Chapter 401 Armor of Steel
"Sir Ryan, we meet again." Augustus said in a friendly manner.
Moreover, the wording was different from the first time they met. This time, even he, the general, the actual second-in-command of the Sword Bearer Headquarters, used the word "Sir" when addressing Ryan.
Perhaps, the two young people, Claire and Beyoncé, did not notice the subtle difference in the address.
But Tatia, Olena and others heard their beautiful eyes flickering.
Obviously, this shows that the young Lord Ryan has a higher status in the eyes of the senior officials of the Sword Bearer Headquarters than before.
"General Augustus, good day." Ryan smiled and said.
Claire and Beyoncé were quite nervous because it was the first time they met such a big man. They followed their captain and saluted and greeted him.
"Don't be restrained, everyone, please take a seat." Augustus said kindly.
When everyone was seated, Olena quietly left the small meeting room. With her level, she could not sit in on such an important meeting.
"Sir Ryan, please describe in detail the unexpected situation during your mission." Tatia smiled.
"Well, at the foot of the Blade Volcano, we were attacked by a wizard from the Tutkarsh School. Claw Ghoul. Golem self-destructed legendary stitched monster."
In the conference room, including General Augustus, everyone listened very carefully. Apart from Ryan's narration, there was only the rustling sound of notes.
"The other party's spirit seems to be seriously injured because of the death of the stitched monster. He took the blood of the evil god and took over the body."
Hearing this, Tatia couldn't help but look up, looked at Ryan with a little surprise, and confirmed: "Sir Ryan, are you talking about the incarnation? Not the projection?"
"Yes, I'm sure it's the incarnation." Ryan nodded and said.
At this time, a middle-aged man with a pair of golden branches and two suns on his shoulder straps next to General Augustus coughed and said:
"Hey, Lord Ryan, you may not be very clear. When gods want to descend and incarnate, they have very special requirements for the humans who are possessed. It is not so easy to find a container that is suitable for the incarnation of gods." "
Moreover, even the guardians of the empire will find it difficult to deal with the incarnation of gods." The other party added tactfully.
But Claire, who had long been impressed by the strength of her captain, couldn't help hearing this.
After all, the frontal battle didn't help her captain at all.
So in this investigation of the situation at the headquarters, something must be done. Claire couldn't help but interrupt and said:
"This lieutenant general, my captain said it very clearly, and we were all there at the time and saw it very clearly. The other party was definitely an incarnation, not a projection."
"Yes, I can also testify to this." Beyonce nodded and agreed.
"Don't get excited, ladies. This is not a hearing. It's just a record of the situation." The lieutenant general couldn't help but smile helplessly and said.
After thinking for a while, Ryan nodded and said, "I think the wizard of the Tutkash School who was possessed should be quite special."
"The other party's name is Staven, and his strength is quite good. Perhaps Major General Tatia can check it later. I think there should be relevant records in the headquarters."
"Stavian?" General Augustus suddenly said with a serious face.
"Yes, sir." Ryan nodded.
"No need to check. If it is him, then it should be the incarnation of the gods." Augustus waved his hand and said.
"I know Staven. He was already a wizard at the peak of the third level of crystallization thirty years ago. Moreover, the other party is a rare genius wizard of the shadow system, and is fully qualified to be a vessel for the advent of gods."
However, after Augustus finished speaking, he looked at Ryan carefully again, as if he was surprised that Ryan could deal with the incarnation of gods.
At this time, Tatia suddenly thought of something and asked, "By the way, Lord Ryan, do you know part of the real name of that god?"
"Well, Staven told me before his soul dissipated that they called this evil god the Spider God Neyobrekhan. I think these words should be part of his real name."
The real names of gods are basically very long, and at the same time, this is also a kind of top secret of the gods.
"What! It's Neyobrekhan, the Spider God?!" General Augustus, who always had a calm expression, lost his voice this time.
Others present, including Ryan, couldn't help but feel surprised by General Augustus's loss of composure.
After all, now in the territory of the empire, evil cults have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and there are many projections and even incarnations of various evil gods.
Even a few months ago, there was an evil god descending and directly interrupting the promotion of His Majesty the Emperor to a demigod.
It stands to reason that General Augustus, as the second-in-command of the Empire's Sword Bearer, should have been used to it.
Could it be that this Spider God is different from other evil gods?
"Sorry, I lost my composure." Augustus pondered for a moment, as if recalling something.
After a while, he said:
"Thousands of years ago, there was an extremely tyrannical and brutal Spider Demon Empire on the Cyrodiil Plateau. Its earliest origins are no longer traceable, but the one they worshipped was the Spider Demon God Neyobrekhan."
