Chapter 205: It’s all for your own good.
The arcane magic of the illusion is truly magical.
Duke wanders around the Penrose Wizard Tower, almost undetectable by all but the arcane mages.
Even a first-level knight needs to be attentive in order to detect the traces of Duke's passing through subtle spiritual fluctuations.
And facing the same level 1 Arcane Mage, as long as Duke stays still, Balza, Blanc, Oriana and others will not be able to find him. But as long as Duke moves, they can immediately sense the abnormal fluctuations in spirituality and accurately locate Duke's figure.
As for facing the second-level arcane mage, Duke could not hide from their perception even if he stood still.
"It is the breath of arcane magic. A level 2 arcane mage interacts with the spirituality of the outside world all the time and detects all the information carried by the surrounding spirituality. Therefore, as long as your illusion arcana cannot deceive the ubiquitous spirituality, it cannot be concealed. It exceeds my perception." Assistant Vikas explained the reason.
"What about spirit beasts?"
"Spirit beasts of level 4 and above can also interact with the surrounding spirits, but the interaction is not strong. Therefore, if the spirit beast is not alert enough, it can be eluded by the illusion. But if the spirit beast If the beast is highly alert or searching consciously, it is difficult for the illusion to work."
"I understand." Duke nodded to express his understanding.
Illusion arcana is a good disguise, but you must not rely on this disguise to think that you can sneak under the nose of a spiritual beast.
However, in critical situations, it is not difficult to escape the pursuit of spiritual beasts by using illusion arcana and other disguises. After all, not all spiritual beasts can maintain a high degree of vigilance and accurately track every spiritual particle around them in a combat state.
As an auxiliary arcane spell, Illusion is already good enough.
And as Duke develops the arcana of illusion, its value will further increase.
This whole day, he didn't study or experiment seriously. He was basically exploring the application of the illusion. It was basically certain that the functions of the arcana of the illusion were divided into "smear" and "copy".
By changing the surrounding light, shadow, and spirituality, objects can be hidden, as if they were erased from the real world.
At the same time, within the range of the illusion arcana, all light and shadow effects can be copied. For example, if there is an original cup, two identical cups can be copied in the illusion, or even three, five or even a hundred, but it cannot create a toothbrush that does not exist originally. .
Duke did an experiment. After he cast the illusion, he "smeared" himself away, and then "copied" another self, letting the other self pretend to walk, and then he stood in place.
Successfully deceived everyone.
Including several 1st ring arcane mages.
Even during an experiment, even Vikas' assistant was accidentally tricked.
"Although I can interact with the outside world all the time, who has so much energy to analyze what the surrounding environment is like... Stop using me as a test subject. I am already very old and my five senses are no longer sharp. You might as well Go find Lidman for experiments."
Vikas made an excuse for himself, and then encouraged Duke to experiment with Lidman.
Duke really went.
Standing at the entrance of the laboratory, he cast an illusion, "copied" himself, walked over and smiled at Lidman.
Leadman, who was doing the experiment, looked up at the copied Duke, frowned and asked, "What's the matter? I'm busy." "
Instructor Leadman, let me ask a question." The copied Du Gram made a sound.
The illusion can even distort light and shadow, not to mention the sound vibration. In the illusion casting area, Duke can distort his voice to any position at will.
"Say it." Lidman replied reluctantly.
Then he seemed to have discovered something. He frowned and glanced at the cloned Duke, then suddenly turned his head to look at the door of the laboratory.
His face suddenly turned gloomy, and he said coldly: "Duke, are you here to tease me?" "
Sorry, assistant, I just built the illusion arcane wonder, and I'm still figuring out how to use it. There happened to be a problem. I'm asking you for advice."
"This isn't fun, and I'm not interested in accompanying you. Find someone else." Lidman suppressed his anger and waved his hand to drive Duke away.
"Okay." It would be best for Duke to leave first before Lidman got angry.
But I feel very proud in my heart. If the illusion is used properly, it can indeed deceive the 2nd level arcane mage. Then it is very possible to deceive the 4th level and above phantom beasts.
After all, how can the perception ability of a spiritual beast compare to that of a high-level arcane mage.
"When Master Penrose comes back, I will try it out in front of him." Duke left gracefully.
