I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 201 Let the Bullets Fly for a While (4000 words)
Harold Belvitt is a follower of Kathros, the god of control and fear! ?
What kind of fake news is this?

Fang Yu's face is full of CNN.

As soon as he switched to the main plane, he found that Claudia had suffered a backlash from the spell, vomiting blood all over her body and the bed, and was dying.

After some consideration, he decided to rescue Claudia.

Seeing that her most powerful spell was unable to do anything to Fang Yu and instead suffered a backlash from her spell, Claudia, the succubus, immediately chose to surrender.

After all, a succubus is a combination of an abyss creature and a human female. Generally speaking, even if she appears to be obedient on the surface, she is actually still secretly planning how to seduce and turn the tables.

But during the backlash of the spell just now, the breath coming from Fang Yu that made her soul tremble made her unable to muster any thoughts of resistance.

That is the breath of Her Majesty Vernis, the great mother of desire!

What kind of divine favor is this! ?

Could it be that this druid is the one favored by the Mother of Desire?
This strange-looking young man is definitely not a druid!

It should be said that it is definitely more than just a druid!

The Great Mother of Desire actually arranged for her own saints to join the Church of Nature! ?

Is this a war against the Church of Nature?!

Claudia felt as if she had come into contact with some secrets that were originally out of her reach, and she was shaking with excitement.

Ah~ I actually slept with Her Majesty Vernis's Holy Favored One~
Faced with Claudia's misunderstanding, Fang Yu naturally would not explain. Anyway, his identity as a druid was fake, and now having the identity of a holy one favored by the God of Desire was no big deal.

Impersonating someone else to show off is also a way to show off! It feels so good!
The one who pretends to be the Saint's Favorite of Vernis is, to be rounded off, no different from Vernis in a big way.

This despicable god will make you pay the price sooner or later!
"Yes, Your Majesty, I swear by the real name of Claudia Sirka that everything I just said is true. Harold has already performed two blood sacrifices. If he performs one more, he will be reincarnated as a true devil."

Claudia lowered her head submissively, her long black hair scattered on her shoulders as white as the bright moon, with the pink red color faintly visible.

"How did you find out? Generally speaking, Harold should have done things like this very secretly, right? How could the Church of Light not have found out?" Fang Yu touched his chin, thoughtfully.

“Some core members of the Belvitt family are already my servants.” Claudia hesitated and spoke.

Fang Yu waved his hand: "Oscar Belvedere? He is just a vassal of the Belvedere family. It is impossible for him to have access to such core secrets."

Claudia raised her head sharply, her eyes as blue as lake water full of surprise: "How did you know?"

Of course, it was the identification technique that told me that.

Seeing Fang Yu's nonchalant expression, Claudia revealed a look of realization as if she had realized something. "I was confused. Your Majesty Gis is a person favored by the Mother of God. Of course, all this cannot be hidden from your wise eyes. However, it was not Oscar who discovered this, but my late husband, Edward Belvitt."

So that's how it is. Since this succubus can turn Oscar into her servant, why would she let her husband go? Why didn't I think of this before?
"Edward didn't die in battle." Claudia's tone was filled with hatred, "He died in Harold's blood sacrifice!"

Judging from her tone, this succubus actually has real feelings for her dead husband?
This is really a bit unbelievable.

"Before Edward left for the battle, I placed a tracking eye next to him. I saw with my own eyes that Harold blocked the Redstone Valley and sacrificed Edward and all his knights to Carthros!"

Claudia gritted her teeth, tears streaming down her cheeks. “I won’t make a mistake. That’s the blood sacrifice that can be reincarnated as a devil!”

"The blood sacrifice requires sacrificing three generations of blood relatives to Carseros: elders, peers, and younger generations. After the incident, I investigated the cause of death of old Count Belvet. It was also a battle that was not fierce. It was just an ordinary cleanup operation against the Irontooth Mountain goblins, but old Count Belvet disappeared in this operation."

"Harold has now completed two blood sacrifices. If he does it once more, his plan will succeed! And this time, the target must be George!"

So that's how it is. It seems that what this succubus said before was not all lies.

"As for hiding it from the Church of Light, it's not that difficult. Otherwise, it would be impossible for us, the aliens, to appear in front of the world."

There was a hint of sarcasm in Claudia's tone.

