Urban Sims

Chapter 634 Prepare for Action
By the way, is a "magic rifle" similar to a "psychic gun" really a "strategic weapon"?

No.

For the plane of Azeroia, it is at best a tactical weapon.

In fact, Zhou Ming succeeded in fooling Emperor Picaro into believing that the magic rifle was a "strategic weapon".

But in fact, this weapon is actually a relatively tasteless thing.

It works a bit, but not much.

Why did he say that?

The power of magic has far surpassed the weapon itself.

Take Zhou Ming as an example. He has been promoted to become an intermediate magician. After learning a few earth magics, he can achieve the same shooting effect as the "magic rifle" in many ways.

For example, the first-level earth magic [Stone Bullet Impact], he can rub out a bullet-shaped "rock bullet", add a rotation to the projectile, and give it a high speed to fly forward... the first-level earth magic [ Stone Bullet Impact] can be changed into [Bullet Impact].

Except that the mana consumption is higher, the other effects are basically the same.

But Zhou Ming didn't need to spend money to buy a "magic rifle", it didn't need to be loaded with bullets, it was quieter, and its power was not bad.

So in this world, there is potential for "magic rifles" and "magic cannons", but it is really not necessary.

As long as the strength of the magician is strong enough, supplemented by a certain amount of creativity, every magician is a humanoid self-propelled magic rifle and a humanoid self-propelled magic cannon.

As far as Zhou Ming is concerned, he can play thousands of tricks without spending half a brain cell and half a gold coin to come up with such a weak thing as a "magic rifle".

In fact, in the last dungeon "Lingyuan Continent", he didn't necessarily have to invent things like "Spiritual Spear" and "Spiritual Cannon". High-strength monks can completely achieve the same attack effect as guns. ...Of course, there are very few monks who can achieve this level.

The same is true in this magic plane. Zhou Ming can release a powerful attack without relying on the magic rifle, but for most indigenous magicians, the magic rifle is indeed a "strategic weapon". .

In the final analysis, it is still a question of creative thinking.

Gray School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the tenth floor of the school library.

Zhou Ming entered here.

Then, without wasting a second, he picked up a magic book at hand, and couldn't wait to read it.

Five hundred volumes of magic books, three hours, the time he allocated to each book was only a little over 21 seconds, and he had to use both hands to quickly flip through them.

The system in the brain also turned on the scanning mode, recording all the graphic information in the book into the database.

three hours later.

Excluding some books with low reference value, Zhou Ming has scanned most of the magic books.

The system acquires a large amount of high-value knowledge.

The plane resolution has increased by 3.5 percentage points, the meditation method has been optimized again, and the cultivation speed is 152% of that of ordinary magicians... 7 percentage points higher than before.

So far.

Zhou Ming's trip to the Dolan Empire was basically successful.

In addition, he also used the relatively sufficient supply of medicinal materials to turn the tens of millions of gold coins earned by the "Leylin Pharmacy Shop" into 5 [Magic Spring] potions and 45 [Super Magic Potions] (successfully prepared rate increased to 80%).

Consume 5 [Fountain of Magic Power] potions.

The mana value increased by 200 points.

Now Zhou Ming's personal cultivation statistics are as follows:
Level: Intermediate Magician
Mana: 431.212 (500 next level)

Perception range: 5.75m (the next level is 10m)

Soul frequency: 1.24 (1.30 for the next level)

Energy value: 70 (can meditate)
Judging from these statistics, Zhou Ming's cultivation is not far from the next level of "advanced magician".

From the point of view of mana, in another half a month (he now increases mana by an average of 4 points per day), he can exceed 500.

More than a year ago, he was just an apprentice magician with no more than 20 magic points.

Now he is about to become a senior magician, and the rapid growth and progress is really amazing.

So what's next for him?
Go straight back to Yadude Kingdom?

of course not.

There are still a few people waiting for him to rescue.

Elf Tika and warrior commander Gazef imprisoned in the underground cell of the Duchess Mansion have been tortured for three months, and Duchess Durisa has no intention of releasing them.

