Throne of Magical Arcana

There seemed to be countless crows flying past Lucien's eyes, and he seemed to see himself bankrupt. Although he had obtained huge profits from technology investments in companies such as Minerals and Harvest and Elemental Gifts in recent years, three months ago All invested in the construction of the magic tower, almost unable to make ends meet. In the past few months, I finally returned to the ranks of "rich people" from the arcane point rewards of the new alchemy, the supplementary rewards of the light quantum hypothesis, and the annuity income. Compared with the nine-ring ritual spell, there is probably a big gap.

The Council's full tilt in materials, potions, magic, etc. is hardly useful for this matter. If the "Pale Hand" does not raise prices skyrocketing, it will be a hindrance to the demilich chasing and killing him last time.

Therefore, Lucien seriously considered whether to get the loan from the teacher or from the Holm Union Bank of Mines mortgage.

At this time, the monocle suddenly became slightly hot.

"Lucien, I just finished the meeting of the House of Nobles, sentenced Earl Balady to be hanged, and deprived him of his title..." Natasha said a little excitedly, feeling sorry for causing so much damage to Lucien and herself The mastermind behind the scenes, she has no sympathy or pity.

Lucien suppressed the heartache of being about to go bankrupt, and said with a smile: "In the future, any nobleman who has the idea of ​​assassinating you will think about the fate of Earl Balady before taking action."

Natasha talked about what happened in the house and the conversation with Ketonia in a casual tone, and finally said: "I divided Earl Balady's territory into five parts, and one part was given to Aunt Camille as a 'scare Loss fee', three to appease and win over Duke James and the others, and the remaining one was originally intended for you, but the current situation cannot put you on the bright side, so I took it back to the royal family, but privately it will be converted into specific The amount will be given to you in the form of Jintale, Alchemy Workshop shares, materials, items, etc. This is what you should get, and you must not refuse."

Lucien was shocked immediately, opened his mouth, and blurted out with a smile on his face: "Natasha, I love you."

This is simply a windfall from outside the sky, more than enough to pay for the improved version of the "Life Concealment Technique", and there is still a lot of surplus.

"Ah?" Natasha never expected to get such an answer, and was momentarily at a loss.

Lucien didn't hide it from her either, and talked about the improved life hiding technique.

"This way I feel much more at ease...I didn't expect you to be a 'money fan'. Fortunately, I am the Queen and the future Grand Duchess, hehe." Natasha smiled, imitating what Lucien said in the morning, "It's a pity that the knight Before being promoted to a legend, one must maintain a high degree of unity of body, blood, soul, and will, and this method cannot be used as the last measure to save one's life. Hehe, the path of a knight is destined to be a difficult and difficult path."

The Violet family had one epic knight, and the Hoffenberg family had two. Natasha was much better than ordinary knights in terms of knight promotion experience.

Lucien also understands this. If it weren't for this, Ramiro's ability to proliferate and regenerate in a relatively large range would not be his exclusive trump card.

After finishing the call, Lucien found that the teacher Fernando was looking at him with a smile, so he asked, "What's wrong, teacher?"

Fernando clicked his tongue: "It's nice to be young, and it's nice to have a queen as a lover."

Lucien changed the topic a little awkwardly: "Teacher, does the improved life hiding technique have to use body parts?"

This is a unique ritual of the "Pale Hand". Lucien doesn't know the specific situation, but only knows the need for the original version of the life hiding technique.

Fernando glared at Lucien: "If I understand this in detail, I can develop it myself. Anyway, the original life hiding technique can only use part of the limbs. You can stay in Allinge for a few days and wait for it." The Life Hiding Ceremony is complete, you can go wherever you want."

"From next month, there should be more discussions on the Oliver transformation. We should also pay attention to guiding their discovery of the effects of the theory of relativity, and strive to show Douglas your special theory of relativity initially in two or three months."

"Everything is up to you, teacher." Lucien has no objection. The most important thing at the moment is to build a spell model so that his magic power can reach the level of a strong eight-ring mage, and the next goal is the seven-ring magic. "Spell Reversal".

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In the office of the Atomic Research Institute, Lucien was looking at the papers reviewed by several of his students, fine-tuning the final comments from time to time.

Holding a magazine and dozens of resumes, Rock walked in with a tired face: "Lucien, the second round of interviews is over, and the final general interview will be held in three days. Let's see if there are any problems."

Lucien flipped through the resumes, there were about forty copies, and said with a smile: "Yes, there are five or six middle-level magicians. You go through it first, and then ask the affairs committee to check their details. During the interview, I will I will also use illusions to test it out to prevent spies from the church and other organizations from getting in."

It is an open recruitment, and it is the current hot atomic research institute, if those spies don't find a way to sneak in, they will be ashamed of their responsibilities, Lucien is not careless about this.

Rock agrees: "The infiltration of the church is too strong. After all, there are many mages in the council who are frustrated or who are about to come to the end of their lives."

Speaking of this, he seemed to have thought of something, handed the magazine in his hand to Lucien, lowered his voice, and said quietly: "Do you know? Your Excellency Oliver and Ms. Florence have dissolved their marriage."

Lucien picked up the magazine to have a look, and found that it was the lace periodical "Impressions of Allinger", and flipped through it casually. After finding the description of this matter, he shook his head and said, "In this way, the seven great arcanists of the council are all single, which is really dumbfounding."

After talking about Lucien's so-called "gossip" for a while, Roque stood up contentedly and walked to the door. As soon as he opened the door, he saw an elegant middle-aged man wearing a wig.

"Oh, Lord Oliver..." Roque's face turned pale, and he said a lot of bad things about him behind his back.

