Throne of Magical Arcana

——It will be on the shelves in the early morning, are you ready?

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Lucien looked at the gradually darkening street through the car window, and listened to Victor, Rhine and Lott's relaxed exchange of the scenery of this season in the manor.

"Lucien, why don't you speak? Are you not interested in the 'Berne' wine made by Phyllis's own family?" Rhine noticed Lucien who was quietly staying by the carriage window, and asked with a smile.

Phyllis' "Bern" estate includes a very nice vineyard, most of which are harvested for wine. After many years of cellaring and selection, the "Bern" estate wine has become well-known in Aalto, and it is considered a second-class wine. Only when invited by the balls and banquets of Felice's family, can they have the opportunity to taste it.

Lucien found an excuse to cover it up: "Mr. Rhine, I'm actually worried about the dance party later, I don't know any dances, it's embarrassing."

"Do you need me to teach you? Although you are not a beautiful lady." Rhine teased Lucien, "Or you can treat me as a beautiful lady."

Seeing Lucien's embarrassed look with nothing to say, Victor told him with a smile: "All of us are aware of your situation, and no one will ask you to dance on purpose. Of course, if you want to learn from Lucien, I will Misses who want to be beautiful will be happy to teach."

In this relaxed and casual atmosphere, Lucien's mood gradually calmed down. All the preparations had been made, and after that, it was time to implement it. No matter how worried or nervous he was now, it would not help.

The carriage left the city gate, crossed the Belem River, and drove towards the manor between the northern edge of the Melzer Black Forest and the river.

Because of the patterned rock quarry, the Phyllis family's manor is very rich, and the main house is built with light golden patterned rock, which is luxurious and grand.

Phyllis was wearing a fiery red evening dress, and she was waiting at the door of the main house with two rows of servants. Two rows of six copper lamp holders were burning bright yellow flames, driving away the night after seven o'clock.

"Mr. Victor, Mr. Rhine, Lucien, Lotte, hello." Seeing the carriage stop, Phyllis greeted her with the butler, because it was her ball, and her father Urban and mother were staying at the party. into the city of Alto.

Every noble lady must exercise the ability to host balls and banquets independently.

"You are so beautiful tonight, Phyllis." Victor hugged Phyllis and praised with a smile like an elder.

The fiery red evening dress paired with long red hair, ruby ​​eyes and fair skin really made Phyllis look much prettier than usual.

Phyllis thanked and greeted other guests. She invited not only her classmates, but also noble friends.

After greeting Phyllis with a hand kiss, Lucien, who was wearing a black suit, walked into the lobby of the main house.

The ground made of cyan patterned rocks is gorgeous and heavy. The hall has five sizes, including the living room and dining room of Lucien Garden Villa, and can accommodate gatherings of hundreds of people.

A long dining table is placed in a corner of the hall. In addition to many glasses of blood-red wine, there are refreshing and beautiful salads, pulp pies, jelly and other appetizers, barbecue, stewed meat, sausages, noodles, and fat goose. , capon, grapes, white bread and other staple foods, fruits, and other strange things that Lucien couldn't recognize.

The invited band played beautiful music in the other corner, making the whole dance party look soothing and elegant.

After Lucien came in, he went to the dining table and took a plate, loaded it with roast meat, fat goose, sausage, white bread, salad, etc., and ate quietly in the corner while waiting for Phyllis to announce the start of the dance.

The candlelight dimmed, the music changed, and a gentleman invited the ladies to step into the center of the hall, dancing the "circle dance" passed down from the court of Triia. erotic dance, but the more those old guys comment, the more enthusiastic the young people and even most of the ladies are.

"Are you here for a banquet instead of a dance, Lucien?" After dancing the opening dance with teacher Victor, Phyllis looked for Lucien everywhere, and finally found him in a corner. Sean's full plate of food was almost finished, which made Phyllis dumbfounded.

After inspiring the blood power, Lucien's appetite increased greatly, and there were still difficult things waiting for him at night.

Putting down the plate, Lucien spread his hands, "I don't know how to dance in circles, Phyllis."

"Do you want me to teach you, Mr. Rhine to teach you, or Yvette?" Phyllis obviously knew from Victor what Rhine teased Lucien before, and Yvette was dancing happily with a noble man While dancing, perhaps sensing Phyllis' gaze, she turned her head and looked over, then smiled coquettishly and gave Lucien a wink.

Phyllis turned around and said sincerely: "Lucien, if you want to integrate into the high society and deal with the nobles, music, dancing and hunting are all indispensable. Alright, let me teach you."

"Actually, I prefer to work quietly." Lucien didn't want to be unusual at a critical moment, so he had to imitate other men and make an invitation gesture to Phyllis.

Phyllis stretched out her hand in satisfaction: "Aren't you doing well? Don't worry about others' ridicule, it's always like this the first time."

