Breathing in the reddish blood mist around him, Lucien's hands and feet were soft, his head twitched and swelled, and the scene of Correa and Hausen fighting in his eyes suddenly changed to Correa and the giant mouse, and then turned back to the two killing each other, as if illusion and reality were superimposed.

"Wait, hallucination?!" Lucien had a rough guess in his mind as soon as he thought of this, and focused on it, so that the feeling of the spirit spreading like a tide appeared, so that the scene no longer changed, the red mist no longer distorted, everything stabilized, and it was indeed Correa and Hausen who were fighting to the death, blood was flowing from multiple wounds on their bodies, and their movements seemed to be very slow and laborious, as if they had reached a limit.

"Is it the blood of the red-eyed rat itself that has hallucinogenic effects, or is it the blood that has been absorbed and transformed by that strange plant to make people hallucinate? ”

Lucien finally understood that both Hausen's disappearance and Gary's sudden attack were due to the influence of hallucinations, and this effect was likely to start from the killing of the first red-eyed mouse, and it was difficult to distinguish from the time he completely blinded his senses, and only Lucien was freed from the hallucinations because of the protection of the Holy Light Shield behind him and his mental progress.

The "Holy Light Strike" that was shot from the Emblem of Truth just now not only vaporized Gary's right hand and part of his shoulder, but also penetrated upwards and directly hit the stone roof directly above the chamber, making a deep hole, and the rubble fell like rain, as if the entire chamber would collapse at any moment.

The rubble and dust filled the air, dispersing the reddish blood mist, restoring Lucian's weakness to his hands and feet.

Lucien didn't know if there were any other magic traps behind him, so even if he was safe for the time being, he didn't dare to relax and think quickly about how to do it.

The "Holy Emblem of Truth" could no longer stimulate any divine skills except for the two light techniques, and he no longer had the greatest reliance, and even the strength of his own flesh became very weak due to the paralyzing effect contained in the pale red mist.

Suddenly, Lucien saw the strange plant staggering in the rubble that had fallen from Sissy Suo.

"It doesn't have any other ability to protect itself than to create illusions?" Lucien immediately came to his senses, stood up with his limp hands and feet, and walked towards the strange plant.

Lucien walked very slowly, falling several times in the rubble, being covered in scars and in excruciating pain, and even bleeding from a few places.

"Ugh. Lucien took a breath, swallowed the pain, and took advantage of the momentary reluctance and strength of the pain of the wound to make his way to the strange plant with difficulty.

After this series of encounters, Lucien's youth and hesitation were much less, and without delay, he held his breath, and carefully but firmly stretched out his right hand, which was held on the trunk of the strange plant.

The meridians were beating under his hands, and the blood was flowing like a stream, and Lucien felt that he was holding not a plant, but a living creature, and then jerked it to the side.

"Ahh

All the branches and leaves of this strange plant shrank at once, and let out a sharp and terrible scream, like a dying man.

Without breaking for a moment, Lucien continued to exert force, and the strange plant let out a miserable scream as it stretched out its branches and leaves again, wrapping itself around Lucian.

A wet, slippery, and disgusting sensation came from his skin, and countless tiny burrs were piercing his body, and Lucien forcibly held back his fear and fear, and pulled hard again.

"Woo......"

The crying stopped abruptly, and Lucien was sprayed to his chest by the pale red liquid in the plant's body, and the smell of blood came to his nose, which made Lucian's hands and feet more and more soft, and he could only lean against the stone wall next to him to avoid falling to the ground.

As the plant was torn in two by Lucian, the reddish mist in the surrounding air became thicker and thicker, almost condensing into a liquid.

The three books on the nearby desk, which shimmered with a faint light, corroded rapidly as soon as they sensed this rich reddish mist, starting from the first page to the last page, and it only took two or three seconds for them to disappear completely, so fast that Lucian, who was nearby, could not read what was written on them.

Of course, with Lucien's current state of paralysis, it must be too late to stop it, and it is difficult to even take a step.

The desk immediately became empty, but strangely, except for the place where the three books were, there were no signs of corrosion, and Lucien figured out the key point after a brief surprise: "It seems that it is another magic trap, when the concentration of the red mist reaches a certain level, the magic trap on those magic notes will activate itself, destroying itself so as not to be obtained by the enemy." ”

"It's a pity that these magic notes are gone. Lucien sighed in his heart with regret, that was a magical note that could learn extraordinary power!

Suddenly, Lucien was stunned as he noticed a strange glimmer from the library in his soul.

Curious, Lucien probed his spirit, and then saw that a brand new bookshelf appeared in the library, with the words "magic (arcane)" written on it, and on the shelf, there were already three books, which were the three magic notes that Lucian had seen just now.

