Cataclysm King

Chapter 458 The Scarlet Sect Reappears

 This day.

get out of class had just ended and there were still two hours before dinner time. Ji Xun planned to go to the library to stay as usual.

After walking out of the teaching building of the Magic Academy, passing through a shortcut path filled with magic trees, we reached the library.

But before he reached the door, he saw a dark-skinned boy waiting in the corner of the inconspicuous woods on the roadside for a long time.

It was David.

Ji Xun looked at his teammate who was obviously waiting for him, smiled and took the initiative to say hello: "David."

David's eyes were also filled with joy, and he quickly walked out of the woods and said, "Brother Su Lun, I knew you would definitely come to the library."

After going through so many things now, the six-person team of the Langdon family is getting along very well.

Even David no longer has the same talent as before. He often participates in some team activities, and several people communicate and learn from each other from time to time.

Ji Xun looked at the bruises on the dark-skinned boy's face, his expression pretending to be slightly different, but he understood what happened in his heart and asked: "Are you competing with senior students again?"

"Um."

David's tone was very casual and he explained: "In today's fighting class, some second-year guys provoked me and we had a fight."

It seemed that he gained a lot from that battle, and when he talked about it, his eyes couldn't hide the sparkle.

As for the injuries on his body, he didn't care at all.

"hehe."

Ji Xun smiled, not surprised at all.

The only "S-level" trial evaluation at the opening ceremony was so eye-catching that it made their team the star team of the entire Royal Academy.

In the Royal Academy, which is full of young and energetic nobles, without sufficient background, fame can only bring endless troubles.

However, the strength of the team is there. Among the same level, if you want to challenge, you have to look at your own strength.

So much so that many of the people who come to visit us are second-year students of the academy.

And David was a slave, so he was provoked the most.

Even if his opponent kills him, he will fight back without mercy.

The ending is that even if he wins the fight, he will be beaten up by the noble guards for various reasons.

Almost every day.

Either they were fighting, or they were on the way to a date.

So David's injuries never subsided.

But Ji Xun didn't think this was a bad thing.

It looked like he was being beaten, but thinking about it on the other hand, in other places, there wouldn't be so many geniuses training with him in actual combat.

This painful experience was a rare test for David's mind and strength.

The situation is similar for other members of the team.

On the contrary, Ji Xun had the most leisure time because he was either in class or in the library all day and had no time to deal with those people.

Just as he was thinking about it, David touched the back of his head and said with a somewhat embarrassed expression: "Su Lun, I have a question for you. When I was practicing the breathing method recently, I obviously found that the mantra was not running smoothly and seemed to be blocked. Follow-up Do you know what this feeling of powerlessness is about?”

"this"

Of course Ji Xun knew he was here to ask questions.

Slaves are not eligible to enjoy any benefits of the Royal Academy, including the right to enter the library to read, and they cannot have tutors like other students.

So David almost always sat in on various courses in the college.

It’s okay if you understand it, but if you don’t understand it, you can only comprehend it by yourself.

Fortunately, my teammates are not stingy and will occasionally help explain.

But there are differences in professions, and not everyone understands what qigong masters do.

And Ji Xun's [Eruditionist] just came in handy.

More importantly, Ji Xun, like David, practices the same breathing method - gluttony!

Although the magical magic was a prize from the academy, it had a confidentiality contract when it was obtained and could not be shared with others.

But Ji Xun's understanding of the secret method of gluttony is far deeper than that elementary formula.

Ji Xun saw David's problem at a glance, but he didn't make it too obvious. He pondered for a moment and then said: "It should be that you have just advanced, and the basic formulas cannot satisfy the meridians broadened by professional cards. It just so happens that I have been practicing recently. I seem to have read about the breathing method in a classic book, namely "Explanation of the Mysteries of Qigong" and "Master Morton's Basic Breathing Method". There are detailed explanations on this situation. You can take it and read it first. ”

As he spoke, he took out a thick gold-gilded classic.

David looked at the classics in front of him with anticipation in his eyes, and his expression became even more embarrassed: "This."

Although the team now recognizes Ji Xun as a "jack of all trades" who spends all his time in the library.

