"Missing?"

One morning half a month after communicating with Carlis, Joshua, who was walking in the stratosphere, heard a piece of news that surprised him.

The wind was surging in the sky, and the cold air flow with ice crystals reflected the sun's light, shining brightly under the warrior's feet. At this time, he was walking in the sky with his hands behind his back, patrolling his territory, and the magic projection of a winged girl was suspended in front of him, reporting the news with a helpless look on his face.

"Yes, Joshua, but to be precise, it was not missing, but it was within my detection range."

Compared to the previous one, a golden star mark appeared on No. 3's forehead, with translucent wings surrounding the star. This was the result of her completely accepting the mark of the God of Sky. Ger's seal merged with No. 3's soul. At this time, the artificial intelligence girl looked very troubled. She hugged her knees with her hands and floated beside Joshua and complained: "You said you wanted to give those elite students greater freedom, so I didn't pay much attention to them... As a result, people disappeared in a while, and now it's almost a week."

"You talk about who is missing first."

Joshua was not very nervous. He just whispered a few words and said calmly: "Is it Lisa or Ivan and the others? I think the others should not have the confidence to disappear."

"It's Lisa, your Dragon Man apprentice."

Speaking of this, a gloating smile appeared on No. 3's little face: "It seems that Joshua, you are quite self-aware. You know that your apprentice like you like to run around... By the way, I forgot to tell you that No. 1 is missing with her."

As Joshua turned his head, No. 3 added another sentence: "According to my guess, she and No. 1 should have gone to the underground passage dug by No. 1 to play, otherwise, they would not even have the signal of the information terminal blocked and could not find the location."

After several months, the tunnels dug by Chu at the foot of the Nissie Snow Mountain were incredibly large. The huge caves were deep and long, and even wider than the dwarves' range of activities. From a certain perspective, Chu at the beginning almost dug a small underground world with his own strength. According to the words of the dwarf engineers who visited the tunnel, it was "very suitable for underground life to reproduce."

Because it is too deep, the Winter Castle instructors don’t know where the tunnel leads. Because of insufficient server load, the information terminal cannot be used too deep underground. In general, it is a blind spot.

"Jothia, do you think they will be in any danger?"

Although she was a little gloating before, it was just a resentment against the old Joshua alone. No. 3 was still very concerned about Lisa and No. 1. She asked with some concern: "Do you need to send the Knights to find them? A week said it will not be long, but it is enough to encounter any danger."

"It's not dangerous. I've killed all the monsters that are slightly more dangerous in the sky and underground of Moldavia. Even if there are fish that escape the net, they can't deal with them according to the strength of these two guys... What I wonder is how these two people got together, and with syndicates here, how could they let them run around casually."

Joshua frowned slightly, but later he stretched his brows: "It doesn't matter, it's normal for children to be more active anyway, let them play by themselves."

If it really doesn't work, he can communicate directly with the syndicate through the resonance of the power of steel. Now that the other party has not contacted him, it proves that he has not encountered any danger. This channel, even in another world, can be contacted with the Flame Demon, which is much more stable than the information terminal.

On the other side, No. 3 raised his eyes and began to count the activities before Lisa and No. 1 disappeared: "I think about it... They first watched the moon in the middle of the night, and met on a walk in the middle of the night. Then because Lisa could understand the electromagnetic signals of No. 1, she chatted in the middle of the night..."

Everything that followed was naturally natural. It was rare to meet someone who could chat in his native language. The first person naturally had a good impression of Lisa. In the next few days, they had made appointments to meet and chat, and even went to the dwarf gathering place together for a few rounds. Lisa was treated very well because she was a friend brought back by the first person, and the girl also showed interest in the mysterious underground world.

"Then we went to dig the ground together... Think about it carefully, it was a good experience, unknown, mysterious and unpredictable danger."

Joshua thought for a while and felt that this was not actually dangerous. He always put all the students under his own observation, and they would not make any unexpected progress. After thinking about it, the soldiers made a decision: "Let the Winter Castle Academy assign a college mission."

"Explore the underground world, draw a map of the underground world excavated by the first number. There are two thousand credits in a complete corridor, and there is no cap on the top. Let me see how much they have learned in the academy... and see how deep the guy in the first number has dug, and can actually block the information terminal."

Nowadays, the credit redemption system in Winter Castle Academy has been very complete, and has even formed a complete market, from gold, silver and gems to special mechas. If the points are sufficient, even small warships can be redeemed. If there are special contributions from the Academy, then it can even accept the various special enhancements of Winter Castle and major research parties in cooperation!

