Chapter 301 Promotion and Direction (Two chapters in one)
Sword Bearer Division.
Service counter in the exchange hall.
A tall young man in silver armor stepped forward.
"Hello, how can I help you?" The young girl's eyes lit up when she saw Ryan, and she immediately stood up and said.
"I want to identify an item."
"Okay, sir, please follow me." The girl took Ryan to the lounge on the side.
At this time, the girl continued to ask: "Sir, your item is roughly. A medicine? Or equipment? Or raw materials?"
"Because the items are different and involve different fields, I need to contact different identification masters."
"It should be considered raw materials." Ryan thought for a while and said.
"Okay, sir, if it is raw materials, I recommend Master Dibs of our branch. He is good at identifying raw materials."
"Okay." Ryan nodded.
Ryan didn't care about the selection of identification masters, as long as they could help him answer questions.
"By the way, Lord Ryan, Master Dibs's appraisal fee ranges from 50 to 200 merit points, depending on the preciousness of the specific item. Please take a look at the fee."
"No problem." Ryan nodded.
"Okay, sir, please show me the emblem."
When Ryan handed the other party the crystal emblem, the young staff member was stunned. After taking it with both hands, she looked at Ryan with respect. She smiled sweetly and walked away quickly.
After a while, an old man with gray curly hair and thick yellow beard followed the young staff member in.
"Lord Ryan, this is Master Dibs."
"Master Dibs, this is the captain of the diamond-star sword bearer, Lord Ryan." The girl introduced.
"Huh? The captain of the diamond-star sword bearer?" Dibs's narrowed eyes suddenly widened and looked at Ryan in disbelief.
He originally saw that Ryan was so young, although he could not be said to despise him, but it was true that he did not pay much attention to him in his heart.
"Hello, Captain Ryan." Dibs' attitude immediately became more serious.
"Master Dibs, hello." Ryan bowed slightly and continued, "This time I need your help to identify something."
"This is when I was fighting an enemy."
When Ryan took out a red crystal shaped like a heart from the wooden box, the surprise in Dibs' eyes became even greater.
Dibs carefully raised the red crystal and looked at it carefully. After a while, he said:
"According to what Captain Ryan just said, after the enemy used this lava heart to strengthen the lava monster, the lava monster was promoted to a lava giant, which just shows its origin."
"This should be the heart of a legendary lava giant."
"In fact, there are several sources of lava hearts. As long as the lava creature reaches the legendary level, there is a certain probability of generating it."
"But if it is the heart of a lava dog, then after the lava monster merges with this lava heart, it will transform into the form of a lava dog."
Ryan nodded when he heard this.
But in fact, he was more interested in the origin of the lava heart than its use.
"Master Dibs, what is the function of this lava heart? Besides being a means of strengthening when summoning lava creatures," Ryan couldn't help but ask.
If this was the only function, it would be useless to him.
Hearing Ryan's question, Master Dibs smiled and said,
"Haha, Captain Ryan, this Lava Heart is very rare, at least it is not in the exchange catalog of our branch. If you want to exchange it, you have to go to the Imperial Capital Headquarters."
"In addition, it is also quite useful."
"For example, it can be used on special war puppets. This is a dual-element energy crystal of fire and earth. It is used to drive war golems engraved with lava-element witch arrays, which is perfect."
"The next best is to use it on giant puppets engraved with fire-element witch arrays. The energy conversion efficiency is slightly lower, but it is also very applicable."
"For an individual, if you hold this lava heart in your hand or make it into a walking stick when casting lava-element witchcraft, you can increase the power of the witchcraft by about one and a half layers."
"Of course, if it is pure fire witchcraft, the power increase may be only about 10%."
"If it is earth witchcraft, it will be even less, and the increase may be less than half a percent."
Ryan listened thoughtfully, thought about it, and pointed to the lava heart and said:
"Master Dibs, if it is used as a power source for war golems or giant puppets, can it only be used once?"
"Of course not, Lord Ryan, if the energy of your lava heart is exhausted, it can be placed in the magma to slowly recover. Generally speaking, it can be fully charged after about half a month."
"Of course, after repeated use, it is impossible for it to return to its initial full state, but it can generally have an energy storage effect of about 70% to 80%. "
Ryan still understood this very clearly.
Because Dibs's narration immediately reminded him of the electric car battery in his previous life.
In the same way, after repeated use, the power storage effect began to weaken.
In fact, after hearing this, Ryan also had a more comprehensive understanding of the general purpose of the lava heart.
