Chapter 148 Curse, Illusion and Witchcraft (Two Chapters in One)

After the housewarming dinner, Ryan accompanied his family and walked around the front and back yards.

"Brother, this big yard is my favorite. Now, sister Anna and I can grow a lot of vegetables and flowers." Sister Mint said happily.

Ryan looked at his smiling sister, and his heart was touched by this joy. He said, "Well, then this yard will be handed over to you. I hope you can take care of it beautifully."

The parents on the side looked very pleased.

Ryan, who had a full view of all this, nodded slightly.

Perhaps, this scene in front of him is a definition of happiness.

Because Ryan still had a few things to deal with, he didn't stay with them for too long, but quickly returned to the utility room.

Ryan took out the 100 pounds of violent bear meat that he had exchanged at the military supply office in the county city.

At the dinner, he didn't eat enough, but drank a lot of wine.

Ryan has been craving for violent bear meat for a while.

Before, Ryan would occasionally miss the wonderful taste of the violent bear meat he first tasted in Claire's study.

Now, Ryan's demand for food is increasing, and his requirements for quality are also increasing.

Ordinary food is of no benefit to his strength improvement.

But the violent beast meat is different. It is rich in various nutrients and still has a certain help in improving Ryan's giant bear breathing method.

Therefore, Ryan exchanged for violent bear meat before, and planned to do the same in the future, gradually adding high-quality food to his three meals a day.

At this moment, Ryan directly cut a large piece of violent bear meat, about three or four pounds, and put it on the iron plate that had been prepared long ago.

Since the violent bear meat had already been bled and cleaned, it did not need additional cleaning.

For the violent bear meat, Ryan did not use ordinary cooking methods.

Well!

After all, high-end ingredients often only need the simplest cooking methods.

This time, Ryan chose to "roast" the violent bear meat at high temperature and eat it directly.

Ryan placed his palms in the air about half a meter above the violent bear meat, and silently chanted a spell, casting the witchcraft "Scorching Touch".

A few seconds later, an alluring meaty aroma filled the utility room.

As for why witchcraft was used for cooking?

This is because Ryan took into account the principle of the oven in his previous life. The fast and closed high temperature can lock the moisture and freshness of the food inside the ingredients.

Therefore, Ryan thought of using the high temperature of the witchcraft "Scorching Touch" to roast the violent bear meat in just a few seconds, achieving the effect similar to the oven in his previous life, retaining moisture and freshness.

Looking at the fragrant seven-point-cooked violent bear meat, Ryan sprinkled some salt and chewed it.

Hiss!

It's still so delicious!

In a few seconds, Ryan ate more than half of the three or four pounds of violent bear meat.

Soon, Ryan felt a warm current spreading rapidly from his stomach to his whole body.

It may be because he has entered the extraordinary stage and his body functions have been greatly improved.

Although Ryan ate much more bear meat than before, he did not have the strong feeling of fullness as before. He just felt warm and comfortable.

At this time, there was a sound of scratching the door.

Ryan knew that it must be the greyhound "Cookie"!

After all, except for it, everyone else in the house knocked on the door, not scratched it. Besides, who else would have such a sensitive sense of smell.

Ryan just opened a crack in the door, and the greyhound "Cookie" squeezed in.

It quickly circled Ryan, wagging its tail desperately, staring at the little bit of roasted bear meat left in Ryan's hand with a pair of eyes, revealing a longing expression.

Ryan couldn't help shaking his head and said helplessly:

"I really admire you. Don't tell me you're not full either!"

Having said that, Ryan still tore off a small strip of the remaining roasted bear meat in his hand, and then dripped a few drops of 'mutation growth potion' on it, and then handed it over.

I saw 'Cookie' first sniffed it with his sensitive dog nose, and then showed an extremely anthropomorphic expression of surprise.

With a gulp, he swallowed the bear meat.

The next second, 'Cookie''s dog eyes suddenly widened twice, and looked at Ryan in a daze, as if saying: "Master, there is such a delicious thing!"

"A dog's life is just like this! This life is worth it!"

Seeing 'Cookie' licking his mouth, looking unsatisfied, Ryan said unhappily:

"Okay, don't count on it anymore, this is enough for you to absorb."

As he said, Ryan stuffed the last bit of bear meat in his hand directly into his mouth.

It's not that he's stingy.

