The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 381 The Third Form of Combat Power
Imperial capital of Tamriel.

On the second floor of the Durham family mansion, in the luxurious study.

"Is it today?" asked the Duke of Durham.

"Yes, Your Excellency the Duke, Master Greenwood and his men set out yesterday, and they should start today." Butler Owen bowed slightly and answered respectfully.

"Well, is there any news from the Black Knife Organization?"

"It has been confirmed that they sent a killer king who arrived in Nome Province a day in advance."

Duke Durham nodded slightly and asked again, "As for Greenwood, was it Greg the Corpse Ripper who accompanied him there?"

"Yes, Your Majesty the Duke."

"Well, that shouldn't be a problem." Duke Durham nodded, somewhat talking to himself.

However, there was still a trace of gloom in his heart at this moment.

Because this morning, when he met Admiral Donald, a senior official at the Sword Bearer Headquarters, again, the other party said something to him.

"If mediation is possible, it would be best to reconcile with this Ryan."

At first, he didn't understand what Donald meant.

Until the other party told him that the latest top-secret intelligence from the Sword Bearer showed that this Ryan had defeated the projection of a certain god with legendary power head-on.

It’s not that Donald is not well-informed, but the confidentiality level of this intelligence is too high. Only a few people in the entire Sword Bearer Headquarters can see the full picture, and he is not one of them.

This immediately shocked Duke Durham!
Although he is a projection of a god with legendary strength, in fact, among the legendary powerful humans, there are very few who can compete with him.

Because even if it is a trace of projection, it also represents a ray of energy of the gods. All kinds of extraordinary combat skills and witchcraft are at his fingertips, and all kinds of combinations have already reached a superb level.

And Ryan was able to defeat the projection of a god, which meant that the other party was likely to have legendary peak combat power.

Of course, it is also possible that Ryan used some powerful magical weapon or some other means to repel the opponent.

Fortunately, one of the family advisors, Greg the Corpse Ripper, also reached this level after activating his giant rock combat body.

Coupled with the ambush of the King of Killers, even if Ryan's strength has reached the peak of legend, the combination of the two makes it very likely that he will kill the opponent.

Duke Durham thought to himself.

In addition, Greenwood is not actually his nephew, but his illegitimate son, who is only nominally under his brother's name.

Moreover, he is the most talented of all his illegitimate children.

Even Greenwood himself is not clear about this.

This is why he was a little worried.
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at the same time.

In the Gnom Province, the square of the Swamp Town was littered with blood and corpses, and the place was in a mess.

"Oh? Misunderstanding? Unfortunately, I don't want to hear your explanation."

Ryan, in the form of the Dragon King, glanced at Greenwood in front of him with his cold vertical pupils, and then a huge claw dropped from the sky!

"Don't! Ryan, don't you want to know why Sam's team is so obsessed with that elf?" Greenwood, who was on the verge of death, suddenly thought of something and shouted excitedly.

Because judging from the ruthlessness of Ryan's attack just now, the other party will not care about his background in the duke's family at all. Using this to threaten the other party will only make him die faster.

Only by starting from the person the other person cares about can you perhaps survive.

"Whoosh~~" A strong gust of wind hit Greenwood's face, and it was distorted and deformed at this moment!
Just as Greenwood was horrified, the ferocious claws stopped.

All I heard was Ryan saying, "Why?"

"For some unknown reason, the Second Prince likes elven women the most. In Tamriel, except for the elven ambassadors who dare not touch him, there are people in other parts of the empire helping him collect elven women."

"Oh? Really?"

"Really! I swear! I swear!" As if seeing hope of survival, Greenwood shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Two years ago, in the province of Munster, Sam's group captured another elf woman, who was also sent to the Second Prince by us." Greenwood seemed to reveal another secret in order to increase the credibility of his words.

"Who else knows about this? Can anyone prove what you said?" Ryan's eyes flickered.

In an instant, he realized something.

"Yes, yes! Owen, the butler of our Durham family, knows it." Hearing Ryan's question, Greenwood showed joy on his face and said quickly.

In his opinion, his life was saved.

At this moment, even other people thought so.

"Well, bye then." Ryan said calmly.

goodbye?

What does Goodbye mean?
While Greenwood was still thinking about what Ryan meant by this sentence, suddenly, he felt the sky dark!
"boom!"

A huge deep pit suddenly appeared on the ground, which was shaped like a huge dragon claw. Greenwood and the metal cage were instantly smashed into meat paste by the giant claw!

At this time, Ryan finally cancelled the form of the Dragon King and returned to his human body.

"You actually killed him? He is the most promising direct descendant of the Durham family!" Mia said in horror as she watched this scene.

"Do you know that the Durham family is a guardian family?"

