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Chapter 809 Is it him?

After bidding farewell to Fia, Luo Jun visited the two Grandmasters, Flowing Water and Storm, at the address provided by Earth Grandmaster Locke.

Similarly, after reading the letter of introduction, the two did not make things too difficult for him. They simply found a way to let him demonstrate his magic power and then gave him the green light, and even gave him a special master magic spell.

The refinement technique given by the mentor is a refining method that can permanently increase the strength and attributes of weapons and equipment. It is also effective on rough blanks and can instantly complete the sharpening and other post-processing. It can be said that the rough blank that Luo Jun made through the forging technique has become a finished weapon after this technique, and its quality has directly reached the legendary level. Although there are no special effects, all its attributes are extremely powerful.

As for the Storm Mentor, he provided an Enlightenment spell, which could imbue ordinary weapons and equipment with random magical effects.

This is quite powerful. As mentioned before, the weapons and equipment in the [game] world have very simple and straightforward effects, either increasing attributes or increasing damage, rarely possessing the magical mechanics of Noble Phantasms. However, this Enchanting Technique is different; items enchanted by it gain all sorts of unique enchantments. Luo Jun tried it several times, and among them encountered one with an effect that was completely comparable to a high-level Noble Phantasm.

It can be said that equipment crafted using the Enlightenment Technique is far superior to the vast majority of original equipment of the same level in the world!

After going through this whole process, Luo Jun finally understood the trick. It turned out that the four great mentors had teamed up to invent a technique for creating a treasure.
"Since you all have this technology, why don't you just open a factory and produce legendary equipment directly? Wouldn't you have made a fortune by now?" Luo Jun asked the last Storm Mentor before leaving.

"Do you think we're short of that little bit of money?" Storm Mentor curled his lip. "Besides, the four of us back then... anyway, we made a promise that we would never see each other again in this life!"

"At your age, why are you still being so stubborn?" Luo Jun retorted. "So, you're just passing on this entire set of skills to me? So I can carry it forward for you?"

"We're just teaching you. How you use it, or whether you want to use it at all, is up to you," the Storm Instructor waved his hand. "We just happened to encounter such a promising talent, and we felt it would be a shame not to pass on these rare spells."

"That's rare..." Luo Jun asked curiously, "Have you ever encountered someone like me before?"

“I’m not trying to flatter you, but there really isn’t anyone as skilled as you.” The Storm Mentor stroked his beard. “However, there are some who can catch our eye. For example, a few years ago, a group of siblings came to visit us and, like you, displayed excellent qualities. We also taught them a set of our own unique, self-developed spells.”

"How many siblings are there?" Luo Jun frowned slightly, as if he had vaguely grasped something: "What kind of magic did you teach them?"

"It's strange, those siblings came together, but each of them only learned one type of magic. However, their compatibility was ridiculously high, making them particularly suitable for cultivating the corresponding magic. We cherished their talent, so we taught them a unique fusion technique that we developed ourselves."

"Fusion Technique?" The thought became clearer in Luo Jun's mind: "What exactly are the effects?"

"Using it alone is only so-so; at most, it strengthens one's elemental affinity and makes elementalization easier," the Storm Mentor said. "But if four people use it together, they can fuse the four elements and become one, transforming into a more powerful entity!"

"It's this one!" Luo Jun's eyes lit up immediately. He thought of the Wu siblings he had met before!
Now that I think about it, apart from Wu Kong, the other four people correspond to the four elements of earth, water, fire, and wind, and they can also merge!

"Do those four people look like this?" Luo Jun described the appearance of the four Wu siblings and received an affirmative answer: "Yes, that's right. You know them too?"

Luo Jun stroked his chin. So, the Wu siblings learned their fusion technique here? This means they had been to this [game] world before... Wait a minute!
Luo Jun looked at the Storm Mentor and asked, "Are there only four of them? Is there a fifth person?"

Luo Jun also described Wu Kong's appearance.

“No.” Storm Mentor shook his head. “At least I haven’t seen it. You can ask the other three mentors; I don’t know about them.”

