Chapter 189 Shenjiao City Public Burial Ceremony (Three in One)
No surprises.
Many ants kill elephants.
Under the indiscriminate bombardment of many 1st and 2nd ring arcanists in the airship team, the already injured 5th ring spirit insect - Black Jade Scorpion, struggled to penetrate the airbag of an airship before dying unwillingly.
The airship whose airbags were pierced had to make an emergency landing.
Then the arcanists and flight attendants on the airship were quickly transferred to other airships and continued to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the remaining Black Jade Scorpions.
But the uninjured Black Jade Scorpion is not so easy to kill.
A 1st-ring arcane mage like Duke can't break through the defense at all. With Sand Eagle in hand, he shoots the Black Jade Scorpion solidly, but it has no effect.
So the help that Duke can provide is the instant arcane shield to help the Loop Airship defend against the Black Jade Scorpion's arcane attack.
The rest of the time, he was paying attention to the dragon hunting battle not far away.
Under the bombing of the airship brigade, the Black Jade Horseshoe crab became more and more courageous in the battle, and its two chelicerus machetes had chopped up three airships. Duke even witnessed with his own eyes that an arcane mage was slashed by the black jade horseshoe dragon when the airship shattered and landed after a short gliding.
At that time, the instant arcane spell of the bodyguard was chopped into pieces, and then the whole person was split in two.
An arcane mage died like this.
"A level 2 arcane mage, in front of Yalong, he can't hold a single sword." A trace of sadness emerged in Duke's heart.
At the same time, he is also more vigilant: "In the face of spirit beasts and various dangers, the first priority must be to preserve yourself, and you must not be too strong!"
The mighty Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon is still raging.
Suddenly, the battleship Bibo, headed by the airship brigade, flew out a ball like a red sun. It seemed slow but was actually fast.
directly sticks to the carapace of the Black Jade Horseshoe crab.
Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon instinctively sensed the danger, and the long needle in its tail circled around, as if injecting itself, and pierced it into the carapace.
In an instant, the black jade horseshoe crab seemed to be enveloped by an extraordinary force, and it directly turned into a shining obsidian statue. It was as black as ink, but it could reflect the brilliance of the sky.
Almost at the same time, the red sun-like ball exploded.
That moment.
Duke, who was far away on the Loop Airship, only had time to see the dazzling light flashing, and then instantly engulfed the whole world.
When his vision recovered, before he came to remember what happened, the Loop Airship was blown by a strong wind and almost fell from the sky.
Duke grabs the handrail to keep his body stable.
Looking fixedly at the center of the battlefield, the ground there seemed to have been bombed by an atomic bomb, leaving a huge circular crater. At the bottom of the crater, the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon still maintained an obsidian-like sculptural posture and was not destroyed by the explosion.
"Is it all right?" Duke was terrified.
The red sun ball that the battleship Bibo flew out just now was like a small atomic bomb explosion, and the ground was scorched for ten miles around.
The Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon in the center of the explosion was unharmed.
"Can you even resist a nuclear bomb!"
Although Duke didn’t know what kind of method the red sun ball flew out from the battleship Bibo, there was no doubt that it had devastating power—the explosion was very similar to a nuclear bomb, and its power was definitely far superior to that of a nuclear bomb. After all, it was an extraordinary force.
The shock hadn't subsided, and suddenly the obsidian sculpture at the bottom of the round pit shattered.
A layer of black crystals fell to the ground, and a smaller black jade horseshoe crab popped out of it. This huge scorpion-like monster looked around the airship brigade and fled to the distance without looking back.
The airship brigade did not pursue.
Almost every airship and battleship suffered damage to varying degrees, especially the leading battleship Bibo, whose keel was split and almost broke in two.
"Huh."
"Fortunately, this black jade horseshoe crab is not really hard-resistant to nuclear bombs. It should be some kind of magical means to escape." Looking at the direction of the black jade horseshoe crab, Duke felt better. "This red sun ball that looks like a nuclear bomb may be the secret weapon of Keyston Rage!"
Woohoo!
Dozens of airships on the battlefield blew their sirens together to celebrate resisting the insect swarm crisis.
The flight attendant brought red wine, and Vikas directed everyone to toast together: "The invasion of insects that has not been seen in Shenjiao City for a century was finally eliminated by our concerted efforts. Let's have a drink, everyone, to celebrate this hard-won victory."
Although there is suspicion of putting gold on his face, he did his best to resist the bug swarm, so Duke and others raised their glasses.
