After a brief speech, Shangkola put the black magic robe on Lucien's body, "Exploring the secrets of life will bring you true immortality!"
Following Shangkola's instructions, Lucien left his spiritual imprint in the core of the magic robe and got the information about it:
"Immortal Throne Reward: Spring, level seven perfect rank item (one layer of seal). The seal can only be unlocked when the robe becomes a senior-rank."
"Wearing this magic robe can wake up all the corpses within two thousand meters (except for those above senior-rank) and command them to fight for you. Wearing this magic robe can change the appearance of the corpses. Without careful inspection, senior-rank sorcerers and archmages won't be able to notice it. Wearing this magic robe, if you die, your soul will be protected and hide inside the magic robe. Once someone tries to control the core of the magic robe, they can swap their souls and occupy the other's body."
"This magic robe can also provide the magic resistance of a fifth-circle sorcerer and the defense ability of a level three grand knight. Through the powerful death energy it contains, the wearer can cast the fifth-circle spell 'Soul Shackle' three times a day, 'Supernatural Transformation' three times a day, and the seventh-circle spell 'Decay Ray' three times a day. When sealed, the wearer can cast the spell once before level six at the cost of exhausting his spiritual power and greatly damaging his life force.
"October, 819. With this magic robe, I would like to express my gratitude to Mr. Lucien Evans for his great contribution to the study of the origin of life."
"The origin of life contains the source of immortality!"
"From Gauci Cromwell."
After putting on the magic robe, Lucien shook his head with a smile. The Hand of Paleness was really stingy. The robe's properties were so ridiculous that it even included the ability to change the appearance of the robe. Also, the two fifth-circle spells were almost useless. Soul Shackle could pull the enemy's soul out of the body and imprison it in an item that belonged to the enemy. It was mainly used for interrogation, but it could not target the soul that had not dissipated after death. Ghost Transformation could turn ordinary undead creatures and the user into a ghost.
Originally, Lucien hoped that the Hand of Paleness could provide him with permanent life replenishment spells, so that he could use the Holm Crown Ring without any worries. However, it turned out that the Hand of Paleness did not consider his actual needs at all. Awakening and controlling the souls of the dead was useless, as it was not Lucien's style of fighting.
Fortunately, Lucien was quite satisfied with the seventh-circle spell and the other permanent effect. Like Dark Sword, Decay Ray could ignore most of the defense and seal the target's level for one level. If the target did not have the ability to resist it, the target's level would drop again after twelve seconds. The difference between Decay Ray and Dark Sword was that the effect could only last for five minutes, and there were corresponding spells such as Ruby Reversal Ray that could dispel it.
Although Lucien felt that hiding in the core of the magic robe and occupying the enemy's body when the enemy tried to control the magic robe was despicable and shameless, Lucien had to admit that it was the best way to save one's life. It was the last ray of light in the desperate situation, which suited the style of the Hand of Paleness very well.
"Mr. Lucien Evans, please share with us his feelings after winning the Immortal Throne prize and his thoughts on Necromancy," said Shangra. Lucien could not see any expression on Shangra's face because he was just a skeleton.
His thoughts on Necromancy? Lucien murmured and stepped forward. He saw Felipe's expressionless face and Sousa's red eyes.
"Immortality is the ultimate pursuit of Necromancy, but we still know very little about the mysteries of life. It's an unknown field that deserves our respect." Lucien said briefly, "For example, why can blood be inherited, why can it be fused, and why does aging appear on the cellular level? We need to explore all of these questions one by one. However, the way we explore limits our progress, and we need the cooperation of other schools of magic. "
"No school of magic exists in isolation!"
Hearing Lucien's speech, Felipe frowned. Lucien's progress was also limited by the way he explored? Then how good was Lucien in Necromancy?
After the brief speech, Felipe suddenly saw Lucien walking straight to him with a gentle but suspicious smile on his face. Felipe asked confusedly, "What's up?"
"I remember that we once had a deal." Lucien's smile was very bright. If he had not seen Felipe during the speech, he would have almost forgotten about it. Luckily, he remembered it now. This was great news for him!
Felipe's pale face slightly changed, "Do you want to prolong your life or improve your soul power?"
After being reminded by Lucien, he also remembered that when he was assassinated by Traquair, he urged and threatened Lucien to submit his paper on synthesizing carbamide. In the process, he promised that he would help Lucien or Lucien's friends to prolong their life or improve their soul power.
"Improve my soul power?" My soul's potential has just been fully developed, so normal magic rites won't work. "Lucien looked at Felipe with a faint smile on his face.
Felipe squinted his eyes, "The Hand of Paleness has several special soul rituals, but they are very expensive!"
However, since he had already made a promise, Felipe, as a proud sorcerer, would not go back on his words. He could only grit his teeth and bear the cost. In the past two years, he had to pay all the money he had earned from Cell Memory and the improved Life Hiding spell, which was a special ritual for internal transactions. Only senior-rank sorcerers who belonged to the Hand of Paleness could exchange for it.
