After testing the power of the newly activated spell, Harvey got some dead branches and burned the two unlucky ducks and half of the canopy with a single fire. Although the fact that he is a magician is not a shady thing, Harvey feels that it is better to reveal this identity as little as possible if it is not necessary, especially since the movements of the Elroy family are unknown, and it is not clear whether it is related to the fact that the Adrian family used to be a magical family.

It should be mentioned that spellcasters were once glorious in ancient times, but their status was comparable to that of religious witches hundreds of years ago, when spellcasters were purged even in the Kingdom of Baron. Originally, the purge of magicians was a religious activity, preaching magic as a heresy and stealing the power of the gods to do the devil's work, but the rulers of the kingdom also saw magicians as a threat to the ruling class and catered to the religious purge.

In the past 100 years, with the enlightenment of civilization, the perception of magic has gradually cleansed people's hearts of demonized images, and traces of magic can often be seen in daily life. For example, most of the street lamps are made of a special crystal material, and the energy is not electricity, but a magic array engraved on the base of the street lamp.

After the destruction was complete, Harvey clapped his hands and left the deserted countryside.

Half an hour after he left, a black carriage stopped nearby, and an old man with a pale face got out of the carriage, he looked around carefully and found the ashes left by the burning, he took out the white gloves from his arms, put them on, twisted the ashes and sniffed them. He didn't care about the soiled white gloves and continued to search inside the ashes, and whispered to himself: "It takes a lot of time for ordinary flames to burn the corpses of living beings into ashes, and it should be some kind of strange spell to increase the temperature of the flames. ”

His judgment was right, Harvey used [Small Miracle] to extract oxygen from the air to support combustion, and as a result, the duck's carcass was burned to ashes in ten minutes.

The old man muttered several complex spells in his mouth, and his cloudy eyes were clouded with a layer of blue light, through which ordinary people could see things that were impossible for ordinary people to find.

"Judging from the remaining traces of spells, one is a first-order spell [Poisonous Bite], and the other one..."

The old man's wrinkled cheeks like bark moved, revealing a very surprised look, and his mouth continued to repeat the words, and soon the blue light of his eyes almost burst out before he hurriedly closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes had returned to their normal appearance, but the white part of his eyes was covered with bloodshots and became extremely hideous.

"What kind of spell is this! It turned out to be a negative energy residue! ”

He muttered to himself, his face full of incredulity, and in his cognition, all spells that could mobilize negative energy were high-level spells, and only those who were at the apex of the caster could control them. His face changed drastically and he hurriedly got up and left here, he felt the spell fluctuation from the beginning, but he didn't dare to approach rashly, and only after Harvey left did he want to come and explore it, and he realized that the negative energy was far beyond his control.

The old man hurried back to the carriage, opened the iron door and got in.

The driver sitting at the top of the carriage turned around and asked strangely, "Lord Calvin, what happened?" ”

"Let's go! Walk! Get out of here! The old man hurriedly waved his hand and urged.

The groom didn't know why, but he knew that Calvin was a spellcaster, so he didn't want to whip the horse's butt hard, the black horse let out a neighing and rushed out, Calvin in the carriage fell directly because of inertia, he held on to the seat and looked around in horror, for fear of suddenly bursting out of some weird magic attack.

Peeping on others is taboo in the eyes of most spellcasters, no one wants their magic to be cracked, and if his actions are detected by the caster himself, he will not be confident that he can escape from the caster who can mobilize negative energy.

The old man took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead: "An unidentified powerful spellcaster has entered the city of Elroy and must report the news to the Count. ”

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Since that day, Harvey has rarely left the mansion, focusing mainly on The Count of Monte Cristo and the study of spells, his research on spells is basically based on the knowledge he already makes superficial attempts, he has no basic knowledge of spells, of course, he cannot verify any useful conclusions, but he is happy to do so.

Soon, coupled with the progress of the previous serialization, the number of words in "The Count of Monte Cristo" has reached 400,000, which is about half the length of the entire novel, enough to publish the first half of the book.

There was also good news from the reviewer Pran, a nobleman who had read "The Count of Monte Cristo" was full of praise for the novel, and was willing to fund Harvey's self-financed publication, and at the same time contacted a publishing house to wait for Harvey to finish the novel.

Harvey is in no hurry and is putting the finishing touches on The Count of Monte Cristo.

Since Diana obtained the original manuscript of his novel, she has been very interested in some of the self-created sentences in his novel, although she rarely visits in person, she will send letters to Harvey almost every day, and whenever Harvey mails her the original manuscript of the finished novel, she will receive a letter of opinion the next day, the content of the envelope rarely mentions the plot of the novel, and more to help Harvey improve the background of the novel and the problems in the choice of words and sentences.

Diana is different from Harvey, she has read books since she was a child, and she has more knowledge in this world than ten Harvey combined, and her advice is more like polishing the content of the novel and filling in the gaps.

In addition, there is another reason why Harvey is in no hurry to publish The Count of Monte Cristo.

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Shirley sat in Harvey's humble study, where she already had her makeshift workbench, covered with a blank sheet of paper and some tools for painting. She was still wearing the classical maid's long dress, the white apron was slightly yellowed, she sat upright, even the conservative style of the long skirt design could not hide the proud figure, and her rigorous and serious eyes moved with the tip of the pen.

Her pen is not a text, but a beautiful sketch, and the style is a radical change from the early days. In this era, sketching was still popular in the realistic style, and Harvey directly asked Shirley to try another style based on the impression in his mind, which was very close to the modern American style.

"Sir, is that okay?" Shirley also handed over a completed illustration to Harvey for review, which was the scene of the meeting between the Count of Monte Cristo and his former fiancée Mercetes, focusing on the Count, Mercertes and Albert's demeanor, followed by detailed depictions of the surrounding architectural scenes, delicate and exquisite.

Shirley's fair right hand had been blackened with ink, and her sleeve had an indelible black.

Because Harvey is painted at the level of modern illustration, this illustration has undergone more than a week of scribbling and alteration since it was completed, and the exquisite painting skills and advanced style give this illustration an unparalleled visual experience, of course, it is also based on this world, which can only be regarded as ordinary in modern times.

Harvey put down the envelope in his hand and took the illustration handed over by Shirley and examined it for a long time, pointed to Melcetes's eyes inside, and muttered: "It's better to draw a little droop at the corners of the eyes here, and the eyes should be slightly wide to highlight her surprised expression, but it's not a big problem, it's qualified." ”

Hearing Harvey's words, Shirley's eyes relaxed, pulled up the skirts on both sides and gave Harvey a soft salute: "Thank you." ”

Shirley returns to her place, while Harvey stands beside her and guides her to draw the next illustration, Shirley is short-sighted and has difficulty controlling architectural details and spatial sense, Harvey plays her role as her eyes to plan the environment and the sense of space. It is expected that it will take another two weeks to complete the full illustration of the novel, giving Harvey time to re-edit the first half of The Count of Monte Cristo.