Imperial Crown

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No matter how much Raven talks about it, the new castle cannot be completed in a short time.

This is exactly the same as Annuo's helplessness.

In fact, ever since the tournament started and the nobles wandered into Raven's territory, Anno had approached Raven more than once, hoping that he could find a way to interfere.

Many young aristocrats, at best, have the adventurous gene in their bones, and at worst, they just have too much free time, so they like to go into remote mountains and forests, hoping to go on a legendary adventure and fight evil dragons. , save the princess or something.

There are no princesses and evil dragons, but there are always unlucky ones who get to the edge of the academy. In just two months, Annuo had to take action himself, scaring away 4 batches of no less than ten students in total in a faceless way. Several noble children.

However, this further stimulated the nobles' adventurous instinct.

Raven didn't have a good solution to this problem - he couldn't put a sign at the foot of the mountain and write "There are no secrets here", right?

All Raven could do was spread the word that his magic laboratory was there.

This method can only fool him for a while, but it is enough for a while.

After all, according to the current schedule, the competitive conference will end in more than a month at most, and most people will leave by then.

After seven days of fierce competition, the third round officially ended. Simon and Eric both advanced to the fourth round. Coupled with Vesdon's previous victory, the negative public opinion about the Griffith family gradually disappeared.

There are 131 players who have successfully reached the fourth round. Including Vesdon, there are only 5 Level 1 Transcendents left.

In order to ensure the excitement of the following games, the number of games per day has been adjusted to 8 games.

Considering the convenience of the schedule, Engla reached an agreement with 2 of the 5 first-level transcendent players, allowing them to abstain voluntarily before the new list was announced at the cost of 30 gold coins.

Vesdon chose to abstain voluntarily, so in the fourth round, there were 128 contestants.

For both the family and Vesdon personally, reaching this point is enough.

A few days after the battle with Batum, Vesdon thought a lot while lying on the hospital bed.

In terms of business acumen, 10 of them together are not as good as Denise; in terms of territory management, 100 of them are not as good as Raven.

Not to mention intrigues in political struggles.

All he can do is to continue walking on the extraordinary road and provide the family with force to realize his own value.

So as soon as he was able to go to the ground to move around, he found Raven and asked a question: "Brother, how can I improve myself quickly?"

This is a simple question, but the simpler it is, the harder it is to answer.

Raven thought for a moment and handed him the bloody combat skills collected in his family. At the same time, he told him: "Actually, your basic skills are solid enough. You can't rush to advance your fighting spirit. What you lack most at the moment is the judgment of the battle situation. and extraordinary level of practical experience.”

"Go to the athletic competition, be alert to their shortcomings, and learn from their strengths."

Vesdon took these words to heart, so after the fourth round officially started, he dragged his sick body to the spectator stand, carefully observed every battle, and recorded his experiences.

At first, Denise thought that Vesdon's behavior was the same as before, just a moment of passion, and that the old behavior would emerge when the excitement wore off.

But for 8 consecutive days and 64 battles, Vesdon watched them without stopping, and the parchment he accumulated was several inches thick.

And not only was it recorded, Vesdon would also refer to the information on the Skyhawk platform afterwards to reorganize and revise the information, and also use it to consult Raven and Eric.

It has to be said that when a person concentrates on a certain cause, he can always burst out with unexpected energy. What he summed up, even Raven and Eric had to admit, is very powerful. Of practical and instructional value.

This kind of enthusiasm and focus was the first time Denise had seen it from Vesdon.

She finally couldn't help but approached Raven: "What kind of magic did you use? Vesdon looks like a different person!"

"It's nothing." Raven said slowly, "Just a little trust, a little encouragement, and a little love."

With every word he said, Denise's expression became weirder and weirder. In the end, she rolled her eyes and turned away: "I knew you wouldn't tell me the truth!"

Raven helplessly spread his hands and looked at Patty next to him: "Is there anything wrong with what I said?"

Patty was stunned for a moment, then shook his head firmly: "No, sir, not at all!"

"Alas..." Raven sighed heavily - I finally told the truth once, but no one believed me!

In the fourth round of the competition, Simon, who was promoted to the second level, won as a dark horse, and together with Eric, who performed steadily to defeat his opponent, advanced to the fifth round, which is the top 64 of this competition.

It is worth mentioning that it was during this round of competition that Simon won the title "Knight of Morrowind", expressing that he had a temper as gentle as the morning sun and an offensive as fierce as the storm.

