Lucian, who was so "simple" and so "sincere", made Victor can't hold back anymore, laughing, tears are about to flow, the others whether it is Rhein, or Lott, Phyllis, etc., all laughed very violently and failed to maintain their demeanor, even the old gentleman Xavier, shook his head and smiled, but Annie, Colin and other students who had not yet been able to follow Victor to study music, laughed with a faint bitterness and jealousy.
Lucian looked at everyone's reactions in confusion, probably understanding that his lack of common sense caused some kind of joke, but seeing that they were not strange and confused, it shouldn't be too serious, so he asked out loud: "Mr. Victor?"
Victor coughed a few times, restrained his smile, and looked at Lucian seriously: "I mean, Lucian, are you willing to learn music with me? Although you are older, the road of music is more about talent, and even if you have average talent, you can become a qualified musician if you study with me for a few years, and you don't have to worry about your future life.
Then he paused and added humorously: "Of course, tuition is free."
This made Lott, Rhine and others laugh again.
For Victor, his students are divided into three types, one is to learn words, 5 silver naars per month, if he is favored and allowed, he can become the second type of student, and the students who follow him to learn music can become 10 silver nars per month, only when studying music, showing outstanding talent or talent, can become his third type of student, who can follow him to perform, take advantage of his relationships and reputation.
There is only one such disciple of Viktor at the moment, and he has become an excellent musician.
And Lot, Phyllis, and Herodotus all belong to the second type, and if Lucian agrees, he is also the second type, but he is exempted from tuition fees of 10 silver nars per month.
Although Victor teaches students about 7 quinthales a year, which is equivalent to the best among non-businessmen in the commoner class, that is, the annual income of a qualified musician, such as Anne's father, the Aalto city court clerk's annual salary is only 15 quinthalers, but most of Victor's income comes from performances invited by aristocrats and other national music associations, usually 100 quinthalers a year, and this is the upper class, people who do not have their own estates and do not know how to do business. The higher level that can be achieved.
Therefore, even if Victor turned down all the invitations in the past year and couldn't make ends meet, there was still no problem in waiving Lucian's tuition fees.
Lucian didn't expect Victor's gratitude to be to accept him as a student studying music, and for a while, he was a little hesitant, but soon, Lucian thought of the content of the witch's notes and his intention to repay Uncle Joel's family, and thought to himself:
"I don't know where a good place to learn magic for the time being, then for a long time, I'm afraid I will have to continue to live in Aalto, after all, this is the largest, most prosperous, closest to the Dark Mountains, and the most crowded big city in the west, if you want to find magic materials and inquire about news, it is much more convenient here, in this case, it is a good choice to use music students or musicians to disguise your identity as a magician and earn the money you need, this is a very respected profession in Alto."
Since he planned to start learning magic in Alto, Lucian didn't want to make money with the various inventions and creation materials in the library, because it would easily attract the attention of the church, and it would not be too late to do so when he found a place and country where he could safely learn magic.
The thoughts in his heart were quickly sorted out, and Lucian showed a sincere smile: "Thank you, Mr. Victor, I hope you can teach me beautiful and elegant music."
Victor nodded in satisfaction: "Lucian, your simplicity, diligence, seriousness and intelligence are rare to me, I hope you can achieve certain achievements on the road of music in the future."
After saying this, even if Lucian was officially allowed to learn music with him, Annie, Colin and others suddenly became a little lost and unhappy.
"I'm really not simple." Lucian couldn't help but retort in his heart, he just didn't have common sense just now, and at the same time felt that the eyes of Colin, Renee and others looking at him were quite complicated.
Victor called Ace in, returned Lucian's five silver nars to him, and then invited Rhine and Xavier to the study, thanked them privately, and asked Lot, Phyllis, and Herodotus to stay in the piano room to practice, and so on to continue to modify the harpsichord.
And because Lucian had no musical foundation, after borrowing the "Universal Language Dictionary", he left the hall and prepared to go home.
