Inside the shimmering metallic hall of the Magic Council headquarters.
Lazar kept laughing, almost out of breath: "Lucian, Lucian, didn't you see Ms. Lauvert's face? It was so black that it was comparable to the iron furnace man in the southern desert! It's like just getting a hundred arcane points but being told that they were sent to the wrong person, haha, it could also be that the house was on fire and the savings were looted...... I'm so happy to see it! Many people hate her!"
"It's obviously just something that can be done according to the laws of the mission area, why she made it like this, it's really hard to understand her thoughts." Lucian smiled and shook his head, holding a tall stack of books in his hand.
Lazar stroked his chest and stopped smiling: "Ms. Lauvitt is the kind of person I mentioned who is old and feels that her thinking has become dull and there is no hope of promotion, so she desperately saves money to have a rich and beautiful old age and leave a valuable legacy for her children and grandchildren. When they see a magician who is still busy improving their strength and knowledge, they always have an expression on the face that others owe her a lot of money."
"Hey, I can actually understand them, but I hope I don't want to be like them after I turn sixty."
"It's hard to imagine that Lazar, who is always full of sunny smiles, would have that hateful expression." Lucian pondered for a moment, "Hey, so let's try it in advance, you lend me thirty arcane points, and then I will pay you back in a hundred years."
Lazar glared at Lucian: "This is the harvest of my hard work to improve magic, Lucian, do you have the beariness? Hehe, speaking of which, you actually ran into those three little ghosts again, I don't know what their expressions will be?"
Among the five magic schools in Alinje, Douglas School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is the best, specializing in force fields, electromagnetism, astrology and elements, the former is good at necromancers and summoning, and the latter is good at transformation and illusion, Trident Magic School mainly teaches the latest three factions: electromagnetism, heat and light and darkness, and Aalborg Magic School is alchemy, elemental and heat.
However, because they are all aimed at magic apprentices, each school has its own teachings, but it is slightly more important.
"Happy, then painful." Lucian replied affirmatively, "Next, I have to buy a storage bag, otherwise it would be troublesome to carry so many books, and I would carry the suitcase every time."
"Of course, the Wasim Alchemy Shop has a century-old reputation......" Lazar answered smoothly.
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"Ordinary storage bags, three-level magic items, constant three-ring magic 'Shrinking', can scale and store items according to a fixed ratio of sixteen to one, while reducing weight by 80% and covering magic fluctuations, worth four hundred arcane points."
Lucian carried the black storage bag in his hand, his heart was really like a knife, he felt that life was gray, he spent three high-quality helan stones plus fifty-eight golden tales and six arcane points, instantly turning himself from a rich man to a commoner, and the palm-sized it, after containing magic notes, books and magic materials, etc., the space has been consumed by most of it.
Seeing Lucian's faintly twitching face, Lazar smiled and comforted: "Lucian, don't be heartbroken, if it's not a standard magic item, even if it's just a third-level rating, you can't buy even a thousand arcane points! Since the masters of alchemy improved their craftsmanship and materials, the prices of some commonly used magic items have been drastically reduced. Besides, storage bags are a must-have item, and it's worth spending on them."
"Hey, I didn't expect Lucian that you have so many high-quality sea rocks. If I need it in the future, it will be cheaper to buy from you, right?"
"Okay, okay, in a week, after the release of "Ordinary Arcanist Monthly", your arcane points will rise steadily, and I don't know how many arcanists want to improve the magic that is evaluated as seriously flawed but has groundbreaking."
"Lazar, your clothes are also standard?" Lucian replied slightly blankly.
Lazar replied solemnly: "The meaning of my magic robe style refers to the style...... Next, where shall we go?"
Mentioning this topic, Lucian woke up a little from his almost bankrupt grief: "Library, basic arcane library!"
I want to make up for my losses! Let the massive books comfort my soul!
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"What?! Can't browse in advance?!"
Even Lucian, who has always been able to stay calm, couldn't help but ask louder when he heard this bad news.
Of course, this is also related to Lucian's lack of depressed feelings at the Magic Council headquarters, and his personality, which was previously suppressed by life, slowly surfaced, and was no longer blindly calm and cold.
The short old man who managed the library saw Lucian's reaction and smiled: "Young man, you have too little life experience. As early as a few decades after the establishment of this basic arcane library, there were magicians who relied on their strong memory after their souls and spiritual powers to memorize the contents of the books in the library.
"But knowledge is equal to power, equal to wealth, how can they get it for free like this?"
His white hair was mixed with black silk, his red pupils were a little cloudy, and his appearance looked slightly old, but in fact he looked very energetic and temperamental, without any wrinkles, and at first glance he looked like a handsome young man after being half-old, but unfortunately he was too short, more than half a head shorter than Lucian, wearing a bright red and gorgeous ancient magic robe, and the corners of his clothes were dragged to the ground and rubbed around.
