Chapter Twenty-Six: The Beginning of a "New" Life
In the witch's magic notes, there are more than a dozen magic potions, each of which has a wonderful effect, such as the "brown owl" that restores mental power, etc., and the most precious three are the "Magic Gate" potion that can help magic apprentices who have difficulty understanding the structure of spells to forcibly improve, the "Silver Moon" potion that can be used to promote magic apprentices to magicians normally, and a "weeping soul" potion that can directly stimulate the blood and blood power of adults with normal physique.
At the moment, Lucien's heart is most excited, and the "Weeping Soul" magic potion.
"Gate of Magic" and "Silver Moon" not only require precious materials that are difficult to find in a short period of time, but also use the premise that the mental power and soul are close to that of a formal magician, and only the "Weeping Soul" potion can be used by normal adults after a certain amount of exercise.
It is the product of the research of ancient magicians in order to meet the needs of some specific situations to quickly cultivate low-level attendants, at the cost of overdrawing the potential of the body to stimulate the blood vein power, so the negative effect is very strong, once the "weeping soul" is used to promote the knight, it will no longer be able to improve the blood force through training in the future, and the strength is worse than that of a normal knight.
But this is not a big problem for Lucien, who has little hope of becoming a knight and has chosen the path of magic, and it is a way to quickly improve his strength in a short period of time.
The problem is that the materials required for this magic potion are either very expensive or very weird, and it is also very difficult for a trainee magic apprentice like Lucien to collect them all, and if his own physique does not meet the standards of normal adults, then after drinking the magic potion, there will not only be a high chance of failure, but also endanger life, and adults with normal physique have a certain chance of failure, and the better the physique, the easier it is to succeed.
The "Weeping Soul" magic potion is an outstanding achievement of necromantic magic, and the abbreviated magic formula is:
Black Corpse Mushroom + Water Ghost Brain Tissue + Wraith Dust + Moonlight Rose Powder == "Weeping Soul"
Here, the black corpse mushroom is a strange mushroom that grows on the body of a rotting corpse, before it is ripe, it is milky milky white, after maturity, it all turns black in one day, it can keep it for a month without wilting, the smell is slightly hallucinating, and the poison of the rotting corpse will be directly eaten, and the darker the color of the black corpse mushroom collected, the better the effect of the "weeping soul" refined after the most canon.
The brain tissue of the water ghost is the brain tissue of the undead water ghost, the stronger the water ghost, the better the effect of the "weeping soul" refined after the most refined, and the same is true for the resentful spirit dust.
According to the witches, the moonlight rose is a rare plant that emits silver, The moonlight-like color has an auxiliary effect when the high-level knight squire stimulates the amount of blood power, so it is very expensive, more expensive than many materials that can only be used by formal magicians, one gram costs one gold taler, that is, one hundred silver nar, and when used, under the premise of one success, it takes at least ten grams to refine the magic potion, and the whole process of the high-level knight squire to stimulate the amount of blood vein power, according to their own ability, ranges from burning five grams to fifty grams.
The witch once thought of refining the "Weeping Soul" magic potion to quickly improve her strength, so that she could find the "Ice Plantagenet" later, after all, the strength of the first-order knights can be regarded as strong in the entire Principality of Vaorit, and they are real nobles, from what they have seen and heard these days, Lucien knows that all the knights canonized by the principality add up, and there are only more than four hundred, of course, in Aalto, there are many powerful people whose strength exceeds that of ordinary knights.
It's a pity that the witch can't afford to buy Moonlight Rose for the time being, and the other three materials have been heard that the Belen River will be haunted by water ghosts at night recently, and that the Evil Spirit Dust can be completed through the apprentice-level magic of "summoning low-level undead creatures" with the "blood of evil creatures", so they have to be put on hold for the time being.
In this regard, Lucien can only continue his magic study first, focusing on meditation tempering, spell casting training and magic experiments, and secretly look for news of these materials.
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Near the "Fiery Moon" (July), the sky brightens early, and the clouds are slowly changing like orange rubies.
Lucien got up earlier, and had already experimented with using the vibration frequency of mental power instead of spells once.
The magic experiment was successful, and it was true that the "Runaway Ring" magic could be activated by controlling the mental power to vibrate in advance instead of the spell, but the result was not good, because Lucien found that in this way, due to the high requirements for control, his mental power was consumed a lot.
"If you use a spell to cast a spell, three 'runaway rings' will deplete your mental power, you can use your mental power to shake in advance to cast spells, and one 'runaway ring' can dry up my spirit, unless there are special circumstances, it is not very useful. Lucien commented with disappointment.
After a meditation session, Lucien regained his spirits, cleaned up the messy hut due to the magic of the "Runaway Ring", and went out to Aunt Elisa's house.
"Good morning, Brother Lucien, let's have breakfast together!" Evan opened the wooden door for Lucien, who had been helping out with Aunt Elisa at the Aalto Textile Guild recently, and seemed much more stable.
