Chapter 441 The Vampire’s Ring
Jike's blasting plan perfectly solved the security restriction problem of the Royal Library, and Su Lun felt that things suddenly became easier.
He contacted Kit using the communicator.
The guy was still thinking hard about how to find loopholes to bypass the security patrol.
After all, it was the ultimate challenge of the thief profession, and he was very interested in it.
However, they have designed several plans, but they are not sure of escaping unscathed. They are waiting for Su Lun to send more detailed information to see if there is a breakthrough.
Now listening to Su Lun's blasting plan, Kit immediately agreed.
As long as it can be blasted directly into the collection hall, the manuscript will be at your fingertips.
Although there are some other high-level restrictions, for Kit, it is not a big problem. This guy himself is proficient in various lock-picking abilities and forbidden cracking, and his current title as "Lingdun's No. 1 Phantom Thief" is not for nothing.
For the rest, just wait for Jike's finished explosives to be prepared and then find the right opportunity to take action.
Su Lun doesn’t even need to worry about it later.
Not long after, Suellen and Sabina left the Royal Academy.
Originally, he planned to ask Reina to have dinner with him. But Sabina said that she suddenly had a fourth-level enlightenment state, and it was a rare opportunity. She found a safe place to fuse materials and advance.
Su Lun also expressed his support.
After strolling around the Royal Library, he also gained a deeper understanding of the Luying royal family and the established nobles.
There are crouching tigers and hidden dragons in Lingtong, and there is an undercurrent surging in Lingtong City now. Sabina is stronger and has more protection.
In the evening, Su Lun and Reina had dinner together. Then we rode motorcycles together to the Vaughn Brotherhood territory, went clubbing, and spent the night.
Because Su Lun killed the gang's president and a bunch of core members, the Vaughn Brotherhood almost collapsed. The Rolling Stone Bar and nightclubs that were originally covered by this gang also changed their people. It became the territory of another gang.
After asking for information, I found out that in the past few days, there have been people in the underworld looking for the person who caused trouble that day. But because Su Lun and the others did it cleanly and didn't leave any directional information, there was no threat.
Su Lun always felt that the mysterious "curator" had some other purpose for letting the gang spread the [Scarlet Potion], so he and Rena wandered around various nightclubs.
We went to bars, underground boxing matches, casinos, and even a romantic club.
Reina, a good girl since childhood, has gained a lot of knowledge and opened her eyes to the life of the underworld. But Su Lun didn't find any useful clues. Those who originally sold medicine privately seemed to be hiding.
Even the number of patients with the Red Death seemed to be decreasing.
It was obviously a warning.
After visiting several nightclubs and dancing until two in the middle of the night, Su Lun and Reina returned to the apartment together without any results.
Another night of gentle and sweet dreams.
After two days like this, Su Lun successfully obtained the coveted batch of imported Marfa equipment.
According to Su Lun's request, the gangster king of Rington arranged for the cargo to be loaded onto a ship and transported to the agreed coordinates at sea, and then all the crew members disembarked and left.
Su Lun didn't find any hidden means, and no one came to ambush him, so he teleported over and stuffed all the equipment on the ship into the small void world.
Then he let the empty ship sail automatically and headed for the open sea.
With this batch of equipment, the productivity of Sullun's war workshop instantly increased dozens of times.
Now the small void world has become a large mechanical war factory. After the installation and debugging of those new equipment are completed, and combined with the precision instruments on the submarine, the mechanical armor assembly line will be directly formed!
As long as there are enough materials, dozens of soldier-level mechanical armors can be produced every day. Even the elite officer-level armor of level three or above has a production capacity of nearly one piece per day.
It is conceivable that in time, Su Lun's mechanical puppet army will reach the size of a real army.
There is also complete logistical support for supply, repair and maintenance at any time.
And after this period of thinking, the assembly line of Rune Puppet was completed. There has also been a major breakthrough in the research on the Overlord mechanical octopus jointly improved by Dr. Banks and Marfa's mechanical engineers, and a new batch of mechanical octopuses have also been put into production.
Su Lun's puppet army is quietly growing.
But the problem comes again.
After there was no shortage of equipment, there was a shortage of materials again.