"Later, after the Spider Demon Empire was defeated by the coalition forces of multiple human kingdoms at that time, it retreated deep underground."
"In order to avoid too many casualties, the coalition forces of the human kingdoms at that time did not continue to attack, but mobilized a large number of wizards led by three level five full moon wizards, and used the artifact "Scepter of Blazing Light" to completely seal its entire territory underground."
"So, I am worried that the appearance of this evil god means that there is a problem with the underground seal, or that the other party intends to destroy the seal?"
"Sir Ryan, thank you for reporting such an important piece of information."
"Thank you, General Augustus. As the sword bearer of the empire, this is what I should do." Ryan smiled slightly.
"Sir Ryan, do you have anything else to add?" Tatia stopped writing and smiled.
After thinking for a while, Ryan said again: "Before Staven's soul dissipated, he told me that the assassination attempt on me was actually instigated by the Isoderei School."
"Of course, this is just what Staven said. I don't have any evidence at the moment."
"It's just that I have some doubts about whether the Isoderei School, which is also located in the Cyrodiil Plateau, has fulfilled its supervisory duties."
"In addition, Graham, the leader of the Tutkarsh School, should have fallen. That's all."
"Thank you, Sir Ryan. The headquarters will evaluate the corresponding points and rewards as soon as possible based on your intelligence." Tatia quickly recorded.
"Tatia, please send a copy of Sir Ryan's report to the Great Astrologer Sir Darien." General Augustus said with a serious face.
"Okay, sir."
When the meeting ended, Ryan ran into Olena who was waiting at the door of the conference room. He immediately thought of something and said, "Sir Olena, I have something to ask."
"Sir Ryan, please go ahead." Olena took out a palm-sized notebook and a feather pen and prepared to record it.
"Please contact the several provincial branches in the area where Ferdinand Forest is located. I want to know the latest developments and key information of the evil cult Mother Tree Sect there." "
Also, please find out if there are any sword bearers in the headquarters who have gone to the elf territory to perform tasks for special reasons. If so, please find out the specific process."
Due to various historical disputes, the elves are extremely vigilant about humans.
In addition to retaining the only embassy in the imperial capital Tamriel as a point of contact with humans, the elves are almost isolated from the world.
Therefore, even if Ryan wants to go to Ferdinand Forest to provide some help to Anna, it is not that simple. It also depends on the attitude of the elves.
In addition, as a race with a much longer history than humans, many individuals of the elves have a long lifespan and are strong.
Ryan didn't think that the Mother Tree Cult alone could cause the elves to suffer serious injuries, which meant that, under normal circumstances, Anna would not have any safety problems.
"Okay, Lord Ryan, I'll contact them right away."
When Ryan returned to the mansion, his sister Mint quickly found him, looking frustrated, and said, "Brother, Sister Anna is gone again. Do you know when she will be back?"
"Don't worry! Anna should be back soon." Ryan slowly squatted down, smiled and rubbed Mint's head, comforting her.
"Brother said the same thing last time, but Anna only came for half a year."
"If Sister Anna doesn't come back within a month, brother will go find her, okay." Seeing that Mint was still not happy, Ryan continued.
"Yeah!" Mint smiled when she heard her brother's promise, her big eyes curved like crescents.
The next morning, Ryan came to the Bixiu Construction School's residence.
In the office of mentor Mogaro.
"Huh? Ryan, you completed your mission so quickly this time?" Mogaro was quite surprised that Ryan returned to the imperial capital in just three days.
Normally, a sword bearer would be considered fast if he could return within a week after completing a mission.
"There was a small incident, so I came back first. By the way, mentor, I tested the Hellfire Golem in actual combat, and it worked very well."
"Haha, as long as it works well!" Mogaro was very pleased with the words of his favorite disciple, and stroked his big red beard and said.
"By the way, did you bring the Golem back this time? Tell me if there is anything that needs to be improved." Speaking of the Golem, Mogaro was in high spirits.
"Uh, it exploded." Ryan said rather embarrassedly.
After all, his Hellfire Golem took up a lot of time and energy from mentor Mogaro, and Audrey and Alicia also helped a lot, so it was completed so quickly.
"What! What exactly happened?" Mogaro couldn't help but stand up in astonishment and asked.
"It's like this."
When Ryan told the story that the Hellfire Golem exploded and directly killed a legendary stitched monster, Mogaro's face no longer had a trace of heartache, but laughed out loud.
"Good! Good! Great!"
"I didn't expect that the golem I made, Mogaro, would be able to destroy a legendary peak-level stitched monster one day." Mogaro's face flushed with excitement, and he paced back and forth in the room.