"The only means the Church of Light uses to detect demons and devils are holy water and holy light. As long as you evenly apply the prepared lead white powder on your skin in advance, you can avoid detection by holy water and holy light."

"Your Majesty, Gis." Claudia snuggled at Fang Yu's feet like a puppy begging for mercy, the hatred in her eyes unable to be concealed, "As long as Your Majesty can help me kill Harold, I swear by my real name, and I, and the descendants of the Serka lineage, will become your loyal followers for generations."

Claudia looked at Fang Yu hopefully.

Originally, she had fallen into fear and despair after her spell failed and was attacked back. Who could have imagined that this druid was also a believer of the God of Desire, and a holy one who could sit on equal footing with the high priest of the cult!
You should know that in any sect, those favored by the Saint are extremely rare. They are God’s most beloved believers and are even called the bloodline of God.

If this Saint's Favored One could help him get revenge, then killing Harold would be a piece of cake!
Fang Yu was somewhat hesitant when he heard Claudia's request.

Holy water and holy light?

It sounds like some simplified version of faction ritual spell.

However, there are still some problems.

The biggest problem is that Harold is not a follower of Casseros.

He also hoped that Count Rusen was a believer in the evil god, so that he would have sufficient reasons to take action and snatch the territory of Rusen from Count Harold without worrying about shifting his position.

But Harold wasn't.

After coming down from Mount Omiz, he had already made an identification during the more than ten days of Lusen's travel. Not only Harold, but also the guards of the Belvitt family were checked one by one using the identification technique.

Both malicious detection and identification techniques clearly show that Earl Harold is a normal human being with good moral sentiments, and his camp stance is very firm.

On the contrary, almost half of the people around Harold were infiltrated by Claudia, otherwise this succubus would not have been promoted to level four so quickly.

However, Claudia just swore with her real name that she saw Harold sacrifice Edward to Casseros through the Tracking Eye, so it couldn't be false.

If this is the case, there are only two possibilities.

First, someone pretended to be Harold and did these things.

Secondly...

"You seem to have a good relationship with Edward." Fang Yu stretched out his finger and lifted Claudia's chin. "Pleasure, power, manipulation, and satisfaction of desire, these are what a succubus should pursue, aren't they?"

"My succubus bloodline was awakened in the second year after I married Edward, when George was born." Claudia opened her lips slightly with charming eyes, "Killing Harold, Rusen and me was all your fault, Your Majesty Guise." After that, Claudia put Fang Yu's finger into her mouth and licked it gently.
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Succubus, worthy of being a succubus!

That's me. If it were someone else, he would have turned into a mummy long ago.

After switching back to Haixi, Fang Yu was calm and composed, like a great sage.

"Yuzu, eat these books, and then back up an electronic version to the server." Fang Yu took out hundreds of different books from the Boundless Messenger, all of which were taken by Claudia from the Belvitt family's collection.

After the Borderless Messenger was upgraded again, its capacity increased to 30 cubic meters, and the number of friends that could be added also increased.

But it’s useless. Except for myself, there is no one else who has the Borderless Messenger.

"Okay, master." Yuzu flew over lazily and began to eat the books one by one.

"Huh?" Halfway through eating, Yuzu made a puzzled sound.

"What's wrong?" Fang Yu was flipping through a chronicle of the Kingdom of Loir written by an unknown person, and asked casually.

Yuzu flashed the silver light in her body: "Master, do you still remember the mountain floating in the sky that Jeffrey, the owner of the fur shop in Merck Frey, once talked about?"

Fang Yu put down the chronicle in his hand: "Of course I remember, these books also have records? Where are these mountains?"

Yuzu blinked, "Yes, Master, I just read a travelogue of the Kingdom of Esteria written by the Luwak traveler Schmidt. It records the mountains floating in the sky, which are located in the Nambis Mountains on the border between Esteria and Luwak!"

"But I can be sure that in the Great Arcane Age, the area marked on the map in the book did not have this floating mountain that was more than a hundred meters above the ground." Yuzu's tone was very firm.

The Nambis Mountains.

It is 1200 km from Lussen and 900 km from Korber.

After Lu Sen’s issue is resolved, I’ll go there and take a look.

Once you reach level 5, you can purchase the Arcane Flying Machine.