The construction of the war workshop was due to two chances, the robbery of the Marfa submarine, and the Full Moon Ball incident. The equipment was almost complete. However, without spending any money, Su Lun had almost the first-class equipment in the world. Machinery factory.
But the materials are really expensive.
All the control materials that the Thunder Cat Chamber of Commerce had managed to obtain before were put in, but they would probably run out soon.
In addition, many components used in high-level officer-level armor are top-notch scarce materials that cannot be purchased even with money.
Fortunately, there is now another safe channel.
This time the equipment was successfully obtained, and Su Lun secretly lamented that the energy of the "Shadow Lord" was indeed exaggerated. Thinking that it has already been revealed that he has a need for mechanical equipment, next time he goes to the Full Moon Ball, he can just buy a batch of mechanical materials.
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Su Lun has been living in Reina's apartment and hasn't gone out much.
But through the newspapers he subscribed to, he learned about the recent events in Lu Ying.
In the past two days, the "Lington Daily News" and the "Queen's Metropolis Daily" have been fiercely at each other's throats.
The reason is that before the new drug launch of "Bakchi Biopharmaceutical Company" began, a large number of fake [Scarlet Potion] appeared on the market.
This medicine is cheap and has the effect of suppressing the symptoms of erythremia to a certain extent. But those fake medicines also have some minor side effects, such as vomiting and diarrhea.
So this also caused the health department in Linton to find trouble with Bachchi Biopharmaceutical Company, directly disrupting their new drug release plan.
Su Lun knew that this was a fake medicine thrown out by Ekaterina to disrupt the market, and it was also an emergency plan to deal with the spread of [Scarlet Potion].
But because there was no problem with the original [Scarlet Potion].
Such a move can only delay the release of the medicine, but cannot solve the problem.
After a large-scale outbreak of the Red Death, this medicine will be rolled out sooner or later, and even Lu Ying officials will support it.
After all, behind this pharmaceutical company is a large group of British dignitaries headed by the Congressman Rodriguez family. Those nobles are still waiting for this special medicine to treat the Red Death to make huge profits, and they will never let anyone cut off their financial resources.
Even if a few other big congressmen object, it won’t work!
Su Lun looked at the situation in the newspaper and couldn't think of a better way to break the situation.
Unless the root cause is found and those believers of God are uprooted, no one can do anything about it.
But apart from the "Queen Roderica Cruise Incident" which was accidentally crashed, the Outer God has made almost no big noise.
But his intuition told Su Lun that the calmer the sea, the more dangerous undercurrents lurked under it.
Those believers of alien gods have also penetrated and developed in Linton because of the "Freedom of Belief Act." When the conspiracy of the alien god is completed and breaks out, I am afraid that the problem will be a disaster for the entire alchemical plane.
However, there is a believer lurking in the Bona royal family who is secretly controlling it, and policies cannot prevent the development of believers in God.
There is nothing anyone can do.
Rights have become the key to the current dilemma.
In the next few days, Su Lun stayed in Reina's apartment and would only go out to nightclubs at night to look for clues.
He didn't leave the house until five days later.
Su Lun is going to the Puppet Masters Guild, because the finals of the "National Puppet Masters Competition" will be held there today.
Both Kama and Yabok happened to be participating.
Su Lun, a teacher, also planned to go to the scene to see the performance of the two disciples.
The Puppet Masters Guild was originally a very niche profession in Luying, but Su Lun's previous battle in the Moros city-state set off a wave of puppet masters. Puppet master has now become one of the most popular career choices among professional apprentices.
This is why there is this national competition.
The organizers even gave out very generous prizes for this puppet master competition.
There is nothing else in Lingdun, but there are many ancient relics.
Su Lun saw the flyer for the competition in the newspaper, and among the prizes there were even a few puppet professional items that even he coveted.
But the bad news is that the contestants are targeting entry-level puppet masters below level three.
Otherwise, Su Lun would be shameless enough to participate.
The good news is that among the puppet masters below the third level, the strength of the two Kama siblings is probably within the top few.
Not long after, Su Lun arrived at No. 19 Gunpowder Street in Franklin District on his motorcycle. That red brick building that looks like a church is the Puppet Masters General Guild.
A large logo hangs at the door of the building. The pattern on it is a hand holding silk thread with five fingers.
