Chapter 394 Recruitment

"Okay, Lord Ryan, I have presented the third-level metal magic you are looking for on the wisdom slate. You can check it in detail." After being shocked, the dwarf girl immediately helped Ryan to search.

Ryan raised his eyebrows, obviously quite surprised.

The content displayed on the wisdom slate is as follows:

"Steel Armor: Third-level magic, consumes a certain amount of mental power, uses a specific magic model to attract special energy particles in the earth, and covers the host's body with a layer of steel armor."

"Exchange price: 12,000 contribution points."

"Huh? Steel Armor?"

"It mobilizes specific special energy particles in the earth."

"It seems to be in the same vein as Iron Armor!"

"Could it be that the two can form some kind of combined magic, reaching the power of a magic killer move?" Ryan couldn't help thinking.

Such defensive magic, even if it can be combined together, according to the practice of wizards, is generally not named as a killer move, but called a combined magic.

Killing move, killing move, naturally, is the superposition combination of attacking witchcraft.

"Unfortunately, there are very few metal witchcrafts handed down, and it is even rarer and more difficult to obtain clear records of combined witchcraft." Ryan couldn't help but shake his head slightly and sighed in his heart.

He had been in the library of the school for some time before, and naturally he had looked up the relevant information on metal witchcraft.

Relatively speaking, the records in this regard of the School of Repair and Construction are slightly more than those of the Sword Bearer Headquarters.

But most of them are the autobiographies of some metal wizards, recording that a lost witchcraft was used in a certain battle, or that a metal witchcraft from ancient times was discovered when exploring ruins.

In addition, a certain school has gathered the power of dozens of metal wizards, and improved a certain metal witchcraft based on the predecessors.

In other words, most of these records record the name and effect of witchcraft, but the specific witchcraft model is basically missing, and it can be said that it has disappeared in the long river of history.

However, Ryan is not discouraged by this.

"Fortunately, I have a system to deduce."

"As long as I can find some internal connection between several metal-based witchcrafts, I can combine them through system deduction to form a combination witchcraft or witchcraft killer move!"

The next is a third-level attack witchcraft.

"Iron Fist: A third-level witchcraft that consumes a certain amount of mental power and uses a specific witchcraft model to induce metal energy particles to form a huge iron fist and strike the target multiple times."

"Exchange price: 14,000 contribution points."

"Only two?" At this time, Ryan discovered that there were only two third-level metal-based witchcrafts in the school.

"Uh, yes, Lord Ryan." The dwarf girl seemed to be confirming, and nodded after a few seconds.

This made Ryan feel not so good.

After all, this is still a certain gap from what he expected before.

But after thinking for a while, although Ryan's current contribution points are enough to exchange for any of the third-level witchcrafts, he did not plan to exchange them now.

Because he had already exchanged a third-level metal magic ‘Iron Ball of Thorns’ at the Sword Bearer Headquarters, and exchanging them all when he didn’t have enough skill points would be a case of biting off more than he could chew.

“By the way, are there any soul energy crystals?” Ryan suddenly remembered something.

Although Ryan’s liquefaction speed was already quite fast, the problem was that the only prerequisite for him to change his job to ‘Dragon Vein Wizard’ was to become a crystallized wizard.

Once he became a crystallized wizard, he could not only learn the third-level metal magic ‘Iron Ball of Thorns’ that he had exchanged at the Sword Bearer Headquarters before, but more importantly, he could change his job to ‘Dragon Vein Wizard’, thereby gaining a significant improvement in strength.

“Yes, Lord Ryan.”

“What is the exchange price?”

“The exchange price for a single soul energy crystal is 1,000 contribution points.”

1,000?

Ryan knew that it seemed cheaper than the exchange price at the Sword Bearer Headquarters, but in fact, this was because the difficulty of obtaining school contribution points was higher than merit points.

After a little thought, Ryan said, "Exchange me for 100 copies of witch pattern threads."

He did not choose to exchange them immediately, because he had to use the contribution points of the school to exchange for the third-level witchcraft and the third volume of the advanced meditation method of the heart of steel.

After the rewards from the Sword Bearer Headquarters are issued, he can exchange them for soul energy crystals at the headquarters. At present, there is nothing he particularly needs at the headquarters, except for some rare metals.

"Hmm? Oh, okay, Lord Ryan." The dwarf girl was obviously stunned, as if she did not understand what Ryan said. After two seconds, she reacted.

She did not expect that the Lord Ryan in front of her asked so many questions, but he did not intend to exchange for the third-level witchcraft or soul energy crystals now, but wanted to exchange for witch pattern threads.

