Chapter 409: Astrologer's Platform
Rhine Province, Tidal Bay.
In a grand hall, a burly figure stood with his back to the door and facing the sea. It was the Tidal Sword Saint Leon.
He was looking at the dark clouds gradually gathering at the seashore, wondering what he was thinking.
As one of the few guardians in the entire empire who was not in the imperial capital Tamriel for a long time, he was stationed in the southern Rhine Province, responsible for deterring the Poseidon Cult, and also responsible for guarding a secret realm "Tidal Vortex", which was a heavy responsibility.
At this time, Sword Saint Leon suddenly said, "Lambert, come in."
A tall, muscular swordsman suddenly came in from the door. He carried a two-handed sword about two meters long on his back. He came to Leon more than ten meters away and bowed:
"Teacher, I want to go to the imperial capital."
"Oh? Did the Durham family ask you to go?"
"It's not just that I owe the Durham family a favor. I heard that Carl was also defeated by them. I think that fighting with them may allow me to break through."
"So, I hope the teacher can agree to let me go." When he said this, Lambert knelt on one knee and said.
"Hey, have you thought it through?"
"I have thought it through!"
"How many shadows have you killed with your sword shadow clones?"
"Eight shadows!"
"Okay! I agree to let you go." Sword Saint Leon nodded and said.
"Thank you, teacher." Lambert showed joy on his face, stood up, bowed again, and said.
Imperial Capital Tamriel.
In the study of the Rennes Mansion.
Claire found Ryan, her face a little solemn, and said: "Ren, I have a basic understanding of the situation of the Dragon Scale Brotherhood."
"Oh? So soon, you didn't expose yourself, did you?" Ryan immediately stood up and walked out from behind the desk, motioning Claire to sit on the long sofa chair and talk.
Two days ago, Ryan and Claire met.
He asked Claire to learn some information about the Dragon Scale Brotherhood and the conservative nobles.
Although Ryan, as a fine gold-level sword bearer, can call up the intelligence in the imperial sword bearer system at any time, but due to the limitations of the sword bearer's duties, most of the information is external.
For a secret organization like the Dragon Scale Brotherhood led by the second prince, it is a bit sensitive to inquire through the sword bearer's intelligence system.
Of course, the sword bearers should have more or less information about the Dragon Scale Brotherhood, but Ryan didn't want to expose the situation he was investigating.
So, when Ryan saw Claire, an idea flashed through his mind.
That is to let Claire find out the relevant information through her circle of contacts in the Imperial Academy.
Don't underestimate the Imperial Academy. There are descendants of both reformist nobles and conservative nobles; there are royal descendants, great noble descendants, and even a few low-level nobles and commoners with top talents.
This does not include circles divided by other types.
Moreover, these circles are not the kind that are clearly divided. Many circles actually have overlapping parts.
As the daughter of a hereditary earl, Claire is in contact with both upper and lower circles, so she is the most informed of all kinds of news.
"No, I just asked indirectly, and talked about it with some of my old friends at banquets and salons."
"It's just that although this method is safe, the information obtained is relatively general." Claire sat next to Ryan and lifted the hair that fell on her forehead and said.
"Well, that's enough." Ryan said.
"I learned that there are several people in the Royal Academy who are said to have joined the Dragon Scale Brotherhood. Later, I asked a familiar friend to learn more about it. After these people joined the Dragon Scale Brotherhood, their strength improved very quickly."
"This improvement speed is not much different from yours." At this point, Claire looked at Ryan with her beautiful eyes.
"Is it just the rapid improvement in strength?" Ryan asked.
"The rapid improvement in strength is one aspect. In addition, someone told me a strange thing, that is, one of the students with dragon blood seems to have undergone a change in his blood recently."
"Oh? What kind of change?" Ryan raised his eyebrows and asked with interest.
"Well, the young man with the blood of the blue dragon, according to my friend, when he first transformed into a dragon man, the dragon scales on his body were light blue, but in a recent accidental battle, he was surprised to find that the opponent's dragon scales had turned blue-black."
"What's even more strange is that the opponent's melee ability seems to have greatly increased, while the original blue dragon blood's control over the frost power does not seem to have improved much."