Oliver nodded, passed by Rock, and closed the office door behind him.

"Lucien, this is a script I wrote. Take a look at it." Oliver glanced at "Impressions of Allinger" and said calmly.

Lucien took the script with a "toothache", and read it roughly. As he watched, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he almost suspected that Oliver was a fellow from the earth. Well, the second half is fundamentally different.

Oliver wrote about a handsome prince who met a mermaid princess on the sea, and the two fell in love. Then the mermaid princess gave up everything else, swallowed the potion, lost her tail, turned into an elf-like girl, and followed the prince back. In his country, they made a promise to each other for a lifetime, but later the prince fell in love with the princess of another country, so the mermaid girl was heartbroken and returned to the sea.

As time went by, the prince gradually realized his heart and realized that the one he loved was the mermaid girl, so he went out to sea every day in a sailboat, calling the name of the mermaid princess in the wind and waves, but unfortunately there was no response. Day by day, the prince Finally, he withered and died. Before he died, his hallucination made him see the mermaid princess walking towards him, so a reassuring and sweet smile appeared on his face.

"It's tragic..." Lucien didn't know how to comment.

Oliver sighed: "Tragedy can move a lady and save a marriage."

Lucien felt a "toothache" again, and couldn't help but said, "Your Excellency Oliver, I really don't understand why you betrayed your marriage time after time and hurt her even though you clearly loved Ms. Florence."

Oliver said earnestly: "Lucien, you don't understand, I am serious about every love, I put my most passionate and unrestrained soul into it, the love is as hot as fire, and I dedicate my heart and soul to each other. And in this kind of love, my inspiration will burst out, my thoughts will be sublimated, and many of my achievements are researched under such conditions."

"I love each of them, but Florence even more."

Lucien didn't know what kind of expression he should make. Although the Chinese people on the earth often "persuade peace but not renounce", after hearing Oliver's self-analysis, Lucien would only treat every lady who left him. Applause.

In just a few seconds, Lucien overturned his previous decision and no longer wanted to help Oliver adapt the opera. If Florence can't come out on her own, she will be willing to degrade herself, and forgive Oliver, that's her own business, she can't be an accomplice, and her conscience will be disturbed when she writes this opera.

So Lucien considered his tone and said, "Your Excellency Oliver, I'm really sorry, Lord Hathaway and Lord Morris don't want me to write operas for you, but they..."

Lucien didn't finish speaking, with a "you understand" expression.

Oliver was stunned for a moment, and sighed a long time: "I understand, this matter is too big, and they are the elders of the Hofenberg family. Lucien, I hope to cooperate with you in other operas in the future, The best script deserves the best musician."

After sending Oliver away, Lucien closed the door, not wanting to interfere with their family's affairs at all. Anyway, Hathaway had a bad impression of Oliver for a long time. When Oliver asked her, she would just acquiesce.

After rejecting this matter, Lucien could only study opera creation by himself. Fortunately, he had many classics in his mind as references, and he had preliminarily selected the second part of Mr. Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelungen". "Valkyrie" as a blueprint.

Of course, for this opera based on German and Nordic folklore to match the world and Natasha's situation, Lucien had to make essential changes, which was considered a brand new creation.

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On the second day after Oliver came to visit, Lucien was summoned by Fernando and knew that the ceremony could be performed.

On the thirty-third floor of the Allinge Magic Tower, there is an empty hall.

Lucien saw Felipe, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, and he was still pale with a sick face.

"This magic is improved based on his cell memory research. With his cooperation, my success rate will increase a lot." Fernando confessed that this is the first time he has used the improved version of the life hiding technique, and the master of the dead will not come for the way Sean hosts.

Felipe looked at Lucien, it was hard to believe that his teacher would not be able to kill him again and again, and finally killed himself, but in front of Fernando, he would not say these things, but gently He nodded and said, "The magnification magic you improved based on the principle of light is good, but it seems to be far from the effect you promised."

His magic level has been raised to the seventh ring, which can be regarded as a very fast progress, but compared to Lucien, it seems a bit shabby, and his arcane level is close to the seventh level.

Lucien said seriously: "Improvement is always explored step by step, don't worry, I will not give up research in this area."

Lucien has never dared to do the experiment of electron diffraction, and he is going to wait until the harvest brought by special relativity and silver moon is almost digested before proceeding.

After finishing speaking, Lucien asked the question he was concerned about: "Felipe, can the improved version of hiding life only use limbs?"

Felipe said coldly: "Hair, teeth, etc. are useless without blood. Don't think about ensuring safety without affecting yourself. Are you such a greedy and irrational person?"

He never minded taunting Lucien if he had the chance.

Lucien frowned: "Where's the internal organs?"

Felipe snorted coldly: "Yes, but what's the point? Even if it's a sky knight, if a part of the internal organs are missing, it can only be restored. It doesn't mean that they can persist for a long time without internal organs and out of elemental states. , and the parts cut off by the life hiding technique cannot grow back, even using the transformation technique, so don't think about unrealistic things."

"That is to say, internal organs are okay?" Lucien's expression relaxed, "I request to use the designated part of the 'intestines'."

Felipe looked at Lucien in a little astonishment, as if he had never seen him so stupid: "Are you sure? The ceremony failed, and I will not compensate for the lost wealth."

"I'm sure." Lucien figured it out, he had the wealth of this kind of ceremony twice, so he could try it.

Half an hour later, Felipe froze in place, watching Lucien leave happily with the "Life Talisman" like a stone sculpture.

"Without a piece of intestine, he can still be fine..."

"He really is a monster..."

It was almost 4,000 words again.