that she can make everyone feel like a spring breeze, she feels that she is a close object. It can be seen that Kiria definitely has good communication skills.

   "This is in line with the elite image cultivated by veteran aristocrats."

  Of course, there is no need to tell others about this, keep yourself sober and rational, don’t be fooled by beauty, just be impulsive.

  Suddenly he thought of the two big knight guards beside Kylia.

   "I always feel that they have a familiar aura, like... like the aura of phantom beasts!" Duke was shocked. He had felt this kind of aura from Muhans Black Snake, "In other words, Kylia's guards are phantom beast knights!"

  Two rare Eudemons knights act as guards.

   This made him secretly exclaim in his heart: "It's really a card that can only be played by veteran nobles, tsk tsk, some people were born in Rome."

   At this time, Kiria, who was born in Rome, also took the shuttle and returned to the Master Tower of Keyston.

  Kiston Master Tower is the tallest building in Shenjiao City. It is built on a hilltop in the northern outskirts of the city, towering into the sky, reaching three to four hundred meters.

  The whole frame is made of Lingjin, and it will not be shaken even if it encounters a magnitude 10 earthquake.

  The area where the mage tower is located also has a magnificent castle, covering the entire low mountain, as if it is a country of its own.

  The largest aristocratic Nutao family in the Heijiaohe land lived here, and accompanied the development of Shenjiao City from the beginning of its establishment to its current situation.

   "Miss Kiriya, you are back. After the master tells you to come back, go there." The deputy housekeeper in a tuxedo waited aside.

  Kilia nodded with a smile: "Okay, Steward Ji'an, I'll go find Grandpa after I change my clothes."

  Changing out of the Arcane Master's robe and putting on a floral skirt, Kylia, along with Steward Ji'an, took the exclusive spiritual ladder and went straight to the top of the tower above the sky.

  Clouds wrapped around the waist of the Keystone Mage Tower, hiding the upper half.

  Through the clouds, you can look at the top of the tower. The top of the tower is not pointed, but a large garden.

   There is a two-story villa in the garden.

   Ding Dong.

  The end of the spiritual ladder is located in a hut in front of the villa. Kylia followed Steward Ji'an out of the hut.

  In the flower bed at the entrance of the villa, the elderly gardener, who walked tremblingly, took off his hat and saluted Kiria: "Miss Kiria, greetings to you."

   "Hello, Grandpa Jiping."

   Entering the villa, an aunt who was mopping the floor at the door immediately smiled and saluted: "Miss Kiriya, the master is waiting for you."

   "Thank you for reminding, Housekeeper Gina, I'll be there right away." Kylia responded gently.

  All the housekeepers and servants in the top garden are very old. They have accompanied the owner of the villa since they were young. When the day comes when they can no longer work, their descendants will take over from them and continue to serve the owner of the villa.

  Generation after generation, experienced many births, old ages, sicknesses and deaths.

  Only the owner of this villa, Kiston Rage, still hasn't changed much. His golden curly hair like a lion king is the eternal light of the villa.

   "Grandpa, Ji Liya is here to see you." The eighteen-year-old heavenly girl, with a cute smile on her face, stepped lightly into the room.

  The old man with golden curly hair in the study put down the book in his hand, raised his head, and showed a kind smile: "My little dragon is back."

   "Grandpa, you're making fun of me again."

   "This is not a joke. The 18-year-old Arcane Master was three years earlier than my grandfather was promoted to the Arcane Master."

   "But grandpa, you have already become a 5-ring arcane mage. None of the arcan mages who were promoted earlier than you could achieve your achievement." Kiria walked behind Keyston and skillfully slapped Keyston's shoulder.

  Kiston laughed like an ordinary old man: "Of course, grandpa is best at accumulating wealth."

   Immediately, Keyston asked: "Little Kiria, on the first day of studying at the Penrose Master Tower, do you know all the classmates?"

   "Well, I got it."

   "Has anyone bullied you?"

   "How could it be? Everyone is very friendly. We had a drink together in the tavern and talked about some words to enhance our relationship."

   "It's good that no one bullies you. If someone dares to bully you, grandpa will spank Penrose's ass."

  Kiliya giggled.

  Penrose is already an old man from the grandfather generation, and he still has to be spanked. But if you think about it carefully, Penrose's eighty or ninety years old is indeed a child compared to Keyston's one hundred and eighty ninety years old.

   "By the way, among these classmates, is there anyone who made a deep first impression on you?" Keyston asked casually.

   Kiriya thought for a while: "It seems that there is no such thing."

   "I remember there was an arcane mage younger than you?"

   "Well, yes, his name is Duke."

   "Duke, an arcanist who is younger than you, didn't impress you?"

