When Bellak bowed to Lucien, the black ring on his right hand lit up with a dim light.
All the light on the ring, which looked like two black snakes with their heads and tails intertwined, turned into a dark ray and shot out at an extremely fast speed, hitting Lucien before he could react.
Immediately, Douglas' Absorbing Wall disappeared, and so did the effect of "free movement" on the senior-rank arcana badge. A small anti-magic force field appeared around Lucien's body.
The seventh-circle spell, Anti-Magic Ray!
As a battle sorcerer, Bellak was much more cautious than the senior-rank sorcerers like Traquair, who Lucien had met before. At the very beginning, Bellak had chosen a spell that targeted Lucien and activated his best equipment to prevent Lucien from using senior-rank magic items.
Since the Element ring could not be activated, it was hard for Lucien to cast the spell. Luckily, it was not the first time that he had encountered Anti-Magic Ray. Lucien made up his mind and jumped to the side. He planned to use his speed and the terrain to dodge the ray until the effect of Anti-Magic Ray wore off.
Bellak was a high-level Knight, so he did not care about Lucien's movement at all. He smiled and pointed his finger at Lucien. Immediately, a tall and transparent force field wall appeared in front of Lucien.
Bang! Lucien did not have enough time to turn around and hit the force field wall hard. However, the force field wall did not move at all. It seemed that the force field wall was very resistant to all kinds of attacks except for a few special spells.
Lucien did not waste any time. Taking advantage of the recoil, he jumped to the side and started running around the force field wall.
The biggest problem of this fifth-circle spell was that it was not completely enclosed like the Magic Prison. It was just a wall!
Seeing that Lucien was about to jump into the lake, Bellak, who had passed the buffering time, shot out a gray ray from his right index finger. No matter how hard Lucien tried to dodge, he could only watch the ray hit his body.
Lucien's eyes became dull. The part of his body that was hit by the ray started to turn gray, as if Lucien had cast Stone Skin.
The grayish-white color rapidly expanded, and in just a second, Lucien turned into a gray stone statue.
The sixth-circle spell, Petrification!
"Haha, Primordial Devil, the Primordial Devil ranked 53rd on the Cleansing List is too weak!" Bellak couldn't help but mock.
As a night watcher who worked as a spy, he was under tremendous pressure all the time. If he did not take this opportunity to vent, he would go crazy sooner or later.
However, even though he was being sarcastic, he did not let up on other matters. He cast a few spells consecutively, and bound the petrified Lucien tightly.
"Mission completed successfully. You can return to the Night Watchers now!"
Bellak was finally relieved. After all, Lucien was the student of the Lord of Storm, a grand arcanist. Bellak did not know if Lucien had any strange magic items or magic scrolls that could trigger the spell.
Looking at Lucien, who looked like a stone that had just been dug out from a mine, Bellak's dark face showed a proud smile, "Their order was to kill the Primordial Devil ranked 53rd on the Cleansing List, but I caught him alive! When the Church burns him to death in public in the Holy City of Lance, I'll get a lot of rewards, honor, and rank! "
"But he'll have to hide in the Holy City of Lance for decades. Nobody in the parish of Holm can protect him from Fernando's wrath."
In the Kingdom of Holm, night watchers were basically undercover. Once they were exposed, they would be killed by the Congress of Magic very easily.
After that, Bellak started to observe the surroundings, trying to figure out where Lucien was. Then he would bring Lucien back to the Inquisition in exchange for the credit that no one in the past fifty years would be able to get.
"Zielag Lake, southeast of Renstadt?" After the space countercurrent interfered with the teleportation circle, Bellak would appear in a random place. However, judging from the time it took him to teleport, he should be not far away from Renstadt.
After that, Bellak cast the Shrinking Spell and turned Lucien into a statue that he could hold in his hand. Apart from the gray surface, the statue was very "vivid"!
"It's a shame that you've blasphemed the Lord's dignity, so you're destined to be purified by the Holy Fire. Otherwise, I could ask the pope to make you into a statue of a blasphemer and put it in my collection room. You're the guy with the highest rank on the Cleansing List that I've killed, but of course, you're also the weakest one! "
Bellak looked at the statue of Lucien in his hand and vented his depression and arrogance, "Do you understand now? Without enough magic power, no matter how great your achievement in arcana is, you're just a shadow, and you can be caught alive and killed by me, a senior-rank sorcerer with a low arcana level! "
When Bellak mentioned that his arcana level was low, it was like touching a wound in his heart, "Why do I have to be laughed at by my classmates, teachers, colleagues, and other arcanists? I'm not good at arcana. Why don't they notice that I've improved my magic power again and again? The girl that I love is also in the arms of the guy that I hate the most. His arcana level is only two levels higher than mine. His magic power is one level lower than mine! "
"Do you know how happy I was when I caught him and tortured him to death in secret? But he, who had always been superior to me, was crying and begging for mercy. He even wanted to find a chance to give his wife to me so that I could train her. You know, having a high arcana level is actually not that useful!"
If Lucien could still think, he would definitely mock Bellak for being too sensitive and weak. In the Congress of Magic, no one dared to mock a sorcerer who had a high magic power but a low arcana level. At most, they would think that Bellak's potential was limited, and it was unlikely for him to improve further.
