The sweltering night is filled with an oppressive atmosphere, waiting for a heavy rain to come.
Lucian chose a completely different path from last time, and it took more than ten minutes to walk near the abandoned house with a tall willow tree in front of the door.
However, Lucian did not go out directly, but secretly observed, in the shadow of the willow tree, there were three guys wearing black robes and their faces covered by hoods, judging by their height and size, one of them was Smail, one was a sage, and one Lucian was not sure which magic apprentice he had seen last time.
After walking around in the nearby shadows, Lucian didn't find an ambush, but he didn't relax because of this, and after returning to his original hiding position, he accurately took out a black, bizarre casting material from the row of small pockets lined with his belt.
Then Lucian opened his mouth, as if to recite a spell, but there was no sound, only the casting material in his palm began to shake rapidly, faster and faster, and bursts of invisible waves spread out from inside it to the surroundings.
"The Scream of the Bat", Lucian's first magic created by himself.
It is modeled after the principle of bats using ultrasonic "detection", which is a biological version of radar, which uses ultrasound with the apprentice-level magic of "detecting magic aura" and mental power to check whether there are people hiding around.
When Lucian learned "Detecting Magic Aura", he knew that magic apprentices and formal magicians have many magical means to hide their magical aura, but below the sixth ring, all methods of covering up magic auras require that there is no buff form, and defensive magic is working at the same time, unless it is a constant magic effect.
Of course, magicians with strange methods, if they know in advance that there is a magic called "bat scream", there is still a way to avoid it, at least Lucian knows that he can transform into a virtual body, turn into a spirit, and then cast magic that covers his own aura, so in the battle of magicians, the reasonable choice of magic is also a large part of their own strength.
If it weren't for apprentice-level magic, there would be very little magic related to light, and Lucian even wanted to construct an infrared-type magic that detects heat, after all, one more detection magic would be safer.
Whenever it encounters an obstacle, that part of the wave returns to the black irregular spherical material, so that Lucian's mental power is concentrated on it gradually appears in Lucian's mind, even in the dark, it is as clear as daytime.
[With me as the center of the circle, within the sphere within a radius of one hundred meters, except for the house, which cannot be checked, there are just some mice without magic and aura. Lucian judged the effect of the investigation, and at the same time regretted that he did not create infrared magic, otherwise it could be seen in the house, [Wait, there is an owl on that tree, well, it's Doro, on the tree over there...... There's a crow, hey, crow. 】
Judging from the last experience, the owner of this crow should be a person who is more suspicious and will not do anything without absolute certainty, and during this time, he has not made any moves, has not contacted anyone, and has definitely not exposed any information, it seems that he still wants to test and observe himself.
After ending the "Bat Scream" magic, the black magic material in Lucian's hand seemed to have dried, turning into a pile of fine yarn, slowly falling to the ground from between his fingers.
This is the "bat's pituitary gland", Lucian's own mental power cannot support more than a certain level of ultrasound, and can only rely on the organs of the spellcasting material bat to complete the entire magic.
Just as Lucian was about to continue observing for a while, and when there were no other abnormalities, he went out to meet Smail and the Sage, another magic apprentice suddenly made a voice: "Dear Mr. Professor, I think you should have been nearby, and you may have seen me if you don't want to come out. In fact, it was my teacher who discovered the traces of evil creatures this time, and he expressed his kindness to you and hoped to communicate with a knowledgeable magician like you."
The deliberate change cannot hide the special husky sexiness of her voice, she is a magic apprentice "White Honey".
After hearing her words, Lucian judged and walked out of the shadow on the back of the house, as if protruding from the darkness, and slowly walked under the willow tree: "Thank you to your teacher, although I know that a pair of eyes are staring at us on that tree, but I still hope to formally thank him through you."
"Mr. Professor, how do you know?!" White Honey was so surprised that she almost forgot to change her voice, she looked sideways at the tree, but in the thick darkness, she couldn't see anything, [How could he find Ashley?] In this kind of darkness, and the magical aura was hidden. 】
For this professor, Bai Honey felt even more mysterious and weird.
The crow seemed to have been struck by lightning and almost fell off the branches, but fortunately it spread its wings in time, circled around and walked away in the other direction.
The sage and Smile also didn't expect that they would be followed and stared at by the familiars of other magicians, and they couldn't help but tremble, if it was a malicious magician, the two of them would be in danger, they looked at White Honey, their cold voices were filled with anger: "You need an explanation."
Bai Honey had a good attitude and apologized sincerely: "I'm very sorry to hide from you, you can get a gift, the teacher just wants to meet Mr. Professor, if he encounters danger while catching evil creatures, the teacher can also help through Ashley, but now Ashley has left."
