The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 400 Crystallization
"This should be the crystallization of mental power, right?" Ryan thought to himself.

At this time, the system prompt sounded again:
[It is detected that the host is breaking through the third-level wizard and unlocking the improvement limit of the second-level talent wizard "Cutting Net". Yes/No to improve this wizard? This improvement will consume 28 gold skill points. ]

(Note: The improved innate witchcraft will be more suitable for the host to perform, and its power, attack range or other aspects will be improved.)
When he was promoted to the second-level wizard, there were improvements and optimizations to the first-level talent wizardry "Metal Transfiguration".

Therefore, Ryan was not particularly surprised when he saw this system prompt.

Without any hesitation, Ryan immediately chose "yes"!
Instantly, a huge amount of memories about the improvement of the second-level innate magic "Cutting Net" began to flow into Ryan's mind.
For a moment, it seemed as if Ryan had spent nearly a hundred years in some mysterious space, improving the Cutting Net and fine-tuning its witchcraft model to make it more suitable for his own casting habits.

At the same time, the three layers of spiritual power crystals in the spiritual sea were also undergoing synchronous fine-tuning.

Soon, the system prompt came again:
[Ding! The host's second-level talent witchcraft 'Cutting Net' has been improved. The new witchcraft model has been adjusted successfully. The witchcraft power has increased by 13% and the mental power consumption has decreased by 18%. ]

"Good!" Ryan's eyes lit up.

"Although it consumes more gold skill points than Metal Transfiguration, as a second-level sorcery, it is quite good if the power can be further improved."

The improvement of the second-level talent witchcraft is only a small part of this promotion. At this time, the system prompts appeared one after another:
[The host's mental strength is greatly improved. Crystallization is activated.]

[Ding! Successfully promoted to Level 25 wizard! Spirit +! ]

[Obtained the third-level talent witchcraft: Steel Armor]

When Ryan opened his eyes again, he felt that his perception of the world had become clearer and deeper!
He could easily distinguish the subtle differences in the pace of Claire and Beyoncé, who were walking quickly dozens of meters behind him.

It's not just the difference in sound, but the difference in pace and strength.

He didn't even need to turn around to sense it clearly.

Even more than a hundred meters away, among the dozens of guards, Ryan could tell the location of Dick, the sword-wielding captain, just by relying on his perception.

In addition, there is the mysterious elemental energy around that is invisible to the naked eye.

Although Ryan still couldn't see directly, his perception at this time was already able to grasp very subtle differences, such as whether the distribution of energy elements around him was uniform.

Just like where he is currently, the proportion of metal and shadow energy particles around him is obviously more concentrated.

Of course, this should be caused by his recent battle with Neyobrekan in half-spider form.

This subtle difference was not easy for him to make when he was a second-level liquefaction wizard, or it was extremely difficult to distinguish.

But now, he could sense it clearly and easily.

Soon, Ryan focused his attention on the system panel.

Since it is a promotion to the third-level wizard, not a job change, the career panel of the Warhammer Wizard (Legend) has not changed much.

"My spirit has increased by 25 points, which is a lot more than when I was promoted to level . Not bad."

Ryan glanced at the attribute panel and saw that the mental attribute had reached: 123 (crystallization 1%).

"I have finally entered the level of a third-level crystallized wizard. Now, relying solely on witchcraft, I have also reached the threshold of legendary combat power." Ryan said with great relief.

Next, he focused his attention on the effect of the third-level talent sorcery 'Steel Armor'.

With a quick scan, Ryan found the new icon at the top of the Warhammer Wizard (Legend) profession panel.

The pattern inside the icon is a silver human figure. Unlike the knight in full armor, the entire surface of the human figure is covered with metal protection without a single wrinkle, just like the liquid robot Ryan saw in the movie Terminator in his previous life.

There is a line of small text below the icon that reads as follows:
[Level 3 Talented Witchcraft: Steel Armor]

Steel Armor (Level 3 Talented Witchcraft) Effect: Consumes a small amount of mental energy and uses a specific witchcraft model to mobilize special metal energy particles on the surface of the earth, covering the host's body with a thick layer of steel armor.

"Special metal energy particles?"

"Thick steel armor?" Ryan immediately grasped the difference in the expressions of steel armor and iron armor.

However, it is not convenient to use it now because Claire, Beyonce and others have already come behind him.

"Captain, are you okay?" Claire asked with a little concern.

"It's okay." Ryan waved his hand and said.

"Captain, would you like to put it on first?" Beyonce's pretty face blushed slightly as she handed Ryan a black cloak.

"Uh, thank you." Ryan looked down and a look of realization appeared on his face.

He immediately took Beyoncé's cape and put it on.

Although his Wuwen Tailor professional level has been improved rapidly recently, and the underwear he was wearing was a highly stretchable underwear, the battle just now was too intense and it had already turned into pieces.

