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Chapter 242 Exchange and Upgrade

Richard followed Serales all the way to his office.

"Richard, when did you become enemies with the Soto family?!" Celes asked Richard with a worried expression.

After speaking, he briefly described the influence of the Soto family within the Ignis School.

"The Soto family?"

Richard was completely baffled when he first heard the name!

He certainly had many enemies, but he had no recollection of the Soto family.

but

It seems like I've seen or heard it somewhere before.

Serales gave Richard a disapproving look:

"Richard, they've come to me. You killed one of the most promising members of their family in the Norman Secret Realm. His name was Robert Soto. They mean that if you apologize, this matter will be over."

"Robert Soto?"

After pondering it several times, Richard suddenly realized!

He remembered who it was.

The image of a short, sinister-looking young man he had killed instantly flashed into his mind.

However, Richard was immediately amused by the shamelessness of the Soto family.

"Mentor, five months ago, they attacked me first in the Norman Secret Realm, so I retaliated and killed them!"

"What? The other side attacked you first?" Seras looked surprised. Clearly, he had no doubt about what his prized disciple had said.

Clearly, Serales didn't really know the specifics of the matter.

Raymond Soto approached him in the morning, only to tell him that his newly promoted star pupil had killed one of the most outstanding offspring of the Soto family in the Norman Secret Realm.

Therefore, let him negotiate on your behalf, so that Richard can prepare compensation and an apology.

As Richard recounted the story, he observed Serales's expression. He knew from the first word that Serales was unaware of the full story.

He immediately told Seres the whole story, omitting the beginning and end, but aside from some undisclosed details, it was basically the same as the truth.

After hearing this, Seras was furious!

"The Soto family has gone too far. Their own offspring were forced to become someone else's lackeys, and after you killed them, they turned around and bit you, demanding compensation. They are utterly shameless."

"Richard, don't worry, I will definitely support you in this matter."

"However, the Soto family is deeply entrenched in the Ignis School, and even if I intervene, they might not give me the necessary face. So, if you refuse them this time, they will definitely try to trip you up elsewhere."

"Don't worry, Instructor Seres, I won't hold their petty tricks against you."

Richard understood what Serales meant: it was unwise for him to confront the other party head-on, so his mentor hoped he would exercise restraint.

the next day.

After finishing the second puppetry lesson, Richard's communication mark suddenly vibrated. He probed it with his mental energy and found that the school had already reviewed the three advanced knowledge items he had provided.

However, the three advanced knowledge items only earned a total of 1750 points.

This was less than the worst-case scenario Richard had anticipated, which immediately frustrated him.

Apart from the Level 1 Rare Wizardry Model – Death Aura, which earned him 1000 points, the other two items did not meet Richard's expectations.

The Elementary Puppetry Knowledge, which included several basic puppet-making recipes, only earned 350 points.

The school of thought gives two reasons: first, there is a lack of key knowledge related to basic manipulation, and second, basic puppetry knowledge is not very useful for formal wizards.

This immediately made Richard frown a little!

The people reviewing this are a bit short-sighted!

It's important to understand that this is a systematic and complete discipline. With this foundation, as wizards and wizard apprentices who are interested in it continue to add to it, the discipline of puppetry will develop rapidly.

At that time, puppetry might even become one of the key disciplines of the Ignis School, distinguishing it from the other two necromancer academies.

Therefore, Richard found it hard to understand why the school's reviewers only gave him 350 points.

Meanwhile, the Alchemy Combo Bomb only earned 400 points.

This is a world of difference from the price previously offered by the Grey Dwarf Brotherhood of Tug City.

This immediately created a small but significant gap in the points, which frustrated Richard.

Now, let alone exchanging for skeletons, we don't even have enough points to exchange for the three level-one sorcery models we had budgeted for.

Just as Richard was in a bad mood, the communication mark on his chest vibrated twice more.

It's a message from Professor Serales.

"The Soto family knew you were submitting advanced knowledge and intervened, reducing the value of your advanced knowledge by about 30%."

Upon seeing this comment, Richard was immediately enraged, and his expression instantly turned grim.

The Soto family

They thought I was afraid of them!

However, now that the other party has resorted to such underhanded tactics, Richard doesn't have a good way to immediately retaliate.

