MTL - Studying Science in the Alternate World-Chapter 214 Hibiscus fresh face

  Chapter 214 Hebedi Fresh Face

  What is a spiritual fountain?

  Actually, with the development of spiritual mysticism to such a high level today, there is still no definite statement to define the spiritual spring.

  Usually arcane mages believe that the spiritual fountain is where the true spiritual sea meets the real world.

  Because of this, the spiritual spring will continuously spew out spiritual particles to nourish everything in the world.

  Some arcane masters also believe that the real sea of ​​spirituality lies in the center of the earth, and the spring of spirituality is from the center of the earth to the surface.

   There are also arcane masters who believe that the fountain of spirituality runs through time and space, and is a mineral deposit condensed from all things in the dead old time. Therefore, the ancient spirits exist in the spiritual spring, just like the amber excavated from the ore.

  The phantom in ancient times is also a kind of amber-like existence.

  The spirituality of the dead age is condensed in the spiritual spring. From time to time, these amber-like spiritualities will explode, forming phantoms of the ancient times, and impacting the spiritual sea of ​​today.

  "The phantom of the ancient era is very dangerous, especially the closer the era is, the more spiritual the dead are, and the greater the danger. Even if the arcanist is impacted by the phantom of the ancient era, if he is not careful, he will sink into it and become a fallen demon like a walking corpse."

  Duke asked his teacher Suktara about this topic before, and Suktara's answer was just like this.

   However, Suktara has seen the spirits of the ancient times, but he has never encountered the impact of the phantoms of the ancient times. The spiritual springs that can trigger the phantoms of the ancient times are generally large-scale spiritual springs. Only the springs under Shenjiao City are big enough.

  It is just a spring under Shenjiao City, which has been tamed by arcanists, and it is continuously exporting spirituality to serve the entire city.

   There will no longer be ghosts of the ancient era.

   "I didn't expect the spiritual spring in Cuihai Valley to be able to erupt ancient phantoms. Isn't it just a medium-sized spiritual spring?"

  Duke was in the sea of ​​worms in ancient phantoms. With Xiaoyi and the guardian · Mystic Vine helping him guard the spiritual sea, he didn’t feel any danger—after all, the sea of ​​worms was the oldest era, and the phantoms preserved were very dim.

  His fingertips lightly poked a phantom of a trilobite, and the trilobite ran away quickly as if it were a living thing.

   Then a huge straight-shelled nautilus swam up and seemed to see Duke.

   This top predator in the ancient ocean suddenly accelerated, and several two to three-meter-long tentacles protruded from the shell mouth, tightly entangled Duke, and grabbed Duke to stuff it into its mouth.

  Duke quickly cast "Battle Qi Armor" to wrap himself up.

   Then I realized that I had a false alarm. This straight-shelled nautilus, which is more than ten meters long, has no strength at all.

  At the same time, many vines suddenly appeared on his body. After these vines appeared, they twisted off the tentacles of the straight shell nautilus.

  The next moment, the phantom of the straight-shelled nautilus shattered like a bubble.

  The vines growing from Duke's body also slowly dissipated. This is undoubtedly the guardian and mysterious vine in the spiritual sea.

   "It turns out that the vine of protection and mystery is used to deal with phantoms of the ancient times." Duke was stunned.

  When he was infected by the molting shell of the ancient evil thing, the guardian · mystery vine did not respond, and he thought it was useless.

   I didn't expect it to work here.

  Seeing the huge straight-shelled nautilus, a predator, was crushed by Duke, and the other small phantoms that were around it before, all scattered with a huff, and swam around.

  The crinoid growing beside her also restrained her arms and legs.

  However, above the distant forest, there are still countless phantoms wandering in the sky. In addition to the straight-shelled nautilus, there is also a top predator, which looks like a huge shrimp or a huge squid. This is the helmeted shrimp.

  The mercenaries with strong portable lights turned a blind eye to the Ocean of Insects.

  Vivienne in the black beetle turned over and continued to lie down, showing no reaction to the phantom of the ancient times outside.

  Only Duke stood on the roof of the car, feeling the impact of the Ocean of Worms.

  With the dispersal of the guardian and mysterious vines, the frightened phantoms quickly swam over and looked at Duke curiously, as if they were living in the same era.

   Live in that ancient insect ocean.

   Immediately, Duke saw a phantom of a very small bug, crawling in the void, as if crawling on the bottom of the sea.

