The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Two hours ago

In a room on the second floor of Earl Habsburg's mansion.

After thinking for a while, Ryan decided to upgrade the advanced secret 'Crushing Hammer' to the top secret first.

There are two reasons. First, the 'Soul-crushing Hammer' of the Warhammer Wizard (Legend) wants to trigger the buff effect. According to the system description, it requires the enemy to die under the hammer.

Obviously, the stronger the hammer technique, the stronger the enemy that can be killed with the hammer, and the higher the buff.

Second, because of what Langgel said before, the key for the Great Knight to enter the legend is to master the Glory of Will, and the 'Blade Storm·Modified', which is also a high-level secret, is a combination of innate witchcraft and secret.

It cannot be regarded as a pure swordsmanship secret.

Ryan has a vague feeling that if he wants to comprehend the Glory of Will, it may be better to use the hammer technique or swordsmanship secret without witchcraft.

Having made up his mind, Ryan once again looked at the conditions for the promotion of the ‘Crushing Hammer’ to the top secret:

‘1. Any extraordinary hammer technique lv18 or above; 2. Bear King Breathing Technique lv18 or above; 3. Strength 45 points, Agility 38 points, Constitution 40 points or above; 4. Consume 4 gold skill points. ’

He checked the attribute panel again:

Constitution: 39

Strength: 46

Agility: 44

Spirit: 55

Ryan found that he only lacked 1 point in constitution to meet all the conditions.

Naturally, there was nothing to hesitate about, and Ryan quickly added 1 attribute point to his constitution.

As his constitution also entered the 40 mark, Ryan completely met the requirements of the top secret for attribute points.

Next, he consumed 4 gold skill points to upgrade both the hammer technique and the bear king breathing technique to lv18, and chose ‘promotion’!

In an instant, a torrent of ‘Crushing Hammer’ training memories poured into Ryan’s mind!

In a mysterious space, it seemed that Ryan had been practicing the advanced secret of hammer art, 'Crushing Hammer', for thirty or forty years without distraction, and at the last moment, he made a breakthrough!

The system prompt also appeared again:

[Congratulations, you have comprehended the top secret of hammer art: Hammer of Annihilation! ]

"Hammer of Annihilation? Has the name changed?"

However, seeing the four words "top secret", Ryan couldn't help but smile!

Finally mastered the top secret!

On the Weapon Master (Legend) panel, the hammer secret 'Crushing Hammer' was also changed to 'Hammer of Annihilation'.

The icon has also changed a lot.

The pattern has changed to a dark heavy hammer swinging from top to bottom, and around the hammer head of the heavy hammer, there are ripples in the shape of waves, spreading out in all directions.

Unlike the previous vivid depiction of crushing boulders, this pattern looks more like some kind of abstract painting.

After all, it is unknown how powerful this ripple is.

The small words on the lower right of the icon also changed:

Effect of Hammer of Annihilation (Top Secret)：Use a kind of Force combined with shock technique, and with the blessing of a trace of willpower, hit a powerful blow that can annihilate visible and invisible things.

(Note: To upgrade the Hammer of Annihilation to the primary annihilation force field, the following conditions must be met: 1. Strength 60 points, Agility 50 points, Constitution 55 points, Willpower 3 points or more; 2. Consume 8 gold skill points.)

"This is..."

"Force field?"

"Has it begun to deviate from the scope of a certain move?"

Ryan keenly discovered the keyword 'force field' in the notes. Although it was only described as a primary annihilation force field, it was obvious that the power of this annihilation force field was above the top secret.

At the same time, Ryan instantly thought of the fire-based entry-level witchcraft he had learned before - 'high temperature force field', which also had the word force field.

But obviously, there is a huge difference between the two.

In addition, Ryan also found that the subsequent promotion of the top-level secret ‘Hammer of Annihilation’ has been separated from the requirements of hammer skills, and even from the requirements of breathing methods.

It shows that there are only two prerequisites, namely the requirements of attribute points and gold skill points.

It feels like going from complex to simple!

"Huh, will 3?"

Ryan quickly noticed this new attribute item.

"But I don't have the attribute of will."

Ryan frowned slightly and immediately called up his attribute panel.

His eyes suddenly widened, because there was an additional will attribute on the panel:

Constitution: 40

Strength: 46

Agility: 44

Spirit: 55

Will (hidden attribute): 1

(Note: Will is a hidden attribute and cannot be improved by adding attribute points.)

"Why do I suddenly have 1 point of will?"

Ryan looked thoughtful.

"Could it be that this bit of will came from the process of upgrading the high-level ultimate skill 'Crushing Hammer' to the top ultimate skill 'Annihilation Hammer'?"

"It seems that this is the only explanation."