With one arm around Phyllis' waist and the other on her shoulder, Lucien listened to her instruction and began to practice the dance.

A few minutes later, Phyllis looked at Lucien in surprise: "Lucien, have you ever learned to dance in circles before? It's very good, not like a novice at all, well, except that you are very reserved, you dare not talk to me. body close to the outside."

"His Royal Highness, teach me a little bit." The reason why Lucien learned so quickly is because of his super coordination and agility, and there is no way to tell Phyllis about this kind of thing, so he can only do it with Natasha who knows shield.

Phyllis came to a sudden: "It turns out that this is the case. Her Royal Highness is a great knight. If she teaches you, the effect must be very good."

Speaking of this, she suddenly laughed: "His Royal Highness is half a head taller than you, and is a fifth-level powerhouse. When dancing with you, who is the lady, Lucien?"

She had obviously heard some rumors, after all, Natasha made no secret of it.

"..." Lucien didn't know what to say, and then his heart moved, he pretended to slip his foot, and let out a low voice of pain.

Phyllis asked with concern: "Lucien, have you sprained your ankle? Do you need to see a doctor?" There is a dedicated family doctor in the manor.

"It's nothing, just take a rest, can someone take me to the room?" Lucien shook his head and said it was not serious.

Only then did Phyllis feel relieved, and called a male waiter to help Lucien to the guest room on the third floor of the main house.

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The room is clean and tidy, and the velvet quilt is soft and warm.

Lucien sat by the bed, watched the male waiter close the door, then took out the letter paper, and wrote on it with a quill:

"Isn't the 'Ball of Vision' delivered yet?"

It was almost eight o'clock at this time, and it was completely dark.

After a full ten minutes, a line of black words appeared on the envelope: "Open the window."

Lucien quickly opened the window, and with the brisk music in the hall as the background, a small black ball flew in and landed directly on Lucien's hand

Lucien didn't crush it, but saw a little blurry scene through the black smoke billowing in the "ball of vision".

Still that cabin.

This made Lucien quietly heave a sigh of relief. The other party hadn't moved yet, but he had to hurry up. One after another asking for the "Vision Ball" might arouse the other party's vigilance.

Putting the "Orb of Vision" away, Lucien said softly to the letter: "I will be responsible for comforting John when I go back tomorrow morning."

"Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Evans." The letter paper revealed black text coldly.

Lucien folded the letter paper, stuffed it into an envelope, put it inside the black coat, took off the coat, and hung it on the coat rack.

Knowing that Lucien had twisted his foot, Victor and others came to visit him one after another, including noble young people Lucien knew and did not know. Among them, Yvette seemed a little disappointed. She probably planned to come to meet Lucien in the middle of the night. En "discussed life", but the other party has become a "wounded person".

It wasn't until half past nine that Lucien completely quieted down here. Then he locked the door, blew out the candles, and lay down on the bed. The whole room was dark.

In the darkness, Lucien stood up suddenly, walked to the table, poured a cup of hot water, and at the same time let a "Camille blood drop" hidden in his palm fall into the hot water.

The water rippled slightly, and Camille's voice sounded directly next to Lucien's ear: "Any clues, Lucien?"

Whether it is letter paper or cult sacrifices, there is no response to this.

After Lucien muttered a few meaningless words to himself in the agreed secret language, he pretended to miss and dropped the cup to the ground, smashing it into pieces.

And the meaning in the secret language is: "The southeast direction of the Melzer Black Forest is close to the forest of the 'Lubek' mountain peak."

It covers a wide range, but this reflects the truth of Lucien's clues.

This location is not a short distance from the cabin and the Marsol River. They are two completely different places. If Camille searches carefully, he will not be able to search for it for a long time.

Cursing in a low voice, he cleaned up the broken pieces of glass, and Lucien lay back on the bed. At the same time, he took out the two "Camille's Blood Drops" from his trousers pocket and put them in the bed.

The dance was still going on, which set off the silence of the rest of the manor, and occasionally there were a few dogs barking.

The silver moon gradually rose, and the light shone into the room, shedding a piece of silver light, and in the silver light, there was an afterimage in the velvet quilt that twisted a few times, and then escaped the monitoring of the envelope. The open window ran out.

If there is no silver moon tonight and it is very dark, Lucien will find other ways to escape surveillance.

After going out the window, Lucien didn't go down, but climbed up to the roof of the building following the moonlight and hid in the darkness.

Perhaps because of the reassurance of monitoring Lucien on the letter paper, the cult priest hid far away behind a big tree outside the manor, and did not pay attention to it at all. In his mind, Lucien did not have any supernatural power.

With his body turned into moonlight, Lucien climbed over the wall of the manor from the other side of the main house, entered the woods, took off his leather shoes and the clothes inside and hid them, changed into a black robe with a hood that was close to his body, and then faced the southeast "Larnaca Canyon" ran.