The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 295 Blood Peak Mercenary Group (two chapters in one)

In the afternoon.

Olena finds Ryan again.

This made Ryan a little confused. He felt that the other party was not like the Deputy Minister of Affairs of the Mission Hall, but more like his personal secretary, who came to him several times a day.

"Mr. Ryan, this morning, I suddenly remembered why you were still in the Newcomers' Building."

"So, I immediately contacted the logistics department, and found out that the office had not yet had time to pass on the news that you were rated as a diamond star."

Olena spoke with a smile on her face, adding a bit of hospitality at the right moments, which made it hard not to feel a liking for her.

"It has been arranged for you now. According to your Diamond Star status, the new suite will be located over at the training ground, opposite the training building. It is also the best suite in the branch."

"suite?"

"Yes, Lord Ryan, it has everything you need, including bedrooms, living rooms, and even an indoor training room."

Ryan nodded. He didn't expect that diamond-level swordsmen would be treated so well.

"Look, why don't you move there now?"

Ryan thought for a moment and nodded, saying, "Okay, then I'll trouble Lady Olena."

When Ryan heard about the training room, he was quite interested. After all, some of his moves were not easy to perform in a public training room.

Another reason is that as the captain of the Sword Bearer Team, he needs to call team members together for small gatherings or meetings, but the current dormitory for new members is too small.

Hearing Ryan nod in agreement, Olena waved her hand, and two tall guards came out from the end of the corridor to help move things.

Actually, Ryan didn't have much, just a lot of loot weapons in the cupboard.
Led by Olena, several people walked towards the distribution training ground.

"By the way, Mr. Ryan, don't forget the award ceremony held at the Munster Administrative Hall this Sunday."

"By the way, if this event were held a few months later, it is very likely that you would not only be a viscount, but also a count." Olena said with a smile.

"Thank you, Your Excellency Olena, you are too kind." Ryan smiled and said nothing more.

Sunday words.
That's still six days away.

Suddenly, there was a sound of something heavy falling behind me.

"Pfft!"

I saw a guard, with red face, raising his blue and white two-handed war hammer again, "Hmph!"

Ryan was speechless, smiled, turned around, walked over, and picked up the warhammer with one hand.

"Just help with the other weapons." Ryan said casually.

"Okay, thank you Master Ryan."

The guard looked at Ryan with gratitude and was amazed at the same time.

This war hammer weighing hundreds of pounds seemed like nothing in Lord Ryan's hands and was lifted with ease.

Only then did he understand why the young Lord Ryan in front of him was a diamond-level swordsman.

When Ryan walked into the Diamond-star suite on the third floor, he couldn't help but sigh at the excellent accommodation conditions prepared by the Sword Bearer Branch for the Diamond-star captains.

Just as Olena said, the kitchen, living room, bedroom and training room are all available. In addition, there is a special service team in the corridor, responsible for some housekeeping-like work.

Of course, he would only come in if the owner of the room rang the bell.

Ryan naturally took a look at the training room first.

It is spacious and bright, with transparency from front to back. It is equipped with training dummies, targets, and various weapons, and the ground has also been specially reinforced.

Overall, it wasn't much different from the training room in Count Habsburg's mansion.

In response, Ryan nodded with satisfaction.

A few hours later.

Inside the private training room at Ryan's new house.

Ryan was standing leisurely in the middle of the empty field, surrounded by three dark kite-shaped shields. Opposite him was Vieri, holding a two-handed sword and with a serious face.

next second!
Vieri used his toes to move quickly around Rennes, looking for any flaws.

good chance!
The gap between the two shields here is a bit big!

Vieri narrowed his eyes, and his hands moved without any delay, and he slashed with a cross!

"Clang!"

it is a pity!
All in vain!

Two extremely swift slashes were both blocked by the kite shield.

This made Vieri feel a little discouraged.

He clearly felt that Ryan was full of flaws, and the gap between the two kite-shaped shields was large enough, which should be a good opportunity for him to chop in with his two-handed sword.

But when his sword came down.

In an instant, the Kite Shield's lingering speed suddenly increased, just blocking his slashing path.

Vieri tried this several times, but no matter whether he went around Rennes' rear, side or frontal attack, it was of no use.

It's like an iron wall!
Desperate!

Ryan crossed his arms across his chest, occasionally pointing out some problems Vieri had with his swordsmanship.

With his Arcadian swordsmanship level above 16, there was naturally no problem for him to teach Vieri how to use the two-handed greatsword.