"So what?" Ryan looked at Mia and said.

Chandler sat down on the ground, scared out of his wits.

Since Ryan dared to kill Greenwood directly, he would naturally dare to kill him.

"Sir Ryan, don't kill me, don't kill me! I'll tell you everything."

"The Durham family, to which Greenwood belongs, has a close relationship with Admiral Donald, one of the top Sword Bearers. This time, your assigned mission was also caused by the other party."

"Oh? Anything else?" Ryan looked at Chandler calmly.

"Yes, yes, let me think about it, let me think about it!"

"Forget it. I don't want to hear anything more from a treacherous villain." Ryan shook his head and said.

I saw him raise his right hand and his lips slightly moved.

"Multiple cutting nets!"

Suddenly, three huge nets emitting silver light appeared in front of him and flew rapidly towards Chandler's position!
“No, no, ah!!”

As a shrill scream was heard, Chandler's face was frozen with fear. He and the metal cage were cut into tofu-sized pieces by the huge metal net in an instant.

At this moment, when Claire saw the look in Ryan's eyes, she couldn't help but hold Beyonce's arm tightly, shaking her head like a rattle, and tremblingly said:
"Captain, we have nothing to do with this matter! Really nothing to do with it!"

Woohoo! This new captain is so cruel!
She wants to quit the team!
Is it still too late?
Besides, what did she just hear?
The secret of either the prince or the general. Oh my God! I hope I won't be silenced!
At this moment, Claire realized that she missed her mother a little bit. She wanted to go back to her hometown in the county town.
"I remember now, this kind of aura and form, you...you are the royal heir!" At this time, Mia seemed to have thought of something, her eyes widened, and she looked at Ryan in fear.

But how is this possible!
The intelligence on Ryan investigated by the Durham family clearly stated that he was just a young man from a small town, so how could he become a royal heir in the blink of an eye?

This is like meeting a straw sandal weaver on the road in the previous life, and upon asking, it turned out to be Uncle Liu, a relative of the Han Dynasty.

"What? The royal family?" Claire and Beyonce looked at each other in shock.

"Oh, have you heard anything?" Ryan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and looked at Mia.

He was still quite interested in what the other party said. It was also the first time he heard someone talk about a situation similar to his own transformation into a dragon man.

"Yes, I once saw a competition by chance at the Imperial Royal Academy. One of the contestants was the offspring of a prince of the empire, and had royal blood."

"However, after his bloodline transformation, his height is about five meters, his tail is also very short, and he has no wings. In addition, his dragon scales are different in color from yours, and the horns on his head are also different."

Ok?
If we ignore details like the color of the dragon scales, wouldn't it be a replica of the first form of his dragon-man transformation - the dragon-man warrior form?
interesting.

Imperial College?
Claire once studied at the Imperial College, so I could ask her for information.

Thinking of Claire, Ryan suddenly remembered that Claire had told him that after her father, Count Habsburg, recovered from his injury, she would return to the Imperial Academy to study.

I don't know whether Claire has come to the imperial capital Tamriel at this point in time, but I can ask after I return to the headquarters.

"Can I survive?" Mia finally couldn't bear the pressure anymore and asked this question.

"What a pity, Mia. Since you chose to attack me at that time, you should know the result." Ryan looked at the other party calmly and said.

"I believe you must have heard a saying: To be kind to your enemy is to be cruel to yourself."

"But I don't want to die like this. Can you let me die beautifully?" Mia smiled miserably and pointed at Chandler who was cut into pieces.

"it is good!"

"Captain Ryan, if you kill these three people directly, I'm afraid you will..." Beyonce hesitated to speak.

"In theory, these three people ambushed you first, so you can send them to a military court, and then..."

"Then? Then they will come out smoothly." Ryan shook his head and said.

Beyoncé immediately understood what Ryan meant, sighed, and said nothing more.

Because of what she had seen and heard in the imperial capital over the past two years, she knew that Ryan was not talking nonsense.

The Dragun Empire has lasted for more than two thousand years. The classes have long been solidified, and many places are even corrupt. The connections of the top wealthy families in the imperial capital are like the roots of a thousand-year-old tree, deeply rooted in the flesh and blood of the empire.

"Also, if you are worried about the revenge of the Durham family, I'll wait for them to come." Ryan said with a smile.

At this time, the three members of the Blade Team, Langgel, who had been stunned for a long time, came to their senses after a long time. They immediately ran over and said, "Sir Ryan, are you okay?"

"It's okay. I'm sorry to scare you this time."

"It's okay, Lord Ryan. You are stronger than before. By the way, what should we do with these?" Langgel swallowed and pointed to the corpses on the ground.

Ryan glanced at the ground.