Just as Ryan was thinking about this question, there was a knock on the door.

"Knock, knock, knock! Ryan?"

Claire's familiar voice sounded outside the door.

Ryan opened the door and saw Claire holding an ancient sheepskin scroll, standing at the door with a smile on her face.

"Miss Claire, please come in."

Claire nodded and walked into the room.

"Ryan, there is something I want to talk to you about."

"However, before that, I will give you something, which may give you some inspiration in understanding your will."

"This is a manuscript written by an ancestor of our Habs family about how he realized the brilliance of will based on his own experience." Claire said as she handed the parchment in her hand to Ren. road.

"Miss Claire, isn't this too expensive?"

The smile on Claire's face became even brighter.

"Ren, don't forget, you are my guardian knight now. The stronger you are, the safer I am, right?"

"Before, I was still a peak knight. I couldn't give you some of the things in my family."

"But it's different now. After I was promoted to Grand Knight, according to my father's agreement with the family elders, I am already the first heir to the Habs family, and my authority is much greater than before."

"Otherwise, even if I wanted to get this manuscript to you, I'm afraid it would be impossible."

"Thank you, Miss Claire." Renn took the manuscript and bowed slightly.

Now, he already has 1 point of will attribute. If there is a manuscript about the understanding of will by predecessors for his reference, it will naturally be very helpful to Renn.

It is likely to greatly speed up the subsequent understanding and use of will.

"Besides, I told my father about you, and he was both happy and surprised by your growth. After a while, when his health gets better, he hopes to have a chat with you."

"Of course, you can do it at any time. Miss Claire, please tell Earl Habs that you hope he can recover as soon as possible."

At this time, Claire looked solemn and said: "Ren, as a wizard, don't you feel anything is wrong recently?"

"Huh? Something's wrong?" Renn couldn't help but be confused.

"Well, for example, the concentration of mysterious side energy particles you feel, maybe you can try to recall a month ago and now." Claire looked at Renn with a puzzled face.

"This." Ren felt it carefully.

It seems like it’s easier to mobilize the energy particles around you?

But the problem is

There is at least a ten-point difference between his mental power a month ago and his current mental power.

Ren was suddenly enlightened!

He got it.

The super-fast increase in mental power prevented him from paying attention to the changes in the mysterious energy particles around him.

He has always instinctively believed that the increase in the power of witchcraft was entirely due to his increase in strength.

In fact, there is a small part of the reason here, because it is what Claire calls the change in energy particle concentration.

"Miss Claire, you mean that the mysterious side energy particles are becoming more and more concentrated for some unknown reason?"

"Yes, although I am a knight, I am not weak in mental strength. I can feel this change in the past six months, let alone the wizards."

"Besides, don't you think it's strange? The legendary snake, an ancient creature, suddenly appeared."

"Well, I thought it was an accident. In this case, it's not an accident?"

"It's not an accident. When I was at the Royal Academy of the Imperial Capital, there were at least a dozen reports about the resurgence of giant beasts from the vast territory of the empire."

"Even many descendants of the great nobles are discussing this issue." Claire said with a serious look on her face.

Resurrection of spiritual energy?

A word from his past life appeared in Renn's mind for no apparent reason.

Of course, it's just a metaphor.

The real reason behind it may be far more complicated than this, but in any case, judging from the current situation, the increase in energy particle concentration seems to have led to a fact similar to the gradual recovery of the giant beast.

Although he has made rapid progress, there is still a big gap between him and the legendary Farmer Snake.

The problem is, besides Behemoth, the people behind the active cults

This made Ren frown and a sense of urgency arose.

"Is there no solution discussed in the empire?" Ren asked.

"I don't have access to the empire-level response plan yet."

"According to a saying in the Royal Academy, opportunities and challenges coexist. The increase in energy particle concentration will not only directly improve the combat effectiveness of wizards, but also subtly reduce the difficulty of our knights' subsequent promotions."

"In other words, breakthroughs become easier!"

"Many people believe that experts from the empire will also spring up like mushrooms after a rain."

"Is that so?" Renn thought thoughtfully.

This is not a bad thing, at least there is another good explanation for his rapid improvement in strength.

After Claire left, Renn looked through the manuscript written by Mikel Habus, Claire's ancestor.

The other party is one of the few outstanding figures in the history of the Habs family who have realized the brilliance of will.

In fact, there is not much content in the manuscript about how to realize the brilliance of will, just a few words.

"Understand why you are fighting and what the sword in your hand points to."

After chewing this sentence several times, it seemed that Ren had some willpower.

For a moment, Renne had some idea!

He stretched out his right hand, activated the force, and his palm began to emit a faint white light.

But the next second, an invisible power of mind fell on his hand.

The light of the Force suddenly changed in some way.