"Could it be that this library still has the ability to collect books, but how did the content come about?" Lucien was very surprised, "Or I need to see the content with my own eyes, well, although these three books were corroded very quickly, if the whole process was slowed down, they should still be corroded page by page, this strange library can not write down the contents from beginning to end, so there is a projection of these three books, otherwise it is impossible to make up the content out of thin air." ”

Lucien can only speculate for now, and he will have to wait for a few experiments with other books in the future.

Looking at these three magic notebooks, Lucien, who was quite sorry just now, hesitated: "If you learn magic, will it be too dangerous in this world where magic is powerful and can openly burn magicians?"

Unable to make a decision, Lucien put it down for the time being, after all, he and the others were still in the secret room and were not completely out of danger, so Lucien began to accumulate strength.

Without the strange plants, the reddish blood mist became lighter and fainter, Correa and Hausen gradually got rid of their hallucinations, and looked at each other in shock, but it was much too late to wake up, and both of them were on the verge of death.

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

Benjamin on the ground, while Lucien touched the "Sacred Emblem of Truth" with his spirit and activated the "Holy Light Strike", snorted, put down his right hand, and looked at the secret passage in disbelief.

"Lord Benjamin?" asked the guard Paul, seeing Benjamin's strange behavior.

Under the light of the silver moon, Benjamin's face became very bad, and he said in a low voice: "There has been a change below, my spiritual imprint in the Holy Emblem has been touched, damn it, it's just a magic apprentice, it's really useless to get to this point! Paul, you wait for me here, if I don't come out in five minutes, you can ask the bishop for help." ”

It was precisely because of the existence of the spiritual imprint in the Holy Emblem that Benjamin was relieved to hand over the Holy Emblem of Truth to Lucien to use, otherwise even if the Holy Emblem, the standard divine artifact that was assigned, was much weaker than Benjamin's own strength and other magical artifacts on his body, he would not casually hand it over to others, who knew that his spiritual imprint was actually touched, and he failed to prevent the activation of divine magic at a critical moment.

Negligence and carelessness have always been companions of pride and prejudice.

In Benjamin's heart, he has always had a deep prejudice against knights who rely on blood and flesh and physical strength, believing that they are crude and lowly, and they are not at all comparable to the noble spellcasters who explore the mysteries of the world, even if the other party is an evil magician, so they are not worthy of using magic and strange things at all, so he subconsciously gave the Truth Emblem to Lucien, whose spiritual power is higher than that of ordinary people.

Such an attitude comes from Benjamin's background and from his experience all along.

As one of the most powerful families in the Duchy of Valorit, the Lafati family, although they also rely on the power of the bloodline "divine grace", but unlike the knights, they rely on the bloodline power to cast spells and are real spellcasters, while Benjamin, as a member of the Lafati family, even if the bloodline is thin and cannot stimulate his own strength, after entering the monastery to study since he was a child, he has emerged and smoothly become a priest, firmly walking on the path of a spellcaster.

But now, as a full-fledged pastor, such a small thing has gone through a big omission, and his position within the church will inevitably be affected in the future, so Benjamin hurried down.

Paul was equally surprised: "With the emblem of truth, there will be a change?"

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

Lucien's strength recovered a little, and he was about to lean against the stone wall to walk outside the secret room, when he suddenly heard a sound of footsteps, and his heart immediately lifted, and his spirit was tense, if it was the witch's remaining magical creature or her friend, he was afraid that it would be difficult for him to escape.

When he saw that it was Benjamin's white holy robe, Lucien was half relieved, but he still didn't dare to relax, what a good place to kill people and kill people in the secret room.

"Lapland Blood Vine?" Benjamin glanced at the situation in the secret room, and quickly judged the general process from the magic knowledge and plant knowledge he had learned, and understood why Lucien, who was moving slowly against the wall, and Gary, who was on the verge of death on the ground, would end up like this, "Fortunately, none of them died." ”

"This kid is lucky, his mental power has increased a little, reaching the level of a low-level trainee priest, it seems that the impact of the breakthrough touched my spiritual imprint, but unfortunately it is no longer the era when the church was extremely strong more than three hundred years ago, and he could learn divine arts by relying on his talent, he did not lay a foundation since he was a child, and systematically learned the knowledge of divine arts, and he could never become a formal priest, I have to say that it was indeed the 'Arcane Emperor' who opened the golden age of rapid development of divine arts and magic in the past four hundred years. ”

As a member of the Lafati family, Benjamin knows more about the situation in the world than most priests, and does not seem to be so religious about his beliefs, to be precise, Benjamin, as a member of the aristocracy, and Benjamin as a member of the church, have a contradiction in their positions.