"Hello, Lucian." Renee, who had brown hair and blue eyes and small and slender features, suddenly caught up from behind, showing a sunny smile, "I'm Renee, Renee? Wezzy, you are really talented at learning words and languages."
Lucian was busy going back to look up the dictionary to decipher the witch's notes thoroughly, so he was in the mood to talk to Renee: "Hello, Renee, I left late today, I still have urgent matters, I'll have a good chat with you another day, sorry, I'm in a hurry."
"It's really a coincidence, you can go with your busy going, Lucian, goodbye." Renee smiled for a moment, but quickly recovered, full of understanding and thoughtfulness.
At this time, Annie and the aristocratic male student Simak passed by the other side of Lucian, snorted faintly, and then did not look at the two of them, maintaining an elegant pace and walking out the door.
Behind them and Lucian, Renee's smile froze, she didn't expect that she just wanted to establish a normal private friendship with Lucian, which actually made Annie dissatisfied, and the deliberate approach and flattery of the past few days were completely wasted.
Colin and David glanced at Renee with a sneer, and then looked deeply at Lucian's back and shook their heads, why didn't they have such good luck.
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When he returned to his cabin in the Adjean district, it was only after five o'clock in the afternoon, and the hot summer was still bright, Lucian found an excuse to study hard, telling Aunt Alyssa not to go to her house for dinner at night, and then baked a piece of black bread to satisfy his hunger.
At this time, there is nothing more important for Lucian than deciphering the witch's notes and learning magic!
After eating the black bread, Lucian locked the repaired wooden door, took out paper and quills, and pretended to study, and then opened the soul library and quickly entered the dictionary into it.
After doing this, Lucian opened the witch's magic notebook, compared it with the dictionary, and interpreted it seriously.
With the experience and accumulation of the previous few days, by about ten o'clock in the evening, Lucian had already interpreted all the contents of the magic notes except for the last few pages, and breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart:
"It seems that the witch's ancient Sylvanas script is not well learned, so the magic notes are very detailed, some even copy the notes of the family ancestors, I can learn magic according to her records, but her magic notes only end with how to become an official magician, and I need to find another way later, or learn the ancient Sylvanas script from the magic notes in reverse, and decipher the "Book of Astrology and Elements"."
Regardless of what happened after becoming an official magician, Lucian could now start learning magic.
According to the witch's records, in the ancient magic empire, magic was recognized as the mysterious change of the four basic elements of earth, fire, wind, and water under the action of spiritual power, and later light, darkness, soul, etc., and could summon monsters from hell, abyss or other xenoplane spaces, so magic was divided into eight factions: elemental system, astrological system, necromancy system, illusion system, summoning system, force field system, change system, alchemy system, and "Book of Astrology and Elements" is mainly based on elemental system and astrological system, Mixed with grimoires containing a small number of magic from other factions.
Before becoming an official magician, one cannot learn one-ring magic, only informal magic, called a magic apprentice.
The spell structure of informal magic is very simple, in Lucian's opinion, it is just a clear rune composed of a standard geometric pattern at the junior high school level, simpler than a hexagram, and then by reciting its pronunciation, it can be performed by stimulating the corresponding magic materials to form a rune.
According to the standard of spiritual power, that is, from full mental power to dry up, the number of informal magic that can be used at one time is divided into three levels: apprenticeship, formal, and advanced, which are five, ten, and twenty respectively.
After tempering the spiritual power and soul to a certain limit through the meditation method, you can combine the potion to construct a mark model of a ring of spells in your soul.
Those who can successfully construct one will become a formal magician, and the casting of this spell will not require the cooperation of spells, casting materials, and gestures, but only depends on whether the spiritual power is exhausted and whether it is still in the buffer period of the previous magic.
After reading this, Lucian suppressed his eagerness to try and continued to interpret the last few pages, planning to read them in full first.
