Chapter 23: Witch's notes
Such a "simple" and such a "sincere" Lucian couldn't help Victor. He laughed, and tears were coming out. The others, whether it was Rhein, Lotte, or Filith, laughed very much. Violent and unable to maintain his grace, even the old gentleman Xavier shook his head and smiled, but the students, such as Annie and Colin, who had not yet followed Victor's music studies, laughed with faint bitterness and jealousy.
Balussian looked at everyone's reactions in a bewildered way, probably knowing what jokes they had caused by lack of common sense, but they didn't have strangeness and doubts, shouldn't be too serious, so they asked, "Mr. Victor?"
Victor coughed a few times, calmed his smile, and looked at Lucien seriously: "I mean, Lucien, would you like to learn music with me? Although you are older, the road to music, It's more about talent, and even if you are just average, you can become a qualified musician after studying with me for a few years. You don't need to worry about future life. Musicians from Aalto are the most invited by nobles in other countries. "
Then he paused, adding humorously: "Of course, tuition is free."
This made Lot, Rhein and others laugh again.
For Victor, his students are divided into three types, one is learning text, 5 silver nars per month, if he is fancy, and allowed, he can become a second type of student and follow him to study music. At 10 silver nars per month, only when he shows outstanding talent or talent when studying music, can he become his third student, a real disciple who can follow him and use his relationship and reputation.
There is only one such disciple, Victor, and he has become an outstanding musician.
Rott, Felice, and Herodotus belong to the second category, and if Lucian agrees, it is also the second category, except that the monthly tuition fee of 10 silver nars is waived.
Although Victor teaches students, there are about 7 Quintals a year, which is equivalent to the best of the non-businessmen in the civilian class, which is the annual entry of a qualified musician, such as Father Anne, the secretary of the Alto City Court. The official salary for a year is only 15 quintals, but most of Victor's income comes from performances invited by nobles and other national music associations. Normally, 100 quintals are a year, and this is high society. Here, people who do not have their own estate and do not do business can reach a higher standard.
So even if Victor pushed out all the invitations in the past year, he could n’t make ends meet, but there was nothing wrong with waiving Lucian ’s tuition.
Lucien didn't expect Victor's gratitude, but he wanted to accept himself as a student of music. For a moment, he hesitated, but soon, Lucien thought of the contents of the witch's notes, and he wanted to repay Uncle Joel. The thoughts of the family, secretly thinking:
"I don't know yet where is a good place to learn magic. For a long time, I am afraid to continue to live in Aalto. After all, this is the largest and most prosperous western region, the closest to the dark mountains, and the most complicated people in private. Cities, wanting to find magical materials and inquiries, it is much more convenient here. In this case, it is a good choice to conceal the identity of a magician with a music student or musician and earn the required money. This is in Aalto. Very respectable profession. "
As she planned to start learning magic in Aalto, Lucian didn't want to use the various inventions and creations in the library to make money, because it was easy to get the church's attention. When he found a place and country where he could learn magic safely, It's not too late to do so.
The thoughts in Yun's mind were quickly sorted out, Lucian smiled sincerely: "Thank you, Mr. Victor, and I hope you can teach me beautiful and elegant music."
Victor nodded with satisfaction: "Lucian, your simplicity, hard work, seriousness, and cleverness are something I have rarely seen before. I hope you will have some success in the future."
After this sentence, even if Lucian was officially allowed to study music with him, Anne, Colin and others suddenly became a little lost and unhappy.
"I'm really not simple." Lucian couldn't help but refute it, just now there was no common sense, and at the same time felt that Colin, Renee and others looked at their own eyes quite complicated.
Victor called Ace in, returned Lucien's five silver narres to him, and then asked Rhein and Xavier to come to the study, thank him in private, and let Lot, Felice, and Herodotus stay. Come down to practice in the piano room, and wait to continue to transform the harpsichord.
