Lord of War

Xiao En's face was pale, but he was panting heavily while leaning on the Black King.

In such a short moment just now, he used Soul Suppression six times without reservation, which has already produced a serious overdraft of his ability. And this is because the Black King has been strengthened a lot. If it was still the previous Black King, Xiao En would feel more cold sweat when he thought about it.

"Dad, are you okay?" The Black King is Sean's blood artifact, and he can feel Sean's general situation. At this time, he doesn't have the same laughing mood as before, "Your body is a little overdrawn."

"It's okay." Sean took a few deep breaths, resisting the tingling pain in his arms, "It's just a little overdrawn physically, but it hasn't hurt the foundation yet, just take a little rest."

Although what he said, in fact, Sean's right hand had already started to tremble slightly at this time. This was a very obvious muscle strain, and it was impossible to recover without sufficient rest.

Compared with Requieming Soul, Slashing Soul, and Breaking Soul, the sword skill of Suppressing Soul may not consume so much physical energy and battle energy, but it is more troublesome.

Under normal circumstances, Sean would subconsciously limit the number of Soul Requiem casts to four, and would rarely reach the limit of five, let alone overdrafted sixth casts. It’s just that the situation just now was different, the number of those bees was really too much, even if hundreds of them could be wiped out in one soul sedation, there must be at least two or three thousand bees in the densely packed bee colony that was almost able to block out the sky and block out the sun. scale.

If it was a wild animal bee, let alone hundreds, it wouldn't be a problem for Sean to kill thousands of them in one sedation.

But in this ruins, any creature is obviously not simple.

Sean finally had a clear understanding of the strength evaluation in the ruins.

"Ninth level..." Sean slowly sat down against the wall, and with his intact left hand, he casually picked up a mecha Black Bee from the ground and inspected it.

The black bee pinched by Sean was completely deformed at this time - he was stabbed five times in a row by the requiem point, and Sean would not be able to beat these little guys if he didn't change shape. However, it feels very cold in the hand, with the unique luster and feel of metal. There is no blood or bloody smell on the ground, let alone any venom. However, Sean noticed that the tail needles on the lower joints of these bees are very sharp.

He touched it slightly with his finger, only to feel a slight numbness in his finger, and a drop of blood floated on Sean's finger.

This made his expression change slightly.

You must know that Xiao En's current body, after being strengthened in many ways, once the grudge is activated to protect the body, it is impossible to hurt him if it is not a powerful demonized weapon above the silver grade. And if you want to really injure him like a broken arm in this state, you need at least a gold-grade demonized weapon, and even some legendary weapons that are not known for their sharpness can't cut off Xiao En. skeleton.

This is the change after the warrior class that focuses on strengthening the body enters the middle sanctuary.

If they can become legendary powerhouses, they can even take a bath in magma.

But now, the tail needles of these bees were able to pierce his body, which made Xiao En a little frightened. Even if he tested it again later, he knew that only a small part of the front end of these bees had been given other special effects and possessed extraordinary penetrating ability. A serious injury, but it was enough to shock Sean.

"This is the ninth level of power in the ruins..." Xiao En threw the bee in his hand and made a light "ding".

"This material is similar to the breastplates of those werewolves." The Black King also commented, "However, the density is much higher. Even I can't directly penetrate it at once. It needs repeated blows.  … ...Of course, it's also because Dad, you didn't use the sword properly."

Sean didn't respond to the Black King's previous comments, because as an attacker, he understood the comparison between werewolves and bees the moment he shot.

These bees are called mechas rather than organs, obviously because their external structures have been modified to a considerable extent, and they are all made of that special ancient metal. Although Xiao En couldn't understand what was going on with the internal power source, what he could know was that the mechanism engineer who made these bees had made great progress in the purification technology of this ancient metal.

It's not just the growth in mechanism skills, the other party has even begun to involve the transformation and strengthening of materials.

Xiao En, who has a certain degree of understanding of the Second Mermaid Empire, is naturally very clear that the mechanism division of the Second Mermaid Empire was just a collective name. In fact, it was developed and researched as a related project internally, and it was not the work of one person. It is coordinated by many aspects. Among them, there are three dominant ones, namely mechanism designer, combat technique designer and material constructor, and the other parts are subordinate to these three.

Xiao En didn't know the specific operation of the ruins, but seeing that there was only one sculpture in the central hall, it was obvious that the organist had handled all aspects by himself.

This alone is enough to make people admire it.

However, at this moment, these are not what Xiao En cares about. What he really cares about is the last sentence of the Black King's words just now: "Isn't it right? I'm not using my sword move correctly?"

"The power is too scattered." The Black King said, "Dad, your sword skill is really suitable for the large-scale scene just now, but I always feel that you are too pursuing the coverage of the area, so that a lot of money is wasted. Strength. If these strengths are relatively concentrated, then the strength will be more cohesive, and these little guys only need two to three pricks to easily solve them."

Sean frowned slightly.

From fifty swords, to one hundred swords, and now to two hundred swords per second, Xiao En has been studying very hard, and sometimes even used the investment of proficiency. However, perhaps because of taking a shortcut, Xiao En's use of Soul Suppression did gradually feel that it deviated from the purpose of swordsmanship. He hadn't figured out the reason before, and only thought it was a change caused by a quicker proficiency.

It wasn't until now after hearing the words of the Black King that Xiao En really realized that the utilization rate of his grudge was still wasted in the use of sword skills.

In this way, Sean also understood why the same fifty swords he used did not have such a terrifying effect when Bess practiced them back then. It turned out that his sword energy was not concentrated enough, so the power was weakened a lot.

Soon, in Xiao En's bloodline, a figure who was also performing soul repression suddenly appeared.

