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"W. Shak, 23 years old, the second son of Baron Shak's younger brother, has wanted to become a knight since he was a child, but because he was not strong enough, he was not able to be trained as a knight. Later, he learned the skills from an old thief who was arrested and recruited. He started to be an adventurer five years ago. He is good at playing daggers and light crossbows. He also has certain attainments in lock picking, valuation and stealth tracking. As for dismantling traps and pickpocketing, his level is relatively poor..." Sui Xiong said this lightly and asked, "Am I right?"

The thin man, Wei Shak, who was kneeling on the ground, was shocked, and then turned to relief and admiration. Sui Xiong could clearly see that he was shouting in his heart, "It's really a master! So amazing!" and so on.

(…Didn’t this guy think that I might be a spy or something?)

Sui Xiong sighed in silence and asked, “You are a noble son. It’s fine if you become an adventurer, but why do you become a thief? This is a bit embarrassing.”

“Besides this, what else can I be?” Wei Shak said with a bitter face, “Knights need to receive special training. I am not strong enough, and my family is reluctant to waste money on my training. As for warriors and rangers, they are not much better than rogues…”

“Rogues?” Sui Xiong was slightly stunned, and then he understood why the opponent’s skill configuration was like this—each profession has sub-categories with different tendencies. Among thieves, there are assassins who specialize in assassination, treasure hunters who specialize in discovering and cracking mechanisms, thieves who specialize in pickpocketing and bluffing, and rogues like Wei Shak who specialize in combat and a few auxiliary skills, but are not good at treasure hunting and stealing.

To put it bluntly, wanderers are the kind of thieves who prefer frontal combat and auxiliary adventures. They have strong survival ability and can adapt quickly no matter where they go. At the same time, their behavior tends to be positive and is not easy to attract trouble and enemies. For Wei Shak, who was born in an aristocratic family, it is indeed a better choice.

"So, what do you want to learn from me?" Sui Xiong smiled and asked directly.

This time, Wei Shak was stunned.

In fact, he just saw Sui Xiong's great magical powers and immediately felt strong envy and admiration. He didn't think carefully and came to become a disciple. As for what he should really learn? When Sui Xiong asked this, he was a little distressed.

In his opinion, this hidden master should be very good at illusion, and it can even be said to be superb. There were so many people in the tavern, but no one could see when Sui Xiong used what means to switch his position with the official spy, and when he subdued him and changed into his own appearance. If he could learn this skill, his strength would surely improve by leaps and bounds, which would be of great help in both exploration and combat.

However, is this strong man really only good at illusion?

And...if he is best at illusion, would he be willing to easily pass on his unique skills?

Wei Shak thought about it carefully, recalling the difficulties he had when he was learning the art, and the old man's procrastinating and evasive attitude when he taught him the skills, and couldn't help but worry secretly.

At this time, he began to wonder if he was a little too reckless? Should he try to test the waters first? Or...

"Have you thought about it?" Sui Xiong interrupted his thoughts and asked again, "What do you want to learn from me?"

Wei Xia Ke was shocked and immediately came back to his senses from his wild thoughts. He answered subconsciously: "Illusion."

"Illusion?" Sui Xiong asked with a little surprise, "You want to learn illusion from me?"

"Yes, the illusion you performed before was beyond imagination. So I want to learn illusion from you-of course, as long as you are willing to guide or teach, I am willing to learn any skills. I am not really greedy to learn illusion." Wei Xia Ke answered.

Sui Xiong looked at him carefully, making sure that what he said was true, then thought for a while and said: "You want to learn illusion, of course. But I can't teach you skills for no reason... How about this, I will give you some tasks, how well you can do, I will teach you as much as you can."

Wei Xia Ke breathed a sigh of relief, a little relieved, but a little uneasy.

I'm afraid that this strong man's mission is not so easy to complete...

"I'm very curious about the situation in the Great Swamp. It is said that the lord here, Viscount Sarmat, was conferred the title after making military achievements there, so I'm also very curious about what's going on." Sui Xiong said, "Let's take these two things as the theme. You go to collect intelligence. I will decide how much you can teach you based on the detailed and reliable level of your collection."

Wei Shak nodded repeatedly and asked again: "Then, should I come here to find you?"

"Well, I won't check out. Even if I'm not here for the time being, you can just wait for me for a few days."

After the thin man who wanted to learn from his master hurriedly said goodbye and left, Sui Xiong sat in the room and couldn't help laughing.

"Illusion... I'm really not good at this..."

Wei Shak has limited abilities, so his vision is naturally not that good. Sui Xiong did not perform any magic at all, but a much more advanced method. He first controlled the gray-clothed man with the Human Immobilization Technique, then performed the Position Replacement Technique to exchange their positions, and finally used two advanced Illusion Techniques to change each other's images. All of this was done with the special techniques of "invisible casting" and "fast casting" to achieve an effect that looked like magic.

In fact, he had a simpler way, which was to directly use the power of the gods, such as temporarily turning the surrounding area into a divine kingdom, and then using the "wish come true" in the extraordinary divine power, which could easily do this.

But that would be too conspicuous, so Sui Xiong would rather go through the trouble.

Although the spells he used were all driven by divine power, and their power was much greater than that of ordinary spells, at least he did not use divine power directly.

All of this, Wei Shak could not see at all. If he could see it, he would never say that he wanted to learn illusion, because among the spells cast by Sui Xiong, only the advanced illusion spell can be regarded as an illusion, and the human immobilization spell and the replacement spell are not. Moreover, compared with the advanced illusion spell, the super magic skill of "invisible casting" is actually more advanced. As for casting four times in a row, it is simply too powerful to break through the sky, too powerful to be imagined, and too powerful for most spellcasters in the world to even dream of.

Apart from anything else, just casting four times in a split second is already a completely unreasonable behavior - the so-called "quick" refers to something that can be completed at a very fast speed, but can only be done once in a period of time. In other words, a split second should only be able to cast a spell once.

Casting four times in a split second... even if it is only twice, it is already a magical skill. If a magician has such a skill, he can basically beat anyone of the same level, and for someone like Sui Xiong to do it four times in a split second, it is simply strong, invincible, and against the sky... and so on and so forth.

But all this has nothing to do with Wei Shak, and for the time being, it has nothing to do with Sui Xiong.

For Sui Xiong, the most urgent task now is to sharpen his skills before the battle, research and improve his illusion ability, so that Wei Shak can pass it on to him after completing the task...