Chapter 186 Runwu City Spirit Card (Three in One)
Though people become stronger, their hair still grows thick.
Brown-black hair slightly and naturally curly, parted to both sides at an angle of 37 to 70, matched with handsome features and fair face, it has both the vigor of a teenager and the free and easy of an adult.
Arcane mage robes are not often worn, Duke likes to wear hand-cut frocks.
In those factories with billowing black smoke, workers also wore work clothes, hard work clothes made of rough linen.
Duke's work clothes have a satin-like texture, which is woven from the finest fire silk.
It not only has the straight and tough effect of tooling, but also has the loose, breathable and soft skin-friendly effect of cotton clothes. It is the top material.
Wearing this kind of fire silk work clothes, it is very comfortable no matter in spring, autumn, cold or heat.
"Sir, the newly recruited ten spiritual apprentices have joined the research team. According to your instructions, four sets of experiments will be started at the same time." Mu Lali came to the office to report.
After learning how to make cards, Duke's heart became wild, and he didn't think much about the topic in the tower.
So I plan to end the subject in my hand as soon as possible, and then apply for a new subject from the Penrose tutor.
"Is the spell model in the steady-state ring positioner enough?"
"It seems a bit insufficient."
"Yes." Duke went to the laboratory on the fifth floor.
Worked for a while, and painted and engraved two spell models of Mage Hand and Arcane Shield for all the steady-state rings for use by the research group.
"Drass, you are my deputy now, and you must take care of the progress of the experiments of the four groups."
"Please rest assured, my lord." Dellas replied respectfully.
Duke turned around and saw that everything was proceeding in an orderly manner. He didn't need to intervene, so he left the laboratory.
All experimental data will be sent to his office every morning.
He will read it carefully, give it to Xiaoyi to summarize it as a part of the thesis, and then use a typewriter to type this part out, and when the project is over, he will summarize it into a paper thesis.
"Such a paper is a 'coolie', without any technical content."
Put the newly typed paper into the drawer. Duke was just about to read today's newspapers and periodicals when Mu Lali knocked on the door again.
"Sir, boss James is here."
"Ask him to come here."
After a while, the potbellied James walked into the office and said happily: "My lord, the farm is ready."
Duke-James Farm purchased 1,500 acres of land near the Penrose Master Tower and transformed it into a greenhouse. The business scope is succulents and mushrooms.
"Really, Yulu has been planted?"
"This season happens to be the period when Yulu grows vigorously. I have already purchased a large amount of mature Yulu and handed it over to my workers for division. At the same time, supplemented by cuttings and leaf cuttings, the 500-acre greenhouse will be covered as soon as possible." James said.
Duke nodded: "Okay, I'll take you to move Ji Yulu."
2 Ring Elf Ben Lingzhi-Ji Yulu can infect the same kind of plants, and the infected area is basically 500 mu of land.
Talk to the assistant Vikas, and Duke asked for leave to leave the Mage Tower.
Did not return to the villa, went directly to the Duke-James farm, the distance is very short, and you can reach here in a moment.
"This place is a bit far from the urban area, even more remote than the suburbs, so I set up a spiritual pressure net outside the farm." James introduced, "There are many spirit beasts around here, and the patrol knights in the city check regularly, but they can never be completely wiped out."
Spiritual beasts are like weeds, which can be regenerated after being burned.
Humans can only ensure the absolute safety of cities, market towns, and air routes, and the outside of the city is still the habitat of spirit beasts.
Of course, in the entire Heijiaohe area, the spirit beasts with a ring level above 3 were basically plowed by arcanists. And every few years, people will be organized to plow again to ensure that powerful spirit beasts will not be brewed in these areas.
As for the weak spirit beasts, they are considered to be grazing in the suburbs, and there will be mercenary groups going in every day to harvest them.
"In your name, sponsor a mercenary group and let them hunt around the farm." Duke directly ordered.
Ji Yulu will be placed on the farm to keep infecting the same plants.
In order to ensure Ji Yulu's safety, it is necessary to sponsor a mercenary regiment. Duke does not want Ji Yulu to suffer any damage.
Although the chicken has separated from Ji Yulu, that is always its root. Once Ji Yulu is damaged, it will have a negative impact on the chicken—it won’t live and die at the same time, but without Ji Yulu, the chicken may have no chance to evolve into a great elf.