Lidman in the laboratory quickly put away his gloomy expression. In fact, he was not angry, nor would he be angry over such a trivial matter.
He just doesn't like to interact with people.
"Duke..." Lidman pondered for a moment, "It took him more than two hundred days to build the wonder of the arcane shield, and then he built the wonder of the fantasy world. This speed... is it really something that only a genius arcane mage can possess? Is it true? It's frustrating!"
Among arcane mages, he is already considered to have outstanding talent.
But when I compare with Duke, I instantly feel that the world is full of malice, and no matter how much sweat I put in, it can't compare to talent.
"Huh."
Lidman exhaled, and his eyes became firm again: "It doesn't matter that he is a genius arcane mage, I just need to pursue my spiritual arcana!" "
Continue to study!"
Stop thinking about things, Lidman once again concentrated on his experimental project.
...
"Arcane Shield, Illusion, two instant arcane spells, and the mage's hands are also practiced to perfection. With these three arcane spells close by, one environment level is enough." Duke felt that among the first-level arcane mages, he was the
best It should be an invincible existence.
The main reason is that he has the Sand Eagle, a powerful arcane weapon that exceeds the standard. He can kill even 4th-level spiritual beasts, and he can kill a 1st-level arcane mage with ease.
As for killing the 2nd level arcane mage, it depends on what instant arcane spells the 2nd level arcane mage has.
If there is a defensive type of instant arcane spell, it is not necessarily possible to rely on bullets to penetrate the defense. Once it is defended by a 2nd level arcane mage, the counterattack method is enough to make Duke drink a pot.
"Secretary Levsky, is the mentor still in the office?" Duke walked around the mage tower and headed to the top floor.
Levski was reading a newspaper on the sofa outside. Hearing this, he immediately responded: "Your Excellency, the Union Tower is on rotation today and is correcting documents in the office." "Oh,
I asked the instructor a question."
"I will pass it on for you. ”
Levsky knocked on the office door and quickly got Penrose’s promise.
So Duke entered the office and immediately cast the illusion arcana, making a copy of himself and walking towards the desk, while he stood at the door and did not move.
But the next moment.
Instructor Penrose squinted and looked at the door: "You have the nerve to use this little trick in front of me, so put it away quickly." "
Haha." Duke didn't feel embarrassed and dispersed the illusion arcana.
After asking another small question about card making, he said goodbye and left.
He has already tested the results. In front of a level 3 arcane mage, level 1 illusion arcana has no chance of success at all.
A 3rd level arcane mage can already see through the reality of spirituality.
After leaving Penrose Wizard Tower, Duke went directly to the Duke James Farm not far away. He would take time to visit every few days.
One is to use the breathing method as a second-level elf envoy to provide breathing resonance with the second-level elf’s original spiritual plant-Ji Yulu, as well as many jade dews, to help these spiritual plants evolve.
The second is to cast spells on Chuixuezhu seedlings to help them grow better.
The farm has a special area for planting snow-blossom pillars, which encloses more than 500 acres of land. Unfortunately, the actual floating snow-blossom pillars do not even have an area of ten acres.
This is also thanks to the snow-blowing tree with seeds sent by Director Lidman.
The Fubuki pillars grown by cuttings, divisions, etc. are basically dead. The Fubuki pillars that only have germinated seeds can continue to grow.
"Sir, the growth of the snow-blowing pillars looks good, but compared with the snow-blowing pillar samples sent by Broken Sword, it is found that they have deteriorated seriously. Even if they grow, they may not achieve the effect you imagined, sir." James regretted said.
The Broken Sword Mercenary Group has been near Well No. 3, searching for more Fubuki Pillars to bring over.
Duke has already started to look at this: "Continue to plant. After Chuixuezhu loses his resistance to evil spirits, the quality decline is a predictable result. But we don't care whether it falls or not, we will continue to plant. There will always be what I need." The one that retains Lingchi's genes!"
The red worm tentacles of Blowing Snow Pillar contain a large amount of mixed spirituality and are excellent raw materials for spiritual materials.
Duke named the genes that can store mixed spirituality in the red worm's tentacles Lingchi, which means a pool that stores spirituality.