Wu Kong didn't come along... Luo Jun guessed, and asking the others probably wouldn't make much difference. But since all four siblings were here, Wu Kong must have been to this [game] world before!
Wait a minute, the one who killed Zhao Gongming was probably someone from the [game] world. Could it be them?

No, those four siblings definitely don't have that ability... They are indeed powerful after merging, but the merging process is extremely chaotic, and it's impossible for them to hide it from the main world's Yu Hua.

Could it be Wu Kong?
Luo Jun frowned. He had only met Wu Kong once half a year ago. At that time, Wu Kong was not a saint yet, but only a relatively powerful peak cultivator. Although the two did not actually fight at that time, if Wu Kong had the ability to kill Yu Hua, there was no reason why he would suffer a defeat at his hands!

Could it be that his strength has improved by leaps and bounds in the past six months?
It's unlikely...

Regardless, the Wu siblings are indeed highly suspicious and deserve our attention.

After bidding farewell to the Storm Mentor, Luo Jun returned to the capital. On the way, he used up all his remaining skill points to raise all four magic types to level 70 or above.

He has now learned a vast amount of magic, and upon closer inspection, he found that the effect of almost every spell is linked to its level. From damage, duration, casting range, and so on, there can be differences. Therefore, although leveling up requires consuming a lot of skill points, it can raise the upper limit of magic and make the effect more powerful!

After doing all this, two or three days had passed since he left. Luo Jun arrived at the "Cerebral Thrombosis Commando Team's" base to see the specific effects of the strategy he had developed over the past two days.

"Night, you've arrived?" Just as Luo Jun reached the door, he ran into Duan Feilan and Mu Lanshi, who were just coming out. The two were pleasantly surprised to see him, and Mu Lanshi exclaimed in astonishment, "You've already reached level 82! And it's only been a few days!"

Luo Jun nodded, not responding to their question, but instead asked, "How's the strategy going?"

The two girls looked disappointed when this was mentioned.

"The difficulty of the strategy is somewhat beyond my expectations..."

"Looks like it didn't work out." Luo Jun smiled slightly, having expected this outcome. He had realized how difficult this guy was to deal with when he stopped the BOSS that day. Moreover, the Ice Queen had agreed with him not to intervene, so relying on the other S-rank and official forces to take down this BOSS would not be easy.

If he hadn't been confident, he wouldn't have left to level up and gain experience.

"It's more than just a failure." Mu Lanshi shook her head and said, "On the first day, they gathered more than two hundred experts and successfully defeated six Imperial Guard monsters, but they just couldn't get past the seven."

"Two hundred people, and they didn't even pass the Imperial Guard?" Luo Jun was quite surprised. "The first six were alright," Duan Feilan said. "Aunt Xue didn't allow us to participate in the raids. We only observed the situation from the outside and could see the status of all the raiders and the monsters they were currently fighting. The first six went smoothly. The first one had our previous experience and was taken down at the start. The second one, although it had a lot of health and high defense, had over two hundred elite mercenaries who tried various methods and quickly found its weakness, and its more than three million health points were quickly depleted."

"The next few monsters were the same. Although each one was stronger than the last, they all had weaknesses. After a stalemate, they were quickly dealt with once the weaknesses were found. No one in the team was lost, and everyone's health remained stable."

"But after the seventh one appeared, the team's health immediately began to decline significantly, especially the tanks in the front line, whose health fluctuated wildly. After a stalemate of more than ten minutes, the main tank finally ran out of health, and then the other mercenaries began to die in large numbers. Sensing something was wrong, the people outside immediately activated the interrupt procedure. After the gate opened, all the remaining guards, including the lord, were revived..."

“But this time you weren’t there to block me.” Mulan sighed. “At the critical moment, it was the Ice Queen who stepped in and froze the main hall, allowing everyone to escape. Since then, the conquest army has never organized a decent conquest.”

After hearing their account, Luo Jun frowned. He had indeed only blocked the door that day. Apart from killing one monster instantly at the beginning, he mainly focused on blocking and had not tried to kill it directly. Therefore, he did not know whether the other guards had any special defensive methods.

But this is an elite force of over two hundred people assembled by the official strategy team.

