novelonline Chapter 947 Magic Detector (7k4)
Chapter 947 Magic Detector (7k4)
Chapter 947 Magic Detector (7k4)
In the past year, two legends have emerged among adventurers in the Western countries.
One is the mysterious skill merchant. Few people know his real name and his origin is also very mysterious. Those who are lucky enough to meet him only know that he has tamed a flaming dragon as a mount. He always rides the dragon down from the sky. The skills he sells make the adventurers who buy them improve by leaps and bounds. There are dozens of cases of them being promoted from D-E to B-A.
The other is the brave man who disappeared for decades and returned reincarnated - the shining Masayuki!
He returned from the reincarnation and easily formed a powerful A-level adventure team. Every member was a well-known figure with unfathomable strength. Many people were impressed by his domineering aura and believed that he was stronger than the legendary Sakaguchi Hinata, the strongest saint in the West.
However, Masayuki Honjo himself was extremely depressed about this and had no idea how things had developed step by step to where they were now.
Just a year ago, he was a 16-year-old high school student with excellent grades and a rebellious heart. But just dyeing his hair blonde, his crime is not enough to make him travel to another world, right?
Anyway, he was just walking on the road one day when he suddenly saw a beautiful woman with black hair. He turned his head and realized that he was here.
He is just an ordinary high school student who knows nothing, not even the language, but unfortunately he is involved in a story of a hero saving a beauty.
It was from then on that things got out of control, because he awakened several or one strange skill at a time.
Heroic tyranny (the chosen one).
Although this is a unique skill, it is close to the ultimate skill and has extremely superior performance.
These include Hero's Haki that can intimidate others with his imposing manner, Hero's Correction that can make people super lucky and turn ordinary attacks into critical hits, Hero's Charm that will inspire and admire him when seeing him perform well, and make those who lose to him follow him more sincerely, and Hero's Action that can make his actions play a leadership role.
Simply put, it's like the protagonist's halo.
Everything went smoothly for him. The 'Mad Wolf' Xunlei, Bonnie, an outstanding magic graduate from the Kingdom of Ingracia, and Qiu, a high-level elf magic expert, were all impressed by his 'dominance' and became his subordinates one after another, so he became more and more famous.
By now, Masayuki was almost familiar with this feeling, and at this moment, they heard some exaggerated rumors.
"Have you heard? The whereabouts of the legendary skill merchant has been revealed!"
"He lives in the Jura Forest, which is the Jura Tempest Federation founded by that monster. His mount, the Fiery Dragon he rides, has also become a demon king. He has a good relationship with the demon king Rimuru!"
"Really! How could I lie to you?"
"You know about dragon species, right? It is said that some time ago, one of the dragon species, the Burning Flame Dragon, went to the Jura Forest to capture him because he coveted his skills, but he was defeated by the skill merchant! Because the battle caused too much noise, his location became known to everyone!"
"Really, let's go together. Many adventurers have already gone to find him. Maybe we can get lucky and buy a skill."
"Oh, right! I heard that the Monster Kingdom even transformed the battlefield site between him and the Scorching Dragon into a tourist attraction. We can take something called a cable car and fly over to see it..."
The rumors sounded bizarre, and the word "cable car" made Masayuki very interested.
Are there people from our world over there too?
So he asked his friends about it, and they found out that something had happened.
Who is he? The famous hero, the shining Masayuki! Does he need to buy skills from the skill merchant? Of course not!
As a result, rumors spread that the hero was going to compete with the skill merchant for the title of the strongest human, and many people even thought that he was going to eliminate the Demon King Rimuru by the way.
Burdened by his fame, Masayuki couldn't help but go to the Monster Kingdom. Crazy Wolf Thunder declared, "Let's go have a real fight! Skill merchants? Only the weak will pursue that kind of thing. We don't need it!"
Bonnie remained calm: "But even the 'Dragon Seed' is no match for that merchant. We should be careful... Although I also think that Masayuki can handle everything."