Planting Fuxue Pillar is to obtain the spirit pool gene.
"Yes, sir, I will keep your instructions in mind and cultivate the Chuixuezhu carefully, and strive to cultivate the Lingchi gene as soon as possible." "After cultivating it, you and I will become
rich. The value of the Lingchi Chuixuezhu will not be worse than that of Yulu How much."
"I know that very well." James nodded. As a first-level spiritual plant envoy, he could naturally clearly understand the value of Fuxuezhu.
After casting the spell, Duke didn't stay long and left directly.
The whole day was spent busy like this.
After returning to Suktara Master Tower, it was time to change clothes. The dining table was already filled with dishes that Aunt Virginie had prepared according to his taste.
His assistant Mulali and the guard knight captain Vivian accompanied him to enjoy the delicious food.
Butler Morris stood aside and took advantage of the meal time to communicate with Duke: "Sir, the Mage Tower has been a bit turbulent these past two days. Many management positions have been changed, especially the Su family's managers. Most of them have been replaced. Come down, some of the Su family members were even dismissed from the Mage Tower."
"Huh?" Duke asked while eating, "Did you find out why these people were replaced?"
"I was insinuating Suli. The big housekeeper and others seem to have been ordered by Master Suktala. The Su clan will no longer raise idle people." "
This is strange. These Su clan members are all relatives of the teacher. There is no reason to drive them out?" Duke Not very understandable.
The mage tower and the castle are integrated, and are equivalent to the arcane mage's home.
Of course the family has to live at home.
There is no reason to kick the family out and hand over the mage tower and castle to professionals.
It makes sense to say that the Master Tower should be managed by professionals. After all, the Master Tower is a special entity that integrates industry, academia, and research. But the basic function of the castle is to serve arcane mages and their families. Most of the arcane mages who have a wizard tower and their clansmen will live in the castle.
"Master, we don't know." Butler Morris shook his head.
Vivian was not interested in these trivial matters at all, and focused on eating the food on her plate.
Mulali said with great interest: "Sir, could it be that the Su clan members have made Lord Suktara angry? These Su clan members are Lord Suktara, adopted brothers and descendants, and their kinship relationship can be separated. There's only one level of distance."
Duke thought it made sense.
However, he scolded: "Do your job well as your assistant, and focus on your cultivation. These things are not your thing to worry about." "
Oh, I know." Mulali drawled.
Duke then said to Morris: "Restrict everyone, try to stay in Tower 2, so as not to go out and cause unnecessary trouble during this period."
Although Suktra treated him well, after all, he was relying on others, and Du I don't want people to misunderstand.
Morris responded: "Don't worry, sir, I will restrain the servants."
Vivian suddenly raised her head and asked: "Does the training of the Knight Guards also need to be changed? Su's Knight Guards have been training for the past two days. Not very friendly and had several frictions with us."
Since Duke moved here, there is a large enough playground in the castle, so he asked Vivian to change the training to the castle playground.
"What kind of friction?"
"Some verbal greetings, and then a few charges, and there were losses and losses. It can be seen that some of the other knights are a little angry." "Really." Duke narrowed his eyes
. , "Let's go to the farm instead. I'll find a chance to talk to the teacher before I change back." "
Okay." After Vivian finished speaking, she concentrated on the food again.
After dinner, Duke went to Tower 1 as usual and learned alchemy knowledge from Teacher Suktara. The teaching atmosphere was as harmonious as ever.
During the break, Duke said with a smile: "Teacher, the atmosphere in the Mage Tower has been a bit serious these past two days." "
Did you feel something?" Suktala had a kind smile on her face.
"A little bit. Maurice told me that a lot of people have changed in the castle."
"Yes, a lot of people have changed." Suktala seemed to be talking about a topic that was not related to her, and her tone was very indifferent. , "The tower was in a mess. I didn't have the energy to clean it up before, but now that I have some energy, I asked someone to clean it up." "I see."
Duke nodded and said no more.
After you have rested, continue taking classes with Suktara, like a dry sponge, desperately absorbing every drop of knowledge.
Teaching until eleven o'clock at night.