The Ice Queen also commented that some of them could even approach or even rival the level of the Feathered One, so how come they couldn't even handle a single Imperial Guard?
"The leader of the conquest army should be Yu Hua, right?" Luo Jun asked. "How could they lose to a mere guard?"

Duan Feilan shook his head and said, "This world has a different combat system than ours. For the specifics, you should ask the Queen."

Luo Jun nodded and followed the two inside. Everyone in the hall was listless, but they perked up a bit when Ye came in.

"Night, you're here?" Shi Lei was the first to come up. "Would you like to join us for the next raid? To be honest, the official army suffered heavy losses on the last raid. Although we didn't lose any members, everyone was feeling down because of the prospect of leaving indefinitely. If you're willing to join us and work together with Aunt Xue, we'll have a better chance of conquering the fiftieth floor."

Luo Jun didn't answer him, but simply waved his hand: "I want to see the Snow Queen."

"Oh, of course," Shi Lei nodded. "I'll take you there."

Following Shi Lei through the hall, Luo Jun hesitated for a moment when he passed Mu Ning, then turned around to look at the blindfolded girl.

"What's wrong with you? Why do you turn your head away when you see me?"

Luo Jun was a little curious. As soon as he entered the hall, he noticed that although Mu Ning was blindfolded, she suddenly showed a shocked expression and then tilted her head to look elsewhere.

They've known each other for a while, so they shouldn't dislike me that much.

"Nothing?" Mu Ning sighed, turned off her ever-present Eye of Insight, and turned to look at Luo Jun: "Just how many life points do you have?"

"..." This question really stumped Luo Jun. "Would you believe me if I said I didn't know either?"

Mu Ning nodded: "I think so too..." and then fell silent.

Luo Jun glanced at the somewhat strange girl with some doubt, then followed Shi Lei upstairs to the Ice Queen's reception room.

"You're back?" The Ice Queen glanced at Luo Jun, somewhat surprised. "You leveled up thirty times in just two days?"

"I had a bit of a lucky encounter," Luo Jun said with a smile. "I heard the campaign the other day didn't go well?"

"The leader is more troublesome than I imagined." The Ice Queen looked at Luo Jun: "How did you manage to hold them off before?"

"I have my own methods." Luo Jun avoided the question and asked in return, "A mere Imperial Guard can wipe out the entire punitive expeditionary force?"

"It's not that bad," the Ice Queen said. "The strongest ones weren't actually injured much. It was the majority of the S-rank or A-rank mercenaries who weren't strong enough that suffered heavy losses. The core reason is that we haven't found a way to defeat this guard. The monster isn't very strong, but we can't break through its defenses. If we keep at it, the weaker challengers will inevitably suffer casualties."

"Even the most powerful mercenary, who possesses near-ascension strength, is no match for them?"

“Under the rules of this world, they do have a power level close to that of Ascension, but that doesn’t mean they have truly ascended,” the Ice Queen said. “The reason I was able to use the Ice Seal spell to temporarily seal those monsters inside the hall was because of the power from outside this world.”

"But in this world, both magic and martial arts operate under rules. If this monster is immune to ice, even the most powerful ice magic will not cause any damage, and even the thickest ice wall will not be able to stop its advance."

The Ice Queen's words reminded Luo Jun: "Even the top forces of this land have difficulty defeating them... So, from the very beginning, these monsters have required forces from outside the world to defeat them?"

"Our strength is only relatively superior to that of the local forces..." the Ice Queen said. "Even with my continuous spellcasting, my ice seal only lasted for a short while before being broken, barely enough to buy time for the others to escape. But if we're going to fight monsters, it's probably not enough. The monsters on the 50th floor are indeed a bit overpowered, much stronger than the leader on the 49th floor."

"Now, it's probably not a problem that we want to delay the strategy, but that the strategy simply cannot proceed."

Luo Jun wasn't worried about this: "Don't worry, I have a way to deal with them."

"Oh?" The Ice Queen's eyes lit up: "What method?"

"We'll find out then," Luo Jun said with a smile. "By the way, I've also made some progress on my investigation. I need the Queen to keep an eye out for me..."

(End of this chapter)