Please be my partner.

Chapter 207 Demonic Movement

“It’s not over yet…?”

Melen stared at the depths of the space-time rift with a cold expression.

After thinking for a moment, he turned around and returned to the direction of the Dusk Knights.

On the way, he saw the three black knights who were running for their lives. Melen said nothing and sped away with them.

Soon after, Meren returned to the Knights of Dusk and went straight to meet Dahl.

After meeting Dahl, Melen briefly explained his experiences and speculations, then asked solemnly, "Tell me, why did those demons target me? I've been keeping a low profile in the space-time rift."

Dahl looked at Mellen with a strange expression and said, "Well, is there a possibility that the devil's target is not you?"

Mellen said categorically: "Impossible, that shadow demon is obviously coming for me!"

Dahl was silent for a moment, then said, "The Abyss is extremely hungry for extreme souls. Regardless of whether they are good or evil, as long as they are pure souls, powerful demons can be born from them."

Melen was stunned for a moment, then asked suspiciously, "Are you saying that their target is... Little Red Lotus?"

Dahl nodded, then shook his head and said, "Maybe, but I'm not sure."

Melen said: "The look in the Shadow Demon's eyes before he left told me that this matter is not over yet, and they may have other plans later."

Dahl nodded and was about to say something when the door was suddenly pushed open. A black knight hurried in, looking a little anxious. However, he did not speak directly, but glanced at Mellen.

Mellen was naturally not someone who didn't know what to do. He stood up and said, "You guys chat, and let me know when you have any news."

Dahl simply waved his hand, signaling Mellen to calm down, and then said to the Black Knight: "If you have anything to say, just say it directly."

The Black Knight then said, "The secret sentry sent a message that there are unusual movements deep in the space-time rift. It seems that demons are gathering on a large scale!"

Melen and Dahl were both shocked. After the black knight left, Melen asked uncertainly, "Is this... the sequel? Because of Little Red Lotus?!"

Dahl was also a little unsure at this point and said, "If the demon is really breaking the tacit understanding for your pet, then it only shows that the importance of your pet to the demon may be beyond our imagination."

"If that's the case, we can't let the devil succeed!"

Dahl closed his eyes slightly, and when he opened them again, tiny sparks of pure light shone from his eyes, like the morning star that illuminates the way ahead in the deep darkness of the last moment before dawn. "Mr. Mellen, it seems we are preparing for a war. I hope to get your help then."

Mellen said solemnly: "It is my duty!"

The current incident was most likely caused by him. Of course, he couldn't just sit there and watch others protect him from disaster while he remained indifferent.

Because even if there are unusual movements on the demon side, it will take more than one or two days to assemble a large army, so the test of the inheritance knight has not ended.

In the end, Spike naturally got the first place score with his excellent performance and won a place.

Wells from the Lava School came in second, and Eugenie from the Soft Water School came in third.

Howard of the Earth School only scored fifth, which made Lance and Ged feel a little regretful, but also secretly relieved. After all, if Howard's score could be ranked fourth, it would almost be equivalent to Mellen, who cut in line, taking his place, which would be difficult for anyone to accept.

This is indeed the case. The team ranked fourth in the ratings and the faction behind it are somewhat unwilling to accept this and seem to be negotiating some compensation with the Knights.

Melen naturally wouldn't worry about these things.

After becoming a Heritage Knight, Melen obtained the brand research results of all earth-related schools of the entire Dusk Knights. The number of basic earth brand runes increased directly from 87 to 122. In addition, he also obtained many combinations of different brand runes, as well as related knowledge.

Mellen's next idea was to have Spike engrave all 122 basic brand runes and then train them all to the limit.

There is interaction between the brand runes. The more brand runes there are and the higher their strength is, the more prominent this effect will be, and even some strange changes may occur.

This is recognized by all factions of the Dusk Knights.

However, it is almost an impossible task for other Brand Knights to engrave all the basic Brand Runes of the same system and train them to the limit.