When Su Lun came, it was like watching a concert, with huge crowds of people.
Professionals wearing cloaks, carrying a crow on their shoulders, and holding all kinds of weird scythes can be seen everywhere here.
Each of them does not look like a puppet master, but more like a death actor at a masquerade party.
The strength is not strong, but the equipment is good.
Su Lun looked at these guys imitating him and couldn't help laughing.
However, there were some serious puppet masters with their own puppets in the crowd.
Naturally, you have to show off your skills when you come here, and there are many "people" in the crowd who are not alive at all.
Su Lun just saw a scarecrow puppet in the crowd, exuding dark energy fluctuations. This is a puppet of the curse style; there is also a puppet with several brass clockworks, from the classical mechanical style; and there is also a zombie deer. , like a beast puppet; carrying a few broadswords on his back, like a weapon.
Su Lun didn't look down on his colleagues at all.
There are many branches of puppet master profession. Lu Ying has several puppet masters, and their level is still very high. This profession is not strong at the beginning, but can usually surpass third-level puppet masters, and its combat power is not weak at the same level.
This puppet master competition brought together puppet masters from all over the empire to join in the fun, and it was also a rare exchange event for puppet masters.
Because there were so many people watching the finals, a temporary Alchemy City gradually appeared on the street outside the venue.
Puppet masters from all over the world sell some professional tools for puppet masters, such as silk threads, wood, colonial clothing, and employment materials. Of course, the most popular ones are crows and cloaks.
There are also many puppets that usually eat dust in the store's warehouse, or are unsold, tied up, and placed on the store's shelves again.
Su Lun didn't rush in because he got the infield tickets in advance.
He wandered all the way through the city.
The best selling items at the stall are the finished puppets.
There is no shortage of rich people in Lu Ying. Many of the people who came to watch the game this time were wearing the uniforms of the Royal Academy. Those little nobles forced the prices of various products to be several times too high.
Su Lun looked at the selling prices of those low-level puppets and said it was outrageous.
Fortunately, he has no need for a puppet master of his current level and finished puppets.
After all, he is already a top master in this field, and it is difficult for anyone to be better than himself in puppet making skills.
Even if there are, most of them are ancient relics and will not be sold in the market.
After walking around, I gained a little bit.
Su Lun bought several volumes of puppet classics from other schools, and accidentally picked up an ancient secret volume on puppets.
It only cost a few thousand lisuo to buy a fragment of the secret technique of controlling air and controlling silk [Controlling Thread·Air Flow Needle Rain] worth at least several hundred thousand.
Items such as knowledge have a digestion threshold, which makes them useless for beginners, and they cannot be understood even after buying them.
What's more, the little nobles have never lacked knowledge. There are all kinds of classics in the Royal Academy that they can't finish in a lifetime, so they don't care about the things on the stalls.
This is the difference between nobles and civilian professionals.
While the civilian professionals are still complacent about missing a little resource, the aristocratic professionals have already been immersed in the resources accumulated by the family for thousands of years for many years.
Not long after, Su Lun entered the competition field in the union as it was about to start.
This is a small circular theater that could originally accommodate a thousand people. Because there were thousands of people crammed into the venue during the competition, it seemed a bit crowded. The sound of crows cawing mingled with the noise of people.
A rough estimate is that there are at least a hundred crows in the arena!
Suellen's ticket was in the last row of the infield. It was inconspicuous, but it had a good view of the entire playing field.
Before the game even started, he could hear people behind him discussing the game intensely.
"Oh, the prizes in this competition are really rich. The Alchemy Guild has really spent a lot of money to make a name for itself. The first place is actually a rare fifth-level [Iron Sand Puppet]. Wow, this thing is both offensive and defensive, really If you want to get it, not only can you defeat the fifth-level professional, but at least the third- and fourth-level professional can save your life.”
"I have also heard of this puppet. It has always been a collection of the Puppet Guild, and I didn't expect it to be willing to take it out as a prize. Not only the first place, the second place is a very rare gold-quality silk cloth; the third place is Version of the four-color element core structure diagram. The top ten prizes are all rare treasures! ”
"Last time I heard that the puppet treasure [Heart of Four Color Elements] appeared in the Roman Kingdom. The trade union even sent an adventure group to look for it, but they didn't get it. I don't know who got it."