He suddenly regretted that he had been too impulsive back then. He had thought that it would only be a third or fourth circle ritual that could prolong one's life or strengthen one's soul, which would at most cost twenty thousand arcana points.
Lucien bowed to Felipe with a smile, "Thank you so much. It'd better be held in Allyn under the supervision of my teacher."
Felipe clenched his fists in his pockets. He wanted to punch Lucien's smug face into pieces. "You have to give me five days to prepare the materials." Felipe's voice sounded like it was coming out from between his teeth.
"No problem. I'll wait for you, Mr. Felipe." Lucien was in a good mood, and he did not mind Felipe's attitude at all.
Seeing that Lucien was about to leave, Felipe calmed down. Suddenly, he was shocked and asked, "Your cognitive world has been substantialized?"
Otherwise, why would Lucien be in such a hurry to improve his soul power?
Felipe knew very well that for him and Lucien, as geniuses who were valued by the congress, the organization, and taught by legendary sorcerers, magic potions were never a problem. The speed of improvement of one's soul and spiritual power depended on one's own ideas and the teacher's suggestion. Normally, legendary sorcerers would not allow students to make rapid progress in a short period of time, as they believed that the foundation would not be solid enough. The most difficult part had always been the substantialization of one's cognitive world and the analysis of sixth-circle magic.
Nobody could offer him help in these two aspects. He could only rely on himself. For example, after he synthesized the oil, his cognitive world was basically substantialized. Therefore, in only one month, his soul and spiritual power met the requirements for advancement, and he successfully advanced through the magic ritual. Of course, his spiritual power was already close to the standard after years of training. Therefore, if Lucien wanted to improve his spiritual power quickly, he could not only rely on potions.
When Felipe was a middle-rank sorcerer, Demigod-lich Congus secretly helped him. Soon after he became a senior-rank sorcerer, Felipe became Congus' student.
Lucien turned around and thought for a moment. Then he said with a teasing smile, "Take a guess."
How could he tell such a thing to his competitor?
"Asshole!" Felipe cursed angrily. He was even more sure of his guess. This damn guy's speed of improvement was way too fast!
Was it because of the discontinuity of energy or the discovery of electron?
With a gloomy face, Felipe thought for a while.
…
On the thirty-third floor of the Allyn magic tower.
Lucien stood in front of Fernando anxiously.
"Are you sure you want to use the soul ritual of the Hand of Paleness?" Fernando said seriously, "You've just developed the potential of your soul. If you use the soul ritual right now, your foundation will be very unstable, and it will be very difficult for you to make further progress as a senior-rank sorcerer. Originally, with your talent in arcana, after you become a senior-rank sorcerer, you will be able to become an archmage in fifteen to twenty years. However, if you force yourself to make further progress, it might take you thirty, sixty, or even a hundred years, or even longer. "
"After you were assassinated by Bellak, I thought about whether I should hold a similar ritual for you, but in the end, I decided to let you grow up naturally. You won't be in any danger in Allyn. Why are you in such a hurry? "
After thinking for a while, Lucien said straightforwardly, "Sir, I have a personal thing that I need to do right now. Considering that it's very dangerous to go out, I have to use my future as the price in exchange for the short-term progress."
"Personal thing? What's so dangerous for you to go out? Are you bewitched by someone? " Fernando's eyes were shining with electric sparks to make sure that there was no trace of illusion or soul control on Lucien.
"Sir, can you keep it a secret?" Lucien was a bit anxious. He felt that his request was not enough to persuade Fernando.
Fernando stared at Lucien seriously with his red eyes and did not say anything for a long time.
When Lucien was almost sweating, Fernando closed his eyes and slightly nodded, "It's your choice. Don't complain about the price you have to pay in the future."
Why didn't he ask? Lucien heaved a long sigh of relief. When he was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly heard Fernando's voice, "Wait."
"What's the matter, sir?" Lucien's heart was in his throat again.
Fernando tapped the table lightly, "The special soul ritual of the Hand of Paleness is indeed much better than all the similar rituals that I know. Maybe the instability won't be too serious."
"Yes." Lucien did not know what Fernando was trying to say.
Fernando was silent for a moment. Then he slowly took out a scroll from his magic robe. "This is the teleportation scroll that you used before. Take it with you. I don't want to see my stupid student get killed by someone else."
"Sir …" Lucien was touched beyond words.
Fernando suddenly laughed like a naughty old man, "I did a lot of ridiculous things when I was young. Many of my choices are very funny now. So, I can understand what you young people are thinking. This is the price you have to pay to grow up. However, the level-nine Karachi beast that made this kind of scroll is very rare. I only have two of them. If I want to make a mistake again, I won't have the chance.
"Also, I don't think you have enough money. If you can't buy enough materials to advance to senior-rank, you can mortgage your income for the next three years to me. Go to my demiplane warehouse and look for them."
"Yes, sir." Lucien's voice was slightly trembling.
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