From Prisoner to Si Chen..

Chapter 406 Promotion
"Hello, Blood Owl?"

A mature and pleasant female voice came from the other end of the alchemy hotline. It was Ms. Crow.

"I'm sorry, ma'am, for calling you so late at night. I've already completed your commission. I have the real film "The Legend of the Unbeaten" in my hands. I'd like to know if we can trade it remotely through the alchemy array, or..."

"Did you get it? Very good." Lady Crow laughed. "I was right about you... Actually, I have been following your mission to the Kingdom of Fosaka. When I saw that you didn't contact me for several days after returning to the empire, I knew you must be busy."

"Well...if possible, let's find time to meet. After all, it's safer to tell the secret of the fifth-level 'lighting' of the 'director' path orally."

"Well, that's fine." Gilan thought for a moment and responded. "Then how about we meet at Chessboard Manor tomorrow morning?"

"Okay." Ms. Crow said. "Let's have breakfast together at the manor at nine o'clock."

"No problem." Gillan smiled.

After hanging up the hotline, Jilan put away the metal microphone and Ms. Crow's special line card.

Then he turned his head and looked at the time.

The clock on the wall showed one o'clock in the morning.

It was already late when I returned to the apartment from teacher Pala's place. Then I watched a movie and it was already early morning.

Although Gillan felt a little tired after watching the movie, he was still excited and had no desire to sleep at all... Because he still had several thousand mystery points in his hand that he hadn't spent, and he always felt uneasy.

This feeling is just like those card-drawing games I played in my previous life. Once a new version and a new card pool comes out, it is often difficult to resist using the resources you have hoarded.

Of course, there are differences between the two.

At least, it is impossible for "Banlan" to divert the points from swordsmanship to meditation.

"Body building technique "Life Star Track", meditation method "Dream of Ten Thousand Flowers", secret sword technique "Universe Sword"..."

Gillan murmured, taking a deep breath.

These three pieces of knowledge are all very important, and they respectively involve one's physical body, spirituality, and combat.

But he couldn't figure out how much the subsequent upgrades would cost. If the more than 4,000 mystery points on hand were not enough to upgrade them all, it would be a bit embarrassing.

"Let's upgrade the bodybuilding skills first and continue to use our strengths."

Gilan thought about it, took out the black notebook containing "Life Star Tracks", and began to read the contents.

Following the entry-level "Clashing Phase", the second stage of the initial stage is "Punishment Phase". The enhancement of physical strength is not a qualitative leap, but the improvement is relatively smooth, which is not bad.

After looking at it for a while, Jilan got a general idea.

So I called out secretly in my heart:
'gorgeous! '

Immediately, the colored numbers in his eyes dropped from the original "4312" to "3612", consuming 700 points of mysterious energy.

The "punishment aspect" of the body-building technique "Life Star Track" was also mastered by Jilan.

He felt hot all over.

And after closing my eyes, I saw an inexplicable star scene. Two bright stars collided and passed by each other in motion, forming a trajectory that was extremely oppressive.

And Jillan's own metabolism naturally became less regular, his breathing became rapid, he was sweating all over, but his heartbeat was extremely slow.

Gradually, his body temperature dropped.

The internal organs, bones, muscles, skin, and even the tissues of various organs have undergone slight changes silently.

Time passes slowly.

It was around three o'clock in the morning.

Jilan opened his eyes again and found that he was in very good condition and everything was back to normal.

"The overall quality of the physique should have been improved by nearly 30% from the original level..."

He stood up, stretched his fists and feet, tested them a little, and said to himself.

This round of promotion put him in a good mood.

"Well, next is the meditation method!"

He murmured something and called out "Banlan" again.

This time, a full 900 mysterious points were consumed, allowing Jilan to master the third stage "Fireworks" of the meditation method "Dream of Ten Thousand Flowers".

He simply took off his clothes, smeared the secret medicine for spiritual practice "Lava Ointment" on his body, and then meditated with "Dream of Ten Thousand Flowers".

According to actual test results, its efficiency in tempering spiritual awareness is about three times that of the "Twelve Thorns" "Iron Thorn Meditation Method".

Meditation once is equivalent to the efficiency of an ordinary mystic in one month!
Coupled with an improved version of the "Lava Balm", Gillan is able to absorb four cosmic elements at once, increasing his spirituality at an incredibly fast rate.

