Chapter 40: The Late Night Knocker
——Ask for a Sanjiang ticket, everyone can get one every day~
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From the grammar of the owl's speech, Lucien judged that it was not a magician's transformation, but a magic pet, and every magic apprentice began to learn magic, as long as there were spell casting materials, he could summon a magic pet and make a magic contract.
Different spell casting materials, the summoned magic pets are not the same, there are owls, cats, crows and other ordinary creatures, there are also fairy "dragons" and other magical creatures, and after the magic contract is made, each magic pet and the owner will establish a close, mysterious connection, can allow the owner to obtain some of their own abilities, and they can also borrow some of the master's magic suitable for themselves.
For example, if you summon a cat as a magic pet, the agility of the magic apprentice will be increased to the level of a high-level knight squire, and you will also gain night vision, and the cat can borrow magic such as "forbidden light" and "organ preservation" in apprentice-level magic, as well as necromantic magic, and then you can also gain the ability to speak and think simply.
However, the number and number of magic that the magic pet can borrow depends on the number of magic that the owner's mental power can perform continuously, when the mental power is not enough to release two magic in a row, the magic pet cannot be borrowed, and the ability that the master obtains from the magic pet will not increase with the increase in the level of the magic pet, if the magic pet dies, or the magic contract is lifted, the ability obtained will also disappear, and there will even be a certain degree of decline that can be recovered.
So Lucien has not made up his mind to summon a magic pet, although in the long run, it is equivalent to having an extra doppelganger for himself, and in the short term, it can improve his strength, but his own situation is special, and establishing this mysterious connection is likely to reveal his biggest secret.
Looking at the strange owl Doro, Lucien pretended to be very frightened and replied, "No, there really are no magicians who have come to the witch, at least, I haven't seen it. ”
The owl flapped its wings: "Very well, you are not lying, according to the observation of Lord Doro, it is true that no other Mr. Magician has come to look for the witch, and now, the second question, when you and the church guards went down to look for the witch's magic laboratory, what did you see and what happened?"
"An owl also knows how to deceive people with the questions he knows first...... Lucien cursed in his heart, and then told the things he encountered at that time, except for the fact that his soul broke through the boundary to take advantage of Gary's accident to activate the emblem of truth, and told it as it was, as for the things that the soul library recorded at the same time as the magic books and notes were destroyed, no one could think of it without mentioning it.
"What a tragedy!" the owl Doro sighed fiercely, and then flapped his wings twice, "Very well, your answer is very satisfying, good night, young man. ”
Then it quickly flew out of the open wooden window.
Watching the owl leave, the fear and panic on Lucian's face disappeared immediately, and he directly blew out the candle, and then quickly changed into the black linen robe with a hood that he had only successfully sewn, and quietly opened, exited, and closed.
It was dark outside, and there were no lights in the slum area of Adejan, and Lucien spread his spiritual power, and soon sensed a faint imprint of spiritual power that he had quietly left on the owl Doro, which was difficult for others to detect.
This is the case that he has not been able to practice spellcasting recently, and Lucian combines his previous knowledge of frequency, fluctuation, and radar to use a change in the spiritual power imprint, which will definitely have no effect on formal magicians, but magic apprentices and demon pets, as long as they are a little careless, it is difficult to find that they have been left with spiritual power imprints.
"Fortunately, this owl doesn't fly too fast, and it's still in my mental power sense, judging from its level, its owner should still be a magic apprentice. Lucien breathed a sigh of relief slightly, running quickly in the dark, once he exceeded five hundred meters, Lucian's spiritual power could not sense the spiritual power imprint that fluctuated at a special frequency.
Although the owner of the owl is only a magic apprentice, it is still dangerous for Lucien to follow him like this, after all, what is the situation over there, and whether there are other magic apprentices, or even magicians, he does not know.
However, this certain danger is still worth taking for Lucian, who really wants to get in touch with the wizard circle and then find a place where he can learn magic openly, and he waits carefully to observe before deciding to act, and he also has the second-level magic ring of "Ice and Snow Avenger" on his body.
The owl Doro did not know that he had been imprinted by Lucien's mental power, and he did not fly with all his strength, and on the contrary, in order not to attract attention from Aalto, who was controlled by the church, he flew very carefully and secretly.
But even so, its flight speed was still better than the speed at which Lucien did not dare to run with all his might.
So after ten minutes of tracking, Lucien had been pulled by the owl Dorofan for nearly four hundred meters, which was still when it occasionally stopped to hide, or pretended to be an ordinary owl to fly.
But just then, Doro the owl folded his wings and slipped into a window in the darkness of the night.
