Chapter 151 A Rich Loot (Two Chapters in One)

As Ryan turned the pages, his facial expression sometimes frowned and sometimes relaxed.

Finally, Ryan let out a long sigh and concentrated on thinking.

It turned out that Adams was not a wandering wizard apprentice like Endri, but had a relatively orthodox background.

According to the other party's diary, many years ago, Adams was a wizard apprentice of Thorin Bergman, the advisor of Duke Louis of the Dragun Empire.

However, he was young and energetic at the time, and he hooked up with Duke Louis's wife Catherine, but the matter was soon exposed and was secretly told to Duke Louis by one of Catherine's personal maids.

Fortunately, Adams, who noticed something wrong in advance, found the knight team that led the team to arrest him.

Adams felt that if he was caught by the furious Duke Louis, his life would be in danger. In addition, he was resentful of his mentor Thorin for not protecting him.

Then, Adams stole a lot of spell materials and witchcraft scrolls from his mentor Thorin and quickly fled the imperial capital.

"Yes, this story can be passed on by word of mouth by the bards! Tsk tsk, as expected, a man who is not romantic is a waste of youth!"

"I didn't expect Adams to be a romantic figure when he was young."

"He slept with the Duchess. It's worth it."

"Well, it's much better than the bard Endry. The other one just hooked up with the Countess, but Adams is different. That's the Duchess."

"But. Are all wizard apprentices so romantic?"

"Moreover, the ones he likes are all married women. Cao thief attributes are full." Ryan stroked his chin and thought to himself.

"In addition, Thorin, the advisor of Duke Louis, seems to be a formal wizard from the "Igni School" according to Adams's description."

Although Adams only described his mentor Thorin in this sentence, Ryan felt that it revealed a lot of content.

First of all, in this world, some wizard apprentices or wizards have schools, that is, they have a complete inheritance and training system.

Since there is the 'Igni School', it means that there are probably other schools.

This is obviously a good thing for Ryan, who is trying to explore the mysteries of witchcraft but has been crossing the river by feeling the stones.

Secondly, after carefully savoring the fact that a formal wizard serves as an advisor to the Duke of the Empire, Ryan feels that this at least reveals that the top leaders of the Empire do not regard wizards as a flood and beast, but rather as a kind of help.

This made Ryan think of the counselors around the lord in the ancient times in his previous life.

Thinking about it in this coherent way, Ryan felt that if he relied on the Empire and continued to climb up, he should gradually come into contact with systematic witchcraft knowledge.

In addition, there are some contents in the diary that also impressed Ryan.

It turns out that in the eyes of the third-level wizard apprentice, the knights below the level of the Grand Knight, whether they are senior knights or peak knights, are no different from fish belly.

In Adams' eyes, when his strength reaches this level, basically, only other mysterious professions can pose a threat to him, that is, in the other party's mind, 'only witchcraft can fight witchcraft'.

And the knight, who relies purely on physical attacks, is not taken seriously by Adams.

No wonder Adams was quite disdainful of the siege of him and Hamilton at that time, thinking that he could easily deal with it.

Ryan thought carefully and deduced the battle situation reasonably according to normal circumstances. Indeed, Adams really had no possibility of losing.

With the strength shown by Adams, he could easily deal with the siege of a peak knight and a senior knight.

It's just that the other party is a little unlucky to meet him, a guy with a cheat!

After an outbreak, he has a combat power that exceeds the peak knight, and he also knows a little bit of witchcraft.

So, Adams unfortunately capsized in the gutter.

Of course, Ryan's focus is that in Adams's cognition and judgment, he, a third-level wizard apprentice, is at least on par with the Great Knight, or even slightly better.

Does this mean that in terms of combat power, the combat power of a third-level wizard apprentice is equivalent to that of a Great Knight.

No!

Ryan thought about it carefully and felt that one or two more restrictions should be added.

That is, a third-level wizard apprentice who is "professionally trained" and has multiple witchcraft scrolls as a killer should be stronger than a Great Knight, but that is not necessarily the case for a wandering wizard apprentice or a "poor ghost" wizard apprentice.

'Whether there is external force to borrow' directly determines the combat power of a wizard apprentice!

After thinking about it, Ryan continued to flip through the diary and read on.

A quarter of an hour later, Ryan picked up the crystal ball that was slightly smaller than a baby's head and looked at it carefully.

