Chapter 403 Twin Snakes
Since he intends to reject the Second Prince's offer, Ryan must be prepared to deal with it.
Especially next week is the selection of the Dragon Knight Reserve. Ryan is sure that the other party will ask him for his final decision before that.
Although he can also obtain relevant information through the Sword Holder's channel, Ryan is not clear about the effectiveness of the Sword Holder's purge work. As a person who participated in the last selection, Luther should know more.
Luther was stunned at first by Ryan's question, then he laughed and said, "Sir Ryan, I think with your strength, you don't need to worry about this assessment at all."
"But since you asked, I will briefly explain it."
"First of all, the first assessment is the actual flight assessment. The key lies in the two points of 'flying' and 'actual combat'."
"'Flying' is the requirement of the assessment that the candidate must ride a flying mount. The purpose is to observe flying skills. This is why the assessment subjects need to have a flying mount." "
The general meaning is that if the candidate can control the flying mount to complete actions such as crossing obstacles and making sharp turns and dives in the air, it can be determined that he will have the relevant ability to control a dragon in the future."
"As for 'actual combat', the assessment is whether the candidate and the flying mount they ride can cooperate to defeat the enemy."
"Because there are many people with superb flying skills, and dragon knights are not circus trainers, they need to show sufficient combat power."
Luther added, as if to facilitate Ryan and Harlowen's understanding.
"Is the first item a practical assessment? What about the second item?" Hearing this, Harlowen couldn't help but look puzzled.
After all, if there are multiple items in a general assessment, the difficulty will generally go from easy to difficult.
For example, the first item assesses physical fitness or skills, and the second item is a practical assessment.
"As for the second item, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Harlowen, all those who participated in the second item have signed a high-level confidentiality agreement with the royal family, so it cannot be disclosed." Luther frowned and said.
"But... I heard that Mr. Ryan went to the Flame Canyon recently?" Luther seemed to think of something, emphasized on the Flame Canyon, then stopped and looked at Ryan with a smile.
Ryan thought for a while, smiled, nodded, and said: "Thank you, Mr. Luther, I understand."
He understood what Luther meant.
The second assessment should be in a secret place similar to the Flame Canyon. Although the specific content is unknown, there are only a few situations.
For example, in this special secret realm, it is more difficult to kill specific enemies, or there are dragons or dragon-born creatures in the secret realm.
At this time, after meditating for a while, Harlowen also showed a look of enlightenment.
After understanding the relevant situation of the dragon knight reserve assessment, Ryan said goodbye and agreed to go to the camp together tomorrow to familiarize themselves with flying skills.
After all, for Ryan, since he started riding Blood Feather, there have been very few opportunities for air combat. In comparison, Luther and Harlowen have much more experience in this regard.
Of course, Ryan is not worried about the problem of cooperation.
As a beast priest (legendary) professional panel, he will not have any problems with the cooperation between him and Blood Feather. The main purpose is just to get familiar with the field and communicate with Luther and Harlowen about how to deal with different enemies.
Just when Ryan was about to get on the carriage and go to the school station, he suddenly found that Olena was waiting on the side.
"Hey, Your Excellency Olena, is there something urgent?" Ryan saw Olena's solemn expression and guessed that something bad should happen.
"Lord Ryan, let's talk in the carriage."
"Okay!"
After the two sat down in the carriage, Ryan cast a soundproofing spell. At this time, Olena began to report:
"Just now, there was an urgent message from Major General Tatia. During the cleanup period after the purge, someone found that the details of your mission in the Sword Bearer Archives Management Department had obvious signs of leakage."
"Yes, I guessed it." Ryan nodded calmly.
He had actually expected this situation.
The previous attacks on him were almost the best in terms of location and time. It was almost impossible to say that no one leaked his relevant information.
Olena was quite surprised to hear Ryan's words.
However, she could feel a sense of confidence from Ryan's calm face and tone, and immediately, she couldn't help but admire him.
"There is another piece of news. Yesterday, the internal supervisors of the Sword Bearers learned from some of the prisoners that your personal mission record seemed to have been deliberately leaked to the cult."
"Oh?" Ryan raised his eyebrows and said.
This situation is quite interesting.
But after a little thought, Ryan understood and guessed the general situation.
"According to analysis, it is very likely that the conservatives leaked your mission record."
Olena's words confirmed Ryan's guess.
"In other words, the other party wants to use the cult to kill me?"