So, Ryan put away the Lava Heart. At the same time, he took out a section of metal prosthesis from Tienan and handed it to Master Dibs, saying:
"Master, have you done any research on this?"
"Hey, this is a puppet component. It's so finely made." Dibs' eyes lit up, he gently stroked the inside of the metal prosthesis with his fingers, observed the internal structure, and said.
"This level of craftsmanship should be made by a master of puppetry. I don't know much about it."
"Master, I just went to the library and found that our branch doesn't seem to have any specific drawings or books related to puppetry. Most of them are general." Ryan asked.
"Well, that's right. As far as I know, detailed information in this area should only be available in the imperial capital or the construction school. The masters who are proficient in puppetry are basically there. Maybe Sir Ryan can ask about it."
"Construction school?"
Ryan immediately thought of the 'Bixiu Construction School'. When he bought the witchcraft 'Metal Transfiguration', the notes stated that the Bixiu Construction School was the supplier.
"Yes, the Construction School. The objects of the Construction School's research are puppet creations and other types of witchcraft creations." Dibs nodded and said.
"Then what about this crystal?" Ryan took out the white, slightly smaller crystal in the metal prosthesis and said.
"Oh, this is the energy crystal after purification. Crystals with mixed properties will be uniformly purified into non-attribute crystals through a special purification array, thus expanding the scope of application."
"I see." Ryan nodded.
Ever since seeing the metal prosthesis of 'Tie Nan', Ryan has had some new ideas about 'Metal Transfiguration' and metal wizards.
He really wants to learn about the knowledge related to puppetry, but according to the current situation, he may only have this opportunity after joining the Bixiu Construction School or going to the Imperial Capital. He
still needs to think about it.
Before leaving the exchange hall, Ryan replenished some hardened adamantium ingots and magicized thorium ingots, and exchanged for a spear-throwing extraordinary combat skill 'Shadow Spear Throwing'. After
that, Ryan walked towards his residence.
As for why he chose the spear-throwing extraordinary combat skill?
This is mainly because after he encountered the lava giant, a creature with a huge body and a body full of hot magma that is difficult to approach, he once again felt the lack of his own long-range attack ability.
It's not that the bow is not good.
But the tiny arrows, compared to giant creatures that are nine meters tall and weigh tens of tons or even nearly a hundred tons, can only cause very limited damage.
It's really not much different from a toothpick.
But the javelin is different!
A heavy spear, if thrown at high speed, can also cause considerable damage to giant creatures.
Don't forget one more thing, Ryan's innate witchcraft is 'Metal Transfiguration'.
This means that he can adjust the weight and length of the spear in his hand at any time to increase the power of the javelin.
Of course, there is a more important reason.
That is the prerequisite for the transfer to the epic class 'King of Thousand Blades' - 'Second, master nine different mysteries.'
Ryan has already achieved (5/9), and he only needs to achieve four more.
After the transfer to the Warhammer Wizard, Ryan obtained the core skill 'Soul Crushing Hammer', which is extremely powerful.
As the King of Thousand Blades of the epic class, Ryan believes that his strength will definitely increase significantly once the transfer is successful.
Of the five prerequisites, conditions one and four have been met, and condition five - the requirement for attribute points, is not difficult at present.
That is, condition two, 'mastering nine different mysteries' and condition three, 'more than 90% of the second-level physical limit', still need a lot of time and effort to achieve.
Ryan's current second-level physical limit has reached 52%, and it won't be long before he can enter the peak knight level.
There are two main reasons for this rapid progress. One is that it comes from continuous point addition. Now strength, agility, and body have reached 46 points or more, and strength has reached 48 points.
In addition, the quality of breathing has been improved.
Just under the subtle effect of these few days, Ryan's second-level physical limit has increased by nearly two percentage points.
So, from this point of view, as an epic profession, the difficulty of job transfer is not particularly great, and it is naturally Ryan's first choice.
As for witchcraft, after upgrading the defensive 'metal barrier' to level 12, you can put it aside for now, unless you encounter other witchcraft that is more suitable.
Ryan opened a yellowish parchment scroll, which was the Shadow Spear Throwing Technique.
After reading and studying the Shadow Spear Throwing Technique from beginning to end, Ryan closed his eyes slightly and thought seriously.
With the foundation of five different types of extraordinary combat skills, it was not too difficult for Ryan to comprehend the Shadow Spear Throwing Technique.