"Sir, the exchange price of each witch pattern thread is 5 contribution points, a total of 500 contribution points."

"Okay."

Each ball of witch pattern thread is one, and one hundred is one hundred witch pattern thread balls. The dwarf girl filled a large bag and handed it to Ryan with some difficulty.

"Thank you." Ryan smiled.

"It is my honor to serve you, Lord Ryan." The dwarf girl smiled sweetly with dimples.

Ryan nodded, and happily took a large bag of witch pattern thread balls and returned to his office in the school.

Since it was already late at night, Ryan decided to go back to the mansion after a little thought and practice making the "apprentice robe" tomorrow.

When Ryan returned to the mansion, he found that Anna was not in the bedroom.

However, he felt it for a while and found that there were two people sleeping in his sister Mint's room.

Obviously, his sister Mint should have pulled Anna to sleep together.

Ryan couldn't help but smile and shook his head.

The next morning.

After having breakfast with Anna and his family, Ryan planned to go to the school's residence to continue to complete the Wuwen Tailor job transfer that was not completed yesterday.

However, just as he got up from behind the desk and was about to leave, suddenly, a familiar voice came from the door.

"Lord Ryan."

Ryan looked up and saw Olena, a young woman dressed in a black pleated skirt and a white princess sleeve shirt, smiling at the door.

"Huh? Lord Olena, why are you here in the Imperial Capital?"

"Is it Admiral Edward who is coming to the Imperial Capital?" Ryan said in surprise.

"No, Lord Ryan." Olena, the capable young woman, covered her mouth and chuckled.

"Three days ago, I received a transfer order from the headquarters and came to the Sword Bearer headquarters from the Munster branch. Now I am assigned the position of deputy director of the reception office of the headquarters and your full-time contact person."

"Great, welcome, Lord Olena! With you here, some things will be much easier to do." Ryan laughed immediately and motioned Olena to come in and sit down.

Soon, the two sat down face to face in the study.

"Thank you Lord Ryan for this."

"You have become famous in the Imperial Capital this time. It was Major General Tatia of the headquarters who contacted me directly, hoping that I could come to the headquarters to help."

Ryan nodded after hearing this.

He knew that Olena had wanted to come to the Sword Bearer headquarters in the Imperial Capital before, but as an administrative staff, it was quite difficult to transfer, so this matter has been delayed.

"Some time ago, the superiors at the headquarters asked Admiral Edward how he trained such a powerful and young warrior like you, which made Admiral Edward very proud."

Olena smiled and recounted some of the things that happened during this period.

"By the way, Lord Ryan, you captured the Black Flame Cult's chief priest alive in the Flame Canyon Secret Realm the day before yesterday, and the commendation from the headquarters came down."

"Since you captured the other party alive, the reward was increased to a fine gold medal, plus 20,000 merit points."

As Olena spoke, she looked at Ryan in front of her, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart that Lord Ryan's growth rate was too fast.

"Oh? That's not bad. If it's 20,000 merit points, Lord Olena, can you help me exchange it for ten soul energy crystals." After a little thought, Ryan said.

The last time he exchanged soul energy crystals, the price was 2,000 merit points, plus a diamond star mission evaluation medal.

Although the adamantium medal can be exchanged for 27 diamond star medals in a three-three system, the problem is that his merit points are not enough to exchange for 27 medals.

"Of course." Olena nodded without hesitation.

Although for most sword holders, if they want to exchange items, they must go to the exchange hall with their own sword holder badge to exchange.

But this does not include Ryan.

As the highest level of adamantium sword holder, Ryan has this privilege.

And her main task of being transferred here is to serve Lord Ryan well.

An hour and a half later, Olena came again and handed a special wooden box to Ryan.

"Lord Ryan, these are your ten soul crystals."

"Thank you."

"Serving you is my job. Do you think there is anything else you need me to do next?" Olena said with a smile.

"Well, please help me collect the killing tasks of dragons or dragon-born creatures in the headquarters in the near future. Give priority to powerful dragon creatures, the stronger the better." Ryan thought for a while and said.

Now he doesn't have enough merit points. If there is a suitable dragon killing task, he can do it.

Because in the process of performing these tasks, he can not only get a lot of merit points rewards, but more importantly, he can get a further increase in blood concentration by absorbing dragon gene fragments.

"Okay, Lord Ryan, I'll do it right away."

"No hurry, you can summarize it for me before the headquarters is cleared." Ryan waved his hand and said.

"By the way, there is one more thing, help me recruit two team members, or you can let Claire and Beyonce go and look for this matter first."

"Okay, sir, I will contact the two lords now." Olena nodded and said.

