Richard followed Celes all the way to his office.

"Richard, when did you become hostile to the Soto family?" Celes looked at Richard with a worried look on his face.

After that, he briefly described the power of the Soto family within the Ignis School.

"The Soto family?"

When Richard first heard this name, he was still confused! He did have many enemies, but he had no impression of the Soto family.

But I seem to have seen or heard it somewhere.

Celes glanced at Richard unhappily:

"Richard, they have come to me. The most promising heir of the other family was killed by you in the Norman Secret Territory. His name is Robert Soto. They want to let this matter go as long as you are willing to apologize."

"Robert Soto?"

After Richard chewed it several times, he suddenly realized who it was.

The image of a short young man with a sinister face who was killed by him instantly appeared in his mind.

But immediately, Richard was amused by the shamelessness of the Soto family.

"Teacher, five months ago, the other party first attacked me in the Norman Secret Realm, so I fought back and killed him!"

"What? It was the other party who attacked you first?" Celes looked surprised. Obviously, he had no doubt about what his proud disciple said.

Obviously, Celes really didn't know the details of this matter.

Raymond Soto came to him in the morning and told him that his new favorite disciple had killed one of the most outstanding descendants of their Soto family in the Norman Secret Realm.

So, let him negotiate on his behalf and let Richard prepare compensation and apology.

As Richard was telling the story, he observed Celes's expression. As soon as he opened his mouth, he knew that Celes didn't know the whole story.

He immediately told Celes the whole story in detail. Apart from some secret contents, it was basically the same as the facts.

After hearing this, Celes was furious! "The Soto family is too much. They wanted to be someone else's lackey when their descendants were obviously killed by you. They even bit you back and demanded compensation. It's really shameless."

"Richard, don't worry, I will definitely support you on this matter."

"However, the Soto family is deeply rooted in the Ignis School. Even if I come forward, they may not necessarily give me this face. So, if you reject them this time, they will definitely make things difficult for you in other places."

"Don't worry, Master Celes, I won't mind the other party's little tricks."

Of course Richard understood what Celes meant. It was not wise for him to confront the other party head-on, so his mentor hoped that he would be patient.

the next day.

After finishing the second puppetry course, Richard's communication mark suddenly vibrated. He used his mental power to probe and found that the three advanced knowledge he had provided had already been reviewed by the school.

However, the three advanced knowledge were only exchanged for a total of 1,750 points.

This was less than the worst case scenario Richard had expected, which made Richard very depressed.

Except for the first-level rare witchcraft model - Death Surround, which was exchanged for 1,000 points, the remaining two items did not meet Richard's expectations.

The basic puppetry knowledge, which includes several elementary puppet making recipes, was only exchanged for 350 points.

The school gave two reasons. First, there was a lack of key knowledge related to the core of primary control. Second, primary puppetry knowledge was of little use to formal wizards.

This immediately made Richard frown a little!

The reviewer is a bit short-sighted!

You have to know that this is a systematic and complete subject knowledge. With this foundation, as wizards and wizard apprentices who are interested in this continue to add bricks and tiles, the subject of puppetry will develop rapidly.

By then, puppetry might become one of the key subjects of the Ignis School, different from the other two undead wizard academies.

Therefore, it was difficult for Richard to understand why the school's reviewers only gave 350 points.

At the same time, the Alchemical Combination Bomb was only exchanged for 400 points.

This is a world of difference from the price previously offered by the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood in Toug City.

This immediately resulted in a not-too-small gap in the points, which made Richard a little depressed.

Now, let alone exchanging skeletons, even the points required to exchange the three first-level witchcraft models that were previously budgeted for are currently insufficient.

Just when Richard was feeling unhappy, the communication mark on his chest vibrated twice again.

It was a message from mentor Ceres.

"The Soto family knew that you were submitting advanced knowledge, so they intervened and reduced the value of your advanced knowledge by about 30%."

After seeing this message, Richard couldn't help but get furious and his expression instantly turned ugly.

This Soto family thought I was afraid of them!

However, now that the opponent had used this shady trick, Richard had no good way to counter it immediately.

Exhaling heavily, Richard suppressed the anger in his heart.