So, basically all I have left is a pair of shorts.

When Dick and other guards arrived beside Ryan, they were already confused by the potholes all around and the messy forest, as if the ground had been hit by hundreds of meteorites!

I cried out in my heart, is this the kind of damage that humans can cause?

Even for an adult from the imperial capital, this is too exaggerated.

"Lord Ryan, although I have heard of your reputation for a long time, I find that the rumors still underestimate your fighting ability!" Dick bowed deeply to Ryan, with deep admiration in his eyes.

"Sir Dick, thank you and your companions for your bravery." Ryan said with a smile.

at the same time.

The Cyrodiil Plateau, the headquarters of the Tutkarst School deep underground.

Just as Ryan destroyed the incarnation of the evil god Neyobrekan, Graham suddenly felt a throbbing in his heart, as if foreshadowing that something bad was happening.

Then his expression changed drastically.

Because as a fourth-level Dawn Wizard, he was able to hear intermittently the whispers of the distant God:
".The bastard killed him."

Although the Spider God's words were intermittent and not very clear, the anger in his words was evident.

Graham soon realized that something had happened to his incarnation of the Spider God.

"How is this possible? It actually failed?"

"If Staven's mission failed, it's possible, but my Lord's incarnation clearly descended successfully before!"

The tall Graham paced back and forth in the underground hall, his four pairs of sharp limbs poking the ground, making a hissing sound, but after thinking for a long time, he couldn't figure out why.

"Could it be that the incarnation of my Lord was defeated after he arrived?"

"But even the guardian of the empire may not be able to defeat the incarnation of my Lord, right?"

"With Staven as a vessel, the strength of my Lord's incarnation must have reached an epic level."

"Let's take a step back. Even if there happen to be Imperial Guardians nearby, we can always retreat if we are defeated."

"But judging from the angry tone of my Lord just now, the incarnation must have been completely destroyed."

"This"

Graham frowned!

Sword Blade Volcano, at the foot of the mountain.

After seeing that Lord Ryan, who was also a sword-bearer, had such strong combat power that he could kill the descending incarnation of the evil god, Dick and other sword-bearers in Moselle Province felt proud of it. After a rest, they headed for the Sword Blade Volcano with high morale.

Soon, everyone arrived at the Sword Blade Crater, and a wave of hot air hit them in the face, mixed with a pungent smell of sulfide.

Looking down from the mountain pass to the bottom of the volcano, one could see dark red magma slowly wriggling like cracked earth. However, after so many people scanned the area repeatedly, they could not find any trace of a lava dragon.

"Eh? Last time, before we even reached the cave entrance, the lava dragon sensed our presence and rushed out immediately."

"What happened this time?"

Many guards began to whisper among themselves.

"Lord Ryan, I think this lava dragon must have been scared by you. It hid in the lava lake and dared not come out." After a brief thought, Dick gave a guess that he thought was closest to the truth.

Creatures like the Lava Fire Dragon attach the most importance to the concept of territory, and just now they walked up almost in a swagger, but the other side did not move at all.

This is obviously unreasonable.

So, after careful consideration, Dick came to this rare but only reasonable conclusion - "A fire dragon was scared and hid!"

Tsk tsk, he is over 40 years old and has carried out at least a hundred missions, big and small, in the Mosel Sword Bearer Branch. This is the first time he has seen such an outrageous thing.

After hearing Dick's words, everyone looked at each other in surprise!
Although everyone felt that Dick's inference was a bit exaggerated, it seemed very reasonable.

When Claire heard Dick's words, she was also stunned. Her beautiful eyes fluttered a few times and she thought to herself that this was the first time she heard such an outrageous thing.

However, when she quickly glanced at her captain, she found that Ryan had a slight frown on his brow, as if he was quite regretful for not being able to complete the lava dragon mission.

After thinking for a while, Claire said, "Captain, how about I use my Flame Eye to check it out?"

"Eye of Fire? Okay too." Ryan's eyes lit up and he nodded immediately.

He had heard of the first-level fire magic, Eye of Flame, which seemed to be able to condense into a fist-sized eye made of flame elements to check on the enemy.

As Claire silently chanted the spell, a few seconds later, a somewhat different translucent fireball appeared in the air in front of her, floating up and down.

Claire just pointed her white finger and the Eye of Fire quickly fell towards the lava lake below.

A few minutes later, Claire wiped the beads of sweat from her fair forehead, and seemed to stop the spell, saying apologetically:

"Captain, I'm sorry, I couldn't find him. He must be hiding deep in the lava lake."

Ryan nodded and said, "It's okay."

He could understand that even though the crater didn't seem big, the area below was quite empty.

