Chapter 62: Shadow Strike Pattern!

  Time arrived at dawn, the quiet streets once again restored vitality, on the flat streets, reflecting the sun's bright yellow light, street vendors and shops opened one after another.

  Only at Xiao Hong's Da Hong Mei center, a dozen or so people were already lined up at the entrance.

  In Xiao Hong's room, after waking up from a nap, Xiao Hong did some physical training and then put on the beige coat again in an exploratory manner.

  The feeling from last night came again, it was very uncomfortable. However, this time Xiao Hong didn't go for a walk, he just sat on the bed, closed his eyes slightly and prepared to endure it. This kind of feeling is like being in a sauna room.

  This time, Xiao Hong persisted for a full ten minutes before taking off his jacket. Although it was only ten minutes, a thin layer of sweat had already formed on Xiao Hong's forehead. However, Xiao Hong could clearly feel that his body was adapting to it step by step. What made Xiao Hong even more delighted was that the driving force within him had begun to show a slight growth trend, albeit extremely slow. This would undoubtedly become another way to enhance his driving force.

  Because once the body adapts to this coat, it can be worn for a long time, and its strength is being tempered at all times.

  He took off his formal attire and locked it in a drawer. Xiao Hong then walked out of the room to receive guests.

  Just arrived in the backyard, Xiao Hong found that Lin Zi and others had already started their morning exercise early, only Li Le was still drowsily putting on his clothes.

  Seeing Xiao Hong, Lin Zi and others came over one after another, respectfully saying: "Brother Hong, my two brothers and I have already reached the second level of driving skills, and we've also roughly learned the beginner's pharmacopoeia. Please teach us how to drive your medicinal patterns, so we can help out a bit and not always be idle here."

  "Ah." Xiao Hong nodded slightly, his driving force reaching the second level of Yu Tu. Indeed, he could try to drive some medicinal patterns now. He then turned his gaze to Li Le and asked: "What's your current level?"

  "Heh heh." Seeing Xiao Hong's gaze directed at him, Li Le's eyes curved slightly into two arc-shaped slits. To be honest, he had been waiting for Xiao Hong to ask this question.

  "Last night, I've already reached Level 3 in Riding!" Li Le said proudly.

  "It's okay, hurry up and get dressed, we're about to open the store." Xiao Hong urged Li Le, then came to the front hall, started arranging the medicinal tattoos, and began thinking in his mind how to use Li Le, Lin Zi and others.

  Xiao Hong's plan was to have Lin Zi and the others each focus on driving a different type of medicine, and after becoming proficient, each person would be responsible for one task. This way, they could quickly get started and also fully guarantee quality.

  Now that his reputation has been established, Xiao Hong doesn't want to ruin it due to quality issues, this isn't Xiao Hong's style.

  During this time, Li Le also began to assist Xiao Hong in doing some simple things, such as driving low-level medicine patterns, repairing the color spots on customers' faces, and being responsible for selling Rou Mei.

  At first, the female customer was still full of distrust towards Li Le, but after letting Li Le do it a few times, she felt that the effect was quite good, and thus also had a bit of a good impression of Li Le.

  The most important reason is that the magic yarn was made by Xiao Hong himself.

  For such a phenomenon, female customers can fully understand that so many people are waiting in line, expecting Xiao Hong to be alone, which is unrealistic. After all, Xiao Hong is just a mortal person with limited physical strength.

  For the whole day, Xiao Hong tried to save his energy as much as possible. Some of them needed to do meticulous weight loss projects that consumed a lot of energy, and Xiao Hong sincerely turned them down, telling them that he would do it for them collectively on a certain day.

  When night falls, when Da Hong closes his shop, Xiao Hong has only consumed 200 points of driving force. In fact, the purpose is that Xiao Hong wants to make a eighth-level Shadow Strike Warrior today.

  According to the records of "Deutscher Facettenmuster" and Xiao Hong's improvements, Shadow Strike is a relatively crazy magic pattern, like a viper, striking out with lightning speed, launching a fatal frenzy attack!

  In the bathroom, he took a bath and relaxed his body as much as possible. After returning to his bedroom, he locked the door and took out a high-quality raw stone. This was no longer something that could be obtained from an ordinary quarry, but rather something purchased from Xiang Hong's Mystic Markings shop. The quality was exceptionally good, and its value was not cheap either - this small piece of raw stone cost as much as fifty silver coins.

  With the stone cutter, the stone was cut into a concave stone and placed in front of the desk. Xiao Hong did not start immediately, but instead opened the song "Muxi'er" after which he closed his eyes slightly, with his hands clasped between his legs, listening intently, keeping his mind absolutely calm.

  After more than ten minutes, Xiao Hong opened his eyes and began to focus intently on the concave surface pattern. Following his previous train of thought, he carved out an extremely repetitive pattern on it, which was even more complex than the tiger tooth magic pattern before. Therefore, when operating the knife, Xiao Hong had to be light-handed to prevent the pattern from being too large and unable to arrange all the patterns on the stone.

