Throne of Magical Arcana

”Although Storm Sonata is not as outstanding as Pathetique and Moonlight, it is still impressive, and it shares the same theme and spirit with Symphony of Fate—perseverance and faith. Itʼs a great birthday gift,” Natasha murmured in a low voice. Then she looked up and started to read the rest of the letter again. It was all about Lucienʼs interesting experiences in Allyn, including how he tortured the apprentices with lots of exercises, those apprentices complaints and jokes, the story when he was mistakenly invited to the conference because of his name, and so on.

Natasha was comforted by Lucienʼs letter. She felt that Lucien, her old friend, was telling her all those stories right in front of her relaxedly.

”Why do I feel those stories are more interesting than the music itself?” Natasha rubbed her chin a bit and asked herself confusedly, ”Is it because I havenʼt talked to other people for too long?”

...

In the Month of Flower, the fifth of the year, the weather was getting hot. However, Allyn, as the city in the sky, still remained relatively cool.

In the magic lab of Lucienʼs garden villa.

The light white, tear-shaped mark on Lucienʼs left hand burst out gentle light, and slowly rose up into the sky. Lucien added the powder of Sunstone and some more magic materials into the tear mark and started casting.

After a long and complicated process, the tear looked less transparent but more solid. Itʼs light still looked pure and gentle.

At this time, the light spots in the crystal ball in Lucienʼs right hand flew out of it one by one. The light spots surrounded the tear and formed a stellar map, and then, the map was absorbed by Lucienʼs left hand.

When the dazzling starlight disappeared, nothing was left on Lucienʼs left hand. However, Lucien could control the power anytime he wanted to use it by lighting the tear-shaped mark up.

According to Lucien Blessing Book, with all the materials gathered by Lucien and the mark left by the little girl, Lucien created his first permanent blessing, Innocent Gratefulness. It could help Lucien protect himself in the environment full of dead and rotten bodies, and also improve his defence level against soul attack spells.

In order to build the permanent blessing, Lucien spent his two hundred arcana points that he earned from Bertren Castle. In the recent months, he fully relied on the subsidy from the congress and the Will of Elements to continue his study of Life Force and Necromancy.

Currently, in total, Lucien had a hundred and two arcana points, and he had constructed another five third-circle spells: Dimensional Cage, Protection from Energy, Curse of the Putrid Husk, Secondary Telepathic Bond and Lightning. So far, as for second circle spells, Lucien had twenty of them, and he reconstructed many of the spells to make them work better.

After finishing his work, when Lucien was about to leave the lab, he saw his steward Charles, who was an elegant old gentleman, coming over.

”Mr. Evans, Mr. Gaston, from the Will of Elements, wants to see you in his office,” said Charles.

...

In Allyn, the Will of Elementsʼ division.

”Evans, I heard that youʼve been reading Pain Fable recently, did you find anything in it?” Gaston made Lucien sit down and asked him casually.

”Not really.” Lucien shook his head lightly, ”I feel that those stories were dark and gloomy for the sake of being depressing. The only purpose of the book was to make people feel painful and discouraged and upset. By the way, Mr. Gaston, has the congress made any progress in investigating the demon? I mean… if itʼs confidential, you donʼt have to tell me.”

”So far not a single senior-rank sorcerer involved in the study has managed to summon the demon you guys encountered in the castle, and that makes the special summoning rite very suspicious in their eyes, and they wonder if Bill had hidden other parts of his experience…” Gaston directly told Lucien what was going on.

After a bit of a pause, Gaston stared at Lucien with his dark yellow eyes and said, ”The reason why I asked you to come over here is that we have a mandatory task for you from the Will of Elements. A gentleman asked the Will of Elements to send a letter for him to Mr. Stanis, the King of Nightmare. Because youʼre from Violet, Lucien, we want you to take the mission. The reward is a thousand arcana points. Donʼt worry, the King of Nightmare would send his people to guide you through the Dark Mountain Range, so youʼll not be alone there in the mountains.”