Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 265 Everyone's Day (4000 words)
"This necklace is called 'Silent Defender'. It can make the target unable to feel the magic element and cannot use magic. If the effect of this necklace is suddenly used when someone else is casting a spell, it can also make the target suffer from the backlash of magic, and the silence is very A long time." said the Chief Grand Maester, staring at a metal necklace floating in front of him.

Rhodes remembered that it was on the old court mage wearing the space ring. Before that, he had always thought that the mage could ban magic, but he didn't expect it to be the effect of this metal necklace.

"This ring is called 'Gift of the Ice Element'." An ice-blue ring floated in front of the Chief Grand Maester. "Wearing it will enhance the power of ice magic and also increase the resistance to ice magic."

"What about this one?" Rhodes picked up the one that could increase eyesight and shooting accuracy.

"This one is called 'Eye of War Eagle'." The chief maester looked at it for a while, and he pointed to a black ball inlaid on it, "This is not a gemstone, but the eye of a prairie eagle, which is also the ring's ability. The source can enhance the wearer's eyesight, and if magic power is injected into it, it can temporarily greatly enhance eyesight."

Rhodes put on the ring and tried to infuse the magic power into it. The next moment, his eyes became blurred.

"Why can't I see anything after injecting magic power?" Rhodes asked in a panic.

"Go and have a look by the window," said the Chief Grand Maester.

Rhodes walked to the window and looked out. The nearby area was blurred, but the distant scenery was exceptionally clear. He could even see the patterns of leaves on the trees a hundred meters away.

He suddenly remembered that eagles seem to be farsighted.

"Okay, stop playing. I'll help you identify them one by one first, and help you pick out the useful ones. Now you can work with peace of mind." The chief maester used some kind of magic to grab Rhodes back to his seat.

Rhodes was a little helpless, so he could only pick up the pen and continue to translate the miscellaneous knowledge drawn from the system.

……

Gilbert sat at the table staring at the scroll that Rhodes gave him in front of him, thinking hard. He stayed up all night last night and has been rebuilding his broken worldview.

It was the first time he heard that the world was made up of countless tiny particles. The experiments he had done before only changed the combination of those tiny particles, but did not change the properties of those tiny particles at all.

Gilbert had always believed that people were people, trees were trees, and stones were stones.

There is no connection between animals and plants, nor between plants and stones.

But the scroll that Rhodes gave him told him that the elements that make up the human body can also make up plants, and the elements that make up stones also exist in the human body.

The animal skin scroll mentioned that the dry weight of animals and plants is the largest proportion of carbon, and the coal mines dug out of the mountains are basically composed of carbon.

"Immersing iron in sulfuric acid does not make iron disappear completely, but replaces hydrogen in sulfuric acid with iron, and hydrogen becomes hydrogen gas. This is why we can see bubbles when iron is placed in sulfuric acid Come out." Gilbert meditated on an experiment on the scroll.

Under this experiment, there are still a lot of symbols that he can't understand, but he can probably guess that it seems to be some kind of formula. The person who wrote this scroll called it a chemical equation.

The chemical knowledge on this scroll that Rhodes gave him is almost all related to carbon and iron, and it focuses on how to use carbon to make steel.

Gilbert did not understand why the steelmaking method recorded here did not directly react with iron and charcoal, but used a poisonous gas generated after charcoal was burned.

"Steel is iron with different carbon content. With different carbon content, the hardness and toughness of the steel produced are also different." Gilbert muttered to himself while scratching his head.

"Shouldn't carbon burn when it meets fire? Why does it stay in iron?"

He picked up a pen and wrote down the things he didn't understand one by one, and he was going to ask Rhodes after he slept. He felt that Rhodes must understand the knowledge above.

……

Baron sat in the tavern and looked at a young man in front of him. He couldn't be a supervisor recently, so he ran to the tavern to help Rhodes interview these recruits.

There are still many people queuing up behind this young man. Many people who are idle around this area choose to run over to try their luck. This is one of the few opportunities for them to climb up.