  What's more important is that Xiao Hong must remember the purpose of every previous turn and its impact on the overall situation, without any slight mistake.

  Half an hour has passed, and the stone on the table is already densely covered with fine lines. This has brought a problem to Xiao Hong - the finer the lines, the smaller the space left for carving intricate patterns at the nodes. Fortunately, after such a long time of practice, Xiao Hong's knife skills have improved rapidly, and more importantly, his own unique "pattern within pattern" technique has become quite proficient.

  Put on a nano-knife and take out a microscope, Xiao Hong began to carefully carve the patterns in the nodes.

  Then Xiao Hong needs to do is to sort out the materials, the most precious of which are the brain marrow of the evil Manba snake, followed by Fengying grass, Hanmo sand, and so on, totaling nearly twenty materials.

  There are nearly ten types of manufactured magical potions, and the number of varieties has nothing to do with the level of magic.

  After two rounds, the magic pattern liquid was injected into the main pattern. Suddenly, in front of Xiao Hong, the magic pattern had transformed into a magnificent painting, with purple as the primary color, intertwined with red, yellow, and white hues.

  Then, also the most crucial step is activation, which is also the most exhausting. As Xiao Hong covered his hands over it, in an instant, Xiao Hong felt that the aura within him began to frantically dissipate once again. The same phrase applied - no matter how much aura was inside, it was all for naught, completely decreasing by percentage.

  Still the same old trick, with his internal energy almost depleted, Xiao Hong threw the cyan-black magic bead into his mouth, and his energy was instantly replenished.

  Fifteen seconds had passed before the Shadow Strike pattern flashed brightly, and then either thick or clear liquid-like patterns instantly solidified on the stone slab, forming a number of crystal-clear substances.

  Picking up the Shadow Strike Pattern, Xiao Hong's face flashed with a hint of joy, mobilizing the remaining power within his body to seep into the pattern. In fact, sometimes it was like drawing a lottery, the more stocks you had, the better, and if it were permanent, that would be great.

  However, this time Xiao Hong's luck wasn't particularly good. Inside, there were only 50 units of energy, which meant he could use it 50 times. In the eighth level of the Warrior's Rune, this was clearly not a lot. The implication was that he should be careful and conserve his usage, otherwise, it would be easily depleted.

  If it were in the past, Xiao Hong might have felt a little sentimental, but now it's different. Although Xiao Hong can't be said to be very rich, he can still afford to make the same tattoo again.

  Xiao Hong arrived at the backyard with Mo Xun, where Li Le and Lin Zi were learning to drive simple beauty tattoos. They were practicing on each other's backs or chests. Xiao Hong had previously stipulated that they were not allowed to receive customers until they had practiced enough.

  As for Li Le and others' mutual connection, Xiao Hong didn't care too much about it. With a slight sigh of relief, Xiao Hong activated the Shadow Strike War Pattern.

  Just as he was about to start, Xiao Hong suddenly felt a strange energy surge in his body, forcing him to arch his back slightly, which helped maintain his center of gravity better in this state.

  Look at Xiao Hong's hands again, which are now covered with a purple energy membrane. The ten fingers of his hands have grown bright purple, like venomous fangs, extremely sharp.

  At this point, Xiao Hong, who had personally made the Shadow Strike, was overwhelmed with surprise and mobilized his internal energy to activate his first burst of power. He then exerted force under his feet and suddenly sprang forward.

  In an instant, Xiao Hong only felt that the airflow in front of him had been broken through, and a burst of airflow from behind gave him a boost, and at this moment, Xiao Hong's speed suddenly increased threefold.

  This phenomenon is similar to the Windrunner's wind pattern, but the difference is that the Shadow Strike pattern can only be maintained for an instant, about two seconds, while the wind pattern can be maintained stably.

  Like lightning, like a spirit snake moving, Xiao Hong appeared not far away in front of the wall with a faint energy membrane, this layer of energy membrane was used to detect magic marks and collect information.

  With a swing of his arms, Xiao Hong rushed towards the wall, feeling his arms become exceptionally agile and powerful in that instant. A second later, more than twenty scratch marks appeared on the concrete and stone wall opposite him, like the paw prints of a wild beast, densely packed together.

  Soon, the detection magic pattern inlaid on the wall gave out data, single unit attack power 1011 points.

  Such an attack power, in fact, among the eight-level battle tattoos, the attack power is not particularly outstanding, but don't forget that this is a single-body attack power. Just now, Xiao Hong attacked twenty-two times, and accumulated together, it's absolutely a terrifying number.

  With this understanding, Xiao Hong's face revealed a hint of joy and sharpness. However, the only drawback was that the number of uses was somewhat limited, and it was relatively frequent to use up. If one wasn't careful, it would be used up quickly. Moreover, based on the cost price calculation, each use would consume around 70-80 silver coins.