  "Before I met, I had expectations. I wanted to meet Duke, who was promoted to an arcane mage at the age of sixteen, but after meeting, I found that it was not very special." Kiriya thought about the scene of the tavern dinner, "The character is a bit taciturn, which may have something to do with experience, anyway, she is quite mature and stable."

   "Don't you show your vigor?"

"No."

   "Oh, it's boring." Kiston shook his head and sighed, "It seems that he is also a mediocre arcane mage. It's really worrying. The descendants of arcan mages are no longer available. You can help the spirituality of Heijiaohe land!"

   "Grandpa, you are in control of the overall situation." Kiriya comforted.

   "Grandfather doesn't want to work hard until he dies of old age. He is one hundred and ninety years old and still can't get peace..." Keyston shook his head repeatedly.

   Immediately commented on his colleagues: "This Williams' style of work is better than your grandpa and me; Erwin is keen on doing things, but the layout is too small, and he wants to pull everything into his own tower; as for Stephen Maverick, his brain is full of muscles...too incompetent!"

   Kiria just giggled.

   These are all 4-ring arcane mages, and she is not a junior who can comment casually.

   "Okay, okay, an old man with me is nagging endlessly, and you must be annoying."

   "How could it be? It's interesting to chat with grandpa."

   "Haha, when grandpa was young, he was indeed famous in Shenjiao City for his humor..." Reminiscing about the past, Keyston waved his hand, "Grandpa is tired, so you should go back and rest early. Since you choose to learn card making, you must work hard for it."

   "Kiriya understands."

  …

  Duke didn't know that he got a "mediocre arcanist" evaluation from Keyston Rage.

  He was sitting cross-legged on the big bed in his own villa, his whole image had been completely overturned, with pointed ears, green eyes, flowing blond hair, tall figure and pale skin.

   It's an elf form after merging with a chicken.

  Under the blessing of the elf form, all aspects of physical fitness have been greatly improved, including the efficiency of cultivation has also improved a lot.

  So now every day at night, he fits with the chick, and then practices breathing, blood refining, and meditation.

   Look inside the spiritual sea.

  The ring formed by the spiritual core already has multiple protrusions, vaguely pulling the absolutely circular ring into a complex loop of energy lines.

  This is the cultivation of an arcane master. With the in-depth research and understanding of spiritual arcane, the spiritual core representing the logic of its own arcane operation gradually evolves into a complete spell model. When it reaches the limit of logic, it can jump to the second ring.

   At that time, he will be promoted to the second ring arcanist.

  The research on spiritual mysteries cannot be stopped, and neither can the exclusive meditation methods—cognition is the means of casting spiritual cores. As for the raw materials needed for casting, they are the free spiritual particles from outside that meditation methods continuously absorb.

   "Ah... Chi Chi." Xiaodou woke up from his drowsiness. It was a habit he had developed in his childhood. When it was time to practice the blood refining method, it dozed off.

   "Go and play." Duke waved.

   Xiaodou jumped out of the window, looking for the partners he made in Beverly Manor. There are many knights in this community, so there are also many contracted spirit beasts, many of which are free-range in the community and can move freely.

   "Chi Chi!"

"Meow."

   Xiaodou's cry came from the yard, and the black-spotted serval cat Mimi's perfunctory response, obviously Xiaodou wanted to take Mimi out to play together.

  Mimi is a lady, with the same temper as Vivienne, and she is not very interested in going out to play.

   At this time.

  Duke frowned suddenly, and then a feeling of being torn apart came over him. He had already withdrawn from the elf state.

  Accompanies it, is a little weary chick: "I'm so tired, hurry up and replenish my spirit crystal."

   Click, click.

   A spirit crystal was chewed up and swallowed by the chick.

   Then he cast a sideways glance at Duke: "I'm such a hard-working worker, I have to be fit and work by the hateful Duke every day."

  Duke smiled slightly: "If you don't want to eat the spirit crystal, you can choose to refuse."

   "This is the tragic fate of a working chicken. For a mere piece of rotten rock, it becomes a slave to the evil capitalist Duke!"

   "This rotten stone is not cheap. The standard piece is 25 gold dragons. An ordinary family of three cannot eat 25 gold dragons' food in ten years."

   "Hmph, are we ordinary people!"

   "So you are complaining, go to Qihai and sleep." Duke gave the chick a chestnut.

   "Wait for me!" Chick said harshly, bumped his head on Duke's stomach, and disappeared.

  Duke got up and got out of bed, and walked to the corner of the room. There was a cardboard box in the corner, and the fat maggot Xiaohong, which should have been eating non-stop, had already pupated.

  Stand still, and secrete special mucus from its body, wrapping itself into a cocoon.

  At this time, the cocoons and pupae in the cardboard box were as big as ostrich eggs.

  "After pupation, it is a cocooned adult...I have to build a nest for Xiaohong, and I can no longer keep it at home."

  Duke pondered deeply.

   Looking for tickets~

  

  

  (end of this chapter)