But 'Cookie' is just an ordinary greyhound, not a ferocious beast. If he eats too much of this high-quality food, he won't be able to digest it.

Sure enough, as if he felt the power of the violent bear meat, 'Cookie' soon curled up in a corner of the utility room and began to doze off with his eyes squinting.

However, Ryan noticed the prompt refreshed by the system:

[You feed the greyhound with violent bear meat mixed with secret medicine mutation growth potion, and the relevant comprehension is slightly improved! ]

[Your skill of beast taming is improved, experience value +15]

[Your beast tamer (super) professional experience +11]

Huh!

Only then did Ryan notice that on his green trainer panel, the original ‘dog training’ skill had automatically changed to ‘beast training’, and ‘dog food production’ had also changed to ‘beast food production’.

It seems that the so-called coverage of the system is not completely eliminated or accepted in its entirety.

In addition, feeding with secret medicine or high-quality food will increase the experience points faster.

This matter has also been verified in the feeding just now.

After several doubts in the trainer (super) panel were answered, Ryan began to practice the giant bear breathing method, making the best use of the special nutrients rich in violent bear meat.

After finishing the breathing method training, Ryan practiced the basic meditation method.

Because when he changed his job to trainer, Ryan once again gained 1 point of spiritual attribute improvement, so he wanted to try how many will runes he could visualize at one time.

One minute later.

Ryan opened his eyes happily.

This time, he visualized and completed sixteen will runes at one time, which was considered to be a ‘second-level wizard apprentice’ in the popular sense.

In addition, Ryan also confirmed one thing, that is, the ‘lv’ level displayed on the wizard apprentice (supernormal) occupation panel has nothing to do with the ‘first or second level wizard apprentice’ in the popular sense.

It is not that he has reached the wizard apprentice lv2, which is equivalent to the ‘second level wizard apprentice’ in the popular sense of this world. Moreover, his wizard apprentice level is lv4 at this time, and there is no such thing as a fourth-level wizard apprentice in this world.

The highest level of wizard apprentice is three.

So, it can be understood that these are two completely unrelated systems.

Ryan thought for a while. After he entered the second-level wizard apprentice, the biggest difference should be the difference in combat power.

Before, when he had just completed the visualization of the eight will runes and entered the first-level wizard apprentice, his combat power was far inferior to that of the formal knight level.

The only feature at that time was that compared with ordinary people, his mental power was much stronger and his perception was much more acute.

If you want to exert a stronger combat power, you need to use external objects, such as Endri, the "acid missile scroll" used by the opponent in the Elim mine.

However, as he entered the second-level wizard apprentice, his combat power has been significantly improved.

Although Ryan does not have a scroll or any other magical items in his hand now, he can achieve a stronger combat power with the witchcraft "burning touch".

As his low incantation sounded, the iron basin in front of Ryan's palm began to heat up rapidly. After a few seconds, the iron basin began to turn red, smoke and soften.

This is a sign that it is about to melt!

You know, the melting point of iron is close to 1,500 degrees!

This means that the same witchcraft, after he entered the second-level wizard apprentice, has a significantly stronger power than before.

Before, the temperature that Ryan could reach after guiding the witchcraft "burning touch" for a few seconds was about 1,000 degrees, but now it can reach 1,450 degrees.

In addition, Ryan only cast the magic 'Scorching Touch' two or three times before, but now, he can basically release it about five or six times.

The improvement in combat power is obvious!

If he can be given the opportunity to calmly cast the magic 'Scorching Touch' in a certain battle, even the top knight will be seriously injured or even killed directly!

After all, as long as it is a living thing, it can't withstand the continuous scorching of 1,500 degrees, which can melt steel.

However, the enemy is not a wooden man and will not stand still for a few seconds.

This is also the shortcoming of Ryan's current magic.

First of all, the power is good, but it is a contact magic.

Secondly, it needs continuous guidance to release the maximum damage.

——

At the same time.

In a luxurious mansion in Meister County City.

The dim underground hall.

The slender knight carrying a sickle-shaped weapon was reporting in a low voice: "Master Priest, the mission to kill the new knight Ryan has failed again!"

"In addition, according to Lamar, the Iron Maiden doll was also destroyed by Ryan." When he said this, the slender knight was a little bit unable to explain.

After all, he himself didn't believe the reasons Lamar reported to him, so how could the Master Priest believe it?

