Cataclysm King

Chapter 218 Goodbye Master Merlin

 Lion City’s train station.

A steam car bearing the brass emblem of the Lionheart Family stopped at the entrance to the VIP passage.

 Having the reputation of a lion-hearted family, I didn’t encounter any accidents along the way.

 In the back seat of the car, Ji Xun and Catalina sat side by side, chatting from time to time.

 Everything went well tonight and both of them were in a good mood.

 Lion City is in a period of rapid development, with a large number of people coming and going. There is a train back to Sinless City almost every half hour.

 After waiting for a few minutes,

 Outside the car window,

 “Woo, woo, woo” sounded three whistles.

When Catalina saw this, there was a trace of regret in her eyebrows, and she said goodbye: "The train is about to leave. I will send you here, so be careful."

Ji Xun nodded: "Thank you, Miss Carter."

 It is already a great kindness to be able to deliver it here in person.

Hearing this, Catalina's beautiful light blue eyes gleamed slightly, and she said indifferently: "You have saved me many times. There is no need to be so polite for such a small favor. Besides, I think We are already friends, aren't we? If you need help in the future, you can come to me. I should be able to help."

"good."

Ji Xun smiled slightly.

Getting out of the car and closing the door, he waved goodbye to the beautiful blonde lady inside.

Katrina also responded with a faint smile and whispered softly: "See you later."

 The moment he turned back, Ji Xun raised his eyebrows slightly, thinking deeply in his heart.

 He walked straight to the train.

I have to admit that the two of them had a great time getting along.

 But in fact, Ji Xun had already discovered some changes in Catalina when he was in the study.

The eldest lady of the Lion-Hearted Family is completely unguarded against herself. She can take off her clothes and change clothes easily. She may not have some other ideas.

　　　It is true that I don't mind.

 It is also true that it is intentional.

 She doesn’t mind, because the two of them are in danger of life and death, and she really regards herself as a good friend;

What's more, he has already seen it, so he can show off his body and let his eyes feast on it, so he doesn't think it's a big deal.

 And it was done deliberately, maybe it was due to mood, but maybe there was no motive at all?

Ji Xun knew that his current status was a bit special. After all, he was closely related to the "Thirteen Kamen Riders".

 In addition to being a friend, he is definitely a good strategic ally.

  Seduction?

 That’s it for now.

But just expounding it is too superficial and underestimates that person.

The elegance and reserve of a lady, the magnanimity of a friend, and a hint of sly teasing, Katerina showed all of these just right.

Even if Ji Xun found out, he didn't feel anything bad.

From the first time he learned about her identity at the Honglou gambling stall, Ji Xun could tell that this Silver Mist Rose was very clever and scheming.

 It was just that I was still a little immature at that time.

And now Katarina, who has a heroic destiny, has already transformed into a superior person.

 Her ability to "control and control" power and everything around her is slowly becoming apparent.

Underneath that elegant and beautiful appearance, there is also a domineering aura that looks down on the world.

Just like the chaos in the banquet hall just now, she calmly killed several brothers who were threatening her.

 Anyone who is in a superior position must have this quality.

 A person who is absolutely kind cannot sit firmly in that position.

 From the beginning, Catalina did not hide her purpose from him.

So Ji Xun found out and didn't care at all.

　That just right scale makes me feel that this is a kind of personality charm that makes people happy to get along with.

However, Ji Xun really has no interest in politics and power at all. What he cares more about is extraordinary power.

 It’s not said to be happy, but everyone is happy.

 Katrina is indeed a good friend.

 After tonight, things may change for the Lionheart family.

 That friend of mine is probably about to shine in his own glory.

Ji Xun had a thought flash in his mind and got on the train.

Ji Xun took the VIP carriage arranged by Catalina.

This can also save a lot of trouble.

 At least you don’t have to be crowded in an ordinary carriage and face inspections from all forces in turn.

The VIP carriage has its own maid. After serving a pot of hot tea, Ji Xun did not let her stay in the carriage.

 It takes most of a day to return to Sinless City by train.

Ji Xun flipped through the latest special issue of the aristocratic newspaper on the shelf and learned about some of the recent events in the upper class.

After a while, he had almost finished reading the newspaper, and then he took out the gift he had given him when they parted before the ninth day of the Lunar New Year.

 I won’t talk about the **** card.

Ji Xun was more curious about the contents of the spell package.

 Thinking that the train had already left the Lion City far away, he opened the package.

At first glance, it turned out to be a gray-black feather floating in mid-air.

 “Angel feathers?”

Ji Xun looked at the feathers with light and dark energy in front of him, and recognized a feather on the angel's wings at a glance.

