Chapter 303: Phantom Strike (Two chapters in one)
Father Ryan's words hit Ryan like a bolt of lightning.
"This... Father, perhaps, this legend is true." Ryan looked at his father who was being bullied by his mother Emma and said.
"Hmm? Look, Ryan also agrees." Father Ryan couldn't help laughing when he heard it. Mother
Emma wanted to say a few more words to old Ryan when she saw this scene, but out of love for her son, she stammered a few times and said:
"Ryan is filial and knows to say what you want."
Sister Mint giggled at the side.
Jenny and Agatha couldn't help but smile at the side.
Only the beautiful woman Jennifer looked at Ryan seriously, her beautiful eyes flickering, as if she was thinking about the meaning of Ryan's words just now.
After dinner, Ryan and the beautiful woman Jennifer chatted for a while in the study, and the focus was naturally on the share delivery of the Münster branch of the Akson Auction House.
"Did things go well this afternoon?"
"Very well. Deputy Minister Olena is very good at negotiation and has sharp words. I basically didn't say much. By the way, dear, do I need to say anything to Deputy Minister Olena?" asked the beautiful woman Jennifer.
"Just do it as you see fit."
Hearing Ryan's answer, the beautiful woman felt a little relieved.
She was quite puzzled before, why this lady Olena was so dedicated to her family's affairs. Now it seems that Ryan and the other party should not have that kind of relationship, otherwise, he would not have such an attitude.
If Ryan had found a young girl with extraordinary power, the beautiful woman would not be so nervous.
But the other party was obviously a young woman and very capable, which made her a little nervous. After all, this meant that if Ryan had that kind of relationship with the other party, she and the other party would be competing in the same race.
"By the way, Jennifer, as a shareholder of the auction house, you should have some special rights and interests." Ryan asked.
Relatively speaking, this is something Ryan is more concerned about.
Because Ryan had thought about whether he could obtain some items that are not easy to obtain in the Sword Wielders' organization through the auction house.
"Yes, I took a quick look at the shareholders' articles of association, which states that shareholders can learn in advance about the items entrusted to the Axon Auction House for auction, and enjoy a certain degree of priority purchase rights."
"Of course, even if you have priority purchase, the price is not cheap. You need to buy it at a premium of 130%~150% of the assessed price, and there will be differences in specific categories."
"It's about the same as I expected, Jennifer, please help me pay attention to the breathing methods of excellent quality or above, metal or fire witchcraft, and some related rare items."
"Okay, dear." The beautiful woman naturally had no problem with Ryan's request.
"By the way, as for your security, it is definitely not enough to rely on Matteo and the others at present."
"While you strengthen, if necessary, you can contact Vieri. Although he is also an imperial sword bearer, he may have some official business at ordinary times, but if you tell him in advance, it shouldn't be a problem."
"Vieri? Isn't he your dear colleague? Isn't it inappropriate?" The beautiful woman thought for a while and said tactfully.
"It doesn't matter. He took the initiative to ask to become my follower, and I agreed." Ryan thought about it and told the beautiful woman about this matter.
A follower at the level of a great knight?
Or did he take the initiative to ask?
The beautiful woman was stunned and her beautiful eyes widened.
You know, in order to find a family guardian knight, she almost had to use her daughter Jenny's happiness for the rest of her life as a bargaining chip, but Ryan's
great knight actually wanted to be his follower!
Oh my God! The gap is really too big.
Since the beautiful woman had a full meal in the coffee shop in the morning, she is now in a state of having the will but not the ability.
So that night, Ryan did not choose to stay in the mansion, but returned to his residence in the Executor Branch. It happened that he had a few things to do.
After practicing making mithril carved plate armor dozens of times, Ryan returned to the study, opened a diary that he had searched from Asimov, and read it carefully.
This diary was different from the few not-so-serious diaries Ryan had seized before.
There was no record of any "romantic" love story in it.
The diary mainly recorded some blood awakening rituals that Asimov knew, and the blood transplant experiments that he had experienced or led by himself.
After all, no one wants to be troubled by the sequelae of blood transplantation forever.
Ryan was not very interested in this diary at first.
The reason was that he had flipped through it casually before and felt that blood transplantation was not a right way. In addition, he had nothing to do with blood, and he was not a blood noble.
But since he awakened the dragon blood, the situation has changed.
A stone from another mountain can polish a jade.
Even if he didn't transplant blood, it would be good to understand the blood ritual.
"In the first day of the first week of the Green Grass Moon in the year 2324 of the Imperial Calendar, I transplanted a blood essence of the Moon Soul Werewolf into a captive at the level of a formal knight."