After pondering for a moment, he made a decision immediately. He decided to adjust the original plan first and quickly convert the points into strength.

As for the Soto family, there will always be a chance to find their weaknesses or flaws in the future.

No chance?

Then create opportunities! Death Ray must be redeemed, which is 900 points.

The second is Shadow Teleport. To Richard, Shadow Teleport means more to him than Bone Shield. It requires 550 points to redeem it.

From a certain perspective, after Richard learned the lingering death energy and the innate witchcraft magic armor, the urgency of the bone shield was not very high.

Because the sum of the above two is equivalent to an enhanced version of the bone shield.

So, from this perspective, the exchange of bone shields can be postponed! Richard decided to first get the most important raw material for making blood bone puppets - extraordinary human skeletons.

Among the three extraordinary humanoid skeletons, Richard's favorite was obviously the ancient troll skeleton with the highest price.

Although the right hand of the ancient troll skeleton is still missing, its selling price of 300 points is still the highest among the three.

The above three items, Death Ray, Shadow Teleport and Ancient Troll Skeleton, consumed a total of 1,750 points. Looking at the remaining 100 points on the inner wall of the seal ring, Richard shook his head. The above three items just offset the three advanced knowledge he submitted.

The points returned to the initial 100 points.

In an alchemy laboratory underground in the Ignis School.

At this moment, Richard was drawing energy channels on the inside of the ribs, spine and brain of the ancient troll skeleton.

Soon, with the energy core installed, the second step of making the blood-bone puppet was completed by Richard with extraordinary skill and speed.

After pondering for a moment, Richard decided to install the high-level magic stone instead of the magic crystal on the prismatic slot of the energy core.

Although this will slightly reduce the combat effectiveness and burst of the Blood Bone Puppet, it should be enough for now!

Richard planned to use the only two magic crystals at a critical moment.

"Alas! In the end, we are still poor!"

Richard couldn't help but smile helplessly.

The next step was the third step, the necromancy plus the bone demon reincarnation ritual! Richard skillfully drew the bone demon reincarnation magic array under the tall and thin body of the ancient troll warrior. As Richard's low incantation sounded, the dark element energy in the air was quickly gathered together, and the entire alchemy room was filled with strong dark element energy vibrations.

With the coordination of the necromancy and witch formation that had already reached its limit, it instantly attracted the attention of many souls in the world of the dead.

After searching for a long time, Richard finally found the right troll soul. As a dazzling green light flashed, a special aura began to permeate the ancient troll warrior skeleton.

A few seconds later, two balls of deep green soul fire suddenly burned in the empty eye sockets in the troll's skull.

With the sound of bones rubbing against each other , the skinny ancient troll warrior skeleton, which was two and a half meters tall, slowly stood up. At the same time, changes were constantly happening around it!

Bone spurs were seen extending outward from every joint of his body, especially from the elbows of his left and right hands, where each of them extended a bone blade that was one and a half meters long.

The white bone blade flashed with cold light and looked extremely sharp!

Richard looked at the ancient troll skeleton in front of him and couldn't help but fall into deep thought. Although the ancient troll skeleton was not as big as the ogre skeleton last time, it seemed more suitable for the production of blood bone puppets.

This made Richard happy, and his mood, which had been cheated by the Soto family before, immediately improved a lot.

Eager to try, he immediately controlled an iron combat puppet to move to the opposite side of the blood-bone puppet, and quickly gave an order for the blood-bone puppet to attack the iron combat puppet.

“Swish swish!!”

A cross of white light flashed by, and the sturdy and durable iron combat puppet was now split into four pieces by the bone blade of the blood-bone puppet and fell to the ground.

The cut is extremely smooth! "Hiss! Sure enough, the power is even greater than the blood bone puppet made from the ogre skeleton before. It seems that the skeleton of the ancient troll is naturally more likely to perform this kind of fast slashing attack."

Richard crossed his arms and rubbed his chin, muttering to himself.

Half an hour later, after completing the test, Richard looked at the new blood-bone puppet in front of him with satisfaction.

After testing, the newly made blood-bone puppet has reached the top level of strength.