He took out a bottle of Bordeaux from the closet beside him, uncorked it, and drank it directly from the bottle mouth.
Mogaro drank half of the bottle in one breath before he remembered something and said, "Ryan, do you want to have a sip too? Hiccup."
"Thank you, mentor, no thanks." Ryan couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head.
"Well, since it exploded, let's make another one. By the way, after this actual combat, where do you think the golem needs to be improved?" Mogaro calmed down his excitement and asked.
Ryan had already thought about this before he came.
In the confrontation with the stitched monster, the golem was obviously at a disadvantage.
Ryan had thought about upgrading the level of witchcraft, that is, from level one witchcraft to level two, but this means that the difficulty of inscriptions will increase exponentially, which is too difficult for Mogaro, a mentor who is only at the peak of level one wizard.
The simplest way to increase the power of the golem is to make it thicker, taller and larger.
As for witchcraft, you can consider adding shooting parts.
"Teacher, can you add two gun barrels on the shoulders of the Hellfire Golem to fire witchcraft fireballs and shadow arrows? For this purpose, can you consider adding an additional small furnace device?"
Mogaro thought for a while, looked at Ryan, and said:
"It's not impossible, but if you do this, the size of the Hellfire Golem will increase a lot, and it is likely to be more than six meters tall, and you may have a hard time driving it."
"Teacher, I have no problem here." Ryan smiled slightly and said.
One of the important reasons for considering shrinking the golem as much as possible before was that he was only a wizard in the late stage of the second-level liquefaction. Although he had a super affinity with metal elements, it was still difficult to drive the golem.
Ryan remembered clearly that driving the Hellfire Golem consumed nearly 50 points of his mental power at one time. You should know that he only had more than 90 points at that time.
However, the situation is different now.
At present, his mental power has reached 123, and the quality of the mental power after crystallization is even higher than that of liquefaction, so it will be much easier to drive the golem.
Mogaro looked at Ryan suspiciously, and immediately showed horror on his face, saying: "You... You can't..."
Although Mogaro could no longer see through Ryan's current strength, let alone Ryan was still wearing the "hidden robe", but from the calm smile on Ryan's face, Mogaro vaguely guessed something.
Ryan smiled slightly, nodded, and said: "Teacher, then I'll trouble you with this matter."
At the same time.
In the imperial capital Tamriel, in a luxurious mansion on the left side of the palace.
A middle-aged noble with a mustache was standing respectfully beside a young blond man with a feminine face.
The young blond man was sitting on a chair, flipping through a stack of information.
"Buchanan, so now we can confirm that this young man named Ryan should have some unknown dragon bloodline?"
"Your Highness, judging from the information, it should be." The middle-aged noble named Buchanan bowed and said.
"Very good, you go and invite him to join the Dragon Scale Brotherhood." The second prince Everton showed an inexplicable smile and closed the information.
"Okay, Your Highness." Buchanan slowly left the room.
Although the Duke of Durham had approached him before, the purpose was to let him whisper in the second prince's ear, hoping to get rid of this Ryan, but now it seems that the second prince is more interested in this young man with dragon bloodline.
The Dragon Scale Brotherhood is a hermitage established by His Highness, the second prince, specifically for non-royal members with various dragon bloodlines.
After Ryan returned to the mansion, he went to the training room and began to figure out the second-level magic "Iron Armor" and the third-level magic "Steel Armor".
Long before learning the third-level magic "Steel Armor", he saw the relevant description at the exchange office of the school and felt that there should be some kind of internal connection between the two.
After many times, Ryan was vaguely sure that there must be some kind of internal connection between the two magics.
But the problem is that Ryan vaguely felt that something seemed to be missing.
Ryan was seen performing these two magics in succession in the room.
"Second-level magic "Iron Armor"!"
"Third-level talent magic "Steel Armor"!"
A layer of dark iron armor was covered with a thicker layer of silver metal. The defense seemed to be superimposed, but Ryan knew that this was only a superficial superposition, not a significant increase in power like a killing move.
After repeatedly performing it, Ryan always felt that it was a bit unsmooth. After
thinking for a long time, Ryan seemed to have realized something and tried to add the first-level talent magic "Metal Transfiguration".
After performing it twice, a flash of inspiration suddenly occurred to Ryan. That's right, it should be Metal Transfiguration!
At the same time, the system prompt also sounded:
[Ding! The host comprehended the prototype of the combination witchcraft. Yes/No, consume 42 gold skill points to deduce and perfect it? ]
"Sure enough!"
Ryan couldn't help but wave his fist and said excitedly.
Immediately, he was overjoyed and chose "Yes" without hesitation!