He felt that he would be able to meet the hard requirements for promotion to level 5 in the near future.

After some practice, the sky outside the window was already getting light.

Jilan struck while the iron was hot and activated "Banlan" again to improve the secret sword technique "Universe Sword".

What surprised him was that the points consumed in the second chapter "Galaxy" following the first chapter "Stars" were doubled!
1600 energy points were directly deducted!
The points that Gillan had accumulated in "The Legend of the Unbeaten" quickly dropped to "1112" points.

In his mind, the knowledge about "Universe Sword Galaxy" was completely dark and he didn't understand it at all. But at this moment, it seemed as if it was connected by shooting stars one by one, and he finally understood it and constructed a brilliant picture of the Milky Way.

'The original four branches of sword skills in the Star Chapter, attack, defense, surprise, and killing, have all been further improved. No matter the power or sophistication of the sword skills, they are far apart.'

Jilan's eyes were bright, reflecting the sky outside the window.

He raised his hand, and the Laughing Sword appeared in his palm. Immediately, a silver light suddenly lit up in the corners of Jilan's eyes, forming two trailing silver lines.

In his field of vision, everything seemed to be still, even the dust in the air was frozen.

Gilan made his move in an instant.

The Laughing Sword disappeared inexplicably, as if it had never appeared. And the master bedroom was filled with dense sword lights, like a swirling galaxy, extremely bright.

The galaxy rotates and collapses with Jilan as its center.

Finally, it gathered into one point and exploded again.

An arc-shaped silver track meandered out, illuminating the room.

bass--

Wait until Jilan put away his sword and turned it into a staff and hit the ground.

The tiny specks of starlight in the room even still existed, slowly falling like dust.

As it falls, it slowly disappears.

"This secret sword technique is too profound. If it weren't for the help of 'Ban Lan', I would probably have to practice it on my own for more than ten or twenty years, just as Teacher Pala said, to master it."

Gillan looked thoughtful.

He looked at the remaining starlight in the air around him and was secretly surprised.

These light spots are actually cosmic elements detonated by the secret sword technique, which transforms them from an "invisible" state into actual light energy, accompanied by strong magnetic field radiation.

The energy generated by the "Universe Sword Galaxy" was so huge that even when Jilan just tried it out casually, the whole room was filled with a mysterious magnetic field.

If ordinary people rashly step in at this time, the magnetic field will sweep through their whole body within a few breaths and they will die on the spot.

"Hmm..." Jilan groaned. "After practicing this secret sword technique to the 'Galaxy Chapter', it seems to have undergone a qualitative change, and the consumption has also increased a lot. Fortunately, my body and spirit can support it."

He glanced at the situation around him, took out a few bottles of "magnetic water", and sprinkled them in every corner of the room to reduce the impact of the "Universe Sword".

This was done to prevent old Charles and the maids from mistakenly entering the room after he left the apartment later and causing an accident.

Then, Jilan looked at the few points he had left, just over a thousand, and tried to let "Banlan" deduce the fifth-order essence of the player's path.

Soon, as expected, the deduction failed. The reason was insufficient energy.

Even though Gilan took out the 5th-level secret teachings of the two body spirals, "Doll" and "Monster", as references, the feedback from "Colorful" was still not good enough.

Jilan was shocked to see that "Banlan" gave a hint that 5000 energy points were needed.

"Hmm... It seems that it is very difficult to deduce because the most important "Director" Path 5th level secret is missing. After all, that is the key blueprint for the player's path."

he thought.

"After having it, I should be able to reduce most of the consumption, and the energy required for deduction will be much less... So I must get the "light" secret in Ms. Crow's hand."

Jilan looked at the time again. It was already eight o'clock in the morning, and there was only one hour left before the meeting with Ms. Crow.

So he went to the bathroom to wash up, came out to change into decent clothes, and tied his long golden-red hair into a ponytail.

After taking care of his own image, he took out the identity token of "Yemei", the "Knight Chess" made of gold.

When activated by spirituality, it is accompanied by a flash of golden light.

The chess piece floated up from Gilan's palm and hung upside down in the air. In front of him, a small oval door appeared that could only be seen by clairvoyance.

Jilan took a step and stepped in.

Wow.

His gaze shifted accordingly.

He found himself on a lush, empty garden lawn.

Not far ahead, in front of the pink and white building, a white round table and high-backed chairs were idle, with only a lady sitting there.