A normal task, according to the completion level, is about 50 to 100 credits, and 100 credits can be redeemed for precious metals that can satisfy the expenses of an ordinary family of three in a year. 500 credits can be redeemed forging. The magic power continuous-fired staff, which is currently in the experimental stage, is condensed at a speed of ten times that of ordinary staff. It can spray various spells like a machine gun without self-destruction due to overheating. Similarly, there are various wrist guards, armor and helmets forged with special alloys. This is a set of combinations.

1,000 credits can even be exchanged for some extraordinary substances for research or use for your own use, such as three leaves of life, a small bottle of No. 1 Holy Water, fifty grams of high-purity mitral, etc., such as the Fusion Star, Essence Gold, Meteorite Iron and Heart Energy Crystal are also on the redemption list. Many major forces, such as the Elf King Court and the Seven Gods Church, are very strange. Why are there unique treasures in the credit redemption list of Winter Castle Academy? They don’t remember having traded these abroad. A lord who is testing the Creator does not express any comments.

Some special requirements are also within the redemption range. For example, if you designate a tutor to provide a separate tutor, the specific price depends on the tutor's own pricing, and assisting with advancement or conducting experiments are also included. The price is slightly more expensive than tutoring.

The above are just ordinary things that can be bought with money, but if it is more than 2,000 credits, it is not just these things that cannot be measured by money. For example, the latest generation of experimental magic mechas are worth 2,500 credits. If it is necessary to undergo special transformation for individuals, the credits need to be doubled. There are also various strange magical equipment exchanges, such as the 'portable supersonic electromagnetic gun' with 8,000 points (experimental arbitrary gate), 3,500 points' anti-gravity flight device, 9,000 points''Golden Elemental Puppet Contract'', 5,500 points''hypnotic brainwashing glasses'', etc.

The providers of these things are legendary powerful people who are unwilling to tell their names. Most of them are some gadgets they have figured out on weekdays. However, although these things contain extremely powerful power, their usage conditions are particularly harsh. For example, any gate from an imperial space-time mage. Although it is indeed a portable space-time gate that can lead to almost any continent, the user's strength must reach the advanced level of gold, or be extremely proficient in space-time magic to meet the conditions. Having this strength and knowledge reserves can all use fixed-point teleportation techniques.

The hypnotic brainwashing glasses from Mr. William who did not want to be named sound evil and actually very evil, but are basically ineffective against creatures with a wisdom index of more than 70. This means that except for the monsters without brains, no human will be hit, and those who will be hit are mentally retarded. If the monster is smarter, it can also get rid of its control.

But even so, the value of these things is questioned by Mu Yong. Even if it is not for the value of the things themselves, but just wants to explore the power essence of the legendary power from it, they are worthy of their price.

This series of redemption has never been reached by anyone so far. It is a small floating warship with an entire length of 85 meters, equipped with a full set of war equipment, and even a small magic crystal dust production line on it, which can be used to make ammunition for beam cannons. This thing is mainly because it looks good, and no one thinks that anyone will redeem it.

Special contributions are more mysterious. Except for a few people who have completed certain particularly difficult tasks, such as when the demon tide arrives, basically no one can get this, and some special redemptions can only be redeemed by special contributions and credits.

Special contributions are divided into five levels d, c, b, a, and s. From the lowest level d level, a special exchange like "Activate Hidden Bloodline". The academy will reactivate it once based on the hidden bloodline concentration in the exchanger's body, so that the hidden bloodline abilities can be displayed. Whether it is the blood of the psychic warlock, the dragon bloodline, or various other strange bloodline abilities can be activated. There is a student from Xishan, which is a good example. She is the third princess of a certain psychic kingdom court. Because she does not awaken her psychic energy, she cannot compete for the throne. She was originally going to be politically married to another nearby kingdom, but because of the intervention of her mother tribe behind her, she was sent to Moldavia.

At Winter Castle Academy, she worked hard to become a mage, and then fortunately achieved special contributions in a certain mission and chose to activate her bloodline. After the ceremony, she activated her bloodline and successfully became a real silver-level psychic, with the capital to kill her back to China.

So far, the special redemption sent by the academy is only level D, and more advanced redemptions, such as the "cured spell ability" and "special extraordinary inheritance" are just placed there for others to see. There is no intention to release it for the time being. There are even some redemptions that are only present in the database and are not displayed to the outside world... After all, whether it is "** mechanized transformation" or "experimental power grant" and "extraordinary organ transplantation" are taboo technologies that are still in experiments, not to mention similar to "race conversion rituals", "artificial auxiliary soul body" involves ethical concepts.

