The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Inside the imperial camp in Fishing Port Town.

Viscount Felker looked solemn and said: "Your Excellency Renn, is the situation so serious? Do you need to rush there in person?"

Renn nodded and said, "Yeah! I suspect it's probably someone from the Secret Snake Cult."

"The Secret Snake Cult? I heard that the main area of ​​activity of this cult is within the seven or eight provinces in the central part of the empire. Why did it come to Munster this time?"

"However, I heard that this cult is very powerful and not easy to deal with. No wonder, Mr. Ren, you have to go there in person."

For Renne, Viscount Felke has already admired him with admiration.

Especially when His Highness Megna presented the dragon scale to the other party, Felker knew that if the young Viscount Renne in front of him did not die young, he would definitely become a legendary powerhouse in the empire in the future, so he naturally wanted to advance in advance. Make good friends.

"Well, Sir Ren, in this case, I will ask my adjutant to accompany you on a special trip now."

"The patrolling gryphon knights just set off not long ago. It will probably be nearly an hour before they come back."

"Okay, please excuse me, Sir Felke." Renne thanked him.

Immediately, Renn had no intention of lingering at the banquet. After saying hello to the major general in charge of the camp, he came to the side of his team members.

"Everyone, I need to go to Meister County immediately. People from the Secret Snake Cult may appear."

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then they all started talking.

"So fast? Didn't you say before that the other party had concealed his whereabouts?"

"Isn't it appropriate for the captain to go alone?"

"Yes, how about we set off together now!"

Ren glanced at everyone. Since everyone was not like him, they could recover as soon as they could add points. Therefore, at this moment, even the uninjured Neolos looked tired.

After all, the battle with the Blood Curse Naga was not easy at all for them!

Not to mention the injured Remiel and others.

Therefore, Ren waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, I'll take the gryphon there first, and you can recover first, and then come back tomorrow morning."

"Captain, you must be careful!"

"Yeah!" Renn nodded.

At the same time, Ren also saw Anna in the crowd. At this moment, the other person's big eyes were looking at him in despair.

After thinking about it, Ren took the initiative to walk up to Anna, ruffled her hair, smiled, and said, "Don't worry! Anna, don't you still believe in my strength?"

"You guys can come over again tomorrow morning, okay?"

"Yes!" Ren's intimate gesture swept away Anna's original disappointment, and she immediately nodded shyly and said nothing more.

When Ren arrived at the Griffin Station, he discovered that Felker's adjutant was actually a rare female knight with blond hair and a beautiful face.

This surprised him!

"Lord Ren, I am Julie, Lord Felker's adjutant." Julie took the initiative to step forward.

"Hello, Julie, thank you for your hard work."

"It is my honor to serve you! Lord Ren, shall we set off now?"

"OK!"

Ren, who was sitting on the gryphon, had no intention of chatting with Julie. At this time, he focused on the system panel.

During the battle with Selenis, Ren discovered that the intermediate secret skill ‘Shadow Step’ was very applicable and could be combined with attacks from various weapons.

Although Shadow Step is most effective when holding a light weapon dagger or pointing at a tiger, Shadow Step can still be performed when holding a heavy weapon. It is just that the number of phantoms is reduced and the effect is weakened.

"But this can actually be made up for by raising the level of mysteries."

"If Shadow Step is upgraded to a high-level secret, holding a lance or a two-handed warhammer, you should be able to maintain at least five phantoms." Renn thought to himself.

After thinking for a moment, Renn glanced at the remaining 22 gold skill points on the attribute panel, and immediately decided to upgrade 'Shadow Step' to an advanced secret.

"Since we are likely to face battle again, there is no need to save too many gold skill points."

Since the Fire Dragon Breathing Technique is already at level 18, it greatly exceeds the prerequisites for upgrading the 'Shadow Step' to an advanced secret.

So, after Ren spent two gold skill points to improve Burak's assassination dance, and spent another two gold skill points to break through, the system prompt sounded:

[Congratulations, you have understood the advanced secret of Burak's assassination dance: Shadow Step! 】

Although the name has not changed much, the icon of 'Shadow Step' on the Weapon Master (Legendary) panel has undergone considerable changes.

In the icon, the thin man attacking with a dagger now turned into seven people, and their attack postures were also different and lifelike.

In other words, in addition to the real person, the phantom has been promoted from the four realms to the six realms.

This point was once again confirmed by Renn in the textual expression of the advanced mysteries:

Shadow Step (Advanced Mystery) Effect: Use a special step that combines the force of the force with the strength of the legs, leaving six additional phantoms within ten meters around yourself to confuse the enemy.

(Note: Phantoms do not have attack power.)