"I didn't expect that this crystal ball is actually a test crystal that can simply test a person's affinity for energy particles on the mysterious side of each system." Ryan said to himself.

Simply put, everyone has different attraction to different energy particles on the mysterious side.

For a wizard apprentice, energy particles with strong affinity or attraction will naturally be easier to control, and the power will be slightly stronger.

Therefore, it is written very clearly in Adams' diary that an orthodox wizard apprentice has an important thing before learning witchcraft, which is to test his own affinity direction.

So that you can get twice the result with half the effort when choosing a specialization in the future!

This benefited Ryan, the ‘wild’ wizard apprentice, a lot.

Soon, Ryan figured out how to use this ‘test crystal’.

The method is very simple. You only need to infuse your own mental power into the crystal ball and try your best to feel the mysterious energy particles around you.

After a little thought, Ryan decided to test it immediately, so he began to hold the crystal ball with both hands, close his eyes, and concentrate.

As Ryan's mental power was injected, the crystal ball soon emitted a soft white light. At the same time, different colors of light began to surge in the originally transparent crystal ball.

After a few seconds, the light gradually stabilized.

At this time, Ryan opened his eyes and saw that there was a ball of red mist on the top of the crystal ball, and light silver mist in the middle. The volume of the two seemed to be about the same. Although there was a slight difference, the difference was not big.

The light silver was only slightly less than the red, and the sum of the two accounted for nearly 80% to 90% of the volume of the crystal ball.

The rest are some mixed colors, almost all red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

According to Adams, red represents the affinity of flame energy particles. The more area it occupies in the crystal ball, the stronger the tester's affinity for the energy particles.

Ryan nodded slightly and thought to himself, that's right.

This also explains why he could only mobilize flame energy particles when he just entered the first-level wizard apprentice.

And when his mental power is growing and he is about to enter the second-level wizard apprentice, he can barely affect other mysterious energy particles around him, and at the same time, the power is still very different.

However, this test crystal can only roughly measure the affinity direction of the tester, and cannot perform quantitative tests very accurately.

Simply put, it's like you take an exam, and your scores in Chinese, mathematics, and English are 60, 60, and 10 respectively, then the ratio is 6:6:1; of course, your scores should be 120, 120, and 20 respectively, and the ratio is also 6:6:1.

What is displayed on the test crystal is a certain ratio, not a specific value.

As for Ryan's light silver.

There is no record in Adams' diary.

This made Ryan frown slightly.

Obviously, if he could figure out what direction the light silver represents, he could consciously collect the witchcraft and related knowledge in this direction, and the witchcraft he performed would naturally be much more powerful than those with relatively poor affinity.

However,

since he couldn't be sure at once, Ryan thought about it for a while and decided to continue reading.

An hour later, Ryan finished reading Adams' entire diary.

When Ryan looked at the spoils on the table again, a smile appeared on his face.

As for the short staff, the diary recorded that it was made of a special tree called gray osmanthus, which has a special effect of slightly enhancing negative energy witchcraft.

For Ryan, it is of no great use.

But some wizard apprentices who have refined negative energy will surely like it.

The slender white finger bone was not recorded in the diary, so I skipped it for now.

As for the other two spiritual books, one detailed the method of making a secret potion, which can improve a small amount of mental power, but 99% of the materials in it are things Ryan has never heard of.

Ryan took a quick look and put it aside.

Because, for most wizard apprentices, the only way to improve mental power is to practice basic meditation for many years.

And wizard apprentices with abundant resources or inheritance have a second way, which is to take this rare potion that can improve mental power in small amounts.

But for Ryan, he has a third way.

The effect is much stronger than the two methods mentioned above.

That is - add points!

So, for Ryan, in his heart, this kind of potion called secret potion, which can improve a small amount of mental power, is much less precious than the same potion in the hearts of other wizard apprentices.

Mainly, Ryan considered a problem.

That is, at this stage, if he chooses to make this potion, he needs to search for these rare materials by himself.

Perhaps, the time spent in this process can allow Ryan to upgrade his various professional panels by several levels.

Therefore, Ryan thought about it and realized that when his position is further promoted in the later stage, it will be much easier to arrange people to search, and it will be in time to make this potion at that time.

Another book made Ryan's eyes light up, because it recorded three witchcrafts, to be precise, two curses plus one witchcraft.