Qiu Ze said, "Masayuki, you don't need to pursue those false names. A hero fights against the devil, not other human beings. There is no need to fight with some skill merchants, right?"
Masayuki nodded. He had never seen the power of a dragon species, but to be honest, he didn't think that he or the three people in front of him would lose.
Well, he still remembered that he had no real skills, but it seemed that due to the influence of his skills, the three Thunderbolts were ridiculously strong, and he believed that no matter how strong someone was, they would only be at their level.
Maybe a little tricky?
In short, there is no need to deliberately pick a fight. He doesn't even want to provoke the Demon King Rimuru.
Before leaving, he made a special trip to the Free Guild headquarters, hoping to seek advice from Yuuki, who was also a visitor from another world, and to ask if Yuuki knew who the alien from the Monster Federation was.
But what puzzled and worried him was that the people at the Freedom Guild headquarters told him that the commander-in-chief Yuuki had not appeared for more than two months.
"Yuuki is so amazing, he can build a large family business by himself, so he should be fine, right? Forget it, I'll go to the Monster Kingdom for him first." Thinking of this, with a trace of worry and a high-spirited attitude, Honjo Masayuki rushed to the Monster Federation with his three companions.
And his relaxed mood like a tourist lasted until he got on the 'sightseeing cable car'.
It's very high, but the height alone doesn't mean anything.
The sightseeing cable car, which is maintained by magic, is more stable than the modern one. Masayuki has ridden a Ferris wheel and a roller coaster before, so he has no need to be afraid.
But what is this battlefield?
Looking from a height of hundreds of meters, the area within dozens of miles was a scene of disaster.
The earth was full of cracks, and the originally towering mountains were either cut in half or blown into small mounds of unique shapes.
The scorching lava flowed between the cracks, bubbling and filling the air with terrifying heat. The afterglow of the magic in the atmosphere had not yet dissipated, and the strange and oppressive energy made Masayuki feel uncomfortable breathing!
Is this a battlefield site?
Is this really not a natural disaster scene after a magnitude 9 earthquake and a volcanic eruption? !
Wait, speaking of dragon species, the level division of the Adventurer's Guild seems to be Special S Disaster Level.
Is this natural disaster not an exaggeration but a fact? Then...what is Ji Xing, the skill merchant who can defeat the natural disaster? !
This is impossible, right? Absolutely impossible, right?
If there is no cable car, it would be dangerous for us to even walk through the land below, right?!
Masayuki suddenly came to his senses and wanted to turn around and leave, but the embarrassing thing was that they were at a high altitude, on a cable car, and there was no way to go back.
"Hehe, just bluffing. This place has actually been hit by some kind of natural disaster, right?" Crazy Wolf Xunlei still argued confidently: "Lord Masayuki doesn't need to make up these false things!"
Hey, wake up. Your Lord Masayuki, that is, me, is the most fake.
Fortunately, Bonnie seemed to remain calm: "Whether it is true or not, based on the style of this cable car, it is certain that there must be people from another world like me in the Monster Kingdom. In view of this matter, Lord Masayuki, can we act a little more low-key?"
Be low-key, of course you have to be low-key!
Masayuki was almost moved to tears and nodded repeatedly. Half an hour later, they got off the cable car and saw the west gate of the town of 'Rimuru', the capital of Jura Tempest.
A heat wave rolled in, and the noisy streets into the city appeared before the four people.
……
“It’s really thriving.”
In the center of the town, in Rimuru's office building, Rimuru, in slime form and held in Shion's arms, looked out the window at the extremely prosperous and bustling town and sighed with happiness.
"It's a genius idea to isolate the ruins that can't be easily restored into a tourist attraction and connect the two ends with a magic cable car."
