Chapter 192 Rapid Improvement (Two chapters in one)

Facing Brigadier General Parricks's cursing words, none of the strong men around dared to say a word or talk to him. They all looked around without looking away, as if they were concentrating on their vigilance work.

This made Brigadier General Parricks quite bored.

"Who?" A strong man looked at the dark coast with a burning gaze and whispered.

After a while, a thin man in leather armor appeared. After seeing Parricks, he bowed respectfully and said, "Brigadier General, I am the support sent by Lord Maggis."

"Since the original base has been destroyed, Lord Maggis helped find a new base this time. It is also in the Wild Wolf Hills, but the location has changed. It is at the original base of the Wild Wolf Bandits."

"Their main force was just destroyed today. According to reliable information, it was the same person who destroyed our base."

"Hmm? Tell me in detail." Brigadier General Parricks, who heard this, looked at the thin man with interest and said.

Before he came, he had received information about the entire Meister County from Maggis. At the same time, the intelligence also pointed out in detail the biggest suspect in the destruction of the base - a newly promoted baron named Ryan.

In Maggis's view, if he wanted to raise the banner of the Zalar resistance army in Meister County again, Ryan was the best person to sacrifice.

However, in the eyes of Brigadier General Parricks, he came to Meister for more important things to do, and he disagreed with Maggis's suggestion.

The Ryan mentioned by the other party was just a "small gravel" that could be crushed with one foot.

Maggis, come on, just a high-level secret agent, the vision is too narrow!

"This. Brigadier General, I just heard the news. It is said that Ryan killed Giovanni, the president of the Wilderness Brotherhood, and a group of Wild Wolf Bandits outside the city of Meister County."

"Huh? This Ryan again?"

"That. What, Wilderness Brotherhood? President? Is he very strong?" Parricks said with a puzzled look on his face.

"A mysterious organization in Meister. The leader Giovanni's strength is only below the Grand Knight." The leather armor man explained.

"Only below the Grand Knight? That means Giovanni is not a Grand Knight yet?"

"You are right, Brigadier General."

"Hehe, how long did it take Ryan to kill this leader?"

"They were evenly matched and fought for a long time."

"Hehe, next time don't make a fuss about this kind of news. The focus you need to pay attention to is the people with the strength of the Grand Knights in Meister, understand?" Parricks said with a disdainful chuckle.

"Yes, Brigadier General!"

-

In the study of Ryan's new mansion in Meister County City.

The conversation between Ryan and Hamilton continued.

"The biggest difference between the Grand Knight and the Knight is the secondary evolution of the body and the use of the Force."

"When we are in the Knight stage, as our training gradually deepens, generally when we are at the peak of the Knight, the Force will gradually begin to be generated in our bodies, but at this time, we cannot control it freely."

Hmm?

Hearing this, Ryan couldn't help but feel a little confused.

He can control it freely now. Hamilton's statement seems to have some problems.

However, Ryan did not interrupt him, but chose to continue listening.

He only heard Hamilton continue to say:

"Why can the Great Knight's combat power crush the Knight? The key point is that the Great Knight can mobilize the Force to cover the whole body and weapons, thereby greatly enhancing its own combat power and defense."

After listening to Hamilton's explanation, Ryan's doubts not only did not decrease, but increased.

After thinking about it, Ryan asked:

"Lord Hamilton, is there anyone who can freely control that trace of the Force in the Knight stage?"

"Yes, this usually only appears in people with excellent will or belief, such as the peak knight who devotes himself to the long sword. It is possible to freely control that trace of the Force to fight."

"In the Knight stage, this kind of person who can exert the extraordinary combat power of the long sword will be called a swordsman. The swordsman has the lethality comparable to the Great Knight, but the gap in defense is too big."

That's it!

That's right, what Hamilton just said is basically consistent with what Master Gunther said. At the same time, the system's job transfer prompt also proves this point.

Is it comparable to the killing power of the Great Knight?

Ryan recalled the scene of killing the offshore plesiosaur and the scale-whiskered ironback turtle. Indeed, the great sword blessed by faith and the Force seemed to have the feeling of being able to cut through everything.

"Sir, what you just said, the Great Knight can mobilize the Force and attach it to the long sword to fight, so what is the difference between this and the Great Sword Master?" Ryan asked again.

Ryan had guessed about this answer before, and this time he asked Hamilton just to confirm it.

