Chapter 117 One-ring Arcane Mage
August 30th, sunny and hot.
Duke, with a red mark on his chest and a green mark on his stomach, let Xiaoyi continue to maintain 85% power to solidify his spiritual core.
I rode a bicycle and went to the town to inquire about news.
The airship chase incident last night caused quite a commotion in the town, and Duke soon got the news from a mercenary of the Broken Sword Mercenary Regiment.
"Ah, I heard that a 5-ring ant queen was caught!" The mercenaries didn't see it with their own eyes, but the news spread, "They all said that this ant queen gave birth to wisdom, and it was she who commanded the crypt army ants to invade the farm, but the airship caught the 5-ring ant queen and flew directly to Shenjiao City."
"Didn't you rest in Snake Town?"
"No, except for the airship Sunset in the Elvin Mage Tower, which is resting in Snake Head Town, the other ships of the airship brigade have all evacuated. The mission of the pioneering war command to our mercenary group has also come to an end."
"Alright, is Commander Zina back?"
"No, there are still a large number of army ants in the burrows that need to be cleaned up on the front line, and the large troops will need to delay their return for a few days." The mercenary returned to the station early because of delivery, "Do you still want to buy ant meat? I can sell you a few at half price."
Knowing that there is cooperation between Duke and the commander, the mercenary is also happy to be a favor.
Duke shook his head: "I won't buy it for now, I don't have enough money."
In fact, after selling a lot of arcane cards one after another, he already has more than 300 golden dragons on his spirit dragon card. And there is also a 2-level arcane card - the **** of the python shadow. If this card is also used, the personal savings will reach as much as four hundred gold dragons.
However, considering that he will soon be promoted to the 1st Ring of Arcane Mage, and he will go to Shenjiao City to buy a house and settle down, he will spend money on all kinds of things, so he is not willing to waste money.
Leave Broken Sword Station.
While riding his bicycle, Duke said to himself: "Did you hear that, the red branch was caught by the airship and sent to Shenjiao City... It should be greeted with a fate like a guinea pig, but you said that the IQ of the red branch is not outstanding. Maybe the arcanists will soon lose interest and dry it into meat to avoid pain."
The green imprint on the belly flickered, arousing a little warmth.
Apparently the chick can hear outside sounds.
It expressed its anger for the scene described by Duke, and expressed its reluctance to the red branch, but it didn't seem to be so reluctant.
The reason is that in Duke's villa, there are also ant eggs on red branches.
Although the red branch will die, its bloodline will continue with the help of this ant egg, just like a new red branch is born.
"But, chick, the red branch should have laid countless ant eggs..." Duke still remembered that he asked about it last night.
The little chicken replied seriously: "That's different, this ant egg is the last egg of the red branch, and it will hatch into a little red branch!"
"What's the meaning?"
"The red branch is different from other big ants, and this egg is also different!"
Duke was still a little unclear at the time, but now there is a vague guess that the red branch is a rare 5-ring bloodline queen among the crypt marching ants.
The ant eggs it usually lays should be ordinary bloodlines with ring 3.
But only this one, which inherits its 5-ring bloodline, will be the 5-ring crypt army ant when it hatches new ants in the future.
Duke also discovered that whether it is a chicken or a red branch, the emotions of these non-human creatures may have parts similar to humans, but there are also many parts that are not the same as humans. For example, they are more indifferent to the parting and inheritance of life.
The chick lost the red branch, but with this ant egg, it doesn't seem to have lost the red branch.
At this moment.
Xiaoyi suddenly sent a message: "Master, there is only 0.01% left to complete the hardening of the spiritual core. Would you like to complete the final step yourself?"
"Yes!" Duke pedaled **** the bicycle.
Quickly returned to Little Duke Farm, rushed up to the second floor of the villa.
Traveling through this world for more than a year, he finally reached the most important juncture. He just wanted to complete it and witness it himself.
…
"Are you going to be promoted to Arcane Mage, Duke?" The chick had already rested, recovered from the imprint state, and swung its tail again to swim in the air.