Sure enough

"Huh? How is this possible?" Hearing that the mission to kill Ryan still failed, the Master Priest could still accept it.

But when he heard the last sentence, when the Iron Maiden doll was destroyed by Ryan, a surprised voice came from the shadows.

From the voice, you can clearly hear surprise and confusion!

"This. Ryan is not only good at swordsmanship, but also good at hammering. No, he should be proficient in hammering!" The slender knight thought about it and explained with a stiff upper lip.

After all, Lamar was there at the time, and he could only speak based on the other party's explanation!

Although, before he came to report, he had been thinking about how to make the explanation more convincing, but he could not seem to find any reasonable explanation.

"Mastering the hammer technique? A new knight can use a hammer to smash the shell of the Iron Virgin Doll?" The words were full of disbelief.

At this time, a tall and fat figure stood up from the shadows!

In terms of height, he was not shorter than the 2.2-meter-tall knight.

But the other party's fat body was comparable to seven or eight tall knights.

If Ryan was present, he would immediately associate the other party with a sumo wrestler from a certain country in his previous life. They were too similar, except that the other party wore a hood and a robe.

"This. Master Priest, I am also relaying Lamar's report." The tall and thin knight saw the master priest stand up, took a step back, and said nervously.

After listening to the other party's reasons, the tone of the master priest suddenly became much higher, and he said with obvious anger:

"Giovanni! You have been the president of the Wilderness Brotherhood for too long. Are you stupid!"

"Do you think the reason just now is tenable? You should know that even a peak knight is unlikely to destroy the Iron Virgin Doll with a hammer."

"You disappoint me so much!"

"This." Faced with the questioning of the master priest, Giovanni, the president of the Wilderness Brotherhood, was suddenly speechless and didn't know how to explain for a while.

However, he soon came to his senses and said, "Master Priest, I asked Lamar to come this time too. He is just outside the door. Do you think we should listen to his report directly?"

Obviously, Giovanni did not want to take the blame.

The fat priest nodded slightly.

After the Black Flame monk Lamar came in to report, the priest was silent.

After a while, the low voice of the priest sounded again: "Giovanni, let's leave this matter to you, the Beast Knight."

"The majesty of the Black Flame Church cannot be challenged! Go!"

"Yes, Master Priest!" Giovanni and Lamar both bowed and said.

——

It was late at night.

The moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and everything was silent.

A thin mist floated over the entire Shining Gold Town.

Ryan also returned to his new bedroom early to rest, and at this moment, he was already fast asleep.

At this time, an old man in a black robe with a hood walked slowly from the outskirts of Shining Gold Town to the center of the town, and every turn could properly avoid the patrolling night watch team.

When he was about 40 to 50 meters away from Ryan's new home, he stopped and looked around, then walked into a dark alley with no lights.

Shortly after he entered, three night watchmen from Shining Gold Town passed by the alley on patrol.

After the night watchmen left, the old man began to draw something on the ground with his cane.

Soon, a pattern with a diameter of about one meter, similar to an inverted pentagram, appeared on the ground. From a distance, it looked like a child's graffiti on the ground.

Then, the old man took out the clothes that Mint had helped him get from his arms and placed it in the center of the inverted pentagram pattern.

Then, the old man began to chant a spell in a low voice, and aimed the wooden cane in his hand at the inverted pentagram pattern on the ground.

". (Akkadian) Curse: Mental fatigue!"

As soon as the old man finished speaking, Ryan, who was in a bedroom forty or fifty meters away, frowned from his peaceful sleep.

Ryan, who was sleeping, felt very tired and could hardly open his eyes and wake up.

At this time, the old man seemed to have felt that the curse had taken effect, and his face under the hood smiled slightly, but it was not over yet, and he took out a piece of finger bone from his arms.

The finger bone was slender and seemed to be from the corpse of an adult human woman.

The old man held the finger bone in his hand and chanted softly again.

A few seconds later, a transparent humanoid spirit appeared in front of the old man. Judging from the other party's slender figure, it seemed that she was a beautiful human woman in her lifetime.

"Go, Sandra, get rid of the owner of that dress!" the old man gestured.

The female ghost named Sandra obediently walked to the side of the inverted pentagram, sensed the smell of the clothes, and then nodded to the old man.

Then, like a cloud of mist, it floated to the direction where Ryan was.