"Sponsoring a mercenary group of how large?" James asked, "I have a small group under my command, which is placed in Snakehead Town."
According to the level of hunting spirit beasts, the mercenary group can be divided into three classes.
Small groups can hunt 1 ring spirit beast; medium-sized groups can hunt 2 ring spirit beasts; large groups can hunt 3 ring spirit beasts.
The Broken Sword mercenary regiment sponsored by Duke is a medium-sized regiment.
"Sponsoring a medium-sized regiment, it doesn't matter if it's expensive. Ensuring Ji Yulu's safety is the most important thing." Duke has no idea of saving money.
As for the large regiments, they rarely move around the city, and basically go to the frontier of the war.
Of course, among the mercenary regiments, there are super-large regiments that can hunt spirit beasts with 4th ring and above. These super-large mercenary regiments are basically assisted by arcane masters secretly, and they will even be active throughout the Seven Towers Federation, looking for special prey.
"I will contact a medium-sized group as soon as possible. However, my status is a little low. When signing the contract, I would like to invite you to come forward."
"Well, let me know when the time comes."
While speaking, the car drove along the gravel road to the center of the 500-acre greenhouse. After parking, James led it into one of the greenhouses.
This shed does not look like anything on the outside, but inside it is supported by a metal frame, and there is a fine metal mesh between the frames.
"This is a custom-made Lingjin frame and Lingjin gauze that cost a lot of money. What you see, sir, is only the exposed part on the ground. There are also frames and gauze underground to ensure the safety of the entire greenhouse." James patted the frame, and the greenhouse remained motionless.
Going forward, there is a huge metal cage in the center of the shed.
James took out the key and opened the cage door: "This is also an all-round spirit gold cage. Even the spirit beasts with two rings can't bite it. Ji Yulu is planted inside, which is absolutely safe."
"Not bad." Duke expressed satisfaction with James' preparation.
This defense system is enough to ensure that the spirit beast cannot pose a threat to Ji Yulu and can grow here safely.
Waving his hands to let the idlers wait out, Duke only left James.
Immediately, he patted his belly, and the chick came out quickly, looking curiously at the shed made by Lingjin: "Where is this, Duke?"
"What do you think of Ji Yulu's new home?"
"Not so much." Chick pouted, "If you plant Ji Yulu here, there will only be mysterious vines in the sea of Qi."
"It must be seeded." Duke touched the chicken's head, the texture was as warm and moist as jade, "If you want to evolve into a great elf, it is definitely not enough to eat some spirit crystals and rub some spiritual seeds by yourself. You have to feed back with Ji Yulu."
"Yes, Mr. Chicken." James nodded in agreement, "Master Duke is right. Ji Yulu must use the infection of spiritual plants to establish a large-scale breathing resonance in order to continuously refine the power of nature and strengthen her own spirituality."
Chicken rolled his eyes: "Fatty, who are you, do you have a place to interrupt here!"
"Chick, apologize to Boss James, didn't I teach you manners?" Duke scolded.
James was not angry at all, he waved his hands again and again, with a smile on his face: "No need, Mr. Duke, Mr. Chick is so genuine, I can't wait to like it! It's really beautiful, Mr. Chick is simply beautiful, it is the embodiment of the force of nature!"
"Ouch!" Chick pretended to retch, "I have goosebumps all over my body, Duke, hurry up, beat this pervert to death!"
One has a bad mouth and the other is perverted.
Duke twitched the corner of his mouth, stopped Xiaoji and James from arguing, and said solemnly: "Everyone is quiet, I am going to plant Ji Yulu."
Mind communicates with the sea of air.
The power of spirituality quickly locked onto Ji Yulu on the Qihai cloud, and then was driven by ideas to project a target in the real world.
In the next second, Ji Yulu appeared at the place he chose—on the soil in the cage.
"It's amazing!" Boss James was deeply amazed, but his movements were not slow at all. He bent down and planted Ji Yulu carefully.
Chicken was inexplicably sad: "My Ji Yulu, Duke, are you really willing to let this fat man take care of you?"
"He's the boss of James, you should be more polite... I work in the nearby Penrose Mage Tower, and I come here once a day to cast spells for Ji Yulu." Duke is not only to appease the chick, but also to promote Ji Yulu's infection effect.
