The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

"Sir Ryan, we meet again." Augustus said in a friendly manner.

Moreover, the wording was different from the first time they met. This time, even he, the general, the actual second-in-command of the Sword Bearer Headquarters, used the word "Sir" when addressing Ryan.

Perhaps, the two young people, Claire and Beyonce, did not notice the subtle difference in the address.

But Tatia, Olena and others heard their beautiful eyes flickering.

Obviously, this shows that the young Lord Ryan has a higher status in the eyes of the senior officials of the Sword Bearer Headquarters than before.

"General Augustus, good day." Ryan smiled and said.

Claire and Beyonce were quite nervous because it was the first time they met such a big man. They followed their captain and saluted and greeted him.

"Don't be restrained. Please take a seat." Augustus said kindly.

When everyone was seated, Olena quietly left the small meeting room. At her level, she could not sit in on such an important meeting.

"Sir Ryan, please describe in detail the unexpected situation during your mission." Tatia smiled.

"Well, at the foot of the Blade Volcano, we were attacked by a wizard from the Tutkash School. Claw Ghoul. Golem self-destructed legendary stitched monster."

In the conference room, including General Augustus, everyone listened very carefully. Apart from Ryan's narration, there was only the rustling sound of notes.

"The other party's spirit seems to be seriously injured because of the death of the stitched monster. He took the blood of the evil god and took over the body."

Hearing this, Tatia couldn't help but look up, looked at Ryan with a little surprise, and confirmed: "Sir Ryan, are you talking about the incarnation? Not the projection?"

"Well, I'm sure it's the incarnation." Ryan nodded and said.

At this time, a middle-aged man with a pair of golden branches and two suns on his shoulder straps next to General Augustus coughed and said:

"Hey, Mr. Ryan, you may not be very clear. When gods want to descend and incarnate, they have very special requirements for the humans who are possessed. It is not so easy to find a container that is suitable for the incarnation of gods."

"Moreover, even the guardians of the empire will find it difficult to deal with the incarnation of gods." The other party added tactfully.

But Claire, who had long been impressed by the strength of her captain, couldn't help hearing this.

After all, the frontal battle didn't help her captain at all.

Then in this kind of headquarters investigation, something must be done. Claire couldn't help but interrupt and said:

"This lieutenant general, my captain said it very clearly, and we were all there at the time, and we saw it very clearly. The other party was definitely an incarnation, not a projection."

"Yes, I can also testify to this." Beyonce nodded and agreed.

"Don't get excited, ladies. This is not a hearing. It's just a record of the situation." The lieutenant general couldn't help but smile helplessly and said.

After thinking for a while, Ryan nodded and said, "I think the wizard of the Tutkash School who was possessed should be quite special."

"The other party's name is Staven, and his strength is quite good. Perhaps Major General Tatia can check it later. I think there should be relevant records in the headquarters."

"Staven?" General Augustus suddenly said with a serious face.

"Yes, sir." Ryan nodded.

"No need to check. If it is him, it should be the incarnation of the gods." Augustus waved his hand and said.

"I know Staven. He was already a wizard at the peak of the third-level crystalization thirty years ago. Moreover, the other party is a rare genius wizard of the shadow system, and is fully qualified to be a vessel for the advent of gods."

However, after Augustus finished speaking, he looked at Ryan carefully again, as if he was surprised that Ryan could deal with the incarnation of gods.

At this time, Tatia suddenly thought of something and asked, "By the way, Lord Ryan, do you know part of the real name of that god?"

"Well, Staven told me before his soul dissipated that they called this evil god the Spider God Neyobrekhan. I think these words should be part of his real name."

The real names of gods are basically very long, and at the same time, this is also a kind of top secret of the gods.

"What! It's Neyobrekhan, the Spider God?!" General Augustus, who always had a calm expression, lost his voice this time.

Other people present, including Ryan, couldn't help but feel surprised by General Augustus's loss of composure.

After all, now in the territory of the empire, cults have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and there are many projections and even incarnations of various evil gods.

Even a few months ago, there was an evil god descending and directly interrupting the promotion of His Majesty the Emperor to a demigod.

It stands to reason that General Augustus, as the second-in-command of the Empire's Sword Bearers, should have been used to it.

Could it be that this Spider God is different from other evil gods?

"Sorry, I lost my composure." Augustus pondered for a moment, as if he was recalling something.

After a while, he said:

"Thousands of years ago, there was an extremely tyrannical and brutal Spider Empire on the Cyrodiil Plateau. Its earliest origins are no longer traceable, but the one they worshipped was the Spider God Neyobrekhan."

