Edge of the Apocalypse

Rena left, leaving behind a man standing in the wind, Kodorf.

Kodorf stood there and watched Rainer disappear into the lobby of the main building before he sneered, "It's not your turn to look down on me. Damn Rainer, isn't he just a bit higher than me?" Level 15, I'll catch up with you in a year or two. "You tyrannosaurus rex who only knows how to rampage, go to the foreign battlefield. When you come back, you will find that I am already standing in the inner circle of the clan!"

"Wisdom is far more important than martial arts, idiot!"

After cursing a few times, Kodorf left angrily. However, when he walked into the ground floor of the main building, he had already changed into his usual gentle smile. However, Kodorf's eyes were cold, as if a blizzard was brewing inside.

Two months later, Snow Wind finally visited this magnificent floating island. In the first week of December, an ice storm swept through Babylon. After the ice and snow subsided, the floating island was covered with a layer of silver makeup. Whether it was the low fence or the towering clock tower, everything seemed to have lost its substance when snow covered it. It was like a white dream, seemingly real and empty.

The silver snowflakes blurred the boundaries between things, merging the heavens and the earth into one, without any distinction between them.

Unknowingly, Alan had already spent three months in the Blade of Dawn. After the first snow this year, he stood out from the rest of his peers with excellent grades. He was promoted to the beginner class as the first place and began to learn more knowledge. Alan was followed by Hughton's granddaughter, Vera. The girl, who had no sense of existence, did not realize her existence until the teacher announced her results.

Ever since Allen and Vincent fought in Twilight Bar that night, and Vincent was defeated. Allen found that his peers' enthusiasm for him suddenly rose, faithfully implementing the principle of "one more friend, one less enemy". The circle around Allen gradually grew, and he became a vaguely outstanding figure among the junior students. However, his time spent socializing was still limited. Allen's day was packed with classes and various kinds of training.

On the first day of the elementary course, Alan received a list of income and expenditure personally given to him by Helsing. It lists Ellen's expenses for the previous quarter, including hunting down the Black Widow, the cost of living for the Blade of Dawn, Wilick's monthly salary and other trivial expenses. Alan skipped the various items of money and looked at the total expenditure.

The 180, 000 mark was still a shock to the economics-savvy teenager, but he finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the income list. On the income list, in addition to the initial federal bonus of $200,000, the family earned him $250,000 for the first quarter. And a special budget of $100,000. Although he didn't know what the special budget was, there were 550,000 bank deposits, leaving a balance of $370,000 after deducting expenses, giving Allen a relatively optimistic view of what he would spend in the coming quarter.

However, he quickly realized that he was happy too early. When he found out about this, it was already time for him to follow Hughton into the knowledge of the Magic Cube sequence.

Alan was overjoyed when Hughton told him that he could go to his home every night to study when he began to get in touch with the beginner course. So Alan took a taxi to Rio Avenue after dinner every night, and Hughton's house became his second school.

Learning from Hughton is not an easy task. You can't expect him to teach you from low to high in simple language like the lecturers and professors at Dawn Blade. The old drunkard was so exhausted with Alan's amazing memory that he had to take notes honestly so that he could sort them out and understand them further on the weekend.

After studying with Hughton for a month, Allen came up with a clue to what he was talking about, so that he could understand some basic principles of the Magic Cube sequence.

Simply put, the Magic Cube sequence consists of three parts: the basic template, the pivotal energy conduction array, and the arrangement of the source points.

The basic template was the base of all Magic Cube sequences. It was a universal module that could be embedded into any component of a Magic Cube Armament. It could be viewed as a bridge between the Magic Cube sequence and the Magic Armament Armament. The energy conducting pivot array was the essence of the Magic Cube sequence. The so-called pivot array actually imitated the genetic circuits in the Origin Energy system, allowing energy to move according to certain laws, combine, and produce specific abilities.

According to Hughton, there were hundreds of basic arrays that could be used in magical equipment below the fifth rank. For beginners like Allen, they had to be familiar with all the basic pivot arrays and precisely draw them independently before they could be considered qualified.

If the basic template is a skeleton, it supports a Magic Cube sequence; Then the energy conduction pivot array is the blood vessel, allowing energy to flow in the sequence; The final arrangement of source points was the soul. The number of source points determined the energy level of the sequence, and the order of the arrangement affected the power of the sequence.