He is a level 2 elf envoy, and the breathing method is more effective, which may greatly shorten the time for Ji Yulu to infect the same plant.
James said happily: "With your help from time to time, our farm is definitely thriving!"
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After Ji Yulu is planted, Duke will come to the farm during his lunch break and let Xiaoyi hang up the "Yuluo Breathing Method" for a while to promote the growth of Ji Yulu.
Other times, go to work as usual.
Unknowingly, time has entered March, and the project team of "Analysis of the Modeling Effects of Different Spiritual Materials Collected from the New Spiritual Beasts Collected from the Emerald Sea Valley Opening War" quickly entered the end of the experiment after expanding the number of spiritual apprentices.
Twenty-eight kinds of spirit beasts unique to Cuihai Valley. The spirit materials that can be collected from the body are all extracted to extract spiritual power, mixed into two spell models, and compared in detail.
Wait until March 7th, the experiment is confirmed to be over.
"Thank you for your efforts. Tonight, I will treat you to dinner. Everyone will enjoy delicious food in the Venus restaurant in the castle." Duke decided to reward the group members with a meal.
Mu Lali arranged this on his behalf, and Duke didn't even need to be there in person.
After the experiment was over, he took the last part of the data to his office, flipped through it page by page, and handed it to Xiaoyi for analysis and conclusion.
Then began printing on the typewriter, printing the paper in ink.
Bound into a book.
Take the spiritual ladder to go upstairs, went to the office of Director Vikas, and knocked on the door.
"Your Excellency Duke, please come in." The assistant guided by Vikas opened the door.
Duke took a thick stack of papers and walked to the desk of Vikas's assistant: "After half a year, I finally completed the project you gave me."
"Has it been sorted out?" Assistant Vikas was surprised, "Didn't you just finish the experiment today, the paper is so fast?"
"The experiment is very simple, and the data is not difficult. I followed the previous paper format and wrote it very quickly."
"Indeed, the content of this thesis is quite solid and detailed..." Director Vikas simply flipped through it, "The topics in the tower are like this. Many topics are the lowest level of data collection. It is not difficult, but it takes a long time."
Duke followed up: "No challenge."
"Haha, most of the research we do is not challenging, but often as long as we encounter one or two challenging researches, maybe we can get a scholar title." Assistant Vikas said, shaking his head regretfully, "It's a pity that we arcanists have stayed in the Mage Tower for so long, and we haven't successfully challenged it once."
"Is there any new topic suitable for me?"
"Don't worry, I'll go back and find it for you. I have a lot of topics inside and outside the tower. The instructor told me to help you familiarize yourself with the field of card making, so the topics still have to be the most basic types, and they won't be as challenging as you expect."
"It's okay, I'm a beginner. If you give me a challenging subject, I can't challenge it." Duke smiled.
He never thought about learning to run now, first learn to walk, and then run when he is stable.
"Oh by the way, do you have a backup of this paper?"
"There is one more."
"Not enough, you can find a spiritual apprentice to make another copy, I will keep a copy, send one to the mentor, and you also want a copy yourself."
"what do you mean?"
"Wouldn't it be a loss to just write a paper on a topic, and such a lengthy main paper is difficult to publish in journals. It will usually be included by Offa Tower and Fa Ling Tower to fill the database, and it can only appear on the index of the data."
"That is to say, I also have to write a thesis?"
"Yes, you can simplify this paper and summarize the most valuable spiritual materials from the twenty-eight kinds of spirit beasts. Especially the spiritual materials that have outstanding effects on certain attributes and are more suitable for card making. After summarizing, it will be another good paper."
"I see." Duke understood quickly.
He spent half a year researching the subject, experimenting with all the spiritual materials of the twenty-eight kinds of spirit beasts, but most of these spiritual materials have negative effects, and it is not worth refining spiritual power to make cards.
So this part of the content is worthless for publication.
"Choose the most useful spiritual material and publish a separate paper, so as to help card makers choose card-making spiritual materials." He returned to his office and quickly asked Xiaoyi to establish a new process and summarize a new paper.
By the time I get off work, the new paper has been written.
"Xiaoyi, you are awesome!"
"Thank you for the compliment from the master, Xiaoyi's heart is sweeter than eating honey." Xiaoyi's intelligence has improved again, and the anthropomorphic function has improved further.
Duke simply asked Mu Lali to entertain the members of the research team, while he stayed in the office and worked overtime to print out this new paper.