For an ordinary Brand Knight, if he wants to train a basic Brand Rune to its limit, even if he has good talent and occasional rare resources to assist him, it usually takes two or three years. If he wants to train all 122 basic Brand Runes to their limit, two or three hundred years may not be enough.

If one is a genius among the Branded Knights and frequently uses precious resources such as 'Earth Chalcedony', perhaps the time it takes to train a basic Branded Rune to its limit can be shortened to about half a year. In this way, it only takes about 122 years to train all 60 basic Branded Runes to their limit.

But in reality, this is definitely impossible to achieve. Even with the resources of the entire Dusk Knights, it is impossible for a knight to eat "Earth Chalcedony" as a meal. More importantly, this precious resource itself has resistance. The more it is used, the lower the effect will be.

Therefore, for a normal Brand Knight, even if he knows that engraving more basic Brand runes has significant benefits, he will not do so. You know, the time required to train various combination brands is at least ten times that of the basic brand. The difficulty of training the third-level combination brand is an order of magnitude higher than that of the second-level.

But these don't matter to Spike. With spiritual energy as a plug-in, and the assistance of 'Earth Condensate' and 'Earth Jadeite', it only takes three days for the dog to train a basic brand rune to its limit.

Even if the two auxiliary resources have resistance, they cannot be reduced to no effect within two or three years. Spike only needs about a year to train all 122 basic brand runes to the limit. Then he will see what changes will happen and consider subsequent improvements.

As time went on, the entire Dusk Knights began to enter a state of combat readiness, and the atmosphere became increasingly tense.

In the time-space rift area, it is rare to see wandering demons in the periphery. Even in the middle, most demons are hiding in the demon camps, which makes the knights who fight and hunt in the time-space rift area gain little.

The Knights of Dusk have begun to recall their knights from battle and have dispatched numerous sentries and covert sentries to the space-time rift area to monitor the movements of the demons.

At the same time, the Knights of Dusk also passed the news of the demonic movements to the human countries. If the demons really launched a large-scale attack, according to the original agreement, the human countries would be obliged to provide support. After all, this was a disaster that concerned the survival of the entire world.

This news was like a bucket of cold water poured over the heads of human countries. Although human countries were somewhat skeptical about whether to come to the aid, at least the increasingly intense friction gradually stopped.

After learning this, Melen fell silent.

There is no doubt that human beings are stupid and selfish. This stupidity and selfishness can make people only care about immediate interests without considering their own life and death in the future. Perhaps... no, there must be kingdoms that want to let other kingdoms fight to the death so that they can preserve their own strength.

Mellen naturally couldn't change anything about this. He could only do his best within his ability.

During this period, Mellen returned to the Kingdom of Crow and had a secret discussion with Sir Light for a long time. He then went to check the current situation of the Fairytale Alliance and the King's Right Wing.

Mellen certainly didn't want the two forces to join the ranks of directly fighting against the demons, as that would be a drop in the bucket.

However, they are not powerless to play a role, especially the Fairy Tale Alliance. Thanks to its infiltration into the surrounding human kingdoms, the Fairy Tale Alliance has a certain influence in the Kingdom of Kro, the Kingdom of Baiye, and the Kingdom of Barotan, and can slightly influence the inclinations of the kingdom's top leaders.

The king's right wing can make some noise in the Kingdom of Linhai.

Relying on these two forces to influence human countries may not have much effect, but at least it is better than doing nothing.

By the time Mellen finished all this and returned to the Knights of Dusk, a month had passed.

The situation in the space-time rift is becoming increasingly tense. The demons have already sent out elite troops to conduct a large-scale sweep from the inside out. The Knights of Dusk are naturally not willing to be outdone and have dispatched a squad of elite knights to conduct a counter-hunt.

Some powerful forces that have received the news and are on good terms with the Knights of Dusk have already sent strong men to confirm the authenticity of the news.

After the news was confirmed, they did not leave. While passing the message back, they also stayed to fight the devil together.

There is also no doubt that human beings are noble and strong. When facing a major crisis, there will always be a group of people who will stand up. They will turn the tide and save the collapsing building. They will shine brightly in the midst of hardships and illuminate the way forward for civilization and race.