After venting his anger for a while, Bellak forced himself to calm down and was ready to hide in the Radiance Church. He could not waste any more time. The leaders of the Will of Elements, the Lord of Storm in Allyn, might find out that something was wrong at any time.
No matter how proud and depressed Bellak was, he would not lose his mind completely. He still knew how to judge the situation and seize the time.
"Every time other sorcerers praised you as the most outstanding arcanist in the Congress of Magic in the past hundred years, and the most promising one among the young generation to become a legendary sorcerer, I felt like there was a kitten tickling my heart, and I couldn't wait to purify you completely. Finally, I got the chance! Mr. Lucien Evans, the Demon of Origin, the Order of Elements, you better repent before you go to hell. You should regret that you didn't focus on improving your magic power. "Bellak shook his head at the statue of Lucien, and his body gradually disappeared.
Suddenly, Bellak saw the face of the statue of Lucien with the corner of his eyes. The corner of its gray mouth was slightly lifted, and there was a very weird smile on its face.
Damn it!
Without thinking, Bellak threw the statue of Lucien away. He didn't care if it was broken.
However, it was too late. The mouth of the statue of Lucien suddenly spat out a cone-shaped breath. The breath was dark and gloomy, as if it was a soul that was changing constantly.
Bellak could not react in time at such a close distance. He was directly hit by the cone-shaped breath.
Bellak's brain was numb. Countless thoughts were running in his mind, but he could not focus his mind at all. He was totally stunned.
A strange light flashed on Bellak's body, and he disappeared and reappeared in the air on the other side. After getting rid of the cone-shaped breath, Bellak's mind started to recover.
At the same time, the senior-rank magic armor covered his whole body.
The sixth-circle spell, Spell Trigger!
It was a powerful spell used by senior-rank sorcerers to deal with assassinations, sneak attacks, and other dangerous situations.
When the numbing effect disappeared, Bellak immediately realized what was going on. "Mind Paralysis Breath! Crystal Dragon Alferris! "
Only Alferris, who had been "experimentally modified" by Fernando, had this special breath, instead of the normal crystal dragon's blinding effect.
The statue of Lucien shook off layers of stone powder, and it became bigger and bigger. The majestic breath of the dragon spread out, and the fish swimming in the lake were all scared to the bottom of the lake.
After signing the contract, Alferris secretly suggested that no matter where they went, it would turn into Lucien's appearance using illusion to lure out the mastermind of the cursed vase. The real Lucien would follow Alferris like a mirror, so that Alferris could reflect Lucien's words and movements without being noticed.
Since Alferris could only turn into Lucien's appearance, Lucien had to wear the original senior-rank magic items. Therefore, Lucien did not know whether Alferris was really that careful or not.
Alferris's illusion was so powerful that even a seventh-circle or eighth-circle sorcerer would not be able to see through it, let alone Bellak. Therefore, Donald, Morris, and Raventi, who could see through Alferris's illusion, didn't worry about letting "Lucien" follow Bellak back to Allyn alone.
For Alferris, except for the first "anti-magic ray", the rest of the spells were all blocked by Bellak's powerful magic resistance. Alferris cast illusions to attack Bellak when it had the chance.
Since the anti-magic ray did not include Lucien, Alferris was not able to break Alferris' illusion. After that, Alferris got rid of the effect of the anti-magic ray much faster than the senior-rank sorcerers.
"Well, please call me Lucien Alferris!" Said the little crystal proudly. On its big paw was the beautiful Holm Crown ring, Element.
"Alferris has just reached the seventh-circle, and it knows no more than three seventh-circle spells. It can't defeat me, can't it?" Although Bellak was annoyed, he did not panic. While wondering where Lucien was, he cast a spell and prepared to run away.
As soon as the thought came to his mind, before he could even activate the spell model in his soul, he felt a great sense of danger.
In the air above Lucien 'head, the real Lucien Evans showed himself after Alferris' mirror disguise ended. The tube of colorless liquid that Lucien had thrown into the air earlier was changing under the long spell that Lucien had prepared.
A colorless, tasteless, and lusterless ray shot towards Bellak. Since he had just used short-distance teleportation, Bellak had no choice but to cast the sixth-circle defensive spell, Starlight Cloak.
Bellak dared not to be careless in front of this dangerous ray.
Streaks of starlight condensed and turned into a cloak that covered Bellak's body. However, the ray hit the cloak directly.
Suddenly, Bellak saw that the Starlight Cloak was being frozen, and it was spreading to his body. Bellak was shocked to see that the Starlight Cloak was being frozen.
The surrounding water droplets were frozen solid. The hydrogen was frozen solid. The oxygen was frozen solid. All the air was frozen solid. Some were in the shape of snowflakes, some were light blue. They reflected the sunlight and were sparkling. One could vaguely see some colorless liquid flickering.
The Starlight Cloak could not protect Bellak from the extremely low temperature. The magic light on Bellak's body was frozen, and his ring was cracked. His blood was frozen solid, and his skin was frozen. His eyes were filled with fear, as if he could not believe that Lucien could cast such a horrible ice spell on himself.
What kind of spell was this?
Lucien put his right hand on his chest and slightly bowed, just like Bellak did.
"Thank you for the vase, Mr. Bellak."
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