Basic templates can be obtained through assembly line production, while conduction arrays have numerous atlases that can be learned and copied. Only the arrangement of source points was the basis for distinguishing between sequence technicians and masters. It has always been the pursuit of every master that how to combine the array of source points and the pivotal array of energy conduction effectively, so that a sequence can use the lowest energy consumption and display the greatest power.

It would require years of experience, but it would also require the inspiration of the occasional clever hand and the imagination of a wild horse!

"A fellow without imagination can only be a technician who duplicates atlases." Hughton once said this when he mentioned the arrangement of source points.

Generally speaking, the design of the Magic Cube sequence needs rigorous and systematic scientific theory as support, but also needs rich imagination like poets and painters, the combination of the two is the real master of the work. For Allen, who had just entered the sect, he spent the next two months practically every day dealing with the diagrams of the basic pivot array.

Another quarter passed.

When he got the list of income and expenditure for the past quarter, Allen discovered that he had spent nearly 300,000 federal dollars in the past quarter! This huge sum of money was mainly spent on basic templates, as well as materials for practicing and processing energy conduction pivot arrays. The cost of learning the Magic Cube sequence far exceeded Allen's imagination. Only then did he understand why even a sequence technician was a rare talent in Babylon.

In terms of income breakdown, apart from the 250,000 yuan in family funding, the special budget for the next quarter suddenly rose to 300,000 yuan. Alan vaguely guessed that this special budget should be prepared for his study of the Magic Cube sequence.

Allen's guess was correct, but he didn't know that the budget would continue to increase as he studied. In Hawes' opinion, the upper limit of the budget was set at one million, and the Clan Council of Elders had already approved it. If Allen showed the potential to be a master, then this budget could even be raised to a maximum of ten million!

From the changes in the budget figures, it was not difficult to see the difference between technicians and masters from another angle.

That night, Alan completed a low-level sequence by himself. The sequence he had created allowed the magic armor to generate an ability called Wind Walk, increasing the speed of the equipment user by about 15%. There were no bright spots in the entire sequence. From the processing of the pivot array to the arrangement of the source points, it could only be said that it had reached the acceptable standard.

However, considering that Allen had only been studying for half a year now, this sequence was extremely valuable. When the sequence arrived at Horn's hands and the family council table, Allen's special budget for the next quarter had been increased by half. The 450,000 budget was enough to make any member of the family jealous, including direct bloodline relatives like Kodorf.

But now, Ellen didn't know the value of this small sequence in his hands. He was only happy that he could create a sequence by himself, even if it could only be used for low-grade weapons below the 5th gear. So when Hughton stuffed him with a bottle of beer, not only did Alan drink, he drank four or five more bottles, and the world became blurry again in his eyes.

Hughton drank a lot too, and happily patted Ellen on the shoulder and said, "You did a good job, boy." It only took half a year to create a low-level sequence, and it could already be said to be extremely talented. Of course, you work hard. At least I've never seen a student like you studying almost day and night. You're right. There aren't many geniuses, but there are even fewer who can persevere! "

"Besides talent, hard work and perseverance are also indispensable qualities for successful people."

Ellen nodded hard and said, "I'll remember, teacher."

Hughton laughed, "I really want to see you set up your own door and let those so-called geniuses under Lawrence see that they are nothing. As far as I know, the most proud student in that old fellow's hand took a year and three months to complete a low-level sequence on his own. Look, you are much stronger than him!"

After laughing loudly, for some reason, Hughton gradually became somewhat gloomy. He silently took a sip of the liquor and said, "Little fellow, you know what?" Actually, there was nothing to be proud of about magic energy weapons. Its energy technology came from Adahua Planet's Magic Cube, while the concept came from its Origin Tools. Back then, a fellow who had witnessed Origin Tools had proposed the bold idea of replicating Origin Tools, which was why he had the current magic power equipment. "That fellow is Monroe, the father of the Devil realm."

"Origin Tool?" Ellen asked in surprise, "Teacher Hughton, what is an Origin Tool?"

"These are weapons that can directly absorb and drive the Origin Energy of the universe. No one knows how many of them they have. They only know that one Origin Tool is enough to change the strength of a faction. For example, our young Marshal Greed has one Origin Tool in Windsor Belo's hand. That is …"

Hugh took a sip of wine and said, "Endless Battery!"