Vieri is his only follower at the moment, so Ryan asked him to cooperate with him to improve his proficiency in the "Metal Barrier" while pointing out the minor problems with his two-handed greatsword, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

The three red-haired beauties Evelyn, Neolo and Angus, who were watching from the side, were whispering to each other at this moment.

"Captain Ryan's magic 'Metal Barrier' is too powerful. I guess there's nothing I can do about it." Angus pondered for a while and shook his head.

He specializes in sword and shield. Although he is stronger than Vieri, in terms of attack power alone, he is only slightly different from Vieri.

After all, Vieri uses a two-handed greatsword, so its attack power is naturally stronger than that of a one-handed sword.

"Neoro, do you understand the witchcraft of 'Metal Barrier'? It's a little too powerful." Angus asked with his head tilted.

"The power is indeed extraordinary! It feels much stronger than ordinary elemental defensive witchcraft. Logically, this shouldn't be the case!" Neoro frowned and thought.

"If it's not that the elemental affinity is extremely high, then there is only one explanation."

"What explanation?" Angus immediately looked at Neoro.

Hearing this, Evelin’s beautiful eyes couldn’t help but look over curiously.

"This may be related to the metal used by Lord Ryan." Neolo looked as if he understood.

"I don't know if you have noticed that Lord Ryan's dark kite-shaped shield is made of a special metal called hardened adamantium, which has very high hardness and toughness."

"It's really difficult to defeat it even for a top knight." Neolo on the side thought he had pointed out the key point.

However, soon, a bitter smile appeared on his face as well.

Because he immediately remembered something.

At this moment, Lord Ryan, who is standing in the center of the venue and defending like a solid barrier, is actually best at attacking.

"Neoro, if you use witchcraft to attack, can you break Lord Nen's metal barrier?" Angus asked.

"Difficult! Did you see the dark silver metal on Lord Ryan's forearm?"

"See, what is this?" Angus looked thoughtful, as if he had some impression of it.

"If I'm not mistaken, it should be demonized thorium. This metal has a very high resistance to all elemental energies."

"That is to say, if Lord Ryan faces a wizard, he will most likely use magicized thorium to deal with it." Neoro said with his arms folded across his chest.

"Hiss~ Demonized thorium! But for such a big piece, how many merit points would it cost?" Angus had served in the army before, so he naturally knew about it and had seen demonized thorium before.

However, most of the time, demonized thorium is used as some kind of special paint, covering a thin layer.

I have never seen such a large patch as the one on Ryan's forearm.

Furthermore, how many merit points are needed to redeem this?
Hearing this, Evelin’s beautiful eyes were already shining.

"Angus, don't forget. Captain Ryan completed one diamond-level mission and four gold-level missions. Do you think he's short of merit points?"

When Neoro said this, he did not forget to glance at the red-haired beauty Evelin.

In fact, he had one more thing to say.

Just by giving it away, he was given three silver evaluation medals and two thousand merit points.

I'm afraid that their captain has at least tens of thousands of merit points, so exchanging some magic silver is nothing.

Originally, they didn't know that Ryan had completed a diamond-level mission.

It was not until just now, when Ryan invited them to exchange and compete, that they realized that this was a suite with diamond-star treatment!

It is located in a three-story building next to the training ground.

The entire third floor covers an area of ​​more than 8,000 square meters, but has only less than 20 suites. It is the place where the entire Swordbearer Munster branch is used to accommodate diamond-star captains.

Each suite has a small training room, bedroom, dining room, living room and everything else you need.

In addition, there is a dedicated housekeeping service team in the corridor, which can be summoned by ringing the bell 24 hours a day.

When they arrived just now, they were stunned!

In comparison, their dormitory for newcomers was a completely shabby room.

"Angus, it's your turn."

Vieri was holding the two-handed sword and was already panting, but he still couldn't even touch Ryan's sleeve.

In a high-speed, all-out battle, even a great knight would use up most of his strength within a dozen minutes and would need to rest and adjust.

"Okay!" Angus looked excited, struck his sword and shield twice, and stepped forward.

Angus didn't know this before, until he discovered during their casual chat just now that Ryan could actually give him a lot of suggestions on the coordination of sword and shield moves.

This surprised him greatly!
Because Angus had always thought that Ryan specialized in two-handed hammers and greatswords, he never expected that the other party also dabbled in swords and shields.

No, the word cannot be used as dabbling, but rather mastering.

Ryan's proficiency in sword and shield is likely to be no less than his.

More than ten minutes later, Angus, holding a sword and shield, was also panting and sweating profusely.