"Briefly introduce yourself." Baron said.

He carefully looked at the young man in front of him.

His hands were tightly clenched into fists, and he didn't dare to look up at me, which showed that he was very nervous now, either because of his personality or because he had never experienced wind and rain, or he had never seen the world.

If he is introverted, he is unlikely to take the initiative to accept recruitment, unless he has friends who support and encourage him, but judging by the expressions of the people around him, no one knows him.

The clothes on his body are shabby but clean, which shows that although his family conditions are not very good, he attaches great importance to this interview.

"My...my name is David, and I'm an apprentice mage." The young man said nervously.

"Mage apprentice? Do you know how to read?" Baron took notes.

"Know some." The young man replied.

Baron nodded, "Do you have any other skills?"

"Other skills... Does potion making count?" the young man replied.

"Forget it, stay here for a few days, and I'll reply to you tomorrow." Baron remembered that Rhodes seemed to want him to find some people with alchemy talents to help Gilbert, even if he didn't know how to make medicine and could read. It can barely meet Rhodes' request.

The only bad thing about this young man is that his psychological quality is not very good and he is prone to nervousness, but it can be changed after some training.

"Next." Baron said, and he watched David leave the tavern with a full face of excitement.

A knight in gray armor sat opposite Baron with a bang.

"Introduce yourself." Baron has already begun to feel that this job is a bit boring. Most of these people can't let go, and they can't share their past as sincerely as they do when they are drunk.

"My name is Raymond. I am a knight without a fief. I have been on the battlefield and I have also been a robber knight. I am good at fighting, but now I am tired and just want to have a good rest." The knight said calmly.

Baron raised his eyebrows. He was a little surprised. This was the first time he met someone who admitted to being a robber in the past few days.

"Take off your helmet first." Baron didn't ask the knight what he did when he was a robber knight. Everyone knew what a knight did to call himself a robber knight.

Raymond hesitated for a while, then took off his helmet and put it on the wine table.

He looks to be about 35 years old. His resolute face is covered with countless scars, including scratches from swords and bows and arrows. His left eye should have been shot through by bows and arrows. Now only one is left. Wounds with twisted flesh.

"Even if you are very capable, we can't accept you. You also said that you used to be a robber knight." Baron coughed.

"He's Raymond Ashfire. When he was a robber knight, he always robbed the rich and donated to the poor. He only dealt with greedy nobles and never harmed any innocent people."

"Yeah yeah."

Baron heard the mercenaries at the nearby wine table discussing his recruitment.

"Is he famous?" Baron turned his head and asked the mercenaries next to him. These mercenaries came from across the river after the recruitment was released.

"Yeah, if you go to the north of the Fish Kingdom, you can find out about him. This is the famous 'Ash Fire'. I didn't expect to meet him here. Even if you didn't choose to let me join you, I will join you today." It’s not a waste of time.” A mercenary replied with some excitement.

Baron turned his head and looked at Raymond in front of him. His face was calm, and he was not affected by the compliments of the surrounding mercenaries at all.

"If you want, you can stay here as a coach." Baron thought for a while and said.

……

"Let's stop here for today. If we continue, we won't be able to see clearly." The chief scholar said.

Looking at the setting sun outside the window, Rhodes suddenly felt that the electric light could not be researched yet, otherwise he would be forced to work here at night by the chief scholar.

"I never asked, where did you get these books from, and why do you recognize these strange characters?" the chief grand maester asked again.

Rhodes had already prepared for this question, otherwise he would not have translated it in front of the chief scholar.

"I once entered a ruin, and that ruin made me fall into an illusion, and these books were also found from that ruin.

The world in the illusion is very different from our world. There is almost no hunger there, and the cities are full of dozens of stories high buildings. Human beings can fly to the outside of the sky on a fire-breathing vehicle, which they call place in outer space.

I lived in that illusion for decades, but after the illusion ended, I found that only one day had passed. " Rhodes replied.