   This little bug looks very strange, its head and tail are indistinguishable, it has two rows of side-by-side spikes on its back, and two rows of side-by-side thin legs under its body. Whether you turn it upside down or end to end, it seems to look the same.

   "There is a 97% probability that this species is a grotesque insect phantom in the Ocean of Insects." Xiaoyi did not directly respond to Duke's doubts.

   Instead, on the vindictive holographic screen, the information of the grotesque bug was given.

  At this moment, Duke has entered a special state, as if he has crossed the time distance of hundreds of millions of years and came to the Ocean of Insects.

   Live together with many strange bugs in the ocean of bugs.

  Feel their breath, feel their emotions, feel their hunting and being hunted, and feel the cruel or funny scenes.

   Weird Worm ignored Duke and crawled away from Duke.

   But soon after, another worm crawled over. It looked no worse than a grotesque worm. It had no head or eyes, only tentacles of different lengths, and a fat body.

  Duke couldn't help stretching out his fingers to meet the little bug that was only the size of a thumb.

   The little bug crawled onto Duke's finger, and seemed to sense something was wrong. It stopped and swung the tentacles on its body, looking like it was threatening Duke, but this action had no deterrent effect.

   "This species has a probability of 81%. It is the phantom of the cheering insect in the ocean of insects." On the vindictive holographic screen, the information of the insect is displayed.

  Duke didn't seem to realize it, and his attention was on the cheering bug.

   After a few seconds.

   He laughed.

   Then stretched out the other hand, facing the cheering bug that was still swinging its tentacles, it just flicked over with a flick of a finger, patter, the cheering bug was bounced far, far away.

   Then a strange worm the size of a palm rushed out, swallowed the cheering worm in one gulp, and then swam quickly, out of Duke's field of vision.

   Right now.

  From the bottom of the Ocean of Insects, that is, in the forest of Cuihai Valley, a huge phantom suddenly drilled out, with extremely high brightness.

  The phantom of Ocean of Worms is not as bright as this phantom.

   This phantom looks like a scorpion, or a strange shrimp, with two chelicerae like big knives growing on its flat body.

   "This species has a 58% probability, and it is a phantom of the horseshoe crab in the ocean of insects." Xiaoyi gave the data.

  Duke immediately thought of the 9-ring spirit beast-Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon that launched the bug swarm to invade Shenjiao City. Although there is a huge difference in size and appearance between the two, there are more or less similarities in demeanor and appearance.

  One is a sub-dragon, and the other is an ancient phantom.

  But at the position of Cuihai Valley, there is an intersection of time and space.

  Duke felt inexplicably emotional: "Perhaps the ancestor of the Black Jade Horseshoe crab hundreds of millions of years ago was this plate-footed horseshoe crab that came across the barrier of time and space..."

this moment.

  In his spiritual sea, there was a rumbling vibration, and then a swaying horseshoe crab condensed out, roaming wantonly in the spiritual sea.

   Immediately afterwards, more and more horseshoe crabs condensed, filling every corner of Linghai.

  It seems that there are many little scorpions in the spiritual sea.

  The vine of protection and mystery, as always, is also wrapped around the body of the horseshoe crab, so that there is me in you, and you in me.

   I froze for a moment.

  Duke grinned: "Sure enough, phantoms in ancient times are both danger and opportunity. I didn't expect it to help me comprehend the eleventh kind of vision... This vision is called a sea scorpion. Whether it's a black jade horseshoe dragon or this horseshoe crab, they all look like scorpions."

  Wildflowers, wheat seedlings, branches, ants, stones, swirls, white paper, rainbows, spirit crystals, spears, and now sea scorpions, a total of eleven visions.

  In addition to the guardian and mysterious vines, they are all scenes in his spiritual sea.

  Duke withdrew from the inner view and continued to stare at the surrounding Ocean of Insects. He was still looking forward to comprehending more phantoms of the Ocean of Insects.

  But not a moment later, the Ocean of Insects suddenly receded like the tide of the sea. In an instant, everything receded cleanly, and there was no longer the feeling of being wrapped in warm sea water, there were no more strange phantoms of insects, and there was no longer the intoxicating ancient spirituality.

  The phantom of the ancient era has returned to the old time, as if it was just a dream.

  Duke jumped out of the black beetle vehicle somewhat disappointed, and the entire camp was not affected in the slightest as before.

   "Go and call Commander Zina." Duke said to a mercenary standing guard.

   "Yes, my lord."

   After a while, Zina rushed over. She had already fallen asleep before, but now she seemed to have not woken up, her sleepy eyes were puffy.