Hamilton shook his head and said, "It's different. You can understand that the Great Sword Master is the most special group of people among the Great Knights."

"Their long swords are not only attached to the Force, but also their faith. It is a strange combination of faith and the Force, with extraordinary killing power!"

Sure enough, Ryan nodded slightly, which was almost the same as what he thought before.

Now, he had one last question: "Sir, regarding the high-level potion, the beast essence, are there any differences in the extraordinary properties, or other considerations?"

You know, advanced potions have many considerations.

Hearing this question, Hamilton smiled and said:

"This is a good question. In fact, long before the emergence of high-level potions such as the beast essence, there were people who could successfully advance from a knight to a great knight. It's just that the number is very small, almost one in a hundred!"

"Once the forced breakthrough fails, the consequences will be death or injury."

"But with the help of high-level potions such as the giant beast essence, the success rate is much higher, almost reaching a level of ten to one. At the same time, the sequelae of the failed impact are relatively weakened."

"In this regard, the giant beast essence is different from the advanced potion. As a high-level potion, its main function is to provide sufficient energy for your body to evolve to a higher level."

"The essence of secondary evolution is to strengthen your original extraordinary characteristics and gradually root them in your blood. This process will not generate new extraordinary characteristics."

Ryan suddenly realized, that's it!

No wonder the advanced potion for entering the official knight is so precious, it turns out that the root is here.

"So, the evaluation of the quality of a giant beast essence mainly depends on how much special evolutionary substances it contains, right?" Ryan thought about it and came to a conclusion.

Hamilton looked at Ryan with approval and said, "That's right! But the more powerful the beast, the more evolutionary substances can be extracted from its heart."

"But in fact, Ryan, the most critical or difficult thing to become a great knight is to use extraordinary will to control your body, otherwise, the promotion will inevitably fail."

Ryan nodded.

Then, he thought of the fact that whether he was promoted to a great knight or a weapon master, the system had no restrictions on the expression of the essence of the beast, just having it was enough.

In other words, as long as he had the essence of the beast, he would definitely become a great knight, and the quality of the essence of the beast was completely irrelevant.

This is the greatest significance of cheating!

Having = success!

"My lord, I need to trouble you to contact Colonel Connor for something. I have a heart of a beast here. I would like to trouble the masters of the military or the Royal Pharmacist Association to help me make a bottle of the essence of the beast."

Ryan said as he handed the box of the heart of the beast from the offshore plesiosaur to Hamilton.

"Hmm? You have the heart of a giant beast?" Hamilton was shocked again, but he soon regained his composure. After all, Ryan killed Giovanni, so it was not surprising that he got a heart of a giant beast.

"Well, I happened to get one when I went to Rossby County this time." Ryan smiled and said.

"Okay! I will contact Connor as soon as possible." Without much hesitation, Hamilton agreed.

Hamilton, who was about to leave, suddenly stopped and turned around and said, "Ryan, there is something. Forget it, I will tell you after you duel."

-

At the same time.

In a luxurious mansion in Meister County, in the dim underground hall.

The Black Flame Monk Maral was sweating and reporting: "Master Priest, it's not good. Master Giovanni's action failed, and Master Giovanni himself was killed on the spot by Ryan!"

"What, Giovanni is dead?" The fat master priest stood up from the wide chair with a "whoosh" and immediately asked back.

"Yes, sir!" Maral lowered his head and answered.

It was the first time he saw the officiant with such an out-of-control expression. He saw the officiant's fat body slowly paced in the underground hall and murmured:

"How is this possible? With Giovanni's speed, even if he can't beat him, he should be able to escape smoothly!"

"Officiant, there is another piece of news." Maral looked constipated. Although he knew that the officiant would be even angrier if he said it now, he still chose to say it.

"Huh?" The officiant's fat body stopped and looked at Maral suspiciously, with a sense of scrutiny, as if asking, "Do you have worse news than Giovanni's murder?"

"That. After killing Giovanni, Ryan sent his body directly to the temple of the Monsoon and Ocean Goddess Church." Maral spoke softer and softer.

Because the officiant's pale face suddenly became ruddy.

Maral knew that this was obviously not a good thing. This was a manifestation of the officiant's extreme anger!

"Boom!"

The High Priest had a ferocious face, stretched out his skinny arm, and blasted a large ball of black flame directly into the ground of the underground hall, blowing a big hole.

"Fuck"

"This Ryan, I must kill him!!"