"Yes, Lord Ryan."
Olena saw the smile on Ryan's face, and somehow, the tension in her heart was greatly relieved.
At first, when she learned about this situation, she was still very nervous, because even if the adamantine-level sword bearer with superior combat power was targeted by one or more cults, it would be very dangerous.
This is why the missions performed by the sword bearer need to be kept confidential.
"Major General Tatia said that she will arrange for someone to encrypt your subsequent missions, and after they are carried out, they will be sealed to ensure that such incidents will not happen again."
"However, she reminded you that if you go out on a mission in the near future, you must be careful. In addition, she suggested that your family should not leave the imperial capital unless there are special circumstances."
"The cult is not the old-fashioned nobles. It is very likely that they will directly retaliate against your family." Olena added.
"Okay, I understand." Ryan nodded and said.
Fortunately, he has taken his family to the imperial capital. With the defense power of the imperial capital, it is relatively safe unless the last time the gods' clones come directly.
Just as Olena was about to leave, Ryan thought of something and said:
"By the way, Ms. Olena, can you help me go to the library at the headquarters to check the information about blood polluters and breakers."
"Blood polluters and breakers? Okay, Ms. Ryan."
Bixiu Construction School Station.
It took about two hours, and Ryan quickly earned 550 contribution points by helping to make puppet components.
Together with his original remaining 1463 contribution points, he quickly collected 2000 contribution points and exchanged them for the third level of the Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method.
At the same time, it is also the last level owned by the school.
In other words, if he wanted to practice the fourth level of the original Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method, perhaps he would have to explore the ruins of the ancient wizard school mentioned by mentor Mogaro last time.
"But now, of course, I will study and master the third level first."
After saying goodbye to mentor Mogaro, Ryan quickly returned to the mansion.
In the study, Ryan took out the memory crystal that recorded the third level of the Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method.
As a special memory content appeared in his mind, Ryan began to read, understand and comprehend it carefully.
"The third level of the Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method is extremely difficult to practice."
"But after successfully practicing, in addition to being able to further condense mental power and promote the crystallization of mental power, it will also increase the power of metal-based witchcraft by about 60%."
"60%?"
"I remember that when I was at the second level, it increased the power of metal-based witchcraft by 40%, which was already amazing, allowing my second-level metal-based witchcraft to almost reach the threshold of third-level witchcraft, and now it is 60%."
Seeing this, Ryan's eyes lit up!
This also made him want to master the third level as soon as possible, and his thoughts became stronger and stronger.
After calming down, Ryan immediately concentrated his mind and began to try seriously according to the requirements of the third level of meditation.
Unlike the three-dimensional model of the second level with a total of sixty will runes, the three-dimensional model of the third level is more complicated. According to the difficulty of practice in the crystal, the word used is "extremely high".
If the talent is not good enough and the mental power is not strong enough, just looking at this three-dimensional pattern will make you nauseous and dizzy, and you can't persist at all.
Ryan counted carefully, and the model of the third level was actually composed of a full 108 will runes.
This is nearly twice the number of the second level, which is already very difficult!
It is conceivable how difficult it is to outline the three-dimensional pattern of the third level in your mind at once.
"However, my mental power is as high as 123 points, so I should be able to comprehend it faster."
"In addition."
Ryan glanced at the attribute panel. The 22 remaining attribute points were a strong guarantee for him to quickly master the third level.
Not long after, Ryan began to visualize the three-dimensional model of the third level in his mind.
Two hours later.
After trying dozens of times, Ryan was now able to successfully visualize a pattern consisting of ninety-six will runes. He was still twelve away from one hundred and eight, a number that was neither too much nor too little.
According to the many records in the memory crystal, his progress was far beyond that of wizards who had just entered the third level of crystallization. According to
the records, most of the crystallization wizards who practiced the third level barely managed to squeeze into the stage of outlining ninety will runes after the third month.
But Ryan was still not very satisfied with this progress.
You know, when he practiced the second level before, when his mental power was about to run out, he only needed five will runes to complete the outline, but now, he was exactly twelve away.
"It really deserves to be an extremely difficult level." Ryan rubbed his slightly swollen temples and said to himself.
"Then... start adding points!"
Almost without hesitation, Ryan added 1 point to the mental attribute.
As his mental attribute increased from 123 to 124, Ryan felt a coolness in his brain, as if a clear mountain spring suddenly emerged in his mind, taking away all his mental fatigue.
