Chapter 271 Mysterious breath

  Duke Sage Mage Tower is as lively as New Year's Eve, wave after wave of arcanists come to congratulate.

  Some arcane masters leave gifts and names, then leave, and some arcanists stay here to enjoy a banquet.

   There are not many people who really need Duke to entertain them personally.

   On the third day, a guest who needed his hospitality came, a female arcanist, Lonis Sangovi.

   Just for the other party's noble surname, Duke needs to entertain him personally.

"Sage Duke, congratulations on your promotion to the third-ring arcane mage in a record-breaking way." Lonis looked about thirty years old, but her hair was already gray, and she was obviously approaching a hundred years old. "On behalf of my grandfather, Loren Shan Kawei congratulates you."

  The gift she brought was a batch of sankawi medicine.

  The specialty of the Sankawi family is the Sankawi medicine. This potion can help the spirit beast partner of the knight contract to break through the shackles.

  Usually the level of contracted spirit beasts will be dragged down by knights, stopping at ring 1.

  But with the Shankawei potion, the spirit beast with high-level blood can continue to break through and reach the level it should have reached.

  A great knight with a ring 1, if he has a contract spirit beast with a ring 3 level, his combat power will definitely increase dramatically.

  Therefore, Sankawi potions are of great value, and are often only circulated at auctions, and rarely can be bought directly with money.

  Duke happily accepted the batch of sangovi potions, and responded enthusiastically: "Thank you Lord Loren Sangowi for the congratulatory gift. I didn't expect that I was promoted to the third ring, and even the guardian envoy was alarmed."

  Lonis Sangovi said with a smile: "Grandfather is full of praise for you, and thinks that you are the next generation leader in the field of wind breath, and you will definitely become a member of the stars in your lifetime."

"Master Loren has praised me too much." Duke said modestly, and then remembered, "He is the pillar of the sky in the field of wind breath. I still remember that more than a year ago, the black jade horseshoe crab in the Cuihai Valley was wiped out. In the time of the dragon, Lord Loren's demeanor."

  It was also the first time he saw the stars make a move, the star cage locked the battlefield, the pale hand covered the sky and the sun, and then the black jade horseshoe dragon died.

  Without the slightest ability to struggle, arcanists are invincible among the same class.

Hearing Duke boasting about her grandfather, Lonis smiled brightly: "Grandfather has fewer shots now. When I was young, my grandfather participated in the pioneering war almost every year. The sub-dragon breath on his body can make 6 rings and below spirit beast, unable to move."

After touting Loren Sangowi, Lonis revealed her intentions: "The Sangowi family is very optimistic about the development of the Giant of Light Spirit Tool Company. I don't know if the sage Duke will allow the trading of shares. My family has bought shares. plan of."

   "Invest in the Giant of Light?" Duke frowned slightly, and then responded, "I don't own many shares, and I don't prohibit shareholders from trading in private."

  Duke currently holds a 25% stake in Giant of Light.

   In addition, he also holds 1% of the shares of Hibidi Ling Mining Company, but he has already planned to find an opportunity to sell this part of the shares.

  Hebbidi Spirit Mine Company certainly makes money, digging spirit crystals is no different from printing money, but after all, it is limited to this corner of Heijiaohe, and the prospects for future development are not great.

  After selling the shares, he will have vacated two anchor positions and can reopen two companies.

  One was decided a long time ago to open a communication company, and the other was reserved for operation after a new invention came out.

As for the DreamWorks film and television company founded by Kiriya, Duke did not take a stake. He only relied on film and television related technologies and optical storage related technologies to collect patent fees. With the development of technology, the market has boomed, and the patent fees have been received. Relentless.

   "It's fine if you don't refuse." Seeing that Duke didn't object, Lonis immediately said, "I'll let the family members buy the shares of the Giant of Light in the market."

   "Why is the Shankawei family interested in the Giant of Light?"

"Actually, it was what my grandfather meant... Our family has already planned to withdraw from the United Card Store. The development of the branding ring technology is doomed to the decline of the United Card Store. And the Giant of Light has patents for the Branding Ring technology and the Spirit Card Branding Apparatus. Great prospects."

   "Master Loren's vision is very accurate." Duke praised.

   Immediately, he slapped Lonis on the sidelines for a while, and roughly understood Loren Sangovi's attitude. Obviously, the other party was already dissatisfied with the aristocratic power in Runwu City.

  Among the stars, some may be conservative while others are progressive.

  But in the promotion of spiritual mysteries, everyone has the same goal, which is to keep climbing the peak.

