Chapter 397 Ironback Undead

"Well, two places, one for the male team member. You tell Claire. As for the interview time, let's put it off until I come back from the mission." Ryan thought for a while and said.

Because since the list of four female team members has been selected, it is not suitable to completely overturn it now. One person must be selected from them.

In addition, it takes time to screen the male team members, so we can only wait until we come back.

All female team members are not suitable. Imagine, for example, after slaying the dragon, he rests on the side, and there must be a strong male team member responsible for skinning and collecting the spoils.

I am afraid that ordinary women are not qualified for this job.

"Okay, Lord Ryan, I will notify them now."

"By the way, help me take this task to kill the lava fire dragon 'Hemados, and by the way, apply to the headquarters for a small airship to carry out the mission."

"Huh? Lord Ryan, are you sure you choose this task?" Olena was stunned.

It was not until now that she realized that Lord Ryan in front of her probably did not listen to what she said two days ago.

"I'm sure." Ryan nodded and said.

"Okay, Lord Ryan." Olena nodded.

Although Olena wanted to say something more, she was very clear about her position. Since she had made all the suggestions she should have made, she only needed to follow orders, rather than continue to make suggestions or question the decision of the chief officer.

Combined with the previous record, Olena had reason to believe that Lord Ryan in front of him should have made the above decision with a high degree of confidence.

"By the way, Lord Ryan, according to the regulations, when the adamantine-level sword bearer team performs a mission, it can mobilize a mithril-level team and two magic iron-level teams to cooperate."

"Do you need to mobilize this time?"

Ryan thought for a moment, waved his hand, and said, "No, just me, Claire and Beyonce."

Considering that this was the first mission after the purge, he didn't want too many people to pay attention to his whereabouts.

In addition, in the battle with the lava dragon, the number of players with lower strength levels is not very meaningful.

"Okay, sir."

After Olena left, Ryan thought for a moment and then set off to the school's residence.

As soon as he entered Mogaro's laboratory, Ryan saw Mogaro dusting his hands and gulping down two gulps of strong liquor, as if he had just completed the final modification of the Hellfire Golem.

Because Audrey and Alicia were polishing the last step.

"Teacher, is the final modification completed?"

Ryan originally wanted to check the progress before going out on a mission, but he didn't expect that the progress of mentor Mogaro exceeded his expectations.

"It's just finished. You came at the right time. Now you can test it." Mogaro said.

"However, driving it once may consume a lot of mental power, at least I can't do it." As if thinking of something, Mogaro added another sentence.

"Okay, teacher, I will pay attention."

The last time Ryan came to check the progress of the Hellfire Golem, he proposed whether one or two small furnace devices could be installed to give the Hellfire Golem a similar "overclocking" ability.

Since converting the power after "overclocking" into the action force of the golem will involve the solidity and durability of most parts and components, the "overclocking" he refers to here is witchcraft overclocking.

That is, by adding one or two small furnace devices and increasing the number of witchcraft inscriptions, the frequency or power of witchcraft release can be increased.

In this way, the entire modification process does not involve the adjustment of the overall parts.

It is easier to modify, otherwise it will be a huge modification project.

This is like modifying a vehicle in the previous life. If you upgrade the 2.0 engine to 4.0 and add a T, the body structure, brakes, etc. almost have to be adjusted accordingly, which is extremely difficult.

But if you just think that the exhaust sound is not cool enough and want to double the volume, it is much easier to do this, just change the exhaust.

No? Add two more speakers.

"Lord Ryan." Seeing Ryan coming, Audrey and Alicia saluted.

"Lord Ryan!"

Seeing Ryan again, Alicia, who was always hot-tempered, also showed some restraint, no longer as unscrupulous as before.

After all, after seeing Ryan's strength, any normal person would remain quite awed.

Ryan nodded slightly at the two women and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

As the spell sounded, Ryan gently pointed, and a khaki light column as thick as a thumb shone on the Hellfire Golem in front of him. It was the lv4 activation spell.

And Ryan also found that the mental power consumed to drive this Hellfire Golem was five times that of the original intermediate combat puppet. If quantified by the mental power given by the system, it consumed about fifty points of mental power.

This is nearly half of his mental power of up to ninety-eight points.

No wonder, normally, to drive a golem to fight, you need to enter the third-level crystal wizard, after all, the golem corresponds to a combat power comparable to the legendary level.

