Chapter 302: with translation of chapter title

title: Chapter 308, New Concept, Barbarian Wasteland Series.

Can you implant this set of 'Construct' for me?

Upon hearing the name 'Construct', Christina's heart stirred; she suppressed her hesitation and asked.

The name 'Shadow Annihilation' really struck a chord in Christina's heart.

At the moment she was abandoned, she had only one thought: if she could survive, she must take revenge.

Her past experiences permanently changed Christina's personality.

Revenge has become her instinct.

Of course.

Lin Ke readily agreed, but then shifted tone, saying, 'However, not now.'

When?

Christina immediately followed up, showing some impatience.

Wait two days.

Lin Ke estimated the time; the elf servant troops sent by Paro Sage to other legions should be able to give combat feedback.

Whether the 'Construct' can increase combat power, how much it can increase, its advantages, disadvantages, and what needs improvement will be known in time.

Moreover, Christina has spent enough time in the academy's main campus world.

The academy not urging her doesn't mean Lin Ke can keep her indefinitely.

Thinking of this, Lin Ke asked, 'Aren't you in a hurry to return to Shadow City? Once back home, you could spend more time with your daughter.'

Okay.

Christina immediately agreed.

Whether out of longing for her daughter or waiting for the implantation of the 'Shadow Annihilation' set, Christina is willing to be patient.

'Mo Li, could you please send Christina back?'

Lin Ke looked at Mo Li, who was staring at the design diagram of the 'Shadow Annihilation' set deep in thought, and made his request.

Sure.

Mo Li nodded, withdrew her gaze, and said, 'Let's go, I'll send you.'

Thank you, Lin Ke.

Christina first thanked Lin Ke, then said to Mo Li, 'Thank you for the trouble, Mo Li.'

No need for thanks, it's only right.

Mo Li walked out first while offering sincere pleasantries.

Soon, Mo Li drove the transport vehicle, taking Christina to the cross-world teleportation gate.

Lin Ke also didn't continue to focus on his newly designed masterpiece; instead, he took out the encrypted cross-world communicator and sent a communication request to Asangde Keneite.

Not long after, the call connected, showing Asangde holding Jialuona in a holographic projection before Lin Ke.

Heard your mission failed?

Before Lin Ke could speak, Asangde asked first.

The news spread that fast?

Lin Ke's expression stalled, somewhat surprised.

Hehe...

Asangde chuckled a few times, then explained, 'Linke Grand, when you go on a mission, is it a double conscription by the academy and the squad leader? How many wizards are paying attention? When your team returns, the academy updates the mission status, and it's immediately synced to the academy's forums by busybody users. Moreover...'

He paused, raised his eyebrows, adopting a frivolous demeanor, teasingly saying, 'Moreover, one of your team members publicly accused you on several major forums of being lax in the mission, going back and forth, resulting in a disgraceful retreat. That person also said you're a coward, shrinking back once you learned the prize was the sage's inheritance.'

What he said is correct.

Lin Ke calmly listened to Asangde's account, not only not angry, but openly nodded in agreement, saying, 'After figuring out that the prize was the sage's inheritance, I shrank back.'

Um...

Asangde didn't expect Lin Ke to respond that way, and was momentarily speechless.

Lin Ke then continued, 'If it were the inheritance of the other three sages, perhaps I'd still dare to try, but the Nostradamus Sage's inheritance...'

After pondering, Lin Ke locked eyes with Asangde's hologram and seriously asked, 'Do you dare?'

I don't dare.

Asangde immediately shook his head.

Joking aside, the inheritance of the mystic wizard sage specializing in prophecy and curses—what ability does Asangde Keneite have to meddle in it?

He's only recently married, doesn't even have a child yet, and hasn't lived enough.

I also don't dare.

Lin Ke saw this and a faint smile appeared on his lips.

Alright then.

Asangde could only put aside his thoughts of joking with Lin Ke and asked, 'What urgent matter do you have for me?'

Lin Ke looked at Jialuona, who had her big black eyes wide open while leaning in Asangde's embrace, silently gazing at him, and indicated with his eyes: 'Now make arrangements to pick someone up.'

Huh?

Asangde hesitated a moment, then immediately understood, saying, 'No problem.'

That's all for now. I'll go back in a few days.

Okay.

After hanging up the encrypted cross-world communicator, Lin Ke leaned back and closed his eyes.

These past days, I've been locked in a battle of wits with 'air', draining my mental energy, leaving me somewhat tired.

A pair of soft, fair hands rested on both sides of Lin Ke's head, gently massaging.

Mo Li saw Christina off, didn't linger, and hurried back.

Upon entering the study, she immediately saw Lin Ke showing signs of fatigue and at once did her best to help him relax.