  This is also the reason why the Seven Towers Federation can develop into the largest country.

Loren Sangowi hopes that Lingka can be opened to the whole society, but the veteran nobles in Runwu City still hold on to the idea of ​​monopolizing the card making industry, and obviously have a relationship with Loren Sangowi. Irreconcilable contradictions.

   Therefore, it is reasonable to shift the target and choose to cooperate with Duke.

  Determine the cooperation goals.

   Then the rest of the details can be discussed and handed over to the teams behind each other. Duke entertained Lonis Sangovi for a meal and stopped focusing on the other party.

  Teacher Suktara will help him receive Lonis well.

   "Little Lili, what else do I have to do today?" Duke lay on the sofa, enjoying the massage from two little assistants.

  In fact, Xiaoyi has already arranged his itinerary properly.

   It's just that Duke doesn't want to treat himself like a robot, and strictly follow Xiaoyi's arrangement to do things. He can do whatever he wants, and there is no need to be so rigid.

   Besides, find some work for the little assistants.

   "Sir, at 3 o'clock this afternoon, you were originally scheduled to meet with His Excellencies Brock and Ibuprofen to talk about their research directions."

   "Well, what time is it?"

   "It's half past three."

   "What's next?"

"Mimi's Phantom Beast Promotion Experiment." Mu Lali opened the notebook she carried with her and reported, "The three magic dragon potions will expire if you don't use them any more. In addition, the other three magic dragon potions you auctioned have already expired." It was bought."

  Duke had previously purchased six copies of the blood of the sub-dragon, and asked a pharmacist to make six magic dragon potions.

   Three for Xiaodou, and three for Vivienne's contract spirit beast, Mimi.

However, Xiaodou has already been promoted to the phantom beast by relying on the blood spirit crystal, so there is no need for phantom dragon potion. Duke simply asks someone to auction it, and while the potion is still effective, he helps a certain 1st-ring knight to break through. Become a Phantom Rider.

   "Well, how about this." Duke thought for a while, and then ordered, "Let Brock and Ibuprofen also participate in the Eudemons promotion experiment. I will help Mimi to promote and chat with them at the same time."

   "Okay, sir, I'll inform you right away."

   Not long after, Duke entered the prepared laboratory. In the laboratory, Vivienne had been waiting with Mimi for a long time.

  Mimi is the bloodline of the 2-ring spirit beast-black-spotted serval.

   Now the 1st ring is about to be completed, but due to Vivienne's restrictions, it has been stuck here and cannot be broken through, unless taking a Sankawi potion.

   "My lord." Vivian stood up and saluted.

   "Don't worry, Mimi will be promoted to Eudemons." Duke clapped Vivienne's hand and patted, "Even if the promotion fails, I will provide it with Sangovi potion to help it advance to the second ring."

  It's a pity that the blood spirit crystal has been eaten by Xiaodou, and there is no way to bring it back, otherwise, just use the blood spirit crystal to help Mimi evolve.

  Vivian nodded quietly, tenderness flashed in her eyes.

   "Meow." Mimi seemed to know that today is an important day for her, so she called softly, looking a little embarrassed.

  At this time, Mu Lali rushed over with Brock and Buprofen brothers and sisters.

   "Mentor." The siblings greeted each other respectfully.

  Duke looked at the thin brothers and sisters, and said, "I'm sorry that we were scheduled to see you at 3 o'clock, but it was late to receive an important guest. That's why I called you here now, which delayed you a lot of time."

  Brock is a little dull.

  Buprofen is more active than his brother: "Teacher, you have a lot of time to deal with, and there are too many important things to do. It doesn't matter if we wait. And my brother and I were practicing just now, and there is no delay."

"It's good to be ready to practice anytime, anywhere. I have been promoted to an arcane master, but I have just stepped into the field of spiritual arcana, and I need to work harder in the future." Duke encouraged a few words, and then ordered, "Start the experiment .”

   The Eudemons promotion experiment is not a rigorous experiment.

  Duke directly condensed the hand of the arcane weapon, turned it into countless threads, and then pierced into Mimi's body, and then let Mimi take the magic dragon potion.

   Brothers and sisters Brock and Buprofen are in charge of laying hands, handing over medicine bottles and the like.

Vivian sat cross-legged at the side, practicing blood refinement, and helping Mimi refine the power of the magic dragon potion. Part of the hand of the arcane pierced into her body to detect changes in her meridians and fighting spirit in her limbs. Data collection.