"Later, after the Spider Empire was defeated by the coalition forces of multiple human kingdoms at the time, it retreated deep underground."

"In order to avoid too many casualties, the human kingdom coalition did not continue the attack, but mobilized a large number of wizards led by three level 5 full moon wizards, using the artifact "Scepter of Blazing Light" to completely seal its entire territory underground."

"So, I am worried that the appearance of this evil god means that there is a problem with the underground seal, or that the other party intends to destroy the seal?"

"Sir Ryan, thank you for reporting such an important piece of information."

"Thank you, General Augustus, as the sword bearer of the empire, this is what I should do." Ryan smiled slightly.

"Sir Ryan, do you have anything else to add?" Tatia stopped writing and smiled.

After thinking for a while, Ryan said again: "Before Staven's soul dissipated, he told me that the assassination attempt on me was actually instigated by the Isoderei School."

"Of course, this is just what Staven said. I don't have any evidence at the moment."

"It's just that I have some doubts about whether the Isoderei School, which is also located in the Cyrodiil Plateau, has fulfilled its supervisory duties."

"In addition, Graham, the leader of the Tutkash School, should have fallen. That's all."

"Thank you, Mr. Ryan. The headquarters will evaluate the corresponding points reward as soon as possible based on your information." Tatia quickly recorded.

"Tatia, please send a copy of Mr. Ryan's report to Mr. Dallion, the great astrologer." General Augustus said with a serious face.

"Okay, sir."

When the meeting ended, Ryan ran into Olena who was waiting at the door of the conference room. He immediately thought of something and said, "Sir Olena, I have something to ask."

"Sir Ryan, please go ahead." Olena took out a palm-sized notebook and a feather pen and prepared to record it.

"Please contact the several provincial branches in the area where Ferdinand Forest is located. I want to know the latest developments and key information of the evil cult Mother Tree Sect there."

"In addition, please find out if there are any sword bearers in the headquarters who have gone to the elf territory to perform tasks for special reasons. If so, please find out the specific process."

Due to various historical disputes, the elves are extremely vigilant about humans.

In addition to retaining the only embassy in the imperial capital Tamriel as a point of contact with humans, the elves are almost isolated from the world.

So, even if Ryan wants to go to Ferdinand Forest to provide some help to Anna, it is not that simple. It also depends on the attitude of the elves.

In addition, as a race with a much longer history than humans, many individuals of the elves have a long lifespan and are strong.

Ryan did not think that the elves could be injured by just a Mother Tree Sect, which means that under normal circumstances, Anna would not have any safety issues.

"Okay, Lord Ryan, I'll contact her now."

When Ryan returned to the mansion, his sister Mint quickly found him, looking frustrated, and said, "Brother, Sister Anna is gone again. Do you know when she will come back?"

"Don't worry! Anna should be back soon." Ryan squatted down slowly, smiled and rubbed Mint's head, comforting her.

"Brother said the same thing last time, but Anna only came for half a year."

"If Sister Anna doesn't come back within a month, brother will go find her, okay." Seeing that Mint was still not happy, Ryan continued.

"Yeah!" Mint smiled when she heard her brother's promise, her big eyes curved like crescents.

The next morning, Ryan came to the Bixiu Construction School.

In the office of mentor Mogaro.

"Huh? Ryan, you completed the mission so quickly this time?" Mogaro was quite surprised that Ryan returned to the imperial capital in just three days.

Normally, it is fast for a sword bearer to return in a week after completing a mission.

"There was a small change, so I came back first. By the way, mentor, I tested the Hellfire Golem in actual combat, and it is very useful."

"Haha, it's good as long as it works!" Mogaro was very pleased with the words of his proud disciple, stroking his big red beard and said.

"By the way, did you bring the golem back this time? Tell me if there is anything that needs to be improved." Speaking of the golem, Mogaro was in high spirits.

"Uh, it exploded." Ryan said rather embarrassedly.

After all, his Hellfire Golem took up a lot of time and energy of mentor Mogaro, and Audrey and Alicia also helped a lot, so it was completed so quickly.

"What! What is the specific situation?" Mogaro stood up in astonishment and asked.

"It's like this."

When Ryan told the story that the Hellfire Golem self-detonated and killed a legendary stitched monster, Mogaro's face no longer had a trace of heartache, but laughed out loud.

"Good! Good! Great!"

"I didn't expect that the golem made by me, Mogaro, would one day be able to kill a legendary stitched monster." Mogaro's face flushed with excitement, and he paced back and forth in the room.

He took out a bottle of Bordeaux from the closet next to him, uncorked it, and drank it directly from the bottle mouth.