More importantly, after the "Supreme Theological Council" more than 300 years ago, the church was divided, one south and one north, accusing each other of heresy, but even so, no matter which side, the acquisition of divine magic was not affected in any way, which made many bishops and cardinals silently doubt in their hearts whether God exists or not, and whether this is a test for believers.

Such attitudes have directly influenced every young person who has been a pastor for hundreds of years, including Benjamin.

Moreover, in order to adapt to the rapid development of the times, several popes have introduced some of the knowledge obtained by the Grand Arcanists to explore the world to transform the theological foundation, although the rapid development of divine arts, and the emergence of strong ones, so that the Southern Church has maintained the position of the greatest power, standing under the eyes of many powerful enemies such as heretics, evil magicians, dark creatures, etc., but it has also once again caused more cracks in the already unstable internal beliefs.

Benjamin relaxed, fine white dust slid from his hands, and strange syllables came out of his mouth, and a gust of wind blew, blowing the pale red blood mist into the air.

Then he didn't chant the incantation, he didn't throw out the spell casting materials, just pointed at Gary, and a pale white light fell on him, causing the charred black on his body to fall off, and the wound healed, and he got rid of his dying and turned into an ordinary serious injury.

By casting healing spells at intervals of one to two seconds each time, Benjamin revived Correa and Hausen, and healed Lucian's injuries.

After asking Lucian, Correa, Hausen, Gary, and the others about what had happened, Benjamin looked at the desk and made sure they weren't lying, and ordered, "Move everything in the chamber to the church, well, including the corpses of these rats." ”

At the same time, he took the emblem that Lucien had returned: "Your sins have been washed away, go back and rest, may the Lord bless you." ”

Originally, if Lucien could succeed successfully this time, Benjamin would not be stingy with monetary rewards, and even if he had the opportunity, he would secretly try to see if he could cultivate, but it was so dangerous, Benjamin naturally had no mood to encourage Lucien, and after making sure that he didn't have anything hidden on his body, he sent him away early, after all, Correa and Hausen were fine, and Gary without his right hand would be more troublesome, and the regeneration of severed limbs was not a magic technique that he could master.

Lucien saw that Benjamin didn't kill people, how could he still have the heart to stay here, and hurriedly walked outside the secret room, and when he arrived at the sewer outside, Lucien, who had broken through a certain boundary in his spirit, suddenly heard a sentence from Correa inside, which made Lucien's mood a little heavy, and he whispered to Hausen: "Gary has no right hand, I'm afraid he can't become a knight, and he will be asked out of the guard." ”

I don't know what kind of mood Lucien was feeling, and he walked out of the secret passage and immediately greeted the inquiries of the poor people around him.

"Little Evans, have you purified the ghosts?" asked Aunt Elisa from afar.

Lucien nodded, "It has been purified by Lord Benjamin and several guards. ”

Everyone suddenly became relaxed and began to ask and communicate eagerly: "Lucian, what does a ghost look like? Isn't it scary?"

"Lord Benjamin is a full-fledged priest. ”

"Lucien seems to have been blessed by the Lord this time, and he can use the emblem of truth. ”

"It's a pity that Lucien is no longer a child and can't be sent to the monastery for training, otherwise it would be a great honor for us to have a Lord Lucien in the Adjan district."

Hearing these discussions, Lucien was slightly in a trance: "I can't be a priest?"

Although Lucien didn't want to become a priest because of his identity as a traverser, he had only experienced the extraordinary and inhuman power of divine magic, and he was told that he couldn't take this path, and he was inevitably a little depressed.

"Poor little Evans, look at your face, you must be tired, hurry back and rest. Aunt Alisa saw that Lucien's face was not good, and hurriedly spoke.

Lucien had a lot on his mind and really needed to be quiet, so he nodded, went back to his cabin, sat on the edge of the bed, and listened to Benjamin and the others come out and go away, listened to the onlookers and the poor people leaving, listened to the quiet and tranquility in the middle of the night, and suppressed the thoughts of his parents and others in the depths of his heart.

"I can't be a priest, and it looks like I don't have much hope of becoming a knight because I haven't been trained since I was a kid. ”

"If you want to gain extraordinary power, I'm afraid the only way to do it is to learn magic. ”

"However, once you choose magic, you have to be an enemy of the church, and you have to be an enemy of most ordinary people, including Aunt Elisa. ”

"Maybe there's another way?"

"Anyway, the magic notes are in my mind, so let's take a look at them first, well, it shouldn't be a problem. ”

Hesitating and struggling, Lucien decided to look at the magic notes first, so the spirit entered the library and opened the magic notes.

After a long time, Lucian's low, laughing and crying voice sounded in the room:

"What if you can't read?"