Chapter 187 The Shocking Change in the Emerald Sea Valley (Three in One)
Philipelle handed over a document with three patterns of knightly medals and special symbols embedded inside.
The special symbols are three kinds of insects—gadfly, mylabris, and cockroach.
"This is...the exclusive knight medal for the future knights of the Bernoulli family, right?" Duke saw the three kinds of bugs and knew who they were designed for.
Philipel did not deny it: "That's it. The research content of the project is to embed three patterns into three kinds of knight medals respectively, and formulate the operation process of embedding patterns, so that card repairers can modify the medals in the future."
After finishing speaking, he quietly waited for Duke's reply.
The Arcane Master has a special identification card—Faling Card, which contains all the information about the Arcane Master.
The green magic card represents the spiritual apprentice, the blue magic card represents the arcane master, and the purple magic spirit card represents the great arcane master.
Knights and Lingzhi envoys also have corresponding identification certificates.
The knight uses a medal, which is a special form of a spirit card, and is still a spirit card in essence; the spirit plant envoy uses a ribbon, which is also a special form of a spirit card.
Medals and ribbons are both spirit cards, so naturally they need the help of a card maker to make them.
"Medals and ribbons are mutated magic cards. For me, it is not difficult to transform a magic card and formulate a process that is convenient for card creators to transform. But director Philibel, I am just a novice card maker, why do you want to entrust this subject to me?"
Duke didn't quite understand it. It felt like he was deliberately sending a project, and it was too kind for him.
Philipel explained with a smile: "Because the income is not high...This design job usually finds a novice card maker, and you are the latest novice, so...I originally planned to find Sanfis to take over, but he hasn't succeeded in making cards yet..."
After saying this, Duke understood.
Knights and Lingzhi envoys, as branches of spiritual arcana, are part of the extraordinary power, and naturally need to record their identities.
There are special agencies responsible for both, and they will eventually be stored in the Faling Pagoda.
The medals and ribbons were also provided by the Faling Tower. However, Master Bernoulli was planning to establish a family and needed to customize medals and ribbons with a unified logo for the family vassals, so he found the Faling Tower and asked for a unified design.
Falinga is naturally unwilling to pay a high price for such a trivial matter.
So I selected partners among the novice card makers to cooperate with, and traded in the form of projects, which not only helped the card makers practice their skills, but also saved money.
"I took it, Mr. Director." Duke understood clearly, and there was nothing wrong with it. "By the way, don't the Bernoulli family want to design ribbons?"
"No need, Bernoulli is a Gu scholar, and the family will definitely focus on domesticating Gu insects in the future. It will require a large number of Gu knight vassals, so it will design an exclusive knight medal... There should be no special needs for spiritual plant envoys."
"Understood, this is a medal designed for Gu knights."
Gu knights are also knights, but the contracted spirit beast partners are some artificially domesticated spirit insect mothers to control the swarm.
Bernoulli is a 4-ring arcane mage, the family he builds must be huge, and there will be a large number of Gu knights as vassals.
After accepting the subject, Duke will study it seriously.
This kind of subject does not require writing a thesis, but it can directly make money after the results are produced. The price given by the Faling Pagoda is 120 gold dragons, which is equivalent to the price of a 2-ring arcane card.
"Sure enough, it's cheap, but it's better than nothing." Today's Duke is no longer sensitive to Jinlong.
At the beginning, he could worry about the 23 silver dragons for several days, but now he receives a large sum of golden dragons every year, so that he no longer has to worry about money.
The consulting fee of Shenjiao City Hotel is 1,500 gold dragons a year; the share dividends of Youshi Clothing Company are thousands of gold dragons a year; the dry stock dividends of Black Snake Spirit Gold Factory are also hundreds of gold dragons a year; Duke-James Farm will also provide a lot of income in the future.
Before doing a project in Penrose Master Tower, reselling some spiritual materials, I also made a lot of money.
Hunting with the Broken Sword mercenary group, the spirit beasts hunted can also sell a lot of golden dragons, in short, there will never be any shortage of money.
Leaving the director's office, Duke did not leave Faling Tower.
Instead, I went to the card department and asked someone for a few blank knight medals and spiritual plant envoy ribbons, and observed them carefully for a while.
"Xiaoyi, do you remember?"
"The internal spell model structure of the green knight medal, the blue knight medal with green background, and the blue knight medal has been recorded. The internal spell models of the green ribbon, green ribbon with blue border, and blue ribbon have been recorded. The medal and ribbon structure have also been memorized."