Mogaro drank half of the bottle in one breath before he remembered something and said, "Ryan, do you want to have a sip too? Hiccup."

"Thank you, mentor, no need." Ryan couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head.

"Well, since it self-destructed, let's make another one. By the way, after this actual battle, where do you think the golem needs to be improved?" Mogaro calmed down his excitement and asked.

Renn had already thought about this before coming.

From the confrontation with the suture monster, the golem is obviously at a disadvantage.

It’s not that Renn hasn’t thought about upgrading the level of witchcraft, that is, from level one witchcraft to level two, but this means a geometric increase in the difficulty of the inscription. For the mentor Mogaro, who is only the peak of level one wizard, It's just too difficult.

The simplest way to increase the power of the golem is to make the golem thicker, taller and larger.

As for witchcraft, you can consider increasing the shooting area.

"Teacher, can you add two more barrels to the shoulders of the Hellfire Golem to fire witchcraft fireballs and shadow arrows? For this purpose, can you consider setting up an additional small furnace device?"

Mogaro thought for a while, looked at Ren, and said:

"It's not impossible, but if you do this, the size of the Hellfire Golem will increase a lot, and it will probably be more than six meters tall. It may be very difficult for you to drive it."

"Teacher, I have no problem here." Ren said with a slight smile.

One of the important reasons why we considered reducing the size of the golem as much as possible is because he is only a wizard in the late stage of the second level of liquefaction. Although the metal element has super affinity, it is also difficult to drive the golem.

Renn remembers very clearly that driving the Hellfire Golem consumed nearly 50 points of his mental power at one time. You must know that he only had more than 90 points at the time.

However, things are different now.

Currently, his mental power is as high as 123, and the quality of his crystallized mental power is even higher than that of liquefied ones. It will be much easier to drive the demon.

Mogaro looked at Renn suspiciously, then immediately looked horrified and said, "You shouldn't know?"

Although Mogaro could no longer see through Ren's strength now, let alone Ren still wearing the 'cloak of concealment', the calm smile on Ren's face made Mogaro vaguely guess something.

Renn smiled slightly, nodded, and said, "Teacher, I'll leave this matter to you."

at the same time.

The imperial capital of Tamriel is located in a luxurious mansion on the left side of the palace.

A middle-aged nobleman with a mustache was standing respectfully next to a young man with blond hair and a feminine face.

The blond young man was sitting on a chair, flipping through a stack of information.

"Buchanan, so it is now certain that this young man named Renn should have some unknown dragon blood in his body?"

"Your Highness, Second Prince, judging from the information, it should be yes." A middle-aged nobleman named Buchanan bowed.

"Very good, go and invite him to join the Dragon Scale Brotherhood." The second prince Everton closed the document with an inexplicable smile.

"Okay, Your Highness the Second Prince." Buchanan slowly exited the room.

Although Duke Drum had come to him before, with the purpose of letting him blow the wind in the ears of the second prince, hoping to get rid of this Ren, but now it seems that for this young man with dragon blood, His Royal Highness the second prince still Rather interested.

The Dragon Scale Brotherhood is a monastic order established under the leadership of His Highness the Second Prince, specifically for non-royal members with various dragon bloodlines.

After Ren returned to the mansion, he went to the training room and began to figure out the second-level witchcraft 'Iron Armor' and the third-level witchcraft 'Steel Armor'.

Long before learning the third-level witchcraft 'Steel Armor', he had seen the relevant description at the school's exchange office and felt that there should be some internal connection between the two.

After many times, Ren was vaguely certain that there must be some internal connection between the two witchcrafts.

But the problem is, Renn vaguely feels that there seems to be something missing.

I saw Ren continuously performing these two witchcrafts in the room.

"Level 2 witchcraft 'Iron Armor'!"

"Level 3 talent witchcraft 'Steel Armor'!"

The surface of a layer of dark iron armor was covered with a thicker layer of silver metal. The defensive power seemed to be superimposed, but Ren knew that this was just a superficial superposition, not like a killing move. A substantial increase in power.

After repeatedly performing it many times, Renn always felt that it was a little unsmooth.

After thinking for a long time, Ren realized something and tried to add the level 1 talent witchcraft 'Metal Transformation'.

After using it twice, a flash of light suddenly flashed in Ren's mind. By the way, it should be the metal transformation technique!

At the same time, the system prompt also sounded:

【bite! The host understands the prototype of combined witchcraft. Should/does it consume 42 gold skill points to perfect it? 】

"Sure enough, it showed up!"

Renn couldn't help but waved his fist and said excitedly.

Immediately, he was overjoyed and chose "yes" without hesitation!

