Pressing the last key, Lucien raised his hands and quietly listened to the reverberation of the strings in the piano room, with a faint sense of accomplishment in his heart.

This is not for the sake of copying the Symphony of Destiny by himself, but because in the past three weeks, except for the time to learn magic, he has devoted all his energy to the practice of piano playing, in the morning in the music library, playing virtually, like Pieru, completely immersed in the world of music, hurriedly finished eating at noon, without a lunch break, went directly to Mr. Victor's house and the association's piano room, and practiced until the evening, only when Victor came to guide, he would play simple music.

Lucien can now at least barely play the Symphony of Destiny without being called a noise, although many technical points are still not finished, but as long as people with deep musical literacy hear it, they will definitely find the valuable value of this music.

[I believe that Mr. Victor is no exception.] Lucien put away his pride in the improvement of his piano playing ability and stood up, because Lucien himself knew very well that this was a seriously deformed improvement, and he only relied on a lot of practice, repeated practice, and superhuman memory to play this piece of music, and other slightly difficult pieces of music, he still couldn't play it, and each one required a long time of similar effort, far less than the kind of person who started to practice difficult music after laying a solid foundation.

Turning around, Lucien saw that Phyllis's plump lips were pressed against the flute, but she didn't play it, her ruby eyes were staring at her suspiciously, and there was even a trace of surprise on her bright face.

"The string rhythm you played just now ......" Phyllis stopped practicing the flute and was about to leave, when she happened to hear Lucian's smooth last string rhythm, although the playing technique was still immature, the rhythm was still a little slow, but it sounded like a good feeling, which made her unable to believe it.

Lucien interrupted the rhythm of the Symphony of Fate with a garbage string rhythm, so that people could only hear one of the passages at a time, and whenever they wanted to raise a pleasant feeling, they were frequently disturbed by the garbage string rhythm, so Phyllis, Lott and others in the same piano room just felt that Lucian's playing skills were improving, and they didn't think how well he wrote the music, until just now, when Lucian played the most resounding, became proficient, and played the ending string rhythm smoothly in one breath, which made Phyllis have a strong sense of contrast.

There were three days left, and there was only one week left before the concert, and Lucien was going to find an opportunity to ask Mr. Victor to "taste" his music tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, so he did not panic about Phyllis's doubts, but felt that it was just right for them to have this feeling, even if Phyllis didn't notice it today, he would find an opportunity tomorrow to make them have similar surprises.

"Phyllis, what do you think?" Lucien smiled with a "sincere" and polite smile.

Phyllis put down her flute and opened her mouth: "This...... You...... Your playing ability has improved a lot. ”

She still didn't think it was Lucien's own string rhythm, and attributed the reason to the improvement of Lucian's piano playing ability, and that music should be a piano piece that she had never heard before, after all, she mainly learned flute.

Lucien just wanted her to have an impression, and seeing that she didn't ask, he smiled and said, "Thank you, thank you for the compliment, Phyllis." Night is almost falling, and it looks like there might be a storm tonight, so I'll have to go back first. ”

In the "harvest month" (September), the climate is still hot, the dark mountains block the monsoon, and the whole of the Waorit park belongs to the basin, so in recent months there has been a torrential rain every few days, and today, before six o'clock, the sky is already dark as if it were seven or eight o'clock, humid and muggy, and it seems that heavy rain will fall at any moment.

"See you tomorrow, Lucien. Phyllis replied with a rare normalcy, and then watched Lucien's back as she walked out of the piano room, her face still full of doubt, even though she had already come to a conclusion.

By this time, Lott and Herodotus had been away for a while, leaving her with no one to talk to.

Lucien went downstairs and saw Ace, the butler, directing the servants to clean the hall, so he stepped forward and asked, "Mr. Ace, where is Mr. Victor? "Now that Phyllis has noticed that Lucien is also preparing to advance the time, this kind of thing is always better sooner than later.

Ace was always serious and polite: "Mr. Victor has gone to the cemetery, and may not be back until late, Mr. Lucian, is the matter urgent?"

"Tomorrow will do the same. Lucien didn't know how long he would wait, so he postponed it until tomorrow, and he had to go back to the magic experiment, which was his real path in the future.

During this time, Lucien basically understood the "Arcane" periodical, and at the same time used the literature, materials, and books that could be opened in the library, and quickly perfected his basic knowledge, which was the stage of rapid progress in magic analysis, construction, and application, for example, Lucian combined the knowledge of part of frequency and vibration to transform the structure and construction process of "Homanzi's choking", a sonic magic, and after many experiments, he created two new apprentice-level informal magic that I don't know if there is in the headquarters of the Magic Council of the Continent.