The polymath sequence is a path that can be used by all methods. Even if he no longer knows it, he will most likely be able to point out some relevant classics.

Just like this.

But these days he always troubles others, and David also feels that he is always in debt.

Ji Xun looked at David's troubled expression and said with a smile: "Anyway, it's a junior book from the college, so take it. It won't make any difference if I return it to the library two days later."

Hearing this, David didn't know what he could say. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Then I'll take a look first. I'll return it to you in two days."

"Um."

Ji Xun smiled and nodded, waving goodbye.

On the back of the dark-skinned boy, he saw the shadow of Gong Wu when he was young, with the same dedication to martial arts and the same carelessness.

David didn't know that this classic was not something Ji Xun happened to borrow and put on his person.

But he had seen before that David would inevitably encounter these problems in Qigong after he advanced.

As the teacher, Gong Wu was not around, so he just gave some advice to his nominal junior brother and borrowed it to take with him.

After Ji Xun and David separated, they went straight to the library.

Legend has it that 80% of the top card masters in the Southern Continent have studied at the Royal Academy. There is a reason for this.

Ji Xun is not the only one who is practicing hard.

There are many students who can come to the library after class.

There are many young masters and ladies from top noble families.

These people are already talented, have sufficient resources, and work hard. It would be strange if they are not strong in the future.

Stepping through the magic light door at the door, the library is suddenly a world of magical knowledge.

The roof is inlaid with huge colorful glass windows. The light of the magic lamp shines through these windows, forming rainbow-like elemental lights and shadows.

What you see is a maze-like collection of bookshelves.

The mahogany bookshelves dozens of meters high are filled with all kinds of books.

The materials of the books vary, including paper, animal leather, slate, and metal. Some of them are shimmering with light and seem to contain mysterious supernatural powers.

The air is filled with the faint smell of page corrosion, which is the smell accumulated by the long time magic lingers on books; occasionally, you can smell a trace of strange herbal smell, which comes from some classics that record ancient black magic and alchemy. .

The space inside the library is much larger than it looks from the outside.

It is said that the library itself is not only a building, but also contains many treasures.

Most of the oil paintings on the walls are works by masters, and each one contains extremely profound artistic principles;

The armor seemingly placed randomly in the corner of the road is an ancient relic of the artistic conception of a top-level card master;

The light of those magic lamps is the light and shadow of the elements, allowing people to better understand the mystery of the law;

Even aromatherapy is a valuable high-grade Warcraft material. The smell can make people's memory and thoughts clear.

There are many more clever settings like this.

In short, there are many luxurious devices hidden in the Royal Library that ordinary people cannot even imagine.

Although Ji Xun had heard about it before, when he came for the first time, he was also amazed by the luxury of the Royal Academy.

Only with this foundation can we continuously cultivate top experts.

This is completely incomparable to Donghuang.

Ji Xun has been here for a month and is already very familiar with the library environment.

It's only the first floor in front of you.

Most of the books here are free classics that do not require credits, and there are hundreds of millions of them.

It is estimated that it may take hundreds or even thousands of years for a person to read this level of classics.

Moreover, a large number of classics and ancient relics are sent from all over the Southern Continent every day to be compiled and recorded, and the number is still increasing.

The library was very quiet. The students each selected classics and found a quiet place to read by themselves.

Ji Xun returned some of the classics he borrowed yesterday.

Then he walked up the stairs to the second floor.

Most of the people walking around on the second floor were veteran students and nobles.

Because almost all the books on the second floor are "paid books", and there is also a paid reading room here.

If you don't have enough credits, you are not qualified to stay there.

The 100,000 credits given by Ji Xun's admission award came in handy now.

Although Ji Xun is a new student this year, many people know him because he is a celebrity in the academy.

What's more, he is a frequent visitor to the library. He comes every day and can meet him face to face.

But that’s all there is to it.

The entrance test was too high-profile, and the hatred of Duke Langdon Jianguo was too great. Ji Xun, a family knight, also suffered all kinds of looks and contempt.

In the eyes of other students, he felt that he must have a label on his head: nouveau riche with 100,000 credits!