"It is said that it fell into the hands of the "God of Death". He had an indestructible gargoyle puppet in his hand, which was very powerful. I estimate it is the most powerful puppet in the world, even stronger than Grandmaster Aubrey's set of [Seven Dwarfs] elemental puppets. ”
“The strength of the ‘God of Death’ is recognized. With one enemy against 200,000 people, no one dares to say that we can do it even if one of us Lu Ying is playing puppet."
"Indeed. The battle in the Moros city-state really showed the majesty of our puppet professionals with our strength."
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As Su Lun listened, he heard various versions of boasting about himself, and felt a little dumbfounded.
The old men of the puppet union in the front row all looked unnatural.
The strongest puppet heritage is in the Lingdun Puppet Masters Guild, but now there is a foreign puppet master who has suppressed everyone's reputation. These masters also had a somewhat regretful look on their faces.
Most of the people watching the battle were young people, and all of them continued talking without any hesitation.
"Who do you think can get the first place this time?"
"Of course it's Grandmaster Aubrey's close disciple Elsa Bach. The young lady from the Marquis family awakened [C-019-Two-Hearted Man], which is an excellent puppet master talent. Regardless of inheritance, she is still a puppet. The quality is top-notch, and there is no opponent at the same level. What’s more, she has a record of defeating third-level professionals before.”
"I don't think so. Haven't you heard that descendants of the Boyle Machine puppet line have come to the imperial capital? In the previous incident on the Queen Roderica cruise ship, I heard that there were two puppet masters who were very powerful. They seem to be in the top ten. Stronger.”
"That's right. Just listen to the achievements of the noble ladies. They are very important in life and death battles. I heard that the two Naboyles were killed by pirates and their whole family was killed. They have been drifting at sea since then. They are true combatants."
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"What bullshit Boyle, do you dare to underestimate our Royal Academy's number one puppet master? You are so naive! Just watch, if there is a real fight, you guys will know where the gap between nobles and commoners is."
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Su Lun listened to the analysis of those people and was thinking about who could take first place.
He felt that Yabok had the best chance of winning.
Even though he is only a first-level professional, the talent of the second level [Seven Apertures Exquisite Heart] really requires fighting with all his strength, and even a few Kamas are not enough.
It is completely enough to deal with a group of puppet masters of the highest second level.
The big guys always show up at the end.
Su Lun looked at his pocket watch. The game time was ten o'clock, and it was still one minute away.
At this moment, the venue suddenly became quiet, and an old man with a white beard led a few people in.
Su Lun read the information and found out that the white-bearded old man was Aubrey Hernandez, the president of the Puppet Masters Guild. He was also recognized as one of the great masters of Kung Fu Puppetry in the world and the inheritor of the elemental puppet lineage.
And he was accompanied by two young men, one of whom Su Lun knew, the young master of the Roberts family who was almost killed on the cruise ship, Alex Roberts.
There was another one, but it was a handsome young man with a face as fair as a vampire.
Needless to say, they are probably all young masters from top noble families.
Otherwise, the president of the Puppet Masters Guild would not accompany him personally.
Su Lun didn't care about the nobles at first, but when he saw the ring on the young man's hand, his pupils shrank suddenly: "That ring is actually in this person's hand?!"
【Lilith’s Vampire Ring】
Quality: Legend
Description: Put on the ring and you are a high-level vampire;
Cursed characteristics: You can use this ring to absorb the target's blood essence and recover your own injuries and physical strength with high efficiency; long-term use of this ring can extend your life and keep you young forever; using this cursed object to absorb the target's blood essence will also inhale alien spiritual power. , will lead to mental confusion; it requires the sacrifice of pure virgin blood of equivalent energy, which can weaken some of the curse backlash used. The purer, the better the weakening effect;
Detailed explanation: This is a dark cursed object made by a great demon hunter in the Dawn Era using the finger bones of the ancestor of vampires. It possesses part of the blood-sucking ability of the ancestor of vampires, making it almost immortal; it can be used as a professional advancement material, and after fusion, the Improve the strength of the physical body, obtain "blood-devouring" and other related abilities, and gain physical enhancement by sucking the target's flesh and blood. If the fusion conditions are met, the fallen angel bloodline suppresses the abyssal bloodline of the ring, and the probability of distortion is less than 16%;
"Is this guy from the Rodriguez family?"