"Although the captive was quite strong and withstood the experimental surgery at the time, he still died of physical collapse three days later. Damn, they are all trash!"
"In the second week of the Hundred Flowers Moon in the year 2324 of the Imperial Calendar, Sunday, trash! None of them can resist!"
Ryan read the entire diary from beginning to end. After a while, he closed the book and closed his eyes to think.
He could basically draw several conclusions.
One is about blood transplantation. According to the hundreds of experiments personally led by Asimov, blood transplantation has a high success rate.
First of all, the strength of the experimental subject must be strong enough, and secondly, the desire to survive must be strong enough, so that the success rate of the experiment will be significantly improved.
However, if the racial differences are too large, the body will be more likely to collapse. From the experimental records, this problem exists, especially for those innovative transplant experiments, the probability is very high.
Another thing is the blood awakening ceremony.
Most of the rituals are different, but the purpose is the same, all of which is to increase the blood concentration of the offspring, so that they become more suitable for practicing the blood breathing method corresponding to the family.
Of course, there are also those who do not perform the blood awakening ceremony and directly practice the blood breathing method.
But in this case, there are only two reasons.
Either the blood concentration is naturally high enough and no blood ceremony is needed. This is what the blood nobles call genius offspring in the general sense.
Or they have extraordinary qualifications and comprehension in the practice of breathing methods, and can also activate the thin blood.
And Ryan is the latter.
He uses the legendary quality fire dragon breathing method to gradually reveal some extraordinary characteristics of his own dragon blood.
Ryan looked at the dragon blood (thin) on the panel, and then looked at the remaining 7 gold skill points.
"At least one gold skill point should be reserved to comprehend the secret of Shadow Spear Throwing. In other words, I can use a total of 6 points." Ryan thought to himself.
After thinking about it, Ryan tried to add points to the Fire Dragon Breathing.
As he invested gold skill points bit by bit, Ryan could clearly feel that the inside of his body was slowly changing. There was a feeling of magma flowing in his body and slowly strengthening.
After investing three gold skill points in a row and reaching level 15 of the Fire Dragon Breathing, Ryan noticed that the description of the Dragon Bloodline on the attribute panel had changed:
[Dragon Bloodline (Thin) Effect: Affinity with Fire Element is slightly increased, the effect of the Giant Strength Talent is slightly increased, the effect of the Steel Body Talent is slightly increased, and the War Cry Secret is strengthened. ]
(Note: The development of the Dragon Bloodline has reached the current physical limit, and further development requires the concentration of the bloodline to be increased.)
"Huh? It's still 'thin', but there is an additional description of the enhanced War Cry Secret." Ryan looked thoughtful.
Then, he felt it. With his keen perception, Ryan could sense that his affinity with fire elements had actually been improved.
It was stronger than before the addition.
However, the improvement was very subtle, so the word "small improvement" was still used in the description.
Of course, what Ryan was most concerned about was the description in the notes.
"Do you need to increase the blood concentration?"
"The current dragon blood 'thinness' is an enhancement of existing talents or mysteries, and no dragon talents have been awakened. Is it because the blood concentration is not high enough?"
"As for how to increase the blood concentration?"
Ryan focused his eyes on Asimov's diary.
"It is too difficult to directly obtain the dragon's blood essence. The next step is to start with some dragon creatures."
"But there is no rush for this. You can improve the shadow spear throwing technique first."
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Three days later, early morning.
The training room in Ryan's room.
A tall figure holding a shield was dodging rapidly, while Ryan stood in place with a pure steel spear in his hand.
As a senior knight, Angus has already mastered the shield defense secret 'barrier', so his strength is not weak.
But facing Ryan's level 8 shadow spear throwing technique, he still has a hard time dealing with it. He
just took dozens of spears, and at this moment, his left arm has begun to ache slightly, and the surface of his beloved shield is even more bumpy.
If he didn't know that his captain could repair the shield, Angus would be heartbroken.
But the problem is that except for taking the spears, his high-speed movement seems to have no effect.
Basically, within a distance of 30 meters, it is almost impossible for him to dodge Ryan's spears.
"Okay, Angus, let's take a five-minute break?"
"Huh?"
Angus didn't expect Ryan to ask for a break.
You know, in the past few days, he was the first to be exhausted and asked to take a break.
However, Angus would not refuse a rare break, and immediately smiled and said, "Okay, Captain."
In fact, the reason for stopping to rest this time was that Ryan's Shadow Spear Throwing Technique had achieved the expected goal and entered level 9 (1/10000).
And the next step would naturally rely on adding points.
After all, after level 9, too many experience points are required.