At this time, Neoro tightened the short staff in his hand and walked forward. Seeing Neoro, Ryan smiled slightly and slowly cast his innate magic "Metal Transfiguration", retracting the original three-sided hardened fine gold kite shield and covering the knight's left and right hand guards and forearms.

The demonized thorium on the forearm was transformed into a dark silver kite-shaped shield.

Of course, this process deliberately took nearly ten seconds.

It’s not that Ryan deliberately concealed it, but it was too troublesome to explain.

What he was thinking was that once the level of the metal barrier was improved and the speed of casting the spell was greatly increased, it would be so real that it would be difficult to tell which was the innate witchcraft.

Seeing this, Neoro couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "Captain Ryan, you are too targeted!"

When the red-haired beauty Evelin heard this, she couldn't help but burst into laughter, and her body trembled for a moment.

And Angus and Vieri also laughed out loud.

After the exchange with Neoro, Ryan, who had fought three people in a round-robin battle, retracted the witchcraft 'Metal Barrier' and the battle came to a temporary end.

He glanced at the Warhammer Wizard (Legend) profession panel. Thanks to the strong cooperation of Neoro and three other new members of the team, his witchcraft metal barrier has reached level 2 (218/300) at this moment.

The speed of improvement is quite impressive!

In view of the current turbulent situation, Ryan initially planned to upgrade to level 3 and then use skill points to upgrade directly to quickly form combat effectiveness.

Several people sat around the coffee table to rest.

The waiter in the corridor respectfully poured the tea, placed the snacks, and then quickly left the room.

"Tsk tsk, Lord Ryan, the treatment you receive as a diamond-star captain is beyond words." Angus said enviously.

Ryan smiled slightly and said, "Do you know what happened last night?"

"Sir Ryan, are you referring to the evil spirit attack that happened yesterday?" Neoro raised his eyebrows and said.

"So it was an evil spirit that attacked last night?" Vieri and Angus looked at each other in sudden realization.

Evelyn stared at Ryan with her beautiful eyes, as if waiting for his next words.

Ryan looked at a few people.

It seems that as a local nobleman in Munster, Neoro is very well-informed.

It’s not that Vieri and Angus were not sensitive enough, but by the time they noticed it, the battle was already over.

Yesterday's battle lasted less than two minutes before it was over.

"It's not just the evil spirit attack, there's another thing. Archbishop Gomes was assassinated." Ryan announced the bombshell news.

"What!" Several people's expressions changed.

Those present were either descendants of nobles or from the military, so they naturally understood the status and strength represented by the Archbishop of the Goddess Church.

It goes without saying what the assassination of such a big figure means!

"Please keep this matter confidential for the time being. The main purpose of telling you this is that if your family has not yet moved to Munster, you may want to hurry up and do so."

"It is very likely that the situation in the empire is more turbulent than imagined." Ryan's expression became serious and he looked at several people seriously.

Now they are all teammates in a team, and Ryan revealed the news to them at the right time.

"Some members of my family have already moved here. But my father is a landed noble and cannot leave Rossby County." Evelyn nodded and said.

"I'm the only one at home." Vieri shrugged and looked at Ryan.

"Hmm? Are you alone?"

"Yes, my mother died of illness very early, and my father was an imperial colonel who died in a battle to suppress ferocious beasts." Vieri said with a somewhat lost tone.

"Vieri, if you don't mind, you can move to my mansion." Ryan said.

"Is this okay?" Vieri showed joy, but also a hint of hesitation.

"Of course." Ryan nodded and said.

Ryan had this idea before, but his family foundation was still a little shallow, and apart from him, there was no other fighting power to show off.

Now with a follower like Vieri, the situation has improved a lot.

"I will contact my family right away. My family is in Contal County and our situation is similar to Evelyn's. My father cannot leave as a feudal noble, but others can." Angus nodded and said.

"Sir Ryan, have you heard recently about what happened up there?" Neolo suddenly thought of something, pointed upwards, and said in a slightly mysterious tone.

"The imperial capital?" Ryan raised his eyebrows and said.

"Well, I heard that for some unknown reason, the top talents from each province were transferred to the imperial capital." Neolo said in a low voice.

He heard about this matter by chance from the Marquis' father, and it should be a top secret of the empire.

"Are you sure? Munster has it too?"

"Sure, Munster has it too." Neoro nodded.

Ryan suddenly understood a little bit. Something important must have happened in the imperial capital, involving the empire's high-end combat power.

But what exactly is this matter that will involve the empire's high-end combat power for a long time?

This made him a little confused for a moment.

However, this news should be true.

