Chapter 304 Opening (Two chapters in one)

Ryan looked out through the carriage window and saw that there were rows of houses on both sides of the street.

Most of these houses have reliefs of various sizes on the exterior walls, and the styles are exquisite. Because this is in the administrative district, most of the administrative departments are located here.

This is also the second time Ryan has climbed the stairs from Leavenworth Street.

The last time, Ryan and Veronica walked up.

Thinking of this, Ryan couldn't help but think of the pretty figure of the girl with twin ponytails. I wonder how she is doing on the front line of the fishing port town? When can she return to the branch smoothly?

"By the way, Your Excellency Olena, how is the situation in the fishing port town?" Ryan asked.

"The situation is not very good. At present, the branch has arranged a lot of assignments. A considerable number of sword-bearing teams have been mobilized to rush to the coastal areas of Rossby County and Meister to perform tasks." Olena frowned slightly and said.

"Hmm?" Ryan raised his eyebrows, quite puzzled.

This situation was really beyond his expectation.

He originally thought that after the last time that Her Royal Highness Menia, the Red Queen, severely damaged the three-headed sea dragon, the subsequent situation should be one-sided. Why is it that the situation has changed again now?

"How could this happen? Isn't Her Royal Highness Menia over there?" Ryan couldn't help asking.

"Well, Her Royal Highness Menia actually left secretly a week ago and returned to the Imperial Capital."

"And the entire Imperial South Sea Fleet has now strategically contracted. Sir Ryan, for now, this news is still confidential, please keep it confidential." After thinking about it, Olena lowered her voice and said.

After all, the contraction of the South Sea Fleet's defense involves tens of thousands of naval officers and soldiers. To a certain extent, it is impossible to conceal it. It is nothing more than controlling the speed of transmission.

"What? At this critical moment, Her Royal Highness Menia actually returned to the Imperial Capital? What happened in the Imperial Capital?" Ryan was slightly startled when he heard the news.

This kind of transfer or returning on its own was too unusual, which made Ryan's bad premonition even stronger.

It felt like a storm was coming and dark clouds were pressing down on the border.

"I'm not sure about this." Olena shook her head slightly and said.

"If that's the case, why didn't I receive any assigned tasks?"

"Well, Admiral Edward meant that Sir Ryan, you have just completed so many gold-level tasks, so you naturally need a relatively long rest time."

Before Ryan could say anything, Olena continued:

"Sir Ryan, there is another piece of news that you may pay attention to."

"The last outbreak of the evil spirit in the oil painting, after disappearing for a week, began to break out in many county towns in the province a few days ago, and the number of casualties has increased each time." "

At present, any form of art exhibition has been banned in the entire Munster province, and we have also sent a team of gold-level sword bearers and the elite of the Goddess Church to jointly track down the whereabouts of the oil painting."

"Has it appeared again? Has a giant evil spirit appeared?" Ryan frowned.

"Not yet. The news reported so far are all about normal-sized little boy evil spirits." Olena shook her head and said.

Ryan nodded.

He was the first to fight against the evil spirit clone, so he naturally knew how difficult it was.

If the little boy evil spirit did not merge, it would be difficult for him to completely eliminate it, unless he found the mysterious oil painting.

In addition, since he knew that Archbishop Gomes of the Goddess Church was assassinated almost at the same time that night, the two things were connected and the direction was very clear.

The Black Flame Church must be behind the evil spirit of the oil painting.

They used the giant evil spirit to attract some of the high-end forces of the Goddess Church, and took the opportunity to assassinate the archbishop, catching the Goddess Church off guard.

Now they are frequently appearing in various counties with oil paintings, and seem to be accumulating strength.

"The storm is coming!" Ryan thought to himself.

At this time, the carriage had arrived at the Temple of the Monsoon and Ocean Goddess, which Ryan had seen from afar before.

As a cathedral at the provincial level, the temple in front of us is more magnificent than the church in Meister County.

The top of the tall and majestic temple is full of pointed arches. Although there are still several Ionic columns at the main entrance, the number is much less than that of the county-level temple.

On the contrary, there are a large number of reliefs and statues as decoration, which is more exquisite.

Following the sight from the steps of the temple, going down the steps, there is also an oval fountain in the square at the bottom.

In the center of the fountain is a female statue about five or six meters high holding a conch, and around it are statues dressed as Knights Templar, priests, etc., praising, bowing or kneeling, with different postures.

