Near the early hours of the morning, after many magic experiments, Lucian finally learned and mastered the five informal magics of "Starry Eye", "Frost Ray", "Forbidden Light", "Mage's Hand" and "Acid Sputter".
Compared with the witch's own records, Lucian found that the time to analyze magic, learn magic, and master magic was a bit amazingly fast, except for the "Ring of Runaway" that the witch did not understand and forcibly mastered, the elemental magic she was good at "acid sputtering", "frost rays", generally three to four days, twenty hours, hundreds of magic experiments and spellcasting practice to analyze and master, while Lucian, "acid sputtering" was used five times, "frost rays" was used seven times, "starry eyes" were used ten times, and only "light banning technique" was used Due to insufficient analysis and understanding in advance, it took a full 30 times to master it.
In Lucian's view, this is mainly because the spell structure seems to be based on a mathematical model, and then merges his own understanding of this magic construction process, and the model structure of informal magic is just a simple rune shape, equivalent to the level of junior high and high school plane geometry such as the hexagram.
For example, "acid sputtering" is understood as using sulfur to make sulfuric acid, but when it comes to the light ban technique, Lucian cannot rely on his previous knowledge to understand, so he can only so-so think that reverse destruction of the structure of "fluorescent grass" can make it actively absorb light without reflection.
This made Lucian reflect on himself: "You can't rely too much on past knowledge, the magic of this world should have its own unique place, although some can be combined with physics, chemistry, etc., but the others have to be slowly analyzed by yourself, after all, the elements and rules of this world are likely to be different from the earth, specious, such as the witch's record of mithril, adamantine gold and other precious materials, such as why astrology can be relied on to predict good and bad fortune, fate, etc."
As for the "Ring of Runaway", Lucian fully understood that it was gravitational magic, which allowed him to reduce the casting time so quickly to its current limit.
After recovering his mental strength with ten minutes of quiet rest, Lucian began to simply deal with the traces left behind, such as the corroded stone surface.
"The power of informal magic is really not strong enough, frost rays can only directly kill an adult if they hit the heart and throat and other vital points, causing cardiac arrest and suffocation, otherwise all three frost rays will hit. Lucian calmly analyzed the apprentice-level magic he knew, and was not disappointed, although many magics did not seem strong, but as long as they were used well, the effect was equally amazing on certain occasions and at certain times.
After dealing with the traces, Lucian hid the spellcasting materials in his pocket and made them easy to access, and instead of returning to the ground, he continued to explore in the direction of the suffrages near the slum outlet.
In the case that the cemetery is likely to be secretly monitored by the church, then except for the dead beasts and humans in the Mezel Black Forest, the sewer is the only place where there is hope to find the rotten body, after all, many poor people and beggars living here may not even have shrouds, if there are no friends and relatives around, it cannot be ruled out that no one knows the possibility of dying quietly in the depths of the sewers, as for the dead animals, Rotten pieces of meat thrown down the sed, etc., are not uncommon.
Moreover, the witch also explored the sewers, initially for the black corpse mushroom, and later to find the origin of the red-eyed mouse, but none of them encountered danger, so Lucian dared to explore this sewer first.
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The spiritual power dispersed, vaguely sensing the surroundings, and Lucian walked carefully in the sewers.
In the past twenty minutes, Lucian has explored several places and found three rotten corpses, namely two mice and a strange jelly-shaped animal, but unfortunately none of them have black corpse mushrooms growing on them.
Turning a corner, Lucian's eyes suddenly opened up, and he finally found the beggars living in the sewers.
The sewer in this section is very wide, and in the middle is a quiet flowing dark river with some garbage, which will flow all the way to the outlet and merge into the Belen River.
Lucian saw that he was just a beggar, did not evade it, and that he had been discovered, so he tried to pass through the corridor on the other side with a steady pace.
"Young man, the sewer is not where you should be, what is your purpose?" An old man who looked in his sixties, with protruding ribs and abnormally shriveled, stood up from the group of beggars, but his voice was about forty years old at most.
No matter how shabby and cheap Lucian wore a linen bolero, no matter how cheap he was, he could no longer hide his identity as a poor man, but compared to these beggars, he was as gorgeous as an aristocrat, at least it was not rotten enough to expose most of his skin, at least it was very clean, so the old man recognized at a glance that Lucian was not a "native" in the sewers.
Lucian replied with a smile: "I have a friend who lives in the sowers, and I came to find him." His words were confident and flashy, and he didn't seem to take these beggars seriously, because in this dark sewer without laws, if you want to avoid arousing the greed of these beggars, it is the best way to show yourself very strong.
