After casting magic to imprison Sophia and others, Lucien checked it again in detail before picking up the notes and looking through them.
These notebooks are very incomplete and the handwriting is illegible. You can vaguely see the changes in the style of the person who wrote them as he grows older:
"... After exploring the ancient ruins in the deepest part of hell, the teacher and Solano both felt indescribably weird, but no matter what, they never thought highly of me, the astrologer's apprentice who couldn't even build the Destiny Star.
What’s the value of existence? If my father hadn’t died saving the teacher, he wouldn’t have cared about me at all. Hmm, how would they know the true meaning of my destiny star?”
"...They are no longer humans, but demons! Maybe they were possessed by demons when they came back from the ancient ruins... I have to be careful not to be careless and not let them find out that I know their secrets...
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"... I am certain that those who possess them are demons that have never been recorded. They seem to like to play with people's hearts, causing distortions in their characters and accumulation of negative emotions... This cannot continue like this. I have to find an excuse to go out...
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"...It's so dangerous. If it weren't for the special nature of my destiny star, they would have caught me..."
"...I finally know what kind of devils they are, arrogance, jealousy, greed, hatred, pain, indulgence, hypocrisy, they are different from all other devils..."
"... Solano actually wants to kill me. Doesn't he know that I have been promoted to the seventh ring? He is simply here to give me experimental materials. I have to see what the 'greedy' devil is..."
"...There is no way to imprison the devil's projection, how can I study it? Maybe I should go out for a walk and explore the deepest part of hell, hoping to find some useful information..."
"...If I can't find any clues, let's try to merge it with ordinary devil blood..."
"...The results of the experiment are beyond imagination. After the projection of the greedy devil is fused, it can actually produce innate abilities in the soul, and greatly enhance the soul and body. Consolidate the cognitive world, maybe this can speed up my promotion..."
"...Since the negative emotions that cannot be vented reach the critical point and can have a mysterious connection with the seven devils, then why don't I create it artificially? I have to design a special palace and ceremony..."
"……What's this?"
"...It turns out I was wrong from the beginning..."
"...I think I have discovered the secrets of the seven greedy devils. I think I have found the truth of the world..."
There were many fragments in the middle, and there were almost no important records. These notebooks seemed not to have been left here intentionally, but rather as if someone was fighting for them, causing some of the papers to fall off. As a result, the winner saw that they were not important. Time was urgent, so he left in a hurry.
Then they were collected by the ancestors of the Plantagenet family. They were re-ordered and made into a book.
"Greed, hatred, pain, what are their secrets? They actually involve the reality of the world." In Lucien's mind, the notes automatically took shape in the soul library, but this huge mystery could not be solved due to the incomplete notes.
Even the slightest explanation aroused Lucien's curiosity but did not satisfy it, making Lucien very depressed.
After calming down, he searched the secret room carefully and found no other valuable records, so Lucien used the Soul Library to forcibly record the layout of the magic circle and the composition of the altar in the hall.
This is the treasure second only to the "Magic Scepter". According to the records of Sun King Thanos, when combined, they can extract the projection of the mysterious devil, imprison them, and fuse them.
Because the seven devils such as Greed are too mysterious and weird, Lucien has no interest in the ritual of integrating the devil's projection to consolidate the soul. If greed, arrogance, etc. are allowed to lurk into his "soul", the gain will outweigh the losses. But extracting them out
, imprisoning them is a good way to deal with them being weird and difficult to kill. Besides, studying such mysterious and unknown creatures is a passion possessed by every arcanist, not to mention that they also involve the reality of the world.
After doing all this, Lucien put Ralph and Claire into a deep sleep, blessed them with warning magic, and then woke up Sophia: "I still have something for you to do, come with me and be my experimental assistant."
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"Yes." Sophia replied seemingly respectfully, feeling itchy with hatred in her heart. Experimenting with an "assistant"? Humph, she must have asked herself to do something dangerous again, or help him explore an unknown area. It's really abominable!
But hate returned hate, and her life was under Lucien's control. She could only suppress her emotions and obediently followed Lucien out of the secret room and walked to the oil painting of the first Duke Plantagenet.
"Surprisingly, there is a secret room? How many secrets does this palace hide?" Sophia watched in shock as Lucien opened the entrance.
Then, a strong fear arose in her heart, "If I know this secret, will he silence me?"
"If you stand still, then never move." Lucien looked at Sophia with a smile, his expression innocent and innocent.
In Sophia's eyes, this gentle and smiling face was like the devil of the abyss, even more vicious than the greedy and painful devil just now, and she wished he could flatten his face with a fireball.