The first is the first curse, "mental fatigue".

The release conditions of this curse are a bit troublesome.

The first step is to draw a ritual, a reverse pentagram pattern, and also need a close contact with the cursed object. Of course, if there is hair or blood of the cursed object, it will be better.

After seeing the effect description of the curse "mental fatigue", Ryan suddenly realized it!

The effect of the curse "mental fatigue": it reduces the spirit of the cursed object and produces a strong sense of fatigue.

This immediately reminded Ryan of himself in his dream last night. He suddenly felt extremely tired and could hardly open his eyes. It was obviously because of this curse.

Ryan carefully studied this curse-type witchcraft again, and his brows frowned.

Because the release of the curse of "mental fatigue" not only requires learning some prerequisite knowledge, such as "the basic principles of negative energy" and "human neurology", but also requires the mobilization of negative energy particles.

The strength of the negative energy particles that the caster can mobilize is directly related to the strength of the curse.

Of course, the strength of mental power is almost linked to the power of all witchcraft, so I won't mention it here.

In other words, if Ryan were to cast this witchcraft, his curse effect might be much weaker than that cast by Adams at the same mental strength.

The second curse is called "ghost entanglement".

It also requires close contact with the cursed object, such as hair or blood, and secondly, a ready-made resentful soul or other spiritual creature. If not, it is not impossible, but the effect of this curse will be greatly reduced.

The effect of the curse ‘ghost entanglement’: the magnetic field of the cursed object changes, making it extremely easy to be noticed and attacked by spiritual creatures such as resentful spirits and evil spirits.

Seeing the effect of this curse, Ryan couldn't help but understand why Adams was called the ghost manipulator.

Sure enough, there is only a wrong name, not a wrong nickname.

For most people, even formal knights, it is difficult to resist this weird curse without other external forces.

After thinking about it, although these two witchcrafts are negative energy curses, Ryan is more difficult to learn. In addition, the effect after learning is estimated to be more mediocre.

But Ryan still plans to try.

However, in terms of the order of learning, these two curse witchcrafts must be ranked after the third witchcraft.

The third witchcraft is a witchcraft that Adams has not mastered, called ‘high temperature force field’.

Judging from the name, it is a fire witchcraft, and it is also a rare force field witchcraft.

The effect of the witchcraft "high temperature force field": a high temperature spherical force field is formed within a few meters around the caster.

According to the scribbled words in the annotation part of the book, the reason why Adams stole this witchcraft was because it was a rare force field witchcraft. Adams thought that although it was a fire witchcraft, it was very instructive.

But later, Adams found that the witchcraft model structure of this "high temperature force field" was a bit complicated and difficult to master.

More importantly, this witchcraft did not match his combat concept.

Adams tended to build himself into a "turret", that is, he tended to learn witchcraft for long-range attacks, and the range of this "high temperature force field" was only a few meters, which immediately made him have no desire to learn.

However, when Ryan saw this witchcraft, he thought of something completely different from Adams.

A large part of Ryan's current combat power comes from the Knight (Extraordinary) profession, that is, he mainly relies on close combat.

And the witchcraft "high temperature force field" seems to have an inexplicable fit with him.

Imagine that within a few meters around you, the temperature is as high as that under the scorching sun in the Sahara Desert. The enemy will soon have symptoms similar to heat stroke, such as nausea, vomiting, and dehydration.

This picture is so beautiful!

Of course, the above picture is just Ryan's imagination. After all, the specific power will not be known until he learns it.

However, the "high temperature force field" is a fire witchcraft, which is completely consistent with Ryan's affinity direction, which is a big advantage.

In other words, once Ryan masters this witchcraft, its power can be slightly enhanced.

In addition, this elemental witchcraft does not seem to have any pre-learning content. It can be learned directly and can be quickly transformed into combat power once mastered.

So, Ryan immediately decided to learn the fire witchcraft "high temperature force field" first, and then learn the two curses.

In the end, there are only two witchcraft scrolls left.

The witchcraft scroll is extremely difficult to make, but it is extremely simple to release. You only need to input a small amount of mental power to trigger the scroll.

There is no need to consider any witchcraft model, affinity and other matters. It is the thing that can quickly improve the combat effectiveness of wizard apprentices.

The only disadvantage is that it is expensive!

Just as Ryan was about to check the witchcraft scroll, Matteo knocked on the door.