"very good!"
Duke returned the medal and ribbon to the card department, and then prepared to leave the Faling Tower.
While leaving, he ordered Xiaoyi: "Add a new process, fit the three spirit insect patterns on the document you just read, into the Knight Medal, and sort out the fitting steps, and sort out the steps that the card maker can operate..."
"Good master, I have added a new process for you." Xiaoyi quickly responded, "Process 4: Chimera of Knight Medal, research and development consumes 22.5% power..."
"Reduce the research and development power of the Sand Eagle 1.5 special effect bullet version, and increase the consumption power of the fourth process to 32.5%."
"Good master, the adjustment has been successful."
Meditation and the construction of illusory arcane wonders accounted for more than half of the power, so the process of increasing the number of subjects did not allow much power to be allocated.
We can only reduce the research and development power of the Sand Eagle 1.5 special effect bullet version first.
Looking at the progress table, the development progress of the Sand Eagle 1.5 bullet special effects version, Duke shook his head, the progress has not yet passed one-third.
The development of this special effect bullet is more difficult than the previous versions.
"And to be precise, this can only be regarded as the Sand Eagle 1.51 Bullet Special Effects-Physical Version. It is not difficult to develop empty bullets, shotgun shells, and armor-piercing bullets for the bullet itself. Waiting for the Sand Eagle 1.52 Bullet Special Effects-Elemental Version is the real big challenge."
Sand Eagle 1.51 Bullet Special Effects-Physical Version, Sand Eagle still belongs to the category of firearms.
Wait until Sand Eagle 1.52 Bullet Special Effect-Element Edition, Sand Eagle will truly become an arcane weapon, releasing the power of thunder, flame, freezing, venom and other arcane arts.
"Slow down, slow down, it's safe now, don't worry." Duke thought.
…
For the design of the Knight Medal, Xiaoyi only spent a day and a night to work out a detailed plan.
Duke used a 1-ring slide card to record this plan.
Slide card is a common civilian card. Like Chu Ling card, it has rings 1 to 3. Its function is to record and play images.
In Duke's view, this is the TV set from another world.
Since the invention of slide cards, the entertainment industry has risen rapidly, and national singers and photo idols have quickly become popular throughout the Federation.
However, the slide card has a huge flaw, that is, it cannot record coherent images, it can only play pictures like a slideshow, and play sound like a tape.
This has also led to entertainment such as movies and television, which have never been born in the Seven Towers Federation.
"In the final analysis, the capacity of the slide card is insufficient, and the picture playback cannot be consistent. Even a 3-ring slide card cannot meet the number of frames required for viewing." Duke checked the recording content of the 1-ring slide card in his hand.
He learned when he was on earth that when the frame rate of the picture seen by the human eye exceeds 10-12 frames per second, it will be considered coherent.
However, in order to achieve a viewing-level effect, at least 24 frames per second must be met.
"The frame rate of the slide card is too low, and the capacity is lower... If I overcome the technical problems and develop movie cards, TV cards, and music cards based on the slide card, I'm afraid I won't be able to get the title of a card-making sage!" Duke began to imagine again.
With the knowledge of the earth, Duke has too much to achieve in this world.
Suddenly.
A flash of inspiration flashed through his mind, and Duke's eyes lit up immediately: "Why do I always stare at a single spirit card? The capacity and frame rate of a slide card are too low, so it can only be used as a shop sign or poster. What if countless slide cards are combined?"
Thinking of this, he suddenly became enlightened.
The arcane mages of the Seven Towers Federation are extremely smart, but they are limited by their own cognition—they always want to make a big fuss on a spiritual card, and believe that their skills can play countless tricks on a spiritual card.
But the upper limit of a spirit card is too low.
Even if it is upgraded to a 3-ring slide card, with that little capacity, it may not be enough to play a video, and you can’t play too many tricks.
"A 1-ring slide card stores a few pictures, and then countless 1-ring slide cards are connected in series through the machine to play the images intermittently to achieve a speed of more than 24 frames. Wouldn't it be possible to play a real video?"
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, and Duke couldn't help it: "This is a big deal!"
The next moment, he made a decision: "From now on, I will specialize in slide cards! After learning the slide cards, I started to invent movies... No, it should be called ghost or phantom... It doesn't feel appropriate, let's call it film and television!"