The power of this black flame attack was many times greater than that of ordinary black flame monks, and Maral was so scared that he almost jumped up. It seemed that he was worried that the High Priest would vent his anger on him. Maral immediately said:

"High Priest, perhaps we don't need to take action this time to achieve the goal of killing Ryan."

"Because there is a news that has been widely circulated among the nobles of Meister County. It is said that Baron Norman will have a bloody duel with Ryan next Sunday, and the location is at the duel field in the county city."

"Huh? Is that true?"

"Yes, High Priest." Lamar wiped the sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that the High Priest is in a much better mood now.

"Is it Norman who retired from the Imperial Navy?" The High Priest continued to ask, as if he remembered something.

"Yes, that's the one."

"I remember, didn't he suffer a hidden injury that greatly reduced his strength? His current strength should be worse than Giovanni's! Wouldn't this kind of duel that is bound to fail only encourage Ryan's arrogance?" The chief priest said in a bad tone.

"It's like this, Baron Alonso's news said that Baron Norman's strength has been restored to its peak through secret medicine, and he is now trying to attack the Grand Knight before the bloody duel."

"And once he becomes a Grand Knight, I think this duel will be Ryan's last battle."

"I see." The fat chief priest nodded, and his mood seemed to be much better.

He paced back to the chair in the middle of the hall and said:

"Lamar, since Giovanni has returned to the embrace of the God of Hunting, you will be responsible for contacting the Wilderness Brotherhood."

"This... Master Chief Priest, just now, the headquarters of the Wilderness Brotherhood in the county city has been destroyed by the Monsoon and Ocean Goddess Church." Lamar wiped the sweat from his forehead and said.

"Hmm?" The priest felt like he was on a roller coaster just listening to a report. He suddenly felt angry and had no place to vent. He stared at Lamar with a rather unfriendly look.

"Is this also because of Ryan?" He immediately remembered what Lamar had just said, that Ryan handed Giovanni's body to the Goddess Church, and asked back.

"Yes, Master Priest."

Lamar nodded, and at the same time suggested sinisterly:

"Otherwise, we gather people these two nights and directly attack Ryan's new mansion in the noble district at night? I think even if he can survive, his family will definitely die."

"Not good!" The priest immediately shook his fat head.

He was not stupid. It was impossible for him to sacrifice the entire Black Flame Church in order to avenge Giovanni. To openly take action in the county city would only make the Black Flame Church immediately become the primary target of the Empire and the Goddess Church.

Wouldn't this benefit other forces such as the Poseidon Cult?

"Don't worry, isn't Ryan going to take up a post in the fishing port town? In this case, let the Poseidon Cult deal with him." After a long while, the chief priest seemed to have figured something out, shrank his fat body into the chair, and said calmly.

——The

next day, the beautiful Baroness Crowley got up early and went out in a carriage.

Today was a slightly busy day for Jennifer.

According to what Ryan said to her, the first thing she had to do was to rush to the blacksmith shop and arrange for someone to quietly purchase chromium iron ingots on the market, as well as purchase ice iron ingots or ice iron ore raw stones through multiple channels.

Later, she would go to the Axon Auction House to consult about the purchase of the giant beast essence.

According to the plan agreed upon last night, if the high-level magic potion 'Giant Beast Essence' could be purchased within a week, then even if the cost was high, she would choose to directly purchase a bottle at a premium.

But if the delivery time was after the duel, then there would be no need.

Finally, she had to go to the master of potions, Holland.

At this moment, there was an exquisite wooden box at her feet, which contained a giant beast heart from Ryan, which was also the most important raw material for high-level potions such as the essence of the giant beast.

After Ryan got up, he did not go to the blacksmith shop to upgrade the occupation level of the armorer immediately, but got on the carriage that had been arranged long ago and went to the mansion of Earl Habsburg.

As Ryan had already made an appointment with the earl, the first thing he did after returning to the county city was to report to the earl.

Soon, the carriage arrived smoothly at the door of Earl Habsburg's mansion. Under the guidance of the butler, Ryan soon met Earl Habsburg in the luxurious study.

The earl's gray hair was still combed meticulously, and he was wearing a gray noble hunting suit with gold thread, which was very gentlemanly. On the chest of this hunting suit, there was also a Kaliri bird pattern woven with gold thread.

It can be seen that Earl Habsburg attaches great importance to the honor of the family.

"Good day, Earl!" Ryan bowed respectfully.