Butler Suli knocked on the door and interrupted the teaching of the old man and the young man: "Old madam, it's late at night." "
How come it's late at night so early." Suktara muttered with unfinished meaning, and then smiled at Duke. , "Go and have a rest, kid, we will continue tomorrow night."
"Okay, teacher, you should also go to bed early." Duke said goodbye and left.
Suktara's gentle expression gradually turned serious, and she looked at Butler Suli: "During the rectification, some people made a fuss?" "What are
you referring to?" Suli asked carefully.
"Duke, is someone targeting Duke, or Duke's servants?" Suktala sneered, "If you don't dare to lose your temper with an old woman like me, you dare to vent your anger on someone they think is an outsider. Yes, right?"
Su Li pondered for a moment and said, "I will restrain them." "
Su Li, listen to me."
"Old madam, just give me your orders. In Su Li's heart, you are the only master. Suli will implement any of your orders 100%."
"I understand your loyalty." Suktara nodded slightly, "These people of mine, let alone my direct relatives, even if they are my immediate relatives, They can't inherit my research in spiritual arcana...but Duke is different, he is my hope."
Give Sully time to digest.
Then Suktara said gently: "The most important thing in my life is my research. Whoever can inherit it is my relative, understand." "Understood,
Suli already understands." Suli The butler nodded solemnly.
"Go and do the work. I don't want such a sensible child to be disturbed in any way while passing on my knowledge." "
As you wish." Suli bowed and exited the room.
...
"Your Excellency Sorel, my grandma is simply an old fool." Su Laier expressed his bitterness when facing the second-level arcane mage Sorel.
Sorel is Suktala's student and the only guide of the Mage Tower.
However, his research direction is the life box, which is considered the field of life, not the field of alchemy, and cannot take over from Suktara's class.
Sorel lectured him calmly: "How can you say that the teacher is too ignorant?" "
I am anxious to get angry. You have also seen that my grandma is too heartless. The people of the Su clan are rushing out. This is obviously to clear the cage for a bird, to make room for that Duke, so that the mage tower and castle can change their owners!" "The teacher naturally has her reasons for making such a decision." "Don't do
this
. "Say." Su Laier glanced at Sorel and said bluntly, "You are also my grandma's student, and you are still a second-level arcane mage. Are you willing to see my grandma, an old fool, handing over everything in the mage tower?" To an outsider?"
Sorel pondered and said, "If the teacher really decides this, as a student, I can only respect her decision." "
Stop it, stop it!" Sorel looked at the coy Sorel, and simply went straight to The topic, "Please tell me clearly how you are willing to help us Su clan members...Stop perfunctory with me, we have been driven away, can you get any benefits?" "
Hiss..." Sorel also said Refuses to speak.
"With Grandma's attitude, once Duke makes some achievements, even if there is just a little hope, Grandma will inherit all the mage tower and castle to Duke. By then, we Su clan people will certainly not be in a good position. As my great-grandma's student, what good can you get from serving my great-grandma for half your life?"
After Su Laier said this, his mouth was dry and he was upset.
Sorel, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said: "I want the Mage Tower!"
"Ah?" Su Laier was stunned for a moment, then became furious, "You have such a big appetite, if I give it all to you, we Su clan members It's better to defect to Duke directly, the result will be the same anyway."
"Listen to me." Sorel said calmly, "I want this mage tower, and the castle will be handed over to you Su clan. The two parties made a contract and will never regret it as long as they live. ."
"No, no, I can't give you the mage tower for yourself, the castle is only worth a few dollars! We want the mage tower, and the castle will be given to you." Surair insisted on this, and he was not the only one who said this to the Su clan. After all, the value of the castle cannot satisfy everyone's appetite.
After all, the Su clan had always regarded themselves as the owners of the mage tower and supporting castle. It wasn't until Duke appeared that they felt a sense of crisis.
It's just a sense of crisis.
This sense of crisis is not enough to make the Su clan give up their ownership of the Mage Tower.
"You have also seen that the teacher's decision is obviously to hand over everything to Duke. If I don't take action, you will get nothing." Sorel sat firmly on the Diaoyutai, "Actually, I don't care. Wait until I get my life." With the title of scholar, you may not be able to build a mage tower by yourself. I'm not in a hurry, understand?" "
You...can you just watch the Suktala Mage Tower be handed over to outsiders?"