This not only increased the attraction of the Monster Kingdom, but also severely frightened all visitors with the terrifying scene. The public security of the town was greatly improved. The adventurers who rushed in like crazy and those who wanted to buy Ji Xing's skills also learned to be respectful and did not cause any big trouble.
"That being said, Lord Rimuru." Shucai said with a worried look on her face, "Regarding the issue of the capital's reception capacity reaching its limit, you have not yet given a feasible solution."
Slime's expression shrank. Oh, can't I just play dumb and avoid it? But Shuna, what can I do if the reception capacity is not enough? Can I make the town double in size out of thin air?
Those popular attractions before the time travel can be booked online, and the maximum number of tourists to be received can be set when selling tickets, but we in the Tempest Federation can't just lock the city gates, can we?
The opening ceremony is just around the corner, and the Monster Kingdom is showing an attitude that it does not welcome human adventurers or tourists. This is bound to cause big problems no matter how you think about it.
Due to the incident in Farmus Kingdom, Rimuru was worried that merchants and adventurers would not come to Tempest out of fear, but he never expected that he would encounter such a happy trouble.
Ji Xing's attraction is too strong.
Well, ask him for help?
Slime suddenly jumped from Ziyuan's arms to the table and asked, "Is Jixing here?"
Shuna nodded, "Jisung-sama should be playing with Milim-sama in the underground maze."
"Well, they are so comfortable." The slime changed into a girl's appearance: "Let's go and take a look."
The 'underground labyrinth' was built in a corner of the town of Rimuru, and its origin was Ramiris.
Just about two months ago, shortly after Ji Xing's battle with the Burning Dragon, Ramiris, known as the Labyrinth Fairy, came uninvited and said that she was too bored living in the original labyrinth and wanted to move the labyrinth to Rimuru's place.
How can two demon kings live together? This is an invasion of territory, and Ramiris is not a special case like Shyvana. Rimuru wanted to refuse, but after learning about Ramiris's only ability to build a maze, he found a "business opportunity".
She was worried about how to keep the town attractive to adventurers. She couldn't always rely on Ji Xing, could she? Regardless of whether Ji Xing would stay here for a long time, when adventurers found that they couldn't easily obtain skills even if they found Ji Xing, their enthusiasm would always fade, or even have the opposite effect.
But if we run an 'underground maze' challenge game with rewards, where adventurers can get training and rewards, then the kingdom will definitely remain lively and prosperous.
If you are a challenger, go down a hundred floors!
So she agreed to Ramiris, and even gave Ramiris, the demon king who had always been called "unemployed and stay-at-home", a job - to help her build and operate a 100-story underground maze.
She also specially invited Veldora to be the boss of the deepest 100th floor, and let Veldora release his violent magic power to the fullest.
Just like many monsters in the Jura Forest were created by Veldora's magic, in just one month, the 100-story maze was filled with monsters of various levels. The only thing missing was a boss who could guard the level.
However, through her arrangements, these problems are gradually being resolved, and it should be no problem to trial-operate the maze after the opening ceremony a week later.
As for Ji Xing playing with Milim in the underground maze, that is another story.
It was also on the day when Ramiris showed up uninvited that Ji Xing left the Monster Kingdom and went to Guy’s territory to complete the battle with Milim.
Rimuru was unable to follow and see, but according to the information she received, the extremely strong Ji Xing should have had the upper hand at the beginning of the battle. However, Milim was stronger than the Scorching Dragon, and Ji Xing claimed that if she used her ultimate ability and the battle lasted for a long time, the outcome would be uncertain.
They didn't have a chance to fight for long. After watching the two fight for a few minutes, the dragon-type white ice dragon Velzard, who was eager to fight, suddenly joined the battlefield. The one-on-one battle turned into a three-way chaos, and Guy's territory was turned into a mess. Guy, who was speechless, intervened and stopped them from continuing the battle.