Fang Yu made a secret decision.
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"Boss! Something big happened! I was just about to call you!"

As soon as Fang Yu arrived at Youzi Technology, he saw that everyone in the company was talking about something, and Hua Zecheng ran over with an iPad in his hand with a serious look on his face.

"This is the "Nature" that was just published today. It contains a blockbuster article published by DeepMind, which was acquired by Google. It just happens to collide with our research. We should have announced the news that the Orange model defeated Gu Jie earlier!" A layer of fine beads of sweat seeped out of Hua Zecheng's head.

Fang Yu frowned, took the iPad and flipped through it.

This is an article called "Mastering the Game of Go with Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search".

The article first introduces how to use the value network to judge the chessboard position, and then introduces an algorithm that combines Monte Carlo simulation with the value strategy network.

But that's not the point.

The point is, DeepMind used this algorithm to develop an artificial intelligence program called AlphaGo, which defeated the European Go champion Fan Hui 1202:176 by using 5 CPUs and 0 GPUs!
This is the first time that artificial intelligence has defeated a professional human chess player on an accessible full-size chessboard!

"This news has exploded today!" Hua Zecheng looked frustrated. "If we announce the orange model now, the effect will definitely not be as good as it was a few days ago. Boss, we really should have announced it earlier!"

After seeing this news, Fang Yu actually felt a little regretful. If he had known earlier, he should not have listened to divination and should have announced it at that time.

Even though Google's DeepMind defeated a professional chess player in October, it did not announce it in order to publish in Nature. As long as it announced it first, and the person it defeated was the world's number one chess player, then YouZi Technology would still be the leader in the field of artificial intelligence.

But if we announce it again now, it would be somewhat like repeating what others have said.

Even if the Great Zhou will praise it for a while due to patriotic enthusiasm, those kneeling tribes will definitely be ridiculed and mocked.

"Skin-changing AI."

"If Google hadn't opened up the source code, would this small company have been able to come up with this?"

"Another subsidy fraudster."

Fang Yu could imagine how many such remarks would emerge at that time.

and many more!

Just as he thought of this, Fang Yu had an idea.

So that’s it!
No wonder the divination says now is not the right time to announce it.

"It doesn't matter, we will continue to do what we should do." Fang Yu handed the iPad to Hua Zecheng calmly.

Hua Zecheng said anxiously: "Boss, we really can't wait any longer. The more we wait, the less valuable the news will be! It is said that AlphaGo will challenge stronger players. If it defeats Gu Jie or a player of the same level by then, we will be in a passive position!"

"Originally, we could at least be the first AI to defeat the strongest chess player in history, but now, even if we announce it, we will only be second. People will always remember the first, and no one will remember the second! Don't mention Mount Qomolangma to me, it's just an internet meme!"

Fang Yu chuckled: "Even if it's not the first, it doesn't mean no one will remember it. The highest peak in the Alps is only 4,800 meters above sea level. The whole world knows it. It's much more famous than the Kunlun Mountains."

Hua Zecheng was stunned. Isn't this just quibbling?
Fang Yu patted Hua Zecheng on the shoulder and said, "Teacher Hua, this is not a quibble. The Orange Model defeated Gu Jie in an informal match. Even if it was spread out, some people would still not agree. Moreover, DeepMind had already completed the match with Fan Hui in October. No matter what, we are passive in terms of publicity."

Although Fang Yu's words made some sense, Hua Zecheng was still heartbroken: "Even so, if we had announced it earlier, it would have been better than announcing it now. If we wait until AlphaGo defeats a stronger chess player, it would be meaningless for us to announce it later!"

Fang Yu said meaningfully: "Oh? Is that so?"

Hua Zecheng was stunned. What does that mean?
"Teacher Hua, if we compare the chess skills of the Orange model with the current AlphaGo, which one do you think is stronger?"

"Do you think that even if AlphaGo, after several iterations of learning, defeats the strongest human Go player in a month or two, can it defeat the Orange Model?"

"Let the bullet fly for a while."

"Sometimes, being a hero who saves the world is far more rewarding than being a demon who destroys the world."

Finally I finished writing. I was so stuck today and I don’t know why I was in such a bad state.

That's all for today's 4000 words. Tomorrow I'll update twice with 6000 words normally. If time permits, it will be 8000 words.

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(End of this chapter)