The ding-dong spring water keeps leaking out of the conch held by the goddess, forming a small waterfall, rushing down.

The defenses around are quite strict, with a guard every five steps and a sentry every ten steps. Obviously, after the assassination of the archbishop, the temple has strengthened its defense again.

Following the notification and confirmation, Ryan and Olena soon came to the reception room of the temple under the guidance of a temple guard.

The two did not wait long in the reception room of the temple. A few minutes later, a red-bearded old man, only about 1.5 meters tall, walked in quickly with a frown, muttering something.

"Young man, it was you who defeated the giant axe golem guard. You are quite strong!" Before Olena introduced him, the other party took the initiative to greet Ryan, his voice like a bell.

"Thank you Master Mogaro for the compliment." Ryan bowed slightly.

It was their first meeting, and Ryan was quite curious about Mogaro's height and his appearance that was obviously different from that of ordinary humans.

"Hey, why didn't you bring your war hammer? I saw that the wound on the giant axe golem guard should be caused by some advanced hammer technique."

Then, before Ryan could speak, Mogaro waved his hand, indicating that Ryan did not need to explain, and continued:

"Forget it if you didn't bring it. By the way, I heard that you wanted to talk to me? I'm busy dismantling the golem, so the time I can give you is limited, at most ten minutes."

Ryan

couldn't help but glance at Olena.

Sure enough, she has a weird temper. No wonder Olena wanted to give herself a shot of prevention.

In this case, Ryan also decided to get straight to the point and said:

"Master, I want to go to your school to study for a while. I heard that you are a metal puppet master. I wonder if I can choose you as my mentor."

"Sorry, I don't plan to accept more disciples.

" "Besides, the people who come here with swords only stay in the school for a few months or half a year, and they can't learn anything too complicated." Mogaro's head immediately shook like a rattle.

"Of course, this only represents my personal opinion. You can ask other masters."

Hearing the other party's answer, Ryan couldn't help but feel depressed, considering that the other party was the only metal puppet master among the three masters who came this time.

After thinking for a while, Ryan said again: "Master, I am also a metal wizard, so..."

"Hmm?"

"You are also a metal wizard? Aren't you a great knight?" Mogaro, a puppet master with halfling blood, looked at Ryan in surprise and asked back.

Obviously, he began to be interested in Ryan.

Ryan did not answer directly, but smiled slightly, quickly deformed the hardened adamantium on his two arm armors, and cast the first-level metal magic "Metal Barrier".

The next second, three hardened adamantium kite shields appeared on Ryan's body, slowly surrounding

Mogaro. The whole person suddenly froze, his eyes widened, his mouth opened, and his face showed shock and confusion!

After a few seconds, the other party pointed at Ryan tremblingly and said: "How can your metal deformation be so fast!"

"As your innate magic, the metal barrier is cast quickly, which is understandable. But how can your metal deformation be cast so quickly!" Mogaro repeated again with horror on his face.

As a metal wizard, Mogaro naturally saw it clearly. Just now, Ryan did not have any shield in his hand, but only a second later, the metal in his hand was transformed into three kite-shaped shields.

This is not metal deformation, what is it!

He is too familiar with metal deformation.

In other words, metal deformation is widely used in puppetry. It can be said that it is one of the most commonly used magic by wizards who specialize in metal puppet making.

But this magic is easy to learn but difficult to master. Many metal wizards in the school have been using this magic for 20 to 30 years. It takes about one second to transform a steel shield.

But what did he see just now!

The young man in front of him actually transformed three kite-shaped shields at the same time, and what he used was not ordinary steel, but hardened adamantium!

You know, it is much more difficult to transform the same weight of hardened adamantium than ordinary steel.

"Master, I have been practicing this magic recently." Ryan smiled and explained.

Just now, Ryan slightly concealed the casting time of his innate magic, 'Metal Transfiguration'.

He did not deliberately delay the casting of 'Metal Barrier', which was still about 0.25 seconds, but when casting the innate magic 'Metal Transfiguration', it was a little slower, taking about one second.

After all, if the Metal Transfiguration was cast almost instantly, Mogaro, who was also a metal element, would soon find something wrong.

Using Metal Transfiguration as a innate magic was too shocking.

If people mistakenly thought that 'Metal Barrier' was his innate magic, it would be much more normal.

As for why Ryan wanted to show the two metal-type magics he mastered, it was naturally because of the other party's statement just now.

He believed that if he could show strength that the other party recognized, things should turn around.

