Chapter 532 Roque's Suggestion (First Shift Asking for a Monthly Pass)
Turning on the electromagnetic communication circle, a mature and beautiful female voice came from inside the monocle: "Lucian?"
Lucian was stunned for a moment, not realizing who it was, until the other party spoke again, and remembered that she was Ms. Florence, the wife of the Grand Arcanist Oliver, a member of the Affairs Committee.
"Ms. Florence, do you have something to look for me?" Lucian asked suspiciously.
Florence smiled coquettishly: "Do you think I'm free? Who will contact you boredom if it's okay? What do you think about Oliver's paper? You should have seen this issue of Arcane, right?"
Lucian was even more confused, this kind of thing can be discussed with your husband in private, why bother asking me as an outsider, but Lucian immediately remembered that the couple seemed to have a conflict, so he smiled and said: "Look, and I have already discussed it with Your Excellency Lavendi and Mr. Gaston, ma'am, if you don't mind, I will start talking directly?"
"Okay." Florence replied simply and neatly.
After exchanging her views on this paper, Florence was silent for a moment, and her good voice was lowered a little: "Lucian, is Oliver looking for you to cooperate in creating an opera? You'd better not agree."
"How do you know?" Florence's plan to please his wife in private was actually known by Florence? This surprised Lucian, it was too unsecretable, right?
Florence's suppressed voice was full of lightness and pride: "He always complains that Holm has no real musicians and cannot adapt his scripts into excellent operas, so if he wants to write a new opera to please me, how can he let go of you, a master who can rank very high in the history of music?"
"Then how do you know that he wants to use opera to please you?" Only then did Lucian understand that Florence was inferred from her understanding of her husband and the tacit understanding between husband and wife, so he asked curiously at the beginning of his love life.
Florence smiled coquettishly, seemingly containing very complicated emotions: "He is like this every time, either handmade jewelry or emotional poetry, or a new opera, the first two flattery methods have been used in the last two times, and it is easy to judge that it is a new opera with his personality that will not be repeated in a short period of time."
"Then why didn't you let me agree, madam? Don't want to forgive him?" Lucian patted his face after asking, how could he ask this kind of question directly? Sure enough, he also has a gossipy side.
Florence snorted without a smile, and said with a bit of bitterness in her ridicule: "After you wrote "Dedicated to Sylvia", Sylvia died, if you write such an opera that was originally intended to make up for the relationship between husband and wife but caused the separation of husband and wife, I think your love music will become a curse in people's hearts, and I asked you not to agree for your own good."
Lucian keenly captured the meaning of Florence's words: "Madam, you want to dissolve your marriage with Your Excellency Oliver?"
"Yes." Florence replied silently, and then said as if she wanted to confide, "I tolerate it again and again, but he never really repents, I am tired and desperate, and I don't want to be entangled with him anymore. I have my own arcane and magic research, I have teachers, classmates, and friends, and I have lost the value and meaning of life without him.
She explained calmly, without being hoarse, nor crying or crying, which made Lucian hear the determination and firmness in her words, as if it was a decision made after careful consideration, rather than impulsiveness, so he did not persuade and said with a smile: "Then I wish you a new life in advance, madam."
However, from Florence's unconscious familiarity and understanding of Oliver just now, can they be so easily separated? Lucian was skeptical.
Florence said in a low voice: "Lucian, you are such a good man. I often think that if I hadn't met Oliver at the beginning, but had waited until now to meet you, who is more talented and more loyal and gentle than him, my marriage would have been so happy that it would be jealous, and I envy little Natasha."
She was a student of Maurice, who was a member of the Holm royal family and a junior valued by Hathaway, so she roughly understood the conversation between Lucian and Hathaway that day, and also knew how Lucian had rejected all kinds of temptations over the past few years.
"Thank you for the compliment." Although he received a good man card, Lucian, who already had a lover, didn't mind at all and thanked him with a smile.
Florence suddenly laughed: "Actually, I once had the idea of taking revenge on Oliver, and I was going to find a good man like him to have a dual relationship with the soul and body, heh, one of my goals at that time was you, but you completely ignored my charm, and I couldn't overcome that psychological barrier myself."
"Now that you have little Natasha, I won't be even better, I have suffered this kind of pain myself, and I will not let other girls suffer this kind of harm that I can never forget. Lucian, treat little Natasha well, if you have another woman, then I will seduce her and make her leave you completely, hehe, she lost her mother when she was still a minor, and she should like a mature woman like me very much."
Lucian rubbed his chin awkwardly and quickly changed the subject: "Ma'am, you said I was one of the targets, so are there any other targets?"
Florence confided in her, feeling a lot more comfortable, and held back her smile and said: "I have a very high vision, very few that meet my requirements, and I have to have a strong background to not be killed by Oliver, so, in addition to you, I have thought about seducing my teacher, but I have analyzed it carefully, the success rate should not be high, Lucian, you say if my long skirt is inlaid with precious materials such as sea rock, sun stone, cryolite, dragon skin, etc., will the teacher be directly fascinated and seduced by me?"
Lucian pointed out directly: "I think Your Excellency Maurice will silently take off your long skirt, push you down on the bed, and then leave directly with your long skirt."
"Haha! I think so too!" Florence was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.