After Olena left, Ryan opened the wooden box directly.

There were ten neatly arranged soul crystals in the box. After thinking for a while, Ryan grabbed the ten soul crystals.

[Ding! Soul crystals that can improve the degree of spiritual power liquefaction have been detected. Do you want to accelerate absorption? (Note: The system can remove impurities and absorb them all at once.)]

"Yes!"

Instantly, Ryan felt that the silver mist in his mind began to decrease, while the silver liquid began to increase.

The whole process lasted only a few seconds before the transformation stopped.

Obviously, in the later stage of spiritual power liquefaction, the effect of soul crystals will become weaker and weaker.

Ryan glanced at the system panel:

Spirit: 93 (liquefaction 82%)

"Ten soul crystals can only increase 9%?" Ryan raised his eyebrows and thought to himself.

During this period, due to the effect of the second level of the Iron Heart Advanced Meditation Method, the liquefaction degree increased by 1%, from 72% to 73%.

This time, after using ten soul energy crystals, it was increased to 82%.

In this way, ten soul energy crystals only increased by 9%.

Although the liquefaction degree reaches 90%, you can try to break through the crystallization, but considering that each step should be as solid as possible, Ryan plans to increase the liquefaction to 100% as much as possible, and then break through, just like the previous atomization level.

In this way, if he wants to enter the third-level crystal wizard as soon as possible, he will need at least 25 soul energy crystals.

Imperial capital Tamriel.

In the core area of ​​the inner ring, in a luxurious mansion just across the street from the palace.

This is the residence of Princess Reinara, the eldest daughter of His Majesty the Emperor of the Dragun Empire.

A housekeeper wearing black pencil pants and a white lace shirt was respectfully reporting something to Reinara.

"Your Highness, this adamantium-level swordsman Ryan has risen very quickly. After evaluation, we feel that he has amazing potential. We suggest that we contact and win him over in advance."

"It is not clear from the information how Ryan killed the 'sculptor' Harold." Princess Reinara, who was wearing a purple one-shoulder dress, asked after flipping through Ryan's information.

"Yes, it is said that Harold used his signature witchcraft killer move 'Earthquake' at the time, causing a sandstorm at the scene that made it impossible to see anything. The only two female swordsmen at the scene could not explain how Ryan defeated Harold."

"But according to the on-site investigation, this Ryan should have some kind of blood transformation ability."

Just as the housekeeper was talking, a maid walked over quickly, whispered a few words in her ear, and handed the housekeeper a piece of thin paper.

"Uh, Your Highness, I just got the latest news. This Ryan captured a high priest of the Black Flame Cult in the secret Fiery Canyon."

"Oh? Caught alive? This is rare." Reinara's beautiful eyes lit up slightly, and she was slightly surprised.

"Yes, the legendary strongmen of the cult are extremely determined. Generally, even if they die in battle, they will not be captured alive. It is indeed extremely rare."

"Moreover, there were many people who witnessed this battle on the scene. It is basically confirmed that Ryan has the ability of blood transformation. However, according to the description of everyone on the scene, his transformation ability seems..."

"Seems what?" Seeing her housekeeper's expression, Reinara couldn't help but feel a little curious.

"From the body shape after the transformation, it seems to be some kind of mutated dragon blood."

"Huh?" Hearing this news, Reinara was stunned.

She finally knew why the housekeeper was so hesitant.

The royal blood of the Dragun Empire is the blood of the dragon, but later, in the empire's history of more than 2,000 years, there were several major disputes and turmoil within the royal family, resulting in some blood being lost outside.

So, from this point of view, this Ryan is likely to have some distant blood relatives with her.

Of course, there is another possibility, that is, the phenomenon of human atavism, but this one can be almost ignored, the probability is too low.

But in any case, if it is a mutated dragon blood, then for this Ryan, further observation is needed.

"Then observe it again."

"Okay, Your Highness."

At the same time, Ryan came to the school's residence and practiced the production of apprentice robes again.

Soon, with the successful production of the fifth apprentice robe, the system prompt sounded in Ryan's mind:

[Ding! The host comprehends the witch pattern, triggering the subsequent job transfer of the tailor master-Witch Pattern Tailor (Extraordinary)! ]

[The prerequisites for a tailor master to be promoted to a witch pattern tailor are: 1. Tailor master level 5 or above; 2. Strength 10 points or above, physique 12 points, spirit 18 points or above; 3. Independently produce 10 pieces of any qualified witch pattern tailor products. If the current conditions are met, is it true or not to be promoted to a witch pattern tailor (supernormal)? ]

[Note: After changing to a witch pattern tailor (supernormal), the original tailor master panel will be integrated into the witch pattern tailor (supernormal) occupation panel. ]

Without any hesitation, Ryan immediately chose "yes"!