As for why such a primitive method was used…

Using witchcraft to relieve fatigue in a snap—how else could that show one's feelings?

You sit down and rest too.

After enjoying it for a while, Lin Ke opened his eyes, reached out and grabbed Mo Li's left hand, and spoke up.

Mm.

Mo Li didn't refuse, sat down opposite Lin Ke, and said, "You should rest a bit more; don't push yourself too hard."

It's fine.

Lin Ke smirked and said, "Not tired."

Mo Li glared at Lin Ke but didn't say anything.

The two sat quietly for a while, mutually enjoying the tranquil leisure.

Afterward, the two didn't even have dinner and each went back to their bedroom.

These days, Lin Ke went on missions, exhausted, while Mo Li did research and experiments, equally taxing.

Both of them need to rest more.

The next day.

It happened to be the weekend, with no classes.

Seeing Mo Li off to the lab for beastmaster wizard research and experiments, Lin Ke headed to the experimental building of the Pharmacology Teaching and Research Group.

You still remember this older sister of mine, right?

Upon entering Sage Serlin's top-floor office, before he could even greet her, Lin Ke was greeted with a sarcastic remark: "How could I possibly forget."

Lin Ke gave an embarrassed smile: "Well, I came to see you first thing this morning."

Really? What about yesterday then?

Sage Serlin wasn't buying it, and coldly asked, "Yesterday you were only concerned with your little girlfriend and the little lover you brought back, forgetting this old sister of mine?"

That question was practically a death sentence.

Lin Ke dared not take it lightly, and hurriedly replied solemnly, "Sister Serlin is in her prime; how could you describe yourself with the word 'old'? That's totally inappropriate. Besides, I acknowledge my girlfriend, but I dare not speak recklessly about a lover—I and Christina are pure and innocent, and she even has a daughter."

Tsk!

Sage Serlin gave Lin Ke an up-and-down look, saying in disbelief, "I didn't realize you'd look down on someone just because she had a child! Tsk tsk… You're really something—I regretted ever treating you as a brother."

Lin Ke was left laughing and crying at the criticism.

When a woman loses her temper, she can really turn the dead into the living and the nonexistent into the existent.

It's utterly unreasonable.

However, Lin Ke dared not lose his temper at this moment; he quickly put on a pleading expression, palms together begging, "Sis, good sis, please let me off. If you keep going like this, I'm afraid I won't even be able to keep my girlfriend."

Hehehe…

Sage Serlin was amused and let out a clear, bright laugh.

After a long while, the laughter faded, and Sage Serlin regained her composure: "All right, I'll let you off for now."

She pointed to the chair in front of the desk and said, "Sit down, busy person."

Lin Ke let out a sigh of relief and sat down in the chair.

"Sis, has the combat feedback come out? How did it perform?"

Finally we can talk business; Lin Ke immediately got straight to the point.

"You have a look yourself."

Sage Serlin operated the office smartbrain a few times and called up a huge folder.

Inside were all the combat feedback from the fairy servant soldiers dispatched to other legions, with icons, pictures, videos, and also a summary report from the 'Construct' project team.

Lin Ke first skimmed through it, then carefully read the key points.

It took nearly an hour for Lin Ke to roughly finish reviewing the combat feedback, after which he had a clear idea.

"How is it? Are you satisfied?"

While handling her own affairs and patiently waiting, Sage Serlin noticed Lin Ke's movements and casually asked.

"Very good, even better than I expected."

Lin Ke frankly spoke his mind, not caring that it might sound like self-praise.

"I also say it's good."

Sage Serlin echoed in agreement and then said, "Based on such good results from phase one, Paro is preparing to expand the scale of phase two—what do you think?"

"Is Sage Paro in a hurry?"

Before answering the question directly, Lin Ke first asked this.

Hehe…

Sage Serlin glanced at Lin Ke, seemingly indifferent, and said, "Fighting the abyssal demons drained Paro's reserves, leaving them penniless. Now that we have such a fine source of servant soldiers, of course we want to profit from it—these servant soldiers aren't only drafted by the academy; other legions also rent them out."

"Is that so."

Upon hearing that, Lin Ke fell into thought.

He had still been wondering why, after the Sage Paro Legion conquered the fairy world and defeated the abyssal demons, there had been no further movement.

At first he thought they wanted to develop the fairy world in depth, not expecting there to be another factor involved.

However, thinking of how the Sage Paro was called poor, Lin Ke didn't feel any schadenfreude.

He understood all too well what poverty felt like.

"Let me think it over some more."

Lin Ke thought about it, but still did not give a direct answer to Sage Serin's question about the scale of Phase Two.