This is not a quantitative change, but like the originally chaotic Force molecules suddenly becoming neat and orderly.

It was as if the Force had a leader and a soul!

"Did the Force have no soul before?"

According to an example from Ryan's previous life.

It was as if the Force before was the arrangement of carbon atoms in graphite, and now with the addition of will, it became the arrangement of carbon atoms in diamond.

Carbon is still carbon.

But a qualitative change has occurred!

Ryan used his palm, which was emitting the Force, to gently scratch the corner of the wooden table in the shape of a hand knife.

"Pah!"

The corner of the heavy solid wood table fell to the ground, and the cut was extremely smooth!

"This"

Ryan looked thoughtful.

Obviously, the previous Force infusion could not achieve this effect at all.

Suddenly!

A loud noise of "boom!" came from outside the window!

Ryan immediately came to the window to check.

I saw that the originally filled tunnel entrance was flying with mud, and a big hole was instantly broken.

"The earth snake is back again?"

Ryan's first thought was that the legendary earth snake was back.

"That's good. It's a good opportunity to test the core skill special effect of the Warhammer Wizard, 'Soul Shattering Impact', and feel what real damage is."

However, to Ryan's surprise, his keen eyesight observed that an extremely burly figure was walking out of the smoke and dust slowly.

The other party had wild red hair like a lion's mane, and was wearing an extremely simple bronze breastplate.

The shape was a bit like the muscle-type armor worn by the Spartacus warriors in Ryan's previous life, composed of two bronze plates in front and back.

In his right hand, he held a huge square-shaped warhammer.

The shape of the warhammer was also extremely simple, with a square hammer head. It was a whole piece of rectangular metal, blue on the left and right sides, and some blue and white stripes on the hammer handle.

Dozens of guards were shocked and immediately surrounded the other party.

But the next second, all the guards seemed to be frozen in place by some invisible position, and they seemed unable to move even a finger.

In a blink of an eye, the other party came to the side of a guard.

"Puff!"

He inserted his hand directly into the heart of the guard.

As the strands of red blood spread on the thick and dry arm, the other party tilted his head slightly and said in a dull voice from the chest and abdomen:

"Freeman, you are lying to me, these are not the elite of the empire"

At this time, Ryan saw a group of black flame monks coming out of the tunnel.

And Langer, Fry, and Atles all rushed over quickly from the side.

But when they saw the ancient hero Monger for the first time, they were stunned!

This kind of pressure

And Freeman quickly pointed at Langer and others, and immediately explained to Monger's words: "No, no, Lord Monger, those are the elite of the empire!"

In an instant, as Monger's eyes fell on Langer and others.

Several people's hair stood up instantly, and a chill ran from the coccyx directly to the top of the head!

Immediately, there was a feeling of being targeted by a natural enemy.

Langer, the top knight, looked desperate and said to the two team members beside him: "You two should run away immediately and go separately!"

"I'll hold them off!"

"Captain, is the opponent so strong?" Frye couldn't help but panic a little. This was the first time he saw his captain like this. He had given up hope of winning before fighting the enemy.

"Captain, even with Lord Ryan, it won't work?" Frye pursed his lips and said unwillingly.

"No! It's impossible to win. The opponent is a real legendary strongman, or maybe more." Langer shook his head and his face turned pale.

At this time, Claire also walked behind Langer.

Next, it was Ryan!

"Don't run separately?" Freeman, who was standing aside, was overjoyed when he saw this scene and shouted in his heart.

"Come on! Come on! The elite of the Dragun Empire, come more, so that Lord Monger can recover his peak strength as soon as possible!"

The ancient hero Monger had been sleeping for too long. Although he was hit by the amber barrier, his life was slowly passing away.

But the source of life itself will still become weak as time goes by.

The blood crystal used in the previous blood source ceremony, although refined, is only made of a thousand ordinary people mixed with a small number of knights. For a strong man of Monger's level.

It is far from enough, and most of it is even dregs.

After absorbing it, it can only barely wake up.

The strength of the ancient hero Monger can now be said to be only one tenth of it.

From the original epic-level strong man, now it is almost just the threshold of the legendary strong man.

Monger needs to absorb as much blood as possible from the strong men to quickly restore his strength.

For example, if there is a legendary strong man for him to absorb now, he should be able to restore a small half of his strength.

If there are ten legendary strong men, basically, he can restore the strength of an epic strong man.

Just when Monger wanted to launch an attack, he suddenly turned his head and looked at the air.

Two griffin knights routinely flew from the fishing port town to the county city of Meister.

At this time, they were almost at Meister County City. Suddenly, they saw a large cloud of dust coming out of the noble district in the city.

This made the two griffin knights look at each other and immediately became alert.