At that time, Rimuru was still a little amused and gloating, but not long after, Milim, who slipped away from Frey's nose, almost scared her to death - the Jura Forest could not withstand more disaster-level battles. If she fought two more battles, her country would be gone and she would only be able to visit the attractions!
Fortunately, Ji Xing was very considerate of her and diverted Milim's attention by playing games.
So the two of them occasionally played childish hide-and-seek on the first ten floors of the underground maze.
Milim hides, Jisung catches.
The method of hiding is the transformation skill that Ji Xing sold to Milim - Milim can transform into any monster in the first ten levels of the maze to disguise herself, and Ji Xing has to hunt it down and discover it.
Well, this is probably how Ji Xing, a skill merchant, practices? It seems that while Milim is having fun, Milim's use of his skills also makes him stronger every day. The progress of his sainthood is terrifying. According to Luminas, this guy can definitely become a "god".
If saints are so powerful, how outrageously powerful can gods be?
Fortunately, after getting along with each other, I found that although Ji Xing is sometimes unreliable, he is basically a 'good person'.
Arriving at the entrance of the underground maze, Rimuru immediately heard Milim’s signature laugh: “Wahahahahaha—this time you passed by my transformed goblin three times before you found me. I’ve mastered the trick. You won’t be able to catch me next time!”
Ji Xing must have let Milim win. Milim was too happy too early... Rimuru complained for no reason and walked in, greeting them: "Ji Xing, Milim! Oh, Ramiris is here too?"
"What do you mean Ramiris is here too?" Ramiris flew over and kicked, but Rimuru caught it without any pain.
Milim also ran over and said with her hands on her hips: “You’ve come just in time, Rimuru. I’m hungry!”
Staying with these two demon kings, Rimuru always felt like he was visiting a children's park. He motioned to Shuna to give Milim some honey snacks. She looked at Jixing and said, "Jixing, the town is in trouble now. I wonder if you have any solution..."
She explained the problem. In short, the founding ceremony was approaching, and she wanted everyone to see the prosperity and tolerance of the federation. However, she was helpless to see that all the hotels and restaurants were packed.
Ji Xing thought for a moment and said, "This is simple. Isn't this what the underground maze was built for?"
“Here?” Rimuru was startled and looked at Ramiris: “But… didn’t they say that only the first thirty floors have been arranged? The monsters and traps below still need to be set up… Are you planning to start a trial operation?”
"No." Ji Xing smiled and said, "Since there are too many people to entertain, then we can lock some people in the maze and let Ramiris isolate them in the rooms. It won't be too much effort, right?"
"……close?!"
"Wait a mininute."
As Ji Xing spoke, a strange rhythm of magic element rose from his body. Rimuru vaguely felt the fluctuation of time and space, and also felt the fleeting rise of Ji Xing's breath... What happened?
《Explanation. The similarity between the fluctuations of the magic element of the individual Ming Jixing and the fluctuations of the unique skill promoted to the ultimate skill is 99%.》
"...?"
The voice of the King of Wisdom echoed, and Rimuru was stunned. What? The fluctuation of the unique skill being promoted to the ultimate skill? Ji Xing obtained another ultimate skill while talking? !
《Announcement. The unique skill 'Scientist' challenged and advanced. The challenge was successful and advanced to the ultimate skill 'Scientist Master Ji Xing Qi Xin'! 》
Well, this is because after a few days of hard work, the main body successfully established a contract with the one-star Conan world will, giving him the ability to advance to a Conanist at any time.
In the past two months, he has freed up two Ultimate Skill Promotion slots through Milim's training, and it is easy for him to upgrade one.
"I'll be back soon."
After slightly realizing the power of the master of science, Ji Xing disappeared in the maze. Rimuru, Milim, and Ramiris looked at each other in confusion for about five minutes, and Ji Xing returned in a flash, with a pair of "sunglasses" in his hand.
They looked like ordinary sunglasses, except for a blue button on the edge of the frame.
"This is……?"
"Combat power detector." Ji Xing said with a smile.
