Chapter 270 The Bell Outside the Window

"Grandfather refused to tell me what happened, but I always feel that he has something to hide from me. Instructor Penrose arranged a bunch of experiments for me, and Master Suktarah also stopped me from seeing Vivian and the others. .” Kiria Rage said softly.

   After meeting with Keyston Rage, Duke took Kylia to his office.

   "There was a little trouble, but it has been solved perfectly, so you can just pretend that nothing happened." Duke said.

  Kilia was smart enough to immediately understand Duke's implication, nodded and said, "Alright then, as long as you come back smoothly."

   "How's your practice going?"

   "Everything is going well for me. It should take another two years before I can be promoted to the level 2 Arcane Mage. But Orianna and the others have been complaining about you."

   "Complain about me?"

Kiriya smiled and said: "Complaining that you have cut off their financial resources, you invented the branding ring, and now the Giant of Light has officially started producing the Spirit Card Branding Instrument. Although the price is very expensive, many institutions and companies have already purchased it. , you can produce spirit cards by yourself.”

  Orianna, Blanc, Galba and other ordinary 1-ring arcane mages, even if they learned how to make cards, they can only make some 1-ring spirit cards.

   Now 1 ring spirit card can be replaced by a machine, so naturally no one will come to them to make cards.

"I'm sorry for that. Thinking that a large number of 1st-ring arcanists will lose their jobs because of the branded ring, I feel that I will be scolded by many people." Duke spread his hands, but he didn't really care about it. Times are changing. Those who are above will naturally be eliminated.

   It has nothing to do with him inventing new technology.

"Unemployment is not a problem, but the opportunity to earn extra money is obviously gone." Kilia smiled, "Mentor Penrose chose a new direction for them, thoroughly understand the ring of branding, and then improve the card material for the branding technology of the spirit card. Craftsmanship."

  Paused, she continued: "If you can make a breakthrough in this direction, you may be able to get the title of card making scholar."

   "Are you also studying this direction?"

"Yes, I don't care about the title of card making scholar, but I want to expand my understanding of spiritual mysteries as soon as possible by virtue of my research in this direction." Kylia raised her head and glanced at Duke. I don't want to be left too far behind by you."

  Duke patted the slender waist of the beautiful woman in his arms, and said with a smile: "Then you have to keep working hard, I have been promoted to the third ring now."

   "Ah, have you been promoted to the third ring?"

"If it's true, when you and Master Keyston came, I was registering at Faling Pagoda in Cuihai City. It's a pity that Orucci was not here, and neither was the acting chief Penrose mentor, otherwise they would definitely hold a bell-ringing ceremony for me .”

  Duke told Maltese that there is no need to ring the bell, but in fact he still likes it very much in his heart, using the bell ringing ceremony to show his glory.

   Let the elders in his hometown share his joy.

   "You are amazing!" Kylia raised her head and offered a kiss.

  The two of them stayed in Duke's office like this, lingering together for almost half an hour before getting up, sorting their clothes, and returning to Suktra's office together.

   "My lord, teacher." Duke was sitting on the sofa chair, and Kylia was next to him. The relationship between the two is well known.

   "Good boy!" Kiston Nu Tao's eyes flashed, "You have already been promoted to the third ring?"

  Duke nodded: "Exactly."

Suktara was very pleasantly surprised: "Ah, when did it happen, I haven't seen you mention it before." Being promoted to the third ring means that the formal research of ring replication materials can already be started, and you can get in touch with the projections. Ring up.

   "It was more than a month ago. I didn't find a suitable opportunity before, and I wanted to give you a surprise for the teacher. I didn't expect Master Keyston to see through it."

   "Spiritual favor!" Kiston exclaimed, "I know that the love of spirituality for you has not diminished in the slightest. I am afraid that the spirituality of the entire Heijiaohe land is gathered on you!"

   Then he shook his head again, and said with a broken smile: "But I shouldn't call you kid anymore. Now that you are a double sage, your status has surpassed the old man. The old man should formally call you Duke Sage."

   "My lord, you are joking, no matter how high my status is, I am still your junior."

"Haha, it's rare that you don't forget your original intention, but as a master of spirituality, you have already gone farther than me. How can I rely on my old age to sell my old age." Keyston is also a free and easy person, and he gave a solution on the spot , "From now on, we will talk about our own business, you call me my lord, I call you a sage!"

   After chatting for a while.