Gillan walked over quickly.

"Good morning, Ms. Crow. Sorry to have kept you waiting." He smiled apologetically, took off his hat and saluted to the other gentleman.

"Good morning, Mr. Blood Owl." The lady wearing a black hat and a black veil nodded and smiled. "But you didn't have to wait long. I just arrived."

"Please take a seat."

"Ah."

Gillan pulled out the white chair opposite the lady and sat down.

The lady raised a hand wearing a black suede fingertip and waved it gently. Plates of food, coffee, milk, tea and other drinks appeared on the table.

"We can eat and talk at the same time," the lady said with a smile.

"My pleasure." Jilan smiled and nodded, without any hesitation, he directly picked up the cutlery and started eating the breakfast.

The two chatted casually for a few minutes.

Jilan swallowed the food in his mouth, drank a sip of tea and asked:
"Ms. Crow, how much do you know about Twissell Eugene?"

"'The Undefeated' Twissell..."

Ms. Crow stopped the silver spoon in her hand and cast a meaningful look under her veil.

"It seems you have already seen the film."

"Yes." Jilan admitted it frankly without hiding it.

"Well... Twissell once unified the western countries. The current Stuttgart Empire was established by him."

Ms. Crow thought for a moment and said.

Ji Lan was startled.

"Twissell is the first emperor of the Stuttgart Empire?"

"That's right." Lady Crow nodded. "Before He ascended, He raised the flag to counterattack the then-Doro Kingdom, and eventually defeated the royal family and the church, unifying the rebel alliance."

"After that, he successively annihilated the northern barbarian civilization and the sea barbarian civilization along the far western coast, becoming the famous 'Emperor Tesseract' in history."

"Of course, not long after becoming the emperor, he ascended to the divine land and eventually became the 'Undefeated', one of the three apostles."

"I see." Jilan was very surprised and nodded.

At the end of the film, it is Twissell who leaves the royal city of Klein for his own remote territory.

Something must have happened afterwards that led to the intensification of the conflict between the new king Ivan and Tesser, and eventually the two sides became mortal enemies.

But Gilan did not expect that Tessel had accomplished so many great achievements, and the Stuttgart Empire he established had become one of the three major overlords in the world today.

"Then does Ms. Crow know anything about the other March Apostle, 'Bulwark' Taunos?"

Gillan asked again.

Ms. Crow shook her head.

"Few people know about Taunos's deeds. Even the Recording Society does not have any real film about him... The origin of this apostle is very mysterious, and is much older than most apostles."

"All we know is that he is not a human being, but a mysterious creature. And he has a good relationship with the 'Unbeatable' Twissell."

Gillan nodded, thoughtfully.

Then, he smiled, took out a black film reel and handed it to the lady.

"This is the real film "The Unbeaten Legend" that you asked me to find in the Kingdom of Fosaka."

"Thanks, Blood Owl." Ms. Crow put down her silver fork, took the film reel, and said with a smile.

She glanced at it casually, confirmed the authenticity of the film, and said directly without beating around the bush:

"The Crucible Sword Spiral, the 5th level 'Lighting' secret of the February 'Director' path says so..."

Ms. Crow spoke in a gentle tone and her words were clear.

She explained the "light" secret to Gillan one-on-one and gave a detailed explanation of the secret.

After all, the rhythm of the secret text is four words per four lines, which condenses a lot of information. Therefore, oral secret texts are easier to understand than paper secret texts.

Not long after.

Jilan memorized the secret of "light" deeply in his mind, and nodded to Ms. Crow:

"I remember it all."

"Well, that's good." Ms. Crow smiled. "Happy transaction, Mr. Blood Owl."

"Happy Trading."

After the commission was completed, the two did not part ways, but continued to eat breakfast and chat.

The two talked a lot about real films and secret history, and even talked about the stork Franco.

Ms. Crow said that Franco has a rigorous work style and a serious attitude. Now that he has been promoted to the third-level spiritualist, she has promoted him to a "three-star film critic."

"Mr. Cang Guan has good talent and is making rapid progress in mysticism. When he is promoted to a Kyushu one day, I will consider letting him join the 'Screening Round Table' and become a senior member of the 'Record Society'."

Ms. Crow said.

Jilan smiled and expressed his gratitude.

At the same time, I secretly said in my heart:

'This day won't be long.'

(End of this chapter)