The combination of TV and movies is called film and television.
"Open theaters, make movies and TV shows, cultivate stars... I want to be an entertainment oligarch in the Seven Towers Federation and even the world!"
The dream is grand, but it is not difficult to realize.
Duke knows that what needs to be done now is to lay a solid foundation, first invent the video card or video card machine, and then talk about the follow-up after registering the patent.
So he applied for a batch of blank spiritual cards from the Spirit Materials Department of the Penrose Mage Tower, and began to concentrate on learning to make slide cards.
With Xiaoyi following up all the time, and having complete experience in making Chuling cards, the progress of making slide cards is going smoothly.
In less than five days, Duke successfully produced the first slide card.
At the same time, he also went to Faling Tower, and handed over the previously designed knight medal plan to Philibel.
"The design was completed so quickly?" Philibel held the 1-ring slide card with the plan, and was a little surprised. "It only took six days, and the time I gave you was one month."
"It's not very difficult, so it won't take too long." Duke responded with a smile, and then received 120 gold dragon funds.
Philipel said with emotion: "I believe now that you have made the right choice, and you will make a great achievement in the field of card making. It is a pity that Lord Suktara has to find another arcanist who can inherit what she has learned."
"Master Suktarah will find it."
"Let's not talk about this, you have proved your talent, I still have a few projects in hand, I can cooperate with you."
Philibel decided to invest in Duke, giving priority to the subject she was working on.
But Duke refused with a smile: "I'm sorry, Director Philibel, I feel that my foundation is not solid enough, and I am not going to take on other subjects at this stage, and I want to focus on studying for a while."
"Really, let's cooperate after you finish your studies." Philibel didn't insist.
On the contrary, I admire Duke's performance.
If an arcane mage only cares about studying and making money, then he is destined to not go far in the field of research. Only when you know how to choose and make up for your own shortcomings can you have a better development prospect.
"Hi, Duke."
As soon as I arrived at the spiritual ladder room and waited for the spiritual ladder, I heard someone say hello.
Duke looked back and saw that it was Joanna Lynx, and asked curiously, "Joanna, why are you here?"
"I work in Faling Tower, of course I will show up here. I am curious about you, why did you come to Faling Tower, and have something to do with Director Philibel?" Joanna asked back. This floor is the office of Director Philibel.
"I have completed a research project and need to hand over to Director Philibel."
"No way!" Joanna exclaimed, "Have you been able to accept research topics from the outside now? This progress is too fast."
"Don't be so surprised, it's just very simple content."
"That's amazing. I've been promoted to an arcanist for several years, and I haven't even written a paper... Go to my office and talk."
"You are an arcanist, I am an arcane scholar, this is different." Duke said.
"There is no difference. Arcanists can also obtain the title of scholar, but I inherited my father's will, so I have no interest in academic research. I prefer wars. You know, I have been participating in the war in Emerald Sea Valley during this time."
"Of course, the Bernoulli Mage Tower has already dispatched an army of bugs. We have to compete with them for resources, otherwise those bugs will eat everything." Joanna said, sighing again, "It's a pity that they want to hunt the black jade scorpion king, and my father sent me back."
"He's for your safety."
The Black Jade Scorpion King is a 7-ring spirit beast, and its life level has changed. Although it can't beat the great arcane mages, it is a huge threat to the ordinary arcane mages.
"I understand, so I came back obediently, but there will always be regrets, right... But you know, I personally participated in the besieging and killing of a black jade scorpion with 5 rings, and hitting the black jade scorpion with my arcane skills is like scratching it, it's so exciting!"
"I don't know what it feels like. The strongest spirit beast I have ever faced is just a swamp crocodile with three rings." Duke laughed.
But in his heart, he thought of Xiaohong who was raised in his villa.
Xiaohong is of the bloodline of the 5th Ring Crypt Marching Army Ant. When she matures, she will have a powerful ant colony, not much weaker than the Black Jade Scorpion.
"So, I really want to face the 7-ring Black Jade Scorpion King."
Joanna was talking when an assistant knocked on the door and came in: "My lord, there is an urgent letter from Snakehead Town, which concerns your father, Lord Jovis!"
"What's wrong with my father?" Joanna took the letter and quickly opened it to read.
Duke saw her face change, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?"
Joanna had a serious expression on her face. After putting down the letter, she took a deep breath and said, "A terrifying giant insect appeared in the Emerald Sea Valley. It is suspected to have a 9th ring. Bernoulli, Erwin, and Williams are three arcanists. The ring of projection was broken, and my father was also seriously injured!"