However, Ji Xun felt that it was just right.

Without those useless social interactions, he could concentrate on reading quietly.

Ji Xun has been to the second floor many times, and he swiped his student card in a familiar way.

Then he walked into the barrier.

There are still rows of bookshelves here.

But the difference is that the space here is not like a normal white paper, but a kaleidoscope-like space fragment.

The entire second floor is like a huge honeycomb.

Ji Xun was already proficient in the laws of space, so of course he could see that this was a kind of space barrier, or some kind of top-level space relic.

There are "independent reading rooms" here. Ji Xun exchanged a room.

Fifty credits per hour.

In other words, the credits accumulated by ordinary students in one day of classes are enough to stay here for one hour.

But on weekdays, credits still need to be exchanged for resources, and few people have this luxury.

Ji Xun's 100,000 points gave him the confidence to squander.

Holding the sign and waving it in the void, the surrounding area turned into an independent small room.

Outside the glass window, there are birds singing and the fragrance of flowers blowing, and the breeze blows the new green branches on the branches; just the right amount of sunlight shines through the glass, casting mottled tree shadows on the simple solid wood table.

Although I know that this is an illusion, I have to say that entering the room gives people a refreshing feeling.

This is a great place to read quietly.

This independent reading room is more than just a small room.

Its most important role is to assist learning and maintain confidentiality!

As soon as he entered the room, a "Comprehension +1" halo appeared on Ji Xun's panel.

This is the most important reason why this room needs to be charged.

The blessing of enlightenment is of indescribable help to learning and extraordinary practice.

Ji Xun has been here many times.

He came to the room and first quietly observed the room environment.

Finding that there was no problem, he sat on the stool, took out the classics and started reading.

There were no outsiders here. He took out five books at a time and flipped through them quickly.

These are the basic classics for various career sequences that polymaths need to know.

I already have a very high understanding, but with the blessing of the environment at this moment, my reading efficiency is also very high.

He absorbed the knowledge like a whale.

Originally, Ji Xun would sit here for most of the day and then leave.

But this time it's different.

After waiting for about half an hour, Ji Xun raised his eyes and looked around the room again.

Although Griffith has said before that when she was a tutor in the college, she confirmed that this independent reading room is private enough.

Because there are not only students here, but also mentors.

In the eyes of extraordinary people, most of a person's personality, fighting methods, and spell specialization direction can be analyzed from his reading habits.

Therefore, for extraordinary people, confidentiality is particularly important.

The more advanced the card master is, the more he cares.

Therefore, the reading room in the library of the Royal Academy is one of the few absolutely private collection rooms in the academy.

Ji Xun's caution made him observe this month.

In the past, he always felt that he was involved in some kind of causal line, but now he thought it was probably because he enrolled in a high-profile school and was targeted by many people.

It's not a problem with the room.

In the past few days, that feeling has completely disappeared.

Ji Xun deduced everything and confirmed that there were no problems.

He then took out a book from his storage ring, turned to a few pages, tore them apart, and formed a magic circle.

The clone is not strong enough and can only rely on external objects to perform certain secret techniques.

He took out a few more magic cores and activated the formation.

In the blink of an eye, Ji Xun watched his shadow split apart, and then turned into three shadows with blurred features.

[Joker's Shadow Trick] is now very proficient, and with the multitasking of "Senji Puppet God Gate", he can already control four shadows at the same time, including their clones.

Although the more shadows there are, the weaker the strength.

But it is perfect for reading and studying.

Ji Xun is now gradually understanding why this [Shadow Trick] is JOKER's exclusive magical power.

Because the clone's enlightenment will also bless the original body.

Although the clone's comprehension is worse than that of the main body, it means that Ji Xun's current reading and comprehension efficiency is several times that of before.

Summoning the shadow didn't trigger anything, and Ji Xun breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he searched the bookshelves for the books he needed.

I have to say one more thing.

Although the Southern Continent is a society with almost no technology, some practical magics are really studied to the extreme.

It's like the "book search magic system" in the library reading room.

After all, there are countless books in the library, and even a small category is as big as several rooms.

