The middle-aged magician looked around the hall and sighed to the dragon with a slight sympathy: "Beltran is really plagued by bad luck, and he was preparing to summon two devils to experiment normally in the restraint, but his youngest apprentice happened to hold a special summoning ceremony in the secret room. Otherwise, with the castle he has decorated for many years, it is not difficult to detect the strange in advance and eliminate the monsters that have not yet grown."
"Soup recipe, I don't think it's just right." The dragon contentedly dragged out a bulging bag hidden under him, his eyes shining as he counted the pieces of dazzling gold that had just been extracted inside, the minted yellow gold coins, each with different colors but very beautiful magic materials, and then replied in a nonchalant tone, "In my experience, when the child tried to seek power through the Fable of Pain, this abomination monster had already formed a projection in his mind, and influenced his emotions, judgments, and ways of doing things, and later special rituals , but to strengthen this projection and let it draw its power to form."
Its voice was immature, like a child, unable to distinguish between men and women, which was very contradictory to the obvious advanced strength.
The middle-aged magician named Tang Pu smiled and watched the dragon squatting on the ground counting his treasures, and asked a little curiously: "Afrith, your experience?"
"Of course, every time I see a shiny treasure, there is always a monster called 'greed' projected into my heart, affecting my emotions and thoughts. So, Thomp, it's not my fault to loot the vault, and I can't control myself." The dragon Averis replied innocently.
Tang Pu said funny: "Where did the monster come from? Avery can you control your emotions and thoughts now? Can you return the treasure?"
"I can already control it, but you have promised these as my reward, how can you take it back? You are the most trustworthy and contract-oriented!" Avery resolutely played a trick, "As for where the monster is projected, I don't know, it may be related to the ancient hell......" It said casually.
But Tang Pu said thoughtfully: "Several great arcanists have explored hell and dealt with some hell dukes and earls, plus some ruins and ancient records, they have discovered many things, such as rumors that there were seven unusually powerful, terrifying and mysterious devils in the deepest part of hell, representing arrogance, greed, jealousy, hatred, pain, indulgence and hypocrisy The seven negative descriptions, but unfortunately they have never been proven to exist."
"And according to another interpretation, they are just seven abstract symbols extracted from those cunning and evil devils in hell, and each devil has at least one of these qualities."
"Huh? So that's how it is......" Averis replied perfunctorily, while carefully transferring some small but precious items in the bag to himself, after all, some of them belonged to the Magic Council.
Tang Fu pretended not to see and continued: "Regarding the Parable of Pain, it is necessary to include this Special Summoning Ritual in the scope of the Council's focus study, perhaps related to some secret of the world. The appearance, existence, and rapid transformation of that monster are too strange and mysterious, if it weren't for Africe, you are naturally good at spirit, soul, and mind magic, I'm afraid I would let it escape......"
Even a high-level magician like him felt that monster was extremely strange.
Then, he took the badge from his arms and put it on.
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In the vault, due to Lucian's sudden attack on the wall, Charlotte, Sandra and others were nervous and suspicious, especially Susan didn't even dare to breathe too heavily, as if she was afraid that the monster that could appear anywhere would suddenly pounce from behind or other unexpected corners!
Da Da Da, the tense and depressing atmosphere reached its peak with the sound of footsteps clearly echoing in the corridor, and then a middle-aged man wearing a flame-like magic robe appeared outside the vault, he had black hair and blue eyes, and a pair of elegant gold-rimmed eyes, looking handsome and elegant.
"Hello, I'm the soup recipe of the Affairs Committee, and I happen to be working in Casper County, so I came over to take over this matter." The middle-aged man looked at Lucian and the others who were on high alert through the magic circle defense wall and seemed to launch a magic attack at any time, smiling kindly.
He wore three badges on his chest, one was an arcane badge with six silver stars on a black background, one was a magic badge with eight black rings on a silver background, and a black arcane flame emblem representing the members of the committee.
Lucian waved his hand to stop Susan, who was surprised and wanted to greet him out, and said cautiously: "Mr. Tang Pu, to ensure safety, please let us check your badge, because that monster is very weird and terrifying."
Although they were facing high-ranking members of the Magic Council, Charlotte and Sandra both nodded in agreement with Lucian's decision, and there were not one or two cases of monsters deceiving and killing magicians after transforming.
Tang Pu smiled and took off the three badges, floating them by the door of the vault, allowing Lucian and the others to inspect them.
After confirming that it was correct, Charlotte opened the defensive magic circle and reported very directly: "Mr. Tang Pu, this monster is very weird, there are many mysteries in the matter, I will briefly tell you from beginning to end, so that you can take over the investigation."
According to the status of the three of them in the team, this kind of thing should have been done by Lucian, but he was weak now, and it was difficult to speak without a problem, so he handed it over to Charlotte.
After listening to Charlotte's story seriously, Tang Pu nodded: "The level of this compulsory mission exceeded the original expectations, and it changed from a simple task to a dangerous task, so the final arcane point reward will be greatly improved after passing the evaluation. Moreover, the council will compensate the damaged magic items and consumed magic potions in the mission as they are, and you can draw up a list and submit it to the mission area for a week."
"This makes me feel relieved." Sandra, who had short hair and strong hair, patted her neckline, looking extremely happy, obviously the amulet was worth a lot of money and was an important means of saving her life.