Ryan, who had recovered to his peak state, smiled and once again sketched out the complex three-dimensional model of the third layer in his mind.
Two hours passed.
The first will rune.
The thirtieth and
ninety-ninth will runes!
After this time, Ryan felt a burst of pain in his temples again.
"I consumed one attribute point and improved three will runes."
"It's really difficult!"
"But it's also expected. There are only nine left now!"
Faced with possible potential threats, Ryan naturally had to improve his combat power as soon as possible, especially the special effect of the third layer of the Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method, which is to fully increase the power of metal witchcraft by 60%.
For Ryan, it is quite meaningful.
So, Ryan added another attribute point to his mental state, and as his state was fully restored, he repeated the previous process again.
This time, Ryan rushed to 102.
"Come again!"
As Ryan added some mental power again, he continued to outline the three-dimensional pattern of the third layer after recovering.
"Come again!"
Until the sky was slightly white, Ryan suddenly looked happy, clenched his fists, and waved them heavily!
It took almost an entire night, and Ryan, who had added points six times in total, finally succeeded in outlining the third layer of the Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method in one go.
At this time, his mental power also increased to 129 points.
In his sea of consciousness, the bottom of the three-layer crystal, the original ring-shaped base, was now nearly doubled in thickness, and it seemed more stable.
The system prompt, at this time, also came:
[You have practiced the third layer of the Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method, and the relevant comprehension has been improved! ]
[Your skill Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method has been improved, experience value +5]
Ryan quickly found the Iron Heart skill icon on the Warhammer Wizard (Legend) career panel and checked the changes in the expression.
The new description is as follows:
Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method lv7 (1/5000), with the special effect 'Metal Control lv3'.
[Metal Control lv3 (passive) effect: Your ability to control metal energy particles has been greatly improved.]
"The system description of lv3 Metal Control has changed from 'slightly improved' to 'significantly improved'."
"The third level of meditation method corresponds to the display level of lv7~lv9."
Because of the experience of the second level last time, Ryan thought about it and invested 2 skill points in the lv7 Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method.
As the Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method entered lv9 from lv7, a memory of practicing the third level of the Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method suddenly flooded into Ryan's mind like a tide.
In an instant, Ryan seemed to be in a mysterious space, experiencing more than a hundred years of hard practice in the third level of meditation.
A few minutes later, when Ryan tried to outline the model of the third level of meditation method again, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the time spent on visualization was shortened by nearly two-thirds!
Looking at the remaining 1 skill point, although Ryan knew that the meditation method should have reached the upper limit, he still wanted to confirm it.
As he added points, as expected, the system failed to prompt:
[Adding points failed! The upper limit of the current Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method has been reached. ]
"Not bad."
Seeing this scene, Ryan's face showed a smile. Level 9 is the upper limit of the third level.
At this time, Ryan looked at the attribute panel again and found that the mental power value on it had changed significantly again:
Mental: 120 (Crystallization 2%)
You know, before he added points, his mental power was as high as 129 points, but now it is only 120 points, a full 9 points less, but the crystallization progress has increased by one percentage point, from 1% to 2%.
Because of the experience of the last liquefaction, Ryan was not too surprised, but the large reduction was slightly beyond his expectations.
"It should be the effect of advanced meditation on the tempering and purification of mental power."
"After all, what is concentrated is the essence."
After a night of meditation practice, perhaps because of the joy of success or the effect of adding some recovery, Ryan did not feel any fatigue, but instead felt eager to try.
At this time, a ray of morning light slowly shone through the window and sprinkled on Ryan's back. For a moment, the vigorous boy and the dawn light inexplicably fit together.
Sword Bearer Headquarters.
In Tatia's office, people came in and out to report every few minutes.
"Lord Tatia, I just received news that last night, including the provinces of Waze, Moselle, Nome, and Marne, were attacked by the cult."
"The personnel dispatched by the other party this time are of high level and strong strength. There are even epic-level strongmen comparable to the level of the Imperial Guardians. The Sword Bearer branches in various provinces request support from the headquarters." An intelligence officer reported.
"Enemy with epic powerhouses, forward it to General Augustus for review, and others, forward it to the mission hall and issue it as a mission." Tatia handled it quickly.
Since the coordination level of the Imperial Guardians is relatively high, General Augustus needs to be in charge in person, and Tatia is only responsible for the coordination and operation within the Sword Bearers.
