Chapter 200 - 137: The Strongest Contemporary Genius, The Golden Clan’s Joint Challenge

Chapter 200: Chapter 137: The Strongest Contemporary Genius, The Golden Clan’s Joint Challenge

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Time flew by.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

For these three days, Roy remained cooped up in Chaos Square cultivating, just as before. He didn’t once step outside the manor.

Although he didn’t go out, the name of "Red-haired" Shanks spread throughout the Sal Empire at an astonishing speed. From there, it began to travel to other nations.

The youngest Golden Great Knight in a millennium!

A potential Legendary!

The strongest genius of this generation!

The curtain-raiser for a new era!

The birth of the Crimson Throne!

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As the name "Red-haired" Shanks continued to spread, all sorts of assessments and titles were heaped upon Roy.

If it had been anyone else, they would have either continued to expand their influence or started enjoying the benefits of their fame across the Empire.

Roy, however, acted like a homebody and shut himself away.

Not only that, but he refused to see any of the people who came all the way to the Evil Spirit Cat Manor to visit him.

He had no intention of wasting too much time on such tedious trivialities, so he had Harvey receive them in his stead.

Harvey wasn’t the least bit dissatisfied with this arrangement; in fact, he was enjoying it immensely.

Because for the past three days, Harvey felt as though the Evil Spirit Cat Clan had transformed from a Silver Clan back into a Golden Clan.

Thanks to Roy, the Evil Spirit Cat Clan’s prestige and status were now second only to the Royal Family and the other six Golden Clans.

Furthermore, the Silver Clans that previously had grudges or conflicts of interest with the Evil Spirit Cat Clan all took concrete actions to concede.

For instance, they relinquished disputed territories, handed over clan members who had offended the Evil Spirit Cat Clan, and presented large gifts of wealth.

Harvey had been incredibly busy these last three days.

Meanwhile, Roy, the source of it all, focused his entire energy on cultivation.

Besides practicing the Thunder Beast Breathing Technique, he also didn’t neglect his cultivation of the Purgatory Dragon Meditation Method.

And, of course, the optimization of his Spirit Rhinoceros Finger.

There wasn’t much to say about his progress with the Breathing Technique and Meditation Technique.

His Skill Level was increasing steadily.

As for optimizing the Spirit Rhinoceros Finger, that was far more troublesome.

The night he returned to the manor, Roy had already completed a preliminary optimization plan for the Spirit Rhinoceros Finger.

He currently only knew ten Level Zero Spells. So, to make the Spirit Rhinoceros Finger more suitable for this world—transforming it into a unique Secret Technique with both physical and magical attack effects—he needed to fuse it with Level Zero Spells.

After some experimentation, he discovered that three Level Zero Spells—Scorching Beam, Elemental Missile, and Frost Ray—had the potential to be fused with the Spirit Rhinoceros Finger.

When casting these three Level Zero Spells, the right hand was required to complete the final casting gesture.

Of course, it wasn’t strictly necessary.

However, doing so would consume more Spiritual Power.

Once he had determined which spells to fuse, the next step was figuring out how to construct the Magic Model while simultaneously manipulating his Fighting Qi, all while using the fingers of his right hand for the final casting gesture.

Neither manipulating Fighting Qi nor constructing a Magic Model was difficult for Roy.

But to accomplish both at the same time, while also ensuring they didn’t conflict with each other, was no easy task.

He could multitask to a certain degree, but it was far from enough.

He had come up with a preliminary optimization plan, but executing it had become a new problem.

「Chaos Square.」

「The Learning Area.」

Roy sat in the high-backed chair behind his desk, once again examining the optimization plan he had devised.

[Spirit Rhinoceros Finger + Scorching Beam = Blazing Finger]

[Spirit Rhinoceros Finger + Frost Ray = Frost Freeze Finger]

[Spirit Rhinoceros Finger + Elemental Missile = Lingxi Missile]

Hopeless at naming things, he couldn’t be bothered to waste too much energy on it. He simply used the most direct and crude combinations to name the new Secret Techniques.

According to his initial design, the new Secret Techniques would retain their physical melee attack and defense capabilities while also gaining the ranged attack power of magic.

The idea was beautiful, but the reality was difficult!

Just as Roy was wracking his brain over how to solve the problem of simultaneously controlling Fighting Qi and constructing a Magic Model, a thought suddenly struck him.

’Magic can attack from a distance, but that doesn’t mean all ranged attacks have to be magic!’

’As long as I can achieve a ranged energy attack, that’s all that matters!’

’Whether it’s technically magic or not is unimportant!’

The moment this idea surfaced in his mind, he immediately came up with a new optimization plan.

Without any hesitation, he tore up the parchment in front of him, took out a blank sheet, picked up his Feather Pen, and began to write furiously.

Soon, he had finished writing the second version of his optimization plan for the Spirit Rhinoceros Finger.

[Spirit Rhinoceros Finger + Basic Elemental Power = Basic Elemental Finger]

Before, he had been stuck on how to combine the use of Fighting Qi with a Magic Model.

But in reality, he didn’t need to do that at all.

He just needed to give the Fighting Qi version of the Spirit Rhinoceros Finger a ranged attack capability; that would be more than enough for him.

After a moment of thought, Roy continued writing on the parchment.

[Basic Elemental Finger: An offensive Secret Technique. It is a Finger Technique imbued with Basic Elemental Power, capable of both offense and defense in melee and ranged combat. The user can freely switch the attribute of their Fighting Qi as needed, or fire Fighting Qi of different attributes from different fingers in the form of spiral rays, inflicting burning, freezing, cutting, impact, and other types of damage on the enemy.]

After he finished writing, Roy nodded in satisfaction.

Although he hadn’t started officially practicing it yet, he knew he would definitely be able to master the Basic Elemental Finger.