When Earl Harris saw Ryan coming in, he put down his pen, raised his head, looked Ryan up and down with a smile, and said, "Ryan, it seems that your training has been effective."

"Not bad, I learned a lot from this training." Ryan smiled.

"Very good, young people should have this kind of constantly upward spirit. It's just right, I calculated the time and you should be back, I wanted to send someone to find you."

"Tell me, Ryan, what do you think about Norman's challenge to you?"

"Although I can't cancel this matter, I can still send you out to perform official duties for a period of time."

Ryan's heart was slightly moved when he heard it. He naturally heard that the Earl was still slightly biased towards him.

But there was no need!

In addition, for such a Norman family that had been sending people to assassinate him, Ryan naturally wanted to eliminate the other party directly.

Normally, Ryan had no good way to deal with the opponent's continuous assassination, but this time the opponent proposed a bloody duel, which, from a certain perspective, just met Ryan's wishes.

Because he thought Jennifer knew that Baron Norman was the backbone of the entire Norman family. When the spine was broken, the end of this family could be imagined.

Ryan shook his head and said, "My Lord Earl, I also want to fight with Baron Norman to see how much progress I have made this time."

Hearing Ryan's refusal, Earl Habsburg shook his head helplessly and said, "Okay! Then follow the glorious tradition of the empire, and you two will settle your grievances in the duel arena."

"Is the time next Sunday? Today happens to be Sunday. I will personally attend in seven days."

"In these seven days, you should prepare for the duel. I will arrange for other people to deal with the fishing port town first. Everything will be discussed after the duel is over."

"Thank you, my Lord Earl!" Ryan bowed slightly to express his gratitude.

An hour later.

Ryan came to the Crowley family blacksmith shop.

In a separate smelting room, a lot of clay and a large pile of chrome iron ingots have been placed on the side. As for the ice iron ingots, there are only four or five of them. However, they will not be used in the short term, so Ryan is not in a hurry.

Since Ryan had tried to continue making the lancer breastplate when he was promoted to armorer, but he only gained 5 points of armorer professional experience at that time, Ryan planned to try to make the related parts of the chrome iron sleeve this time.

The chrome iron sleeve breastplate adopts the idea of ​​integrated molding. It is a layered exquisite breastplate. The craftsmanship is much more complicated than the previous lancer breastplate. Naturally, it is not Ryan's first choice.

Ryan chose the chrome iron sleeve greaves this time, including the calf part, which is made of two chrome iron plates.

In other words, Ryan can imitate the forging process of the lancer breastplate with the witchcraft "Scorching Touch" and quickly make the chrome iron sleeve greaves in a short time.

This also means that he can quickly gain a lot of armorer professional experience.

At this moment, there are seven or eight red-hot chrome iron ingots in the blacksmith's furnace.

Ryan raised his hand and chanted the witchcraft spell of "Scorching Touch" in a low voice.

Soon, a strong red light began to emerge in front of Ryan's palm. For a moment, the free flame energy particles around him were quickly gathering in front of his palm.

With the continuous output of his mental power, the flame of the blacksmith's furnace suddenly jumped up a lot!

And seven or eight iron ingots began to gradually turn red and soften at a speed visible to the naked eye, and turned into molten iron after a few minutes.

Ryan immediately opened a small gate of the blacksmith's furnace and injected the boiling chromium iron liquid into the clay mold made in advance.

After cooling, Ryan took out the two original pieces of shin armor from the clay mold, picked up the blacksmith's hammer, and began to hammer.

Due to the improvement of strength, agility and physique, Ryan hammered more easily than before. Soon, he spliced ​​the front and back two pieces of chromium iron parts together to form a whole piece of shin armor.

At this time, the system prompt appeared:

[You forged the chrome iron greaves, and your understanding of the related skills improved! ]

[You learned a new skill - greaves forging]

[Your skill greaves forging was improved, experience points +24]

[You focused on the chrome iron greaves forging, armorer professional experience points +28]

Ryan's eyes lit up!

Not bad, just as he expected.

After choosing the chrome iron set, which is a higher level than the spear cavalry in "Crowley's Armor Forging Outline Volume 1", the armorer's experience point increase speed has also greatly increased.

In addition, Ryan felt that when he was forging the greaves, he had an inexplicable sense of the current success rate of armor forging.

This should be the effect of "Armor Forging Expertise LV1", which slightly improved his success rate of armor forging.