Lucien ran closer, slowed down, crept around the side of the building, and was very surprised to see the signboard of the building:
"Bronze Crown Tavern"!
"Could it be that there are magic apprentices mixed among the mercenaries and adventurers?" Lucien thought to himself, noticing that the window was the leftmost room on the second floor of the Bronze Crown Tavern, and it was a very convenient place to escape.
With the Ice Avenger on his left index finger, Lucien walked around the back door of the Coppercrown Tavern and whispered a strange monosyllabic word, leaving a faint shadow on the door without using the spell casting materials.
The "Silent Portal", an apprentice-level magic spell of illusion, can mask the sound of doors opening and closing, and can be activated for up to an hour, but within this hour, it can be lifted at Lucian's will.
Then, Lucien waited a few seconds and continued to perform the "switch technique" that did not cast the material, and a transparent and invisible light shot out from his hand and hit the door, and the sturdy wooden door opened a gap without a sound, allowing Lucian to quietly dodge in.
Closing the back door again, Lucien directly lifted the "Silent Portal" so as not to be detected by the fluctuations of magic.
Even in the tavern, at this time, the inside of the Bronze Crown is much quieter, especially near the back door, which allows Lucien to quietly dodge the occasional passerby and walk towards the second floor.
Quietly pausing not far from the room, Lucien barely listened to the voices in the room through the faint spiritual imprint.
After a while, Lucien smiled, pulled his hood lower, and walked to the door.
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In the cool room, Smyer leaned back and forth on a recliner that swayed back and forth, listening carefully to the report of his pet owl Doro, with a glass of amber wine in his hand.
"Dorang liqueur", which has a low alcohol content, has a significant effect on helping sleep.
The narration of the owl's syntactic quirkiness, which Smail had become accustomed to, did not take long to figure things out completely.
He closed his eyes, pondered for a while, and then asked Lucien's reaction at that time, and after listening to the description of the owl Doro, he rubbed his forehead: "It seems that he really has nothing to do with witches, but in this way, he can't find the gentleman who claims to be from the headquarters of the Continental Magic Council, hey, do you want to continue to hide......"
Just as he sighed, suddenly, there was a knock on the door.
Smail stood up abruptly, his expression solemn, and his voice tried to soften and asked, "Who?"
And the owl Doro flew to the bed, hid in the blanket, and whispered, "Who will it be, who will it be, is it here to barbecue Lord Dora?"
A strange, low, hoarse voice rang out outside the door: "I'm looking for Mr. Smail and Doro the Owl." ”
"What?!" the owl Doro cried out in the blanket, almost flying with the blanket.
Smail's magic was ready to be launched, but the mystery and weirdness of the person outside the door made him dare not act rashly: "I'm Smail, I don't know any owl Doro, who are you?!"
"I'm a magician and met a witch by chance. The hoarse and deep voice said flatly, "I've been secretly observing the witch ruins, trying to find the whereabouts of that gentleman from the headquarters of the Continental's Magic Council, but unfortunately, today I saw your demon pet Doro and heard its questioning, so I followed it all the way." ”
"What? it's because of Dora Lord?!" the owl Dora screamed in disbelief, and then sighed very violently:
"What a tragedy!"
Seeing that the other party didn't come in directly, Smyer relaxed a little, if the people from the church came, where would they be so polite, and then hearing the identity of the other party's magician, he naturally felt a little cordial, but he didn't relax his guard because of this: "Then you can use your own closing technique to come in." ”
Although successive popes have reformed the basic part of divine magic, the essence of divine magic has not changed, it still comes from the "gift of God", and the change in the basic part is to reduce the requirements for some divine arts that previously required a higher level to obtain, and more new divine arts have been gifted, and some divine arts that take a long time to master have become easier to master, so it is obvious from the casting of spells whether it is a magician or a priest.
A burst of magic fluctuations came, and the door slowly opened, and Smail wanted to seize the opportunity of the other party who had just finished casting magic and was still in the buffer period, cast magic, and catch the other party first, even if he had good intentions, he had to take the initiative himself.
However, as the door slowly turned, there was also an extremely cold and terrifying magical aura, as if a very powerful magic was gathering momentum and deliberately emitting it.
"Formal magic?" Smail visibly found that this magic aura far exceeded any apprentice-level magic he could get, "You're a full-fledged magician?"
The door opened completely, and Smyer saw a mysterious man in black robes, hooded and completely hidden in shadows, and that terrifying, cold magical aura emanated from him.
Lucien also saw clearly that this magic apprentice was the gloomy man with a hooked nose and a long black tight coat that he had seen before at the Coppercrown Tavern.