(Shadow Step is upgraded to the top level, the following conditions must be met: 1. Burak's assassination dance is lv18 or above (specialization can offset some level requirements); 2. Fire Dragon Breathing is lv16 or above; 3. Strength 40 points, Agility 45 points, Constitution 42 points or above; 4. Consume 4 gold skill points.)

"Hey, the range of the phantom has also been increased. It was originally five meters, and now it is ten meters! In this way, the effect of confusing the enemy will be better." Ryan was happy.

"I have used up 4 of the 22 gold skill points, and now I have 18 points." Ryan's eyes flickered.

"The effect of the armor-piercing attack is very good. It should be very effective against enemies with witchcraft defense."

The biggest difference between the effect of the lance and the two-handed warhammer is that when facing the witchcraft shield, which has strong toughness or elasticity, the hammer, as a blunt weapon, will absorb a lot of kinetic energy, and the lethality will drop drastically.

But the lance is different. It's like poking a balloon with a needle. No matter how tough the defense is, if it only attacks one point, it will still cause great damage.

"In that case, let's upgrade the 'Armor Breaking Strike' to the advanced secret!"

After Ryan consumed a total of seven gold skill points, the system prompts sounded one after another:

[Congratulations, you have realized the intermediate secret of the Spear of Longilo: Armor Breaking Strike! ]

[Congratulations, you have realized the advanced secret of the Spear of Longilo: Armor Breaking Strike! ]

At the same time, a torrent of 'Armor Breaking Strike' training memories poured into Ryan's mind!

It was as if Ryan, alone, had been concentrating on practicing the lance secret 'Armor Breaking Strike' for more than 20 years in a mysterious space.

After digesting and absorbing all the memories, Ryan looked at the new icon of 'Armor Breaking Strike' on the Weapon Master (Legend) panel.

The pattern in the icon changed from a knight riding a warhorse to a knight riding a griffin.

The knight was driving the griffin to dive at high speed, and the lance in his hand was stabbing diagonally downward at a speed that tore through the air.

There were many circular lines on both sides of the lance, which seemed to indicate that when it was stabbed, the airflow was like a tornado.

In addition, the text description of the secret skill "Armor Breaking Strike" also changed slightly:

Armor Breaking Strike (Advanced Secret Skill) Effect: Use a lance-type combat skill that combines the Force with piercing power to shoot a shot with super penetrating power.

(Note: If there is a suitable mount to cooperate, the power of Armor Breaking Strike will be improved.)

(To upgrade Armor Breaking Strike to the top secret skill, the following conditions must be met: 1. Lance of Longilo lv18 or above (specialization can offset some level requirements); 2. Fire Dragon Breathing lv16 or above; 3. Strength 50 points, Agility 45 points, Constitution 45 points or above; 4. Consume 4 gold skill points.)

At this time, Julie, the griffin knight who was responsible for sending Ryan to the county city of Meister, felt a little awkward.

For such a beautiful knight like her, the Lord Ryan behind her didn't talk much, and after a while, the whole person's breath suddenly released once, almost frightening the griffin under her crotch.

But Lord Felke had already told her that the Lord behind her was very powerful and asked her not to offend him, so she naturally couldn't say anything.

But this has been shaken twice!

Her heart was also beating "thump thump".

If Lord Ryan continued to play like this, she might be able to hold on, but the griffin under her crotch might suddenly lose control!

When she was still hesitating whether to tactfully remind the Lord behind her, the lights of the night in Meister County City gradually appeared in their field of vision.

When the griffin just flew over the edge of Meister County City, Ryan thought about it and said to Julie in front of him:

"Julie, put me down here."

"Yes, sir."

Julie thought about it for a while and instantly understood Ryan's intention.

This is because he doesn't want to alert the enemy. Lord Ryan should want to quietly go to Earl Habsburg's mansion.

A few minutes later.

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

The door was suddenly opened quietly.

"Who?" Claire, who was behind the desk, stood up immediately, took a fighting stance, and said alertly.

"Don't be nervous, Claire, it's me." As the familiar voice sounded.

A tall figure familiar to Claire came into her eyes!

"Ryan! Why are you here!" Claire's pretty face immediately showed surprise, and then she smiled brightly.

Obviously, Claire was very happy about Ryan's appearance.

"Don't forget, I'm your guardian knight. You are in danger, shouldn't I come?" Ryan smiled and said.

But before Claire answered, Ryan's face became serious and continued: "Let's talk about the situation first."

He naturally knew the priorities, and now was not the time to chat.

"Well! The situation is like this. At about 2 o'clock this afternoon, the housekeeper Yodel of the mansion disappeared."

"Then, about every hour, a guard, maid or even a butler will disappear. At present, the whole mansion is in a panic." Claire nodded and quickly introduced the situation.

Seeing Ryan appear, somehow, Claire felt that a big stone in her heart had fallen to the ground.

Her whole mentality suddenly relaxed a lot.

Although she knew that the enemy was lurking around, waiting for an opportunity to launch an attack, she was not so worried.

"Every hour?" Ryan frowned and confirmed.

"Yes." Claire nodded.

"Have you ever tried to find out where the other party is hiding?"

"No, I tried several times, but the other party's methods are very secretive. Unless everyone is in the same hall, otherwise, there will always be a time when you lose sight of one thing." Claire shook her head helplessly and said.

Ren nodded. In this regard, he could understand that such a large Earl's mansion, including guards and servants, had more than two hundred people, and it was impossible to take care of everything.

"Then how long is it until the next time the opponent launches an attack?"

"Uh, almost ten minutes later." Claire glanced at the clock on the wall and said.

"Okay! I'll give it a try this time."

Ren's thoughts moved slightly.

And in the dark sky above Earl Habsburg's mansion, a figure of a raptor suddenly passed by, it was the blood-feathered hippogryph beast 'Blood Feather'.

It also has dark vision and has almost perfect vision in the night sky. It can be said that it is the best scout.

Because even Ren, facing such a large area of ​​the Earl's Mansion, is indeed difficult to fully monitor, but it would be different if Xue Yu helps.

"Yeah!" Claire nodded and said.

Seeing Renn concentrating on thinking, Claire naturally did not come forward to disturb him, but turned around to pour Renn a cup of tea.

"We should have found it!"

A smile appeared on Ren's face!

But when he turned to look at Claire, he was stunned.

I saw the other person bending down by the coffee table, seemingly pouring him tea.

There was nothing wrong with pouring tea, except that Claire, who was wearing a tight-fitting hunting suit, had her back to him at the moment, which exposed an extremely eye-catching curve of her buttocks and legs to Ren's eyes.

The hips are large and curved, and the legs are straight, slightly thinner than wine glass legs, but more powerful and flexible.

Long-term knight training has given Claire excellent body proportions. Coupled with the aristocratic etiquette training since childhood, her temperament is even more outstanding.

This scene naturally made Ren slightly distracted.

But at this moment, Claire happened to be holding the tea cup and turned around. When she saw Ren's expression, she immediately realized something and blushed.

"Come back and drink again. I'll go out first!"

Being caught red-handed, Ren was naturally embarrassed to stay in the room. By chance, he also discovered clues about the lurking enemy, so he immediately made an excuse to leave.

"Yeah!" Claire smiled slightly and watched Ren quickly disappear by the window.

In the Earl's mansion, near the toilet in an annex (servants' building) in the southeast corner.

Dijano looked at his black anaconda leisurely and slowly appeared behind a maid who was going to the toilet.

He planned to wait for the maid to squat down before letting the black anaconda bite her.

"What are you doing here?" A strange male voice sounded in Dijano's ears!

Immediately, Dijano was so frightened that he jumped three meters away like a frightened rabbit, and quickly turned his gaze to the direction of the sound. His eyes widened, as if he had seen a ghost!

Although Dijano is only a first-level wizard, he has reached 90% vaporization. In a few years, he will be able to become a second-level liquefied wizard.

He had just been approached by an enemy without even noticing it. This was simply unbelievable to him!

Therefore, even after he saw that the other party was a tall knight wearing silver armor, he was still a little shocked.

‘How did you show up? ’ Dijano was still a little frightened and said.

"I asked you the question first, and you haven't answered my question yet." Renn smiled, not caring about the distance between the other party.

"Hmph!" Dijano's face darkened, and he suddenly took out a whistle from his arms, put it in his mouth and blew it.

An infrasound wave that is difficult to detect by human ears spreads rapidly around.

"Are you calling for your companions?" Ren asked still calmly.

"Hey, no matter who you are, you will be dead when Lord Ikosela comes here!"

Dijano held a short staff and looked like he was trying to drag Ren down.

"I understand, that is to say, after a while, the Lord Ikosela you just mentioned will come over, is that right?" Renn repeated with a smile.

"That's right!" Dijano didn't know whether the other party was really stupid or pretending to be stupid. He clearly saw that he was shaking people, but he still chatted with him slowly and leisurely.

Naturally, he couldn't be happier with the other party's time-consuming behavior.

"Then you're useless!" Renn nodded.

"Huh?" Dijano looked confused.

But the next second, he was stunned!

"Uh-huh!"

Somehow, a three-meter-long lance suddenly appeared in the opponent's hand. At the same time, a black lightning struck his neck.

The speed is so fast that there is no time to react!

"Boo~"

The black film was like a bubble, bursting instantly!