 This is not the first time he has gotten this kind of feather.

 This one has many times more extraordinary properties than the last one.

Even though it was just a small feather, the last time the hunchbacked old man touched it, one of his hands was scorched by the black flames on it.

Ji Xun didn't dare to be careless. The hellfire on his palm was instantly covered, and he lightly touched the feathers.

 I felt a burning sting as soon as I put my hand on it, but fortunately it was not fatal.

 He thought in his mind: "It seems to be a flame higher than the law level of [Hellfire]"

This is the source of energy and law that Queen Catherine frequently used to cast fire spells.

 Last time I didn’t have time to observe it carefully and couldn’t understand it.

With plenty of time now, Ji Xun thought of something. He put on the clown mask and the mantra surged all over his body: "The solution to the devil!"

An aura of terror swept through the carriage, and a clown silhouette suddenly appeared behind him.

With the support of Mo Jie’s super high understanding and cognition, Ji Xun looked at the feather again, and the picture in front of him was different again.

On the blade-like feathers, delicate textures are clearly visible. Under the illumination of light, wisps of soft regular threads are visible to the naked eye.

Ji Xun was also surprised when he saw this: "It's not a fire element?"

Originally I thought flames were some kind of fire element.

 The result is not.

 It’s something he still can’t understand.

 The angelic personality is so high that it is beyond cognition, so it is normal that this gray flame cannot understand it.

 But when he looked at the free threads of law on the feathers, he felt vaguely familiar.

Thinking about it carefully, hey, isn’t this the unknown dark energy in the [dark matter crystals] stripped from the monster corpses in the ruins of Xia Mu City?

 “High law?”

Ji Xun no longer struggled with things he couldn’t understand.

 Instead, he was more interested in the state of feathers floating in mid-air.

Have tried it last time, holding feathers will make people "weightless".

 Have tried it now, it still works.

 “Is this a ‘repulsive force’ or something?”

Ji Xun was also very curious.

 Having understood the mysterious magic of "inducing the gods to fall", he has mastered "some kind of gravity" to a certain extent.

 He clearly felt that this power and the power on the feathers were two completely different laws of power.

 It is the same as the elements of water and fire, completely opposite laws.

Thinking of this, Ji Xun played with the feathers and became more and more curious: "Tsk, tsk. That's interesting."

He wondered in his mind, if he could understand this "repulsive force", wouldn't he be able to fly?

As long as you understand it, you have "gravitation" in one hand and "repulsion" in the other.

That picture makes people look forward to it just thinking about it.

Moreover, Ji Xun's intuition told Ji Xun that these high-level laws that had not been recorded in various extraordinary classics must involve higher-level secrets in this world.

 It deserves careful exploration.

Ji Xun meditated, read, and studied feathers in the carriage.

 I don’t realize how time flies.

 Until the long whistle sound of "woo woo woo" came to my ears again.

Ji Xun then knew that the train had arrived at the Nugget Pier in Innocence City.

 Get out of the car.

Ji Xun followed the happy and laughing crowd out of the station, and was slightly sidetracked by the lively scene at the station.

 Steel and rivets were used to build brand new buildings, and the area of ​​the station was expanded nearly ten times compared to the last time he left.

 There are dozens of times more trains stopping at the train station.

 Profit is the best driving force for development. Now the Old Continent is completely like an open-pit gold mine, and anyone who goes there can find gold.

This therefore attracted people from across the federation.

The workers at the Nugget Terminal are manipulating various heavy-duty mechanical arms and are busy unloading the bulk cargo excavated from the ruins of the Old World from the train.

Ji Xun walked out among the crowd and listened carefully to what the returning hunters and mercenaries were talking about.

At this time, I discovered that not only the Lion City of the Lion Heart Family and the Cross Devil New City of the Cao Family, but also the entire Old Continent was being excavated almost everywhere.

 There are land reclamation camps everywhere.

 Relics, treasures, secrets, mysterious legends.

　　It makes people seem to see the glory of the Talon Dynasty three thousand years ago, and the mystery is being unveiled little by little.

These adventurers who came back alive brought back too many treasures and information, and they also attracted more and more people to the depths of the Old Continent.

Ji Xun listened all the way and came to the abyss crevice unknowingly. After the destruction of Honglou, the Brotherhood also became a vassal of the Lionheart Family, and Innocence City was completely controlled by the federal nobles.

The garrison here is obviously countless times larger than before.

 It’s not just the docks that have been built into steel castles.

Various well-equipped noble legion patrols can also be seen everywhere, just like a military fortress.

Ji Xun had read the newspaper before and knew the reason for the strict defense.

 The most important reason is that some unknown forces tried to blow up the dock, hoping to completely destroy this passage to the old continent.