Drank the red wine in the glass in one gulp.
The red wine after the battle is extraordinarily pure.
"Although he didn't succeed in hunting the dragon, he became a dragon slaying warrior once, which is great!" Shanfis was already intoxicated, and he didn't know how he identified the identity of the dragon slaying warrior.
Duke fired a few shots at the Black Jade Horseshoe crab anyway, and the bullets actually hit the Black Jade Horseshoe crab.
Sanfis just watched the battle from a distance.
"I saw an arcane mage killed in battle. It seems to be Lannik, the guide of the Erwin mage tower. Have you seen it clearly?" Orianna said suddenly.
Director Vikas frowned: "Langnik, are you sure?"
"I'm sure an arcanist is dead, but it's not that Lannick didn't see it clearly."
"Isn't it, an arcane mage died in battle?" Sanfis was stunned, and the intoxication of the dragon slaying warrior just now faded away quickly.
Several other people present also fell silent.
In the mind of an arcanist, death is a very distant concept. There is no other reason.
The protection of the Arcane Master by the Seven Towers Federation ensures the personal safety of the Arcane Master, and it is difficult for accidents to occur.
Shenjiao City has been peaceful for a long time, and there has been no case of accidental death of an arcanist for many years.
Even if Bynes, the life scholar who was expelled from the Faling Pagoda, hid in the hut in the forest, he ended up dying of old age, not an accidental death.
In the end, it was Vikas who helped break the silence: "Lannik...maybe he just chose to return to the origin of spirituality and integrate into the arcane itself. Everyone, let's look at it a little bit. After decades, maybe in the real spiritual sea, you and I can meet again."
The Arcane Master of the Seven Towers Federation believes that spirituality takes care of oneself, and after death, it will not disappear like ordinary people.
Instead, you will be engulfed by the spiritual sea, and swim in the real spiritual sea.
The return voyage was parked on the tarmac of the castle. Duke and others returned to the Penrose Master Tower and took the spiritual ladder to the top floor.
Looking at the surrounding land.
With the West Suburb Mage Tower as the dividing line, the east side is still prosperous as before, while the west side seems to have been plowed over, with corpses strewn across the field, most of which are corpses of spirit insects, and a small part are corpses of common people, knights and contracted spirit beasts.
At this time, the mercenary group and the knight team were picking up spoils on the devastated ground.
Director Vikas took a look, then turned around: "You are waiting in the Mage Tower, I will go to the Union Tower to get some information."
Duke also left, and he was going to take a look at the Duke-James farm to see the damage to the farm.
"Sir." Mu Lali followed behind Duke, without a smile, her face was full of worry, "I don't know what's going on in Snakehead Town."
"Don't worry, the swarm of insects is coming to Shenjiao City. It is caused by the big arc mages who lured the black jade horseshoe dragon. It should not invade the surrounding market towns." Duke didn't know the specific situation, so he could only selectively comfort his little assistant.
For Duke, Mu Lali trusted Duke very much, and she was a little cheered up when she heard the words: "Well, I think so."
Immediately, the group left the mage's tower and took a tiger car to the farm. The damage to the farm was better than expected. Perhaps it was because there hadn't been time to cultivate the spiritual plant jade dew here. The spirit insects just passed by here and did not damage the greenhouse.
"Thank God!" Boss James heaved a sigh of relief, "The farm can be regarded as saved, and the initial investment has not been in vain."
"It's okay, as long as Ji Yulu is fine, even if the farm is completely destroyed, it can be rebuilt." Duke said calmly.
Compared with the evolution of the chicken, the money on the farm is not important at all, even if he is willing to subsidize the money to raise the chicken, the elf is the key.
Since the farm was fine, Duke chose to replant Ji Yulu.
After returning, Duke thought of another thing: "Mu Lali, take my public account Linglong card and buy a shuttle in installments. There is no shuttle, and it takes too much time to go back and forth."
The sedan is not fast enough.
The speed of the flying shuttle is comparable to the maglev train, and it is the best travel tool in the urban area. If it is not for the poor defense effect, there will be no problem with the route.
It’s a flying shuttle with a thousand gold dragons at every turn, and Duke can’t afford it for the time being.
Fortunately, the agent of the shuttle provided installment payment. Duke was reluctant to buy it before. Now that he has experienced a bug crisis, he gritted his teeth and chose to pay by installment.
The procedures are handled very quickly, and the agent has a dedicated team to run the procedures.