  Kiston Raging Wave glanced at Suktara, Suktara got up knowingly, and called to Kylia to show her the Duke Sage Mage Tower.

  Leave Keyston and Duke to talk privately.

"The Fallen Demon attacked. After my avatar blew itself up, I had no way of knowing anything about it. Afterwards, someone from the United Supreme Tower came and asked me to sign a non-disclosure agreement to hide the incident of the Fallen Demon's attack." Kiston asked, "What happened at that time, and how did you escape the attack?"

   "Sorry, my lord, the meeting of the stars has issued a seal order on this matter, and I cannot mention it to anyone."

  Kiston immediately understood and stopped asking about this matter.

   Turned to chatting about other things: "Are you planning to live in Cuihai City for a long time when you come back this time, or are you planning to settle in the Holy City of Alfa?"

"I plan to live in Cuihai City for a long time. At least until I have the strength to deal with the Fallen Demon, I don't plan to go to the Holy City of Arcane. I don't even plan to go to the City of Moisturizing Things. The Fallen Demon basically hides in the spiritual river. I'm afraid there will be a next time."

  After the arcanist degenerates into a fallen demon, it is like a spiritual bottomless pit, and he needs to absorb a large amount of spirituality at all times to maintain his vitality.

  Only the central cities in the major fields and the top spiritual springs where the Arcane Holy City is located can meet the daily needs of the fallen demon.

"That's good, safety first!" Kiston breathed a sigh of relief, and brought up the old matter again, "You and Kylia... Forget it, your status is rising now, and you have come back unharmed after a catastrophe. Be one of the stars, and I can't have any more ideas about you."

  If Duke is just a future star, Keyston would not mind seeking a child from Duke to inherit the foundation of the Fu Tao family.

   But Duke is already a quasi-star, and his status has even surpassed him.

   Besides, it is out of date to say these things.

  Duke himself didn't care, and said casually: "Kilia and I are in love with each other, let's talk about it when we have a child in the future."

  He doesn't think that his children can inherit the talents he acquired through cheating.

   It would be embarrassing if he couldn't even be promoted to the Arcane Master, but even so, Duke would arrange for the child's life to be rich and prosperous.

Before he thought about it: "Let's not talk about the far away. When I invent communication technology, I'm afraid I can be selected into the Hall of Valor alive. At that time, no matter how miserable my descendants are, they will be offered up by the Seven Towers Federation as a mascot... What's more, I still don't know what to do." It has a lifespan of hundreds of years."

   It is equivalent to saying that he can protect the younger generations for more than a dozen or even dozens of generations.

Soon Keyston talked about the situation in Cuihai City: "Erwin temporarily acts as the chief executive of the Union Tower, but he wants to get the chief executive position, and the level of the 4th ring is a bit low. Originally, he wanted to go to the Erudite Tower. I will hand over the Shenjiao City Learning Tower to you."

   "My ambition is not in the Tower of Learning."

   "Yeah, I can see that you are now a 3rd Ring Arcane Mage, how can a mere Erudition Tower satisfy your appetite."

Keyston said with a smile: "The problem will be solved now. Irwin has returned to Shenjiao City's Erudite Tower, and you are here to compete for the chief executive position of the Cuihai City Union Tower... But there is also a little bad, Cuihai City Erudite Tower , I'm afraid it will be given to Boyton Wind Snake."

   "My lord, the hands of Runwu City are too long, I want to cut off a few of their tentacles!" Duke already regarded Cuihai City as his pocket.

  He doesn't have much affection for the great nobles of Runwu City.

   In the first place, Delilah Kaishu bullied others and robbed him of the twin springs.

  Secondly, after he invented the branded ring, the joint card shop was indifferent, obviously not planning to cooperate with him to make cards and share profits.

  These are related interests. In addition, Duke also needs a Cuihai City that is firmly in its hands, so as to nip all possible threats in advance. Outsiders are absolutely not allowed to interfere in Cuihai City, especially big nobles with unknown motives.

"Okay! Ambitious!" Keyston laughed, "You are much more courageous and decisive than Erwin, that old bastard! If Erwin was not too soft, I would have relieved the burden and put Shen Jiaoshi's Let him take care of the heavy burden."

  When the old and the young, they began to discuss how to control Cuihai City.

"There is no need to worry about the five towers in Cuihai City, the United Tower, as long as you participate in the competition, no one can beat you." Keyston analyzed, "The Erudite Tower is not easy to get, Boyton Wind Snake has already acted as the chief, and he It’s 4 rings, it’s too strong.”