However, when this figure performed Soul Suppression, its movements were much better than Sean's standard, and its power was naturally much greater. Sean could even see that the densely packed sword shadows actually formed a trail after stabbing out. The phantoms in the air are like cracks in space. Immediately after that, the moment the figure withdrew his sword, the densely packed sword shadows that resembled space cracks suddenly erupted, and a more terrifying power swept out immediately.

"So that's it." Shocked expression appeared on Xiao En's face, "It turns out that after the two hundred sword shadows, the real power of soul suppression is here. No wonder I always feel that there is always something wrong between two hundred swords and one hundred swords... ..."

But when Xiao En looked at the Black King again, the expression on his face became even more shocked.

[Black Sovereign, Artifact (Blood Vein Type). Attached ability "self-awareness": it has a completely independent and autonomous intelligent personality; attached ability "memory inheritance": it can memorize the martial arts and experience and knowledge of all generations of users; the only bloodline ability "isolation": it can produce a An independent domain that completely isolates the effects of the physical world and wipes out any enemies who try to break into the domain. Unique bloodline ability "deduction": Through the effect of "memory inheritance", any sword skill that has been seen or performed by the holder can be deduced, and it can be completely perfected to repair the previous flaws. 】

[Item Description: The blood weapon that Andrew forged for Sean, only Sean and his bloodline heirs can exert its full power. 】

The original Black King didn't have the ability to "deduce", but now he suddenly has such an ability, how can this not shock Sean.

If it is a growth-type artifact, Xiao En can still understand if it suddenly has an extra ability, or becomes more powerful, but the Black King obviously does not belong to this type of artifact. There can only be one type of artifact, and all of them are fixed, and there are even legal restrictions that cannot be broken and reversed at all, just like ordinary artifacts can only grow into inscription artifacts at most; inheritance artifacts may also fall into ordinary artifacts, But it is absolutely impossible to become an artifact of destiny; the three artifacts of growth, destiny, and blood will never have any intersection changes.

For a bloodline artifact like the Black King, if Xiao En's bloodlines are all extinct, the Black King will become an inscription artifact, and no one will be able to use the bloodline ability of the Black King; It will be downgraded to an inscription artifact and lose its unique destiny ability and effect; as for the growth artifact, this is the only special case, and it may become a more terrifying existence than the destiny artifact, or it may not be as good as an ordinary ordinary artifact.

Sean thought hard for a long time, but he couldn't come to any conclusions. In the end, he could only understand that the potential of the Black King had not been fully tapped.

After all, a talking artifact is the only one in this world.

After resting for half a day, Sean ate something to speed up his physical recovery, then got up and continued walking forward.

But this time, Sean didn't encounter any trouble again.

This made Sean feel a little puzzled.

It is impossible for the defensive strength of a ruin to be so weak.

And neither the ratmen nor the mecha black bee swarm are obviously not the real main force in the battle. Both of these two types of institutional creatures lack the kind of guard-style tyrannical combat power, but are more like the power of the alert type, especially the mecha black bee swarm. After Xiao En's careful inspection, he found that these bees still retain the most primitive The biological form, that is, once the tail needle is used to attack, these bees cannot continue to live, which is equivalent to a means of consumption.

This naturally made Sean feel puzzled.

But soon, he found the answer.

When Sean walked to the end, a cave that was obviously excavated to resemble a room appeared in front of Sean.

This room looks a bit like a hall. There are four other openings in the cave, and there are completely decayed and dilapidated curtains hanging on it, forming a visual barrier similar to a door. And in this hall, around the stone wall, seats, tables and other arrangements were excavated, and there were even some other decorations that had been corroded by time so that they could not see their original appearance.

This is a resting place.

Sean immediately made a basic judgment.

Walking into the hall, Sean looked at the other four caves.

As he expected, the place this passage led to was indeed a resting place, and it also confirmed that there was only one mechanism engineer in this ruins. Because of the four excavated caves, in addition to one is a bedroom layout, the other three are an experimental place, a study room, and a place that is obviously used for research.

The books in the study room were arranged neatly, but when Sean stepped into it and brought in a new air current, all the books were turned into dust, and there was not a single book left, which made Sean quite disappointment. As for the experimental place, it is full of countless stench, and there are even countless things similar to the cultivation cabin, but the creatures being cultivated inside have obviously been dead for a long time.

In addition, Sean also found dozens of beehives, and he didn't need to think about it to know that the mecha black bees just now must have escaped from these beehives.

As for the last room similar to scientific research, it was neatly tidied up inside, but nothing was left behind. However, the reason why Sean knew the function of this room was because there were many scientific utensils and other things for research in this room.

After roughly understanding the area thoroughly, Sean didn't gain anything, so he turned and left.

Soon he was back in the big cave with the sculptures.

"Dad, where are we going this time?" The Black King was yelling something along the way, but Xiao En didn't pay attention.

"Which side do you think is the most dangerous?" Sean thought for a moment, then asked.

"The most dangerous?" The Black King was stunned for a moment, before realizing it immediately, "As expected of Dad! I understand, you must want me to pick out the most dangerous place and avoid it, right?... Let me feel it ...Well, the second one on the right is the most dangerous."

"This one?" Sean already had a deep understanding of the black king's indiscriminate right and left, so he pointed in the direction.

"Yes, that's right." The Black King quickly gave a definite answer.

Then, Sean walked towards this road without hesitation.

"Eh? Eh!? Dad, what are you doing!? This road makes me feel very uncomfortable, it must be the most dangerous! Don't we want to avoid it?"

"The most dangerous place is the place most likely to have good things." Xiao En ignored the clamor of the Black King, and walked directly towards the most dangerous road.

(to be continued)