Next will be the fifth round, which will select the top 32 players in this competitive conference.

There are no weak players who can enter this stage, and every game is highly anticipated.

If it is purely based on luck, it is very likely that a few third-level players will collide with each other and stage the semi-finals or even the finals in advance, so the bosses of various families have found Raven and hinted openly and secretly that they hope he can arrange the schedule well and never have "accidents".

Raven agreed to this one by one, but still played the old tradition and threw this difficult problem to Ingra.

The guiding ideology is that no one can be offended, but it should not be too obvious; if you can protect the people of Xuefeng County, try to protect them.

This is hard for Ingra.

There are 3 people from the Fox family who have advanced to this round; 1 person under Marquis Anthony; 3 people from the Slater family; 2 holy knights of the Holy See.

If all these people are staggered, 9 games need to be arranged, not to mention that there are 2 people from our family and 4 people from Xuefeng County.

If this is to be perfect, it is really not that easy.

But fortunately, Ingra will comfort herself-at least she didn't ask such questions in the top 16!

Raven, who was taking a break from his busy schedule, began to enjoy his life.

Usually he ate food from the Eagle Territory, but today, at Nancy's suggestion, he tasted the Fox family's special menu.

Nancy wore a Lolita-style long dress, with two fiery ponytails hanging softly on her shoulders. Her little hands wearing white silk gloves raised a cup of black tea and drank it, diluting the sweet taste of the dessert in her mouth. Her pink tongue licked her lips like a kitten:

"How about it? I invited you three times and five times, but you refused to have lunch with me. Now you know how delicious the Fox family's dishes are, right?"

Raven put down the spoon and was slightly stunned: "Is this true?"

"Humph, playing dumb again!" Nancy wrinkled her nose: "I'll punish you by not letting you come to my room tonight!"

"Oh, punish me?" Raven raised a meaningful smile at the corner of his mouth and gently raised his chin: "Who punishes who, it's still uncertain."

Nancy blushed, remembering the scene when they first met.

At that time, she went to Raven to seek "justice" in a rage, but was caught and beaten severely by Raven. Now thinking back, her little butt is still a little hot.

What was the man's name at the time? Carlo? Cumming?

Nancy couldn't remember the specific name of the unlucky guy killed by Raven, but it didn't matter. She showed her tiger teeth and whispered: "Hmph... If you dare to hit me again, I will bite you!"

Raven grinned and knocked his teeth: "Then you can't bite me."

Nancy rolled her eyes and suddenly brightened: "Then I will ask my brother to take action and teach you a lesson!"

"He..." Raven smiled playfully, drank a sip of tea and said nothing more.

"Do you think he is not your opponent?" Nancy asked.

"It depends on which aspect you are talking about." Raven sighed, "Although he is the heir of the Earl's family, I am only a baron."

"But, my life can be said to be..."

Jenny, who was standing by and serving, suddenly shuddered and whispered in Nancy's ear, "Madam, I'll go and urge the dishes."

Nancy waved her hand to indicate that she could leave. Jenny quickly moved her feet and left the room with the maximum stride allowed by etiquette.

Baron Raven's experience is indeed very attractive, but no matter how good the story is, you can't listen to it every day!

In just two months since she came back, she has heard it 8 times and almost memorized it.

After dawdling outside for a long time, Jenny returned to the room with the next dessert. As soon as she walked in, she heard Raven say, "Jenny is back. Where did we say it before?"

"Yes, I can say that I started from scratch in my life..."

Jenny's eyes went dark.

This time, there was no reason to leave with an excuse. Jenny could only maintain her expression with superb professionalism so that Raven would not see any flaws.

After nearly an hour and a half, Raven finished his story, kissed Nancy goodbye, and went to do his own thing.

Jenny breathed a sigh of relief, and while cleaning the table, she whispered, "Madam, you've worked so hard, do you need a rest?"

"No, no." Nancy shook her head, her fingers tangling her hair: "I don't feel tired."

"But this is the ninth time the master has told this story."

"You don't understand." Nancy smiled: "So-called husband and wife should be considerate of each other."

"Raven has never liked those cumbersome aristocratic etiquette. Every time he holds a cocktail party, it is almost always a buffet. He can be patient enough to accompany me for a two-hour lunch, which means he is accommodating me."

"In that case, why can't I calm down and listen to him?"

Raven didn't hear these words. He had already arrived at his secret room, lit the magic-soaked lemongrass, and continued to engrave the second structure of the fireball in the magic pool.