"Ninth ring!" Duke was startled, and asked quickly, "Lord Jovis, are they safe now?"
"I have returned to Snake Head Town. The 9-ring giant worm was led away by the airship. I don't know what happened after that. My father didn't write it."
"Don't be nervous Joanna, Master Jovis will be fine."
"No, I have to go home and wait for my father..." Joanna panicked, the 9-ring spirit beast was already the ceiling for spirit beasts.
Spirit beasts of this level are often referred to as sub-dragons.
Humans haven’t seen anything with 10 rings yet, and it’s only mentioned in legends. The 10-ring spirit beast is called a dragon—it’s not the same species as the dragon that evolved from phantom beasts.
The 9-ring spirit beast next to the dragon, that is, the sub-dragon. It is said that the life level of the sub-dragon will transform into a legendary dragon.
So Yalong often has great supernatural powers.
Joanna hurried back, and Duke also left Faling Tower.
Sitting in the Tiger car, looking at Mu Lali, who was humming softly beside him, he felt a little worried, wondering what was going on in Sheshou Town.
"9-ring spirit beast, Yalong!"
"Back then, the Black Jade Scorpion King of the 7th ring almost destroyed Snake Town... I never imagined that there is still a Yalong hidden in Cuihai Valley!"
Everyone believes that the 7-ring spirit beast, the Black Jade Scorpion King, is the ruler of Cuihai Valley.
"I hope this Yalong won't invade Snakehead Town." Many of Duke's acquaintances live in Snakehead Town, as well as Mu Lali's family.
Reminiscent of the slough of the ancient evil under the No. 3 well area, this Cuihai Valley seems to hide a big secret.
Duke didn't tell Murali about the situation in Cuihai Valley, for fear that she might be worried.
Go straight to Penrose Mage Tower, while continuing to study the slide card, while patiently waiting for the latest news from Emerald Sea Valley.
However, before he could study the slide card for a while, he heard harsh sirens resounding throughout the mage tower.
Hum!
Hum!
Hum!
"What's going on?" Duke rushed out of the office.
It happened that Sanfis also ran out of the office, his hair was messed up like a chicken coop, and he looked around inexplicably.
Stimulated by the Duke Society of Card Making, Sanfis basically stayed behind closed doors for a while, studying card making all day long.
"Duke, what's the situation, the Mage Tower is on fire?"
"have no idea."
Ding dong, the door of the spiritual ladder between the spiritual ladders opened, and Leadman led several knights over: "Spiritual beasts are invading, everyone, come downstairs with me to the castle, and be ready to meet the spiritual beasts at any time!"
"Spiritual beasts invade, what?" Shan Feisi scratched the chicken coop's hair, "This is Shenjiao City, leadman assistant, are you kidding me?"
Leadman looked at Sanfis coldly: "I never joke."
Duke patted Sanfis on the shoulder: "It may really be the invasion of spirit beasts. I have received news before that something happened in Cuihai Valley."
"Cuihai Valley?" Shan Feisi was taken aback, "It's a forbidden area... I understand!"
The matter of the forbidden area has been signed and sealed, and Sanfis can't tell it, but obviously, he believes that the invasion of the spirit beast is related to the forbidden area.
A group of people hurried downstairs, joined several other arcanists, and climbed to the top of the castle wall.
The ear-piercing buzzing siren had already resounded throughout Shenjiao City, and Duke and the others also saw the forest to the west. It seemed that a large army passed by, and the whole body began to tremble.
The birds were frightened and flew away, and then seemed to be preyed by something.
Duke quickly jumped onto a guard tower on the outer wall of the castle, and with a slight movement of his right hand, the Sand Eagle pistol materialized in his hand.
He raises the pistol, sighting the scope.
Seeing the situation in the distance from the mirror, it was countless spirit insects hunting birds and rushing towards Shenjiao City in a mighty manner.
"Not good, Ji Yulu!" Duke suddenly thought.
So he hurriedly jumped off the sentry tower, and said to the two guides, Leadman and Vikas: "I have to go to my farm!"
"Drive my shuttle, go back quickly!" Vikas helped to know Duke's farm, "If you can't save someone, don't blindly die!"
"I know!"
