The Master’s Friendship Rules

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Marika teased, “Perhaps the dwarf’s hatred of the duergar has enhanced his eyesight.”

The dwarf snorted, expressing his disdain to argue with the man with long ears.

Wang then continued to identify the shield.

Flint: “So what kind of shield is that? It wouldn’t happen to be the Eyebuster Shield, would it?”

Wang: “I hope so. But unfortunately, it is not. This is the result of the Gray Dwarf furnace automatically absorbing the corpse of the Aboleth that fell into the magma. I… don’t know what it is capable of yet.”

“You only know that it’s acid-proof.” Xiaobai said.

“Yes, it does.” Wang continued to study the shield.

Marika placed the stone statue of Elizabeth on the ground. “I’ll check around to see if there are any traps or hidden rooms.”

After saying this, she suddenly turned her head.

Nini and Xiaobai, who have good hearing, also turned their heads and looked in the same direction.

Flint gripped the five-headed flail tightly: “What’s wrong?”

Marica: “Sounds of fighting. Looks like the minions of the mind flayers and aboleths have lost control and are starting to fight.”

Franka: “I feel a lot of evil thoughts! But I’m full.”

Xiaobai was surprised: “You can actually eat your fill!”

Don’t assume that everyone is like you!

Wang glanced at Xiaobai.

Xiaobai: “So what’s the situation with the shield?”

Wang: “I am now very sure that this shield, in addition to protecting against strong acid, will also increase the holder’s resistance to psychic abilities, and this thing comes with a permanent obscuration spell.”

Flint nodded. “Permanent second-level spell effect, pretty good.”

Wang: “It’s a pity that this blurring spell can’t achieve the same effect as that of the mind flayer… Sorry.”

Wang suddenly remembered that the Mind Flayer’s abnormally powerful cognitive dislocation happened in his dream. Others probably experienced different versions.

Suddenly, he thought of something more important: was the Mind Flayer’s equipment that he had looted in his dream still there?

Wang: “Wait a minute, didn’t you search for the Heart Snatcher before you came here?”

“Of course, we also recovered all the other equipment that was thrown there,” said Nini, “and put it in our dimensional bags. Do you want to identify the loot on the mind flayer now?”

Wang: “Although I haven’t finished identifying the shield, but… well, take it out.”

So Nini took out the robe of the Mind Flayer from her dimensional bag. In the king’s dream, the robe had been blown into strips, but in reality it was still intact. In addition to the robe, Nini also took out two rings, a headband, and a dagger.

Wang looked at these magical equipment and smiled. “Really good! We have gained a lot! It seems that the time will soon come when everyone has a magic ring.”

Flint: “Do you realize that the robe may have overflowed? You yourself are wearing a robe brought from the wizard tower. Her Royal Highness has a robe that is more powerful the more beautiful it is. I tell you, the fireballs thrown by the princess after wearing that robe are extremely powerful. The injuries on my body were caused by her…”

Wang: “I saw it in my dream.”

“What? In a dream?” Flint frowned in confusion, “Are you kidding me?”

Wang: “No, but you can take it as a joke.”

“Okay. But the situation that our robes are overflowing has not changed, and the long legs also have excellent cloth armor. Are you going to let Gotrek wear this robe?”

Wang: “No, I can wear it. The uniform I’m wearing from the Mage Tower has no additional effects.”

“What? There is nothing?” the dwarf was shocked.

“Yes, no.”

Xiaobai: “I’m hungry, when can I eat?”

Chapter 322: Wisdom Locking Headband

Everyone turned to look at Xiaobai.

Xiao Bai looked surprised: “Why aren’t you hungry? It’s almost noon now, and we’ve been fighting for so long!”

“No,” the dwarf shook his head, “In fact, it’s about half past ten now, and there’s still a while before noon.”

After all, dwarves are a race that excels at living underground, and they are more sensitive to time underground.

“Hey, half an hour won’t make any difference! I want to eat. Maybe I vomited all the food in my stomach!”

Wang: “You just found an excuse to eat, right?”

Xiaobai: “Yes.”

Flint silently took out the iron pot from the dimensional bag: “Wait until I finish cooking. It will be almost noon.”

The king continued to study the shield with his head down, while Nini took a piece of cloth and spread it in front of the king, and then placed the things everyone collected from the mind flayer on the cloth.

Half an hour later, the dwarf cooked hot soup, grilled skewers of meat made of unknown ingredients, and grilled many skewers of mushrooms.

And the king also announced loudly: “I have confirmed the properties of this shield!”

“Wouldn’t it just reflect the Beholder’s rays?” Flint teased.

Wang shook his head: “No, it doesn’t have that effect. This shield is resistant to strong acid and can provide psychic defense to the person holding it, making it immune to quite a few enchantment spells and psychic powers. If we have to deal with enemies with psychic powers in the future, this shield can be their nemesis!

“So I decided to name this shield the Mind Barrier!”

