Chapter 408: Thanos' "Secret"
At the moment when the "Devil of Pain" disappeared, the gloomy hall, which still seemed heavy and oppressive under the light of the "Crown of Glory", regained its softness and brightness as if it had been washed by clean water.
"Win!" Sophia looked at the mysterious magician in front of her, clenched her fists happily and waved them, as if she no longer had to worry about the twisted and terrifying "pain" devil.
At the same time, her brain was spinning rapidly and she began to think about what conditions to use to impress the other party.
But Lucian did not relax at all, holding "Pale Justice" in both hands, and looked vigilantly at the aristocratic children who were still alive in the hall.
Whether it is "hatred" or "greed", their strange and unkillable nature has left a deep impression on Lucian, and the "painful" devil should be no exception.
According to common sense, the best way is to kill all living creatures except yourself, so that the "pain" will not occupy the new body and will gradually disappear, but these are the seven most mysterious and weirdest devils, and they are related to negative emotions. This makes it very troublesome, and it is countless times more difficult than dealing with external "projections"!
His eyes swept over every surviving noble child and stayed on them for a moment, the coldness in his eyes made them shiver involuntarily, and they wanted to retreat in panic and fear but did not dare to move half a step.
Looking around the small half hall and coming back, his eyes fell on Sophia's face.
Although her heart stopped beating with fright, Sophia, who was already mentally prepared, quickly maintained her basic composure, with a sweet and charming smile on her face, and her pink lips opened, she had to express her surrender and communicate.
She was actually quite confident, because after thinking about it, she found that she actually had no hatred with this mysterious magician, nor did she have any interest entanglements, the Sun King's treasures could be given to him, and the secrets could be destroyed by him, and she didn't look at it at all.
On the contrary, he could still give him things that he couldn't get in the underground palace, such as the secrets of the royal family, such as the ancient precious documents he had collected before, and the wealth that was enough to make most of the counts jealous, such as his own body and secret help in the future.
As soon as the organized words came to her lips, she found that Lucian's gaze moved slightly down, and she reflexively followed him to look over, only to see a large wet mark on her battle skirt that was extremely eye-catching, and moving backwards along the route she had passed, a long water trail reflected a faint light, and there was a water stain where she had been paralyzed before.
With a sudden moment, Sophia's face turned red, her sweet smile was uglier than crying, and she felt that her skin was so hot that she could fry hard-boiled eggs, and she was so ashamed and angry.
"How can I ......"
"It's so embarrassing, it's so embarrassing! I'm going to die!"
"Why doesn't he have any gentlemanly demeanor, bastard! Bastard!"
Lucian didn't have time to pay attention to Sophia's mood, she was just a little funny, she was ruthless, confident and elegant before, she lost all her trump cards, and when she was in a desperate environment, she would actually lose her temper like this.
It's really incomparable!
Speaking of which, Sophia has just turned twenty, and she already has level five strength, and such a thing as bloodline is really enviable. If the bloodline is top-notch and the talent is outstanding, the promotion speed can far exceed that of most magicians, but the vast majority of magicians exceed most of the knights, after all, not everyone has such a top bloodline, not everyone has such terrifying talent, this is just a very small group of nobles - ancient magicians killed hundreds of thousands of humans just to obtain a stable inheritance of a top bloodline, and for several generations in a row.
And this is just the beginning, their future improvement still depends on the tempering of their own will, no longer like the arcanists who can continue to maintain rapid promotion by exploring the world and getting close to the truth, just like Lucian in front of her, only one year older than her, he is already a six-ring magician, if Sophia wants to become a high-level sorcerer, without the help of extremely rare external forces, it may take ten years, twenty years, or even longer.
A pale green aura of tranquility swayed, and the noble children who had relaxed a lot after the death of the "devil" suddenly felt tired and fell asleep uncontrollably, leaving Sophia unaffected.
With the time of mental recovery, Lucian left a warning magic on these noble children, and once they awakened or had other changes, he could feel it immediately.
"Take me to the Sun King's secret room." There is no time to play hide and seek with the "painful" devil who may not have completely disappeared, Lucian said to Sophia in a deep voice.
"Uh...... Okay!" Sophia was stunned for a moment, then turned over and stood up, not daring to hesitate in the slightest, "This Mr. Magician, it's okay for you to do anything you ask me to do, as long as it's ......."
After the interruption, she suddenly didn't know how to organize her language.
Lucian nodded lightly and said in a "Borack" voice: "As long as you do what I tell you to do and don't die because of it, I have no interest in killing you, after all, we didn't have any hatred in the past, and now you won't snatch the 'treasure' with me, and I won't stay in the empire in the future, right?"
