two golems

Chapter 40 Rising Star
Lanxin City, Tianfeng Chamber of Commerce.

The lemon boy returned to the Chamber of Commerce in a daze, and the scene of being instantly killed was still replaying in his mind, like a nightmare.

Mr. Gao has just completed a big business in the past two days, and he is in a good mood. After seeing the boy Lemon came back, his face suddenly became strange: "What's the situation? Why are you so disgraced?"

The lemon boy came back to his senses in a daze, his expression was bitter, and he hesitated to speak: "I just met that boy named Zhu."

"Huh?" Mr. Gao said blankly, "Don't tell me that you lost to that kid again."

The lemon boy smiled bitterly and nodded aggrievedly: "Not only did I lose, but I also lost miserably."

"How is it possible? All three of your puppet have been upgraded to one star, and the battle puppet is also equipped with puppet skills. Could it be that the kid has already raised the puppet to two stars? Impossible, right?" Master Gao said in disbelief.

"This..." The lemon boy was crying and fussing, and he was speechless and said, "I don't know what to say."

Master Gao frowned and said, "Come here, tell me about the process of your battle."

The lemon boy nodded with a wry smile, and then recounted the previous battle in detail.

"What? You mean that kid turned himself into a shadow puppet? And then when you were caught off guard, he killed your war puppet?! You didn't even have time to use the puppet skills?" Mr. Gao suddenly said He stood up and said in surprise.

"Teacher, do you think that guy is not a human at all?" the lemon boy asked in confusion.

Mr. Gao frowned and thought for a moment, and his expression suddenly became complicated: "I have heard people talk about similar puppetry skills, but isn't that a unique puppetry skill for foreign couples? Could it be said that shadow puppets also have similar puppetry skills? "

"Puppetry?" The lemon boy said in shock: "You mean that kid used a puppetry to turn himself into a shadow puppet?"

"That's right." Mr. Gao nodded: "To be precise, the shadow puppet should be possessed by his body."

"So there is such a magical puppet skill?" Lemon Young Master couldn't help but wonder.

Master Gao nodded meaningfully, his eyes showing some solemnity, "It seems that the teacher behind that boy is probably not just a magician."

Reminiscent of the fact that many masters of puppet control have come to Lanxin City during this period, Master Gao's face couldn't help but become more solemn.

……

At this time, Zhu Youchen also rushed back to the small courtyard in the suburbs without stopping.

As soon as I got home, I couldn't wait to find Kang Chenzi who was reading ancient books in the study.

"Huh? Did you come back so early today? Didn't you find someone to discuss it with before coming back?" Kang Chenzi asked with interest.

"On the way back, I ran into that boy from Tianfeng Chamber of Commerce, and I dismissed him easily." Zhu Youchen reported truthfully: "But this is not the point. The point is that the disciple has already accumulated enough magic dust."

"Huh?" Kang Chenzi said in astonishment, "You shouldn't be able to sell this batch of magic injection materials for so much money, right?"

Zhu Youchen didn't hide it, and directly recounted the last transaction with Melolo.

After hearing what Zhu Youchen said, Kang Chenzi's expression couldn't help becoming weird, "Tsk tsk, I didn't expect that I even have disciples and grandchildren not long after I just accepted a disciple."

"It's not what you think. I just gave her a little guidance." Zhu Youchen explained: "Moreover, Melolo's foundation is very solid, but she just lacks some concentration."

Kang Chenzi nodded with a slight smile and did not go into details, "So, you have already saved up to [-] magic dust in advance, right?"

"Yes." Zhu Youchen nodded seriously, looking at Kang Chenzi with a hint of expectation.

"In that case, let's raise the star first." Kang Chenzi nodded with a smile: "After all, raising the star is the basis for all improvement of the devil."

Zhu Youchen nodded and asked doubtfully: "Then what should I do?"

"It's very simple. Melt 100 magic dust into 100 magic crystals, and then melt [-] magic crystals to get the most basic magic star, and let Da Zhuang and Er Fatty respectively absorb and refine it. One magic star can upgrade them to a one-star war partner and a one-star shield partner."

"But I've just come into contact with refining demons. How do I refining demon stars?" Zhu Youchen said in confusion.

But Kang Chenzi laughed dumbly and said: "Refining the magic star has nothing to do with refining the devil. In fact, as long as you are a puppet master, you can easily melt the magic dust into a magic star."

"If that's the case, then why do puppet masters have to find magicians to melt magic crystals?"

"Those people are just looking for a kind of psychological comfort." Kang Chenzi said with a smile: "In fact, there is no difference between the magic star fused by the puppeteer and the magician, but there are still many people who are willing to believe that the magician refines the magic star." The magic star's success rate will be higher."

"Success rate?" Zhu Youchen frowned and said, "Will rising to the star still fail?"

"Of course, and the higher the star rating, the lower the success rate of star promotion. Otherwise, wouldn't the Nine-Star Demon Puppet be everywhere?" Kang Chenzi nodded and smiled: "I told you before, the personalities of the puppet master and the puppet The degree of compatibility will directly affect the success rate of star promotion, but even if the personalities are highly compatible, it will only slightly increase the success rate."