   "Let's give it to him first. I guess it won't be too late for me to break through the 4th ring. Let's see his performance first, and then reconsider after I break through in a few years." Duke said.

  Kiston was a little speechless when he heard the words.

  What does it mean to wait a few years for a breakthrough.

  But he didn't say anything, just nodded: "That's the only way."

   Then he said: "In terms of the Tower of Elements, Jovis Bobcat is the acting chief, but De Laila Kaishu is eyeing this. He is very close to Bernoulli."

"Then fully support Jovis Lynx and strive to hold the Tower of Elements in our hands. By the way, my lord, the acting chief of the observation tower is Bernoulli. It stands to reason that his lifespan is approaching the end of his life, so he is not suitable for the position of the fifth tower." ?”

"It's not suitable, but we don't have a suitable candidate here to compete with Bernoulli." Kiston said, "After all, there is still Faling Tower to fight for. Now Penrose has acted as the chief and seized the opportunity , but Hout Warthog is not to be underestimated."

  Among the local arcane mages in Heijiaohe, the four great arcane mages all work in Shenjiao City, and they cannot take care of Cuihai City at the same time.

  Among the other members of the five-tower conference at the level of the three-ring arcane master, Orucci himself is the chief director of the Faling Pagoda in Shenjiao City, and it is impossible to come and change positions. Only Jovis Bobcats and Penrose can come over to take up positions.

"Or, I'll talk to Karius Flamingo. When I was building Duke Sage's Mage Tower, I got along very well with him. Maybe I can support him to compete for the chief director of the observation tower. At least he is young, Bieber Make an effort to be appropriate."

   "Well, for the current plan, the only way is to push Karius out."

Keyston Rage is an actionist. After discussing with Duke, he directly made a decision: "I will secretly call the above-mentioned personnel tomorrow, um, I will hold a simple meeting in your Duke's Sage Mage Tower, and start a competition. .”

  …

   At noon, Duke entertained many visiting arcane mages, including Murand Black Snake, Sanfis, Kylia Raging Waves, etc., in the castle tower that had just been completed.

  As for Kiston Rage, he and Suktara had lunch alone in another tower.

  After the luncheon, the visiting arcane mages took their leave and left, and only Kiria Rage stayed temporarily as a girlfriend.

   "I'm going to tour my territory, Kylia, are you resting in the mage's tower, or are you with me?"

"With you."

"good."

  Duke's first stop is the basement of the mother's nest of the Mage Tower. After taking the spiritual ladder to the seventh floor, there are still many turns and eight turns to go down.

"Duke, Kiria, and Xiaohong have been developing quietly." Pheasant Feather has been following the two of them, "Its ant colony has grown a lot during this period of time, and the soldier ants at the 5th ring level have also succeeded. Cultivated."

   Come to the basement of the hive, the heavy door rises.

Duke and Kylia walked into this special room, which was filled with large and small ant eggs and ant pupae, and there were burrow marching ants longer than a person, moving in and out, carrying these ant eggs and ant pupae.

  Seeing the person coming, the crypt army ants immediately assumed an attacking posture.

But the next moment, these crypt army ants received some kind of pheromone, and got busy on their own. From the entrance of the crypt in the basement of the mother nest, they climbed up a huge crypt army ants. Hou Xiaohong.

  Xiaohong was speechless, but her waving tentacles revealed her excitement.

   "Good girl, already has 4 rings!" Duke patted Xiaohong's hard head, counting that Xiaohong is only five years old, this growth rate is not bad.

  Duke tapped his stomach.

  The little chicken flew out, and when it saw Xiaohong, it immediately shouted: "Xiaohong, my good daughter, you have grown up so much!"

  Duke got a little more belly, and the rubber spirit flew out.

  Leaving Xiaoji to play with Xiaohong, Duke introduced to Kiria: "This is the big elf I contracted outside, it's called Oak Spirit."

   "Wow!" Kylia exclaimed.

  Although she was born in a noble family, she has never seen a 3-ring great elf.

  Rubber was a little restrained, and under Duke's guidance, he said softly: "Hello, Kiria, nice to meet you."

   "Hello, hello, rubber spirit."

   "Or you can chat here for a while, I'll go down to see Xiaohong's lair." Duke rode on Xiaohong's back.