Charlotte was not overjoyed, but her cold expression softened a little, and his magic robe was also a powerful item.
Tang Pu used magic to seal off the castle, and first escorted the weak Lucian and others back to the town of Fraser.
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After a long silence in the carriage to the capital of Capas County, Sandra said in a complicated tone: "This mission has all kinds of mysteries, the only thing that is certain is that the absurd and ridiculous summoning ritual caused a magic apprentice to summon an unusually terrifying monster. This is really something that cannot be explained by the current arcane knowledge of the summoning system, which makes my understanding a little confused, and maybe the process is not what I imagined."
Among the three, Sandra was the only one who was good at summoning magic, so she was the most affected.
Although summoning magic is three factions that clearly retain the style of the ancient magical empire and remain superficial in arcane research, Bill's special summoning ritual seriously violates even the summoning common sense of the ancient magical empire.
If even apprentices can summon monsters with at least five rings, then what are the magicians of other factions?
Therefore, Sandra is really difficult to understand, and it is estimated that ancient summoners will also regard it as a joke made up by some bards who do not understand magic.
Charlotte nodded slightly: "We need to see the complete process of the special summoning ceremony to judge, but it is indeed a very strange thing, and I still have a dark and eerie feeling until now."
"I always think that monster is Bill himself......" Susan interjected. In fact, she was a little moved, if it weren't for Bill's obvious inability to control himself and his ugly appearance, no one would refuse this kind of ritual of raising his strength to the fifth ring at once.
Lucian recovered a lot, and looked at Susan and Scott through the monocle: "Have you read "Fable of Pain"?"
Susan shook her head, and Scott said with a look of horror: "Mr. Evans, I am more familiar with Bill, and I have read a few stories in his room. Those stories are extremely dark, and the plot seems to be forever covered with a hopeless gray, making people either despair and frustration, or resentment and hatred, wanting to destroy this world full of pain. I don't understand why it can be called a fable, maybe it can be used to scare children who don't want to sleep."
"We have to borrow some information from the Arcane Library, and it just so happens that I decided to learn more about the magic of the two factions." Lucian planned to borrow the basic arcane books of the force field and necromancy systems to read after he went back, and the latter could also be studied with his "Necromancer".
As for the electromagnetic system and the heat system, Lucian feels that his arcane knowledge in this area is very solid, so he doesn't need to study so deeply for the time being, just learn the useful magic in it, and replace several spell models in the soul.
As for the magic of factions such as illusion and change, Lucian did not have so much energy to study and study for the time being, so he could only choose a few spells and forcibly build them like ancient magicians with strong spiritual power. This will be the case in the future, unless Lucian finds a place where these factions are connected to his own knowledge.
If you want to go higher and further in the realm of arcane and magic, you must concentrate and make appropriate trade-offs.
Of course, the purpose of the Magic Council's arcane research is to place all magic in a common theory, believing that both the world and magic have an original explanation.
Charlotte and Sandra both nodded in agreement with Lucian's proposal, if after witnessing such a strange and mysterious thing, they still don't want to explore the reasons and laws hidden in it, then they are not a qualified arcanist.
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In the ordinary arcane library, the management spirit Alex said politely: "Hello, Mr. Evans, is there anything you need to serve?"
With Lucian's fourth-level arcanist badge, borrowing books here can be half the price, which is forty books for one arcane point.
"Alex, do you have a "Fable of Pain"?" After Lucian handed over the task report and list with Charlotte and Sandra, he came to the library first because the arcane points needed to be re-evaluated.
Alex, who was exposing his chest, shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Evans, this is the Arcane Library, and it does not include fable books. You can find it at the Alinge City Library or the Royal Library of Rentatt."
"Then help me find a book with a sentence like this: 'Wikipedia...... special summoning ceremony'." Lucian completely used Alex as a "search engine".
Alex listened for a long time and reported the titles of five books: "Villam's Special Summoning Ceremony", "Viken's Special Summoning Ceremony", "Veltera County's Special Summoning Ceremony"......"
After redeeming all five books, Lucian looked through them on the spot with Sandra and Charlotte.
"Mr. Evans, this is it!" Sandra held up a book with a black leather cover in her hand, which read "Viken's Special Summoning Ritual".
Lucian took it and looked at it carefully, and sure enough, there was something he saw in the apprentice hall, and the process was more ridiculous than he imagined, such as crawling and dancing around the brazier, such as telling his painful past to the brazier, and so on.
Seeing nothing noteworthy except for the absurd and funny, Lucian turned to the first page, where there was a magician's comment: "This book is named after the ancient legendary magician Viken, but it is undoubtedly a funny book that deliberately plays tricks on people, and it is recommended to clear the arcane library."
"The ancient legendary magician Viken?" Although Lucian is known as a "historian" in Aalto, he has basically no contact with the historical knowledge of kingdoms such as Holm across the Storm Strait and areas not controlled by the Southern Church.
Charlotte explained to Lucian: "Viken is an ancient legendary magician, his territory is today's Kingdom of Brianna, and his personality is very cruel. It is said that in order to study a certain magic, a city of 20,000 people was once blocked, allowing them to kill each other in despair and feed each other......
"I rarely hear his name, what is his legendary profession?" Lucian asked curiously.
Sandra didn't care much and replied first: "I don't know. Because he disappeared before the Dawn War."
Snap, the book in Lucian's hand fell on the reception desk.
(End of this chapter)