Since Lucien had no musical foundation, he borrowed the Common Dictionary and left the hall to prepare to go home.
"Hello, Lucien." Renee, a brown-haired, small-skinned girl, suddenly rushed up from behind, showing a sunny smile. "I'm Renee, Renee? Weitz, you really learn words and languages. Very talented. "
Lucien was busy going back to the dictionary and thoroughly interpreting the witch's notes. How could I talk to Renee: "Hello, Renee, I'm leaving late, I have urgent matters, and I'll talk to you again someday, sorry, I'm in a hurry. "
"It's no coincidence that you're busy going, Lucian, goodbye." Renee smiled, but soon recovered, full of understanding and thoughtfulness.
At this moment, Anne and the noble male student Simak passed by the other side of Lucien, snorted softly, then kept the graceful pace without looking at the two, and walked out of the gate.
背后 Behind them and Lucien, Renee's smile freezes. I didn't expect that she just wanted to establish a normal personal friendship with Lucien, which caused Anne to be dissatisfied. The deliberate approach and flattering these days were completely wasted.
Colin and David glanced at Renee with a smirk, and looked at Lucien back and shook his head deeply. Why couldn't he have such good luck.
Uh ...
When he returned to his own hut in Adrang, it was only five o’clock in the afternoon. Alto was still bright near the hot summer. Lucien made an excuse to study carefully and told her that Alyssa would not go to her house for dinner at night, and then herself Toasted with a loaf of brown bread, as for the good thing of waiving the tuition fee and returning all eight silver nals to Eliza, I will tell them tomorrow.
At this time, for Lucian, there is nothing more important than reading witch notes and learning magic!
I have eaten dark bread, Lucien locked the repaired wooden door, put out paper and quill, and made a study look. Then he opened the Soul Library and quickly included the dictionary in it.
After doing this, Lucien opened the witch's magic notes, read the dictionary carefully, and read it seriously.
With the experience and accumulation of the previous few days, around ten o'clock in the evening, Lucien had read all the contents of the magic note except the last few pages, and was relieved in his heart:
"It seems that the Witch ’s ancient Hillvanus script is not well learned, so the magic notes are recorded in detail, and some are even copied from the family ancestor's notes. I can completely learn magic according to her records, only her magic notes. It only ends when I become a formal magician. Later, I need to think of another way, or learn the ancient Hillvanus words from the magic notes, and decipher the Book of Astrology and Elements. "
No matter what happens after becoming a formal magician, Lucian is now ready to start learning magic.
According to the witch's record, in the ancient magic empire, the magic was recognized as the mysterious change of the four basic elements of earth, fire, wind, and water under the influence of spiritual forces. Later, light, darkness, and soul were added, and they were able to escape from hell. , Abyss, or other alien space to summon monsters, so magic is divided into eight factions: elemental system, astrology system, necromancy system, illusion system, summon system, force field system, change system, alchemy system, and "Astrology and Elements "Book of Books" is mainly based on the element system and astrology, mixed with a small number of other faction magic book.
成为 Before becoming a formal magician, he could not learn a circle of magic. He could only learn informal magic, called a magic apprentice.
The magic structure of informal magic is very simple. From Lucian's point of view, it is just a clear rune composed of standard geometric patterns at the junior high school level. It is simpler than the six-pointed star. Then, by chanting its pronunciation, it is matched with spiritual power to stimulate the corresponding magic material composition. Runes will be able to cast.
According to the standard of spiritual power, that is, from the full of mental power to dry up, the number of informal magic that can be used at one time is divided into three levels of apprenticeship, formal, advanced, five, ten, and twenty respectively.
冥 After cultivating spiritual power and soul to a certain limit through meditation, you can cooperate with the potion to build a model of a circle of spells in your soul.
One who can successfully construct one is to become a formal magician, and the casting of this spell will not require the cooperation of spells, casting materials, gestures, only depending on whether the mental strength is exhausted or whether it is still in the buffer period of the previous magic.
