153 The Hand of Paleness (1/2)

Chapter 153: The Hand of Paleness

Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion

Lucien’s attitude was not out of Felipe’s expectation, so he put on an elegant smile, ”It’s my great pleasure that Professor actually heard my name before.”

However, although he was saying that, in Felipe’s mind, as a talent who had already published his first article on the influential journal Magic, he felt that of course Professor should have heard his name.

Then, Felipe changed his tone, ”But it seems that you don’t really value this gathering, Professor. We are all from the congress, and you’re still wearing that ugly black hood? That doesn’t match your status.”

Lucien knew that now every word he said might put him at great risk, but remaining silent all the time would definitely make him more suspicious. So, he carefully kept his answer short and answered with a husky tone, ”Honestly, I don’t want you, Mr. Felipe, to stir any trouble for me when we get back to Allyn.”

At first, when Lucien was trying to use the identity Professor to pretend that he was a member from the Will of Elements, Lucien did not expect to have such a big trouble, and even his crystal ball did not suggest anything specific. After all, it was totally unexpected that even within the congress there was such great conflict between different factions. Although Lucien’s only intention―as well as his major goal―was to find out who was the liaison in Sturk, this Mr. Felipe would definitely give him a hard time, and Lucien was almost regretful that he decided to use the identity of Professor without a second thought.

Lucien knew that he was in a dilemma. It was impossible for him to just admit everything right now in front of this guy.

”Well… You’re pretty straightforward, Professor,” said Felipe. Then he pointed at the long couch on the other side of the study, ”We still got some time before the gathering. I’d like to have a conversation with you… you know, to exchange some ideas.”

Then Felipe turned to the viscount, ”Do you mind?”

”Of course not. Go ahead.” The viscount did not care. He raised his glass of wine a bit and nodded casually.

Although Lucien didn’t want to talk to him at all, he forced himself to stay calm and sat down on the couch, ”What do you want to talk about, Mr. Felipe?”

Inside Lucien’s mind, he was praying that Felipe would not mention anything about the congress or the Kingdom of Holm. He knew nothing about them!

”No… No… No…” Lucien said to himself in his mind, and his heart was beating so fast that it almost jumped out of his throat.

The pale flame in Felipe’s eyes disappeared and his dark pupils came back.With a gloomy smile on his face, Felipe pointed at the man standing close by, ”This is my student, Cleveland, and he’s also a second circle sorcerer studying necromantic magic after me.”

Lucien simply nodded to the middle-aged man.

Then Felipe continued, ”Besides that, Cleveland’s also interested in Element magic. After Mr. Donald won the twenty-fifth ring from Holm Crown prize recently with his groundbreaking research analyzing new elements by introducing the knowledge of spectral analysis, Cleveland is planning to write an arcana essay on spectral analysis as well. However, he definitely needs some help there and that’s why I started to gain some interest in the field of Element as well. If you don’t mind, Mr. Professor, maybe we can exchange some ideas over this topic.” When he was talking with great confidence, Felipe crossed his fingers and Lucien noticed that his left hand was missing the little finger.

Although Lucien could tell that Felipe must be very confident when talking about the Element school, he felt very lucky that Felipe did not go to the directions where he knew nothing about.

Feeling a bit more relaxed, Lucien quickly started to analyze Felipe’s intention. Now that Felipe did not ask him anything about the congress and the Kingdom of Holm, Lucien was certain that Felipe was not doubting his identity right now. Instead, he was talking about arcana, and that meant this topic was more important than anything else.

However, what Lucien wanted to figure out was that why a necromancer wanted to talk about elements and arcana? What could this do for him?

Lucien was guessing that Felipe was probably trying to test his knowledge or his arcana level.