147 The Castle (2/2)

In a red couch in front of a coffee table sat a young man wearing a black shirt and red coat. He had blond hair and deep eyes, matched with an attractive smile. The line of his chin was defined, looking handsome and also manly.

”Nice to meet you, Mr. Sorcerer.” The blond young man greeted without standing up from the couch.

”My lord, please adhere to your noble manner.” The manner-oriented old steward walked to the young noble in a fast pace and whispered in his ear to remind him.

”Nice to meet you, Viscount Carendia. Thank you for seeing me.” Lucien bowed slightly.

”You see… the guest doesn’t mind me sitting.” The viscount turned his head to the steward and smiled, ”Take it easy, Nied.”

”If the count was here, he would be your model of being elegant and noble,” The old steward murmured in a low voice and then stood behind the viscount.

”Come on… I don’t even really remember my grandpa. How am I supposed to learn from his manner?” The viscount rubbed his forehead a bit. Then he pointed at the couch beside him and said to Lucien, ”Please have a seat. Nied told me your intention of coming here, but I have to make sure that you’re not a spy from the Church. The Church has a bunch of sorcerers who surrendered to them.”

Even while he was talking about Lucien’s possible identity as a spy from the Church, the viscount still looked rather relaxed.

”The Church would never have me as their spy.” Lucien gave the viscount his answer which was already prepared earlier, ”I have a pseudonym, Professor.”

”Professor? You’re the Professor ranking No. 359 on the Cleansing List?” Carendia stood straight and asked him seriously. The viscount knew clearly that all the names on the list represented powerful beings. Grand arcanists, legendary archmages, the grand cardinals in the north, ancient dragons, the ancestors of vampire, the Prince of Werewolf, Royal family of Kuo-toa, and the leaders of heresies were all included. The reason that he noticed Professor on the list was that this mysterious sorcerer was the only one whose power was below that of a radiant knight.

Lucien gave a sigh of relief in his mind, feeling lucky that the viscount actually knew his alias, which also made sense because, as a noble, he should have access to this list.

”Yes, I’m the Professor.” Lucien nodded, ”I’m back now, from Aalto.”

”How do you prove it?” Carendia had a cunning smile on his face, ”Even I am not on the list. Your power must be very impressive.”

”How do you want me to prove my power? Breaking one or two of your vases in this room?” Sitting in the couch, Lucien asked in a joking way.

”Ha… I’d rather not.” The viscount laughed, ”I heard that you created an unique magic that can directly destroy a house. And I know that, even in the headquarter of the Congress of Magic, there was no similar spell registered.”

”I can show it to you.” Lucien shrugged and pointed at the castle’s floor, ”But here?”

”Up to you.” The viscount sat back in the couch with his eyes slightly squinting.

Lucien walked to the wall and laid both of his hands on it. After spending a bit time on calculating the possible range of vibration frequency of the castle, Lucien sent some magic waves to the wall and felt the feedback of the waves to get the more accurate information about the frequency of vibration of this whole place to adjust the speed of the waves he sent.

Soon, the old castle started to shake. Although the shaking was obviously easy to notice, it was far from destroying the whole place.

Lucien was guessing that this old castle was protected by many powerful magic circles, so The Professor’s Oscillation Hand could not really do damage to it.

Before Lucien felt really embarrassed, the viscount clapped his hands behind him, ”Enough, enough, Professor. Right now I cannot really afford a new castle like this.”

Seizing the chance, Lucien removed his hands from the wall and turned around, ”So I’ll take it as a pass?”

”Of course.” Carendia let Lucien go back to sit, ”You already know the time and the location of our gathering, Professor. I can ask Nied to make another invitation for you.”

”That’ll be great.” Lucien nodded, ”What if there’s any change with regard to the time or location, how can I be informed?”

While Nied, who was standing behind the viscount, walked toward the desk to make a new invitation, Viscount Carendia said to Lucien, ”We have two secret sites in Korsor for sorcerers to leave coded marks and messages to exchange information. Any information regarding the changes of this gathering will be available there.”

After introducing the location of the two sites and the meaning of the codes to Lucien, Viscount Carendia smiled to him, ”I’m looking forward to your presence, Professor. And if you could come one day earlier, although I know you must be very busy, you can have more time to exchange ideas and thoughts with Mr. Felipe, from the headquarter of the Congress of Magic. After all, both of you are young folks. Young people should be given more time to gather and to make joint progress.”

”We young folks?” Looking at the viscount, Lucien was confused.