If you really have to search for them one by one, it will take a lot of time and effort, but you may not be able to find them.

And this book search system is extremely convenient.

Ji Xun chose the keywords "Introduction to the Field" and "Experience in the Field", and a dense number of book titles immediately appeared on the magic light screen.

As long as it is recorded and meets the keyword search conditions, it will be displayed.

"Explanation of the Principles of the Aurora Field" requires 2,700 credits for redemption;

"Introduction to the Forbidden Demon Realm" requires 3,000 credits to redeem;

"Thunder Elemental Field·Thousands of Thunder Demonic Sea", 3500 credits;

"Ultra-restricted space", "Spiritual structure of the nine-fold spiritual cage in the field".

Some are ancient relics, some were collected from various places, and some were written by the college instructors themselves.

At Royal College, tutors also need “credits” in exchange for resources.

Teachers in the college need to obtain corresponding tutor points through teaching tasks and some research results in order to obtain more resources.

The easiest thing is to write about all kinds of extraordinary experiences.

Elsewhere, no one is willing to write down their own special skills for you to study and learn.

But at the Royal Academy, it's a tradition.

After all, under normal circumstances, only insiders of the academy can see these classics.

This is convenient for Ji Xun.

If you can understand the domain before advancing to the seventh level, and then understand the divine power or take shortcuts, the success probability of the advancement will almost reach an astonishing 100%.

If he wants to construct his own "everything field", he needs a lot of insights from other career paths.

Nowhere else would you have such an opportunity.

Ji Xun looked at the catalog with bright eyes, but at the same time looking at the credits required for redemption, he felt helpless and said in his heart: "But having said that, these high-end classics are so expensive."

He used Griffith's library card to redeem this with his tutor privileges.

If you were a student, the credits required for the same classics would be several times higher.

To redeem those basic books, Ji Xun felt that one hundred thousand points would never be used up. Looking at it now, it doesn't seem to be very durable.

"If you really want to borrow high-level classics, it seems that it won't be long before you have to find opportunities to collect credits."

Ji Xun muttered in his heart, randomly picked a few books that suited him best, and then placed them on the table and started reading them with Shadow.

No one would have thought that a new student would borrow high-level classics related to the field.

And the other side.

In a hotel in Djinn City.

Ji Xun's body was flipping through the information he had just bought from the intelligence dealer, and muttered: "Scarlet Sect? It's really become a thing. What's going on with Lao Xie?"

More than a month ago, he heard the news that "vampires" appeared in certain places in the southern continent.

At the time it was uncertain what the situation was.

Now it has been confirmed that there are not only vampires, but also a climate.

Even the Holy Vatican has sent troops to conquer it many times, but it has not been solved yet.

This is very telling.

People in the Southern Continent don't know what's going on with vampires, but Ji Xun knows.

Moreover, the jar that sealed the outer **** ‘Scarlet Corruption Seiadis’ was inside Xie Guozhong’s body.

Dragonborn are not easily contaminated by the belief in foreign gods, but this Seaadis is different.

Vampirism is a physical change at the bloodline level.

The dragonborn's bloodline is not pure enough, and the probability of being contaminated is not small.

Although the influence of the Scarlet Sect in the Southern Continent will certainly not be as great as it is in the Eastern Wasteland.

But this matter is not simple by any means.

Ji Xun once again thought about the previous assassination of the Pope, and he always felt that something big might have happened to Xie Guozhong.

"Moreover, more than twenty [Curse God Cards] have appeared one after another recently. Why are the relics of the Great Emperor appearing in such a large number now?"

After Ji Xun read that piece of information, he began to deduce it in his mind.

This information is like a line of cause and effect in the deduction, as if there is some connection somewhere.

Just as I was thinking about it, the image of Shadow coming back from the library suddenly came to my mind.

"Hey, it really happened!"

Ji Xun calmed down his thoughts and felt happy.

After preparing for so long, today can be considered as a perfect expectation.

The summoned shadow was not discovered, which means that the Royal Academy's book theft will be safe for a long time to come.

Thinking of this, he immediately meditated cross-legged and comprehended the extraordinary knowledge he urgently needed.

(End of chapter)