Carrying him, Xiaohong quickly climbed to the lairs all over Lingya Mountain. The main aisle of the lair is very spacious, extending in all directions, and it took half an hour to go around, but the entire main aisle was still not complete. .

   "It's really good!" Duke praised.

  Xiaohong's ant colony is not large, not even reaching a thousand ants, but the nest is built deep and large, which can accommodate at least tens of thousands of burrowing army ants.

In many places, the nests have passages built in the shelters of bushes, and the fragmented sunlight that falls overhead is introduced into the passages, and the passages are filled with various Yulu and fungi. These are burrowing army ants. food source.

   Soon Xiaohong drove Duke to a hole in the ground. After climbing out, it was Lingchi Farm.

  The breath method was established, and the whole picture of the entire Lingchi Farm was engraved in Duke's field of vision in an instant.

   "James is also doing a good job, Lingchi Farm is developing very well." Duke patted Xiaohong's head, "Let's go, we're going back."

  Back to the basement of the brood, Kylia was still chatting with Pheasant Feather and Oak Spirit, while Chick was yawning boredly aside.

   Returning to the Mage Tower, another arcanist visits.

   But the identity of the person who came here surprised Duke: "Your Excellency Boyton?"

"I'm bothering you, Sage Duke." The person who came was Boyton Wind Snake, the 4th-ring Arcane Earth Mage whom Duke and Keyston had discussed. Ask you for advice on the development direction of natural history in Cuihai City."

   "Ask me for advice?" Duke smiled, a little surprised at the other party's attitude, "I'm too young, Your Excellency Boyton, I may not know much about urban construction."

"You are indeed young, only 22 years old, but you are already a card-making sage and a erudite sage. In the field of natural history, I think no one in the whole Heijiaohe can see farther than you." Boyton has a refined temperament , like a combination of a scholar and a gentleman.

  The tone of speaking also makes people feel sincere.

  Duke thought for a while, and decided to have a good exchange with the other party. After all, the chief director of the Learning Tower has basically locked Boyton Wind Snake.

  He plans to take over the identity of the Chief Executive of the Union Tower in advance, and coordinate the future blueprint of the entire Cuihai City.

"From the very beginning, when I discussed the development of Shenjiao City with His Excellency Erwin, I consciously wanted to link Shenjiao City and Cuihai City. After all, we are two cities in one place, and the connection is far closer than other cities. Much more."

"Appreciate further details!"

  "Shenjiao City is focusing on building an entertainment capital, and Cuihai City can cooperate with it to form a large-scale entertainment industry. After all, a city is too small and does not have enough heritage. The joint development of two cities can give full play to the advantages of the group."

   After a pause, Duke continued: "Especially the newly built Cuihai City, which just happens to be able to attract relevant personnel from the entire Seven Towers Federation to move in, and I am here, and my patent rights should attract many film and television related companies to join."

   "Yes, because of your signboard, there are definitely many people willing to come to Cuihai City." Boyton Wind Snake deeply agreed with this.

  In the Seven Towers Federation, Duke is now top-notch.

  It is really possible for one person to drive the development of a city.

"After the linkage of the entertainment industry, I think that Cuihai City should vigorously develop education and research and development, especially the development of various new technologies and new materials..." Duke briefly talked about his thinking. The set that understands the transformation of the spiritual age.

   After all, this is the old road of industrial technology development on earth, and Duke is very familiar with it.

  Boyton was greatly impressed after hearing this: "Sage Duke, if Cuihai City is under your leadership, it will definitely develop rapidly into a dazzling border pearl."

   "I hope so too." Duke laughed.

  Boyton's eyes lit up: "You mean, you will live in Cuihai City for a long time?"

   "My Duke, Sage, and Mage Tower is here. Naturally, no city can compare to Cuihai City. This is my hometown. Spiritual blessings, my hometown has nurtured me, and I have achieved what I am now, and I have to give back to my hometown."

   "Yes." Boyton said with emotion, "Everyone in the world says that once the spirituality of Heijiaohe land is reached, the eight fights will gather in you alone, the sage Duke."

  Duke resigned modestly: "Where is that..."

  Suddenly, I heard a melodious and heavy bell, which came from a distance. Although the distance is very far away, it seems to be ringing right next to my ear.

"Well, look, the spirituality of Heijiaohe is definitely not concentrated on me alone." Duke pointed in the direction of Cuihai City outside the window, "No, there is a new arcanist born. This land has always been extraordinary spirituality , someone will always be favored by him.”