Engraving magic is like enchanting yourself.

But when making enchanted props, even if one or two magic patterns are wrong, they can be re-forged; if the engraving magic goes astray, it is a big mistake that cannot be corrected and cannot be turned back. If you continue to complete the engraving on this basis, not only will you not be able to advance to the fourth level, but you will also damage your own foundation.

In order to warn the later generations, "The Path of the Mage" records in detail 13 magicians who made mistakes at this stage due to their eagerness for quick success.

There are many true geniuses among them.

But among the 13 people, 9 were stuck at the third level and could not move forward until they died; 3 people died suddenly; the last one, I don’t know whether it was lucky or unfortunate, the magic pool was completely destroyed. Although he survived, he became a useless person.

In history, the only person who failed to engrave but still successfully advanced was a magician named "Aquinas", who ended up staying at the fifth level.

Even so, he has never won any battle against magicians of the same level.

Therefore, even with the help of the Eye of Truth, Raven was still cautious and would only engrave when he was the calmest and would never be disturbed.

Raven closed his eyes and controlled his mental power to turn into tentacles. Using these tentacles as swords, he clearly outlined the structure of the fireball technique bit by bit on the magic pool.

His brows wrinkled slightly, cold sweat soaked on his forehead, and his breathing began to become heavy.

Every time he engraved a point, a ball of heat would burst out of his body, and he would have to stop and rest for a while, waiting for his spirit to regain his composure before continuing.

To Raven, it was more like a doctor performing surgery on himself. Every time he carved something, he was operating on his soul.

Time passed little by little.

Raven's clothes were soaked with sweat, steamed dry by the burst of heat, and then wet again until white traces of salt evaporated.

Normally, Raven would not fight to such an extent, but this time, since there was not much left, he was ready to go all out to carve the second structure.

On the magic pool, as the last stroke was carved, a complete magic circuit took shape, and a vibration spread from the inside out, causing Raven's mental power and magic power to begin to surge.

The water level in the magic pool began to drop, filling the structure, and a burning sensation filled Raven's soul.

Suddenly, Raven opened his eyes. Even without the Eyes of Truth, he could see the fire element vigorously active around him.

Gently raising his palm, his mental power pulled slightly, and his magic power flowed. Raven didn't even chant a mantra, but a cluster of green flames ignited in his palm!

"Monster..." Xikrit, who was lying aside, uttered two words.

Although she was the one who suggested Raven choose the Fireball Technique, she never expected that Raven's affinity for the fire element would grow to such an extent just by completing the dual structure.

It's like an elemental creature living in the elemental plane of fire!

Raven did not stop exploring. He thought for a moment, stood up, and chanted the incantation softly. The next moment, a ball of clear water floated in the palm of his hand.

"Interesting..." Raven raised his eyebrows, and the water ball in his palm began to twist. Dense bubbles rose from it, and large clouds of steam spread, just like a drop of water on a hot pot!

This is not that Raven is using flames to boil water, but that the water condensed by the spell boils spontaneously with the help of the fire element.

This is the real wonder of the second round of engraving. Every magic that Raven uses can be added with the power of the fire element!

Of course, to use this characteristic, the magic power consumed by the same magic has also increased, almost doubling.

But with the blood core of the True Ancestor as his backing, the most important thing for Raven is magic power!

He could imagine that if he released the water mist technique and then added a sufficient amount of fire elements to it - tsk, this magic could be called "steamer technique" in his hands.

After practicing a few more magic tricks, Raven left the secret room, washed up under Patty's service, and put on new clothes.

Petty helped Raven get dressed, and also reported on the situation during Raven's practice: "Last night, Engla confirmed the list of the competitive meeting. You said you couldn't disturb it, so it was reviewed and confirmed by Mr. Gordon. It will be ready for you to review." It’s ready to be released.”

"In addition, Viscount Broca took the lead and organized nobles from Xuefeng County including Baron Judra, Baron Wessassin, Baron Moss and others to send invitations, hoping to invite you to join us. dinner."

Raven nodded, thought for a moment and then ordered: "As for the list, since Old Gordon has read it, just send it directly; for Broca's invitation, please push it for me and say that I am conducting a A very important magic experiment.”

"You want to conduct an experiment?" Petty was startled.

"Of course it's an excuse." Raven said with a smile: "It's not the first day you've followed me. Of course, you can push for this kind of thing."

"However, I do have some magic-related matters to deal with."

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