Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1550 1522. Confirm the use of spirit stones

"Is that all, Your Highness?"

After the leader, Akechi Mitsunari, respectfully left the stage with the sparrow's body in his hands, Fujikichiro knelt on one knee on the cobblestones at the foot of the dojo's steps, looked up at Lan En with reverence and asked.

"It's enough to stop them from having any messy thoughts." Lan En stopped the wooden sword in his hand, supported it on the ground, and said to Fujiyoshiro.

"But in order to make them work at an efficiency that I can see, I need to use the letter I gave you to constantly stimulate them, remind them, and even encourage them."

"The key to getting things done is to employ people, and employing people is nothing more than this principle."

Lan En talked about various affairs in Lushan City in a very relaxed and casual manner.

It seemed that managing this world-famous city was as easy as playing house in his eyes.

Fujiyoshiro, who had just experienced the skill of his lord, seemed to be proud of it and had no objection to Lan En's relaxation.

I even feel that in front of my lord, these things are indeed just trivial matters that are not worthy of attention.

"But thank you for your hard work, Toukichirou."

Suddenly, Lan turned and looked at him.

Toukichiro pointed at himself in astonishment: "Huh? Me?"

"Yes." The demon hunter nodded. "Those people look down on you and slander you behind your back. But in order to maintain efficient operation, perhaps you have to welcome them with a smile."

"Besides, after using your matter to slap them in the face today, the same excuse won't work the second time."

"Totally~ no problem, Your Highness!" After hearing this, Fujiyoshiro laughed and patted his chest without caring, "Let them laugh if they want! My dream is to make a career!"

"If someone gives up on rational cooperation and employing people just because they are laughed at, then wouldn't such a person be too ambitious to support his career?"

"Anyway~" He stood up suddenly, tilted his head back and wiped his nose, "Leave it to me! Your Highness!"

After saying this, Fujiyoshiro turned around and left with a heroic look.

"He's a material that can do great things."

Tsukahara Bokuden, who had been standing there for a long time to set the atmosphere for Lan En, looked at Fujikichiro's back and spoke quietly.

"It's a pity that he has no talent in martial arts." Lan En shook his head with great regret. "However, he is indeed a man who can accomplish great things."

After this simple formal meeting, Lan En's control over Lushan City can be said to have reached its peak.

In fact, the management and planning of this city, as well as the possible joint counterattack by local nobles and officials in the future, had already been fully grasped by Lan En when he was looking through the information in the case library before.

The phased management of the city was also completed within those few hours.

All that remains is to implement it step by step.

When the twelve officials returned to their offices, there would be an administrative plan for the next six months on their desks.

Lan En did not make any specific plans, but only gave them a feasible goal.

With their concerted efforts, full initiative, and Fujiyoshiro's supervision, this plan will be perfectly implemented.

Through the management of Lushan City, Lan En also gained a general understanding of his own management capabilities.

This is different from the Extreme Warriors who can build an efficient management system out of thin air.

His management ability is actually linked to the local system foundation.

He can fully stimulate the coordination spirit and subjective initiative of the local people, so that their work efficiency can be improved to a level higher than the limit under ideal conditions!

If he were given a planet of a human empire in the starry sky, he would be able to improve the administrative efficiency of the entire planet or the entire galaxy with this planet as the core.

However, in an already backward environment, this ability is far less straightforward and useful than that of the Extreme Marines.

But for now, Lann, who has Mentos, can do whatever he wants, even if he doesn't engage in the social activities, interpersonal relationship analysis, and social regulation that the Emperor's children are best at.

His strong administrative capabilities are far beyond the reach of ordinary emperors' sons.

Later, under the instruction of Tsukahara Bokuden, Lan En spent several more hours memorizing several advanced techniques of Zanshin.

Including [Flow], [Flow], and techniques to obtain temporary amplification through [Resentment] in various postures.

He was a quick learner, and Tsukahara Bokuden had now fully realized his learning ability.

So compared to yesterday when we only taught the basic skill of [Zanshin], today is like a big giveaway.

Lan En left the dojo after gaining new knowledge of martial arts, and he would practice the rest on his own.

Ordinary people may make mistakes or practice incorrectly if no one supervises or corrects them during practice.

But Mentos' learning guidance ability was always working in Lan's brain.

After all, its essence is a learning machine.

But Lan En's departure does not mean that Tsukahara Bokuden can rest.

On the contrary, he had to be busy teaching A Xiu later.

Ah Xiu's basic skills have been refined to an extremely high level, and now is the time to absorb advanced technical knowledge at a high intensity. [Tenshin Shinden Katori Shinto Ryu] has opened the door to her.

According to what Tsukahara Bokuden revealed when chatting with Lan En just now, Ah Xiu is about to officially come into contact with the secrets of the katana and the double swords.