When she got off work that day, Mu Lali had already driven the shuttle back to the Mage Tower, but Duke didn't get started right away.
He's in a meeting in Penrose's office.
Penrose came back together with Vikas's assistant. As one of the sixteen third-ring arcane mages in Shenjiao City who ruled the United Tower, he fully participated in the entire dragon hunting operation.
"No one thought that the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon would be so vengeful that it would attack Shenjiao City not far away, chasing Williams and Irwin." Penrose said seriously, "Thanks to Master Keyston's proper response, this insect was repelled."
"Teacher, is the dead Arcanist Lannick?" Orianna asked.
"Not only Lannik, but also two 1st-ring arcane mages also died. The Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon's methods are too strong. We lack combat experience and failed to protect them well."
Shenjiao City has been peaceful for too long, except for those arcane mages who often go to the battlefield, the rest of the arcan mages stay behind closed doors to do research all day long, and they are too unfamiliar with battles.
Paused, Penrose continued: "After a brief discussion in the Union Tower, it was decided to hold a public funeral ceremony for the three arcane masters in three days' time, and all arcanists must participate. And for the descendants of the three arcanists, the blood of spirit beasts will be refined."
"Refining the blood of spirit beasts?" Shan Feisi exclaimed, "Can the descendants of ordinary arcanists also refine the blood of spirit beasts?"
Penrose glanced at Sanfis, and seemed to understand his thoughts: "Refining the blood requires the help of an arcane teacher. There is only one arcane teacher in the wind breath field. Without his nodding permission, ordinary arcanists should not think about such a good thing."
Sanfis smiled sarcastically, embarrassed to say more.
He does have an idea, for the benefit of his descendants, to refine the blood of spirit beasts, so that future generations can get in touch with the extraordinary faster.
But when he heard that the instructor of the arcane method needed to take action, he died down.
An arcane mage with ring 7 and above can be called an arcane mentor, and there are not many arcane mentors in the entire Seven Towers Federation.
A mere ring 1 arcane mage might not even be able to enter the house of an arcane mage mentor, let alone ask the arcan mage mentor to refine the blood of spirit beasts.
"Mentor, what kind of spirit beast blood can the descendants of Lannick and the others get?" Blanke asked.
"As a 2nd ring arcane mage, we will apply for the blood of the 5th ring black jade scorpion for him, and for the other two 1st ring arcanists, we will apply for the blood of the 4th ring vicious hornet and the 4th ring angry beetle to appease the sacrifice of the three arcanists."
The bloodline of the spirit beast is to refine the spirituality of the bloodline of the spirit beast into the bloodline of humans, so that human beings can inherit the spirituality of the spirit beast.
Once the spirituality of the spirit beast in the blood is stimulated, great benefits can be obtained.
This kind of spirit beast bloodline may be useless to high-level arcanists.
But for the knights of the family, it is equivalent to raising a level of strength-the same two ring 1 knights, the knight with the blood of the spirit beast will crush the knight without the blood of the spirit beast.
The same is true for low-level arcane mages. Having more spirit beast blood is like adding an instant arcane spell.
Many small nobles, it is difficult for a few generations to produce a high-level arcane mage, and they rely on the family's blood knights and blood arcane mages to maintain their status.
The higher the level of the spirit beast, the stronger the bloodline.
But at the same time, there will be disadvantages, that is, the difficulty of awakening bloodlines will also increase accordingly.
It is also a blood knight. The blood refined by a 5-ring spirit beast may be awakened by a 1-ring great knight; the blood refined by a 7-ring spirit beast may only be awakened by a senior 1-ring great knight; and the blood refined by a 9-ring spirit beast may require a 2-ring Eudemons knight to awaken.
So for an arcanist who wants to start a family, the bloodline of the 9th ring may not be a good thing, but the bloodline of the 5th ring and the 7th ring is a better choice.
"Mentor, is there any news from the nearby market town? Is Snake Town also invaded by insect swarms?" Duke asked.
"The news hasn't come yet."
At the end, Master Penrose simply gave the disinterested people a holiday: "Everyone is tired today. Tomorrow, the Master Tower will rest for a whole day. Everyone doesn't need to come here."
…
The brand new shuttle is parked in the castle parking garage.
Unfortunately, because of his concerns about Snakehead Town, Duke lost the excitement of changing to a new car, and returned to Beverly Manor with his worried little assistant.
"The message transmission is too late." Looking at the rapidly receding scenery outside the window, Duke thought to himself.