Sorel sneered: "The tower is too big. It's not mine. Why should I offend another arcane mage and fight for the interests of you Su clan?" "
This..."
Su Laier was sweating profusely and hesitated for a moment before saying, "I have to go back and talk to everyone. Let’s discuss it.”
“Let’s go slowly without seeing him off, come back to me after you’ve thought about it.”
After Sorel left, in the empty office, Sorel poured himself half a glass of red wine, shaking it while squinting in thought.
He was studying the field of life and had already deviated from the field of alchemy.
The reason why I still stay in Suktala Mage Tower is self-evident, it is to stay here for the Mage Tower itself.
"Teacher, teacher, you gave up and wanted to let go of everything after enjoying your twilight years for another twenty years. Why did you suddenly change your mind?" Sorel said to himself softly, "I've been waiting for so many years, not Just to serve you well and then take over your inheritance!"
"What is the ring to copy materials? It's such an illusory subject, so you are still stubborn about it. The method of the Great Arcane Mage is that you can easily shake it, so that ordinary Arcane Mages can also Learn the Ring of Projection?"
"So."
"I must expose your illusions and let you leave this world without regrets, instead of finding another little liar to defraud your old foundation." Sorel sipped He took a sip of red wine. It was bitter and astringent, and the quality was quite poor, but he liked this sip.
The bitter wine entered his throat, making him shiver comfortably.
I feel that my whole body is energetic: "You have never trained an arcane mage for the Su clan in your whole life. It shows that your teaching skills are just that. It is up to me to inherit all this. Don't worry, I, the Su clan, have many good people." Miaozi can definitely carry forward the Suktala Mage Tower!"
"No."
"At that time, it should be called Sorel Mage Tower!"
Dangdang.
The assistant knocked on the door outside: "Sir, Secretary Subbotan is looking for you."
"Please come in."
"Your Excellency Sorel." Subbotan walked in gracefully. He was Suktala's secretary for many years. "My lord, please come over here."
Secretary, assistant, and housekeeper are all the service staff around Master Arcana, but their job functions are different.
Sorel nodded: "I understand, just pack up and go."
"Then I won't disturb you."
After Subbotan left, Sorel looked in the mirror, rubbed his face, and then revealed a self-image. A smile that I think is quite gentle and elegant.
Then he got up and left the office, taking the spiritual ladder to Suktala's office.
"Teacher, are you looking for me?" Sorel entered the office.
"Come and sit down." Suktara stretched out her hand and waited for the assistant to pour a cup of tea for Sorel before she said, "How many years have passed, little Sorel, you are about to become an old man, and I am even older, half of my body is buried in the ground." "
Teacher, you are still as energetic as when you were young. I believe that you will soon be able to break through the fog of spiritual arcana and be promoted to a great arcane mage." "Haha,
you will. Say these pleasant words to make the teacher happy." Suktara smiled and shook his head, "The teacher is destined to miss the fourth ring in his life, but you still have a long way to go, and you still have a chance to surpass the teacher."
Solei Er responded: "I will definitely live up to your high expectations, teacher."
"That's right, you should have such ambition. The road to spiritual arcana is full of thorns. How can you know if you can do it unless you try hard." "
Teacher That's right."
"Sorel..." Suktala's tone was a little sad, as if there were some words that were difficult to say.
"Teacher, please tell me." Sorrell was a little confused.
"I'm ready to let you out." As soon as Suktara spoke the words, there was no longer any hesitation. "You study the life box. This is the subject on which you will rely on in the future, and it is also the ladder for you to pursue spiritual arcana. Teacher I'm going to delay your future again and tie you up in this alchemy mage tower."
"Ah!" Sorel felt like a thunderbolt in his head at that moment.
He never thought about leaving Suktara Master Tower, because subconsciously he regarded all this as his inheritance.
So Suktara asked him to leave. His face immediately changed drastically, and he suppressed the shock and anger in his heart.
His voice was trembling slightly as he said: "Teacher, you are joking. How can I rest assured that I leave you? Besides, I can still do research if I stay here and it won't delay me. Teacher, don't worry." "
Suktara kept smiling: "Teacher is doing this for your own good."
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