Nighttime.
The "Blue Rose" headquarters.
The silvery-white light of the magic lamps illuminated the room brightly.
Tina leaned against the wall under the mural, her eyes unfocused, letting her captain's nagging go in one ear and out the other.
Seeing Tina's perfunctory attitude, Lakyus puffed out her cheeks, her golden, slightly wavy long hair looking soft and light under the illumination of the lamp.
Her rare emerald eyes, paired with her beautiful face, made the entire room seem much brighter.
"Captain..."
Tia, who was hiding to the side and laughing, suddenly spoke up.
"Shut up, Tia!"
Lakyus's expression changed. She raised her arms to block her face, took a step back, and stopped lecturing Tina: "I don't want to hear you say anything strange."
Tia raised an eyebrow at Tina to the side: "Fine, Demon Leader."
"Hahaha."
Gagaran's loud laughter soon rang out in the room.
Even Evileye let out a happy, soft hum from behind her mask.
Lakyus looked defeated, drooping her head with a depressed aura, but in an instant, she lifted her head again, her emerald green eyes shining.
Her delicate face glowed under the "Continual Light" as she boosted morale: "This matter won't just end like this, Tina!"
"Gagaran, didn't you release that demi-human lady called Emerald Leaf along with Tina?"
Mentioning the main business, the somewhat exaggerated state of Lakyus disappeared, and she returned to her ladylike appearance.
After returning from the princess, she had learned the sequence of events, and Lakyus believed that this matter was their responsibility.
Therefore, during the process of having Gagaran bring Tina back, she also had the demi-human Magic Caster, who had also been taken away by Gazef, released from "Free Will".
Seeing their Demon Leader turn her attention to this matter, Tina finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Although Lakyus had said that just now, given the leader's personality, this matter was already over.
"Because they had already left." Gagaran put away the smile on her face, appearing helpless.
"Left?"
Lakyus also looked relieved: "That's truly great."
Tia, however, frowned: ""Free Will" only arrived in the Royal Capital recently, and there was no intelligence of them appearing in the Royal Capital before. Does the other party actually have such connections?"
"Yeah, I've already asked."
Gagaran, on the other hand, didn't care much: "It was the Adventurer's Guild that helped. That stingy, serious old guy actually agreed to put in the effort for this kind of thing."
"That leader of "Free Will" is quite remarkable."
"You've already met the other party, right? What kind of person is he?" Lakyus blinked, full of curiosity.
"He's quite handsome."
Gagaran teased Lakyus, "I feel like the two of you might have a common language."
"However, I personally feel that he is a troublesome man."
...
Ordinary Inn.
In a room that was unremarkable compared to a high-end inn and not very spacious.
The Emerald Leaf Witch stood in place, her body trembling slightly, head lowered, not daring to look at Lyle in the center of the room.
She also knew that she had brought trouble to her master.
Lyle stared at the solution in the Magic Cauldron, used "Item Appraisal" to probe the information, and shook his head.
"Still not qualified."
He raised his head.
Looking at the Emerald Leaf Witch standing in the corner, Lyle said indifferently: "When did you master "Wild Shape"?"
"The day before entering the Royal Capital."
The Emerald Leaf Witch hurriedly spoke, her voice trembling slightly.
"Very good, faster than expected." Lyle nodded.
Hum!
Azure blue electric light suddenly appeared in the room, and strands of terrifying electric current emerged from Lyle's body.
The air pressure in the room dropped to freezing point instantly!
Fifth-tier Tier Magic · Dragon Lightning!
The Emerald Leaf Witch's face turned deathly pale, covered in cold sweat, and she fell to the ground, nearly limp. That terrifying magical power fluctuation was enough to easily kill her.
Whoosh!
A large mass of white mist surged from the Emerald Leaf Witch's chest, turning into a human figure shrouded in mist, kneeling on the ground.
"Master, please spare my sister." The White Mist Witch said in a panic.
The room remained quiet.
It was just that the azure blue electric light became more and more solid, and the surging current gathered between Lyle's arms into a dragon-shaped, bright white lightning, appearing with bared fangs and brandished claws.
The temperature of the air began to rise instantly!
The powerful aura made the Twin Witches unable to breathe.
Despair had already appeared in the Emerald Leaf Witch's bright yellow pupils.
Crackle, crackle~
Bright white electric arcs collided and flickered, eventually dissipating as wisps of lightning light.
"Let this be a warning." Lyle waved his hand.
Only then did the Twin Witches dare to breathe deeply, carefully retreating from the room.
"It seems that the magic power consumed during the process of canceling a spell is not returned. This can serve as one of the few cases of failed magic casting."