The body of Greg the Corpse Splitter was not so bad, it was just torn in half, so it was relatively easy to deal with. But the assassin king of the Black Knife Organization had been cut into pieces by him, and it would be quite troublesome to bring it back as evidence.

"Uh, Lord Ryan, how about getting a bucket and putting all the minced meat back?" Frye suggested.

"If it's inconvenient for you to bring it back to the headquarters, you can also leave it at the branch. We will take good care of it."

"Okay." Ryan nodded.

While Langgel and the other two were cleaning up the battlefield, Ryan came to the edge of the square alone and carefully experienced the feeling of just transforming into the third form, 'Dragon King'.

At this moment, he rarely felt sore and weak all over.

Obviously, the third form consumes more physical strength than the second form, the 'Dragon General' form.

However, the improvement in combat power is also much higher.

When he killed Greg just now, he felt that he seemed to have used less than half of his strength, but even so, he easily tore apart this so-called legendary 'Corpse Ripper'.

Thinking back to the feeling of being freed from the shackles in his body before, Ryan was basically certain that in the third form, his combat power had definitely reached an epic level.

In addition, the increase in speed after the flesh wings flapped far exceeded his expectations.

Unfortunately, he had never seen the battle scene of epic-level strong men with his own eyes, and Ryan had never fought against an epic-level strong man head-on.

The only thing that can be used to judge is the battle between the dragon knight Menia, known as the 'Red Queen', and the three-headed sea dragon with a magic tail.

But he was over a hundred miles away at the time, and judging from the energy fluctuations, even if he transformed into the third form, there seemed to be a certain gap between the two.

But the problem is that Her Highness Menia, the 'Red Queen', is not the last one among the epic-level strongmen.

Shaking his head slightly, Ryan decided not to think about it for the time being and turned to check the previous battle prompts:

[Congratulations, you defeated a strong enemy and gained 31 gold skill point! 】

[Congratulations, your Will (Hidden) attribute has been improved! ]

[Congratulations, your Thousand Blade King (Epic) class level has been upgraded! ]

With his consecutive kills of the Venom Dragon, the Killer King and Greg the Corpse Ripper, the King of Thousand Blades (Epic) profession level successfully reached lv13, allowing Ryan to gain 1 attribute point and 1 skill point.

Now his total remaining attribute points are 13 points, and his remaining skill points are 6 points.

As for the gold skill points, there were 8 points left after consuming 46 points last time, and 31 points were gained this time, so at this moment it reached 77 points, setting a new historical high.

However, since Ryan already knew the golden skill points, he could use them to deduce witchcraft killing moves, which was not too much at all.

After all, it took 28 points to deduce and perfect the second-level witchcraft killing move. It is conceivable how much it would consume if it were the third-level witchcraft.

After returning to Gnom City that day and having dinner with the Blade Squad to reminisce about the past, Ryan took Claire and Beyonce back to the Sword Bearer headquarters.

Although they had only experienced one battle, the two women were extremely impressed by Ryan.

A day and a half later.

After arriving at the Sword Bearer Headquarters in the Imperial Capital directly by airship, Ryan naturally needed to submit the mission first. At the same time, he also needed to state the reasons for the death of his two team members.

Although it was a sneak attack by the other party, someone died after all, so the process still has to be followed.

As soon as he arrived at the mission hall, Ryan went straight to Anthony's office.

Seeing someone coming in without knocking, Anthony was about to scold him, but the next second, his eyes widened, and he looked at the person with a shocked expression, and said:

"Sir Leilan, why are you back?"

"Haha, Sir Anthony, shouldn't I come back?" Ryan couldn't help but look at the fat man in front of him with a smile and said.

"No, no, I mean, have you completed your mission?"

"You mean killing the Venom Dragon? Of course, by the way, I also killed a few people who were trying to murder me."

"Murder! How dare someone murder you?" Anthony's face turned pale and he said in panic.

"Well, I'm also wondering why the other party is so clear about my mission location and target. It seems that someone in the Sword Bearer Headquarters must have leaked my mission information."

Ryan said, staring at Anthony.

Anthony turned pale when he was looked at. He quickly took out a handkerchief and kept wiping the sweat on his forehead, saying, "This... shouldn't be the case. It shouldn't be the case."

"By the way, I also killed two people who attacked me. They were Chandler, the Magic Iron Sword Wielder, and Mia, the Mithril Sword Wielder."

"What?! Lord Ryan, you...you just killed two people in your team?" Upon hearing the news, Anthony suddenly slid off his chair and onto the ground.

Obviously he was scared!
The look he gave Ryan had changed!

This young man in front of me who looks harmless when he smiles is actually a very ruthless person!

He actually killed the person directly.