Soon, the female ghost Sandra passed through the wall and sneaked into Ryan's bedroom. She also saw Ryan, who was lying on the bed with a frown.

The expressionless Sandra slowly walked forward and stretched out her claws that were emitting cold light and turned from virtual to real. When she was about to launch a fatal attack on Ryan, suddenly, she was stunned!

Her eyes were focused on a slightly inconspicuous brass ring worn on the index finger of Ryan's left hand.

She could feel a similar breath condensed on it, and she could also understand the meaning contained in the breath: "He is my friend, please don't hurt him."

If Ryan was awake at this time, he would definitely notice that the ring he was looking at was the strange object 'Agatha's Ring'.

(Agatha's Ring: This is an ordinary brass ring, but it carries the sincere thanks and blessings of a young girl's soul. After wearing it, some undead creatures will have a good impression of the wearer.)

At this time, the slender female ghost Sandra hesitated and did not launch an attack.

It seemed that this ring touched some kind of emotion buried deep in her heart.

What Sandra did not notice was that at this moment, the person she was going to kill on the bed was squinting at her.

In fact, just when Sandra was about to kill, Ryan's lv3 level of "danger perception" gave him an alarm.

But soon, the alarm in Ryan's heart disappeared strangely.

But Ryan had already woken up. He looked at the scene in front of him and thought about it. He was also very strange. This female ghost should have come to attack him, but for some reason, she hesitated in place.

After waiting for a while, the female ghost turned around and passed through the wall to leave the room.

This made Ryan a little confused for a while.

After waiting for a few seconds, Ryan did not see the other party return, so he quickly got up and walked to the window. Through the window, he saw the almost transparent female ghost floating towards the dark alley not far away.

Ryan thought about it for a while and did not choose to chase it immediately.

Because he felt that the enemy he met this time was not ordinary, and he could actually control the ghost to attack him.

Although, in the end, for some unknown reasons, the female ghost did not attack him.

Obviously, with such a mysterious enemy watching covetously, no one can sleep peacefully!

It’s better to investigate first.

"Eye of the Beast!"

Ryan immediately remembered the core skill of the new animal trainer and immediately used it.

With the use of the core skill "Eye of the Beast", Ryan's soul seemed to be possessed by the greyhound "Cookie" who was sleeping in the utility room next to him.

I saw 'Cookie' suddenly stood up, rushed downstairs and ran out of the door, running towards the dark alley.

Soon, 'Cookie' came to the entrance of the alley, and I saw it sticking out its dog head in a very human way and looking inside.

Because dogs have dark vision, Ryan can clearly see a slightly hunched, hooded black-robed man in the alley through 'Cookie''s vision.

And the female ghost who just floated into his room seemed to be telling something to the black-robed man.

However, 'Cookie''s eyes only stared at the black-robed man for a few seconds, and the other party turned around immediately.

This made Ryan's heart tremble instantly, and he immediately controlled 'Cookie' to run away with a whimper.

The old man glanced at it and found that it was a stray dog, so he didn't care.

Through the observation just now, Ryan found that the other party's perception was very sharp, and it was very likely that the other party's mental power was even better than his!

"Is the opponent a third-level wizard apprentice? Or a stronger profession?" Ryan guessed.

Facing this obviously very difficult enemy, Ryan's brain turned rapidly.

"With such a secretive enemy, I will not be able to sleep or eat if I don't kill him!"

"This battle should be inevitable."

"At this moment, the opponent should not have discovered that he has found him."

"If you attack now."

Ryan immediately removed the "Eye of the Beast", quickly put on the chrome suit, picked up the war hammer and the big sword and rushed out.

When he was about to reach the alley, Ryan slowed down.

For safety reasons, it is naturally better to improve his strength.

The next second, Ryan added a little skill point to the limit value in the Knight's Extraordinary Panel, and the limit value instantly increased from 51% to 61%.

This also allowed Ryan to directly enter the peak knight level from the level of senior knights.

In conjunction, the two extraordinary characteristics "huge strength" and "iron skin" all entered the level 3 level!

[Supernormal feature: Giant Strength lv3 (active)]

Effect of Giant Strength lv3: Strength doubled.

(Note: The degree of strength enhancement of the host by the Supernormal feature Giant Strength is positively correlated with the limit value. The higher the limit value, the higher the strength enhancement.)