When Su Lun was on the ship before, he asked Mr. Jing, the blood descendant who had lived for seven hundred years, whether Lingdun had career advancement materials suitable for him.
The old vampire mentioned this ring.
Suellen only knew that the ring was in the possession of the Rodriguez family.
He thought it would be an old guy, but he didn't expect that it was a young man wearing it?
Su Lun looked at his pupils and shrank slightly, and thought to himself: "It is really a powerful cursed object. With it, you almost have the immortal body of a vampire."
After reading the identified information, Su Lun was sure that this cursed object was exactly what he needed. It greatly enhanced his physical body and had the ability to 'blood-devour'!
The most important thing is that he completely meets the fusion conditions!
Su Lun's transformed fallen angel bloodline is at a higher level than the abyss vampires, which directly leads to him having a higher probability of success.
Although the 16% probability of distortion is still not low, if you get another distortion tolerance potion from Dr. Banks, you can definitely suppress it to less than 8%!
When Su Lun saw this, he immediately became interested.
"But why is his soul so strange? Is it because of the ring?"
Su Lun felt again that this white-faced young man should be very strong.
But the soul fluctuations are very strange, even colder than a real vampire.
Su Lun immediately became suspicious, and his thoughts began to change.
After these people came in, they sat directly in the front row.
Su Lun also heard someone around him recognize the identities of several people.
"Hey, what are the backgrounds of those two noble young masters, and they are actually accompanied by President Aubrey?"
"You didn't know this. Those two are the eldest sons of top noble families. The one in white is named Alex Roberts."
"Is the surname Roberts one of the six congressmen?"
"What if?"
"Wow, no wonder. Where is the other one?"
"The other one is even more extraordinary. He is August, the second young master of the family of the great congressman Duke Rodriguez, the second interpretation of [B-010-Big Eater]. When he graduated from the Royal Academy three years ago, He is already a sixth-level professional, a true genius! He is known as one of the 'Top Ten Most Powerful Geniuses' in the Royal Academy in the past century."
"Oh, I also remembered what you said. The Royal Academy three years ago was really full of geniuses. Young William of the Raigadi family was also one of the 'Top Ten Geniuses'. I heard that he had just graduated and advanced. Level 6. And Miss Ekaterina from the Lance family is said to be very strong too”
"Oh, I get angry when you talk about Miss Ekaterina! Damn it, how could such a beautiful angel get married? Oh, my God, if I really want to get married, I feel like William of the Raigadi family The eldest young master is barely worthy, but she actually wants to marry a second son of Lei Jiadi, who is said to be a good-for-nothing, the son of a lover."
"You don't understand the mystery. The royal family does not allow the first heirs of two major families to marry like this. All parties will never allow such a strong alliance. The only way to marry the second son is to be a waste. , so that it will not be hindered.”
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Su Lun listened carefully to the information provided by the crowd behind him.
I heard the name of the man wearing the vampire ring is August Rodriguez, and the various auras of this young man.
But before I had time to think about it, while chatting, I actually ate my own melon again.
"The 'trash' of the Raigadi family?"
Su Lun's eyes twitched as he heard this.
That trash seems to be talking about himself?
As he listened to those people's popular science, the image of the purple-haired Ekaterina suddenly flashed through his mind, and then he thought of Katyusha.
Quite a complicated feeling.
But those people probably guessed wrong. Yekaterina chose "Fike" not just because he was the second son of the Raigadi family.
More importantly, he is Su Lun!
Thinking that it was just a transaction anyway, Su Lun didn't pay attention to these gossips.
He thought of some other things and pondered in his mind: "Tsk tsk. Young genius? I'm afraid it's not a young man, but an old immortal wearing a young man's skin."
There are many geniuses in the world, but they are not easy to find.
At least the young Master Augustus in front of him has a big problem.
Su Lun thought of something, narrowed his eyes slightly, and thought to himself: "The fluctuation of his soul should be due to the long-term use of the vampire ring, which is why he is so mixed and cold. What is this old guy going to do to solidify his appearance and stay youthful forever? What? "(End of Chapter)