"Then what will happen if it fails?" Zhu Youchen asked seriously. "If you fail, you will have to cultivate for a while before you can upgrade again." Kang Chenzi chuckled and said, "But these are not the issues you should worry about now. The success rate of one-star promotion is very high. Generally speaking They can all be successfully promoted to one star."

Zhu Youchen breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I feel more relieved when you say that."

"Okay, let's just start melting the magic star." Kang Chenzi didn't waste any time and started teaching Zhu Youchen how to melt the magic star.

As Kang Chenzi said, smelting magic stars does not have a high technical content. To put it bluntly, it means extracting the magic power from the magic dust, then refining and compressing it into magic crystals, and then refining and compressing the magic crystals into magic stars. .

Therefore, the so-called magic star is actually a high-concentration magic crystal.

After understanding how to melt the magic star, Zhu Youchen directly started to melt it with the magic dust in the empty jade ring.

About half an hour later, [-] magic dust condensed into two crystal clear magic stars in Zhu Youchen's hands.

Looking at the two magic stars in his hand, Zhu Youchen couldn't help but feel a little melancholy. He had no choice but to melt [-] magic dust into these two gadgets. Just thinking about it made his body hurt.

"Is it enough to just let Da Zhuang and Er Pang absorb it?" Zhu Youchen confirmed to Kang Chenzi again.

"Yes."

Hearing this, Zhu Youchen took a deep breath, then summoned Da Zhuang and Er Pang, controlled them to sit cross-legged on his left and right sides, and then handed the magic stars to their hands in turn.

Immediately afterwards, Da Zhuang and Er Pang began to absorb the power of the Demon Star under Zhu Youchen's control.

In the process of absorbing the magic star, the soul light on Da Zhuang and Er Pang became significantly brighter. Wisps of magical mist emitted from the magic star, lingering on Da Zhuang and Er Pang, and followed some special The flow path circulates in the soul bodies of Da Zhuang and Er Pang.

"Be patient and wait, it won't take long to get one star." Kang Chenzi said with a smile.

Zhu Youchen nodded thoughtfully. Although he could not participate in the star-rise process of Da Zhuang and Er Pang, he could faintly feel that the three souls in his consciousness were also changing subtly.

"Teacher, I thought of a question." While waiting for Da Zhuang and Er Pang to rise to the stars, Zhu Youchen seemed to have thought of something and couldn't help but look at Kang Chenzi in confusion.

Kang Chenzi was slightly stunned and said, "What's the problem?"

"I'm thinking, if you only need money to raise the star of a monster, then even if there is a limit on the success rate, it shouldn't be difficult for children from rich families, right? After all, all you need to do is pile up money, once If it doesn’t work, do it twice; if it doesn’t work twice, do it three times.”

Kang Chenzi nodded and said: "This was indeed the case before Samsung. The children of big families did have great advantages. But starting from Samsung, the situation is different."

"Is there any difference?" Zhu Youchen asked.

"Before three stars, there were almost no special conditions for rising to a star. But from three stars to four stars, you can't just rise to the stars."

"Why is that?"

"Because starting from three stars, if the devil wants to continue to rise to the star level, it must undergo enough actual combat accumulation and training, and the soul body can be tempered to a certain extent before it can withstand the impact of the power of the high-level devil star. This is like metal forging. , an ordinary piece of iron can become harder and withstand greater strength only after being tempered."

Zhu Youchen nodded thoughtfully and continued to ask: "Strange, why can you bear it once you reach Samsung, but can't bear it from Samsung?"

"Because the power of the magic stars from one to three levels is not very strong, and starting from the fourth level, the magic power contained in the magic stars begins to obviously exceed the limit that the devil itself can withstand. This is another influence besides personality tendency. factors in the success rate of star promotion.”

Zhu Youchen was obviously still a little confused and asked: "Are the magic stars for each level different?"

"Well, you don't think you only need [-] magic dust every time you rise to the stars, do you?" Kang Chenzi realized Zhu Youchen's confusion and asked with a strange expression.

"Isn't it?" Zhu Youchen said blankly.

"Of course not." Kang Chenzi explained in a dumbfounded way: "If you only need [-] magic dust for each star promotion, it would be too cheap. What can be melted out of [-] magic dust is only the most basic first-level magic star. The second-level magic star required to upgrade to two stars needs to be obtained by fusing two first-level magic stars, and the third-level magic star needs to be obtained by fusing two second-level magic stars, and so on."

Hearing this, although Zhu Youchen was calm in his heart, he still swallowed unconsciously and was stunned.

I thought that the price of [-] magic dust for a magic star was enough to burn money. After all, the success rate will become lower and lower as the star rises. It takes a lot of money to upgrade a magic doll from one star to nine stars. Hundreds of thousands.

But it turned out that his thinking was too simple. For each star level, the amount of magic dust required would double.

Calculating this, the cost of a nine-star magic crystal is 256 million magic dust, and it may not be successful. Just thinking about it is scary.

For a moment, Zhu Youchen's eyes when he looked at Kang Chenzi also changed, because Kang Chenzi's only remaining demon puppet, Kang Shuai, was a nine-star demon puppet. Although he didn't know how much money Kang Chenzi spent on Kang Shuai, what is certain is that , the teacher must have been very rich before, and he was rich beyond his imagination.

At the same time, what is certain is that the profession of alchemist is really very profitable!

(End of this chapter)