However

, Ryan did not expect that the two magics he just showed seemed to have shocked Master Mogaro too much.

"Hard training? What kind of hard training can improve the speed of metal deformation to this extent?" Mogaro looked at Ryan with a look of "you are kidding me".

"It has been forty years since I mastered metal deformation, but I still can't perform it as fast as you."

When saying this, Mogaro's eyes were filled with shock, envy, and a hint of dejection.

Hmm?

Ryan was a little confused.

It shouldn't be like this,

but Ryan thought about it and it was normal.

After all, his level 12 witchcraft control level is roughly equivalent to the proficiency that a wizard can obtain by practicing a witchcraft for more than ten or twenty years.

Normally, it is impossible for a wizard to practice only one witchcraft for a long time.

"Moreover, you can transform three sides of the hardened gold kite shield at once!"

"That. Ryan, what is your affinity for metal elements?" Master Mogaro grabbed Ryan's arm excitedly, his face flushed and blood rushing up.

"Well, early nineties." Ryan thought for a moment and said a more conservative number.

The last time it was measured, it seemed to be 93.6, but the problem is that if his steel body talent changes again one day, this value will increase again.

It is not wise to give a very precise value now.

For example, the effect of the dragon bloodline this time may have caused the value to change again.

"Early nineties? No wonder your metal transformation is so powerful! Over ninety, this is a super talent!"

"Super strong witchcraft comprehension ability, super affinity for metal elements, a gifted talent! A gifted talent!!" Looking at Mogaro's appearance, he was almost beating his chest and stamping his feet.

And Olena on the side was also stunned to watch this scene.

But she vaguely remembered that Ryan's metal element affinity was not more than eighty?

How come it was in the early nineties now?

Because Admiral Edward was more concerned about Ryan at the time, so she had learned some information about Ryan.

"No, I have to contact the sect leader immediately for this matter." Mogaro seemed a little impatient.

"Hey, Master Mogaro, this is me." Ryan reminded him kindly.

"You just said you wanted me to be your mentor?"

"No problem, I can promise you now." Mogaro looked at Ryan with a piercing look in his eyes.

"If you have any other requests, just tell me."

Mogaro's face was eager.

He looked like he would not give up until you asked for something.

"This." Ryan looked thoughtful.

He found that the level of strength he showed was a little bit higher.

Because the other party's enthusiasm at the moment made him a little difficult to adapt to.

"It's like this, Master Mogaro, Your Excellency Ryan is a diamond-star sword holder in our branch. You should know about sword holders of this level. They are the pillars of our Munster branch." "

So, during the period of further study in your school, you may receive some outbound missions from time to time." Olena said at the right time.

"What! Such a precious imperial research talent, your Munster branch actually wants him to go out to perform dangerous tasks?" Mogaro said angrily.

"What the hell! I will definitely complain to your Sword Bearer Headquarters about this."

Olena was embarrassed!

"Hey Master Mogaro, actually, this is my initiative, and it has nothing to do with the branch." Ryan had to interrupt the other party.

"Well, okay."

"I have just understood that during the study period, you may have to go out to perform tasks. Although the school has not had such an exception before, because in my opinion, this will affect your studies."

"But you are different, I can make an exception for you on this point."

"Any other requests?" Mogaro asked again.

Ryan and Olena looked at each other and shook their heads.

"Then come back to the school with me now!"

"Now?" Ryan said in surprise.

This is too urgent.

"Maybe not now, Master Mogaro, tomorrow His Excellency Ryan will attend the Viscount Awarding Ceremony of the Province of Munster."

"Viscount? It seems that you have made a lot of contributions to the empire. You are a Viscount at such a young age." Mogaro couldn't help but look at Ryan again and sighed.

"You are really young and promising! This is a good thing, I can't stop you."

"Okay, wait until you finish the awarding, I will also finish here, then we will return to the school together."

"Okay, Master Mogaro." Ryan nodded.

When Ryan and Olena left the Goddess Church, they didn't expect that this time would be so dramatic.

This made Olena secretly glance at Ryan in front of her again, and sighed in her heart, 'Sure enough, strength is the key factor in changing other people's views! '

Ryan returned to the branch and opened the door to see that his team members, Neoro, Evelyn and others, were still exchanging some combat experience in the training room.

Seeing Ryan coming back, everyone greeted him.

After thinking about it, Ryan naturally told everyone that he might go to the Bixiu Construction School for further study.