Airship battles need to rely on semaphore to communicate, and postmen and owls are needed to deliver letters between market towns and cities, so timely communication is impossible at all.
"However, there seems to be a special way of communication between big cities, and there is no need to rely on owls to send letters... And the ring of projection method of the Great Arcanist, the idea descends to the clone, is also a fast remote communication... What I want to make up for is basic communication!"
After returning to the villa, he made a list and asked his followers to go outside to buy materials.
He wanted to find out the existence of electromagnetic waves.
No, to be precise, it should be called spiritual magnetic wave, because there is no such energy source as electricity in the Manghuang Continent. Duke tried hand-operated power generation before, but he was surprised by the result that no electricity was generated.
Later, he finally understood that the material structure of the Manghuang Continent may be fundamentally different from that of the earth.
One is the physical world, and the other is the extraordinary world.
The underlying logic of the world is different after all, so it makes sense, there are similarities and similarities, but also great differences.
"There is no electricity, then I will find an existence similar to electricity—spiritual energy!"
The entourage soon bought back the materials he wanted, some spiritual gold threads and thin rods of spiritual gold. He wanted to use these materials to make a simple antenna to receive the spiritual magnetic waves in the surrounding air. If he could receive the spiritual magnetic waves, the great communication business could be expected.
Benefited from the fact that when he was on earth, he had dismantled the TV antenna in his hometown in the countryside, so he has a certain understanding of antennas.
Soon an antenna made of spirit gold was erected on the large terrace of the villa, and one end of the antenna was connected to a water basin with a spirit gold thread.
While pouring psionic energy into the water basin, he released the mage's hand arcane into the yard.
The mage's hand composed of fluorescent light is fleeting.
There is no reaction in the water basin.
"The spiritual magnetic wave passes through the 'antenna' I designed. It is reasonable to say that it should be able to vibrate the spiritual energy in the water basin, thereby forming water waves on the water surface... But the result is not. Is my antenna not accurate enough, or is the principle wrong?" Duke shook his head, and then communicated with Xiaoyi.
"Master, please tell me."
"Help me analyze whether the experimental principle of the magnetic wave is wrong."
"Master, the experimental principle of the spiritual magnetic wave needs more actual measurement data to determine whether the principle is true." Xiaoyi responded.
"Okay." Duke could only rearrange his experimental ideas and design a new antenna.
Busy until midnight, he took a shower and went to sleep. He was going to spend a long time observing the possibility of spiritual magnetic waves.
Will not deny the existence of spiritual magnetic waves just because they cannot be detected for a while.
The next day.
The weather is just right, the sun is shining brightly.
The postman owls in Sheshou Town and other market towns have all arrived at the Union Tower and reported to the Union Tower in Shenjiao City that they are safe.
Not a single market town was attacked.
Villa No. 17 in Beverly Manor also received a letter from the postman owl, stating that the Black Snake Family has evacuated from Cuihai Valley, and will no longer send missions to Cuihai Valley in a short time.
"Xiao Lili, are you at ease now?" Duke handed the letter to Mu Lali.
The girl suddenly laughed happily: "Yeah."
Without going to work, Duke stayed in the villa, continued his experiment with the magnetic wave antenna, and constantly improved the antenna structure to find traces of the magnetic wave.
Three days passed in a flash. On March 19, Shenjiao City held a grand public funeral ceremony.
The bodies of the three arcane mages who died in the insect swarm have been pieced together, and they are preparing for a public burial at the Linghai Wharf in the north of the city.
Linghai Wharf is not a real wharf, but a high platform.
Public burial is not about burying the body in the ground, but burning the body with spiritual light until there is no residue left.
Arcanists believe that the spirit can crush everything, and the soul can return to the true spiritual sea.
"Returning to the spiritual sea is the destination of all arcane masters. Although they can no longer explore the palace of spiritual arcana, they can integrate with spirituality. Wherever the spiritual sea extends, the arcanist can see where it is, and stay with the spiritual sea."
Guard Vikas looked at the corpse being burned by the light of spiritual energy, and whispered softly.
Duke does not believe this statement.
People cannot be resurrected after death. What is integrated with spirituality is nothing more than the ecological cycle of material decomposition and return to nature.
"Actually, there are many arcane masters who don't believe this statement, and Baines from the cabin in the woods is one of them."
Duke read Baines' experimental notes and could clearly feel Baines' desire for longevity.
That's why Baines embarked on a taboo experiment to study the soul container, preparing to transfer his soul into the container for a long time.