It was so clear from the air, and it was obvious that the dust area on the ground was probably very large.

"Fisher, let's go down and take a look."

"Hmm! Viscount Felke, that seems to be the residence of Count Habsburg. Could it be attacked?"

Immediately, two griffin knights controlled the griffins under their crotch and flew rapidly towards the location of the smoke and dust.

"It's the Black Flame Cult!" Viscount Felke immediately saw the obvious black-robed figures and the tall hammer-holding figure standing in front.

At this time, from the perspective of the people underground.

Suddenly, a loud and majestic cry came from the sky!

I saw a powerful creature with a lion body and eagle head and a huge wingspan, swooping down from mid-air, and a pair of extremely sharp claws directly grabbed the red-haired weirdo.

"Bang!!"

A translucent shock wave shot out from the square hammer!

With just one hammer, the griffin, which was at least four meters long, was seriously injured. Like a crashed plane, it rushed into the auxiliary building next to it and smashed down several walls.

And the other griffin's anthropomorphic eyes showed fear and quickly pulled up!

A griffin was killed with one hammer. The terrifying attack power of the red-haired monster made everyone dare not move forward for a while.

"Mr. Ryan, Miss Claire, the opponent is a real legendary strongman, you should leave quickly" Langer looked anxious.

"Hiss~"

"Legendary strongman?"

At this moment, everyone's eyes were more or less looking at Ryan.

As a strong man who also used a hammer, Ryan, who had just won the title of "Skull Crusher", seemed to be the only candidate on his side who could defeat the opponent.

But the problem was that the opponent was too strong!

Legendary strongman!

Not a quasi-legend like Laxul or Ganon, but a real legendary strongman.

A Black Flame monk stepped forward and whispered to Freeman, and Freeman focused his attention on Ryan, smiling sinisterly:

"Are you Ryan?"

"Since you killed Laxul, you should be the first to die."

"It is your honor to die at the hands of the ancient hero Monger."

Ryan's attention was now focused on the ancient hero Monger. He had just realized a glimmer of the brilliance of will, and could see more than others.

The field around Monger's tall figure was in chaos.

Ryan had never seen this field, which was similar to the human magnetic field, on anyone.

It seemed to be visible to the naked eye.

This field was like a strong magnetic field that was radiating all the time around, and it was like a colorful and dense ribbon fluttering in the wind.

When the other party's eyes stared at Ryan, Ryan suddenly shook as if there was a loud bell in his ears!

This was a kind of pressure from a higher level of life!

It was much stronger than when facing the legendary land snake!

This is an absolutely strong man!

But Ryan knew that he had no way out at this moment.

Not to mention that he was Claire's guardian knight, judging from the speed that the other party had just shown, there was a high probability that he would not be able to escape.

Since this was the case, it seemed that there was only one choice!

Don't care about life and death, just fight if you don't accept it!

Ryan tightened the skull hammer in his hand.

And he was not without a trump card

In an instant!

"Boom!"

The tall figure on the opposite side toed and the soil exploded!

The whole person left a gray afterimage, holding a huge blue and white hammer, and rushed towards Ryan. The opponent's speed was too fast, and obvious white air waves could be seen all over his body.

Ryan's pupils shrank, and the danger perception had never been so strongly warned!

Facing a life-and-death crisis.

In an instant, Ryan felt a tingling in his scalp, as if he had been electrocuted.

At this moment, he could not feel any pressure from the other party.

In the eyes of others

Ryan suddenly rushed towards the opponent, drawing a silver straight line!

In theory, if the opponent dodges, it would be difficult for Ryan to hit the opponent with this hammer, but perhaps in the eyes of the ancient hero Monger, Ryan is just a stronger ant.

Imagine that facing the provocation of an ant, a normal person will definitely not retreat or dodge.

He will only step harder when stepping down.

Perhaps, the sole of the foot will also grind left and right.

"Boom!!!"

So in an instant, the two hammers, one large and one small, collided heavily!

A strong air wave visible to the naked eye, with the collision point as the origin, rapidly expanded to the surroundings, comparable to the muzzle storm when the main gun of a 406mm battleship was fired.

In an instant, Ryan flew backwards at a faster speed than when he came. The white skull warhammer in his hand was like weathered, and it broke into fine sand bit by bit from beginning to end.

But what worried everyone more was that the muscles of Ryan's right arm burst inch by inch, and blood splattered as he flew back!

And the Black Flame monks, including Freeman, looked at this scene with sneers on their faces.

At the same time, four words popped up in their hearts-"Don't overestimate your own abilities!"

Dare to fight against the ancient hero Lord Monger?

Who do you think you are?

The Imperial Dragon Knight?

Just kidding!

But the next second, the sneers on their faces suddenly solidified!