"This situation is very strange. At least, in common sense, this is unlikely to happen."
"Generally, when the blue dragon blood descendants are stronger, the color of the dragon scales will become darker and darker when they transform, usually from light blue to blue, and then to dark blue."
"At the same time, the control over the frost power is also getting stronger and stronger." Claire continued to talk.
"Oh? Could it be an accidental mutation?" Ryan looked thoughtful.
After all, he himself was in this situation, and the system also showed 'mutated dragon blood'.
"It shouldn't be accidental, because I learned about the other two people, and they all have similar mutations. So, I guess there is something wrong with this dragon scale brother." Claire shook her head and said.
"Is that so?" Ryan nodded.
The probability of all three people mutating is too high, there must be something wrong.
Suddenly, a flash of lightning flashed through Ryan's mind.
Is it because of the potion?
It seems that the bottle of "Dragon Vein Evolution Potion" that Buchanan gave him last time is indeed problematic.
"Ryan, if the second prince asks you to join, you have to find a reason to refuse." At this point, Claire's pretty face was serious and she said seriously.
"Well, I have already refused." Ryan nodded.
"That's good."
Suddenly, Claire smiled and said, "Ryan, it's been a long time since the last time we competed in Meister. How about we compete?"
Hmm?
Hearing Claire's words, Ryan was stunned for a moment, then he laughed and said, "Of course."
Claire's strength has improved very rapidly since her bloodline awakened, but she also heard about Ryan's superb record after coming to the imperial capital, and she wanted to see it.
The two of them soon came to the training room.
"Ryan, then I'm going to start."
"Okay."
Claire drew out the two-handed sword behind her and held it diagonally in her hands.
Judging from the starting position, Ryan found that Claire was still using the Arcadia swordsmanship.
"Swoosh!"
As Claire's slender and elastic legs slightly pushed the ground, her whole body rushed straight to Ryan like an arrow from a string, and the sword drew a silver arc of light, slashing from top to bottom at a forty-five degree angle.
"Snap!"
Facing Claire's extremely swift slash, Ryan simply raised his right hand and slapped it to the side, deflecting the blade of the greatsword.
Instantly, Claire's beautiful eyes flashed with a hint of surprise.
She thought that Ryan might dodge, retreat, or use witchcraft to defend, but she did not expect that facing a slash of 70% of her strength, Ryan could resolve it so easily.
However, Claire's subsequent reaction was not slow.
Since the blade of the greatsword had been deflected, she immediately adjusted her steps quickly, re-exerted her strength, and changed from slashing to sweeping, continuing to sweep towards Ryan's waist.
And this time, the result surprised Claire even more!
Because Ryan's right hand was like a poisonous snake spitting out its tongue, and it grasped Claire's greatsword blade like lightning, and fought bare-handed.
Of course, facing Claire, Ryan naturally showed mercy and did not use metal deformation to destroy the weapon.
"Claire, your strength has improved, not bad."
"But you shouldn't have used your full strength, right?" Ryan said with a smile, while letting go of his hand.
"Your strength." Claire's eyes widened, and she was a little absent-minded for a moment.
Although she had heard before that Ryan's strength seemed to have improved a lot, there was still a difference between hearing and seeing.
After the actual fight, Claire could feel Ryan's horror even more.
I remember that in the time of Shining Gold Town, she only needed to exert 20% to 30% of her strength to easily defeat Ryan who had just learned the breathing method.
But when she was in the county city, she was no longer Ryan's opponent.
However, at that time, it could be said that they were evenly matched, at least it was a duel between two-handed swords.
But now?
Ryan was able to easily defeat her with just his bare hands, and he was still one-handed!
Moreover, more importantly, Claire's strength was not unchanged, but after the awakening of her bloodline, it also made rapid progress, but unexpectedly, the gap became larger and larger.
But Claire also had her own pride, even if she could not defeat Ryan with his bare hands.
But we can't let Ryan defeat her with just one hand, right?
"Ryan, I'm going to use my bloodline talent." Claire said with a stern look in her eyes.
"Okay."