After just flipping through it a few times, the system prompt came:
[You have studied the Shadow Spear Throwing Technique, and your understanding of it has improved! ]
[You have comprehended a new skill - Shadow Spear Throwing Technique]
[Your skill Shadow Spear Throwing Technique has been improved, experience value +1]
Among the dozen skill icons below the Weapon Master (Legend) occupation panel, a new icon is lit up.
Shadow Spear Throwing Technique lv1 (1/100).
The pattern of this icon is very simple, a strong figure with legs spread wide apart, left arm stretched upward diagonally, and right arm holding a spear, spinning and throwing.
Although Ryan can still use self-study to improve the proficiency level of Shadow Spear Throwing Technique.
But this time he plans to use a more efficient way to improve.
On the second floor of the training building, in an office.
A young female staff member is reporting something to a sturdy middle-aged man.
"What did you say? A diamond-star sword-bearing captain is looking for me?" The sturdy man said with surprise on his face.
"Yes, Instructor Asra, Lord Ryan has asked you to practice alone. Look over here," the young female staff member said respectfully.
"But I don't seem to have heard of the name Ryan. I know several diamond-star sword-bearing captains in the branch. Is he a newcomer?"
Asra looked suspicious.
After thinking for a while, he nodded immediately and agreed, "No problem here, I'll go over now."
His sparring fee is not cheap, and ordinary sword holders can hardly afford it, so most of them teach in small classes. This is similar to other instructors.
But for instructors, they naturally like one-on-one training, which is less tiring and more merit points.
No one would go against merit points.
"Of course, Lord Ryan also wants to do it right away." The young staff member couldn't help laughing.
When Asra came to the room and saw Ryan's young face, he thought to himself, 'Is it a mistake? So young, he is already the captain of the diamond star sword holders? '
But such words must not be said in person.
"Hey, Lord Ryan, can you throw it once for me to see, please?" Asra picked up a steel short spear in the training room and handed it to Ryan, saying.
"Of course." After Ryan took the short spear with a smile, he weighed it.
"It's just a little light."
Suddenly, Ryan turned around and twisted his hips, and stepped forward!
I saw a silver lightning, from the tip of Ryan's finger, shooting straight at the attack power tester dozens of meters away.
"Chiu!"
After the shadow of the spear passed, a very sharp whistling sound came.
It means that the speed of the spear has exceeded the speed of sound!
"Bang!" With a sound.
This steel short spear, nearly half of it was inserted into the huge cylindrical metal block on the attack power tester!
The depth is about 0.7~0.8 meters!
"Hiss~" Yasra's eyes suddenly widened, and the corners of his eyes twitched.
With this kind of power, you are so ashamed to say that you are a novice and need training guidance?
I'm afraid you are not guiding me in reverse.
"Sir Ryan, have you never practiced spear throwing?" Yasra adjusted the title to 'you'.
"Well, I just learned it today."
"Uh, this" For a moment, Yasra didn't know what to say.
He carefully recalled the posture of Ryan's throwing just now, which was almost perfect. If you have to say it, it is the hand posture.
From this point of view, this Sir Ryan may really have just learned spear throwing!
"Your core muscle stability in your waist and abdomen, as well as your whole body's rotational explosive power, do not need additional training."
"Well, you just need to pay a little attention to some small details, such as the strength of your fingers, the adjustment of your strength, etc."
"The rest is just more practice."
After half a day.
Under the careful guidance of Yasla, coupled with the blessing of the talent 'Primary Extraordinary Comprehension (Passive)', after just one morning, Ryan's 'Shadow Spear Throwing Technique' has been upgraded to level 4 (12/1000).
The speed is beyond ordinary people's imagination!
At noon.
Ryan just walked to the door of the suite on the third floor, but found that Olena happened to walk over from the other end of the corridor.
Seeing Ryan, Olena smiled lightly and said, "Sir Ryan, I was just looking for you. There is a reply from the Axon Auction House."
Hearing Olena's words, Ryan raised his eyebrows and thought to himself, 'So fast? '
"Sir Olena, thank you for your hard work. Come in and talk."
The two sat down in the living room.
"Last night, Admiral Edward and I reported this matter, and he was quite angry."
"After getting the Admiral's authorization, I went to talk to the representative of the Orenz family, Drake, this morning."
"They said they were willing to transfer 10% of the shares of the Minster branch of the Axon Auction House to Mr. Ryan unconditionally. This part of the shares originally belonged to the Marquis of Orenz's family, and it was all their shares in the Minster branch."