In an instant, a magnificent memory of witchcraft practice poured into Ryan's mind, as if he had practiced these three witchcrafts for more than a hundred years in a mysterious space!
When Ryan opened his eyes again, his perception of these three witchcrafts had broken through a certain limit and he knew how to integrate these three witchcrafts into one.
[Ding! Deduction successful! The host comprehended the third-level combination witchcraft of the metal system "Iron Armor"! ]
"Iron Armor?" Ryan showed a happy expression.
"The first-level talent magic 'Metal Transfiguration', the second-level magic 'Iron Armor' and the third-level talent magic 'Steel Armor' are released continuously to form a combination magic: Steel Armor!"
Just as Ryan was about to test it, there was a knock on the door.
"Knock, knock!"
"Lord Ryan, there is a Count Buchanan outside the door asking to see you. He said he is the butler of His Royal Highness the Second Prince." The short Matteo said with a little breath.
"Huh? The butler of the Second Prince?" Ryan raised his eyebrows slightly, obviously a little surprised.
No wonder Matteo came to disturb him.
"Please meet him in the living room." After a little thought, Ryan said.
A few minutes later, in the living room.
"Sir Ryan, I came here this time because I heard that you also have the rare blood of dragons. I am entrusted by the Second Prince to invite you to join the Dragon Scale Brotherhood." Buchanan said with a smile.
"This is a small gift from His Royal Highness the Second Prince."
"This is a special potion developed by the Dragon Scale Brotherhood. It has a promoting effect on the owners of dragon blood. His Royal Highness the Second Prince named it the 'Dragon Vein Evolution Mixture'."
As he spoke, Buchanan took out a brown wooden box, opened it and handed it to Ryan.
"This"
Ryan clearly saw that there was a bottle of dark red, unknown potion shining with blood-colored witchcraft aura.
Because of Anna's mother's matter, Ryan had long thought about how to deal with the Second Prince.
However, Ryan did not expect that the other party would come directly to his door and invite him to join such an organization he had never heard of.
Buchanan saw Ryan's thoughtful expression, and immediately his face lit up, and he continued:
"Sir Ryan, the original intention of His Royal Highness the Second Prince to establish this Dragon Scale Brotherhood is to provide a platform for communication and an opportunity for further improvement for those who accidentally awakened the dragon blood."
"For example, you can imagine a group of like-minded people working together to study how to further develop the special abilities of their own dragon blood, and to study related special potions, etc."
"In addition, this is a pure hermitage, which has no effect on your current identity as a sword holder, and there will be no mandatory tasks."
It must be said that Buchanan in front of him is very eloquent and has good means.
If it were an ordinary person, he would definitely be tempted.
However, Ryan is different. He is now quickly weighing the pros and cons.
First of all, from his previous understanding of the Second Prince, this Dragon Scale Brotherhood is most likely not a purely secret cultivation organization as the person in front of him said.
Ryan himself is a wizard and pharmacist. As long as he thinks about it a little, he can figure out the key to the problem.
How to study and develop your own dragon blood?
Bloodline research must necessarily draw fresh blood, and even a small amount of body tissue may be required to research something.
To put it another way, if his bloodline really finds something special, that would be even more disadvantageous.
In addition, Ryan knew very well that his bloodline improvement relied on the system, that is, by killing dragon creatures step by step, he could continuously improve and enhance the bloodline of the mutant dragon.
As for the whereabouts of Anna's mother, other methods can be sought.
"Excuse me, Lord Buchanan, please tell His Royal Highness the Second Prince that I thank him for his kindness. But as a sword bearer, I don't plan to join any secret organization of any nature for the time being." Ryan thought for a while and said politely.
At the same time, he also stated that he would not join any secret organization, to show that he was not prejudiced against the Second Prince.
"Haha, Lord Ryan, you may not know how many people in the outside world are eager to join the Dragon Scale Brotherhood of His Royal Highness the Second Prince."
"Especially those with blood pollutants and degenerates, who are even willing to pay a huge price to seek to join."
Buchanan didn't seem to mind Ryan's refusal, and just listened to him talking.
"By the way, I heard that you recently participated in the selection of dragon knight reserves?"
"Yes."
"Then you should join the Dragon Scale Brotherhood even more. Let me tell you a little secret, His Royal Highness the Second Prince is one of the examiners this time."
"It's almost time, sorry to bother you, Lord Ryan." Buchanan smiled meaningfully and prepared to get up and leave.
"I understand, Lord Buchanan, I need time to think about it." Ryan stood up and said.
"Of course, if you decide to join, you can contact me anytime in the next few days."
(End of this chapter)
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