Of course, if it is above the high-level metal affinity, the second-level liquefied peak wizard can barely try.

For someone like Ryan who has a super affinity for metal, the threshold for control can naturally be further lowered. However, this is also close to the limit.

After all, a wizard cannot consume most of his mental power for a puppet. In battle, he must retain a considerable amount of mental power to deal with enemy attacks and cast other witchcraft.

This is why wizards from the Bixiu Construction School cannot rely on combat puppets all over the mountains to sweep the enemy.

Because the more puppets there are, the more mental power is consumed. Instead of doing this, it is better to use mental power to control more powerful puppets.

When the heavy four-meter-tall Hellfire puppet stood up, a surge of energy waves emanated from its body.

"Boom boom boom!"

Since the golem was equipped with an intermediate control core, Ryan only needed to give simple commands, such as attack, and the Hellfire Golem would automatically lock onto the target and conduct a combined attack.

"Attack the iron man target in front." Ryan gave the order.

At this time, the Hellfire Golem immediately rushed towards the target, as if it had determined that this target could be smashed with one punch.

"Stop! Cast a witchcraft attack!" What Ryan wanted to see most was naturally the witchcraft attack ability of the Hellfire Golem.

The two thick breastplates on the left and right chests of the golem suddenly popped open, revealing two black gun barrels. Then, a strong witchcraft aura began to flash in the gun barrels, one red and one black.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

It was about one shot every two seconds. If you add them together, it would be one fireball or shadow arrow per second, dragging a gorgeous tail flame and bombarding the iron man target.

As the smoke cleared, the iron man had already become a pile of red, steaming iron slag.

"Hiss~ This kind of power." Audrey and Alicia were amazed.

If this hit them, they would not be able to hold out for three seconds, and they would be like targets.

"Defense."

After seeing the witchcraft attack of the Hellfire Golem, Ryan issued a defense order.

A red light flashed across the pattern on the surface of the golem, and a shield-shaped red energy shield appeared on its body.

"This is a flame shield, a first-level defense against witchcraft." Mogaro introduced.

"By the way, Ryan, you can try the effect of overclocking." Mogaro smiled mysteriously and said.

"Okay, mentor."

"Overclocking attack!" As Ryan gave the order.

The low roar in the Hellfire Golem suddenly accelerated, as if it was originally an Alto engine, but suddenly the accelerator was stepped on and it became a Ferrari large-displacement self-priming!

"Swish, swish, swish!"

This time, the two black gun barrels on the chest of the golem began to accelerate their attack. Fireballs and shadow arrows were fired every 0.5 seconds, staggered and bombarded the target, just like the machine guns in the previous life.

Audrey and Alicia looked at each other in shock.

"Hiss~ If I can have such a golem someday, I won't have to look for a partner!" Alicia's beautiful eyes widened and she said with envy.

"Alicia, maybe you can talk to Lord Ryan. Lord Ryan may give you one. Even if he doesn't give you a finished product, he will give you a Hellfire Crystal." Audrey listened to Alicia's mumbling and couldn't help but joked.

"Okay, Audrey, you are laughing at me. Why don't you ask Lord Ryan yourself!" Alicia and Audrey immediately started to pull and play quietly.

"Teacher, I am very satisfied. Thank you, you have worked hard." Ryan bowed slightly and said with a smile.

Although he had some other ideas, they would take a lot of time to redesign, change and debug.

These can be discussed after the mission.

In addition, Ryan also had plans to use the higher-level Abyssal Fire Crystal, but unfortunately, even the instructor Mogaro was only a peak first-level wizard.

It was beyond his ability to make a higher-level golem and engrave a higher-level inscription.

This time, it was said that instructor Mogaro put aside his old face and asked several second-level liquefied wizards of the school and the third-level crystal wizard Bradley, the deputy school leader, to help.

"By the way, I used the magicized thorium you provided to reinforce the key parts, which has a relatively strong defense against witchcraft attacks."

"In general, the Hellfire Golem may be a bit reluctant to use it to deal with the legendary level, but it is perfect for dealing with some small fish, even if the opponent has a large number."

Instructor Mogaro concluded.

"There is one more thing. I have set up a self-destruct device in the Hellfire Crystal Furnace. Once a special situation occurs, the three small furnaces will self-destruct at the same time. It is extremely powerful!"