As soon as Matteo entered the door, he began to report the investigation:

"Mr. Adjutant, we have found out the identity of the young man. The other party did not lie. He did become an employee of Adams' store about a month ago."

"In addition, the other party said a more useful news, that is, two days ago, a middle-aged man came to the store to find his boss. He felt that your attack might be related to the middle-aged man."

Hearing this, Ryan raised his eyebrows. This is very likely.

After all, he has no grudge against Adams. The other party came to attack and kill him, and must have been hired by others.

"Well, do you have specific information about the middle-aged man?" Ryan asked.

"Not long after the middle-aged man came in, Adams dismissed him. Therefore, the young man did not know the details of the discussion between the two parties and the specific identity of the middle-aged man."

"But, sir, I just had someone draw a portrait based on the young man's oral statement. You can take a look." As he said that, Matteo took out a rolled parchment scroll from his arms, opened it and presented it to Ryan.

Ryan was delighted, nodded, and said, "Very good, Matteo, you are getting more and more careful in doing things."

After carefully identifying, Ryan confirmed that the other party was not Baron Alonso, nor Viscount Hamadi.

Of course, the premise is that the two people did not use some well-made human skin masks.

Ryan recalled in his mind and confirmed that he did not know this person.

But Ryan always felt that this person's appearance seemed a little familiar, but he couldn't find the source of this familiarity at once. Where is it.

Less than a minute after Matteo left, there was another knock on the door in the utility room where Ryan was.

Ryan opened the door and saw that it was Lagre outside the door.

"Ryan, is it convenient? I want to talk to you about something."

"Of course, come in."

"Ryan, has your current strength reached the level of a senior knight?" Lagre looked at Ryan with a pair of deep blue eyes, and asked with a little expectation.

"Hmm? Lagre, why did you think of asking this question?" Ryan smiled.

"I heard from the night watchmen that your strength has surpassed Lord Hamilton, the sheriff of Shimmering Gold."

"This. Maybe." Ryan nodded and did not deny it.

"That's great! Ryan, can I ask you for a favor? I want to go to Nightsong Forest to collect the remains of my brother and teammates, as well as their weapons."

"I've been waiting for too long." When Lagre talked about this topic, the light in her eyes suddenly disappeared, and she looked lonely!

It turned out to be this matter.

Ryan looked thoughtful.

It's not that he didn't want to go.

However, since the canopy knight could easily kill Lagre's brother, a barbarian warrior whose strength reached 40% of the violent state, it was obvious that the opponent was very strong.

Although he killed Adams, a third-level wizard apprentice, it did not mean that he was sure to deal with some mysterious events in this world.

"Eh, Lagre, I will go to Lord Hamilton now to ask about the plans of the county city and the church. Logically, the people from the church should be here soon."

"I heard that the delay some time ago was because the Monsoon and the Ocean Goddess Church were cooperating with the imperial government to encircle and suppress the cult." Ryan thought for a while and said.

At this time, his sister Mint suddenly shouted downstairs: "Brother, someone is looking for you downstairs. There is a carriage parked."

Ryan raised his eyebrows. Could it be that someone from the Crowley family is coming?

"Ting, ting, ting!"

Mint trotted upstairs, her face flushed, and she said excitedly: "Brother, the pattern on the carriage is not a rose, but a dragon?"

Huh?

Dragon?

Impossible!

This immediately puzzled Ryan.

He immediately said hello to Lagre and went downstairs first.

As soon as he stepped out of the door, he found that there was a luxurious carriage parked by his door. It was not the style of the Crowley family, and the emblem on the carriage was completely different.

This time the carriage has more curves, giving people a more refined and noble feeling.

In addition, the emblem on the upper right corner of the carriage is a dragon with its wings spread out and its head raised and howling, which is lifelike.

What my sister Mint said is true!

Ryan's pupils shrank!

Obviously, the other party is very powerful.

Because ordinary nobles or institutions are not qualified to use dragons as emblems. This is the customary design tradition of noble emblems in the Dragun Empire.

Ryan had heard about the relevant content when he was chatting with Jenny in the carriage a few days ago.

Seeing Ryan coming out.

A middle-aged man in a slim-fitting tuxedo also walked down from the carriage and said, "Excuse me, is this Mr. Ryan, the deputy sheriff of Shimmering Gold?"