Wuming continued to spar with several hatamoto warriors and received instruction on the techniques of the naginata and sickle.

The fluff ball and the unicorn were just there to watch the fun. After all, there was no one here to teach them the skills, so they could only wait for Lan En to master the skills and see if he could relay them.

Anyway, the fluffy ball seems to be very interested in the physical control technology here, and the Qilin is beginning to have a similar taste with his own guardian spirit [Lazy Raccoon], and seems to want to learn how to use the power of the guardian spirit.

Summon [Lazi] to drink tea from the Bunfuku Tea Kettle together.

Speaking of the power of guardian spirits, Lan En has made some progress in his research.

At least he used the large piece of spirit stone he had obtained in Jiulin Mountain before, and tried to infuse the essence of it into his [Guardian Spirit·Qilin].

With his own skills of mastering the genuine [Ninety-Nine Weapons] and using A-Xiu's monster transformation as a reference, he successfully lowered the threshold for using [Ninety-Nine Weapons].

That is to say, in a special way, let your guardian spirit absorb the essence power first.

The Lingshi is called "Philosopher's Stone" and "Miracle Stone" by the southern barbarians. Its nature is equivalent to a universal supernatural power.

After this power is accumulated within the guardian spirit, the difficulty of materializing it to the outside world is greatly reduced.

It is equivalent to using spirit stones to compensate for the lack of strength in martial arts, but at the cost of calling upon the supernatural power of the guardian spirit to manifest in the outside world.

Lan En has already solved the feasibility issue of the technical route. What remains is whether the efficiency of utilizing the essence power can be further improved.

"But even if it improves, it won't be a leap forward."

Lan En spoke to Abe Haruaki in a very clear and logical manner.

The two were now in a quiet room in the castle tower, surrounded by many books, bamboo slips, and scrolls that did not originally exist.

They were all brought by the Onmyoji who called himself Abe Haruaki.

Among them, there are even many ancient books that appear to be hundreds of years old.

Lan En was very familiar with the texture of this ancient book.

Normally, books would deteriorate very quickly, but supernatural forces always find ways to preserve them.

This creates a unique texture for ancient books: a strange texture that seems to have survived hundreds of years but has not been damaged at all.

There are many such books in the library of Aretuza.

In the magical Middle Ages, it was only a few hundred years ago that the northern humans emerged from the intersection of the celestial spheres, landed, and discovered the power of chaos.

Compared to this magical Japanese Warring States period, it undoubtedly looks much younger.

"That's right." In response to Lan En's question, Abe Haruaki smiled and gave a positive answer, "It's not worth it for you to worry about this matter. After all, the best you can do is to increase the efficiency of the spirit stone by 20%."

"Being able to lower the rigid requirements of the Ninety-Nine Weapons to such a degree is an unprecedented achievement. All warriors in the world will remember your kindness."

Lan was unrolling a bundle of scrolls and spreading them across his cross-legged knees.

After hearing this, he said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "I don't even know the limit of my research, how come you seem to be able to predict the future? Have you divined for me? Or have you seen it?"

One of the major functions of Onmyoji in Japan is to serve as a tool for the Onmyoji Bureau to serve the royal family and court nobles.

Divination, astronomy and calendar, feng shui survey, etc.

But Abe Haruaki's statement was too detailed. He even mentioned "Lan's final result on this project", which inevitably makes people suspicious.

However, in the face of Lan En's joke, Abe Haruaki just smiled silently, without any rebuttal or boastful admission.

But her eyes, which were not big to begin with, narrowed as she looked at him, making her look like a fox.

In the quiet room, Lan En, who was flipping through the scroll, raised his head, but seemed to be sure of something, but did not look too surprised.

"What the hell?" The demon hunter just raised his eyebrows and even wanted to whistle jokingly, "So, it's time travel again?"

Abe Haruaki raised his sword finger, smiled and bowed: "You already have a guess, right? To be precise, it is your future, the me who has seen the past. In the burning Heian-kyō."

"It seems that you, in this age, are still not able to use the power of time and space. I am a little doubtful whether it is a bit presumptuous of me to admit it so straightforwardly."

"The power of time and space? Me?" Lan En chuckled, the scroll in his hand remained steady. "I never thought that I would get my hands on the power of time and space one day."

"Is there anything you can say, Qingming? Does it make us seem too familiar with each other if I call you that?"

"No." Abe Haruaki answered the latter question with a smile, "In your future and my past, we are indeed quite familiar with each other."

"And the most crucial piece of information I can tell you, and the one that you need to confirm the most reliably, is to use [Spirit Stones]."

Suddenly, Lan En raised his head and his eyes moved away from the scroll.

Abe Haruaki was still smiling like a fox: "Yes, that's the thing you've been thinking about. The thing you've been planning in your mind."

"You should trust your instincts and use the [Spirit Stone]."

(End of this chapter)