However, this could only be a beautiful fantasy in her heart. In reality, she swallowed her anger and said: "I'll go in right away, Mr. Magician."
If you don't go in, you will die immediately. There is a glimmer of hope after entering! Maybe there is no secret inside and you don't need to be killed and silenced?
After walking through the short secret passage, Sophia saw the inner level of the palace that was the same as the outer hall, as well as the statue of Thanos.
After a quick look around, Sophia found nothing special. She breathed a sigh of relief and her legs were so weak that she almost fell to her knees.
Lucien took Sophia to the statue and pointed at Thanos's outstretched right hand: "You touch there."
"Isn't there nothing there? Isn't this simple?" Sophia raised her toes in confusion and stretched her hand towards the place where the statue's right hand was holding. Halfway through, she subconsciously looked at Lucien next to her, but the result was
Found no one!
"Continue." A low voice came from far away. Sophia looked back in shock and found that the mysterious and powerful magician had flashed into the secret passage in just two seconds.
Sophia stammered: "You, why are you hiding so far away?"
"It might be dangerous." Lucien told her honestly.
Brush, cold sweat dripped from Sophia's forehead immediately. It might be dangerous, dangerous, dangerous... If she hadn't still had some sense to control herself, she would have cursed like a shrew, letting the curse haunt this bastard magician for generations to come.
"Hurry up, we still have to leave time to sign the magic contract." Lucien reminded with a plain smile.
Sophia heard the warning in the words, and her forehead was covered with cold sweat. Her right hand seemed to be filled with lead, and she stretched it to the predetermined position with an unusually heavy weight.
"Move." Lucien, who was wearing the "Crown of the Sun," saw Sophia touching the edge of the pale white light ball and motioned for her to move up, down, left, and right.
Sophia's delicate white hands trembled violently, swinging back and forth sometimes slowly and sometimes quickly, fearing that some horrific changes would occur.
"That's it." Lucien looked at this peaceful picture with confusion.
Bang, after hearing these words, Sophia felt that all her courage and perseverance had disappeared, and she fell to the ground, paralyzed. Fortunately, it was okay, okay, it was okay!
Lucien used the induction magic left in advance to judge from Sophia's emotions, muscles, etc. that she indeed did not touch the light ball and had no other effective reaction - this is why there is no need to control Sophia with the magic that controls humans, so that she can get a reaction
It was not real enough, and it was not "first-hand data." So, Lucien frowned and waited for a while, and after confirming that there were no other weak changes, he walked to Sophia and asked her to leave her breath on the "Crown of the Sun", just like himself.
Using the Holy Emblem of Truth for the first time uses some of the functions of the "Crown of the Sun".
Only then did Sophia see a pale white strange ball of light on the right hand of the statue, and then heard a voice that made her tremble and her muscles tensed: "Try touching it again."
This bastard! Sophia didn't know many curse words, but she hated Lucien to the extreme. But when she thought that she didn't even know this bastard's appearance or identity, she felt deeply sad.
After taking a few deep breaths and getting up again, Sophia told herself that this was the last danger, while she tremblingly stretched out her hand towards the ball of light. At the same time, as expected, she saw the bastard mage dodge and hide in the secret passage.
"Coward! Coward! Coward!" Cursing sadly, Sophia touched the pale white light ball with her index finger, and felt a burst of coldness, and then passed through without any hindrance. On the contrary, when she touched the small gap, she felt a thick touch.
The feeling of curtain.
Withdrawing her hand, Sophia gasped loudly: "Mr. Mage, I can't touch the ball of light."
Lucien wiped Sophia's aura from the "Crown of the Sun" and was about to give the next instructions when he suddenly felt that someone had touched the warning circle he had arranged!
"Pain Devil?" Lucien retreated instead of advancing, falling into the center of the hall, and at the same time reached into his storage bag.
"It turns out there is a secret room here." Before Lucien could do anything more, a clear and serious voice came from the other end of the secret passage, and then a blond man with deep blue eyes slowly walked in.
"Bair?"
The person who came in turned out to be Prince Bayer who had suffered a backlash and passed out in a coma. His eyes were clear and his manners were elegant. He did not look like he was possessed by the projection of the devil of pain or greed at all.
Bayer walked with his hands behind his back, full of majesty, and ignored Lucien. He looked across his body and looked at the right hand of the statue, and sighed with a little joy:
"Sure enough, there is such a thing, I am not going the wrong way."
Lucien's expression changed, as if he thought of something. At this moment, Sophia's whole body suddenly trembled violently, and she said with surprise, joy, fear and fear: