194 Wonderful World (2/2)

”What about Mr. Ulysses?” asked Lucien curiously. After all, this genius sorcerer was the first one who started exploring this field.

”No much progresses from Mr. Ulysses as well.” Lazar frowned, ”People say that he’s probably changing his research interest.”

”Perseverance is important to an arcanist,” interrupted the old librarian.

Feeling a bit annoyed, Lucien quickly glanced at the librarian’s chest to see what level this librarian was of.

Surprisingly, there was nothing at all in front of the old man’s chest, no name, no arcana or magic badge.

”My robe isn’t bad, right?” The old librarian said proudly, ”I know, red is quite eye-catching, haha!”

Lucien rolled his eyes again, and then directly ignored the librarian. He wondered whether this world was truly different from his original world, or the laws just still had not been discovered. To figure this out, Lucien needed to go read all the papers first.

In the end, Lucien borrowed thirty-eight books in total.

”You sure you want to borrow this many, Lucien?” Walking out of the library together, Lazar asked.

”I’m gonna be working in Douglas soon, and I’ll spend most of my time on teaching and on my own study. In a month, I probably won’t come back to the congress again, so I want to use magic circles to copy these books first. By the way, Lazar, did you notice that the librarian wasn’t wearing any badges?” asked Lucien.

Douglas was on the southeast edge of the city, remote and quiet. It would take one about half an hour to get to the congress’s magic tower from the school.

”Yes, so I pulled you arm a bit in the library to remind you to be a bit more restrained when you were talking with him. Quite possibly, the old librarian was a member of some certain board, as only sorcerers of this level can walk around and control alchemical lives with no badges. And these senior-level sorcerers… some of them are a bit weird.”

Lucien felt the librarian was very weird.

Seeing that Lucien did not respond, Lazar thought his friend was worrying about money, so he smiled, ”Actually, borrowing books from library is not the only way to pursue knowledge, as sorcerers would secretly exchange books they have themselves, as long as you can fit yourself in some sorcerer circles. Even if you don’t have the books other people want, you can still buy copies with a lower price.”

”Really?” Lucien felt quite curious, ”The congress won’t prohibit them from doing it?”

”Why do you think the library is so expensive?” Lazar grinned, ”Actually, the congress encourages sorcerers to exchange their knowledge personally, so more great ideas can thus be inspired. I happen to have two friends who probably would like to exchange books with you in Douglas, and I’ll introduce you to them.”

”What are their names?” asked Lucien gratefully.

”Both of them are level one arcanists, one’s name is Jerome, a second circle sorcerer studying Astrology and Element, and the other’s name is Rock, a second circle elemental sorcerer. Rock’s a bit weird, and he’s applying for a funny project right now. As for Jerome, he’s quite introvert. Several years ago, when he was pursuing miss Vera, he talked about Astrology and chemical reactions.”

”Poor guy…” Lucien felt very sorry for this Jerome guy.

”Haha, you know what? They’re married now, and they’re very sweet.” Lazar laughed.

”What?” Lucien was surprised.

”You come from the other side of the ocean, Lucien.” Lazar explained, still laughing, ”For girls here in Holm, nothing’s more romantic than magic, Astrology, Element and destiny. And a person who studies these things is very likely to be wealthy and influential.”

”What a wonderful world.” Lucien sighed with emotion. Then he said to Lazar, ”You want to go with me to get some experiment materials? I want to follow the papers to do some experiments.”

”Sure.” Lazar responded casually, ”By the way, there’s a guy whose name’s also Lucien Evans teaching in Douglas. He added a ‘K’ in his name.”