Even if Ryan has the blessing of the talent "Primary Supernatural Comprehension" and the careful guidance of the previous instructor Yasra, it will not be done in a few days to learn a new supernatural combat skill from scratch.
Ryan estimated that if he did not rely on adding points, he would need at least a few more months.
Of course, this is much better than the seven or eight years of training time for an ordinary great knight to practice a certain supernatural combat skill.
If you want to get it done in a few days, then you can only add points to cover the lv9, 10, and 11 that take the longest time and require a lot of experience points.
In the past few days, Ryan has upgraded the Great Armorsmith (Extraordinary) to lv6 by continuously making mithril carved plate armor, thereby gaining two skill points and two attribute points again.
Adding the original one skill point, a total of three skill points.
Without much hesitation, as Ryan invested 3 skill points in a row, he directly upgraded the Shadow Spear Throwing Technique to lv12.
Immediately, a torrent of memories about the practice of Shadow Spear Throwing Technique poured into Ryan's mind and quickly merged into his muscle and fascia memories.
For a moment, it was as if he was alone in a mysterious space, experiencing more than ten years of hard practice of Shadow Spear Throwing Technique.
At the same time, Ryan could vaguely feel that he was only one step away from the subsequent derivative secrets of the combat skills.
Faced with this situation, there was naturally nothing to consider.
Continue to add points!
With the investment of 1 gold skill point, Shadow Spear Throwing successfully entered level 13, and the system's reminder about the secret finally sounded:
[Congratulations, you have comprehended the primary secret of Shadow Spear Throwing: Phantom Strike! ]
"Phantom Strike, done!"
"Now I am still short of three extraordinary combat skills of different weapon categories to meet the requirements of job transfer."
At the same time, Ryan saw a new icon located just above the "Shadow Spear Throwing" on the Weapon Master (Legend) panel.
The pattern in the icon shows a strong man holding a short spear, and the whole person is stepping forward. There is a long spear in front of him that has been thrown, but he still seems to be holding a long spear in his hand. If
you look closely, you can find that the long spear in the strong man's hand is actually the remaining spear shadow, so it appears to be a slightly blurred state.
At the bottom left, the text description of the secret is as follows:
Phantom Strike (Primary Secret) Effect: Use a special force-generating method combined with the Force to throw the spear weapon in your hand quickly, launching a powerful penetrating attack.
(To upgrade Phantom Strike to an intermediate secret, the following conditions must be met: 1. Shadow Spear Throwing Technique lv14 or above; 2. Fire Dragon Breathing Technique lv12 or above; 3. Strength 32 points, Agility 35 points, Constitution 32 points or above; 4. Consume 1 gold skill point.)
Although Ryan still has three gold skill points left at this moment, he did not immediately want to upgrade 'Phantom Strike' to an intermediate secret.
He planned to save it for the remaining three extraordinary combat skills.
"Angus, let's get started." Ryan was happy to get a new secret, so he naturally wanted to try it out.
"Okay, Captain." Angus was in good spirits after a rest. He was seen hitting his sword and shield heavily a few times and walked to the center of the venue.
"By the way, that Neoro, you can bless Angus with a defensive sorcery." Ryan thought for a while and said.
"Huh?"
Ryan's words immediately made the four people, including Angus, look at him in surprise.
"I just realized something, and I may not be able to control the strength of the attack when I attack." Ryan explained.
"I see, okay, Captain."
Neoro nodded and chanted a spell, and soon a water film defense magic appeared on Angus' body.
Seeing Angus holding a shield and getting ready for defense, Ryan nodded to signal him to start.
The next second, everyone clearly saw that the steel spear in Ryan's hand was still in his hand, but a silver spear shadow suddenly appeared in front of Angus.
"Dang!!!" A sharp metal collision sound rang out.
Angus retreated seven or eight steps, and the water film on his body had been penetrated long ago, and the specially made hardened adamantine shield was about to be penetrated at this moment!
And Neoro, Evelyn and Vieri on the side had been stunned!
Is this called realizing something?
He directly realized the mystery!
Neoro's eyes twitched, because according to Ryan's current spear throwing power, some formal wizards with insufficient witchcraft defense could be killed with one spear. Those who
were slightly stronger could be killed with two spears at most.
After his captain mastered this short spear throwing, he was comparable to a wizard killer.
"Dongdongdong!"
"Hey, Your Excellency Olena." After a few exchanges, several members of Ryan's team also became familiar with Olena, the deputy director of the mission hall.
"Hello, Your Excellency Vieri." Olena nodded slightly to Vieri who opened the door.
At the same time, she turned her head to Ryan and said, "Your Excellency Ryan, the time you agreed with Master Mogaro is almost up. Do you think we should set off now?"