"May the spirituality still be with us, and may the sea of spirits protect us forever." Count Keston Raging, personally presided over the public funeral ceremony, and burned the bodies of the three arcanists with psychic light. "Lannick, Bills, and Dzeko are partners in the journey of exploring the truth. After a short parting, we will finally meet again."
"Woooo..." The family members of the three arcane masters began to sob and cry.
Afterwards, the three hundred and sixty-nine arcane mages in Shenjiao City, except for those who had gone out and did not return, all of them, as well as several arcane mages from Bernoulli's mage's tower, picked up a small blooming daisy and placed them on the high platform wharf where there was no remains.
Express mourning with daisies.
"I will do the same one day, and burn the corpse on a high platform?" Sanfis put down the little daisy and turned to Duke.
Duke bent down and put down the little daisy, and replied flatly: "As long as you can die of old age, you won't be burned."
"Well, I will definitely strive to be able to die of old age. Of course, it would be even better if I can live forever."
"Think beautifully."
After the little daisy was released, the public funeral ceremony ended, and big figures like Keyston Rage still had to be interviewed by reporters.
Duke and others naturally had no reporters to interview, so they returned to the Mage Tower and continued their work.
In the afternoon, Faling Tower sent a letter to Duke, opened the letter, and inside was the paper publication receipt sent by Malotav Sage, Mage Tower.
"Hi Master Du Ke'ao, you contributed an article to my journal "Analysis of Practical Spiritual Materials for New Rare Spiritual Beasts in Cuihai Valley".
"Beautiful!" Duke clenched his fist and cheered up. "The first paper was approved. Although it was published in a local journal, it is still the first step in scientific research!"
I didn’t tell anyone about this joy, and I’m going to wait until the next issue of "Runwu City Spirit Card" is released.
Read the letter.
After the excitement calmed down, Duke returned to the table and began to study the spiritual magnetic wave antenna, preparing to design a higher-precision antenna to observe the spiritual magnetic wave.
Drawing ideas on paper and collecting structural data of several materials, Duke ordered Xiaoyi: "Simulate calculations."
"Okay master, I'm simulating calculations for you. The process will take about three days." Xiaoyi responded.
After the experiment gradually got on the right track, Duke no longer needed to repeat the experiment step by step in every detail, and could leave it to Xiaoyi to simulate.
When unknown data appears in the simulation, Duke needs to take over and conduct experiments in reality.
So after Xiaoyi took over, Duke took the time to continue studying the goal he had set before—the 1-ring slide card.
"It's really interesting to be busy every day." Looking up from the experimental table, Duke stretched.
Dang Dang Dang.
Mulali knocked on the door and came in: "Sir, Director Vikas invites you to his office. He has prepared a new research topic for you."
"Really." Duke responded lightly.
He is not so keen on the subject in the mage tower, but he still went to the office of the assistant Vikas.
Director Vikas didn't talk nonsense, and went straight to the topic: "There just happened to be a new research topic in the past few days, and I think it is more suitable for you."
"What subject?"
"Research on the replacement effect of the new spiritual materials of Cuihai Valley in the spiritual energy release channel and spiritual energy infusion channel of the spiritual storage card." Assistant Vikas handed a document to Duke. "It's a batch of topics distributed by the instructor. I picked this for you."
Duke looked at the document and asked, "Is the tutor studying the spirit card?"
"Yes, the instructor is a card making scholar in the field of civilian cards. He has improved many civilian card structures and can get a lot of research resources from the United Card Shop." Vikas smiled.
The United Card Shop is a large company that spans the entire Seven Towers Federation. Almost all the spirit cards in the entire Fengxi field are manufactured by the United Card Shop.
Even if it is only a local branch in Shenjiao City, it can still be described as making money every day.
The whole city of Shenjiao can match the income of United Card Store, which is basically the Hibidi Spirit Mining Company that mines the spirit mine.
Penrose, as the only card making scholar in Shenjiao City, was specially hired by the United Card Store as a consultant, and he can share a lot of benefits from the United Card Store every year. At the same time, it is also necessary to do some necessary research on the improvement of the spirit card for the United Card Shop, and the entire mage tower is basically serving this purpose.
Duke thought for a while, and then took over the subject: "I will start researching it as soon as possible."
The subject is not difficult, he can coordinate and direct it, and the specific experimental operation can be completely handed over to the spiritual apprentices.
There is Xiaoyi to help him design the plan, so there is no need to bother.
Looking for tickets~
(end of this chapter)