As the door was opened, a layer of warm yellow light slowly emerged and illuminated the whole lab.
The lab was clean and tidy, with many utensils and alchemy circles. Although it was not as mysterious and grand as the one left by Maskelyne in the Grand Cross, it was still much better than the apprentice-level lab Lucien used to set up by himself.
K pointed at one of the alchemy platforms, "Lucien, I feel like I'm calling you. You can use it to make potions. I'm going to start my experiment."
"Sure." Lucien did not ask further. Asking about other people's experiments was one of the biggest taboo in the Congress of Magic.
Sometimes, some sorcerers who were not so nice would secretly ask about other people's experiments, and then they would design similar experiments and write and publish papers in order to gain arcana credits, arcana points, and status and glory.
This way of doing arcana research was easily confused with other people who were working on the same arcana research at the same time but were the first to get the results. Therefore, it was hard to find any evidence. However, sorcerers who dared to do this were usually supported by some powerful forces. Without enough evidence, they could refuse to accept the investigation spells, and it was also easy to find excuses, such as the fact that they were related to the secrets of some important magic or magic relics.
What's more, some sorcerers who stole other people's arcana research results were narrow-minded and worried that the original sorcerers would take revenge on them when they grew stronger. Therefore, they would try their best to step on the original sorcerers or send them to "disappear" through a seemingly safe mission.
Lazar had told Lucien all these things when he introduced the general knowledge of the Congress of Magic to him.
The magic potion, Hard Stone, was only used to stabilize spiritual power, and Lucien had made a lot of potions before. After three failures, he successfully made a tube of murky brown magic potion.
Seeing that it was still early, Lucien took out a tube of purified elemental materials and prepared to test the properties of the potion according to the papers.
At this time, K, who had his back to Lucien, suddenly said, "Lucien, do you have any other experiments to do other than making potions?"
"I … I don't want to know what you're doing. If you do have any experiments that you need to do, I can tell you how to open the Arcana Lock in this lab. You can use this lab even if I can't come here in the future."
His deep voice echoed in the lab, which made Lucien feel at ease.
"Thank you, K. I just learned the basics of elements, and I want to test the properties of each element by myself. You know that I'm only a first-circle sorcerer, so I can't test the properties of each element by myself. I can only rely on the magic circles in the lab... " Turning around, Lucien answered frankly. It was also to lay the foundation for his arcana research results in the future. At least, many people could prove that he had spent a lot of time verifying the nature of elements.
Lucien also needed this kind of experiment to find out if there was any pattern to the elements in this world. If there was, it would mean a lot.
However, when Lucien turned around, he saw that K was still doing the experiment, so he turned around again to show that he didn't want to pry.
"Then I'll tell you how to open the Arcana Lock later." It seemed that K's experiment had entered the stage where he was waiting for some result, so he could talk to Lucien with his mind. At the same time, he didn't want to pry into the content of Lucien's potion, so he didn't turn around. "However, I may leave the Douglas Magic School in a few months, so I can't let you use this lab anymore, Lucien."
While turning on the alchemy circles to turn some purified elements into steam and measuring the density of the steam, Lucien asked curiously, "K, you're leaving? Why? "
"Hehe, when my previous thesis passed the review, it was valued by the disciple of a committee member. He's Mr. Larry from the Will of Elements. He told me that if I can become a middle-rank mage, he'd be willing to let me study under him. Recently, I feel that I'm getting closer and closer to the third circle, so I want to complete a task and get an item to help me level up. "K explained slowly without showing off, but he was not good at expressing himself verbally.
Larry was the most promising senior-rank mage in this generation of the Will of Elements, and he was the student of Gaston, a seventh-circle sorcerer. He was already a fifth-circle arcanist and a fifth-circle sorcerer, and he was even more powerful than Ulysses and Timothy. In other organizations, there were only six or seven people who could compete with him, such as Felipe, who was younger than him but close to level five arcanist.
Lucien nodded slightly with his back to K. "Congratulations, Lucien. Hehe, what's your thesis about? I want to read it. "
"It's not published yet. I'll have to wait for next week's issue of Element. You can read it for free by then. " K was a bit embarrassed to hear Lucien's question, so he did not directly tell him the name of the paper, "I hope that you can finish the basic experiment as soon as possible, Lucien, or you'll have to compete with other teachers for the lab after I leave."
Lucien grinned, "It's Element. No one in the school knows about it. You're really good at keeping it a secret, K. Well, I'll finish the experiment as soon as possible. K, you're such a good person. "
"It's nothing. I just hope that we can help each other as much as we can, "said K with a smile.
They chatted with each other with their backs facing each other, but most of the time, they were focused on their own experiments.
…
When Lucien came back to the villa, it was already early in the morning. Rock had already fallen asleep.