“It’s reasonable for a shield made of aboleth to have such performance.” Flint paused, “Wait a minute, do I have to use beholders to make the beholder-buster shield?”

Xiao Bai: “Wouldn’t that form a closed loop? In order to make the Eye Demon Killer Shield, you have to defeat the Eye Demon, and to defeat the Eye Demon, you need the Eye Demon Killer Shield…”

Wang: “Not necessarily. You see, we didn’t use any items to fight against psychic abilities, but we still managed to kill the mind flayers and the aboleths. The real process should be like this: a dwarf team accidentally killed a beholder, and then made the first beholder-killing shield, and then used this shield to kill more beholders…”

“That makes sense.” Xiaobai nodded.

At this moment, she suddenly saw Marika coming back with a bouquet, and she exclaimed, “Marika took it! I think it might be a fake made by some shapeshifter! Find a way to test whether it’s her!”

Marika: “No, this is for making potions. I want to try to make a potion to remove petrification, so I don’t have to waste a spell slot tomorrow. A priest’s fifth-ring spell slot is still quite precious.”

Wang: “You also know how to make a potion to remove petrification?”

“I have been trained to brew most common potions and poisons. But it has been a long time since I brewed a potion to save people, especially a potion to remove petrification. I usually act alone, and if I were petrified, there would be no one to sprinkle the potion on me.”

Xiaobai: “I thought you picked them and put them in front of Dabobo.”

“She’s not dead!” Marika shouted.

At this time, Wang took out a crucible, a test tube and other things used to prepare potions from his dimensional bag: “Here, this is for you.”

Marika looked surprised: “You actually prepared these?”

“As someone who got full marks in chemistry, it’s normal for me to carry a chemistry experiment set with me!”

Xiaobai: “What is chemistry?”

“It’s alchemy. Well, it’s not exactly the same, but that’s what the materialistic side calls alchemy.”

As they were talking, Marika came over with great interest and took away the bottles and jars. Wang picked up a headband from the things on the ground and studied it carefully.

This time he quickly came to the conclusion: “Oh my god, this is an intelligence-locking headband, and it’s the most effective one. It will lock your IQ at a relatively high level.”

As he said this, the king took off his death-proof headband and put this thing on.

Xiaobai came closer to observe his expression carefully: “Don’t you think you have become smarter?”

Wang: “Yes, indeed… I have tried the Wisdom Locking Headband in the Mage Tower before. At that time, I thought I was not smart enough to comprehend the fourth-ring spell, but it turned out that it had nothing to do with that.”

As he said this, he took off the headband and put it on Xiaobai’s head.

Xiaobai looked up at the sky: “Hmm… I don’t think I’ve become smarter, do I?”

Wang: “What is 1567 times 7111?”

Xiaobai: “I don’t know. I can’t point it out with my finger anyway.”

Flint: “Why do I feel like she’s actually getting smarter? Let me grill you some meat.”

Xiaobai ran over immediately. Wang took off the headband a second before she started running.

“Elizabeth, you try… Well, she can’t try.” The king looked at the stone statue of Elizabeth and turned to Nini, “Come on, you try it, maybe you can cast a first-level spell in no time.”

Nini frowned slightly: “I don’t think my inability to cast the spell is because my IQ is not high enough. After all, it’s a first-level spell, it doesn’t require a high IQ.”

Wang put the headband on Nini’s head, then took out his Infinite Book and turned to the page about the first-level protective magic shield spell: “Try to read this spell. If you have already opened the ring, you can feel that your understanding of the spell is completely different.”

Nini stared at the spell book, and then her expression became solemn.

Wang raised his eyebrows and asked tentatively: “Nini? Are you okay?”

Nini blushed suddenly, and her pointed ears almost turned red.

Wang said, “Oh!” “It turns out it’s really an IQ issue!”

Xiaobai: “That’s impossible. She has clearly learned all those difficult algebra and analytic geometry.”

Wang: “No, ordinary people can learn it as long as they work hard. Especially when there is a teacher like me who is good at teaching people.”

Xiaobai: “So Nini is just like me, a fool?”

Nini didn’t say anything.

Wang didn’t even look at her expression. He said happily, “That’s great. Someone has special protective spells. When Nini opens a few more rings, she will be able to cast shared protective energy. We can also use this spell to withstand elemental damage.”

Flint served soup to everyone and said, “Why don’t we give it to the barbarian too, so that he can experience the feeling of becoming smarter? Uh, sorry, I don’t mean to laugh at your stupidity, I just…”

Gotrek: “It’s alright. I’m stupid.”

Nini took off the headband and handed it to Gotrik.

Gotrek put on the circlet.

Everyone looked at him.

Gotrek blinked and said, “It doesn’t seem to work on me.”

Wang: “How could it be…”

He took the headband from Gao Trick and studied it carefully: “This is indeed a wisdom-locking headband, how come it has no effect?”

Xiaobai: “Isn’t it effective if I wear it?”

Nini: “It really works for me when I wear it.”