"……what?"
“The ones from Dragon Ball?!” Veldora suddenly appeared beside them as he shouted in surprise, “Show me now!”
Well, he had been eavesdropping, and Rimuru had already discovered it. It was just that since Jixing defeated Velgrynd, Veldora and Jixing felt a little awkward together. It was not that he was afraid, but Jixing must have inherited some of the shadows left by his sister.
But when he, who regarded comics as holy scriptures, heard about the combat power detector, he couldn't bear it.
"How can it be……"
Just as Rimuru was about to tell him to stop dreaming, he heard Ji Xing say, "It's similar to that, but to be precise, it's called a 'Magic Element Detector'. It can only detect the amount of the target's magic element."
...Is this true or false?
A pair of sunglasses?!
Jixing had handed it to Veldora, who put it on eagerly and immediately pressed the blue button towards Rimuru.
"Hey, don't try to use me casually..."
Drop drop-
Before he could stop him, a line of numbers appeared in front of Veldora. He laughed loudly, “Ones, tens, hundreds… Rimuru, your combat power is only 4856435 points!”
Where does the 'only' come from? You clearly only measured me? There are both zeros and whole numbers, which is quite decent. Besides, Ji Xing said that the amount of magic energy was detected!
So is this data a little or a lot?
“Veldora, look at me!” Milim gradually understood what he said and was eager to try.
Veldora immediately looked at Milim and pressed the button, but the sunglasses only made a long beep, but no number appeared.
"Eh, it doesn't work."
Veldora took off his sunglasses in confusion, but Jisung took them back and gave them to Rimuru.
“That means Milim’s magic power exceeds the detection limit, which is 99999999.”
“…Wahahaha!” Milim laughed triumphantly, and Veldora also said, “As expected of you, my big brother’s child. Great!”
"..." Rimuru couldn't believe it. Mine is more than 20 times?! Is it that exaggerated? Is this thing accurate? Who is it based on as the benchmark?!
Seeing them having fun, Ramiris couldn't wait any longer: "Look at me, Rimuru! The most powerful demon lord Ramiris!"
Rimuru put on the detector and satisfied her.
"Hmm...173580?"
“One hundred and seventy thousand?” Ramiris pulled up her fingers and two seconds later she was furious: “Impossible! That’s not right! Rimuru, you forgot two zeros!”
"You feel it's quite accurate." Rimuru's mumbling caused Ramiris to start punching and kicking her madly. Rimuru just looked at Shuna.
350892, Oh, that's pretty capable, more than twice as powerful as the Shame of the Demon King.
Where's Shion? 1257744?! Wow, this should be the edge of awakening the demon lord, right? Shion is really insanely strong now.
She turned around and saw Veldora had already struck a handsome pose: “Rimuru, come and see my power!”
Rimuru satisfied him and then exclaimed: "88126579? That's more than 17 times mine. As expected of a dragon, you and Milim are both monsters in terms of magic."
“More than 80 million?” Veldora only snorted, and suddenly clamped his arms at both ends of his waist, and shouted in a low voice: “Magic power! Release!”
boom--
Rimuru was shocked by the powerful magical wind pressure and grabbed Ramiris to protect Shuna. Veldora had already wrapped himself in the magical tornado and laughed wildly, “Come and see! My true fighting power!”
"…Are you an idiot?! It hasn't changed at all, okay?! No! Because of the attrition, the numbers are still decreasing! Do you really think this is a Dragon Ball anime that can still explode?!"
“…Ah? Is it not possible???”
Veldora withdrew his magic power in disappointment, and Shuna and Shion breathed a sigh of relief.
Rimuru rolled his eyes at Veldora in annoyance, let go of the confused Ramiris, looked at Ji Xing and said, “It seems to be really accurate. What is the principle of this thing? No matter how you look at it, it seems to be unrealistic technology with no scientific basis at all.”