   "My lord, are you looking for me?"

   "How are you feeling now?" Duke asked.

  Zina shook her head in doubt, as if she wanted to wake herself up a bit: "I don't know, I just feel that my body is very heavy, as if I was distracted from sleep. My lord, why are you asking that? Did something happen just now?"

   "No, go and rest." Duke waved his hand.

  Qina is a pseudo-level 1 card fighter, with both blood sea and spiritual sea dual cultivation, but she can't break through the 1st level in both aspects. She can only rely on fighting spirit and spirit cards to fight, and barely raise her strength to the 1st level level, and assess the profession of a card warrior.

  This kind of occupation is generally recognized by the mercenary mission center, and is not recognized by the Faling Pagoda, nor will it be registered.

   "Looking at Zina's appearance, she should have been impacted by the Ocean of Insects, but it's just a loss of energy, which is harmless."

  Duke glanced at the dark night that had become drowsy again, and returned to the black beetle.

  Vivian, who was sleeping on the outside, sat up from the hard plank bed. The daytime cloth armor had been taken off. With the help of a dim light in the car, it could be seen that she was only wearing a small shirt.

   "My lord, are you ready to rest?" Vivian asked.

  Duke raised his eyebrows, took Vivian's hand and said, "It's still early, come and chat with me for a while."

   In fact, there is nothing to talk about. Vivienne is not a talkative person. As for Duke himself, he has not completely escaped from the shock of the Ocean of Worms.

   There are still many questions lingering in my mind.

  Why did the medium-sized spiritual spring in Emerald Sea Valley explode into the Ocean of Worms?

  There are two tree kings with three rings growing in Cuihai Valley. Could there be some connection with the Ocean of Insects, indicating that this spring is not medium-sized?

  Why did the molted shell of the ancient evil appear here? Could this be the reason for the outbreak of the Ocean of Insects?

   There was also the Cuihai Valley development war led by the Bernoulli Mage Tower, which suddenly fell into silence; Bernoulli, who said he would come to Shenjiao City to sit in the city, has not shown up in Shenjiao City for a long time; the foreign aid Hunting Dragon has not moved.

  In addition, Xiaoji's grandmother, according to Xiaoji's description, is the image of a trilobite, and happens to live in the spiritual spring of Cuihai Valley.

  So Xiaoji’s grandma, could it really be a trilobite living in the ancient time of the Ocean of Insects?

  Wrapped in spiritual amber, can it survive to this day?

  Too many problems for Duke to see through.

but.

  He quickly handed over these same problems to Xiaoyi for analysis, while he hugged the female big knight next to him and chatted.

  …

   On the fourth day, I feel refreshed.

   Chatting all night didn't consume much Duke's energy. After giving Vivian a day off, he still rode a spirit horse, galloped in the forest, and drew his gun to hunt spirit beasts.

   Return to the camp until the evening.

   found that Xiaohong had finished her wedding flight and returned to the black beetle car.

   "Good girl, I have found a suitable partner!" Duke touched Xiaohong's tentacles, feeling the faint emotion conveyed by Xiaohong.

   It desperately needs to build a nest and then breed its own colony.

   "Departure, return to Snakehead Town!" Duke ordered directly, and the mercenaries surrounded the black beetle vehicles and returned to Snakehead Town in the middle of the night.

  Stayed in Black Snake Manor for one night, and set off early the next morning.

   "Mu Lali, your sister wants to play with you in the city for a few days and see the Mage Tower. Help your aunt to look after her." Mu Lashan's mother held her niece Mu Lali's hand before leaving, and told her with some reluctance.

  Mu Lali agreed with all her mouth: "Auntie, don't worry, it's great for Shanshan to come and accompany me, you don't have to worry about us."

  Taking Mu Lashan with her, Mu Lali boarded the airship Chasing Shadow.

  The airship arrived at the Suktara Mage Tower at ten o'clock. Suktara went to work at the Union Tower, so no one let Duke attend class.

  Duke was able to continue his vacation and took Xiaohong himself to the Duke-James Farm.

  Here, Xiaohong had already dug a large nest, Duke put it down, but Xiaohong didn't climb into the underground nest immediately, but stopped at Duke's feet, and kept rubbing her two wings until the wings fell off.

  Duke squatted down and picked up the two wings: "Thank you for the gift, go get it, Xiaohong, and build your own ant colony."

  Waving the tentacles, Xiaohong got into the nest.