The old paper was a full one hundred and forty-two pages.
The new paper is only thirteen pages long.
After the binding was finished, Duke sniffed the scent of ink on the paper. Duke was in a good mood, and he wrote two papers on one subject.
Full of sense of accomplishment.
I have never experienced this in my previous life, and even my college graduation thesis was copied from the Internet.
So writing two papers by himself in this life really made him addicted to this sense of accomplishment, as if he was also a scientific researcher.
"When I was on the earth, I lived in a daze, only knowing to eat, drink and play, but now, I have a higher pursuit!"
Duke looked at the thesis in his hand, and his heart was surging: "I want to gain insight into the mysteries of spirituality, and appreciate all the magnificent scenery in the extraordinary world!"
The thesis was locked in the drawer, and Duke went downstairs to the castle to have a drink with the research team members.
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The next day, Duke handed in a new paper.
"Analysis of Practical Spiritual Materials for New Strange Spiritual Beasts in Cuihai Valley".
"It's finished so soon?" Assistant Vikas was surprised again, "You're writing the paper too fast."
"I remembered everything about the data, so the writing went smoothly." Duke laughed.
Vikas flipped through Duke’s new thesis, and said, “I read the thesis you left yesterday. It’s well written in all aspects, but there is one thing that the article needs to be beautified. Some words and sentences seem too dry.”
"My literary talent is really not good enough." Duke agreed.
The thesis was written by Xiaoyi. As a model of artificial intelligence, Xiaoyi can guarantee rigorous wording and fluent sentences, but there is no way to guarantee elegant writing.
Duke said again: "I'm going to take some time to read some books on poetry and poetry to improve my writing."
"Read more books. We can't just bury our heads in the field of spiritual mysteries, but also look up at the beauty of nature and cultivate our personal sentiments. I personally think that spirituality and beauty are in common, and we must be good at discovering beauty."
“I will try to find the beauty in life.”
"Look at your paper. Like the last one, the language is relatively dry. It reads like... reading a news report."
"Eh... Do you think my paper can be published in a journal?" Duke asked.
"There is a chance. I can only say that there is a chance. It should be qualified to appear in local academic journals. The probability of "Runwucheng Lingka" should be the highest."
Immediately Vikas told Duke about the classification of academic journals in the Seven Towers Federation.
Roughly divided into three levels, core academic journals, general academic journals and local academic journals.
The lowest level of local academic journals is issued by a wizard tower in a certain place in the Federation, and the local magic tower assists in the publication. For example, "Runwu City Spirit Card" is co-hosted by the Faling Pagoda of Runwu City and the Malotav Sage Master Tower.
Malotav was a card-making sage hundreds of years ago. He initiated the local academic journal "Runwu City Spirit Card".
Although he has passed away for many years, the Malotav Sage Mage Tower has been passed down and has become a holy place for card making in the entire Wind Breath field.
Most of the card makers in the wind breath field like to contribute "Moisturizing City Spirit Card".
Ordinary academic journals are sponsored by Offa Tower in the Holy City of Offa, and are issued to the entire Seven Towers Federation, focusing more on research results in a single field.
Higher-level core academic journals are also sponsored by Offata, but they are issued to all human beings and are comprehensive academic journals.
"I suggest that you vote for the "Runwu City Spirit Card". You are a card maker in the wind breath field, and you have extra points in your hometown, so you have a great hope of passing. If you fail, you can vote for the Faling Pagoda in the city together with the previous paper, and make a backup of the index."
The Offa Tower contains all the knowledge of the Seven Towers Federation, and the papers of the arcane masters will be stored in the Offa Tower for easy retrieval.
However, for thousands of years, the arcane masters did not know how many papers they published, and it was impossible to display them one by one in the arcane tower. Therefore, it is stored in Faling Pagodas in various places, and only a directory index is kept in the Fa Ling Pagoda, which is convenient for the Arcane Master to find the location of the thesis.
"Okay." Duke replied.
"By the way, wait for your tutor to read it first. If the thesis is good, the tutor may recommend it for you to increase the probability of passing." Assistant Vikas explained, "Mr. Penrose is one of the reviewers for "Runwu City Spirit Card."
Duke first went to Mentor Penrose, as Vikas said.
Penrose simply flipped through the subject paper, and found a solid comment, so he put it aside and picked up Duke's new paper to read.