They said it was an unknown force, but Ji Xun guessed that it must be some big nobles.

 After all, in just a few months, too many mechanical blueprints and high-level or even super-level secret treasures were discovered in the Old Continent.

Families such as the Cao family and the Lion Heart family, which have made arrangements in advance, have already benefited greatly.

 This gives them signs of threatening the status of other powerful people.

  And has the momentum to be far ahead.

 It can be expected that if the development of the Old Continent continues, the entire federal upper class will inevitably undergo a major reshuffle.

  Naturally, many conservatives do not want to see this scene.

 It is also expected to cause trouble.

Ji Xun once again took the cable car across the bottomless chasm, and not long after, he returned to the Innocence City.

With the influx of so many outsiders, this former city of exile is now a city of bright lights and prosperity.

Downing Street is much busier than before.

Various pubs, gambling stalls, and **** clubs have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the streets are crowded with people.

The pedestrians coming and going are no longer all adventurers. There are also some well-dressed gentlemen and ladies on the street. These are obviously wealthy people who came from other places.

Those dilapidated buildings that used to be in the past have also been renovated and repaired in large numbers, and beautiful small Western-style buildings line up in rows.

 Without Hong Lou, the gangster brotherhood in Innocence City is the only one in power, and gang members can be seen everywhere on the streets.

But now you can also see police officers riding steam motorcycles patrolling the streets.

 Chaos and order coexist.

 There are various signs that Innocence City is developing into a prosperous new city.

Ji Xun took a walk around Downing Street and bought a bunch of latest information from an intelligence dealer. Without further delay, he rode his motorcycle straight to the Hunters Union headquarters on Gro Street in the south city.

Master Merlin's laboratory is underground in this neighborhood.

Ji Xun skillfully used the steel cable to slide down the pipe for a hundred meters, and soon came to the mouth of the huge abandoned sewage pipe.

Master Merlin does not see outsiders.

 Last time, he and Dong Qi were able to meet because of Dong Jiuye's appointment.

This time, Ji Xun didn't know whether Master Merlin was in the laboratory, and he also knew that it wasn't easy to get in, so he simply waited at the entrance of the pipe.

 He can also endure loneliness.

 While waiting, continue reading and studying classics.

 Sounds like good luck.

 Not long after, the sound of slight footsteps came from the mouth of the pipe.

Ji Xun looked up and saw a fat, tall and naive chinchilla carrying an orange lantern appearing in his field of vision.

This was the second time he met him. He also knew that this chinchilla could talk, so he stood up and said hello with a smile: "Hi, Mr. Totoro."

The fat chinchilla seemed to remember the last time he saw this human being, and glanced at him, "The master asked me to take you in."

With that said, it held the lantern, turned around and walked into the depths of the dark corridor.

Ji Xun also followed.

 Last time I came here, I was preparing to refine the career card to advance to the second level [Qigong Master].

 The strength is now more than ten times stronger than before.

But the stronger you are, walking in the dark corridor, the more clearly you can realize that there are fatal dangers hidden around you.

 It was indeed the right thing not to come in hastily.

 Following the familiar road all the way down, Ji Xun soon came to a familiar super laboratory.

 What comes into view are the large and small experimental jars, with all kinds of strange creatures soaked in the green liquid.

However, Ji Xun glanced at it and clearly found that it was different from last time.

There were obviously some black technology equipment that was not in line with this era in the research equipment; and among the soaked specimens, there were also some limbs that were obviously super-order unknown creatures.

After a moment's thought, Ji Xun also guessed that these were probably newly discovered treasures from the Old Continent.

 The land reclamation is now in full swing, and a large number of high-level treasures have been discovered and transported back to Sinless City.

Master Merlin is one of the "Three Legendary Card Makers of the Federation" and is on the frontline of the ruins of Innocence City, so he naturally has first-hand good things in his hands.

 And those top treasures can only be truly valuable in the hands of masters of this level.

When Ji Xun came in, he saw Master Meilin in a white coat busy at an instrument.

He didn’t bother either.

Just waiting quietly on the side.

 This wait is less than half an hour.

Master Merlin was immersed in his research and seemed to have completely forgotten about the guests.

When the work at hand seemed to be over, the old man breathed a sigh of relief, then suddenly realized, looked back at Ji Xun and said: "Oh, I almost forgot, someone is here."

Ji Xun was not surprised when he heard this. He smiled and saluted, "I have met Master Merlin."

Master Meilin has a bad temper, but Ji Xun finds him easy to get along with.

 Talk about things when you have something to say, don’t play with nonsense.

The old man glanced at Ji Xun and understood something, and said directly: "Are you here to refine the third-level professional card with me?"

