In the witch's magic notebook, more than a dozen magic potions are recorded, each of which has a wonderful effect, such as the "Brown Owl" that restores mental power, etc., and the most precious three are the "Magic Gate" potion that can help magic apprentices who have difficulty understanding the structure of spells to forcibly improve, the "Silver Moon" potion that cooperates with magic apprentices to normally promote magicians, and a "Weeping Soul" potion that can directly stimulate the power of bloodlines for adults with normal physique.
What excites Lucian the most at the moment is the "Weeping Soul" magic potion.
Not only are the materials required for "Magic Gate" and "Silver Moon" very precious, and it is difficult to find them in a short period of time, but the premise of their use is that their spiritual power and soul are close to that of formal magicians.
It is the product of ancient magicians in order to meet the need to quickly cultivate low-level attendants in certain specific situations, at the cost of overdrawing the body's potential to stimulate the bloodline power, so the negative effect is very strong.
But for Lucian, who has little hope of becoming a knight and has chosen the magical path, it is not a big problem, and it is a way to quickly improve his strength in a short period of time.
The problem is that the materials required for this magic potion are either very expensive or very weird, it is also very difficult for an apprentice magic apprentice like Lucian to collect them all, and if his own physique does not meet the standards of normal adults, then after drinking the magic potion, not only will there be a high chance of failure, but also endanger life, adults with normal physique have a certain chance of failure, the better the physique, the easier it is to succeed.
The "Weeping Souls" magic potion is an outstanding achievement of necromancy, and the simple magic formula is:
Black Corpse Mushroom + Water Ghost Brain Tissue + Resentful Dust + Moonlight Rose Powder == "Crying Soul"
Before ripening, it is milky white like milk, and after it matures, it turns black within a day, and can remain unwilted for a month.
The more powerful the water ghost, the better the effect of the final "crying soul" refined, and the same is true for the resentful spirit dust.
And the moonlight rose according to the witch's records, is a rare plant, will emit silver, moonlight-like colors at night, when the high-level knight attendant stimulates the bloodline power, it has an auxiliary effect, so it is very expensive, more expensive than many formal magicians can use the material, one gram costs a golden tale, that is, one hundred silver gnar, and when used, under the premise of one success, it takes at least ten grams to refine the magic potion, and the entire process of the high-level knight attendant stimulating the power of the bloodline, according to their own ability, It ranges from burning five to fifty grams.
The witch once thought of refining the "Weeping Soul" magic potion to quickly improve her strength, so that she could find the "Ice Gorse" later, after all, the strength of the first-order knight is considered a strong person in the entire Duchy of Waorit, and he is a real nobleman.
Unfortunately, the witch couldn't afford the moonlight rose for the time being, and the other three materials were found out that the Belen River would be haunted at night recently, and that the wraith dust could be completed through the apprentice-level magic of "summoning low-level undead" with "Blood of Evil Creatures", so they had to put it on hold for the time being.
In this regard, Lucian could only continue his magic learning first, focusing on meditation tempering, spellcasting training and magic experiments, and then secretly looking for news of these materials.
…………
Near the "Moon of Fire" (July), the sky is bright early, and the clouds are as beautiful as orange rubies slowly changing.
Lucian got up earlier and had already experimented with using the vibration frequency of mental power instead of spellcasting.
The magic experiment was successful, and it was true that the "Ring of Runaway" magic could be activated instead of spells by controlling the pre-vibration of mental power, but the result was not good, because Lucian found that in this way, due to the high requirements for control, his mental power was greatly consumed.
"If you use spells with spellcasting, the 'Ring of Runaway' will exhaust your mental power three times, and you can use the Ring of Control to cast spells in advance, and a 'Ring of Runaway' can dry me up mentally, unless there are special circumstances, it is of little use." Lucian commented on this with disappointment.
After a meditation session, Lucian recovered, packed up the messy hut caused by the "Runaway Ring" magic, and went out to Aunt Alyssa's house.
"Good morning, Brother Lucian, let's have breakfast together!" Evan opened the wooden door for Lucian, who had been helping with Aunt Alyssa at the Alto Textile Guild recently, and looked much more stable.
Lucian smiled: "Of course, I chose a good time to come here, how could I miss breakfast."
"Hehe, little Evans, you are getting more and more humorous, it seems that this week of study has made you a lot more confident, are you going to worship together tomorrow morning?" Joel drank the vegetable soup with soft brown bread boiled, and was satisfied with Lucian's visible maturity and confidence.