"I think this can be used as a killer weapon for you when necessary. What do you think?"

"Of course, mentor, thank you for your trouble!" At this moment, Ryan felt that he had made the right choice to choose Mogaro as his mentor.

Although Mogaro's strength was not strong, he treated his disciple with all due respect.

"Teacher, I'll take this Hellfire Golem away first. I have a mission later, so I can test it in actual combat." Ryan said goodbye.

"Okay, after the actual combat test, if there is anything that needs to be improved, remember to tell me as soon as possible." Mogaro said with a smile.

At the same time.

In the suburbs of the imperial capital Tamriel, a valley in the southeast corner.

It is adjacent to a small town called Luwad, which is considered the most marginal area of ​​the imperial capital.

In a beautiful manor villa, seven or eight men in robes of various colors are busy around an old man in wizard robes.

It seems that this should be a secret base of a certain organization.

At this time, a middle-aged man in a gray robe, after receiving the old man's instructions, walked quickly along the curved cobblestone path on the west side of the manor. After more than a hundred meters, an unusually hidden cave appeared in front of him.

The middle-aged man in gray robe did not rush in, but bowed slightly at the entrance of the cave and said loudly:

"Sir Staven, we have received the latest news that our target has just accepted a mission at the Sword Bearer Headquarters. If nothing goes wrong, the other party should leave the imperial capital Tamriel soon."

"Oh? What is the specific mission?" Staven, who was meditating with his eyes closed in the cave, said lightly.

Next to him stood a giant strong man who stood like a rock, with a strange giant scorpion in the lower body. It was Staven's legendary stitched monster 'Scorpion Man'.

Behind the scorpion man, there were many tall ghouls emitting bursts of corpse stench. The huge and sharp claws showed their unusual identities.

These were the elite undead under Staven's command - the claw ghouls. Their combat power was far above the ordinary plague ghouls, and they were even more different from those rotten ghouls.

Staven himself did not need to hide in the cave with the concealing magic array, but because this place was close to the imperial capital Tamriel, and the undead servants he brought with him were emitting special energy fluctuations all the time.

He took the initiative to stay in the cave.

"The other party's mission is to kill the lava fire dragon 'Hemados'" The middle-aged man who came to report said with a serious face.

Although his strength is far from that of various dragons, he has also heard of creatures such as fire dragons.

It is said that even compared with real dragons, their strength is only one level lower.

"Do you have any specific information?"

Staven, who heard the news in the cave, suddenly opened his eyes, and a breathtaking light flashed!

The bloodshot in his eyes had long disappeared, as if he had stopped the sleepless experiments during the journey these days, but got a good rest instead.

"Yes, we are ready." The middle-aged man walked in carefully and handed a stack of information to Staven respectfully.

Then, he looked at the terrifying undead creature behind Staven with a little fear, and quickly left the cave.

After Staven took the information, he carefully checked the mission information of the lava dragon 'Hemados'.

After a while, he closed his eyes and thought.

"The other party accepted this mission, which means that the other party is confident, or sure to kill this lava dragon 'Hemados'."

"But even if I face this lava dragon, my chance of winning is less than 40%."

"There are two possibilities. One is that the other party has some special killer weapon to deal with dragon creatures. The second is that your intelligence is wrong! The other party's strength is stronger than the intelligence you gave before."

After speaking, Staven stared at the person in front of him with a cold gaze.

In an instant, the first-level wizard who came to report had cold sweat on his forehead.

After all, there are countless cases of mission failures caused by omissions in intelligence, and this situation is also the most criticized thing for the action personnel.

"Lord Staven, please calm down. I will report right away! Please wait."

As the wizard hurried away, the old man in the manor came in less than three minutes.

Judging from the aura, the other party's strength is about the early stage of the third level crystallization, and he should be the person in charge here.

"Lord Staven, we have repeatedly checked the intelligence of the other party, and it should be true. You mean, even Lord Harold, the 'sculptor', failed to make the other party exert his full combat power?"

"I'm afraid so." Staven nodded.

Before, after reading a crystal that recorded the traces of the battle between Ryan and Harold in the town of Tavlin, Staven determined that although Ryan was strong, he would still not be his opponent.

He judged that if he faced Ryan, he would basically have a 70% chance of winning.