The snake scale skin was like paper and was torn immediately!

"Pfft!"

The tip of the spear penetrated Dijano's neck!

Warm blood splashed all over the back!

As the severe pain came from his neck, Dijano could only gasp out "Hoo ho." He raised his fingers tremblingly and pointed at Ren, unable to say a word.

His eyes were so wide that he almost bulged out and fell to the ground!

At this moment, Dijano's mind went blank. He never understood why his body-protecting witchcraft and snake-scale skin could not resist it for even a second.

Ryan raised his lance slightly, lifted up Digano's still twitching body, and gently lifted it into the air.

"Chi!"

Ryan's lance was instantly retracted and quickly turned into a war hammer. Then, he aimed the war hammer at Digano's head in the air and snapped it.

Skull crushed!

As the corpse with only half of its head left fell heavily to the ground, a transparent shadow dragged a long tail flame, lingered around Ryan for several circles, and was pulled into the war hammer.

"It can stack a portion of soul energy, so don't waste it." Ryan said to himself.

At this time, Ryan changed the war hammer into a lance again, and used the tip of the gun to pick up the opponent's hood, and saw a middle-aged male face with a unique Ouroboros pattern on his forehead, appearing in front of him.

"It's really the people of the Secret Snake Cult who are doing it." For such obvious characteristics, Ryan naturally recognized it at a glance.

The two people he killed before also had various snake-shaped marks.

After thinking for a while, Ryan did not put away his lance, but put it on his shoulder, waiting for the other party to mention Lord Icosela.

"It's good to mislead the tactics."

After waiting for a minute, Ryan looked somewhere and said:

"Since you are here, don't hide."

"Hehe, interesting, good strength, I didn't expect Dijiano to die in your hands."

With a giggle, a slender black-robed figure appeared not far in front of Ryan.

Icosela didn't seem to mind that his subordinate Dijiano was killed. He just glanced at Dijiano lying in a pool of blood and walked forward with a smile.

"Oh, you don't mind if I kill your subordinate?" Ryan raised his eyebrows and smiled.

However, while he was speaking, he glanced back slightly from the corner of his eye.

Just now, his danger perception and the blood feathers in the sky gave him a warning that there was an enemy behind him.

"Of course I don't mind, because this proves that you are stronger, and if I kill you, wouldn't it be a win?" Icosela laughed.

Behind Ryan, the one who cooperated with Icosela to attack Ryan was naturally another black robe-Timshi.

Timshi looked at the corpse lying on the ground from a distance, his face uncertain.

Obviously, he felt a sense of grief for the death of his companion Digano.

But when he heard what Icosela said, he was stunned and thought, 'It's really a crazy snake! But why does this sound so reasonable! '

"Then is there a person redundant in the duel between you and me?" Ryan smiled and said.

"You"

Just when Icosela was about to say something.

Suddenly, Ryan turned around abruptly, and a short spear suddenly appeared in his hand and he threw it heavily!

There was only a sound of "chi"!

With the sharp sound of breaking through the air, Timshi felt his eyes blurred, and there was a sharp pain in his heart.

At the same time, the whole person was also blown away by a huge force and nailed directly to the wall behind him.

"Ah!!!"

Timshi couldn't help but scream!

At the same time, he couldn't figure it out, shouldn't you go to fight with Lord Icosela?

Why did you fight me first?

Several phantoms flashed by in succession, and in almost a blink of an eye, Ryan came to Timshi with a war hammer in his hand.

"Snap!"

Skull crushed!

Immediately, a hideous phantom appeared again, dragging a long tail flame and was pulled into the war hammer.

"Necromancy! Illusion! Metal Transfiguration!"

"Who the hell are you?"

The furious Icosela was just about to take action, but was stunned by the sudden transparent phantom.

As one of the twelve Secret Snake Messengers and a third-level crystal wizard, she naturally regarded the process of Ryan's hammer absorbing soul energy as the effect of some necromancy.

And Ryan's afterimage left in the original place was also mistaken by her as the effect of the witchcraft illusion.

"Huh? You don't know who I am?"

Now, Ryan felt a little surprised.

Ryan thought that the Secret Snake Cult must have investigated him who killed two high-ranking members of the Secret Snake Cult very clearly, but no matter how you look at their expressions, they seem to have no idea who he is.

In fact, this is a misunderstanding of Ryan.

Icosela did learn from the housekeeper Yodel that the murderer who killed her brother was called Ryan, but the characteristic description he got was that he was good at using a two-handed heavy hammer.

He usually carries a two-handed heavy hammer on his back.

Therefore, Icosela did not link the real Ryan who cast the 'necromancy' witchcraft in front of him with the murderer who killed her brother that she knew.