Lyle raised his palm and looked at the electric light still jumping between his fingers, somewhat curious.
The process of forcibly canceling a spell also has a certain impact on the caster, especially for those unstable spells.
"Teleportation!"
Lyle chanted softly.
Swoosh!
His figure disappeared instantly, and when he reappeared, he had already arrived at the Lava Zone.
He first went to visit the dwarf craftsmen.
Due to the lack of some mineral materials and various forging equipment, those dwarf craftsmen had been relatively idle during this period.
Drinking, bragging, and discussing Rune Technology by the way—this was the daily routine for these dwarves at the moment.
As for the families of the dwarf craftsmen, they had long since been brought over by Lyle using Teleportation, and there weren't many, having expanded to about 60 people.
As for the Dwarf Kingdom, losing more than 60 people, all of whom were dwarves related to Rune Technology, they could realize the problem no matter how stupid they were, which caused a stir among the higher-ups.
But in the end, it was left unsettled.
For the current dwarves, Rune Technology did not have much significance, and furthermore, being able to take people away from their base without anyone noticing.
This made the higher-ups of the Dwarf Kingdom somewhat wary; not only did they not search extensively, but they deliberately covered it up.
The resettlement of these dwarf craftsmen.
This was also a matter that Lyle needed to solve as soon as possible; otherwise, keeping them in the Lava Zone would never allow these dwarves to conduct research with peace of mind.
Of course.
Lyle had long since planned the future location for these dwarves and had already started setting it up.
After exchanging some words with this group of dwarves.
Lyle came to the depths of the Lava Zone; next, he prepared to test his newly acquired skills.
With a thought, the Status Panel appeared:
...
[ability sheet]
Talent: [Player]
Composite Rank: 42Lv
Experience Bar: 2671356 / 260000
Skill Points: 66
Class:...
ps: Full data has been updated in the comment section
[Attribute Panel]
Player: Lyle
Karma: 23 [Neutral]
HP: 448 → 530 → 545 (42%)
MP: 248 → 263 (20%)
Physical Attack: 373 → 388 (30%)
Physical Defense: 280 (22%)
Agility: 213 → 288 (22%)
Magic Attack: 293 (22%)
Magic Defense: 295 (23%)
Composite Resistance: 445 → 465 (36%)
Speciality: 380 → 400 → 440 (34%)
Total: 251%
...
Lyle's attention was mainly focused on the latest data on the Attribute Panel, while the rest of the data belonged to normal increases.
The most obvious were the two values of "HP" and "Speciality".
The intermediate value of "530" in HP was the 50 points of life value added by his consumption of dragon blood and "Totem Possession · Solar Anglerfish".
The intermediate value of "400" in Speciality was also the two passives of "Fire Attribute Nullification" and "Poison Attribute: Faint Resistance" added by consuming dragon blood.
The value of "440" was the four new passive abilities added after obtaining the [Ninja] class.
Lyle had now figured out that the increase in the "Speciality" value was related to the number of passives and High-tier Class.
"The Karma basically hasn't changed, which is completely different from my initial speculation. This value feels even more idealistic."
Lyle glanced at the "Karma", somewhat puzzled.
Back in the Valley of Despair, he had almost slaughtered the entire Gray Dwarf clan. He had expected the Karma to decrease significantly, but the result was that it basically didn't change.
He didn't know if it was because the Gray Dwarf clan couldn't be considered a righteous race, or because he didn't think he had done anything wrong during the process of dealing with the Gray Dwarf clan.
He shook his head.
Unable to figure it out, Lyle wouldn't waste any more time thinking about it.
"After obtaining the [Ninja] class, I've already reached level 42, and there are still over 2 million, less than 3 million experience points."
Lyle stared at his massive amount of experience points, suppressing the urge to level up.
It wasn't that he wasn't in a hurry.
It was that Lyle wanted to see if the new class he speculated about really existed.
If he could obtain a new class after meeting the conditions for casting the highest tier of various magic systems, then without needing to think, that would be a quite powerful High-tier Class.
It was even possible that it was a Special Class!
Lyle intended to use the experience points on that class; if it didn't succeed, it wouldn't be too late to use them on the [Ninja] class.
"Experiment start."
Lyle came back to his senses and activated the [Ninja] class skill: "Ninjutsu · Shadow Clone Technique!"
Swoosh!
The shadow under his feet squirmed, and a figure exactly like Lyle crawled out from the shadow.
Lyle looked the created Clone up and down; from the appearance alone, it was exactly the same. The white Clone created by "Einherjar" didn't look like a real person's Clone at first glance.
The Clone created by Ninjutsu was even harder to distinguish.
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