[Supernormal feature: Iron Skin lv3 (passive)]

Effect of Iron Skin lv3: The body will automatically absorb free metal elements and form a metal film on the surface of the skin.

(Note: The defense of the metal film is positively correlated with the mental power and the limit value. The higher the mental power and the limit value, the stronger the ability to absorb metal elements and the higher the defense)

‘Strength doubled’, ‘metal film’!

This gave Ryan confidence!

As soon as Ryan appeared at the entrance of the alley, the old man in black robe turned around, and saw a pair of deep eyes under the other party’s hood, looking at Ryan with a little surprise, and said:

“Huh? How did you find me?”

At this time, Adams was very surprised that Ryan could find the alley where he was.

However, there was no panic or worry in his tone.

He seemed to have absolute confidence in his own strength!

Ryan smiled and did not answer Adams' question.

Instead, he took out a flare from his arms. In an instant, with a "whoosh", the flare was shot into the air and exploded quickly.

That's right!

This is the night watchman's distress flare.

As the deputy sheriff of Shining Gold Town, Ryan naturally carries flares with him.

Facing such an enemy with strange means, Ryan felt that fighting alone might not be a good idea. In addition, this place is very close to the administrative office. Hamilton should be able to arrive in less than a minute!

"Haha, stupid guy!" Faced with Ryan's silent firing of flares to call for reinforcements, Adams couldn't help but be furious! It felt like being fooled!

"Originally, the goddess of luck let you escape by chance, but I didn't expect you to take the initiative to seek death!" As he said, he took out a scroll from his arms and quickly tore it open.

Ryan's pupils shrank immediately!

"Break the limit!"

Ryan, holding the pig-headed hammer, was about to dodge the opponent's scroll attack horizontally!

Suddenly, Ryan felt a trance in his head, and in an instant, the scene around him changed drastically.

The wall in the alley quickly softened like noodles, and the black-robed old man who was originally standing opposite Ryan was also stretched and flattened.

This feeling was terrible, like a person who was prone to seasickness, paddling a canoe alone in the stormy sea!

Ryan resisted the discomfort and shook his head violently

At this time, Ryan saw his surroundings clearly again.

However, his sister Mint suddenly appeared in front of him. Mint waved at him and said with a smile: "Brother, come play with me?"

Mint's sweet childish voice made Ryan feel a little doting in his heart.

It seemed that if he didn't agree to play with her for a while, it would be the biggest mistake in the world.

But the next second, Ryan immediately reacted. Shouldn't he be fighting with a mysterious old man in black robes in the alley at this time? Why

Suddenly, Ryan's alarm bells rang in his heart!

Almost at the same time, Ryan felt a sharp pain in his chest, and then he was blown away!

When Ryan stood up again, the scene returned to the dark alley, and opposite him, the mysterious old man in black robes was still standing.

At this moment, he felt a burning pain all over his body. He looked down and saw that a big hole had been corroded on the chrome iron plate armor on his chest. Fortunately, the silver-gray metal film on the surface of his body blocked the subsequent damage.

But it seemed that the energy of the metal film was also close to exhaustion, and the luster was rapidly becoming dim.

Damn!

So powerful!

Ryan cursed in his heart.

If he had not just entered the peak knight, and at the same time, the extraordinary characteristic "Iron Skin" had also been upgraded to level 3, it is estimated that the opponent's weird attack just now would have been a serious injury, or even directly took him away in one wave!

"Huh? He didn't die?"

Seeing that a big hole had been blown out of Ryan's thick knight breastplate, Adams, who originally thought that Ryan was dead, suddenly had his eyes widened twice and his mouth opened slightly!

At this moment, he was more surprised than Ryan!

You know, the combination of the illusion scroll and his witchcraft "Secondary Shadow Arrow" was enough to take away even the peak knight without saying a word!

How could this kid in front of him survive?

No! Not only did he survive, but he was able to stand up!

What a hell!

Could it be that the opponent's knight's plate armor has a strong negative energy defense?

But it doesn't look like that!

The opponent's knight's breastplate has obviously been corroded by his secondary shadow arrow, leaving a big hole.

Adams, puzzled, frowned and thought.

Suddenly, a burst of dense footsteps sounded at the entrance of the alley. Hamilton heard the movement just now and rushed over with more than a dozen night watchmen.

"You, you are Adams!!!" When Hamilton saw the old man for the first time, his pupils suddenly shrank and his face changed drastically.