As for observing the strength of the mysterious magician "Professor", she didn't say it, but everyone present understood.
For an official magician, after the sage and smile expressed their attitude with anger, there was actually not much way, the difference in strength was too big, if for this matter, kill the white honey, maybe the crow will immediately fly back and kill himself, so after seeing the white honey apologize and promise to apologize, both of them nodded: "I hope this kind of thing will not happen again in the future, this is Alto, if this kind of thing happens, it will make your teacher think of you as a church spy, and you will become the enemy of all magicians and magic apprentices. Last time, the witch and Mr. Magician from the headquarters of the Magic Council were ambushed by the church, and many magicians and magic apprentices suspected that there were spies inside."
Lucian had already walked in front of them, his hoarse voice like grinding a rusty iron sword: "You can tell me where the evil creature is."
"In the old house of Baron Laurent in the noble area, no one in their family has been able to stimulate the power of blood for three consecutive generations, unable to hold important positions in the principality, has declined, the entire old house has very few servants, very deserted, some time ago when Ashley flew by at night, he heard a noisy sound inside, out of curiosity, it flew down to take a look, and found that there was a ** party inside, full of crazy men and women, and someone on the small altar in the middle was trying to collect this power, and that person was Baron Laurent. From his body, Ashley smelled a little evil creature." Bai Honey explained the discovery of the matter more clearly, because he was worried that the professor would misunderstand:
"After a period of observation, the teacher is sure that they will have another party tonight, and it should be the critical moment of the sacrifice."
The sage nodded, and his old voice was full of emotion: "Many of these nobles, when there are no knights for several generations and cannot get holy water from the church, will look for various ways to stimulate the power of the bloodline, even if they know that they are tempted by the devil or demons, they will take risks." He seems to have seen a lot of this kind of thing.
If no one stimulates the power of the bloodline for several generations, it means that the family has begun to decline, and the territory will be swallowed up by various means, and in the end there will be only one title left, becoming a bankrupt aristocrat, and such a nobleman, in a few more generations, even if it is not deprived, the glory will be forgotten, in the end, There is no difference between them and civilians.
Lucian also had his own judgment on what happened, and felt that it was the "Silver Horn" cult After nearly two months of silence, it began to move again: "Do you know the strength of that evil creature? How else can I get to the aristocratic area?"
The noble area is surrounded by the inner city wall, and at this time, the city gate has long been closed, unless it is the nobles living inside, the soldiers may open it.
"The teacher judged from the altar specifications that it should be a low-level devil at the level of an ordinary knight, but as long as it is destroyed before the sacrifice is completed, it will only project the level of a high-level knight attendant." White Honey didn't think this matter was dangerous, but he and the sage and others were sure to destroy the demonic projection of this strength, and Mr. Professor was so powerful that he didn't know how many rings he was a formal magician.
And the sage followed: "White honey didn't know how to contact the owl, so through me, I happened to know a secret passage to enter the noble area at night, so I followed him to lead the way for you, Mr. Professor. With your guidance last time, my spell model has almost been analyzed, and if the professor allows it, I want to do it for you, and an enemy of this level doesn't need you to take action yet."
When the teacher who knew the white honey was still doubting the professor's strength and wanted to observe through this matter, he suddenly felt a little fearful, afraid that the powerful image of the professor in his mind would be shattered, and that the professor would be killed by the white honey teacher because of his exposed strength, so he would have no one to consult in the future, so under the influence of two emotions, he proposed a little impulsively.
Lucian was worried that the "Silver Horn" cult would make this matter uncertain, and the stronger his side was, the safer it was, and the sage was likely to have magic items similar to "Ice and Snow Avengers", so after pondering for a while, he nodded and said, "When the matter is over, you can ask me a question."
As long as you get the dust of the ghost and get rid of others smoothly, you will disappear from the magic circle for a period of time, so you don't have to worry about things like your strength being seen through and your powerful image collapsing.
"Can I help you? Professor." On the one hand, White Honey was making up for the rudeness just now, and on the other hand, Ashley's crow had flown away, and the matter of observing the professor's strength fell on her.
Of course Lucian agreed, how could he not want the hostages sent to the door.
If he was snatched away by the sage and white honey, he would lose the relationship between the witch and the professor in a row, and his strength in the circle would be relatively poor, and he would likely become more and more marginalized in the future, which would not be conducive to the progress of his strength, so he also begged to go.
Then, under the leadership of the sage, Lucian and the others walked towards the noble area.
(End of this chapter)