Lucien's mental state was soon adjusted to the best state. He opened the glass tube and drank the brown, turbid Hard Stone potion.
Sour, pungent, spicy, and many other irritating flavors rolled in Lucien's mouth and throat, almost making him throw up. However, a strange coldness covered Lucien's spiritual power and stabilized it.
Soon, Lucien closed his eyes and began to meditate. The starry sky was still shining brightly. The gravity of the Star of Destiny and the three basic forces of fire, wind, and water formed a complete meditation environment.
Lucien's consciousness seemed to be detached from his soul. His spiritual power started to vibrate, and the quality of his soul changed. Dazzling lines of starlight appeared and formed a rather complicated three-dimensional magic model.
Since Lucien had not touched on the complicated problems such as curves, it was quite easy for him to construct the magic model. Besides, after more than a month of studying and making up for the meaning of the basic arcana structures, Lucien was able to solve some of the previous problems very easily.
When the last line of starlight was sealed, the complicated magic model was formed. The dazzling light of the model pulled Lucien's consciousness back into his soul and enveloped it.
However, at this time, Lucien's consciousness sensed the subtle changes in the starry sky and the environment of fire, wind, and water!
Light particles of different colors slowly appeared. Among them, there seemed to be a profound and mysterious arrangement pattern, showing an indescribably complicated structure pattern. It seemed that the pattern represented a spell that Lucien had never seen before!
However, the structure of the pattern was so vague and chaotic that when Lucien tried to see it clearly, his consciousness was already drowned by the enhancement of his soul and spiritual power brought by the first second-circle spell, Mirror Image.
Like the first movement of Symphony of Fate played by Lucien, Lucien was like a sailboat in the middle of the ocean. He could only try his best to stay awake and not pass out.
Fortunately, Lucien had been through a lot of hardships and dangers, and his spirit and willpower had been strengthened. Finally, he held on until the illusionary light disappeared.
A beautiful transparent crystal was born in Lucien's soul. The changes in his spiritual power and soul were maximized.
"Finally, I'm a second-circle sorcerer." As Lucien was talking, a shadow that looked exactly like him dashed out of his body.
It was Mirror Image, a second-circle illusion spell. Before it was cracked by the prophecy and detection spells of the school of Astrology, it could help the sorcerer resist the attack. If the attack could not break the mirror image, the sorcerer would not be hurt at all.
After sensing the second-circle spell, Lucien deactivated Mirror Image and entered meditation again. However, the light particles of different colors that he saw before had disappeared. He was still in the same environment as before, as if he was hallucinating.
However, Lucien was very sure that he had seen it. Therefore, according to his previous experience, he made a bold assumption, "After I regarded earth, fire, wind, and water as the four fundamental forces, the meditation environment changed. That is to say, the meditation environment is like the reflection of my consciousness. The more I know, the more specific it will be. If the meditation environment and the operation of this world have specific similarities, maybe we can sense each other?"
"Recently, I've been arranging elements … Although some elements are not like the ones I know, I can still feel the sense of periodicity from their properties. As long as I have more time to remeasure them, I'm confident that I can arrange a periodic table of elements and predict the elements that haven't appeared yet. So when I advanced, the meditation environment changed because of it? "
"Does this mean that after I completely verify the periodic table of elements, the elements will really appear in my meditation environment after my next advancement? And the pattern of their arrangement seems to represent a vague direction of magic? As long as I have enough knowledge about the structure of magic, there's a chance that I can create a new spell. But what kind of spell will it be? Periodic table of elements? Elemental control? I can't figure out the specific function of the periodic table of elements … "
"But why is it like this?"
Lucien had a lot of questions while he was guessing. Due to the limited knowledge he had, he could only put them aside for the time being.
…
In a dark study in the magic tower of the headquarter of the Hand of Paleness in Heidler City.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Rogelio." Felipe put his hands on his forehead and bowed, "Good afternoon, Mr. Rogelio. What can I do for you? "
He was very respectful because Rogerio was not only a senior member of the Hand of Paleness, but also a member of the Affair Committee of the Congress of Magic. Rogerio was directly under the leadership of several members of the Highest Council. They were the presidents and vice presidents of the Affair Committee.
Rogelio, who had short brown hair and no beard, was still wearing a black suit and a white shirt with wide sleeves. He still looked like Aalto, but there were three more badges on his chest: level seven arcanist, level eight necromancer, and black flame, which represented the mysteries of the Affair Committee.
He was not as gloomy as the other necromancers. He looked at Felipe with his deep blue eyes and smiled, "How's your experiment going, Felipe?"
"There's some progress, but I still need time to break through the fixed thinking." Felipe sat down in front of Rogelio.
Rogelio nodded slightly, "Good. I have some news about the Professor. " If you like this work, you're welcome to come to qidian.com to vote. Your support is my biggest motivation. "
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