Duke didn't take anyone with him, and directly drove the shuttle assisted by Vikas, and rushed to Duke-James Farm like lightning, and rushed to the greenhouse in the center of the farm before the army of spirit insects arrived.
got off the shuttle.
I saw James digging Ji Yulu.
"James, you don't need to dig." Duke interrupted James, calmed down his breath, and then quickly displayed the breath resonance, drawing Ji Yulu into the sea of qi.
"My lord, you are here!" James was overjoyed, "I heard the siren, so I hurried to protect Ji Yulu, this is the hope of the farm!"
"Good job." Duke was very pleased that James was able to protect Ji Yulu immediately, "Go, get on the shuttle, the insect swarm has invaded."
Other people on the farm don't know what's going on, and some people are still packing things.
Duke yelled loudly while driving the shuttle: "Everyone hide, the insect swarm is invading!"
"Where to hide, ah, where to hide..." An aunt was carrying a bucket and was at a loss. The farm was in the suburbs, and there was no place to hide except for a few rows of staff dormitory houses.
Shenjiao City has been built for hundreds of years, and has never experienced a bug invasion.
"Sir, leave them alone, let's go." James urged from the side, he didn't care about the lives of ordinary people at all.
Duke frowned.
Looking to the west, the flying spirit insects are about to arrive at the farm, and looking in the other direction, an airship has already taken off.
Especially on the side of the Penrose Mage Tower, the knight guards have rushed out of the castle and started to rescue ordinary people in all directions.
"Flee in the direction of Penrose Mage Tower, hurry up!" Duke roared.
Immediately he said to James: "It's your turn to drive the shuttle. I'll let you drive it later. Now wait here."
"My lord, we have to escape..."
"Shut up."
Duke held the Sand Eagle in his hand, looked at the western sky, and raised his hand to shoot.
In the distant sky, a fast-flying spirit worm was shot in the head, drawing a parabola and falling downward.
As he continued to shoot, the spirit insects that rushed to the farm were shot down one after another as if it was raining.
James next to him was already dumbstruck. He only saw Duke holding a small silver-black thing, his fingers kept moving, and there was no other movement other than that.
But he could see the spirit insects in the sky in front of him falling one after another.
His eyesight is good, and he can see very clearly. A few spirit insects that fly fast and close are directly exploded into a ball of blood.
"Australian weapon, this is a mysterious weapon!" James yelled in his heart.
Immediately shouted loudly: "My lord, the farm workers have already run out, let's evacuate too, there are too many bugs!"
"Slow down, protect the workers and join the knight guard." Duke has calmed down, and now they are all low-level spirit insects, and none of them can survive a round under the bullets of the Sand Eagle gun.
Shoot and shoot, just like a mowing game.
The shuttle started slowly and followed the fleeing workers silently. Duke sat in the passenger seat, stretched out one hand out of the car window, and kept shooting at the sky.
Subtle gunshots, softer than the sound of the wind.
With the protection of Duke, none of the spirit insects on the farm could attack the fleeing workers. After a while, they lasted until the arrival of the knight guards.
Seeing that the workers were protected, Duke continued to shoot, but only ordered James, "Go to the castle."
"Yes, my lord!"
The speed of the shuttle was extremely fast, and it entered the castle in a flash.
Duke put away the Sand Eagle pistol, stepped onto the city wall, and joined the arcanists. At this time, many arcane spells have been released on the city wall, bombarding indiscriminately towards the swarm of insects that appeared ahead.
"You go to guard the middle part of the city wall." Leader Leadman ordered.
Duke nodded and went to the middle of the city wall. Instead of shooting with the Sand Eagle pistol, he began to release the arcane spell of the Mage Hand.
Boom!
Huge fluorescent hands condensed and grabbed a few spirit insects in front of them. With a light grip, the spirit insects were crushed into rotten flesh.
The castle of Penrose Mage Tower, supported by several arcanists, is like a copper wall and iron wall, blocking the invading insect swarm outside.
Duke skillfully cast spells, and the mage's hands struck up, down, left, and right.
While looking around.
Many airships appeared in the sky, all of which came from other directions in Shenjiao City. A large number of arcane arts poured out of the airships and bombarded the ground. Together with the mage tower castle, they formed an air-ground combined arcane artillery battery.
There are also teams of knight guards interspersed in the suburban trails to form a mobile defense line.
The mercenary group also joined in, following behind the knight guards, excitedly hunting down every spirit insect that slipped through the net.
Looking for tickets~
(end of this chapter)