"Of course. Wait for me a moment."
"Neoro, you can continue. I should be back soon."
Ryan put down the spear in his hand, tidied it up a little, and set off.
In the carriage.
Ryan and Olena sat opposite each other.
In the past few days, Ryan has also learned more about the cooperation model between the Sword Holder Organization and other wizard schools.
Although the introduction letter from the Sword Holder is equivalent to a token, which allows the Sword Holder to directly enter a wizard school for study, in fact, this kind of study is more like short-term training.
It is normal to think about it. It takes three to six months, and what you learn is naturally just some superficial things, not touching some core things.
But for most Sword Holders who are on the path of wizards, it is actually enough.
However, Ryan's situation is different from that of ordinary people.
First of all, he really wants to learn something.
In addition, there is another problem that needs to be solved on his side. That is, it is unlikely that he will be completely out of combat and study purely in witchcraft during the half-year study period.
Because he is different from others, if he wants to maintain a high-speed improvement, he needs to obtain system rewards through various battles.
Only in this way can he improve the fastest.
In this case, the only solution is to formally join a certain school, and at the same time, contact a certain mentor in the school in advance to learn some core things in the relationship of teacher and disciple.
Applying the concept of the previous life, this is like going from a short-term trainee to an exchange student who can obtain a diploma through joint training between the sword holder and the school.
Therefore, Ryan deliberately spent a few days to understand some of the situation.
"Master Mogaro of the Bixiu Construction School is currently checking the other half of the Giant Axe Golem Guards in the Goddess Church." Olena's words interrupted Ryan's thoughts.
Hmm?
Ryan looked puzzled.
Half of the Giant Axe Golem Guards are in the hands of the Goddess Church? It shouldn't be.
As if she saw the hint of doubt in Ryan's expression, Olena smiled softly and explained:
"Yes, Lord Ryan, maybe you don't know yet, there are some reasons for this."
"If a complete giant axe golem guard is stored in our branch, then it is very likely that the headquarters will issue a transfer order to transport this giant axe golem guard away."
"In that case, we will not be able to study the giant axe golem guard."
"But if the other half of the wreckage is attributed to the Goddess Church for a reason, it will be different. If the headquarters wants to study it, they have to come to Munster." "
Even if the headquarters really wants to transport it away, it needs to coordinate with the Goddess Church first. The whole thing will be a lot more troublesome, and we can also enjoy some convenience."
"I see." Ryan nodded and smiled.
The game between the headquarters and the local branches is normal.
As a branch that has seized the troll golem guard, it always wants to strive for some autonomy or other rights.
"So, they have finished the research on the other half, and are now at the church, right?"
"Yes, Lord Ryan." Olena nodded.
"In addition, I learned again that among the three masters from the Bixiu Construction School this time, only Master Mogaro is a master who specializes in metal puppets, while the other two masters are clay and rock puppets respectively."
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At the same time.
Near the provincial capital of Minster, on the edge of the town of Barrington.
A group of four, capable men wearing knight plate armor and wizard robes, rode to the woods beside the town of Barrington.
"Captain, the intelligence said that there seems to be unknown people active here late at night recently, and they are likely to be cult members."
"But this place is so close to the provincial capital, it is unlikely that the Black Flame Cult will set up a base so close, right?" A team member questioned.
"Yes, this place is too close to Minster. If a base is set up here, wouldn't it be courting death?" Another team member nodded and echoed.
"It's the best if it's not. We have completed the investigation mission and can have a good rest." The middle-aged knight dressed as a captain said solemnly.
"Yes, it's true that we can have a good rest!" A low voice sounded in the woods nearby.
"Who?" The four people immediately drew their weapons and became alert.
Following the line of sight, a tall man in black robes slowly walked out of the dense forest, with a blazing black flame in his hand.
He pushed his hands, and four black flame pillars suddenly appeared and swept towards the four people!
"Black flame wall! It's a second-level evil spell, run!" The middle-aged knight looked horrified and shouted immediately!
But it was obviously too late.
The next second!
"Boom!"
The four black flame pillars immediately caught up with the four people and ignited the four people into human-shaped fireballs. Soon, the wailing returned to silence!
In Exter's residence.
"High priest, the little mice have been dealt with, but you may need to change places. This is already the second batch of spies from the empire." Borigs said respectfully.
"Yes, it's almost time. Tomorrow is their awarding ceremony, but it's also our ceremony, haha." Exter said with a smile.
"It's time to give the Empire a surprise. It's a pity that I've lived in this town for so long."
He raised his head, drank the last sip of Bordeaux aged wine, stood up, and left the room.
"Berriggs, let's sacrifice this town with blood."
(End of this chapter)
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