Characters: Lin Ke, Serin Sage? Actually 'Serin Sage' is a title: 'Sage Serin'? The term 'Sage' means sage. So 'Serin Sage'? The name likely 'Serin'. We need to decide: The glossary didn't give a translation for Serin Sage. We need to output a glossary entry for each name that appears. The rule: Use Hanyu Pinyin ONLY for a person's actual NAME (including nickname, childhood name, courtesy name, or epithet habitually used as that person's name). For place-NAMES that are a bare surname/meaningless proper noun. For other terms, translate by meaning.

Sage Serin

Sage Paro

Lin Ke

Portable Smart Brain

Construct

Great Sage's Tower

Paro

Sage Serin

Lin Ke

Portable Smart Brain

Construct

Barbarian Strike

Barbarian Bulwark

Barbarian Wilds

Charged Strike

Powerful Break

Second Ring

First Class

Second Class

Great Sage's Tower

Sage-rank Legion

Non-mainline Fleet

Flagship

Combined Casting

Construct Project Phase Two

Paro

Wizard Paro

Wizard Serin

Sage Paro

Paro

Serin

Lin Ke

Portable Smart Brain

Construct

Barbarian Strike

Barbarian Bulwark

Barbarian Wilds

Charged Strike

Powerful Break

Second Ring

First Class

Second Class

Great Sage's Tower

Sage-rank Legion

Non-mainline Fleet

Flagship

Combined Casting

Construct Project Phase Two

Sage Paro

Wizard Paro

Sage Serin

Thus we have Serin and Paro.

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"Huh?"

Serlin Sage immediately became interested.

Out of a researcher's instinct, Serlin Sage realized that Lin Ke's unwillingness to answer even such a simple question meant he must have some other inspiration or plan.

Facing Serlin Sage's fervent questioning gaze, Lin Ke did not conceal anything and nodded.

"Hiss!"

Serlin Sage sucked in a breath of cold air, quite shocked, "What other ideas do you have? Say them, and I'll help you consider them."

"Okay."

Lin Ke came to see Serlin Sage precisely with this in mind.

He took out his Portable Smart Brain and projected all the prepared data.

Pointing at the image of ten mages from the Grand Sage's Tower using combined casting to suppress the flagship of a non-frontline fleet of the Sage-class legion, beating the opponent into having no power to fight back, Lin Ke said: "These mages, five first-tier and five second-tier, each taken alone and placed before that warship, are utterly inadequate. But united, through combined casting to amplify their combat power, they are sufficient to suppress that warship."

"So, you want to borrow the idea of combined casting and add this effect to your 'Construct'?"

Upon hearing Lin Ke's account, Serlin Sage immediately guessed his thought.

"Sis is right, that's exactly what I was thinking."

Lin Ke affirmed Serlin Sage's guess.

"How do you plan to do it? Start from scratch, or extend on the 'Barbarian Strike' set?"

Serlin Sage ignored Lin Ke's flattery and got down to business.

"Extend on the 'Barbarian Strike' set."

Lin Ke, while speaking, called up the detailed design schematics of the 'Barbarian Strike' set, pointing to the two second-ring items "Charged Strike" and "Powerful Smash," and explained,

"First, I plan to replace these two items and separately design a defense-oriented 'Barbarian Bulwark' set."

"Then, I will redesign a support set called 'Barbarian Wilds' whose function is to link three 'Barbarian Strike' sets and three 'Barbarian Bulwark' sets, forming a small team to achieve a combat power boost similar to combined casting."

"Every three such small teams can then be linked via a 'Barbarian Wilds' set to form a somewhat larger team."

"As for even larger teams, we'll discuss that later."

After listening to Lin Ke's explanation, Serlin Sage thought it over and said, "I think it still has some feasibility and the prospects are not bad. First take out the concrete plan, then go discuss it with Paro to see if the second phase of the Construct project can simultaneously implement your new idea."

Lin Ke operated on his Portable Smart Brain, calling up the two second-ring items of the 'Barbarian Bulwark' set designed overnight after a burst of inspiration before bed last night—"Steel Bones" and "Diamond Defense"—and the special linking set "Barbarian Wilds".

"Whoa!"

Serlin Sage feigned an exclamation and teased, "You're quick."

Lin Ke pretended not to catch the meaning and said seriously, "Please give me your guidance."

"I can't."

Serlin Sage didn't even look and directly refused, "No one understands the system you created better than you yourself."

"Fine."

Lin Ke put away the designs of the three Construct items and said, "Then I'll go find Paro Sage now."

Serlin Mage thought for a moment, stood up, and said, "I'll go with you."

Going together is fine; Lin Ke wouldn't be so tactless as to ask why.

Speaking of Paro Sage, who's been pursuing this for so long, Lin Ke really wondered whether any results had been achieved.

"Or should we go scout it out?"