Behind the skinny old man, several other beggars stood up and stared at Lucian with fierce and greedy eyes, but Lucian glanced around them without showing weakness, showing his fairly strong figure and dagger that faintly emitted cold light.
This made them subconsciously avoid Lucian's gaze.
Watching Lucian walk forward step by step, the shriveled old man suddenly laughed: "Young man, I don't think you are dressed well, and you have a dagger in your hand, it seems that you are doing something improper."
Lucian was a little surprised that he would talk to himself, thought for a moment, and replied coldly: "It has nothing to do with you."
The shriveled old man smiled: "No matter what, I can see that you are having a hard time. Since young people like you who work so hard and work so hard can't eat white bread and beef every day, I think it's definitely not your fault. The Church of Truth tells us that everyone is the Lamb of the Lord, but why can the nobles live a luxurious life, while the poor who devoutly believe in Him cannot change their fate, everyone is born sinful!"
"I'm not interested in what you say, don't talk to me anymore." Lucian's tone was cold.
Although this shriveled old man said very vaguely, he didn't leave a handle for others, and it was definitely not clear to others, but from his words, Lucian smelled a familiar smell, that is, the smell of being preached, and from his meaning, it was definitely not the Truth God Cult, as for other gods, or the devil, Lucian was not interested for the time being, and if he didn't have enough strength, he would rashly touch these, that would be a dead end.
Under the control of the Truth Cult, spreading to other sects is an absolute crime that is absolutely punishable by burning, and these beggars will not risk leaking news.
The shriveled old man and several beggars didn't expect Lucian to refuse so simply and directly, and couldn't help but stare at Lucian angrily, as if he had been desecrated with something precious.
"Do you want to try my dagger?" Lucian shook the dagger in his hand, and then moved forward calmly and steadily.
As he crossed the dark river across the sewer with them, Lucian keenly noticed that where they had been surrounded before, there was a clean black cloth with a curved horn shining silver on it.
The skinny old man recalled what he had said, feeling that he had not revealed anything, just like an ordinary poor man's complaint, but he focused his complaints on the nobles, and at the same time he measured Lucian's age, physical condition, and the dagger in his hand, so he sat down again helplessly.
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After leaving the beggars and walking through the sewers for more than ten minutes, the sound of water in Lucian's ears suddenly became loud.
"It seems that we have reached the water outlet, and it should be by the Belém River outside." Lucian saw that the dark river had become slightly turbulent and flowed to a hole covered with barbed wire with large holes, so he walked slowly along the side corridor, looking for the rotten corpse in the most densely populated area.
Walking all the way to the barbed wire, Lucian didn't find anything, and was a little disappointed, ready to return to the ground.
But when Lucian turned around and casually glanced at the part where the barbed wire was in contact with the water surface, he was surprised to find that the fluorescent light was shining and the water waves were shaking, and there seemed to be no place where the barbed wire and the water surface came into contact a little below.
Curious, Lucian walked to the side, shook and lifted the barbed wire, and took a closer look, and sure there was a big hole under the barbed wire.
Before he could judge whether it was broken naturally or artificially destroyed, Lucian saw a large black object slowly floating up, right in front of him, as if it was because of the violent shaking of the barbed wire just now.
When it slowly floated to the surface of the water, under the impact of the dark river, hitting the barbed wire, Lucian saw clearly that it was a swollen corpse, the muscles on its face and body had rotted a lot, and the outline could only be vaguely recognized, the clothes were wrapped in garbage, and some were very buoyant.
Lucian held back the disgust of seeing the rotten corpse, and carefully searched for whether there were black corpse mushrooms on his body, although there was little hope, after all, it was soaked in water, maybe there would be a surprise?
Looking at it, Lucian's brows furrowed, because the cause of death of this corpse was very strange, the chest was broken, and he had just touched it with a dagger and found that his heart was gone, it looked like it had been dug up alive.
"Who is so cruel?" Lucian looked up and down at the corpse, and suddenly, on the waist of the corpse, he found a money bag wrapped around it, "Why does it look familiar?"
Picking it up with a dagger, Lucian took a closer look: "This is my money bag!"
This is Lucian's money bag that was snatched away by the gangsters and did not have time to get it back, it actually appeared on a dead and strangely dead rotten corpse in the sir.
Surprised, not caring about disgust, Lucian looked at the corpse's face seriously again:
"Andre?"
I had an idea in my heart, Lucian looked more and more like him, how could Andre of the Aaron gangster die here?!
(End of this chapter)