"I met another magician today, and I actually met another magician in Alto! He looks very different from the reclusive magicians, very strange."
After interpreting a page, Lucian suddenly interpreted this meaningful content, Alto really has other magicians!
Suddenly, Lucian's spirit lifted and he continued to interpret:
"I found a strange red-eyed rat in the sir, with a smell of magic, I don't know where it came from, I searched for a long time but didn't find it."
"After experiments, this red-eyed rat reproduces extremely quickly, has poisonous blood, and is slightly hallucinogenic and paralyzed."
"With the Lappland Blood Vine, the effect is unexpectedly good, and the magic trap I envisioned can finally be arranged."
"Who cultivated them?"
Seeing this, Lucian couldn't help but glance at the ground, if the red-eyed rats were not magical creatures cultivated by witches, who were they, and what other dangers were there in the sewers?
So Lucian hurriedly continued to interpret:
"I met the magician again, his views on magic are so different, his knowledge is very profound, and he has a fascinating charm."
"However, he actually said that ancient magic, except for many powerful and strange spells that can be referenced and used, is completely outdated, is an ignorant and instinctive exploration, how is it possible?!"
"He showed me a magic book he treasured, not thick, a kind of book called a periodical, this magic book is called "Arcane", according to his explanation, 'Arcane' represents the origin of the world and the knowledge of the laws of operation, arcane is the meaning of the essence and principle of magic, very interesting."
"This Arcane was the first issue published more than 300 years ago, and on the first page there was an article by a great arcanist, a speech at one of his magical conferences."
"Judging from his expression, he respects that great arcanist very much, even to the point of worshiping him."
"I read this article carefully, I felt a trembling feeling all over my body, I didn't even know how to get home, my mind was in a mess, I want to record it, why have I never thought about this?"
These lines of text are the same as most of the text on the last page, the letters are large and small, undulating, looking messy and trembling, as if its owner is in a very excited mood, Lucian interpreted it suspiciously, wanting to see what the article was that made the witch unable to calm down for so long:
"Gentlemen and ladies, many years ago, our respected ancestors of mankind, from dragons, elves, giants, demons, devils and various magical creatures, learned how to use spiritual power, and then by analyzing their body structure and blood characteristics, they merged their bloodlines step by step, transformed their bodies, invented many meditation methods to enhance spiritual power, and created various magic with reference to the magic pattern structure inside and outside their bodies, thus gaining great power and driving the demons back to the abyss, kicked the devil back to hell, and made the dragons, elves, and giants either retreat to the remote mountains, wilderness, and xenospace, or surrender to our feet."
"The brilliant victory made the ancient legendary magicians pursue power even more persistently, to the abyss, to hell, to various xenoplane conquests, until the Truth Cult grew, and in just a few hundred years, the three magical empires were destroyed, and the glory of the past became today's bitterness, dazedness and despair."
"Dear gentlemen and ladies, it's time to be quiet, don't be fooled by power, it's time to calm down and think about some questions, we need to figure it out:"
"What is the essence of magic?"
"Why do living things have spiritual power?"
"What is the essence of spiritual power?"
"In what form does it exist?"
"Are earth, fire, wind, and water the basic elements? If so, in what form and by what laws do they constitute this wonderful world? If not, then what are they? What should be the magic elements?"
"What is the essence of the soul?"
"Is the soul and consciousness different? If not, in what form does consciousness exist?"
"Do we need 'tools' to elaborate and help build magic models?"
"God does not exist, and if so, what is His essence and form of existence? What is the existence form of the vampire ancestor Etna, and why can she not die?"
"Why do there are suns and silver moons in this world, why do they rise and set every day, and what is the force that keeps them in this motion? If we ask more about the reasons for these seemingly normal things in the material world, we will find that we still don't understand whether these truths, laws and knowledge are related to magic, can they be combined with magic, and can they help us explore the essence of the magical world?"
"Your dear friend, Douglas."
(End of this chapter)