Ryan immediately realized that it seemed that he had just defeated Claire with just one hand, which made the other party feel a little bit unacceptable.
Claire's two-handed sword flashed with a rich white Force light, and at the same time, a dark green airflow lingered on her slender and round legs.
"Swish!"
Claire bent her knees slightly, touched the ground with her toes, and the whole person disappeared from the spot. The next second, she appeared in front of Ryan.
Ryan still fought with one hand, but this time his right hand was covered with a layer of hardened adamantium.
"Ding! Ding! Ding!"
Ryan stood still, and took Claire's jump, slash, and sweep from various angles with one hand. For a moment, sparks flew everywhere!
However, there was still a flash of surprise in Ryan's eyes.
Claire's speed increased by 50%. In her current state, she was close to the strength of a quasi-legend.
From this point of view, Claire's strength improvement speed was still very fast.
"Blade Storm!" Claire shouted tenderly, and used all her strength to display the advanced secrets of Arcadia swordsmanship.
Several whirlwinds appeared in the venue in an instant, and Claire spun like a gyroscope, slashing waves of air in all directions with the sword in her hand.
Ryan thought for a moment, smiled, and directly cast a second-level defense magic on himself.
"Iron Armor!"
As a layer of dark silver metal film covered the surface of Ryan's body, a series of metal and iron collisions were heard, like the dense iron forging sounds in a blacksmith's shop.
The blade of the sword in Claire's hand chopped on the shield emitting a strong metallic luster.
Not only did it not cause any damage, but Claire's wrist was slightly numb from the recoil.
This made Claire stop the Blade Storm. Her beautiful eyes widened as she looked at Ryan in amazement, saying,
"This, this is Level 2 Metal Magic?"
"You are already a Level 2 Liquid Wizard?"
Claire knew Ryan's growth trajectory best.
In more than a year, starting from scratch, he grew into a Level 2 Liquid Wizard?
The bard's songbook wouldn't dare to write this!
"Well, but Claire, your strength is improving very fast, and now you are close to the level of a quasi-legend." Ryan smiled and nodded.
He also intended to gradually reveal his strength as a wizard.
Otherwise, it would be even more unacceptable to reveal the strength of a Level 3 Crystal Wizard all at once.
"Compared to you, I feel that my strength has regressed." Claire shook her head and said.
"By the way, Ryan, let me ask you something. Who is the Miss Anna that Mint mentioned?"
"Hmm?" Ryan was stunned for a moment.
"Uh, this"
At the same time.
At the Sword Bearer Headquarters, General Augustus' office.
"What are the movements of the major cult organizations now?" General Augustus said in a deep voice.
"They are very active, but we think this is just a superficial phenomenon. Their purpose is to mobilize the powerful people of the empire to leave the imperial capital." Major General Tatia said crisply.
"In the past few days, we have found that many legendary powerful people of the cults have disappeared in many provinces. We think that they may have come to the vicinity of the imperial capital Tamriel."
"Yes, this is the same as we predicted. Their target should also be the secret realm of Dragon Valley." General Augustus nodded.
"Strengthen the personnel screening. After the results of the initial test come out, conduct a secondary screening of the personnel background information."
Although the list of these personnel had been screened twice before participating in the dragon knight assessment, Augustus was obviously not at ease.
The destructive power of the inner ghost is sometimes far greater than that of the external enemy.
"Yes, sir."
"How is the preparation work going on the Astrologer's Platform?" Augustus asked again.
"Sir, it has been arranged properly. Currently, four defensive magic arrays have been reinforced. In terms of air defense, the Royal Griffin Guard will mobilize two battalions to be responsible for the air defense of the Astrologer's Platform."
"In addition, the military has also mobilized an airship formation to assist."
"For ground defense, it is even more heavily guarded, including the elite of the military, the internal security forces, and us sword bearers, a total of three lines of defense."
"By then, the Astrologer's Platform will have a defense force second only to the Imperial Palace." Tatia reported.
"Very good." Augustus nodded and said.
As the command hall for this operation, the defense of the Astrologer's Platform cannot be overemphasized, especially since the commander-in-chief of this operation is Marshal Alfred.
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