Because of the begging of the elf princess Alia, they were not killed.

It will probably remain closed.

Could it be that for the past three months, Zhou Ming has been sitting idly by, allowing them to be tortured?

of course not.

He just chose to hold back and focus on spying on intelligence.

After three months of spying and bribery, the entire Duchess's mansion has now been infiltrated into a sieve by him.

上千万金币砸下去后，有23个男仆、27个女仆、58个侍卫以及6个门房……足足100多号人，成功被周鸣收买……约占女公爵府下人总数的三分之一。

Recently, Zhou Ming even set up a scheme to buy Duchess Du Lisa's most loyal lackey and the highest-ranking housekeeper—Habis.

And from the hands of Harbis, I got the layout of the entire Duchess's mansion.

To Zhou Ming, the current Duchess's mansion is completely stripped of her clothes, and to him, there is no privacy at all.

Tika and Gazef, who were locked in the dungeon, hadn’t actually suffered much in the past month or so. After Zhou Ming bribed the jailer, they not only enjoyed three meals a day, eight dishes per meal, and a few bottles of [Healing Potion] After going down, the wounds on my body are basically healed.

And through the prison guard, Zhou Ming told them: If he wants to save them, he only needs to ask the jailer to take out the key and open the cell door, and he can let them out tonight, but because of their stupidity and rash behavior, he intends to let them stay in the cell. Stay here for a while and reflect on your mistakes!
Especially Tikka, she had to write a "Review" of more than 1 words every day to review her own mistakes. She wrote it for a month first, and he would not consider letting them out until a certain review touched him, and promised to help her save the elves little princess.

Tika really sat in front of the table every day, holding a quill in his hand, racking his brains to conceive the content of the "Review".

Gazef, the soldier commander in the cell next door, besides eating and eating, just sleeps and lives quite comfortably.

But in the past month, this scrawny warrior commander who had been tortured had gained more than 20 catties.

Seeing this scene, the jailers were overjoyed. Not only did they add two extra dishes to Gazef for each meal, but they also often brought him late-night snacks, allowing him to eat four meals a day.

It turned out that Zhou Ming had discussed with these jailers. For Tika and Gazef who were locked in the cell, Zhou Ming would reward them with 1 gold coins for every 1 catty they gained. 20 catties would be 20 gold coins , can they not be happy?

As for Duchess Du Lisa, after torturing them for more than a month, she has almost forgotten about these two characters, and even thinks that they should be dead... After all, the death cell in her Duke's mansion is for the dead, and no one can enter it. The reason why those who came out alive.

She didn't realize at all that her duke's mansion had been infiltrated into a sieve.

Even what she did every day, what activities she attended, and how many times she made out with Alia at night, all became information and fell on Zhou Ming's desk.

And now, Zhou Ming, who has been completely free, plans to teach this duchess a good lesson.

A profound lesson.

Zhou Ming muttered to himself:

"At the auction, in order to get the little elf princess, you took out the economic output of your territory for three years, a total of 1500 million gold coins."

"In your duke's mansion, you pay servants only 10 gold coins per month, porters 15 gold coins, guards 20 to 100 gold coins, and the highest paid housekeeper, Habis, is only 150 gold coins per month."

"Their income is pitiful, but they see that you spend a lot of time drinking and drinking, and you don't spend less than 1000 gold coins a day, and you still owe 800 million gold coins to various moneylenders."

"In order to pay off the debt, you have kept reducing the benefits of your servants in the past two years."

"My extravagance and extravagance are increasing day by day."

"In this case, how could they have no opinion of you?"

"If you give me more time, I can buy all the servants in your duke's mansion, what is impossible?"

"However, I have limited time, so I won't show you such a difficult operation."

"I'll let you keep your eyes open to see how I managed to take away your favorite 'Little Sweetie' for only 1500 million gold coins!"

Zhou Ming plans to start operations tomorrow, showing a wave of "suffocating operations" in front of Duchess Du Lisa.

　A story has its ups and downs, and the author's status is good or bad. It can't be guaranteed that it will always be wonderful. Try to write something new
　　
　
(End of this chapter)