You have to know that Chandler is not some little cat or dog, he is the second son of a powerful marquis in the imperial capital.

"Well, as the captain of the sword bearers, I guess I have that right, don't I?"

"But even if that's the case, you shouldn't have killed them directly. The two of them attacked you secretly, and the headquarters will definitely investigate. Sir Ryan, you are too reckless."

"Also, normally, you are stronger than them. You can just imprison them and let the headquarters and the military court try them."

"Haha, I haven't finished yet. At that time, there were other people besieging me, so, you know, I accidentally killed them all in a moment." Ryan said with a smile.

"Are there others?" Anthony said in horror.

"Sir Anthony, please report it. This matter is no longer something you can handle." Ryan waved his hand and said.

Because he found that there was no point in causing trouble to Anthony at this level.

"It's true that my authority is limited. Please wait a moment, I will report right away." After saying that, Anthony, who had a spherical figure, ran out of the office like a flash.

Ryan naturally considered whether to give Greenwood, Mia, Chandler and others a more decent explanation, for example, several of them died in the battle with the Venom Dragon.

In this way, we can still save some face.

But after thinking about it, Ryan rejected the idea.

After all, this world has mysterious professions such as fortune tellers and astrologers. If he tells a white lie just to save their faces, he might end up shooting himself in the foot.

Instead of this, let him tear off this last piece of fig leaf completely.

Half an hour later, Ryan was invited into a meeting room.

There were more people coming this time, and as for Anthony, he was not even qualified to participate.

The leader was an old man with a majestic presence, with a pair of golden branches and leaves and four suns on his epaulettes, which meant that he was a general of the Dragun Empire and his rank was higher than that of admiral.

If Ryan remembered correctly, the other party should be General Augustus, who was in charge of the daily work of the Sword Bearer Headquarters, and his status was second only to Marshal Alfred.

The other party is a top-notch figure even in the entire empire.

Beside him were two imperial admirals and two major generals, who were holding notebooks and seemed to have been reduced to the position of clerks.

Obviously, Ryan's incident has completely alarmed the top leaders of the Sword Bearer Headquarters.

"Mr. Ryan, this is General Augustus, this is Admiral Donald, this is..."

"Now you can tell us what happened at that time." said the capable female major general sitting at the edge.

"Okay!" Ryan nodded, and then he began to tell the whole story.

A few minutes later.

A male major general sitting at the edge suddenly interrupted Ryan's story and said in a deep voice:

"Wait, Lord Ryan, you just said that Mia, the Mithril-level Sword Wielder, and Chandler, the Magic Iron-level Sword Wielder, suddenly cast a spell on you and attacked you when you were fighting the Venom Dragon?"

"Excuse me, is there any evidence to prove this?"

"Yes, the other two members of my team can prove it, and so can the Blade Squad of the Sword Wielder Branch of the Gnom Province." Ryan glanced at the other party and said.

"Please continue, Lord Ryan."

Ten minutes later, when Ryan talked about how he was suddenly attacked by the 'King of Killers' of the Black Knife Organization, everyone present looked surprised except General Augustus who remained calm.

"Sir Ryan, the person who assassinated you just now is the 'King of Killers' affiliated with the Black Knife Organization?" the female major general asked doubtfully.

"Well, the other party's body and weapons are now kept in the Sword Bearer branch in the Gnom Province. I think it won't be difficult for the headquarters to investigate the other party's identity, right?"

"It shouldn't be difficult if we have corpses and special weapons." The female major general nodded.

When Ryan told the story of how Greenwood had ordered Greg to attack him and was killed by him, the admiral named Donald could no longer hold back and said:

"You just said that you killed Venom Dragon first, then the assassin king of the Black Blade Organization, and finally this 'Corpse Ripper' Greg."

"You know, two of these three are at the peak of Legendary level. As for the Assassin King, dealing with his attack is not much easier than facing a Peak Legendary. It's not logical for you to defeat these three people in a row."

"Also, if you can really kill the three people mentioned above, then Greenwood's strength is very different from yours, there is no reason why you can't hold back."

"I think you need a more detailed and reasonable explanation." Donald said in a deep voice.

"Haha, there's nothing I can do about it. The first mission assigned to me, the new swordsman, is to kill the venom dragon."

"I was too excited at the time and accidentally used too much force, killing Greenwood." Ryan shrugged and said with a smile.

Ryan naturally had no good feelings towards Admiral Donald, who was likely to have manipulated the mission he assigned behind the scenes.

"You" Obviously, Admiral Donald was extremely dissatisfied with Ryan's attitude.

In particular, Ryan's words were suggestive, which gave Donald a bad feeling.

Could it be that.
What did this rebellious young man in front of me know?
(End of this chapter)