Throne of Magical Arcana

In the witch's magic notes, there are more than a dozen kinds of magic potions recorded, each of which has a wonderful effect, such as the "brown owl" that restores mental power, etc., and the most precious three are those that can help those who are difficult to understand the structure of spells The "Gate of Magic" potion that the magic apprentice forcibly promoted, the "Silver Moon" potion that the magic apprentice normally promoted to the magician, and the "Weeping Soul" potion that can directly stimulate the blood power of adults with normal physique.

Currently, the most exciting thing for Lucien is the "Crying Soul" magic potion.

"Gate of Magic" and "Silver Moon" not only require precious materials that are difficult to find in a short time, but also use the premise that the mental power and soul are close to those of a formal magician. Only the "Crying Soul" potion can be used by normal adults. It can be used after a certain exercise.

It is a product researched by ancient magicians in order to meet the needs of quickly cultivating low-level servants in certain situations. It stimulates blood power at the cost of overdrawing the body's potential, so the negative effect is very strong. Once "crying soul" is used to promote Knights will no longer be able to improve their bloodline strength through training in the future, and their strength will be worse than normal knights.

But this is not a big problem for Lucien who has no hope of becoming a knight and has chosen the path of magic. It is a way to quickly improve his strength in a short period of time.

The problem is that the ingredients needed for this magic potion are either very expensive or very weird. It is also very difficult for a trainee magic apprentice like Lucien to collect them all, and if his physique is not up to the standard of a normal adult, then drink it. After using the magic potion, there is not only a high chance of failure, but also life-threatening. Adults with normal physique have a certain chance of failure. The better the physique, the easier it is to succeed.

The "Weeping Soul" magic potion is an outstanding achievement of necromancy magic. The simple magic formula is:

Black corpse mushroom + water ghost brain tissue + wraith dust + moonlight rose powder == "crying soul"

Here, the black corpse mushroom is a strange mushroom that grows on rotting corpses. Before it matures, it is milky white like milk. After it matures, it will turn black within a day and can last for a month. Eating it will be poisoned by rotting corpses, and the darker the color of the black corpse mushrooms collected, the better the effect of the "crying soul" refined in the end.

The brain tissue of the water ghost is the brain tissue of the undead creature water ghost. The stronger the water ghost, the better the effect of the final refined "crying soul". The same is true for the wraith dust.

According to the records of witches, the moonlight rose is a rare plant that emits a silvery, moonlight-like color at night. It has an auxiliary effect when high-level knights and attendants stimulate blood power, so it is very expensive and can only be used by many formal magicians. The material is also expensive, one gram costs one quintal, that is, one hundred silver Gnars, and when used, on the premise of one success, at least ten grams are needed to refine the magic potion, and the high-level knight attendant stimulates the blood The whole process of strength, according to one's own ability, ranges from burning five grams to fifty grams.

The witch once thought of refining the "Crying Soul" magic potion to quickly increase her strength, so that she could find "Ice Gorse" later. After all, the strength of a first-order knight is considered strong in the entire Principality of Violet. They are real nobles. From what he has seen and heard these days, Lucien knows that all the knights conferred by the Principality add up to only a little over 400. Of course, in Alto, there are many powerful people whose power exceeds that of ordinary knights.

It's a pity that witches can't afford moonlight roses for the time being. For the other three materials, I found out that Belem River will be haunted by water ghosts at night recently, and I know that Wraith Dust can be used through the apprentice-level magic of "Summoning Low-level Undead Creatures" and "Evil Creatures". Blood" to complete, had to be temporarily shelved.

In this regard, Lucien could only continue his magic learning, focusing on meditation, spellcasting training, and magic experiments, and then secretly search for information about these materials.

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Near the "Fire Moon" (July), the sky is bright early, and the clouds that are as gorgeous as orange and ruby ​​are slowly changing.

And Lucien got up earlier, and had already experimented with using the vibration frequency of mental power instead of mantras to cast spells.

The magic experiment was very successful. It was indeed possible to activate the "ring of out of control" magic by controlling the pre-vibration of the mental power instead of the mantra, but the result was not good, because Lucien found that in this way, due to the high requirements for control, It consumes a lot of mental energy.

"If you use the mantra to cooperate with the spellcasting, the 'ring of loss of control' will exhaust the mental power three times. You can use the mental power to pre-vibrate to cast the spell, and the 'ring of loss of control' once can make me mentally dry. Unless there are special circumstances, it is not very useful .” Lucien commented with some disappointment.

After a meditation exercise, Lucien recovered his spirits, packed up the messy cabin due to the "Ring of Out of Control" magic, and went out to Aunt Alisa's house.

"Good morning, Brother Lucien, let's have breakfast together!" Ivan opened the wooden door for Lucien. He has been helping Aunt Alisa in the Alto Textile Guild recently, and he looks much more stable.

Lucien smiled: "Of course, I came here at a good time, how could I miss breakfast."