Although he inherited the original owner's memory, he can be sure that he is still the original self, not integrated with the original owner's soul.

The chief academician showed a thoughtful expression, "Can humans really fly out of the sky? This is something that even giant dragons can't do."

"It may be possible in the future, but it may not be possible in the past hundred years." Rhodes replied. Although he knew that the fuel of the rocket was unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine and the oxidant was hydrogen peroxide, but knowing it was useless.

The materials of the rocket, as well as the various electronic devices inside, it is estimated that even if the technology is developed according to his plan, it will definitely not be able to produce these things within a few hundred years.

"I don't know if I can live to that time." The Chief Grand Maester sighed. Although his spirit was very good, he was indeed very old.

Rhodes only knew one person who was older than the Chief Grand Maester, and that person was probably the only one.

"You really want to know what it's like outside the sky?" Rhode suddenly had an idea, and he was a little strange about it. Why didn't the chief maester question the authenticity of these, but wondered if he could go to the universe.

"Yes, I have been studying astrology for most of my life, just to find out what those stars are." The chief maester replied.

Rhodes originally wanted the Chief Grand Maester to study the astronomical telescope, but he thought that even if he made it, his eyes would not be able to use the telescope, so he probably wouldn't spend time researching it.

After having dinner in the restaurant with the Chief Grand Maester, Rhodes went to the yard again, ready to continue practicing swordsmanship.

After he went back last night and thought about it carefully for a while, he decided to practice the basic swordsmanship to the [Perfect] first. If the basics are well practiced, it will be beneficial to practice any swordsmanship in the future.

Rhodes temporarily removed the Seven Injury Fist from the list of exercises, and then uploaded the basic swordsmanship.

Now the basic swordsmanship is only "becoming better", and there is only one realm away from "the perfection of the furnace". Rhodes feels that with the blessing of the system, he may be able to practice the basic swordsmanship to "the perfection of the furnace" in less than a week.

Another advantage of practicing basic swordsmanship is that when practicing the basics, the proficiency of other swordsmanship mounted in the skill bar will gradually increase.

Maybe after he has practiced the basic swordsmanship to the highest level, he can learn other swordsmanship. It is estimated that he will be able to make that swordmanship reach the [First Glimpse] from the very beginning.

There are a total of thirteen moves in basic swordsmanship, namely draw, belt, lift, grid, strike, stab, point, collapse, stir, press, split, cut, and wash.

Rhodes thinks that he is best at stabbing and chopping, and the system can no longer find fault with these two moves, and the evaluations given to him are all

【Nearly perfect sword】

However, there are still some problems in the other eleven forms, especially the two forms of cutting and washing.

Rhodes stayed in the yard practicing sword, and when it became very quiet outside, he went back to the room to practice the Hunyuanyi Qigong he had obtained a few days ago.

Yesterday he spent most of the night reading through the secrets of Hunyuanyi Qigong. This martial art is easier to understand than Shenzhao Gong.

The first time he heard about this martial art was from a certain infinite stream online novel, the protagonist of the novel practiced this inner strength, and later the protagonist of the novel compressed the inner strength into the true energy of Xianxia, ​​and then Colliding with an opposite force, with this huge energy, the protagonist can finally push the earth.

Rhodes felt that it would be impossible to turn his internal energy into real energy. If he did this, he would probably be a true god, at least a saint or demigod as the chief scholar said.

But thinking about it this way, is it because he wants to reach the second level that the chief scholar thinks is to sublimate his internal energy and turn it into a more powerful energy?
Rhodes sat cross-legged on the bed, and began to perform Hunyuanyi Qigong.

Hunyuan is the combination of Yuanjing, Yuanqi and Yuanshen.

Rhodes had a strange feeling when he was exercising, it seemed that with the operation of his internal force, the magic power and spiritual power in his body were also pulled by the internal force and started to work together.

Is it possible that after a few more days of operation, the internal power, magic power and spiritual power will be fused into one?
Rhodes calmed down and continued to run Hunyuanyi Qigong...

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