Lucien smiled, "Of course, I chose a good time to come, how could I miss breakfast." ”
"Hehe, little Evans, you are getting more and more humorous, it seems that this week's study has made you a lot more confident, are you going to worship together tomorrow morning?" Joel drank the wild vegetable soup with soft black bread, satisfied with Lucian's visible maturity and confidence.
Every Sunday morning, the believers of the God of Truth will go to the church to worship, and most of them will go when they have the time and conditions, only Lucian, since the crossing, is afraid of being discovered, and always shirks.
Aunt Alisa took a wooden spoon and scooped a bowl of this wild vegetable soup to Lucian: "Little Evans, you sit down and eat slowly, and talk as you eat." ”
From last night to today, Lucien had consumed a lot of physical strength by meditating and casting spells, and without being polite, he took a sip of soup and chewed the black bread and ate it.
Aunt Elisa's black bread, although it is also very coarse and unpalatable, and has impurities such as bran, it is too much better than Lucian's inferior black bread sawdust-like taste, so that Lucian can't help but curse the profiteer secretly.
"Uncle Joel, I don't have time tomorrow, I'm afraid I won't be able to worship with you. "How could Lucien go to church, not mention the danger, that time alone was enough to learn a lot more for himself.
Aunt Elisa wondered, "Little Evans, what do you have to do tomorrow? Don't you find a job where you don't have to go to the market district?"
Seeing that Joel and Evan looked at each other suspiciously, Lucien took out the old and simple money bag and handed it to Joel, smiling in a good mood: "Uncle Joel, I am now a regular student of Mr. Victor, and Mr. Victor is very good, so he specially exempted my tuition, and these eight silver narls will be returned to you." ”
"Ahem, ahem, you've become Mr. Victor's full student?!" Joel almost choked on the black bread, coughing incessantly, his face flushed, and his eyes were full of shock when he looked at Lucian, it's only been a few days?!
Aunt Elisa, on the other hand, was surprised by another point: "Tuition-free?!You can study without paying a silver narr?!"
Evan didn't know the meaning of Lucian's words, and secretly glanced at the money bag: "Wow, it's really Yinnar, the lovely Yinnar with a beautiful light! Brother Lucian, how did you do that?"
Lucien honestly recounted the experience of that day, and there was nothing to hide anyway, and finally concluded: "Well, in this way, Mr. Victor has asked me to study words and music with him, and the tuition fee has been waived, and I am going to go to Mr. Victor tomorrow morning, and borrow from him some books on simple lingua franca, and books on music." ”
In fact, this afternoon, Lucien is going to Victor's house to make up for the last hour of study that he didn't finish yesterday, but to be honest, he can't find a reason to postpone the worship, and Lucien is indeed going to Victor's house tomorrow morning, since he chose to use the identity of a musician or musician to cover up the identity of a magician, then the basic music knowledge, introductory knowledge, sheet music, etc. should be added to the library as soon as possible, so that he can be like a poor child who grew up under the influence of music in Aalto, rather than a traveler from another world.
In the "liar" industry, Lucien is still very dedicated.
"Mr. Victor is such a good man with a good heart. As Lucien tried to hide his role, Elisa cried out to Mr. Victor, "Little Evans, thank the Lord that after all this suffering, you are at last able to begin a new and beautiful life. ”
Joel stared at Lucien for a long time, and then said with relief and emotion: "I can't imagine that little Evans you have really embarked on the road of music, your intelligence, wit and hard work have exceeded my imagination, and with the blessing of the Lord, you have met such a kind musician as Mr. Victor." I hope you will seize the opportunity to remain diligent and assiduous when learning music in the future. If, on the other hand, you have a concert in the Chant Hall, you must ask Uncle Joel to listen to it once, then I will have no musical regrets in my life. ”
Evan nodded, "If only I could introduce my fellow brothers to my brother, my eldest brother Lucien is a famous musician who can give concerts in the Chant Hall, how awesome it would be!
"Uncle Joel, I'll try. Lucien nodded with a serious expression, but sighed in his heart: "I'm sorry, Uncle Joel, I'm afraid I will not invest much in music, because, after last night's study, the vast and magical world of magic has deeply attracted me, music is just a job for me to disguise my identity and earn the money I need to learn magic, I can't be as devout and loving as you." ”
As an ordinary person who doesn't know much about music, Lucian only knows that the Taoist Church has not suppressed Aalto's music much in the past three hundred years under the condition of relying on divine magic, and most of the music that can be heard in the city is not old-fashioned, and even many of them are very good and very beautiful, not inferior to some famous classical music that Lucian once listened to when he was on earth, and it feels very similar and the trend is very consistent.
Joel put away the money bag: "Little Evans, when you choose the instrument you need to learn, just come and borrow money, hehe, don't be shy." ”
"Well, Uncle Joel, Aunt Elisa, I'm going to look for a job that has nothing to do with the market district, well, it should be a lot easier with Mr. Victor's student. Lucien finished his breakfast and stood up to say goodbye.
After reading the magic notes, Lucien already understood that magic costs a lot of money!