[Ding! Successfully changed to a witch pattern tailor (supernormal)! Agility +3, spirit +5! The tailor master's core skill 'skillful hands' was promoted to the witch pattern tailor (supernormal) core skill 'focus'. 】

"Huh, focus?"

Ryan couldn't help but focus his eyes on the new core skill 'focus', and saw its skill description as follows:

[Core skill: Focus (active)]

Focus (active) effect: After the skill is activated, the concentration is improved and the coordination of the limbs is improved.

(Note: The duration of this skill is proportional to the host's physique and mental strength.)

"Improved coordination of the limbs?" Ryan thought.

He remembered very clearly that the original tailor master's core skill 'skillful hands' effect was to improve hand speed.

But this focus effect has expanded the simple 'hands' to 'limbs'.

Out of curiosity, and to confirm the guess, Ryan's mind moved slightly and he activated the new core skill 'focus'.

In an instant, the chirping of insects and birds in the gardens around the mansion, the whispering of guards and maids, and other irrelevant things quickly left him.

The whole world seemed to be left with only him, the witch pattern line, and the silk robe in his hand.

It took Ryan just over a minute to finish the apprentice robe that would have taken several minutes to sew carefully.

Moreover, the sewing quality of the witch pattern is better than the previous ones.

"It seems that it is not much different from the previous dexterity when used only on witch pattern tailoring." Ryan thought to himself.

After a little thought, Ryan came to the training room and inverted a one-minute hourglass. Then, he started running back and forth, ordinary attacks and ultimate attacks on the field.

After many tests, Ryan basically figured out the effect of this new core skill.

After turning on the focus, the absolute speed increase is very small.

In contrast, the various attack actions involving the coordination of all parts of the body, or ultimate attacks, have a relatively obvious improvement, about 10%.

Don't underestimate this range. For Ryan's current melee strength, every point of improvement is precious.

At the same time, this level of improvement and effect can appear in an extraordinary level profession, which is already very good.

Sword holder headquarters.

Olena quickly found Claire and Beyonce.

"Sir Olena, are you saying that Captain Ryan is planning to recruit two more new members?"

Claire first looked at the capable and charming young woman in front of her, whom she met for the first time, and then looked at Beyonce beside her and confirmed with Olena again.

Since they returned to the headquarters from the town of Tavlin that day, they have never seen Captain Ryan again.

However, during this period of time, they can hear discussions about their captain almost every day.

In addition, I don’t know how many waves of people have come to them.

There are investigators from the Sword Bearer Headquarters, and other departments under the banner of the official, and even many imperial wealthy families have sent people to inquire about the battle scene between their captain Ryan and the "sculptor" Harold.

As for the other Sword Bearers in the Sword Bearer Headquarters, they almost broke the threshold of their dormitory.

Fortunately, they were prepared for this, and all answered with the reason of "in the sandstorm, it is not clear".

"Yes, Miss Claire." Olena smiled and nodded.

Olena looked at the two beautiful young women in front of her, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart. Although Lord Ryan's strength is changing with each passing day, the aesthetic standards for recruiting team members are still the same.

As long as they are female team members, they must be young, beautiful, and have their own characteristics.

"Uh, are you sure you want us two to be responsible for this matter? Once the news that Captain Ryan intends to recruit people spreads, I'm afraid that the number of people who sign up will exceed fifty, no, even more than one hundred."

"And what are the recruitment standards?" Beyonce suddenly asked on the side.

After all, if so many people sign up, they want to screen them, and there must be a standard.

"Huh? So exaggerated?" Olena looked surprised.

But then she thought about it, this is logical.

But the problem is that Lord Ryan didn't say it in detail at the time, what is the specific recruitment standard.

"If it is a male team member, reliability is the main thing. It's best to know the other party's background and have a calm personality." Olena thought for a while and said.

Those in Munster, such as Neoro, Angus and Vieri, are all relatively calm.

"As for the female players, they should be young, beautiful and distinctive."

"Hmm? Shouldn't we find strong ones?" Claire's eyes widened, and she seemed very surprised by this standard.

"Yes, or should we consider it from the perspective of cooperating with Captain Ryan in battle?" Beyonce frowned slightly and asked in confusion.

"Do you think you are strong?" Olena naturally understood what the other party meant. She thought about it for a while and said.

"Uh"

Olena's words immediately reminded the two of them of the battle in Tavlin Town.

At that time, the two of them started to be quails after using a second-level witchcraft defense scroll.

Claire and Beyonce were speechless for a while.