"good."
"Looking at it this way, you are quite powerful among humans, arcanist." Chick said.
Combined with the fact that the spirit beast of the Emerald Sea Valley was brutally killed by the Arcane Master recently, the Arcane Master has become a powerful pronoun in its mind.
Duke is about to be promoted to an arcane mage, and finally makes him look up to him.
"The more powerful is yet to come, little chicken, don't feel wronged by following me. After five or ten years, you will become the luckiest elf."
"Oh." Chick said perfunctorily.
Duke stopped talking to it, but waved to Xiaodou.
Xiaodou bared his teeth at the chicken first, then jumped into Duke's arms meekly: "Chiji."
"Good Xiaodou, help me be vigilant, don't let anyone in to disturb me."
"Chi Chi!"
Xiaodou took the lead and immediately jumped onto the beam, staring at the door to maintain a high level of vigilance.
Duke took a deep breath, sat cross-legged on the futon sewed by Sister Sally, closed his eyes, and quickly sank into the spiritual sea.
In the center of Linghai, the dim ring is particularly eye-catching.
The bright nine-ring Xiaoyi and the shiny one-ring Sand Eagle, no matter how flashy they are, they can't steal the limelight from this dim ring and become the focus.
Duke stared at the ring, and quickly found the last sliver of spiritual power and arcane trajectory on the ring that had not yet been integrated.
Idea guidance.
Forced fusion.
Perhaps it was because of being too excited, the first attempt failed, but Duke quickly adjusted the rhythm, and his control over Linghai allowed him to quickly integrate this last trace of spiritual power with the arcane trajectory drawn by it.
Pata.
Like a drop of rain falling into the sea.
The next moment, the entire dim circle, along with the last trace of energy fusion, formed the most stable state of spiritual energy. Then the ring spread out in a strange slow and fast manner, spreading to the entire spiritual sea in a short time.
The ring of spiritual energy also spreads and disappears into the spiritual sea.
Ring.
Disappear.
But the entire spiritual sea, from the original pitch black, only bright stars, gradually began to brighten, as if filled with countless spiritual energy.
Light is fast, and dark is also fast.
At the same time, in the center of Linghai, the dim ring that had disappeared appeared again. And it is still the most eye-catching existence in the field of vision, but compared with before, its aura has a more unchanging flavor, as if the spiritual sea had already formed when it first opened.
"Solidified spiritual core... This is my solidified spiritual core... The spiritual sea is its dispersion, it is the concentration of the spiritual sea, it is the rule of all arcane trajectories, and it is also the underlying logic of the world's operation."
Duke's thoughts have left the spiritual sea and returned to reality.
But he still kept his eyes closed, carefully perceiving the changes in cognition brought about by solidifying the spiritual core.
"If the me before was a drop of water on a splashing wave, then the me now is a drop of water falling on the surface of the water again."
“Although I am still such a small drop, I have become one with thousands of water droplets, and I share the whole river, lake, and ocean with them.”
"I'm here!"
"But my future can be in the deep sea, in the clouds, in mountain streams, or in magma. I am everywhere!"
"Wherever there is spiritual mystery, there is my existence."
"Because I have become a part of the spiritual mystery." Duke opened his eyes, with a heartfelt happy smile on the corner of his mouth.
This paragraph of perception may be exaggerated, but solidifying the spiritual core means integrating into the spiritual arcane field. To put it in a small way, it is just to be promoted to a level 1 arcane mage, so that you can get in touch with some spiritual arcana; to say it in a big way, the end of the extension of the spiritual arcane is the end that he can reach.
"One is the present and the other is the future."
"Spirituality will guide me to that glorious future. This is my confidence as a newly promoted 1st ring arcanist."
Duke stood up, and under the watchful eyes of Xiaoji and Xiaodou, he grinned: "My friends, now, let me have the honor to announce to you that in front of you is...Duke, a ring 1 arcane mage!"
(end of this chapter)