As for Harold's title of the strongest legend, in his eyes, the factor of flattery accounted for more. Especially since the other party was still affiliated with the Isolde School.

Don't forget that the Isodri School and their Tutkarsh School are both in the Cyrodiil Plateau. He is naturally aware of the strength of these earth wizards.

When he became famous, this Harold was just a young man who had just emerged.

"Then Sir Staven, what if I dispatch two more assassin kings of the Black Knife Organization to cooperate with you?" The old man thought for a while and said.

"Not enough, and besides, I am not used to others' cooperation." Staven shook his head and rejected the old man's proposal.

"What do you mean?" The old man couldn't help but look gloomy and said.

"I need something. If I have it, I will have a higher chance of winning."

"What is it?"

"Ironback Undead Breastplate."

"What!" The old man's eyes widened and he took a breath.

As a third-level crystal wizard, he had of course heard of this thing.

But the problem is that this thing is currently sealed in the Cologne Cathedral. It is almost impossible to get it. At least for him, there is no way.

"I need to use it to strengthen the undead under my command. Only in this way can my winning rate exceed 70%."

"You can think about it yourself. If you don't have it, don't blame me if the mission fails." After saying that, Staven closed his eyes and continued to meditate.

"This..." The old man pondered in silence.

After a while, the old man said, "Sir Staven, I have to contact the higher-ups immediately about this matter. Please continue to prepare. I'll take my leave first."

An hour later.

The news that Staven wanted the Ironback Undead Breastplate had been reported to a conservative leader.

"Go do it." A majestic white-haired old man behind the table thought for a moment and made a decision.

"But the Duke's Iron Back Undead Breastplate is currently sealed in the Cologne Cathedral. If you want to take it out, if you send someone to steal it, I'm afraid it will take at least half a month, and it's impossible."

A middle-aged man in a noble hunting suit said with astonishment.

"If you want to get it within half a day, there is no other way except to mobilize the hidden man. I'm afraid this will mean that a hidden man at the level of a bishop will be dismissed."

If the sealed object is lost, someone in the church must be responsible.

"It's too late to change people now, and who do you think can have a higher chance than Staven?" The Duke said in a deep voice.

"But isn't this loss too big?" Another person also frowned.

After all, it is not a simple matter to plant a hidden man at the level of a bishop in the Goddess Church. It requires more than ten years of continuous attention and support. This direct loss is quite distressing even for them.

"Everyone, I think you have all seen the information about Ryan. If it is not contained, I don't want to see another Alfred appear." The Duke looked around and said expressionlessly.

Hearing this, the room instantly became quiet.

After thinking for a while, the other people nodded and said, "Okay, I agree!"

"I agree too."

Less than half a day later, a one-piece breastplate similar to the one worn by ancient Spartacus warriors was delivered to the cave where Staven was.

The breastplate was dark in color, with complicated inscriptions on the surface. As soon as Staven got it, the breastplate flashed with a strong witchcraft aura.

"Very good, I need half a day."

"But Sir Staven, the target has already set off." The middle-aged wizard who delivered the breastplate couldn't help but show an embarrassed expression.

"Prepare the fastest flying mount for me!" Staven waved his hand and said nothing. Staven

first cast a silencing spell, and then he put the breastplate on his stitched monster 'Scorpion Man'. The iron-backed undead breastplate, which was obviously too small, was just right after it was put on.

As the low incantation sounded, the strong shadow energy began to gather towards the scorpion man from all directions.

"Ah!!!"

The upper body of the Scorpion Man, the Brighton warrior with a resolute face and muscles like rocks, let out a painful roar.

This is the process of the Iron-Spine Undead on the breastplate infusing its unyielding will and surging shadow energy into the Scorpion Man's body.

After completion, the Scorpion Man's strength can be increased by about 30%. This is the value of the Iron-Spine Undead Breastplate.

And his Scorpion Man is a forced fusion of two legends. Although his strength has reached the peak of legends, due to the forced fusion, it is easy to find the slight lack of coordination in the battle with the top strongmen and target it.

But with the Iron-Spine Undead Breastplate, it is different.

With the addition of the Iron-Spine Undead's will, his Scorpion Man will not only be perfect, but also his strength will be further improved.

More importantly, through fierce battles, if the three are perfectly integrated into one,

perhaps he can step into the level he has been looking forward to for a long time!

(End of this chapter)