Richard let out a heavy breath, suppressing his anger.

After a moment's thought, he immediately made a decision: to adjust the original plan first and quickly convert the points into strength.

As for the Soto family, there will always be opportunities to find their weaknesses or clues in the future.

No chance?

Then create opportunities!

The Death Ray is a must-have item, and it costs 900 points.

Secondly, there's Shadow Teleport. For Richard, Shadow Teleport is more important than Bone Shield, and it requires 550 points to exchange for.

From a certain perspective, after Richard learned the Death Aura and the innate sorcery Armor Technique, the urgency of the Bone Shield was not very high.

Because the sum of the two mentioned above is equivalent to an enhanced version of the Bone Shield.

Therefore, from this perspective, the exchange for the Bone Shield can be postponed!

Richard decided to first secure the most crucial raw material for creating the Bloodbone Golem—a humanoid skeleton of extraordinary quality.

Of the three extraordinary humanoid skeletons, Richard's favorite was clearly the ancient troll skeleton, which had the highest price.

Although the right hand of the ancient troll skeleton is still damaged, its price of 300 points is still the highest among the three.

The Death Ray, Shadow Teleportation, and Ancient Troll Skeleton cost a total of 1750 points. Richard glanced at the remaining 100 points on the inner wall of the Seal Ring and shook his head. The three items had just offset the three advanced knowledge he had submitted.

The score has returned to the initial 100 points.

In a certain alchemy laboratory deep underground within the Ignis School.

Richard is currently drawing energy channels inside the ribs, spine, and skull of the ancient troll skeleton.

Soon, with the energy core installed, Richard skillfully and swiftly completed the second step in creating the blood-bone puppet.

After a moment's thought, Richard decided to install the high-grade magic stone, rather than the magic crystal, in the prism-shaped slot of the energy core.

Although this will slightly reduce the Bloodbone Puppet's combat power and burst damage, it should be enough for now!

Richard planned to save the two magic crystals for a crucial moment.

"Sigh! In the end, it's all because we're poor!"

Richard couldn't help but smile helplessly.

"Magic crystals are just too expensive."

The next step is the third step: the soul-summoning ritual combined with the bone demon reincarnation ceremony!

Richard skillfully drew the Bone-Raising Demon Reincarnation Spell beneath the tall, thin body of the ancient troll warrior.

As Richard's deep incantation resounded, the dark elemental energy in the air was rapidly gathered together, filling the entire alchemy chamber with intense vibrations of dark elemental energy.

With the combination of the already perfected necromancy and the witchcraft array, it instantly attracted the attention of many spirits in the realm of the dead.

After a long search, Richard finally found a suitable troll soul.

With a flash of dazzling green light, a peculiar aura began to emanate from the skeleton of the ancient troll warrior.

Seconds later, two dark green soul flames suddenly ignited in the previously empty eye sockets inside the troll skull.

With a "crackling" sound of bones grinding together!

The skeletal remains of a gaunt ancient troll warrior, standing two and a half meters tall, slowly rose to their feet, while changes were constantly taking place around them!

Bone spurs extended outwards from all the joints of its body, especially from the elbows of its left and right hands, where each elbow extended a bone blade 1.2 meters long.

The white bone blade gleamed with a cold light and looked extremely sharp!

Richard stared at the ancient troll skeleton before him, lost in thought. Although the ancient troll skeleton was not as large as the ogre skeleton from the previous one, it seemed to be a better fit for the creation of the Bloodbone Golem.

This delighted Richard, and his mood, which had been shattered by the Soto family, immediately improved.

Eager to try, he immediately moved a tin-skinned combat golem to the opposite side of the blood-bone golem and quickly ordered the blood-bone golem to attack the tin-skinned combat golem.

"Swish!!"

A white cross flashed by, and the sturdy and durable iron-clad combat puppet was cleaved into four pieces by the blood-bone puppet's bone blade and fell to the ground.

The cut was perfectly smooth!

"Hiss! As expected, its power is greater than that of the blood bone golem made from the ogre skeletons before. It seems that the skeletons of ancient trolls are naturally more capable of unleashing this kind of rapid slashing attack."

Richard crossed his arms, rubbed his chin, and muttered to himself.

Half an hour later, Richard, having completed the test, looked at the new blood and bone puppet in front of him with satisfaction.