Comparatively speaking, Lucian's progress in soul and spiritual power is far behind the integration of his own knowledge and magic, as well as the speed of understanding magic, and it is still a little short of being able to make his mental power reach the level of performing ten apprentice-level magic in a row and becoming a formal magic apprentice, which is completely opposite to the situation of ordinary magic apprentices, this stage, but the stage of rapid growth of mental power, as long as the talent is not too poor, he can become a high-level magic apprentice within one to two years, so it is normal for the mastery of knowledge to lag behind the growth of mental power.

............

As the evening grew darker and darker, Lucien walked into Aunt Elisa's house, and casually glanced at the corner of the next house, and suddenly noticed that a new mark appeared in the place where the original mark had been erased.

[News of evil creatures......] Lucien walked into Aunt Elisa's house with an unchanged face as if he had accidentally turned his gaze over.

The meaning of Smail's set of drawings was: "Dear Mr. Professor, the sage has news of evil creatures, see you at ten o'clock tonight, in the original place." Owl. ”

[After not attending the secret meeting several times in a row, did they finally tempt themselves with the news of the evil creature?] Lucien was eating black bread with potato and beef stew as he pondered about this matter, "Could it be a trap?, if so, is it the crow's owner, or is it someone else?]

After thinking about it for a long time, Lucien decided to go and observe it secretly, and after making sure that there was no ambush, he would meet with Smail and the Sage.

As long as he gets the blood of evil creatures, he can summon wraiths and collect wraiths of dust, after which Lucien can make money and try to buy moonlight roses.

[But before that, you have to prepare some items.] 】

............

At night, in Lucien's magic laboratory.

On the alchemy circle carved on the surface of the stone table, a black vessel the size of a cup was placed, and blue flames scorched its bottom, while a magma-like red liquid was tumbling inside it.

Lucien looked solemn, holding a twenty-centimeter-long stoneware stick in his left hand, stirring carefully in the red liquid, while holding a glass tube in his right hand, slowly tilting, dripping the black liquid into the vessel drop by drop, mixing with the red liquid.

Every drop of black liquid falling into it will stir up a burst of white mist, causing the red liquid to shrink and solidify violently, as if it is about to explode, but fortunately, with the cooperation of Lucian's left hand and the precise control of the alchemy array by spiritual power, there was no experimental accident.

When the black liquid was poured, Lucien put his right hand on the alchemy array, changing its operation, and thin red threads appeared, wrapping the black vessel, and at the same time, Lucien recited an awkward incantation in his mouth, and the index finger of his left hand shot out a cold white light and landed in the black vessel.

When the extreme heat meets the frost, there is a violent change immediately, the white mist rises, and even has a tendency to burst, but it is wrapped in those red thin lines, and gradually stabilizes.

The thick white mist dissipated, and a small amount of red viscous liquid appeared in the black vessel, and in the flow, there seemed to be a flame burning.

Lucien breathed a sigh of relief, poured the red viscous liquid into a glass tube and sealed it, which was the "fiery glue" that the witch was going to refine.

After collecting all the experimental materials, Lucien began the alchemy experiment in this area, because according to the witch's description, the power of the "Blazing Glue" is not small, and according to Lucian's experience of being burned into minor injuries after several failed experiments, as well as the power experiment with a small amount of "Blazing Glue", it can be seen that it is similar to a gasoline bomb, but the explosion power is not strong enough.

Originally, Lucien wanted to refine some nitroglycerin to add to it, but considering the danger and the fact that he didn't have a good protective spell at the moment, he gave up for the time being.

Open the box in the magic laboratory, there are seven tubes of liquid lying inside, it is Lucian's alchemy achievements during this time, there are two tubes of "Blazing Glue", there are three tubes of "Brown Owl" that speed up the recovery of mental strength, the brown liquid in it has been bubbling violently, and the other two tubes are "Tempest" that treats injuries and overdraws physical strength.

Lucien took out the seven tubes of magic elixir, and together with the tube of "Blazing Glue" he had just refined, and inserted them into a secret pocket near the belt of his black robe, which contained many broken blankets to prevent the glass test tubes engraved with magic runes from colliding with each other during strenuous exercise.

With all of this done, Lucien opened his magic notes on the table and looked at the left and right pages with the structure and construction process of the two new apprentice-level magic he had created.

This is Lucian based on the knowledge of vibration and frequency, after hundreds of experiments and attempts, only to transform on the "Homanzis' choking" sonic magic, the requirements for spiritual power are equal to a star system magic, and the function is very special, although it is not very useful in actual combat, but on special occasions, it will have amazing effects.

After looking at the two magic spells silently for a while, Lucien took out his quill and wrote a row of fancy words at the top of each page, which was to give them names:

"The Scream of the Bat";

"The Professor's Resonant Hand".

After writing this, Lucien walked out of the magic laboratory, returned to the hut, lay down on the bed, regained his mental strength, and waited until 9:40, pulled down his hood, and went out of the room.