With such a blood-bone puppet by his side, Richard's strength can be said to have completely recovered to its previous peak state.

But this is not the end yet.

Today, he will master and quickly improve the level of control over the other two first-level witchcraft models - death ray and shadow teleportation - that he exchanged for points.

[I discovered that the host is practicing the first-level witchcraft death ray. Yes/No, consume energy to gain inspiration to practice the first-level witchcraft death ray? ]

Richard, who had more than 100,000 energy points, dragged the slider to 30,000 without hesitation and selected "Yes!"

After a dizzying moment, Richard's soul came to the dream space. This time he came to an open grassland. When Richard returned to his body again, his control over the first-level witchcraft death ray had reached 98% proficiency.

Repeat this process.

Soon, Richard raised his control over the death ray sorcery to the limit.

Richard, who had pushed his new witchcraft to its limit, thought for a moment and set an iron combat puppet more than ten meters away.

As the short spell sounded, Richard completed the chanting process of this new first-level witchcraft in about half a second.

In just a moment, a large amount of dark element energy quickly gathered at the tip of Richard's right index finger, forming a thick black ball.

"Boo!"

A thumb-sized black beam of light instantly hit the iron combat puppet not far away.

“Puff!”

Just like penetrating a piece of thin paper, the death ray actually completely penetrated the sturdy iron combat puppet. At the same time, after penetrating the chest of the iron combat puppet, the black beam still had enough strength to penetrate a small hole three inches deep in the wall behind it.

"Hiss! Such penetrating power!"

This immediately shocked Richard!

The single-target attack power of the death ray is too strong!

If someone else casts a death ray of the same level, Richard believes that even his magic armor may not be able to withstand it.

After experimenting with the death ray, Richard began to prepare to improve his control over shadow teleportation.

The first-level spell, Shadow Teleport, seems to be the only one among the first-level spells of the shadow system that can instantly change the position of the caster.

The significance of this effect is self-evident!

[I found that the host is practicing the first-level witchcraft Shadow Teleportation. Do you want to consume energy to gain inspiration for practicing the first-level witchcraft Shadow Teleportation? ]

Richard, who still had more than 80,000 energy points, dragged the slider to 40,000 without hesitation and selected "Yes!"

The world spun around, and Richard's soul entered the dream world . This continued over and over again!

Soon, when Richard returned to his original form, he had raised his control over the magic of shadow teleportation to the limit.

Shadow Teleportation uses the caster's current location as the starting point and performs short-distance teleportation in a specified direction. The distance of the teleportation is determined by the strength of the caster's mental power.

Richard has reached the limit of mastering the shadow teleportation. It only takes him half a second to release this sorcery. Moreover, because Richard's mental strength has reached the high level of level one, the teleportation distance has reached more than 30 meters.

It can be said that the mastery of this sorcery has brought about earth-shaking changes in Richard's overall combat mobility.

It even brought about some changes to Richard's entire combat system.

This forced Richard to spend a lot of time and energy to repeatedly test and adjust the combat mode.

evening.

Not long after Richard returned to his villa contentedly, there was a sudden knock on the door.

“Boom boom boom!”

Richard couldn't help but feel a little curious about who would come to see him at this time.

Then, he simply waved his hand while lying on the soft leather sofa, and a black film appeared in front of him. The film changed for a while, and the scene outside the door immediately appeared.

I saw a young girl standing at the door. There was a bone stick on the chest of her gray wizard robe, indicating that she was only a first-level wizard apprentice.

However, Richard immediately realized that he must have seen her somewhere before.

"It seems that the current owner of my former dormitory 861 is her."

Richard vaguely guessed the other party's intention!

He wanted to refuse, but after thinking it over again, he decided to open the door and let the other person in to take a look.

"Master Richard, hello!"

Seeing Richard open the door, the girl at the door greeted him a little nervously.

The huge difference in life levels caused the girl to quickly lower her head after taking a look at Richard, not daring to look directly into Richard's black eyes that were like stars.

The glance they just exchanged made her feel a little dizzy and overwhelmed for a moment! "Come in! Don't be shy."

Richard motioned for the girl to sit anywhere.

"What's the matter with you looking for me?"

(End of this chapter)