In an instant, a majestic memory of witchcraft practice flooded into Ren's mind, as if he had been practicing these three witchcrafts for more than a hundred years in a mysterious space!

When Ren opened his eyes again, his understanding of these three witchcrafts had already broken through a certain limit, and he knew how to integrate these three witchcrafts into one.

【bite! Deduction successful! The host understands the third-level metal combination witchcraft "Armor of Steel"! 】

"Steel armor?" Renn looked happy.

"The first-level talent witchcraft 'Metal Transformation', the second-level talent witchcraft 'Iron Armor' and the third-level talent witchcraft 'Steel Armor' are released continuously to form a combined witchcraft: Armor of Steel!"

Just when Ren was about to take a practical test, there was a knock on the door.

"Dong dong dong!"

"Lord Renn, there is a Earl named Buchanan outside the door asking for an audience. He said that he is the butler of His Royal Highness the Second Prince." The little Matteo said with a hint of rapid breathing.

"Huh? The second prince's butler?" Renn raised his eyebrows slightly, obviously a little surprised.

No wonder Matteo bothered him.

"Invite the other party to meet in the living room." After thinking for a moment, Ren said.

A few minutes later, in the living room.

"Sir Ren, I came here this time because I heard that you also have the rare dragon blood flowing in your body. I was entrusted by the second prince to invite you to join the Dragon Scale Brotherhood." Buchanan said with a smile on his face and straight to the point.

"This is a small gift from His Highness the Second Prince."

"This is a special potion developed by the Dragon Scale Brotherhood that has a stimulating effect on owners of dragon blood. His Royal Highness the Second Prince named it 'Dragon Vein Evolution Mixture'."

As he spoke, Buchanan took out a brown wooden box, opened it on his own initiative, and handed it to Ren.

"this"

Renn could clearly see that there was a dark red bottle of unknown potion inside that shone with blood-colored witchcraft.

Because of Anna's mother, Renn had long thought about how to deal with the second prince.

However, Renn did not expect that the other party would come directly to invite him to join such an organization that he had never heard of.

Seeing Ren's thoughtful look on his face, Buchanan immediately became happy and continued:

"Your Excellency Renn, the original intention of His Highness the Second Prince to establish this Dragon Scale Brotherhood is to give those who accidentally awakened the dragon bloodline a platform for communication and an opportunity for further advancement."

"For example, you can imagine a group of like-minded people working together to study how to further develop the special abilities of their own dragon bloodline, working together to study related special potions, etc."

"In addition, this is a pure monastery. It will have no impact on your current status as a sword wielder, and there will be no mandatory tasks."

I have to say that the Buchanan in front of me is very good in eloquence and methods.

If it were an ordinary person, he would definitely be tempted.

However, Renn is different. He is quickly weighing the pros and cons at this moment.

First of all, based on his previous understanding of the Second Prince, there is a high probability that the Dragon Scale Brotherhood will not be a purely secretive cultivation organization as the man in front of him said.

Ren himself is a wizard and pharmacist. With a little thought, he can figure out the key to the problem.

How to research and develop your own dragon bloodline?

Bloodline research inevitably requires the extraction of fresh blood, and may even require the provision of a small amount of body tissue before it is possible to research something.

To take a step back, it would be even more disadvantageous if his bloodline really had to be researched to find something special.

In addition, Renn knew very well that the improvement of his bloodline relied on the system, that is, by killing dragon creatures step by step, he would be able to continuously improve and improve the mutant dragon bloodline.

As for the whereabouts of Anna's mother, other solutions can be pursued.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Buchanan. Please tell His Highness the Second Prince for me to thank him for his love. But as a sword holder, I don't plan to join any secret organization for the time being." Renn thought for a while and said politely. said.

At the same time, he also stated that he would not join any secret organization to show that he was not biased against the second prince.

"Haha, Sir Ren, you may not know how many people from the outside world are eager to join the Dragon Scale Brotherhood of His Highness the Second Prince."

"Especially those bloodline polluters and degenerates are even willing to pay a huge price to seek to join."

Buchanan didn't seem to mind Ren's rejection and just listened to his talk.

"By the way, I heard that you recently participated in the selection of the Dragon Knight Reserve?"

"Yes."

"Then you should join the Dragon Scale Brotherhood. Let me tell you a little secret, His Highness the Second Prince is one of the examiners this time."

"It's almost time. Excuse me, Mr. Renn." Buchanan smiled meaningfully and was about to get up and leave.

"I understand, Mr. Buchanan, I need time to think about it." Ren stood up and said.

"Of course, if you decide to join, you can contact me at any time in the next few days."