In addition, in the past week, Tatia clearly felt that the activity of the cult within the Empire has greatly increased, and epic powerhouses have appeared repeatedly.
Accordingly, nearly ten Imperial Guardians had to leave the Imperial Capital Tamriel to deal with it.
At this time, a female staff member came to Major General Tatia and reported in a low voice:
"Lord Tatia, we found that the 'twin snakes' Ereda and Elida of the Secret Snake Cult appeared in the province of Valdile three days ago."
"But just yesterday, they appeared in the province of Vosges. The intelligence hall judged based on the path that the other party's destination is likely to be the direction of the imperial capital."
Tatia's face changed slightly when she heard the news.
The 'twin snakes' are the third among the twelve secret snake messengers of the evil cult Secret Snake Cult. Their strength far exceeds that of the secret snake messengers ranked behind. It is said that the two are sisters and have the special ability of telepathy.
It can be imagined how difficult it is for two people who are both legendary peak powerhouses to cooperate almost perfectly in battle.
Judging from the battle record, this is also the case.
Apart from other things, the fact that the two have repeatedly escaped from the hands of the imperial guardians also proves their strength.
Considering their destructive power and difficulty, the 'twin snakes' Ereda and Elida sisters have always been one of the key targets of the imperial sword bearers.
"What are the specific opinions from the Intelligence Hall?"
"Lady Tatia, this is the specific opinion from the Intelligence Hall." The young staff member opened a record and presented it to Tatia.
"Hmm? A 70% chance. Not low." Tatia narrowed her eyes and muttered to herself.
It was written on it: '. In view of the leak, there is a 70% chance that the target of the attack is Lord Ryan.'
For Tatia, she naturally knew that Ryan had a deep entanglement with the Secret Snake Cult when he was in the Munster branch.
At that time, Ryan killed two of the Secret Snake Cult's lower-ranked Secret Snake Messengers, namely 'Ice Snake' Edmundo and 'Crazy Snake' Icosela.
Therefore, she still agreed with the judgment of the Intelligence Hall.
Because the mission execution record was leaked, the other party came to seek revenge this time.
However, the other party did not dare to enter the imperial capital Tamriel easily, and it was likely that they were looking for opportunities near the imperial capital.
"Inform Deputy Director Olena of this situation immediately, and ask her to inform Lord Ryan to be on high alert. By the way, also pass on the detailed information of the 'twin snakes' to Lord Ryan."
"Okay, Lord Tatia, I'll go right away." The young staff member saluted and left immediately.
At the same time.
More than a hundred miles away from the imperial capital, in a manor in a remote area of the town of Tavlin.
I saw an ordinary carriage stopped at the door of the manor, but the two gray-robed people who got off were very unusual.
The figures under the gray robes of the two people were graceful and slender, and they were also very similar. Judging from their postures, they should be beauties, but they were both wearing hoods, which was rare.
However, judging from the exquisite noses and cherry mouths exposed, in addition to being beautiful, the two were like replicas of the same mold, and it was impossible to tell who was who.
"Lord Erida, Lord Erida, you two have worked hard on the journey." An extraordinary old man in black robes bowed slightly to the two and said.
If you perceive carefully, you can find that the old man in front of you is also a wizard at the third level of crystallization.
"Well, I'm lucky. The journey was smooth." One of the two women said crisply.
"By the way, Lord Aurelian, how many days are left for the selection of the Dragon Knight Reserve? Has the Empire determined the time to open the Dragon Valley Secret Realm?"
"Uh, Lord Erida, there are still five days before the selection."
"As for the opening time of the secret realm, we are not sure yet, but according to convention, it is usually three to five days after the first assessment, and the secret realm will be opened for the second assessment." The old man named Aurelian said respectfully
. "Well, then we will wait for your news. By the way, you should know the importance of this mission, don't take it lightly, Lord Aurelian." Erida said.
"By the way, do we have to deal with a sister by the way? What's her name? The one who killed the ice snake and the crazy snake." Erida on the side suddenly asked.
The old man in black robe said, "Lady Elida, the man's name is Ryan. We have learned the exact situation. He has also participated in the selection of dragon knight reserves."
"Haha, that's interesting. Sister, it seems that we don't need to make two trips. We can solve it in one trip." Elida couldn't help laughing.
Thank you for the 500 starting coins reward for being happy and having good luck!
(End of this chapter)
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