"Hehe, little Evans, you are getting more and more humorous. It seems that this week's study has given you a lot of confidence. Do you want to worship together tomorrow morning?" Joel drank wild vegetable soup with boiled soft black bread , very satisfied with Lucien's visible maturity and confidence.

Every Sunday morning, the believers of God of Truth will go to the church to worship together, and most of them will go if they have the time and conditions. Only Lucien, who has been worried about being discovered since time travel, always shirks.

Aunt Alisa scooped up a bowl of this wild vegetable soup with a wooden spoon and gave it to Lucien: "Little Evans, sit down and eat slowly, and talk while you eat."

From last night to today, Lucien consumed a lot of energy in meditation and casting spells. He was not polite, took a sip of the soup in satisfaction, and chewed the black bread.

Although the black bread from Aunt Alisa's house is also rough, unpalatable, and contains impurities such as bran, it is much better than Lucien's inferior black bread, which tastes like sawdust. Couldn't help cursing the profiteers secretly.

"Uncle Joel, I'm not free tomorrow, so I'm afraid I won't be able to go to church with you." How could Lucien go to church, without mentioning the dangers? That time alone is enough for him to learn a lot.

Aunt Alisa became strange: "Little Evans, what do you have tomorrow? Have you found a job that doesn't require you to go to the market area?"

Seeing that Joel and Ivan looked over suspiciously, Lucien took out the old and plain money bag and handed it to Joel, smiling in a good mood: "Uncle Joel, I am Mr. Victor now I am now an official student, and Mr. Victor is a very nice person, who specially waived my tuition fees, and I will return the eight silvers to you."

"Cough, cough, you have become Mr. Victor's official student?!" Joel almost choked on the black bread, coughed non-stop, his face flushed, and he looked at Lucien with shock. sky? !

And Aunt Alisa was surprised by another point: "Free tuition?! You can study without paying money?!"

Aiwen still didn't know the meaning of Lucien's words, so he took a peek at the purse: "Wow, it's really Silver Gnar, the cute Gnar shining with beautiful light! Brother Lucien, how did you do it?" of?"

Lucien honestly told the experience of that day, there is nothing to hide anyway, and finally concluded: "Well, that's it, Mr. Victor asked me to learn characters and music with him, and the tuition fee was waived, tomorrow morning I'm going to go to Mr. Victor and borrow some simple books in the common language and introductory books on music from him."

In fact, this afternoon, Lucien is going to go to Victor's house to make up for the last hour of study that he didn't finish yesterday, but to be honest, he can't find a reason to refuse church, and Lucien is indeed planning to go to Victor's house tomorrow morning, since If you choose to use the identity of a musician or a musician to cover up your identity as a magician, then you need to add basic music knowledge, introductory knowledge, and sheet music to the library as soon as possible, so that you can look like a poor person who grew up in Alto with the influence of music. Children, not aliens.

In the "liar" business, Lucien is still very dedicated.

"Mr. Victor is really a good man with a kind heart." Because Lucien tried his best to conceal his role, Alisa loudly praised Mr. Victor, "Little Evans, thank the Lord that after going through so much suffering, You can finally start a new, better life."

Joel stared at Lucien with complicated eyes for a long time, and finally said with relief and emotion: "I never thought that you really embarked on the road of music, little Evans. Your intelligence, wit and hard work surpassed me. With my imagination, and with the blessing of the Lord, I met such a kind-hearted musician as Mr. Victor. I hope you will seize the opportunity and keep working hard when studying music in the future. If, if you hold a concert in the chant hall On that day, I must invite Uncle Joel to listen to it once, so that I will have no regrets in music in my life."

Aiwen nodded: "If I can introduce to my companions, my brother Lucien is a famous musician who can hold concerts in the chant hall, that would be great! Well, it's as great as my brother becoming a knight !"

"Uncle Joel, I will work hard." Lucien nodded with a serious expression, but sighed in his heart: "Sorry, Uncle Joel, I'm afraid I will spend very little on music, because, after last night's Learning, the vast, magical world of magic, has attracted me deeply. Music is just my job to cover up my identity and earn the money needed to learn magic. I can't be as devout and passionate about music as you are .”

As an ordinary person who doesn't know much about music, Lucien only knows that the church has not suppressed Alto's music for more than three hundred years with the support of divine arts, and most of the music that can be heard in the city Not rigid, and even a lot of very good, very beautiful, not inferior to some famous classical music that Lucien had heard when he was on earth, and the feeling is very similar, and the trend is very consistent.

Joel put away the money bag: "Little Evans, when you choose the musical instrument you need to learn, feel free to borrow money, hehe, don't be shy."

"Okay, Uncle Joel, Aunt Alisa, I'm going to find a job that has nothing to do with the market area, well, it should be a lot easier with Mr. Victor's student status." Lucien finished his breakfast and stood Get up and say goodbye.

After reading the magic notes, Lucien already understood that magic costs a lot of money!