Evelyn told him yesterday that Neoro was one of the five marquises of Munster and the second son of Marquis Wenger.

As the second son of a marquis, he naturally has more informed and extensive sources of information.

After a few people left, Ryan began to study the inscriptions.

After Neoro's teaching, Ryan basically mastered the "primary defensive inscription" in the inscription.

Since his innate witchcraft was metal transfiguration, it was much easier for him to engrave inscriptions on plate armor than for others.

Even without using extra points, the efficiency is dozens of times that of others.

Ryan's carving knife scratched the plate armor as easily as carving on a candle, silky and smooth.

The metal particles seemed to disperse automatically according to his will.

Moreover, Ryan also did some experiments and found that the knight's breastplate engraved with the "primary defense inscription" has a defense capability increased by about 10% compared to the breastplate without the inscription.

Don't underestimate this achievement, as it also includes defense against elemental energy.

In other words, the effect of the 'primary defensive inscription' is all-round.

On the other hand, Ryan also learned that the inscription on the 'Mithril Carved Plate Armor' was actually called 'Primary Energy Inscription'.

An inscription that can enhance the efficiency of energy conduction in various systems.

Now, he plans to start trying to make "Mithril Carved Plate Armor".

Due to the peculiarities of Ryan's innate witchcraft, he did not need to go to the blacksmith shop to do this.

‘Dong-dong-dong! ’

There was a knock on the door.

Ryan opened the door and saw Olena appear again.

"Mr. Ryan, the last evil spirit incident has been investigated. According to the ancient books of the Goddess Church, this evil spirit is likely to have originated from an evil object, an oil painting called 'Gazing Eyes'."

"When the others arrived, there was a painting missing from the gallery. It should be the 'Gazing Eyes'."

Ryan glanced at Olena's serious expression and said, "Didn't you find the painting?"

"Yes, but the trouble doesn't end there." The capable young woman Olena nodded.

"According to the records of the Goddess Church, this 'Gazing Eye' has the ability to summon other evil spirits after absorbing enough soul energy."

Ryan raised his eyebrows and said, "So, the evil spirit that day was not in its strongest state?"

"That's right, Lord Ryan." Olena nodded.

Hearing Olena's words, Ryan nodded, thinking about it.
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at the same time.

Münster district airship platform.

As an airship from the imperial capital docked.

Soon, a group of three people came down.

The leader was a middle-aged man in a gray robe, holding a fiery red cane and exuding a deep aura.

On his left was an extremely sturdy man, over two meters and three meters tall, carrying a huge shield on his back.

On the right is a seductive woman with some kind of purple eyeshadow, a clear scorpion pattern on her forehead, and a curvy figure.

"Mr. Asimov, you are finally here." Draco, Fabien and his group, who had been waiting nearby, came forward and greeted them warmly.

The middle-aged man nodded and said, "Sir Drake, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."

After a brief greeting, the group got on several luxurious carriages and headed towards the headquarters of the Münster branch of the Axon Auction House.

In the reception room on the second floor of the auction house.

Draco and three members of the Bloodscalp Mercenaries were chatting about something.

"By the way, what big thing is going to happen in the imperial capital?" Draco thought of the contents of the letter from his brother, Marquis Orenz, and couldn't help asking.

Asimov looked around, shook his head and said:
"We only know that it is related to the one from the empire, but we are not sure about the details. In the past two days, the top experts from all provinces and special departments of the empire have been transferred to the imperial capital."

"It seems to be to deal with some kind of risk, or trouble."

"Let's not talk about this. By the way, Lord Drake, tell us about Ryan's situation. Grant and Elihu both died at each other's hands."

Grant and Elihu, although not descendants of the Bloodline family, are talented and can be considered important members of the Bloodtop Mercenary Group. They were previously responsible for control, attack, reconnaissance, and assassination respectively.

"By the way, I just saw patrol officers on the street. The density is very high. Has Münster always attached so much importance to safety?" A charming voice was heard.

"That's not the case. It's just that a special incident happened in the past two days. The Archbishop of the Goddess Church in Munster was assassinated. Therefore, the patrol force has been strengthened several times."

Drake briefly explained the situation.

"Is that so? That's not going to be easy." The Scorpion girl nodded and said.

"No, this is not necessarily a bad thing. If we take action and cause casualties, we can just put the blame on the Black Flame Cult." Asimov said after a moment of thought.

"That's true, but the difficulty of this mission is to obtain the opponent's heart blood. This has to be taken when the opponent is alive, and the effect will be best." The scorpion girl giggled.

(End of this chapter)