Among them, some of the exchanges were studied by Joshua based on his own system. For example, the 'artificial auxiliary soul body' worth a special contribution of A level and 8,000 credits has special functions such as assisting calculations, assisting cultivation, optimizing the energy operation system, collecting information analysis, collecting overflowing energy, and absorbing the flesh and blood of dead enemies for their own use. It can quickly strengthen an ordinary person without any power to the level of silver and touching the threshold of gold. This is not its limit.

The only problem with this auxiliary soul body is that when the experimenter's strength reaches the golden limit in the later stage, it will become unstable enough. The artificial soul body cannot fit well with the experimenter's original soul, which will cause repulsion and endanger life. During the experiment, if Joshua and Nostradamus were not watching from the side, the experimenter may be in danger of life.

The reason why the redemption system within this academy is so perfect is that Joshua used it as an experiment in the reward system of the pioneering department. When the empire officially began to develop externally, the credits could be changed to the contribution point. Special contributions do not need to be changed. They are used as performance rewards beyond the original welfare and salary. This can not only inspire the passion of many explorers, but also reasonably enhance their strength.

"When the Development Department is about the time being, the development department will be officially launched, and the redemption system will be put on the agenda... Most of the experimental technology used as rewards is time to improve."

Thinking of this, Joshua stood in the sky of the stratosphere and looked south. He nodded slightly: "The technology reserves of the Empire are far from enough... This time, going to Far South is also a good opportunity to find partners. The druid path of the Elf clan can be converted into a tree of life or even a dragon's body. They are much more advanced than our race conversion ritual in terms of biological bloodline technology. If they can cooperate, they can quickly practicalize certain experimental technologies."

"But Joshua... don't you specialize in the power of steel? Why do you have to study so many strange things?"

On the side, No. 3 asked in confusion. As the creator of the server and database of the Winter Castle Academy, she was also a stored copy of the entire Moldavia database. Of course, she knew what Joshua and Nostradamus were studying. Some of them were considered acceptable to Miss Artificial Intelligence, while some, such as the artificial soul body, made No. 3 feel a little creepy and self-threatening.

After all, she is also an artificial soul, but her degree of completion is much higher than this. Even though she knows that Joshua is not a madman, she still feels a little scared.

"One of the specialization can certainly be brave and diligent, but if you don't open your eyes to see the world and understand the vastness of the world, you will only fall into the vortex of ignorance and will not extricate yourself."

Extending his hand, Joshua originally wanted to slap No. 3's head, but No. 3, who was a little angry, turned around and let the warrior's hand pat her wings. Joshua didn't care. He understood No. 3's entangled mentality, but when he felt an unusual touch in his hand, Joshua was shocked: "Wait, in such a short time, have you actually completed the soul's essence?"

The smooth feathers in the warrior's hand just now had a vague touch, although it was a bit illusory, but it was already vaguely touching like water... Joshua didn't care at first, but after reacting, it shocked him: since the last time the East China Sea sage came to Moldavia and exchanged the statuary of the spirit conversion with him, he had no time to study because he wanted to help Isreal, Banier and others improve the production line and information terminal server of the Void Warship, so he handed over the body of the statuary to No. 3, allowing this girl who also had only souls to explore the mystery of the transformation of the spirit... But how long has it been? He has achieved success?

"Hmph... After all, I have been getting His Majesty Ger's talisman for so long, and this talisman of the essence and spirit is indeed very consistent with my current state. It's just a small success, it's nothing."

Seeing Joshua surprised her, No. 3 couldn't help but shake the little wings behind her with a gloomy face. She has been in this state since she achieved something, but the warrior has never noticed it, which made her very discouraged. However, now, if he can shock him, No. 3 is satisfied.

"It's not bad, it's not bad..."

Qiao Xiuya looked full of joy, as if he was happier than he advanced. He reached out and touched No. 3's head again, but this time, No. 3 did not avoid it this time.

Artificial Intelligence, No. 3, knows more than most people that the man in front of him has made great progress than his own strength, leaving everyone behind him. He hopes that the people around him can keep up with him and move forward with him.

"go home."

After being relieved, Joshua looked at the direction of the sun and said, "Time is almost here, and the time and space gate should have been adjusted."

"OK."

No. 3 nodded, she knew the warrior’s plan.

Today is February 15, 837, and it is also the day he plans to go to the Far South Forest Elves gathering place, around the Lake of Eternity, to meet the Nature Tutor and the Contemporary Elves Queen.

So, the next second, the two fell from the sky, passed through the clouds and the strong wind, and came to the sky above Moldaweiya. From here, they could look down at every corner of this big city that had become a million-dollar population. In the center of the city, a building that looked like a castle was flashing with a dark blue space-time light.
Chapter completed!