   But not for a while.

  Someone's little assistant, Mu Lashan, happily knocked on the door and came in, telling Duke why the bell-ringing ceremony of Faling Pagoda was ringing.

"Sir, it is Mr. Penrose, the acting chief. In order to congratulate you, Mr., on being promoted to the third-ring Arcane Mage, a bell-ringing ceremony was specially held!" Mu Lashan was so excited that she was about to faint, and her lord only had a little more time to be promoted to the third-ring Olympic mage. Master!

   "Eh..." Duke smiled helplessly, "Didn't I inform Marshall not to engage in these superficial forms?"

Boyton laughed and said, "Heijiaohe is spiritually extraordinary, but you are always the sage Duke, I think the acting chief of Penrose insisted on ringing the bell to share what you brought to Heijiaohe. glory."

  Duke shook his head and said, "All in all, this land has extraordinary spirituality and will definitely have a bright future."

   "I firmly believe that." Boyton replied.

After a while, he bid farewell, and when he parted, he said earnestly, "The Wind Snake family has moved to this city, and I hope to contribute to the development of Cuihai City under your leadership, Sage Duke. strength."

  Duke sent him out of the Mage Tower with a smile: "The construction of Cuihai City is inseparable from the joint efforts of you and me, and the Wind Snake Family will become the cornerstone of this city."

   Sending Boyton Wind Snake away, Duke couldn't help touching his chin.

   Today's visit was a bit unexpected, and what was even more unexpected was Boyton Wind Serpent's attitude, which was low enough.

"It's the veteran nobles of Runwu City who finally realized that my status can be equal to them?" Duke pondered, "It doesn't seem like it. From Boyton's tone, it seems that the Wind Snake family is acting alone. Rather than turning to the old nobles collectively."

  There is too little information to analyze anything.

  Duke didn't bother to analyze it anymore. In short, Boyton Wind Snake's statement is good for him to control Cuihai City.

  …

  Accompanied by the bell-ringing ceremony of the Faling Pagoda in Cuihai City, the news that Duke was promoted to the third ring soon spread throughout the Heijiaohe region.

   After Faling Tower reported upwards, the newspaper "Seven Towers Daily", the largest circulation newspaper in the Seven Towers Federation, also reported the news on the front page the next day.

   "The spiritual arcane practice record has broken a new high. The 22-year-old Duke has been promoted to the third-ring arcane scholar."

  Since the announcement of the Ring of Branding and the opening of the will of the stars, Duke has once again grabbed the headlines of all media news.

  The 1st ring, 2nd ring, and 3rd ring all belong to ordinary arcanists.

  However, people tend to regard the 3-ring arcane mage as a big figure who suppresses one side. In the past, no matter how outstanding Duke was in academics, he was still not popular in practice. But this time, with his promotion to the 3-ring, there is no doubt that he has already achieved fame.

   "This boy is unstoppable!"

   I don't know how many great people have such thoughts in their hearts.

   "Master, United Card Store has held a shareholder meeting, and you are invited to attend." In the floating city of Shangewei, the butler reported to the old man who was eating grapes in his spare time.

  The old man is the master of this floating city, Loren Sangovi, the 7-ring morning star arcane instructor.

Hearing this, Loren Shangewei put down the purple jade grapes in his hand, and said with a sarcasm: "Now I know that I am in a hurry, this group of people, when they lay on their spiritual scars and sucked happily, did they ever think that there would be This scene today?"

  The butler remained silent.

  Loren Sangovi waved his hand lightly: "I won't participate, what kind of joint card shop, it should be swept into the dustbin of history."

  The butler asked hesitantly: "Master, the Shangewei family still holds 6.32% of the shares in the United Card Store. How should this part of the shares be handled?"

"Let Xiao Liu figure it out. If you can sell it, sell it. If you can't sell it, you can lose it." Loren Shangewei didn't care much about this, "Also, let Xiao Qi bring a generous gift to congratulate Du Ke is promoted to the third ring, and by the way, we can see if we can buy the shares of the Giant of Light from the market."

  Wait for the butler to leave.

Loren Sangovi sighed while eating grapes: "Oh, what the **** am I worrying about? The descendants are getting worse and worse with each generation... Clearing away the fog of spiritual mysteries, such a simple operation, why is there no one here?" can do it!"

   Looking for tickets~

  

  

  (end of this chapter)