It took about ten minutes to finish reading the thirteen pages of "Analysis of Practical Spiritual Materials for New Strange Spiritual Beasts in Cuihai Valley".
Immediately commented: "Yes, there are several kinds of spiritual materials in the twenty-eight kinds of spirit beasts, which can reduce the production cost of arcane cards. I think the value of this paper is enough to be published on "Runwu City Spirit Card". I will write a letter of recommendation for you."
"Thank you, mentor."
"The paper is very maturely written, it seems that I have worked hard in private." Penrose praised again.
Duke smiled modestly: "The writing is not good enough, and the writing is rather boring."
“Not all reviewers pay attention to the writing style, as long as the words are meaningful and the reading is fluent, and they will naturally understand how to polish when they write a lot in the future.”
Penrose quickly took out a piece of letter paper and wrote his recommendation on it.
Stamp with a special seal, and inject a touch of spiritual energy into the special ink pad. This is a signature method exclusive to arcanists.
The anti-counterfeiting effect is first-class.
After Duke received the recommendation letter and thesis, Mentor Penrose began today's lecture, describing the production process of the Arcane Card.
"The biggest difference between civilian cards and arcane cards is whether spiritual materials are added to the spell model. The energy line engraved by pure psionic energy does not have element attributes or special effects. It is acceptable for civilian use, but not enough for arcane magic."
Penrose spoke eloquently, and Duke listened carefully.
Psionic energy is a changeable power in the hands of an arcanist. Once it is fixed in the spirit card, it will lose this change.
In a simple spirit card like a civilian card, the psionic power of an arcanist alone is enough.
However, arcane art is complex and delicate, and the spell models required by arcane cards also vary a lot. It is difficult to guarantee the stability of arcane art by relying on psionic power alone.
At this time, it is necessary to use the spirituality extracted from different spiritual materials and inject it into the energy line to exert influence to ensure the stable activation of arcane magic.
"The spirituality extracted from different spiritual materials, how to infuse them into the energy lines, and how to integrate with the card materials, this is what the arcanist needs to ponder..."
Duke recorded all Penrose's lectures in Xiaoyi's database.
After the lecture, he left with his thesis and recommendation letter, went directly to the Faling Pagoda, and submitted the thick thesis directly to the thesis department—the dissertation department would then send it to the Faling Pagoda in another city, and hand it over to the Arcane Master there for review.
After passing the review, it can be stored in the warehouse and apply to Offata for indexing.
If an arcane master finds Duke's paper through the index of Offata and wants to read it, he can spend money to buy it.
As for Bobo’s new thesis and recommendation letter, Duke used the letter transfer business of the thesis department to send it to the headquarters of the "Runwu City Spirit Card" - Malotav Sage Mage Tower.
From Shenjiao City to Runwu City, the distance is so long that the postman owl can no longer deliver letters.
Falinga Pagoda will have special route cars and even route airships to communicate with various cities, deliver letters, deliver goods and deliver people.
"Duke, I've come to Faling Pagoda, and I don't know how to come and have a seat." Director Philibel asked his assistant to invite Duke to the office.
"I just came here to do something, but I didn't expect to alarm you." Duke laughed.
Philipel was once a student of Suktara, and she worked hard to win Duke over before, hoping to win Duke to the Suktara Mage Tower.
But after Duke decided to go to Penrose Mage Tower, he didn't see Philibel much.
"Are you here to submit a paper?"
"Yes."
"It seems that you are in the Penrose Master Tower, you have studied well, and you have completed the project and published the paper."
Duke said modestly: "It's just a task in the tower assigned by the instructor. Let me use it to exercise the proficiency of the spell model. I still have a lot to learn."
"You are too humble. I heard that you have already learned how to make cards. Even your instructor thinks that you have outstanding talent in the field of card making." Philibel said with a smile, "I have a project here, which is related to card making. Would you like to take a look?"
"Is this a topic outside the tower?"
"certainly."
"Please tell me."
"Our Faling Pagoda is going to customize a batch of knight medals. The 0-ring knight attendant-green medal, the 0-ring knight-blue-patterned medal, and the 1-ring grand knight-blue medal all have special logos, so we need the help of a card maker to design it." Philibel said, "You should be able to do it, right?"
Looking for tickets~
(end of this chapter)