Towards the early morning, after many magic experiments, Lucien finally learned and mastered "Starry Eyes", "Frost Ray", "Light Forbidden Technique", "Mage's Hand" and "Acid Splash" quite skillfully.
"The five informal magics. As for the "Out of Control Circle" that I learned yesterday and tried to cast without spells, Lucien stabilized the casting time at about three seconds.
Comparing the witch's own records, Lucien found that the time it took for him to analyze magic, learn magic, and master magic was a bit alarming. Except for the "Ring of Out of Control" that the witch did not understand and forcibly mastered, the elemental magic "Acid" that she was good at
"Splash" and "Frost Ray" usually take three to four days, twenty hours, hundreds of magic experiments and spell-casting exercises to analyze and master, but Lucien, "Acid Splash" took five
times, "Frost Ray" was used seven times, "Starry Eyes" was used ten times, and only "Light Forbidden Technique" was mastered thirty times due to insufficient analysis and understanding in advance.
In Lucien's opinion, this is mainly because the spell structure seems to be based on a mathematical model, and then integrates his own understanding of the magic construction process, and the model structure of informal magic is just a simple rune graphic, equivalent to a hexagram.
After reviewing the literature in the library for a while at the beginning and high school level of plane geometry, most of the analysis of informal magic became very simple.
As for the understanding of the magic construction process, Lucien also relied on past knowledge. For example, he understood "acid splashing" as using sulfur to make sulfuric acid. However, when it came to the forbidden light technique, Lucien could not rely on past knowledge to understand it.
, I can only think casually that by destroying the structure of the "fluorescent grass" in reverse, it can actively absorb light without reflecting it. The result is not bad, but not great either. It took many practices to master it.
This made Lucien reflect on himself: "You can't rely too much on past knowledge. The magic in this world should have its own unique features. Although some of it can be combined with knowledge of physics, chemistry, etc., others have to be analyzed slowly by yourself. After all,
The elements and rules of this world are likely to be different from those of the earth, and are specious, such as the precious materials such as mithril and fine gold recorded by witches, and why astrology can be used to predict good or bad luck, fate, etc."
As for the "Out of Control Loop", Lucien fully understood that it was magic under the influence of gravity, so he was able to shorten the casting time to the current limit so quickly.
After ten minutes of quiet rest to restore his mental strength, Lucien began to simply deal with the traces left behind, such as the corroded stone surface.
"The power of informal magic is indeed not strong enough. Frost rays can only directly kill an adult if they hit the heart, throat and other vital parts, causing cardiac arrest and suffocation. Otherwise, all three frost rays will have to hit. If only
If you get hit, at most you will suffer severe frostbite, and your movements and thinking will become slower. Due to the concentration and strength of the acid, the acid splash also has to hit the vital point." Lucien calmly analyzed what he would do.
Apprentice-level magic is not much disappointing. Although many magics may not seem powerful, as long as they are used well, the effects are equally amazing in specific situations and at specific times.
After dealing with the traces, Lucien placed the spellcasting materials in his pocket in a concealed and easy-to-access manner, and then did not return to the ground, but continued to explore the sewer in the direction of the outlet of the slum area.
This is because Lucien has considered that if he wants to find the black corpse mushroom, he must first find the rotten corpse. Since the cemetery is likely to be secretly monitored by the church, besides the dead beasts and humans in the Mezer Black Forest,
, the sewer is the only place where you can hope to find rotting corpses. After all, there are many poor people and beggars living here, and they may not even have shrouds. If there are no friends and relatives you know, it is not ruled out that no one knows about it.
It is possible to die quietly deep in the sewers. As for dead animals, rotting pieces of meat thrown into the sewers, etc., are not uncommon.
Moreover, the witch also explored the sewers, first for the black corpse mushrooms, and later to find the origin of the red-eyed mice, but she never encountered danger, so Lucien dared to explore this sewer first.
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His mental power spread out, and he vaguely sensed his surroundings. Lucien walked cautiously in the sewer.
In the past twenty minutes, Lucien had explored several places and found three rotting corpses, namely two mice and a strange jelly-shaped animal. Unfortunately, there were no black corpse mushrooms growing on them.
Turning a corner, Lucien's eyes suddenly opened up, and he finally discovered the beggars living in the sewers.
This section of the sewer is very wide. In the middle is an underground river that flows quietly, carrying some garbage. It will flow all the way to the outlet and merge into the Belem River. There are rows of rags on the stone corridors on both sides.
, earthen pots and other things, and several beggars whose clothes were so tattered that exposed a lot of skin were gathering in the corridor on one side, not knowing what they were doing.
Lucien saw that it was just a beggar and did not avoid it. Moreover, he had been discovered, so he walked steadily and tried to pass through the corridor on the other side.
"Young man, the sewer is not the place you should come. What is your purpose?" Standing out from among the group of beggars was an old man who looked to be in his sixties, with protruding ribs and an unusually shriveled appearance.
At most about forty years old.