"Yes, it's really easy to communicate with wise magicians!" Sophia said ecstaticly, praising from the bottom of her heart.
Lucian laughed twice, as long as you can really complete my instructions and survive.
Ralph, who was hit by Lucian's "domination of humans", took the lead in the secret room, Sophia dragged the sleeping Claire closely behind, and Lucian fell to the end unhurriedly, carefully sensing the noble children behind him and Sophia, Claire, and Ralph in front of him, maybe they would suddenly become "painful" devils.
Entering the secret room, Ralph squatted down, pressed a gray wall tile slightly dented, then took out a silver dagger, cut his wrist, and let blood pour on the corresponding ground stone brick.
As more and more blood dripped, Ralph rested his arm on the stone brick, and a faint milky white light flowed into the stone brick from the surface of his body.
The stone bricks gradually bloomed with a touch of brilliant glitz, sucking in the accumulated blood, and silently condensed a door full of strange patterns on the wall.
After Ralph lost half of his vitality, his whole person looked sluggish and wobbly, but under Lucian's control, he still opened the door with difficulty and took the lead in entering the second secret room.
Seeing that there was no problem with Ralph, Lucian searched carefully with the peeping magic eye and other things before taking Sophia and Claire into the energy gate.
Behind the door was a spacious and simple hall, with murals painted on the surrounding walls, and the ground was covered with magic circles, and lines converged on the strange altar in the center.
This altar is different from the sun altar on the inner floor of the palace, it is cast in two colors, dark and crimson, and is inlaid with the devil's horn with mysterious patterns, and above the altar, there is an upside-down similar altar hanging from the ceiling, filled with the scorching and holy aura of the sun, and on this altar, a magic wand with a huge sun stone is inserted.
Lucian swept through the complex magic circles and altars slightly, preliminarily judged that they had the effect of imprisonment and extraction, and then carefully observed the mural while vigilantly guarding against Sophia, Ralph and others.
The more Lucian looked, the more surprised Lucian became, because the front part of the mural was very similar to "Viken's Special Summoning Ritual": a man with a face full of hatred and resentment used an inexplicable ritual of drawing puppets, throwing them in, and burning them, summoning a devil with an indefinite shape and only two special sharp horns that could judge its identity.
When this man with a face full of hatred was possessed by the devil projection, gained great power, and killed all the disgusted people, circles of magic circles suddenly appeared around him, completely imprisoning him, and then a middle-aged man wearing a magic crown appeared in the mural, he pinched complex gestures and extracted the devil projection in the man's body!
Then the middle-aged man who looked like Thanos opened the altar, dissipated and disintegrated the devil's projection, and integrated into himself!
"It turns out that this is capturing the projection of the Seven Devils, and then integrating them into the body like fusing bloodline, Thanos is really ......"
Lucian was both surprised and admired, most magicians would choose to destroy them as soon as possible, stay away from them, or trade with them to get help when faced with the Seven Devils to such a mysterious and weird extent.
"What about Thanos's experimental data and magic notes?" This is what Lucian wants the most, followed by the solar scepter on the altar.
Sophia pointed to the small door in the corner of the hall and smiled flatteringly: "Dear Mr. Magician, there are some incomplete notes left by Thanos. According to Uncle Ulrich, before the sacred calendar, it seems that a legendary magician came in and took away most of the information."
Have a legendary magician ever come in? Could it be Viken? That's why he wrote "Viken's Special Summoning Ritual"? But what about "Fable of Pain"? This method of widespread circulation does not match the content of the mural at all, and there is no way to monitor who summoned the devil.
Knowing more than Sophia and the others imagined, Lucian had countless questions in his heart, then pressed his thoughts, and after asking Ralph and roughly judging the magic circle, he said flatly: "Sophia, go take off that 'magic wand'."
Sophia's face immediately turned pale, she was very afraid of touching some curse, but Lucian's order did not dare to disobey, otherwise she would die immediately. She tried to use her charm to tempt Lucian to let Ralph or Claire get it, but in exchange for a ruthless and cold gaze, she had to secretly curse the damn mysterious mage, while walking to the altar with a little trembling body, and cast the "mage's hand" to remove the "magic scepter".
Nothing happened, Sophia relaxed and handed the magic wand to Lucian.
Losing a "Identification Technique" in the past, there was not much information feedback, but Lucian was not surprised but happy, because this showed that the level of the "Scepter" had reached at least level nine, and it was not something that his current appraisal technique could directly crack.
Putting away the "scepter", Lucian took Sophia, Ralph, and Claire into the small door in the corner, which was lined with empty bookshelves, only metal desks, and a few incomplete notes.
(End of this chapter)