  The shed wings of the Crypt Marching Queen with 5 bloodlines are definitely valuable spiritual materials, but Duke is not willing to use them as spiritual materials.

   Passed it to the entourage, and said: "I will find someone to make a specimen of these wings and hang them in the living room of the Beverly Manor villa."

   "Yes, sir."

   "Where is Boss James?"

   "I'm here, my lord." James, the farm owner, ran up to Duke, "I haven't congratulated you yet, my lord, for becoming a polymath!"

   "It's just a name, it's not worth it." Duke waved his hand indifferently, "The farm will change its name later, and hide my name. Now I am a big fan, and there is no need to occupy the small income of the farm."

   "Ah, my lord..." James was in a hurry. Without Duke's signboard, how could the farm run on his own.

   "Don't worry, listen to me, I think so, James." Duke explained, "You and I have known each other for so long, and I trust your ability, so I offer you two solutions, you can think about it yourself."

   "Sir, please speak."

   "First, you become my vassal and help me manage spiritual plant affairs full-time. I will have the opportunity to study spiritual plants in the future, and I need an assistant. I think you are suitable; second, if you feel that the vassal is too restrictive, you can continue to operate the farm, but it will only be a cooperative relationship in the future. Of course, I can come forward to help you solve problems on the farm a few times."

  The two met at the end of the day. Although Duke decided to quit the farm operation, he would not let James suffer.

   "I...I need to think about it, my lord."

   "Well, it's okay, think about it slowly, and then reply me when you think about it." Duke smiled and patted James on the shoulder.

  Exercising the breathing method, cultivating the 2-ring elf Ben Lingzhi-Ji Yulu, and cultivating Chuanxuezhu, which does not grow well in the farmland, was busy for two hours before Duke left the farm.

   It was already evening when we returned to Suktara Master Tower.

   "Duke, continue class tonight." Suktara came over in person as soon as he got off work, and greeted Duke.

   "Um, good teacher."

   "There is another thing, now there is an opportunity, you can get the shares of Hibidi Ling Mine Company, do you want to participate in the competition?"

   "Shares in the Hibidi Ling Mining Company?" Duke was surprised, "I'm only a 1st ring arcane mage, can I also get the shares?"

   “All I can say is hope.”

  Suktara told Duke the whole thing: "Kleinda decided to sell the shares to raise money to pay for the loss of Runwanjia Spirit Tool Factory. Don't underestimate the 1% of the shares, which are worth at least a million gold dragons, and there are continuous dividends. Few people are willing to sell."

   Just when Duke left the Mage Tower and went to Snake Town to attend to Xiaohong's wedding and flight matters, Keyston Nutao held a board meeting in his capacity as the chairman of Hebbit Spirit Mine Company.

  Discuss what to do with the shares sold by Clarinda.

   "Some shareholders think that it should be recycled, so that everyone can share a little money, and their own shares can rise a little bit. Mr. Keystone and other high-level executives still insist on choosing new people to take over the shares, the consistent routine of unity."

  Suktara said: "As for the candidates for the newcomers, Lord Keystone recommended you. In addition, there are four second-level arcane mages who were also recommended, so there are five candidates including you."

   "Master Keystone actually recommended me?"

   "Although you are only a level 1 arcanist, you are already a scholar and a rising star. It is not surprising to recommend you... If you are willing to participate, I will help you respond to the board of directors and wait for a vote in the future to select who will take over."

  Hibite's stake, this is a kind of threshold.

  The Arcane Masters of Shenjiao City are also divided into grades.

  The first-class grades are naturally the four great arcane masters, Keyston Rage, Williams, Irwin, and Stephen Maverick, together with the chief director of the Faling Pagoda, Orucci, the executive of the United Tower, Jovis Bobcat, and Penrose, members of the leadership team of the Five Towers Conference.

  The second-rate level is basically the shareholders of Hebedi, including most of the 3-ring arcane mages, and some outstanding 2-ring arcane mages.

   As for the third-rate grades, they are the remaining Arcane Masters.

  Duke doesn’t need to be independent, so it’s the right way to integrate into Hebedi’s circle and improve his own level.

  Besides, this is the share sold by Clarinda, which is of great significance.

  He immediately replied: "Of course I am willing to take over this part of the shares, but teacher, if the price is millions of gold dragons, I simply cannot afford it."

   "As long as you have this thought, the teacher will help you." Suktara said kindly, "This time is indeed a good opportunity. If Clarinda didn't take the initiative to sell the shares, even if you are promoted to the 2nd Ring Arcane Mage, you may not be able to buy the shares of Hebedi."