  After taking the magical dragon potion, under the urging of the blood refinement method, Mimi seemed to be injected with a huge force.

   Let it instantly fill the surface of the body with blood mist.

   Weiwei Anxin was involved, and couldn't help turning her head to look at Mimi.

  Duke immediately reassured: "There is no need to be nervous. I am monitoring Mimi's physical condition at all times. I won't let it happen. You do your job well."

   "Yes, my lord." Vivian took a deep breath, suppressing the restlessness in her heart.

  Duke paid attention to Mimi's situation and asked Xiaoyi to record the specific data in detail, while distracting him from chatting.

   "Brock."

   "Mentor, I, I am here."

"Relax, let's talk briefly." Duke said casually with his hands behind his back, "What field do you like? You use energy fusion to solidify your spiritual core, not to mention the elemental field. Card making, contracts, alchemy, formations, puppets , Potion, Life, Beast Taming, Gu Gu, Spiritual Planting, Astrology, and Natural History, what do you like the most?"

   "Naturalism, mentor, I want to learn naturalism from you." Brock replied.

  "Natural history is very complicated. To learn it, you have to learn knowledge in all fields and transform them into technologies needed by society."

   "I'm not afraid of difficulties!" Bullock said firmly.

   "But I want to hear what field you like the most, not the field you most want to learn." Duke turned to look at Bullock.

  He could feel that Brock wanted to learn natural history, not because he liked it.

  Like a child from a poor family who is admitted to college, he may not choose his favorite major, but consider which major can earn money in the future and carry the burden of the family.

   "I..." Brock hesitated.

  Ibuprofen immediately reminded: "Brother, in front of the mentor, you should say what you think."

  Received by his sister's reminder, Bullock confided: "Mentor, I actually like the field of puppets the most. I envied those construction pilots who drove puppets when I was young."

   "Oh, then why not choose Karius Mage Tower, Lord Karius Flamingo, but a puppet scholar."

"My sister likes natural history, I want to go with her, and Your Excellency Orucci also suggested that I come to your mage tower with my sister for further study." After finishing speaking, Bullock stammered and added, "Actually, I I also like natural history."

  Duke was noncommittal about this, glanced at Mimi who was still receiving the power of the magic dragon potion, then turned around and asked Ibuprofen: "What about you?"

"I like natural history the most, mentor." Ibuprofen spoke more generously, "I live in Xuegu Town with my brother. After I was promoted to a spiritual apprentice, I worked in a spiritual weapon repair shop. Artifacts..."

   When Ibuprofen talked about spiritual weapons, he talked endlessly.

   This reminded Duke that when he was a child, on earth, he also liked to play with various electrical appliances at home, and once even dismantled the DVD.

   Then it was installed again, and the degree of restoration was quite high, but it was not powered on.

   Fortunately, my parents didn't know that the DVD had been disassembled by him, and they thought it was broken, so they sold it as scrap.

"Very well, I already understand your preferences." Duke said conclusively, "On the path of spiritual mysteries, maybe interest can't lead to a better way of practice, but it will undoubtedly make you feel better in the boring way. Exploring adds a lot of fun.”

He said to the two brothers and sisters: "No matter what field, the most important thing is to lay a good foundation during the period of further study in Duke Sage's Mage Tower... In addition, I do not restrict your freedom here. After the basic courses are completed, you are also welcome to go to other Mage Towers. Listen to the class."

  Duke doesn't like to engage in academic circles, he prefers a free research atmosphere.

  Duke Sage Mage Tower will also be built into an open mage tower according to his proposal, for all arcanists to exchange and learn.

   Between speaking.

  The snow mist on Mimi's body has dissipated a lot, and the power of the phantom dragon medicine in her body has also begun to decline, but it has not been able to promote its evolution into a phantom beast.

   "One is not enough, continue to take the second one." Duke motioned for ibuprofen, and handed Mimi the second magic dragon potion.

  Mimi's body has been torn out by the previous surge of power, but in order to evolve, it still supports the body and drinks up the second magic dragon potion.

  A new wave of power began to permeate, and its body was once again shrouded in blood mist.

   No one spoke anymore.

  Duke looked at Mimi intently, felt the changes in Mimi's body through the hand of the arcane weapon, and gradually realized a little bit of understanding in his heart.

"The power of the magic dragon potion was not absorbed by Mimi, but turned into a special spiritual force, trying to awaken a certain...a certain gene in Mimi, no, it has nothing to do with the gene, it should be some kind of deep-seated The blood in the body!"