Mellen watched all this quietly, as if he had some understanding, yet also felt a little illusory.

In the Fairy Tale Kingdom, the second Black Abyss Titan Colossus has been built, and the second construction base has also been completed. This means that if there are sufficient materials, he can harvest two Titan Colossi every month.

Melen planned to use the collected materials to build as many basic models of Titan as possible after the third and fourth Abyss Titans were completed.

The most basic model of Titan Colossus must be controlled by a specially trained third-level source energy user to exert legendary strength, otherwise it is only a pseudo-legendary combat power.

Fortunately, this kind of giant mechanical creation is a powerful weapon on the battlefield and is suitable for the current situation.

Next, Mellen also secretly went to the space-time rift several times, but the first two or three times were fine, but the subsequent times he was quickly locked by the Shadow Demon, making it impossible for him to hunt secretly anymore.

Melen had thought about setting a trap to ambush the Shadow Demon, but the latter was too sharp and too slippery. After trying several times and failing, he gave up.

Another month passed, and the intensity of the battles in the space-time rifts increased every day. The human nations finally reached a temporary agreement and began to send troops to support the Knights of Dusk.

However, it took nearly two months for the latest batch of reinforcements to arrive in the Sunset Mountains.

Fortunately, as the news spread, the attention of the entire continent has been attracted, and many lone strongmen and forces have begun to gather towards the Sunset Mountains.

Although there are bound to be some people with ulterior motives amidst the mixed crowd, the strength of the human side has expanded rapidly as a result, and overall things are still moving in a positive direction.

In the lounge, Mellen finished his routine meditation and frowned slightly. He found that the efficiency of improving his mental power through meditation was beginning to slow down.

It’s like an invisible barrier appears before your eyes. If you can’t break through it, the previous improvement efficiency will become slower and slower until it stops completely.

Melen knew that this was the bottleneck of the legend. Only by breaking this bottleneck and truly achieving extraordinary things could one transform his life and break through the original racial limitations.

Extraordinary professions are created by intelligent life forms to elevate themselves.

Melen touched the wolf-shaped pendant hanging on his chest, and felt more and more that something was wrong with the profession of [Wolf Tamer].

He felt that the [Wolf Tamer] was not inferior to the legendary profession [Dragon Herder] at all, but the [Wolf Tamer] itself gave him a feeling of incompleteness. There was not even a corresponding method of cultivation, and it completely relied on the contracted dog to drive its own improvement.

Melen didn't know whether this was due to a missing inheritance in the wolf-shaped pendant itself, or for some other reason.

However, as Spike and Garuru's strength increased, his sense of vagueness and illusion gradually lessened, and he gradually felt more grounded.

This made Melen feel more and more that the anchor point theory was correct, so the most important thing for him at the moment was to upgrade the two dogs to the legendary level.

Spike was fine. After the battle with the six-armed snake demon two months ago, he seemed to have grasped something. After these two months, a terrifying fighting spirit would occasionally rise from the dog.

Perhaps, all Spike needs to break through to the legendary realm is the right opportunity.

There are some troubles on Garuru's side. The mechanical dog has just been promoted to the third level not long ago, and it still has a long way to go before it reaches the limit of the third level, let alone the fourth level legend.

Fortunately, Melen recently discovered that Garuru can accelerate its own growth by devouring rare metals and analyzing their properties.

This can be considered as half a cheat.

Next, Melen prepared to explore Garuru's bloodline to see what the mechanical dog's higher-level bloodline was.

The main reason why it has been delayed until now is that spiritual energy is too scarce.

Except for Xiao Liuli, the other four dogs are big energy consumers.

Needless to say, Spike and Garuru are already in a period of rapid growth, and need "plug-ins" to accelerate all aspects.

Xiao Honglian and Jinmao were even more exaggerated, especially Jinmao. The reason why their blood fusion was so smooth and fast was all due to the blessing of spiritual energy.

