Kassel Academy, Luminnon dormitory.

Fingal grabbed a packet of popcorn and sat in front of his computer, eating popcorn while "2012", occasionally leaning his head in front of the Coke on the table and taking a sip.

Lu Mingfei sat on the bed with a laptop on his lap, and a pair of bright eyes stared at the intricate patterns displayed on the notebook screen.

It is a medieval black magic ritual diagram, the details are almost impossible to distinguish in normal proportions, and when you zoom in, you can see that it is two rings set together and an inverse pentagram running through the two rings, interspersed with countless twisted snake-like lines and symbolic symbols, and in the center is an eye with wings open on both sides, encased in layers by ring-like rings, and the flames on the rings burn.

In some Cruciceptrian teachings, the inverse pentagram is a symbol of Satan or hell, and the winged eyes are one of the images of the angel "cherubim".

Of course, considering that this alchemy matrix is from the hands of that group of explosive maniacs in the equipment department, there is still a question mark over who will be cremated.

Although Lu Mingfei estimated that with the power of Finnbull Winter, he could freeze a passage even without any increase, but this was a bit too shocking, so in order not to be too exaggerated, he still added an alchemy matrix that could strengthen the spirit of words to the design of the drilling machine-that was the thing in his computer.

Lu Mingfei had already tested it when he was initially studying alchemy, and although Fimbull's Winter did not belong to the spirit system, it could still be strengthened by some alchemy matrix, but the increase it received was weakened compared to the real spirit of words.

After the drilling machine was assembled, it was the step to depict the alchemy matrix, and before that, the equipment department sent him this diagram.

Even an organization like Solomon's Temple, which is obviously inferior to the secret party, can depict an alchemy matrix that strengthens the spirit of words within the scope of a small town, and the equipment department naturally does not lack such technology - the computer is a miniature alchemy matrix developed by the equipment department itself that can strengthen the spirit of words, although it is miniature, but it still requires a large vehicle to depict it.

The more powerful the alchemy matrix, the greater the space for depiction, when the secret party transformed the entire city of Rome into an alchemy matrix to resist the king of the earth and the mountain, in addition to being wealthy, the more important reason is that the alchemy matrix that can resist the dragon king must have a foundation as big as a city to build.

After a long time, Lu Mingfei's brilliant golden pupils dimmed slightly, and the release of Yan Ling's "Mirror Pupil" stopped—he had fully understood this alchemy matrix.

As the user of this alchemy matrix, it is naturally carved by him himself, and it is the most convenient to use.

Rubbing his temples, Lu Mingfei looked at Fingal, who had already seen the end of a movie.

When Lu Mingfei looked at him, Fingal just turned his head: "Senior brother, do you want to eat popcorn, I still have half of it left, I invite you to eat it." ”

Lu Mingfei tugged at the corners of his mouth: "It seems that I bought popcorn and Coke for you." ”

"This is called borrowing flowers to offer Buddha." Fingal was eloquent.

Lu Mingfei covered his face - he had always thought he was cheeky enough, but after meeting Fingal, he realized that he actually had a lot of room for improvement in this area.

"Senior brother, I watch movies, anime and games in the dormitory all day long, so I don't have anything serious to do?" Lu Mingfei casually closed the computer and put it aside, stood up and stretched.

"Business?" Fingal scratched his head, "Senior brother, do you mean to go out and ask the beautiful juniors to get in touch and invite them to a dance or dinner by the way?" To tell you the truth, although I was also very attractive when I was young, I was still the Elvis of the prom, but now I am old after all, although the charm has not diminished back then, but it is better to leave the younger sister to the younger brother......"

"I mean, you didn't even think about going to class?!" Lu Mingfei's face darkened, "I kind of understand why you keep repeating grades, I thought you failed every exam, but you didn't even go to class!" I don't think you want to graduate at all! ”

"Senior brother, have you ever thought about it," Fingal looked sincere, "Senior brother, I am an A-level bloodline, and the spirit of words is still a bronze throne that can only be used for battle, if I graduate, I am guaranteed to be assigned to the front line of the executive department to slay dragons." ”

"Isn't that great?" Lu Mingfei was a little puzzled, "Many of the big names in the secret party were killed from the front line of the executive department when they were young. ”

"There are more big people who have hung up before they can be killed," Fingal cried with a sad face, "I don't want to be a big man, and my spirit is still a bronze throne, and the dragon chews it so strongly." ”

"After doing it for a long time, did you deliberately not graduate?" Lu Ming was not abrupt.

"I don't have to mean to," Fingal shook his head, "I really can't pass the exam." ”

Lu Mingfei: ......

Just when Lu Mingfei was wondering whether to report Fingal to the Academic Affairs Office and apply for the expulsion of the goods from the academy to save food, his mobile phone suddenly rang.

took out his mobile phone, and Lu Mingfei saw a familiar caller ID - uncle.

"Hey, headmaster," Lu Mingfei answered, "what's the matter?" Oh...... Oh okay, I see, I'll go later. Yes? Belch...... Is that so? That'll do fine, I'll think about it. ”

Seeing Lu Mingfei hang up the phone, Fingal looked curious: "Senior brother, is there something wrong with the principal looking for you?" ”

He found that after Lu Mingfei hung up the phone, his eyes suddenly became a little strange.

"There are two things, the first thing is for me to go to the vice principal, it has nothing to do with you, senior brother, I won't go into details," Lu Mingfei said, "The second thing...... Let's put it this way, I accepted a mission a few days ago, I need to go to the bottom of the Yangtze River in China to work, and the principal said that because I have the highest blood, I am the captain of this operation, and let me select a few students of A-level blood to form an elite team to carry out the mission together. ”

"Then the second thing has nothing to do with me." Fingal scratched his head.

"No, it's still related," Lu Mingfei said, "The headmaster specially recommended you to me, he said that your spirit of words is a very rare high-level and stable spirit of words, which is very suitable for facing this kind of task that may encounter a dragon king-level target, because the dragon king can use the spiritual realm to disturb the elements, and most half-breeds are ineffective in front of the dragon king, but your bronze throne is a blood-derived seal that strengthens the flesh and is not affected by the elemental environment......"

"Wait a minute!" Fingal almost squirted popcorn and Coke out, his voice shrivelling, "What did you say?" Dragonlord-level targets?! ”

"Be quiet, it's a classified mission." Lu Mingfei reminded.

"Senior brother!" Fingal jumped up from the chair, knelt in front of Lu Mingfei with a tiger leap, hugged his thighs with both hands and began to cry, his tone was miserable as if the whole family had died, "Teacher-brother——, you know that Senior Brother and I, I am just a pure waste, a waste wood that I can't support, I can't perform such a major task, you definitely won't take me there, right?" ”

When he said the last sentence, Fingal held Lu Mingfei's thigh and raised his head, with a teary expression.

"Don't rub snot on my pants!" Lu Mingfei looked disgusted, hurriedly withdrew, and comforted, "Don't worry, senior brother." ”

Fingal breathed a sigh of relief.

"I believe in your strength." Lu Mingfei patted him on the shoulder.

"No, junior brother, don't believe me, there are so many elites in the school, why are you embarrassed by me as a waste dog?" Fingal decisively led the water to the east, "Caesar and Chu Zihang are both characters in the sky and the earth, and it is not much better for you to find them than to find me." ”

Senior Brother Chu? Lu Mingfei said in his heart, you let me bring a person whose spirit is Jun Yan to face the King of Bronze and Fire, who do you hate and don't die?

"Senior brother, have you forgotten that you locked up Caesar during the day of freedom," Lu Mingfei said, "and Caesar's words and spirits are only a scythe in sequence 59, which is a little shameful for an A-level bloodline, how can it compare to your bronze throne in sequence 87?" ”

Fingal: ......

What is the ...... Why does it sound familiar?

……

Kassel Academy, top floor of the church.

Lu Mingfei walked up the dimly lit staircase, the soles of his boots and the marble steps making a dull sound, echoing repeatedly in the narrow corridor of the loop.

Walking to the top floor of the stairs, Lu Mingfei was faced with an old wooden door, and the sound of TV programs faintly came from behind the door.

Lu Mingfei was a little expectant, and gently knocked on the wooden door with his fingers.

This is one of the most mysterious areas of the Kassel Academy – the bell tower at the top of the church.

Every student knows that the moderator of the night watchman section, the "night watchman", is the school's vice principal, and the vice principal lives in the clock tower.

It is said that the vice principal has lived in the bell tower for many years, and has always shrouded the school with words and spiritual "precepts", not to mention that no student in the school knows the vice principal now, and no one in the last ten years has seen this character, and his existence is even more like a legend than the principal.

At the same time, the vice principal is also the strongest alchemist in the entire secret party, and Lu Mingfei also tried to learn alchemy from the vice principal through the principal's relationship, but unfortunately the vice principal refused on the grounds that he was in a single line.

And the headmaster called him before, in addition to asking him to prepare his teammates, another thing was to ask him to come to the vice principal to improve the alchemy matrix applied to the drilling machine and improve it - since he was going to explore the palace of the alchemy king, the vice principal, who was the strongest alchemist of the secret party, should take action no matter what he said.

Lu Mingfei is still quite looking forward to this, the strongest alchemist of the secret party, I don't know what kind of person it will be, considering that the principal said that the vice principal is older than him, it will probably be the kind of old sage who wears a wide robe and can drag down his beard to the ground......

Slightly heavy footsteps came from behind the door.

Lu Mingfei suddenly had a sense of foreboding.

A moment later, the door was opened, and Lu Mingfei's eyes were greeted by a potato in a cowboy costume - although it seemed a little rude, this was indeed Lu Mingfei's first impression of the vice principal.

The age of the person behind the door should be between the middle-aged and the elderly, wearing a floral plaid shirt, the belly is visibly protruding, the front button is difficult to grasp the clothes, wearing a curly hat, the hair that occasionally leaks out is shiny, a pair of cowboy boots, and the spurs on the boots are shiny.

Looking at the outfit, it can barely be said that he is an old cowboy, but a cowboy with such a big belly is estimated to have been retired for at least thirty years.

"You're Lu Mingfei, right?" The old cowboy greeted Lu Mingfei warmly, "Hurry up, come in and eat a piece of pizza, I'm worried about not finishing." ”

Lu Mingfei: ......

……

In the vice-principal's room.

"Ahem, kid, let's talk about it in advance, I'm just going to support the secret party's dragon slaying operation, so I help you improve the alchemy matrix, it doesn't mean that I will take you as an apprentice or teach you anything, you know?" The vice principal admonished Lu Mingfei with a serious face.

If you ignore the pizza in his left hand, the big draft beer in his right hand, the bulging belly, the grease stains on his shirt, the "Playboy" magazine on the wall, and the boxes of instant food all over the floor, it is really a bit serious.

"Well, don't worry, Vice Chancellor, I understand." Lu Mingfei nodded, and said in his heart that if those female students who thought that the vice principal was a powerful, handsome, mysterious and evil handsome old man saw this scene with their own eyes, they didn't know how their hearts would be broken.

"Come on, show me the drawings drawn by those little guys in the equipment department." The Vice Chancellor casually tossed the things on the table to the floor to make room.

Lu Mingfei took out a large piece of rolled paper and unfolded it on the table, on which was the alchemy matrix composition given to him by the Equipment Department.