After thinking about it, Ryan quickly asked everyone in the blacksmith shop to help make about ten paired clay molds (one left and one right for the greaves).

Afterwards, Ryan cast the witchcraft "Scorching Touch" again and again, and started the continuous smelting and forging mode!

The system also prompted almost all the time.

In the whole day, except for returning home at lunch time, Ryan spent almost all his time in the blacksmith shop.

Although it was hard work, the results were also remarkable. Within a day, Ryan's armorer professional level was upgraded from lv1 to lv2.

And Ryan also received an upgrade reward of 1 attribute point and 1 skill point.

After dinner, the beautiful woman who had been busy outside for nearly a day came to the blacksmith shop and found Ryan.

"Jennifer, from your expression, it seems that things are not going very well?" Ryan, who was forging greaves, looked up and saw the unhappy beautiful woman.

"Well, there is a bottle of ready-made behemoth essence at the Axon Auction House, but Lennon, the head of the auction house, said that it was just reserved by someone yesterday."

"I negotiated for a long time, but I couldn't get it even with a 30% premium." The beautiful woman said this, a little discouraged.

"Oh?" Ryan's mind turned, and he had already guessed who the reservation was. It was probably not Norman or Alonso.

However, it didn't matter.

"What about Master Holland?" Ryan asked.

"The other party agreed to make it, but Master Holland received a batch of urgent orders yesterday, saying that he would have time to make it for us in half a month." The beautiful woman said helplessly.

"Is that so? It doesn't matter. Let Master Holland help us make it." Ryan thought for a while and said.

"Huh?" Jennifer looked at Ryan with a pair of beautiful eyes in surprise.

She thought Ryan would choose to give up. After all, this time node could not catch up with the time of the bloody duel. It was a full week late.

"Don't worry, I have an arrangement!" Ryan said with a smile.

Ryan had expected this situation yesterday.

After learning from Hamilton that the swordsman's combat power was comparable to that of a great knight, Ryan had an arrangement in his mind.

If he upgraded the giant bear swordsmanship and Tokkar hammer skills to level 10, his strength was even stronger than that of the swordsman. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to call him a 'quasi-great swordsman'.

No, to be precise, it should be a 'quasi-weapon master'.

If he adds the supernatural characteristics of 'Iron Skin lv3' and the killer feature of 'Recovery after adding attribute points', Ryan feels that even if Norman enters the Great Knight, he still believes in himself and will definitely defeat him!

It's not that he is too confident, but this point can be seen from the fact that Giovanni, whose strength after transformation is comparable to that of a Great Knight, was still killed by him.

——

"What? You said that Ryan was in the blacksmith shop all day?" Alonso was stunned when he heard the news.

"Yes, many people have seen this, and it can't be faked." Butler Michelle didn't understand either.

"Dongdongdong!" A thin man in leather armor walked in and quickly reported:

"My lord, last time you asked me to keep an eye on Baroness Crowley, she just went to the Axon Auction House this morning and stayed for a long time. However, I don't know what the specific content of the discussion is."

"In addition, in the afternoon, she turned to Holland Potion Master."

"Huh?" Baron Alonso immediately turned his head to look at Michelle beside him.

After the two looked at each other, they laughed. Baron Alonso said with a smile: "Look, it turns out that this Ryan deliberately confused us, but secretly asked the Crowley family to help him achieve his real goal."

"Michel, what do you think Ryan wants to buy at the Axon Auction House?"

Michel smiled and said, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be the 'Behemoth Essence'."

"That's right!"

"Fortunately, you have contacted the Axon Auction House in advance yesterday."

"As for Master Holland, naturally, they will only get their turn after they have made the Behemoth Potion for us."

Thinking that he had predicted Ryan's plan, Alonso laughed very happily!

And Michel also had an expression of winning.

Because he handled these two things personally.

-

On the third day, Ryan's armor forger was upgraded to level 3.

On the fifth day, it was upgraded to level 4!

At this point, the remaining attribute points on the system panel reached 6, and the remaining skill points reached 5.

However, the experience value of the chrome iron greaves began to drop drastically after Ryan's armorer entered level 4.

Ryan knew that if he wanted to continue to improve quickly, he had to change to a more advanced knight plate armor set.

However, the problem that hindered him was that the number of ice iron ingots did not seem to be enough. There were only more than ten pieces at present, plus the unsmelted ice iron ore, which seemed not enough for Ryan to upgrade his armorer to level 5.

(End of this chapter)