Therefore, even though Mellen is curious about exploring the bloodline of silicon-based life forms like Garuru, he must first ensure the normal growth needs of the dogs before using the excess spiritual energy to do this.

Chapter 208 Garuru: I like this!

Melen glanced at the remaining spiritual energy... 3500+.

It's a bit of a pity. If the wolf-shaped pendant could fully plunder spiritual energy when hunting demons in the space-time rift, this number would increase a hundred times. With so much spiritual energy, many problems could be easily solved.

Mellen even fantasized that once his spiritual energy was free, he would tame batches of various extraordinary dogs, just like the way an academy teaches students. In this way, there would always be dogs in each batch that stood out because of talent, luck, or other reasons. In this way, maybe some legendary dogs could be harvested every once in a while, which would be wonderful.

Retracting these thoughts, Mellen looked at Garuru who was squatting obediently in front of him. At this time, the mechanical dog still looked like a half-grown Husky, but its actual weight was more than one ton. This was because Garuru converted most of the metal it swallowed into energy form.

Don't be fooled by Garuru's well-behaved appearance in front of Mellen. It is a well-known troublemaker in the fairy tale kingdom. It wants to take a bite of any metal it sees to taste it.

Many of Spike's training tools were destroyed by Garuru.

Patting Garuru's head gently, Melen said, "Let's begin."

As their spiritual energy burned, their spiritual perspective began to decline rapidly.

After a moment that was both extremely fast and extremely slow in a trance, when Mellen and Garuru came to their senses, they had entered a unique spiritual space.

This place is different from the previous bloodline exploration of Spike and Xiao Honglian. The surroundings are pure silver, which has a sci-fi feel.

Moreover, there is no blood image in this silver space, but silver lines that extend continuously downwards.

As spiritual energy continued to burn, their perspectives continued to descend. Soon, information nodes began to appear on the silver lines. When Mellen touched those information nodes, fragmented images containing strange life emerged...

Some of them are strangely shaped machines, some are human-shaped, some are animal-shaped, and some are half-machine and half-flesh.

Some are special life forms, a vast mountain range, a giant rock monster, a flowing metal river...

It looks varied.

After observation, it is found that the same silver line can carry multiple information nodes, which belong to the same evolutionary type, but the further down they go, the more complex they tend to be.

These silver lines will not extend infinitely downwards. Some will break after revealing a few information nodes, while others are much stronger.

Melen was very interested in the evolution of those special life forms. He felt that if Garuru continued to evolve in this direction, there might be some surprises in the future.

Unfortunately, Garuru seems to be quite resistant to this, and doesn't even want the evolutionary path of semi-mechanical flesh and blood, only wanting to take the purely mechanical route.

In response to this, Mellen just shrugged his shoulders and agreed with Garuru's choice. As of now, [Source Energy User] is a very good extraordinary profession, and the further this profession progresses, the more purely mechanical it becomes.

The next step is the screening process as usual. Since Garuru had known that this scene would happen, he had already thought about it in advance.

Mellen only gave it a head start with "huge potential", and the rest was left to Garuru.

Then, Mellen began to observe the silver space around him. He guessed that the reason why Garuru's bloodline exploration was different from Spike and Little Red Lotus was probably related to the essential differences between silicon-based life and carbon-based life.

This also indirectly confirmed a guess that Mellen had always had.

Bloodline exploration does not extend from the individual bloodline being explored, but traces back from a broader range.

To give the simplest example, Spike's next stage of evolution is the 'Golden War Hound', but this does not mean that there is a Golden War Hound ancestor in Spike's bloodline. In fact, considering the rarity of Golden War Hounds, it is common sense that there is no such ancestor.

However, when Spike was exploring his bloodline, he happened to obtain the evolutionary route of the 'Golden War Dog'. It was more like the wolf-shaped pendant had captured the relevant information of the Golden War Dog through some means and bestowed it on Spike.

This is even more true for Garuru. As a mechanical dog born from forbidden objects and accidentally created by Pinocchio, it certainly has nothing to do with those strange lives, but it can still evolve in their direction, which also illustrates this point.