The magma lake at the bottom of the Sword-Blade Volcano is as large as a real lake, especially the depth of the lava lake, which should be extremely amazing. In addition, there is likely to be a winding underground passage at the bottom of the lava lake.

It is naturally extremely difficult to find a lava dragon that is deliberately hidden in such a lava lake.

Ryan had considered asking Xueyu to go look for it.

But his Blood Feather Hippogryph, although a ferocious species, could easily fly over the lava in a short period of time, but it was obviously not practical to search in the lava lake for a long time. Secondly, this was too dangerous. If Blood Feather was swallowed by the lava dragon, the loss would be great.

After thinking for a while, Ryan turned around and said, "Let's go. I'm afraid that after the other party recovers from his injury, he will move to another place."

"I just don't know if this counts as mission accomplished." Ryan whispered.

After hearing this, the two women looked at each other in surprise.

Yes!

After all, the hidden danger of the lava dragon was eliminated, but the captain did not use the method of killing it.

At this time, Beyonce waved at Dick and said, "Sir Dick, send someone to observe the mountain for a while. If the lava dragon Hermadeus leaves, you report to the headquarters."

"Yes, Ms. Beyoncé." Dick immediately understood what Beyoncé meant, and said with a look of enlightenment on his face.

For Ryan, although he did not kill the lava dragon Hermades, he was not in a depressed mood.

On the contrary, he was in a good mood on the way back.

Because the gains this time far exceeded his expectations, he successfully entered the third-level crystallized wizard. This was something he had never thought of before coming here. Originally, Ryan thought that it would take him several months to be promoted.

As for the lava dragon, whether to kill it or not was not really something he was particularly concerned about.

Half an hour after Ryan and his group left, several red firebirds the size of fists suddenly emerged from the lava lake, flew into the sky, and looked around several times.

Immediately afterwards, a huge monster slowly and cautiously poked its head out from the lava lake in the Sword-Blade Volcano.

As if to be cautious, the lava dragon Hermadeus quietly flew to the crater and stopped. After watching Ryan and his group leave from afar, he let out a long sigh:

"What a horrible human being! Even the incarnation of a god was defeated by him."

"It seems that we can't stay in this Blade Volcano anymore."

"After the wound heals, I have to find a new habitat." Hermades's vertical pupils flickered.

A few hours later, on the return airship.

Ryan was alone in the luxurious cabin, thinking.

"I have now completed two of the prerequisites for becoming a dragon vein wizard. The only thing left is the last one, the dragon blood essence."

Before, Ryan tried the blood essence of the Proto-Dragon Corasius in the Howling Tundra, but the system did not recognize it.

This is also the reason why Ryan doesn't care much about the lava fire dragon Hermades.

According to historical records, fire dragons are not considered giant dragons, and the top-level sub-dragon species are just sub-dragon species.

If you think about it carefully, the prerequisite for changing jobs clearly states 'a complete set of dragon blood essence'.

The key words are 'complete' and 'dragon'.

"This is a bit troublesome, but the selection of dragon knight reserves will begin in the next half month."

"Maybe soon, I will be able to come into contact with a real dragon." Ryan thought.

After all, if one cannot even touch the dragon, there is no way one can get a "complete essence of dragon blood".

"That's perfect. I can go to the academy these few days to earn some contribution points and exchange them for the third level of the Heart of Steel."

"The best thing would be to exchange for the third-level metal magic 'Iron Fist', but it costs 14,000 contribution points, so it's unlikely to be acquired in such a short time."

"After all, it's not every time that you have an opportunity like the Flame Canyon Secret Realm."

The next afternoon.

When Ryan returned to the Sword Bearer headquarters in the imperial capital of Tamriel, Olena immediately received a message from the staff at the airship berthing point.

"Lord Ryan, the mission went smoothly." Soon, Olena, wearing black straight pants and a white patterned long-sleeved shirt, came over with a smile on her face.

However, as soon as she opened her mouth, she swallowed the rest of her words.

Because just now when Olena looked around, she found that the heavy golem did not seem to come back, and at the same time, she did not see any trophies related to the lava fire dragon.

Therefore, Olena, who had a high emotional intelligence, immediately kept silent.

Because this was the first time in her memory that she saw the young Lord Ryan fail in his mission.

When Olena glanced at Claire beside her with an inquiring look, Claire shook her head and took the initiative to say:
"Sir Olena, although we did not kill the lava dragon Hermadeus this time, I don't think we can say that this mission has failed."

"Because the lava dragon Hermadeus has been hiding from the captain, hiding deep in the lava lake, and doesn't dare to show up at all."

"Hiding from Lord Ryan?" Olena blinked her beautiful eyes, obviously very confused.

Although she is a civilian employee, she has worked in the Sword Bearer Department for more than ten years.