But his appearance was extremely obscene in Lucian's eyes at this time, his heart seemed to be struck by thunder and lightning, and he didn't let me look through how I recorded it in the soul library.
"However, if I can't browse in advance, how do I know what I want to learn?" Lucian tried to struggle to the death.
The short and handsome old man stretched out his index finger and shook it: "Young man, the excuses you are making are the same as those fools at the beginning." Then he patted the magic circle on the counter, a cloud of green smoke rose, and the upper half turned into a rough man with a bare chest, wearing a black floppy hat on his head, "Alex, the djinn managing the basic arcane library, tell me the knowledge you need, and he will immediately tell you which books you can borrow, where it is, and what the general content is. He is a special alchemical life made from a fire giant hidden in a lamp and some soul fragments, focusing on memory."
"Welcome, Alex is here to serve you." Managing the djinn is much more polite than the short old man.
Lucian restrained his grief and tried to ask calmly: "How much does it cost to rent a book?"
"This library is only open to magicians within the council, and the rental period for one book is seven days, ten silver nars." The management djinn replied with a smile.
"So expensive?!" Lucian found that this place was a robbery, Alto bought a thick book for only one to two silver nars, and renting here alone cost ten silver nars!
The short old man shook his head with a lewd expression: "Alas, today's young people don't understand the preciousness of knowledge! In the past, if you wanted to see a new magic school, you would either exchange your own magic book or pay a sufficient price, at least a few dozen Kintal magic materials worth ......."
Seeing that he had a tendency to be verbose, Lazar quietly pulled himself behind his back, Lucian rubbed his temples and said, "Except for a book of ten silver nars, are there no other rules?"
"If you pay two arcane points directly, you can borrow forty books in a month, and each book has a period of seven days. Four arcane points and eighty books, and so on." Alex said another way, "But in this case, you can't replace it with Kintale and other items, only arcane points will be collected."
This is half the cheaper method than before, and obviously encourages magicians to use arcane points.
Although Lucian wanted to exchange the remaining three high-quality Hylan stones, he endured the cost of his next experimental materials, so he took out the magic badge and handed it to the short old man: "Rent forty copies a month."
The short old man crossed out two arcane points with a magic circle and handed the magic badge to Lucian, with a rare serious expression: "Since you want to learn magic, don't be stingy with money on books and experimental materials, as long as you have enough magic items. What books do you want to borrow from Alex?"
"Mr. Alex, what are the most cutting-edge research papers on the soul and the human body?" Lucian asked, always wondering about the research in this area.
Alex thought about what the frontier representative meant, and replied after a few seconds:
"A Few Inferences About the Soul as a Carrier of Consciousness", author, Arcanist Vicente Miranda;
"Discussion of the Elements That Make Up the Soul and Special Electromagnetic Waves", author, Arcanist Vicente Miranda;
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"Analyzing the principles of divine magic such as severed limb regeneration from the memory of cells and the source of the great knight's resilience and trying to simulate it", author, Level 4 Arcanist Felipe."
Lucian said with a slight surprise: "Felipe?"
This paper has reached the level of cellular memory?!
However, on second thought, the ancient magicians simulated the development of magical creatures, and had a rich accumulation in the structure of their bodies, coupled with the real existence of severed limb regeneration and the strong resilience of some magical creatures, when necromancy entered the cellular realm under the leadership of the great arcanist Vicente Miranda, it was normal to have similar discoveries.
This is where the world of magic and divine magic surpasses Earth.
"Yes, Mr. Felipe caused a sensation in the entire Magic Council with this paper, becoming a fourth-level arcanist and a magician focused on training by the Pale Hand, and his reputation as a genius is even louder than that of Mr. Ulysses and the others." Lazar was half afraid and half admiring.
Lucian nodded silently, when he met Felipe, he always felt that he was too proud and confident, but now it seems that he is really capable, has the qualifications and source of confidence.
Coming to his senses, Lucian borrowed two Arcane journals and a Magic journal that published several of these papers, and then borrowed three basic books on the soul realm, and continued: "Mr. Alex, please help me find a paper that determines the detailed properties of various elements, all the elements that have been discovered so far. If there are papers that try to describe them as a whole, I will also find them, such as papers that want to find connections between them."
"Lucian, how did you think of borrowing these papers?" Lazar asked a little strangely before Alex spoke, if the theory of the soul realm is to broaden one's horizons and make up for the shortcomings according to Lucian, then the elemental thesis described by Lucian seems a bit unconventional, and he should use the part of the paper that redefines the elements to lay a solid foundation.
Lucian turned his head to look at him and smiled as if he knew what he was thinking: "I will borrow the basic part of the thesis later. But as a magician who is good at elemental systems, if you don't even know what elements are currently and what the properties of each of these elements are, it is really a failure."
And it is related to his future preparation for magic experiments.
This explanation was reasonable, Lazar didn't say much, and began to think about which magic book he should borrow to go back to study.
(End of this chapter)