Every Sunday morning, Truth Church believers will come to the church for worship, and most of them who have the time and conditions will go, except for Lucian, who has been worried about being discovered since the time crossing, and always shirks it.
Aunt Alyssa scooped a bowl of this vegetable soup with a wooden spoon to Lucian: "Little Evans, sit down and eat slowly, and talk while eating."
Lucian had consumed a lot of physical strength from meditation and casting to this day, and he was not polite, so he took a sip of the soup and chewed the black bread to eat.
Aunt Alyssa's black bread, although it is also very coarse, unpalatable, and has impurities such as bran, is much better than Lucian's inferior black bread like sawdust, which makes Lucian can't help but secretly curse the profiteer.
"Uncle Joel, I don't have time tomorrow, I'm afraid I won't be able to worship with you." How could Lucian go to worship, not to mention the danger, that time alone was enough for him to learn a lot more.
Aunt Alyssa became curious: "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 Evan both looked over in confusion, Lucian took out the old and simple money bag and handed it to Joel, smiling in a good mood: "Uncle Joel, I am now Mr. Victor's official student, and Mr. Victor is very good, he specially exempted me from tuition, and I will return these eight silver nars to you."
"Cough, cough, you have become Mr. Victor's official student?!" Joel was almost choked by the black bread, he kept coughing, his face turned red, and his eyes were full of shock when he looked at Lucian, it had only been a few days?!
Aunt Alyssa was surprised by another point: "Tuition is free?! You can learn without paying for NA?!"
Evan still didn't know the meaning of Lucian's words, so he secretly glanced at the money bag: "Wow, it's really Yinnar, the cute Yinnar with a beautiful light! Brother Lucian, how did you do it?"
Lucian honestly recounted his experience that day, and there was nothing to hide anyway, and finally concluded: "Well, that's it, Mr. Victor asked me to learn words and music with him, and the tuition was waived, and tomorrow morning I will go to Mr. Victor to borrow some simple books in the lingua franca and introductory books on music."
In fact, this afternoon, Lucian is going to Victor's house to make up for the last hour of study that he did not complete yesterday, but to be honest, he can't find a reason to push back the worship, and Lucian is indeed going to Victor's house tomorrow morning.
In the "liar" industry, Lucian is still very dedicated.
"Mr. Victor is really a good man with a kind heart." Because Lucian tried his best to hide his role, Alyssa praised Mr. Victor loudly, "Little Evans, you have to thank the Lord that after so much suffering, you can finally start a new and beautiful life."
Joel stared at Lucian with complicated eyes for a while, and finally said with relief and emotion: "I didn't expect that little Evans, you really embarked on the road of music, your intelligence, wit and hard work exceeded my imagination, and with the blessing of the Lord, I met such a kind musician as Mr. Victor. I hope you seize the opportunity and still be diligent and diligent when studying music in the future. If you have a concert in the Psalm Hall that day, you must invite Uncle Joel to listen to it, then I will have no musical regrets in my life."
Evan nodded: "It would be great if I could introduce to my companions that my Brother Lucian is a famous musician who can give concerts in the Psalm Hall! Well, it's as great as my brother becoming a knight!"
"Uncle Joel, I'll work hard." Lucian nodded solemnly, but sighed in his heart: "I'm sorry, Uncle Joel, I'm afraid I will invest very little in music, because, after last night's study, the vast, magical world has deeply attracted me, music is just my job to hide my identity and earn the money I need to learn magic, I can't be as devout and love music as you do."
As an ordinary person who doesn't know much about music, Lucian only knows that the church has relied on divine magic, and there has been little suppression of Aalto's music in the past three hundred years, and most of the music that can be heard in the city is not old-fashioned, and even many of them are very good and very beautiful, not inferior to some of the famous classical music that Lucian once heard when he was on Earth, and it feels very similar, and the trend is very consistent.
Joel put away the money bag: "Little Evans, when you choose the instrument you need to learn, just come and borrow money, hehe, don't be shy."
"Okay, Uncle Joel, Aunt Alyssa, I'm going to find a job that has nothing to do with the market area, well, with Mr. Victor's student status, it should be much easier." Lucian finished breakfast and stood up to say goodbye.
After reading the magic notes, Lucian already understood that magic was very costly!
(End of this chapter)