As she spoke, she pressed the button and saw a number - 8888888.
This made her mouth twitch. This number seemed too fake. Did Ji Xing use his own magic as the standard? No, there should be a way to hide the magic to avoid detection? But this also proved that Ji Xing, as a human, was many times stronger than me, the demon king, in terms of light magic. It was outrageous!
“It’s hard to explain the principle, just think of it as the product of my new ultimate skill.” Ji Xing smiled and said, “The amount of magic power does not represent the real combat power. The magic power of White Ice Dragon and Burning Flame Dragon are both around 8800 to million, and Guy’s magic power is only around million. But they are all stronger than Veldora’s magic power of more than million, so this thing can only be used as a reference equipment.”
Veldora: “…”
If I can't beat it...
Rimuru nodded: "I know, but what does this have to do with what you just said...locking some adventurers in the underground labyrinth?"
"We are like this..."
As Ji Xing explained, Rimuru's eyes gradually brightened. This was really a great help!
……
Two hours later.
After walking around the Monster Town for a while and being squeezed by the huge crowds of people and admirers, Zheng Xing suddenly heard a "horn" sound that made him dazed.
"Hello, hello, can you hear me?"
Just like the dean of a school, someone was broadcasting to the entire town from the center of the town, and everyone stopped what they were doing and looked towards the center in confusion.
"Well, hello everyone, welcome to the Federation of Jura Tempest. I am Rimuru Tempest, the leader of the Federation. There are many tourists during this period. Please forgive me if the Federation is not hospitable enough."
"Rimuru... is the Demon King..."
"You actually asked us to 'forgive' you?"
Low noises were heard everywhere, and Rimuru's voice continued to spread: "I know that many adventurers are chasing Ji Xing, a skill merchant who is temporarily staying in this town, and want to buy skills from him.
But Ji Xing said that his ability was limited and he couldn't sell the skill to everyone. In order not to disappoint everyone, after discussion with Ji Xing, we decided to start a competition for skill purchase qualifications."
wow——
At this moment, the crowd was noisy and many adventurers were enthusiastic and excited, cheering.
After seeing the battlefield where Ji Xing fought with the Burning Dragon, many adventurers no longer came just for the skills. They admired Ji Xing's strength and power and regarded Ji Xing as an idol.
Now that their idol is so considerate and has even contacted the Demon King to hold a competition to purchase qualifications for the sake of fairness, how can they not be moved?
Then Rimuru raised his voice and said, "In order to be fair to adventurers of every level, this competition will not be about fighting, nor will it ask about your background. The only thing you'll be competing for is hard work and growth.
We have special instruments that can accurately detect the amount of magic in the contestants. After completing the test and registration, the contestants will be sent to a special underground palace room. The time starts from the moment you enter, and the contestants need to spend 7 days and 7 nights there, practicing alone.
When the countdown ends, we will test your magic again. The 100 people who have grown the most during the seven days of retreat will be eligible to purchase skills from Ji Xing!"
After that, the noise subsided a little.
This special rule made everyone a little confused, but the number of 100 made many people even more excited. No fighting, just seven days, and 100 people... there is a chance!
The skill merchant is indeed a 'miracle' that helps us low-level adventurers! Even if it's D-level or E-level, there's still a chance, right? How can we not give it a try? !
“Please don’t be impatient. The registration deadline is the eve of the National Day in seven days, which means the final results will be announced two weeks later.
There is no additional benefit to entering the underground palace earlier, and practicing alone in seclusion will be more lonely than everyone expected. Please prepare food, daily necessities, and even entertainment and leisure items first, and then go to the following locations to register..."
boom--
The streets and alleys suddenly came alive again.
Zheng Xing and the other three looked at each other.
Mad Wolf Xunlei suddenly snorted coldly: "It feels like there will be a conspiracy! But Lord Masayuki is not afraid of any tricks, so let's sign up too!"
(End of this chapter)