   "Teacher, you are so kind to me."

   "You are my successor. The research on replicating materials in the future ring will still be done by you. If there are some external factors, I will leave it to the teacher to help you deal with it." Suktala said, "The teacher has not been idle for more than a hundred years, and he has saved a lot of gold dragons."

  Duke said gratefully: "Teacher, don't worry, when the Giant of Light earns money, I will immediately repay the teacher."

  Suktara smiled and said: "Don't worry, it's just a thing outside of your body. Don't be burdened. Follow the teacher to learn alchemy. This is the best gratitude to the teacher."

"yes!"

  Grateful for the teacher's love for me.

  In the alchemy class in the evening, Duke listened very carefully and did the experiments meticulously. He hoped to master the art of alchemy as soon as possible.

  If the teacher can be alive, he will make some achievements, and even solve the problem of ring copying materials.

   Then, it will be the best reward.

   "What a good boy, he knows everything and is meticulous." Suktara looked at Duke who was seriously doing the experiment, and was full of joy.

  So the next day, she informed the board of Hebedi that Duke intended to compete for the shares of Hebedi.

   Just as Duke was heading to Penrose Mage Tower for another card-making class.

  Hibdi held the second meeting of the board of directors this month. The chairman, Keston Nutao, sat in person, and the executive deputy director, Erwin, presided over the meeting.

   "At this meeting, the successor of 1% of Hebdi's shares will be selected. There are currently five candidates who are interested in taking over, namely, the 2nd-ring arcane scholar, Lingzhi scholar Outlets, the 2nd-ring arcane scholar Trespo, the 2nd-ring arcanist Nigel, the 2nd-ring arcanist Yvette, and the 1st-ring arcane scholar and polymath Duke."

  Erwin smiled and read the names of the five people like a little old man, and then said: "Everyone can speak freely, talk about which one you support, and why you support it... It is still a practice, and we will vote after everyone finishes talking."

   "Then let me briefly talk about it first." The Union Tower spoke to the external director, 3rd-ring arcanist and element scholar Fruel first, "I support Outlets. Outlets is my old friend for many years. It has been rooted in the field of spiritual planting for many years..."

   Soon, another director said: "Ahem, let me share my thoughts. I think Nigel is good. He is young and has potential. He has performed well in several pioneering wars. As a 2-ring Arcanist, his future is promising..."

  At this time, Penrose, who was the director of Hebedi, also said: "Duke, I support Duke. He is my student. His talent is obvious to all, and there is no need to say anything else."

   "Duke is good." Erwin followed with a smile.

  Following the discussion among everyone, three candidates were quickly ruled out, leaving only two candidates, Outlets and Duke.

  The other three are not scholars, so their natural status is short.

   "Duke is only a level 1 arcane mage, that's not right."

   "What about the 1st ring, as a genius arcanist, he deserves preferential treatment."

  "It's too active, it's better to let him concentrate on doing research. It may not be a good thing to be included in Hebidi now."

   "Letting him in, wouldn't it just reduce external interference and make it easier for him to focus on research."

   "Outlets has been waiting for more than ten years, and he is already sufficient in terms of qualifications. I think it is better to let Outlets in."

   "A generation of newcomers replaced the old ones. Hebedi originally selected the best arcane mages to join. Duke is good enough, why not let him join?"

"Yeah yeah."

   "I also support Duke, the youngest scholar in the field of wind breath, and joining Hebedi is just in time."

   "Okay, no matter how much you argue, you can't argue about why." Erwin interrupted the noise at the meeting, and said directly, "Let's vote with a show of hands."

   More than 20 directors raised their hands.

   Outlets had 12 people supporting it, Duke had 11 people supporting it, and two of the directors did not raise their hands.

   "Ahem." Kiston Nutao, who was sitting on the first seat, was one of the people who didn't raise his hand. He said slowly, "To be honest, I've seen enough of the old faces in Shenjiao City. We're the only ones who come and go. There's nothing new about it."

  Everyone fell silent and listened to Keyston's speech.

  Kiston didn’t play tricks, and said slowly: "I watched Clarinda grow up, and I watched Outlets grow up. What’s the point of going out and going in. It’s Duke, who gives people a new look. I still want to support this kid."

   When he finished speaking, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

   Immediately, they agreed with a haha: "Since the chairman is optimistic about Duke, let's look forward to Duke's future performance."

   Looking for tickets~

  

  

  (end of this chapter)