Tests have shown that the newly created Blood Bone Puppet has reached the top level of the first tier.

With this blood-bone puppet by his side, Richard's strength can be said to have completely recovered to its previous peak state.

However, this is not the end.

Today, he will master and rapidly improve his control over the other two level-one sorcery models he redeemed with points—Death Ray and Shadow Teleportation.

[Host detected practicing Level 1 Sorcery Death Ray. Do/Do you wish to consume energy to gain inspiration for practicing Level 1 Sorcery Death Ray?]

Richard, who had over 100,000 energy points, didn't hesitate to drag the slider to 30000 and select "Yes!"

After a dizzying spin, Richard's soul entered the dream space, where he found himself on a vast, open meadow.

When Richard returned to his original form, he had mastered 98% of the level one sorcery, Death Ray.

This process was repeated over and over.

Richard quickly raised his mastery of the Death Ray spell to its limit.

Richard, having pushed his new sorcery to its limit, thought for a moment and then placed a metal combat golem more than ten meters away.

With a short incantation, Richard completed the incantation of this new first-level witchcraft in about half a second.

In an instant, a large amount of dark elemental energy rapidly gathered at the tip of Richard's right index finger, forming a dense black sphere.

"Pop!"

A black beam the size of a thumb instantly struck the tin-clad combat golem not far away.

"Pfft!"

As if piercing through a thin sheet of paper, the death ray completely penetrated the sturdy iron-clad combat golem. At the same time, after piercing through the iron-clad combat golem's chest, the black beam still had enough power to pierce a three-inch-deep hole in the wall behind it.

"Wow! That penetrating power!"

This immediately shocked Richard!

The single-target attack power of the death ray is simply too formidable!

Richard believed that even his magic armor might not be able to withstand a death ray of the same level if someone else used it.

After experimenting with the Death Ray, Richard began preparing to improve his control over Shadow Teleportation.

Shadow Teleport, a level one spell, seems to be the only level one spell in the Shadow school that can instantly change the caster's location.

Its importance is self-evident!

[Host detected practicing Level 1 Shadow Teleportation. Do you wish to consume energy to gain inspiration for practicing Level 1 Shadow Teleportation?]

Richard, who still had over 80,000 energy points, didn't hesitate to drag the slider to 40000 and select "Yes!"

A dizzying sensation followed, and Richard's soul entered the dream world.

This goes on and on!

Soon, when Richard returned to his original form, he had raised his mastery of the Shadow Teleportation spell to its limit.

Shadow Teleportation: Starting from the caster's current location, it teleports a short distance in a specified direction. The teleportation distance is determined by the strength of the caster's mental power.

With his mastery of Shadow Teleportation at its peak, Richard could unleash this spell in just half a second, and the teleportation distance was over 30 meters because Richard's mental strength had reached the high level of the first tier.

It can be said that the mastery of this magic brought about a dramatic change in Richard's overall combat mobility.

It even brought about some changes to Richard's entire combat system.

This forced Richard to spend a lot of time and energy repeatedly testing and adjusting the combat mode.

evening.

Not long after Richard returned to his villa, satisfied, there was a knock on the door.

"Knock knock knock!"

Richard couldn't help but wonder who would be looking for him at this hour.

Then, lying on the soft leather sofa, he simply waved his hand, and a black film appeared in front of him. The film changed, and the scene outside the door appeared immediately.

A young, inexperienced girl stood at the doorway, a bone club on her gray wizard's robe indicating that she was merely a first-level wizard apprentice.

However, Richard immediately realized that he must have seen her somewhere before.

"It seems that she is now the owner of my original dormitory room 861."

Richard vaguely guessed the other party's intentions!

He initially intended to refuse, but after thinking it over again, he decided to open the door and let the other person in to take a look.

"Lord Richard, hello!"

When Richard opened the door, the girl at the door greeted him with a slightly nervous expression.

The vast difference in their levels of existence caused the girl to glance at Richard and then quickly lower her head, unable to look directly into his star-like black eyes.

That one glance they made made her feel dizzy and infatuated for a moment!

"Come in! Don't be shy."

Richard gestured for the girl to sit wherever she liked.

"Is there something you need from me?"

(End of this chapter)