  In Duke's perception, the huge energy in the magic dragon potion is not the real core medicinal power, but the core medicinal power is a trace of sub-dragon blood in it.

  With surging power, the sub-dragon blood rampages through Mimi's body.

  But it can't be integrated, or the magic dragon potion is made, and it is not for the spirit beast to integrate the blood of the sub-dragon.

   "It's a primer. The whole magic dragon potion is a medicine primer, which is responsible for drawing out some kind of primitive blood in Mimi's body!"

  Duke's heart moved, and he said to Vivienne in a deep voice: "The blood refining method is not strong enough, you need to surge your fighting spirit, so that Mimi's spiritual power can echo your fighting spirit even stronger!"

  Vivian didn't answer.

  But the dou qi in her whole body has been pumped up, and the faint dou qi light blooms on her body, making her look like a Valkyrie.

   "It's still not enough!" Duke frowned.

  After waiting for Xiaoyi to calculate the probability of success, he quickly made a decision: "Take the third magic dragon potion for Mimi!"

   "Yes, mentor." Not only was Ibuprofen not nervous, but excited, he quickly helped Mimi take the third magic dragon potion.

   Then he looked at Duke, then at Mimi.

  The face was red with excitement, not because of the experiment itself, but because of being able to do the experiment with Duke.

  It is the dream of many arcane masters to conduct experiments with card-making sages and erudite sages.

  Boom!

The sub-dragon blood in Mimi's body, under the blessing of surging power, seemed to erupt like magma, tearing Mimi's body into injuries everywhere, and the blood on her body sprayed out round after round, forming a thick blood mist. Wrap it completely.

   "Vivian, work harder!" Duke continued to order.

  The Hand of the Arcane Artifact has not only stopped at the stage of perception, he has begun to use the Hand of the Arcane Artifact to interfere with the entire evolution process, helping Mimi maintain her body functions and prevent her from being destroyed by the surging power.

  The scene seemed tense.

   But everything is in Duke's hands.

"Master, the best solution at present is to actively guide the blood of the sub-dragon to surge towards Mimi's heart. According to calculations, there is a 25.6% probability that Mimi's hidden original blood is hidden here, and it is most likely to be hidden by the sub-dragon blood. Induced out."

   "Understood." Duke quickly manipulated the hand of the arcane weapon.

  The countless threads distributed in Mimi's body began to vibrate spiritual energy, suppressing the surging power, and guiding the sub-dragon's blood to impact Mimi's heart.

  It's like doing a cardiac pacemaker.

  Accompanied by the impact of the sub-dragon's blood, finally, when the power of the phantom dragon potion was about to fail, the fleeting breath was accurately captured by the perception of the hand of the arcane weapon.

   "This is the moment!"

  Duke's eyes were out of focus, and his attention was highly concentrated on the hand of the arcane weapon, guiding the sub-dragon's blood to hit the fleeting breath fiercely.

  Boom!

   It seems that this aura was angered by the sub-dragon's bloodline. It was originally just a small aura, but it swept across the entire heart area in an instant, directly engulfing the sub-dragon's bloodline.

  Duke's arcane hand was also repelled by this swelling breath, and had to withdraw from Mimi's body.

   Right now.

  Mimi has passed out, but the changes in her body are really happening. Especially after the blood mist dissipated, the knight's contract imprint on his forehead emitted a strong light.

  In the light, it can be clearly seen that the second ring suddenly closed, forming a complete trap circle with the 2-ring knight contract mark.

   New power burst out from the 2nd ring imprint, slowly repairing Mimi's dilapidated body.

   "My lord!" Vivian exclaimed, brimming with joy, "I feel that the battle qi is undergoing a qualitative change!"

  Duke smiled lightly: "Successful."

  Mimi has evolved from a 2-ring spirit beast-black-spotted serval bloodline to a 2-ring phantom beast-money serval, and Vivienne then breaks through the 2-ring Phantom Beast Knight.

   Blinking his eyes, Duke said, "Vivian, go and see Mimi."

   "Yes!" Vivienne nodded, without saying thank you, thousands of words are not as practical as hard work at night.

   Leave the lab.

  Duke encouraged the siblings a few more words, and then asked the siblings to go back, while he returned to the office, silently thinking about this phantom beast promotion experiment.

   When Xiaodou was promoted to Eudemons, he needed to cooperate with the blood refinement method, so he didn't perceive it too carefully.

  But in Mimi, he saw more details.