Olena naturally knew that all ferocious species had a strong sense of territory and would often risk their lives to defend their territory, let alone a fire dragon like Hermades.

"Yeah!" Claire nodded heavily and said.

"Ms. Olena, you've come at the right time. Perhaps you should contact Major General Tatia immediately." Ryan smiled and nodded when he saw Olena.

"We encountered some problems on the way. Although we didn't kill the lava dragon this time, we did encounter the incarnation of the evil god."

"What!" Olena's beautiful eyes widened immediately, she covered her mouth with her hands and exclaimed.

"Now that evil god incarnation..."

"The captain has destroyed the evil god." Beyonce said at the right time.

"Lord Leilan, I will contact Major General Tatia immediately. Please wait." Immediately, Olena walked away quickly in a pair of five or six centimeter high heels.

"By the way, Lord Ryan, there is an important matter here. Miss Anna had an emergency yesterday and said she had to return to Ferdinand Forest first. This is the letter Miss Anna left for you."

Olena suddenly remembered something, turned back again, and handed a letter to Ryan.

"Ok?"

"So urgent?"

"After all, I've only been away for two days. Can't Anna wait any longer?" Ryan couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

He immediately opened the envelope and started reading.

Olena left quickly again to report to Major General Tatia.

At this moment, Claire seemed to notice something.

She looked up at Olena who was walking away, her gaze lingering on the slightly upturned and round curve of her hip skirt for a moment. She thought to herself that her captain's part-time liaison young woman was quite charming.

"By the way, Beyoncé, did you know? This is Captain Ryan's former full-time contact person in Munster." Claire pouted at Olena who was leaving, and whispered to her companion Beyoncé beside her.

Beyoncé glanced at Olena's slender figure going away, then looked at Claire, and immediately understood what her best friend meant. She shook her head and said:
"Not really. With the captain's strength and status, he can find anyone he wants."

"It's hard to say. Many nobles have special hobbies." Claire immediately put her hands on her hips, puffed out her chest and retorted.

"Beyonce, think about it from another perspective. How difficult would it be to transfer a civilian woman from the Sword Bearer branch in the lower province to the Imperial Capital Headquarters? You should know this, right?"

"This." Claire's words made Beyonce silent for a moment.

Indeed, the difficulty is extremely high.

I'm afraid it would be difficult to coordinate even if the head of the Sword Bearer Branch came forward.

Moreover, if the captain only wants a contact person, there are at least dozens of young female secretaries waiting in line for the captain to choose from in the headquarters.

Why go through all the effort to transfer someone from the branch?

Could it be that our captain really doesn't like young women, but prefers young women instead?
But they are able to spend a lot of effort to transfer people from the lower branches, doesn't that mean that their captain is quite loyal?

At this time, Ryan, who was standing aside, naturally had no time to pay attention to the gossip of his two teammates. He only looked at the contents of the letter carefully:
"Dear Ryan: Aunt Delanna was seriously injured by the followers of the Ancient Mother Tree Cult while on a mission. I must go back immediately. After Aunt Delanna recovers, I will return to the imperial capital."

When Ryan saw this, he couldn't help but feel relieved.

"It turns out that Ms. Delanna was injured. No wonder."

"But. Mother Tree Sect?"

Ryan immediately thought of the place where he and Archbishop Rudolf of the Goddess Church killed the flesh and blood tree spirit together. That place seemed to be an ancient temple of the Mother Tree Sect.

"It seems that the situation is getting worse and worse. Even the Ferdinand Forest where the elves live has been attacked by the cult."

"However, I can ask Olena to look up the relevant information about the Mother Tree Sect later. After the selection of the dragon knight reserves, I might consider going to Ferdinand Forest." Ryan couldn't help but think to himself.

Only about seven or eight minutes later, Olena returned again, accompanied by a female major general, who was Tatia.

"Mr. Ryan, welcome back. General Augustus is waiting for you in the conference room." Tatia said with a smile.

As she spoke, she nodded to Claire and the other girl.

"Okay! Let's go now." Ryan nodded.

As expected, the Sword Bearer Headquarters attached great importance to the news of the gods.

Soon, the group of three were invited to a small meeting room with strict confidentiality and protection measures.

Ryan noticed that the corridors, floors and corners of the conference room were covered with patterns of witchcraft formations. Obviously, this should be similar to the secret room he had encountered in Marne Province before.

However, the magic formation in the headquarters looks more complicated.

"Mr. Ryan, this room is equipped with several anti-eavesdropping and anti-spying magic arrays, which can effectively block prying eyes. The real names of some gods can be mentioned appropriately."

Tatia introduced at the right time.

Ren nodded, indicating that he understood.

At this time, General Augustus, whom Ryan had met twice before, was already sitting on one side of the conference room, looking at him with a smile on his face.

(End of this chapter)