As he spoke, he even praised: "You are in very good condition."

 But that’s all. After saying that, he turned around and continued busy with his research.

Ji Xun was not surprised that the other party could see that. Now his status attributes were fully maxed out.

He did not hide his purpose and said directly: "I really want to ask the master for help."

 But he also knows the rules of equivalent exchange.

Last time, Dong Jiuye spent a lot of favors to get this master to help, but Ji Xun didn't think he had the dignity.

 Asking others to do something requires a bit of etiquette.

He directly took out a containment card and said: "I went to the old continent and met some dragon-born creatures in an extra-dimensional space. I was lucky enough to get some material samples."

"Dragonborn?"

When Master Merlin heard this, he immediately became interested.

 He turned his head and looked over.

 Originally I was just a little interested.

  After all, I have received so many good things recently that I can’t even study them.

 Looking at the containment card in Ji Xun's hand, the old man's pupils shrank obviously: "Epic material?"

 What Ji Xun took out was naturally the [Red Dragon's Blood] he got in the "Battle of Ironforge" last time.

This relatively pure dragon blood is absolutely fatal to top masters like Master Merlin.

as expected!

Ji Xun just took out the card, but before he could react, he looked at Master Merlin, who was dozens of meters away just now, and suddenly appeared in front of him.

The old man snatched the containment card with gleaming eyes, checked it, and exclaimed: "It's really the blood of a dragon!"

"Um."

Ji Xun didn’t mind if his things were robbed, he originally wanted to give them to this person.

  After all, you have to count on this person for any career cards, spell cards, etc. that you may need in the future.

 And looking at Master Merlin's expression, one could tell that this was a big favor.

 But at the same time, he also exclaimed in his heart: "What a fast speed."

This legendary card-making master is also extremely powerful.

Master Merlin got the [Blood of the Red Dragon] and teleported in front of the instrument in a blink of an eye, muttering to himself and preparing to start studying it immediately.

“Hahaha, it’s really the blood of the legendary dragon! I finally have a sample of this mythical creature with a complete genetic chain.”

 “That’s good, that plan can finally be put into the experimental stage.”

“Ah, such a good material, where should I start researching it?”

ˆ “.”

Ji Xun looked at this posture. The old man was about to be immersed in the experiment again, and seemed to forget about him again.

He quickly said: "Master, I have one more thing to ask for this time. I would like to ask you to help me refine a professional card."

 Speaking, Ji Xun directly took out the refining template of the [Dragon-Slaying Warrior Beowulf].

As expected, Master Merlin slapped his head and said, "Oh, I almost forgot again. You sent me this good thing to refine professional cards."

 Originally, he thought that Ji Xun needed his advice and then refined the cards, just like last time.

 Looking back, Ji Xun had already taken out a template.

Master Merlin glanced at it and his eyes lit up again: "Oh, it's the exclusive version of the legendary hero? It's very rare."

He teleported again, took the information in his hand, glanced at it and confirmed: "Tsk, tsk, this is a rare 'orphan template' that has no record at present. It's a great thing!"

There are not many things in the entire federation that can attract the attention of such a legendary card maker.

  It just so happens that this orphan refining template is one of them.

This kind of "stamp collecting"-like joy is something that most people simply cannot experience.

Master Merlin looked at the template, then glanced at Ji Xun, and couldn't help but praise again: "Have you experienced a very difficult extra-dimensional space? Otherwise, it would be impossible to get a professional card of this quality. Hey, Boy, your strength is not bad."

  Ji Xun smiled and acquiesced.

Having said that, Master Merlin looked at it carefully and said: "This template is more suitable for your current situation than any professional card I know. Tsk tsk. It's a great opportunity. However, if you want to bring out the best of this professional card, It’s very effective, but the required materials are very hard to find.”

Before the old man could finish speaking, Ji Xun took out a bunch of dragonborn materials he had obtained before and said, "Master, can you take a look at these?"

What are they like [Scissors of the Slit Girl (gold)], [Power of the Earth Dragon (gold)], [Demonized Dragon Eagle's Grasp (glorious silver)], [Fire Dragon's Magic Stomach (gold)].

 In addition to the materials, some corpse materials were also taken out.

Ji Xun can only sell these things for money anyway, so it’s better to do them as a favor.

 Seeing so many Dragonborn materials in front of him, the expression on Master Merlin's face suddenly became rich.

He looked at Ji Xun as if he had seen a treasure, and was filled with surprise: "You kid, you actually have so much dragon-born material?!"

Just now I felt that one drop of dragon blood was not enough.

There are so many excessive materials that can be used

  Simply perfect!

 (End of this chapter)