10% of the shares?
Ryan was slightly stunned.
He remembered that when Drake talked to him before, it was only 2%.
According to the other party at the time, the annual income was about 20,000 gold. If it is 10% now, it means that the annual dividend is nearly 100,000 gold, which is quite a considerable income.
"I want to ask, Lord Ryan, are you satisfied with this compensation?"
Ryan thought for a moment and asked, "Lord Olena, what do you think?"
The capable young woman pondered for a moment and said,
"It's like this, Lord Ryan. If we report this matter to the Imperial Elders Council, the other party may suffer greater losses, but for you, Lord Ryan, there will be no benefit."
"In addition, you defeated the Bloodtop Mercenary Group. As far as I know, the other party can dispatch a team stronger than this one. In other words, unless the other party chooses to go down in person, it is possible to pose a threat to you, but this possibility is very small."
"So, I personally suggest that Lord Ryan consider accepting this 10% of the shares as compensation."
"Whether you choose to hold it yourself or sell it, you can get a lot of money."
Ryan thought about it and nodded, saying: "Okay, Lord Olena, let's talk about it according to your idea."
"However, as for the shares, can they be written in the name of another person?"
"As long as Lord Ryan authorizes and agrees, this should not be a problem." Olena nodded and said.
At the same time, the capable young woman was quite curious about this person. Could it be one of Lord Ryan's two little lovers?
Olena naturally regarded Veronica and Evelyn, who were in Ryan's team, as Ryan's little lovers.
But if only one is given, can the other one be settled?
For Ryan, as time goes by, his strength will only get stronger.
By then, this Marquis family, although it is a certain threat to him now.
But in another half a year, in his eyes, it will become an ant.
At this stage, if he can obtain 10% of the shares of the Axon Auction House and use the business ability of the beautiful woman Jennifer, he will probably be able to exchange for good resources.
Or use this channel of the Axon Auction House to obtain some rare resources.
"By the way, Ms. Olena, regarding the Bixiu Construction School, is there a branch in Munster?" Ryan thought of another question and asked.
"Really not." Olena shook her head.
But the next second, her beautiful eyes flashed with a light, as if she remembered something, and said:
"Sir Ryan, I remember that recently, there are several puppet masters from the Bixiu Construction School in Munster."
"Actually, it has something to do with you. Do you still remember the giant axe golem guards you defeated in Wales County that time?"
"These masters are currently studying this ancient cult puppet in Munster."
"If you have any questions, I can help you contact them."
Ryan nodded, smiled, and said, "That would be great, but I need to think about it first, and I may have to trouble Sir Olena at that time."
"You're welcome, Sir Ryan. By the way, the master who is doing the research, you know, may have a bad temper, so..." Olena considered the words and reminded.
"By the way, Sir Ryan has one more thing." Olena smiled and took out something like an invitation from the bag beside her and handed it to Ryan.
"This is your invitation to the viscountship. Four days later, on the last Sunday of the Green Grass Moon, this year's awarding ceremony will be held at the Duke of Munster's residence. Please don't forget to attend."
"By then, Admiral Edward will also attend. The scene is grand and it is one of the most important events in Munster Province this year."
Ryan took it, looked at it, nodded, and said, "Well, I will attend."
This is the same invitation he received when he was a baron, but... I didn't expect that the previous one had not been used yet, and this one had been updated to become a viscount invitation.
——Twelve
o'clock in the middle of the night.
Near the provincial capital of Munster, the small town of Barrington.
In Exter's residence.
"Berriggs, is the collection of blood crystals ready?" Exter asked with a smile, shaking the Bordeaux liquid in the glass.
"High Priest, we still need one more. If nothing goes wrong, we can get it done tomorrow."
"Well, speed up!"
Exter took a sip of Bordeaux, turned around and asked, "Freeman, how about you? Is there any new situation in Munster?"
"Well, High Priest, there is such a situation. The Ryan I mentioned to you last time seemed to have fought with a quasi-legendary level master last night."
"Judging from the situation at the battle scene, Ryan's strength seems to have improved again!" Freeman said with a worried look on his face.
"Tsk, Freeman, you were scared by the beating in Meister! The quasi-legendary level is not something the High Priest needs to worry about." Burriggs on the side got the chance and immediately mocked.
"You" Freeman looked annoyed!
"Okay! However, Burriggs is right about one thing. As long as the opponent is not a legend, he is not the focus of our attention." Exter smiled.
(End of this chapter)
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