After reading this, Lucian suppressed the eager mood, continued to read the last few pages, and intended to read it completely.
"I met another magician today, and I really met other magicians in Aalto! He looks very different from the reclusive magicians, which is weird."
After reading a page, Lucien suddenly read this important content. Aalto really has other magicians!
Suddenly, Lucian's spirits rose, and he continued to read:
"I found a strange red-eyed mouse in the sewer with a magical flavor. I don't know where it came from. I didn't find it for a long time."
经过 "Experimentally, this red-eyed mouse reproduces extremely fast, its blood is toxic, and it is slightly hallucinogenic and paralyzed."
配合 "With the Lapland Bloodvine, the effect is unexpectedly good, and the magic trap I envisioned can finally be laid."
"Who developed them?"
Seeing here, Lucian couldn't help but glance at the ground. If the red-eye mouse is not a magical creature cultivated by a witch, who are they, and what other dangers are there in the sewer?
So Lucian quickly went to read:
"Meet the magician again. His insights on magic are so different. He is very knowledgeable and has a fascinating charm."
"However, he actually said that ancient magic, except for many powerful and weird spells that can be referenced and used, is completely outdated and is an obscure, instinctive exploration. How is it possible?"
"He showed me a magic book that he treasured. It is not thick. It is a book called a periodical. This magic book is called" Arcane ". According to his explanation, 'Ao' represents the origin of the world and Knowledge of the laws of operation, arcane means the nature and principles of magic, it is very interesting. "
"This is the first issue of Arcane published more than three hundred years ago. On the first page, there is an article by a great arcanist. It is a speech from a magic conference."
"From his expression, he has great respect for that Arcanist, even to the point of worship."
"I read this article carefully, I have a trembling feeling throughout my body, I don't even know how to get home, my brain is messy, I want to record, why have I never thought about this?"
These lines of text are the same as most of the text on the last page. The letters are large and small, undulating, seemingly messy and trembling. It seems that the owner is in a very emotional mood, and Lucian reads it in confusion, want to see Look at the article that kept the witch from calming for so long:
"Gentlemen and ladies, many years ago, our esteemed ancestors learned how to use mental power from dragons, elves, giants, demons, devil and various magical creatures, and then analyzed them Body structure and blood characteristics, merging their bloodline step by step, transforming their own body, inventing a lot of meditation ideas to enhance mental strength, and referring to the magic pattern structure inside and outside of their body, creating various magic, thus Gaining powerful power, drove the devil back to the abyss, kicked the devil back to hell, and let the dragons, elves, giants either retreat to the remote mountains, wilderness and alien space, or submit to our feet The glorious victory has made the ancient legendary magician more persistent in pursuing power, to the abyss, to hell, to various alien expeditions, until the theology of truth has grown. The great magic empire is destroyed, and the glory of the past has become the bitterness, loss, and despair of today. "
"Dear gentlemen and ladies, it's time to calm down. Don't be fooled by strength. It's time to calm down and think about some issues. We need to figure out:"
"What is the essence of magic?"
"Why do creatures have mental power?"
"What is the essence of spiritual power?"
"What form does it exist in?"
"Is earth, fire, wind, and water the basic elements? If so, in what form and law do they form this wonderful world? If not, what are they? What should be magic elements?"
"What is the nature of the soul?"
"Is the soul and consciousness different? If they are different, in what form does consciousness exist?"
"Do we need 'tools' to elaborate and help build magic models?"
"God does not exist. If so, what is his nature and form of existence? What is the form of existence of Etna, the vampire ancestor, and why can it not die?"
"Why does this world have the sun and the silver moon, why do they rise and fall every day, what is the force that keeps them running? The physical world looks like normal things. If we ask more about why, we will find that We still don't understand the truth. Are these truths, laws, and knowledge related to magic, can they be combined with magic, and can they help us explore the nature of the magic world? "
"Your dear friend, Douglas."