No matter how shabby or cheap the linen jacket Lucien wore was, and how it could no longer hide his identity as a pauper, compared with these beggars, it was as gorgeous as a nobleman. At least it was not so rotten that most of his skin was exposed.
At least it was clean, so the old man recognized at a glance that Lucien was not a "native" of the sewers.
Lucien smiled and replied: "I have a friend who lives in the sewers, and I came here to find him." His words were confident and elegant, and he seemed not to take these beggars seriously, because in this dark sewer where there is no law
, if you want not to arouse the greed of these beggars, then showing yourself to be strong is the best way.
Behind the skinny old man, several other beggars stood up, staring at Lucien ferociously and greedily, but Lucien glanced around them without showing any signs of weakness, showing off his relatively strong figure and faint emanation.
The dagger of cold light.
This made them subconsciously avoid Lucien's gaze.
Seeing Lucien walking forward step by step, the wizened old man suddenly laughed: "Young man, I see that you are not well dressed, and you have a dagger in your hand. It seems that you are doing something inappropriate.
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Lucien was a little surprised that he would talk to him. After thinking for a moment, he replied coldly: "This has nothing to do with you."
The wizened old man chuckled: "No matter what, I can see that you are having a hard time. Since young people who work so hard like you can't eat white bread and beef every day, I think it is definitely not your fault. The truth.
The religion tells us that everyone is the Lamb of the Lord, but why can the nobles live a luxurious life, but the poor who devoutly believe in him cannot change their destiny? Everyone is born with sin!"
"I'm not interested in what you're talking about. Don't talk to me anymore." Lucien's tone was cold.
Although the wizened old man spoke very cryptically, leaving no clues to others, and others would certainly not be able to understand it, but from his words, Lucien smelled a familiar smell, that is, the smell of being preached to.
Judging from what he meant, it was definitely not the Cult of Truth. As for whether it was other gods or demons, Lucien was not interested for the time being. If he did not have enough strength, he would be seeking death if he rashly contacted them.
He is not allowed to say too much because the more he knows, the less he can leave. Spreading other sects under the control of the Cult of Truth is a crime that will definitely lead to being burned at the stake. These beggars will not risk leaking the information.
danger.
The wizened old man and several beggars did not expect Lucien to refuse so simply and directly, and could not help but stare at Lucien angrily, as if something precious had been desecrated.
"Want to try my dagger?" Lucien shook the dagger in his hand, and then walked forward calmly and steadily.
When they crossed paths with each other across the underground river in the sewer, Lucien keenly noticed that in the place where they had been surrounding before, there was a clean black cloth with a curved, shining silver horn drawn on it.
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The skinny old man thought about what he said, and felt that he did not reveal anything. It was just like the complaints of an ordinary poor man, but focused his complaints on the nobles. At the same time, he also measured Lucien's age and body.
With the dagger in his hand, he sat down again helplessly.
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After leaving the beggars and walking through the sewer for more than ten minutes, the sound of water in Lucien's ears suddenly became louder.
"It seems that we have reached the water outlet. The Belen River should be outside." Lucien saw that the underground river became slightly turbulent and flowed towards the entrance of a hole covered by a large hole in the barbed wire fence, so he walked slowly along the side corridor.
Then, I looked for rotting corpses in this place where garbage was the densest.
Until he walked to the barbed wire fence, Lucien didn't find anything. He was slightly disappointed and prepared to return to the ground.
But when Lucien turned back and casually glanced at the part where the barbed wire meshed with the water, he was surprised to find that under the fluorescent light and the swaying water waves, there seemed to be no place just below the barbed wire meshing with the water.
Out of curiosity, Lucien walked to the edge, shook it, lifted the barbed wire fence, and took a closer look. There must be a big hole under the barbed wire fence.
Before he had time to judge whether it was broken naturally or man-made, Lucien saw a large black object slowly floating up, right in front of him, seemingly due to the violent shaking of the barbed wire just now.
When it slowly floated to the surface and hit the barbed wire under the impact of the underground river, Lucien saw clearly that it was a bulging corpse. The face and muscles on the body had rotted a lot, and he could only
I could vaguely make out the outlines, and the clothes were covered in garbage, and some of them were very buoyant.
Lucien resisted the nausea of seeing the rotting corpse and carefully searched for black corpse mushrooms on his body. Although there was little hope, after all, it was soaked in water, but there might be a surprise?
As he looked at it, Lucien frowned, because the cause of death of this corpse was very strange. The chest was broken open, and he just touched it with a dagger and found that his heart was gone. It looked like
They were poached alive.
"Who is so cruel?" Lucien looked at the corpse up and down. Suddenly, he found a money bag wrapped around the waist of the corpse. "Why does it look familiar?"
He picked it up with a dagger and Lucien took a closer look: "This is my money bag!"
This was Lucien's money bag that was robbed by gangsters. Before he could get it back, it actually appeared on a corpse in the sewer with a strange death shape.
Surprised and regardless of his nausea, Lucien took another serious look at the corpse's face:
"Andre?"
I had an idea in my mind, Lucien looked more and more like him, how could Andre from the Aaron gang die here?!