Lucian raised his eyebrows, and suddenly felt that it was not good to arrange the elders behind him, so he quickly asked: "I haven't seen Your Excellency Morris for a while, I don't know what research he is busy with?"
"After you proposed the new alchemy, the teacher's saliva was about to flow out, it was a field where you could grasp material changes, you really had to study it thoroughly, and you could have as much treasure as you wanted, so he threw himself into it." Florence joked, but in fact, for the elemental faction archmages of the Nine Rings, such as Maurice, Donald, and Lavendi, the new alchemy allowed them to see the dawn of the legend of promotion, how could they not study it carefully.
Lucian replied equally humorously: "If it weren't for the fact that His Excellency Morris and Averes were one person, I would suspect that Averis was the illegitimate son of His Excellency Maurice, and he really had a dragon-like desire to keep money."
After chatting for a while, Florence wished: "Lucian works hard to give birth to a child with Natasha as soon as possible, if Oliver and I didn't like the two-person world at the beginning, maybe it won't end like this now."
"The current situation is too dangerous to have children, and she has only been crowned less than a month ago, and there are still several years before the urging and pressure." Lucian's idea also told Natasha that there would definitely be many changes in the next few years, and being pregnant with a child could easily weaken her combat effectiveness and put her in danger, so wait until the situation in Holm stabilized before considering this issue.
Natasha agrees with this, she hopes to enter into an open marriage with Lucian and let the child be born in a healthy family.
As for the problem that the higher the level, the more difficult it is to conceive, the "forced conception technique" in "The Pink Book" was not developed and played, it was created by a legendary magician to continue the bloodline. When he first saw this magic, Lucian suddenly had an auditory hallucination of "treating infertility and going to Alinge Magic Hospital".
After finishing the call with Florence, Lucian was a little hesitant, in terms of relationships, Florence is a student of His Excellency Maurice, and His Excellency Morris is Natasha's elder, and he is a person from the same camp, so he should refuse to cooperate with His Excellency Oliver according to her request, but he has already promised Oliver, and it is a bad act to regret it.
After thinking for a while, Lucian made a decision: "Delay the opera until they dissolve their marriage, and at that time, if Your Excellency Oliver still wants the opera and wants to get back together, then it will not conflict with Ms. Florence's request."
「…… And Ms. Florence's request not to compose does not mean that she is still a little shaken in her heart, worried that she will be shaken by the opera offensive...... I hope that the couple will not end tragically if they divorce......"
Suddenly, the monocle became scorching again, and Lucian reluctantly touched his brows and turned on the communication circle.
"Lucian." Morris's voice came from inside his glasses.
Lucian said "ah" and said a little awkwardly: "Good morning, Your Excellency Morris."
"Why are you weird?" Morris asked suspiciously.
Lucian tugged at the corners of his mouth, I won't say that I arranged you with your students before, and I was a thief for a while: "Your Excellency Morris, do you have something to do with me?"
"Have you watched the latest issue of Arcane?" Morris had the same question.
In this way, Lucian spent the morning discussing with familiar archmages and high-ranking mages, but Douglas and other legendary magicians did not contact him, because it was not difficult to see the problem with Oliver's paper with their wisdom.
It wasn't until noon that Lucian was free, prepared for lunch, and continued to read the Arcane journal - if he didn't study and didn't pay attention to the latest papers, even if he had a soul library, he might make a big mistake.
At this time, Roque, wearing a short black dress, came in from outside and knocked on the door of Lucian's office: "Lucian, do you have time to chat?"
"Completed the mandatory mission?" Lucian happily motioned for him to come in.
Roque said relaxedly: "Of course, as a member of the Atomic Research Institute, the mandatory task I was assigned is very simple, and Lazar should be fast. Lucian, I came to you to say that with the increase in arcane research projects, our atomic research institute is a bit short of manpower and space."
"I will apply to the Magic Research Council to merge all the empty laboratories on the eighteenth floor." Lucian said very lightly, he is already an undoubted authority in the field of atomic research, this matter is not difficult to do, and there is no need for teacher Fernando to come forward, "As for manpower, don't we have so many arcanists?"
Counting myself, there are a full ten arcanists.
Roque spread his hands: "It's just that there are too many arcanists, no one is doing chores, your students will have their own research projects when they grow up, so we need to recruit a group of magic apprentices."
"Then go to the mission area to release the mission, or contact the magic school and ask them to recommend elite apprentices." Lucian said a little suspiciously, "Why are you paying attention to this issue?"
Roque doesn't seem like someone who cares about this.
Roque laughed dryly twice, but still replied honestly: "Seeing that you and Lazar both seem to have an emotional destination, I feel a little anxious. And I spend the most time here, so how can I not find an opportunity to introduce some 'fresh blood'? Although several of your female students are good, they are all looked down upon by you, and their eyes grow on the top of their heads, and they don't look down on me at all."
"No coercion or intimidation." Lucian just reminded.
Roque stood up with satisfaction: "According to you, I am looking for a partner for the purpose of marriage, how could I do such a thing? I went to the mission area to issue a mission, with the current reputation of our atomic research institute, countless apprentices must have come to apply, uh, wouldn't that be too troublesome?"
"Introduction review, written test, interview, three links, layer by layer screening, anyway, I will leave it to you, I will occasionally supervise." Lucian said in a bad way, so that the magic apprentices could also experience the formal process of finding a job.
(End of this chapter)