"Hmm...... It's average, but it's barely ......" The vice principal glanced at it and nodded, "You can wait a while, I'll change it for you." ”

"Wait a minute, Vice Principal," Lu Mingfei raised his hand, "Actually, I also thought of some improvement plans when I looked at this picture before, but I was called by the principal before I could change it, or ...... You can help me take a look. ”

The vice principal was stunned for a moment, and showed an interested expression: "You draw it for me." ”

Lu Mingfei took out a pencil and revised it directly on the paper.

The vice principal looked down at Lu Mingfei scribbling on the alchemy matrix, and snorted from his nose: "Boy, I know that you are an S-level genius, but the old man was known for his demonic talent back then, since you are an alchemist, you should know the path of the fire sword, right?" It only took me less than a year to understand the seven essentia, and you are a little tender if you want to show off your talent in front of me...... Well? ”

The vice principal stared at the changes Lu Mingfei made on the alchemy matrix, and his expression gradually changed, from disdain to seriousness, from seriousness to surprise, and then from surprise to confusion, and finally confusion turned into confusion.

After a long time, Lu Mingfei finally put down and straightened up, and the alchemy matrix diagram on the table had been changed beyond recognition by him.

"What do you think, Vice Principal?" Lu Mingfei turned his head and asked, "Vice Principal?" Vice Chancellor, why don't you speak? ”

After being silent for a long time, the vice principal exhaled a deep breath and grabbed Lu Mingfei's shoulder suddenly, and his golden pupils seemed to be able to illuminate the room: "Boy! How long did it take you to make these changes! ”

"Hmm...... It's not easy to say, I should be able to change while learning," Lu Mingfei scratched his head, "It adds up to about ...... Three hours? ”

The vice-principal was silent again.

"Vice Chancellor, what's wrong with you?" Lu Mingfei was confused, and his heart was broken, although the vice principal looked young, he was actually older than the principal, could it be that he had Alzheimer's disease after living in the bell tower for so many years and quietly, right?

"It's okay," the vice principal let go of Lu Mingfei's shoulder with a complicated expression, "you...... Very talented, a good seedling to learn alchemy. ”

Lu Mingfei blinked: "Thank you for the compliment?" ”

"However, having talent in alchemy knowledge does not mean that you are also talented in the spiritual realm," as if to save face, the vice principal asked with some eagerness, "You studied with the little girl of the Gottingen family, you should have learned the path of the fire sword, right?" ”

Lu Mingfei nodded.

"How many essentia do you understand?" The vice principal asked.

"Seven." Lu Ming was dishonest.

"I'm asking you how many essentia you understand, not how many essentia you are sure you understand," the vice-principal corrected, "saying how many essentia you understand now!" ”

"It's seven," Lu Mingfei scratched his head, "Doesn't you have to understand the seven essentia to be a good alchemist?" ”

Vice-principal:......

This time the vice principal was silent for longer than any before, and by the time he spoke again, Lu Mingfei was so bored that he wanted to change the TV channel.

"Wait, I'll test you."

The Vice Chancellor rummaged through the room, and after a few minutes he pulled out a necklace of seven cloudy gems, each the size of a pigeon's egg, but of a different color, corresponding to the color of the seven essentia on the Kabbalah Tree of Life.

"Come, put it on," the vice principal stuffed the necklace into Lu Mingfei's hand, "concentrate and feel the essentia." ”

Lu Mingfei put on the necklace and concentrated his spirit on essentia according to what the vice principal said.

The Vice Chancellor watched as the seven gems on the necklace cleared at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in the blink of an eye, they became crystal clear, as if they were about to glow.

"Smack-" A crisp slap sounded.

Lu Mingfei looked blankly at the vice principal whose face was crooked to the side: "No, vice principal, you ...... Why do you slap yourself? ”

The left half of the vice-principal's face flushed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the palm of the hand that had just been in close contact with the face trembled slightly.

"Dream, I must be dreaming......" the vice-principal whispered to himself.

(End of chapter)