"Captain, it is naturally a good thing for you to go to the Wizard School for further study, but there is a problem. If you are not there, I am afraid that some of the assigned tasks will be too much for us to handle." Neoro frowned and said. When

the others heard this, they were all thoughtful.

Ryan knew that Neoro was not shirking his responsibility, but because he was the captain of the Diamond-level Sword Bearers, the difficulty of the tasks assigned to him was at least gold-level.

If he was not there, it would be difficult for Neoro and his team to successfully complete the gold-level tasks. After all, they had just joined the Sword Bearers and had not been here for long.

"Don't worry, I will rush back once there is a mission. I have already communicated with the school about this." Ryan patted Neoro on the shoulder and said.

"That's no problem. By the way, why did you choose the Bixiu Construction School? I heard that this is a wizard school that is more research-oriented." As a scroll master and a member of a marquis family, Neoro has heard of some wizard schools in the empire.

"Neoro, you forgot that the captain is a metal wizard, and the Construction School should have the metal wizardry that the captain wants to master." Angus said with a smile.

"Yes, the stock of metal magic is scarce, and it should be one of the few schools compared to the Construction School." Neoro's face suddenly realized.

"Yes." Ryan nodded.

"By the way, you may need to pay special attention to the situation in the city recently. I always have some bad premonitions."

As he said that, Ryan told everyone about the reappearance of the evil spirit in the oil painting.

"It seems that the cult will probably do something big next!"

"By the way, Captain, speaking of this, we haven't had a good battle drill yet." Vieri said.

"Well, you reminded me." Ryan nodded.

He had always been fighting alone before, and recently he was either busy improving his extraordinary combat skills or upgrading the professional level of the Great Armorsmith (Extraordinary). Therefore, since Neoro and his men joined, the entire team has not really conducted coordinated training.

This is still very necessary.

Apart from other things, just this scroll of Neoro can bless him with a lot of gain-type witchcraft.

For example, Swift Wind can increase his speed by nearly 20%.

Starting from the next morning, the administrative district, church district, noble district and upper city district of the entire Munster were decorated with lights and colors, and they were full of joy.

Although the number of people promoted to baron and viscount every year is not large, there are nearly a hundred people in the entire Munster province.

Among them, nearly half of them came from noble or wealthy families in the provincial capital of Munster, so there were quite a few nobles who were directly and indirectly affected by this ceremony.

In addition, nobles above the baron of Munster also received invitations to watch the ceremony.

Ryan wanted to invite his mother Emma and father Ryan to attend, but his mother Emma always felt that the two might embarrass her son in terms of image, so she turned down her son's kindness.

Instead, the beautiful women Jennifer and Jenny accompanied Ryan to the banquet.

In terms of nature, the ceremony of awarding honors is more of a symbol, and the evening exchange banquet is the focus.

Because at the banquet, the newly promoted barons or viscounts can communicate with the old nobles, and at the same time, young men and women can also release hormones.

At about five o'clock in the afternoon, the sun set.

There was a lot of traffic at the entrance of the magnificent administrative hall.

Ladies and young ladies in various dresses came in droves, but even in this environment, the beautiful woman Jennifer beside Ryan was one of the most eye-catching ones.

"Hi, Lord Ryan!"

"Lord Ryan, long time no see!"

Many people greeted Ryan, because most of the young sword bearers were awarded the title of baron, including Angus, Evelyn and others.

Among the sword bearers, Ryan, the 'Maest Battering Ram' who knocked down the obsidian giant with one hammer, was naturally famous.

A quarter of an hour later, hundreds of nobles and their families of all levels in Munster, dressed in their best clothes, gathered under the stage. Representatives of the Goddess Church, representatives of sword bearers and so on also attended the ceremony.

Ryan also saw the special envoy Javier, but Admiral Edward did not come.

At the same time, Ryan also saw the supreme ruler of the entire Munster Province for the first time - the Duke of Munster.

The other party was a spirited old man with gray hair, dressed in aristocratic dress, with a calm aura and awe-inspiring without anger.

Just as the Duke of Munster was about to step forward to give a speech, a man dressed like a personal guard walked over quickly and whispered a few words in his ear. Suddenly, the Duke of Munster's face became ugly.

Since Ryan was awarded the title of Viscount, his seat was arranged in the third row at the front. With his super perception, he could vaguely hear a few key words such as "giant evil spirit" and "cult".

This made Ryan narrow his eyes.

"Could it be that the cult chose this time to take action?" Ryan thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)