"It's strange, Mimi has the original blood, which means that most of the spirit beasts have this kind of original blood, at least there are spirit beasts that can evolve into phantom beasts." Xiaoyi played back the experimental data , Duke guessed while watching.

   Judging from the currently known records of phantom beasts, more than 3,000 kinds of spirit beasts have the potential to evolve into phantom beasts.

  Distributed among various families and genera.

"With such a messy variety of phantom beasts, it is very likely that all spirit beasts will have such primitive blood. It's just that some spirit beasts happen to be activated, and most spirit beasts do not meet the conditions for activation... This primitive bloodline should be the sacred ancient Dragon."

  Duke has checked relevant information in Offatar.

  In the early records of the Seven Towers Federation, there was once an astrologer who got the revelation of the sacred ancient dragon from the astrology.

  However, because the age is too long, and the Seven Towers Federation was created at that time, it was not very formal.

   resulted in somewhat vague records.

   Only part of the narration that is difficult to distinguish between true and false is left, saying that there was once a sacred ancient dragon who killed himself in the wild world and spilled blood on the earth.

   But the dragon will eventually rise and return to Skyrim.

   It is also from the earliest legend of the giant dragon that gradually spread the saying that the phantom beast is the blood of the giant dragon.

  It is said that spirit beasts can evolve into dragon beasts all the way up.

   Turn into a giant dragon and soar in the sky.

"Many arcane masters deny this kind of talk. The reason is very simple. Eudemons have 2 rings, high-level phantom beasts have 3 rings, and theoretically dragon beasts are only 4 rings." Duke shook his head, "4 ring dragon beasts, like the legendary The sacred ancient dragon is too far behind."

  However, today's discovery made Duke believe that there is indeed a powerful primitive blood hidden in the body of the spirit beast.

  It is stronger than Dragon blood.

   "At that time, the original blood in Mimi's body was provoked by the sub-dragon's blood, soaring directly and engulfing the sub-dragon's blood... It can be seen how fierce the original blood is!" Duke thought.

  Spiritual beasts have been bred for countless generations, yet the original bloodline can burst out with powerful power, directly engulfing the power of the bloodline extracted from the blood of a sub-dragon. From this we can see that the quality of the original blood is far beyond imagination.

"The sub-dragon is the 9th ring, so the sacred ancient dragon should be the 10th ring?" Duke shook his head, unable to be sure, "Humanity's exploration of spiritual arcana has only reached the 8th ring... 10th ring, it's too far away... However, maybe I can get a little glimpse of the mystery!"

   Waiting for "Duke's Feather" and "Duke's Leap" to become more and more knights, the increase in fighting spirit will become stronger and stronger.

   Sooner or later, he will be able to evolve into a 4-ring dragon beast with a small pocket.

   At that time.

   You can see the posture of the dragon.

  Maybe it is also possible to decipher the mystery of the original blood in the spirit beast from the 4th ring dragon beast, trace back to the real sacred ancient dragon, and then spy on the 10th ring environment.

   Thinking a little far.

  Duke withdrew his reverie and decided to be more pragmatic: "Xiao Yi, make a research plan for phantom beasts, and merge the plan with the blood spirit crystal-blood spirit array plan."

   "Good master."

  The discovery in the Axiba tribe allowed Duke to see the natural formation created by nature—the blood spirit formation, and the product of the blood spirit formation, the blood spirit crystal.

  There is no doubt that the breakthrough of the blood spirit crystal from the spirit beast to the phantom beast is much stronger than the phantom dragon potion.

"This will be a great research. If I can study the artificial preparation method of bleeding spirit crystals, it means that I can mass-produce Eudemons knights." Thinking of this, Duke couldn't help but take a deep breath, "At that time, human beings will be even stronger. .”

  The branded ring allows the achievements of spiritual mysteries such as spirit cards and puppets to sink further into the society, arming ordinary people, especially the Sanhai monks trapped in the 0 ring.

  The production of blood spirit crystals further enhanced the combat effectiveness of the knights.

   "It's equivalent to saying that I will use my own strength to make human combat power undergo a large-scale sublimation!"

  Although arcane mages represent the real power of human beings, there are too few arcan mages to protect a large area. The only choice is to build a town near the spiritual spring and protect an area on a small scale. Most of the area is still primitive and wild.

   "The combat effectiveness of a 2nd-level Eudemons Knight can match that of a 1st-level Arcane Mage... If blood spirit crystals can be mass-produced, wouldn't it be equivalent to mass production of a 1-level Arcane Mage?"

  (end of this chapter)