216 The Task (1/2)
Chapter 216: The Task
Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion
When Lucien put the ring on the middle finger of his right hand, he suddenly felt greatly refreshed, as if his body was cleansed by clear spring and the wounds in his soul were healed. The power of the ring was so great that, for a moment, Lucien thought that he got a significant upgrade in both his sorcerer circle and knight level.
Clearly, this level seven perfect rank ring was specially designed for him. Lucien, as quite a money-lover, could not hide the smile on his face. He knew that, with Element, upgrading to the third circle would probably only take him two to three years, and with the help of some potions, hopefully, he could become a middle-rank sorcerer before twenty.
Although Lucien was smart, regarding the gift in spiritual power, he was still not close to the geniuses. Therefore, if he had no other assistances but just only the book, Astrology and Magic Elements, it might take him at least twenty to thirty years to get to a middle-rank level, and that’d be already very lucky of him, if he refused to use some vicious magic rites to change his body and soul.
However, with the statistics and mathematical knowledge saved in his spirit library, Lucien would find it way easier when he needed to analyze some complex magic models involving curves and spheres, thus there’d be a lower requirement on the spiritual power needed to build the middle-rank models. In this case, ten years should be enough for Lucien to move a step forward. But now Lucien had Brook Meditation, the ring, many kinds of potions, lots of arcana points and his own research interests, so he was confident that one or two years later he should be able to fly in the sky as a middle-rank sorcerer.
Of course, every attempt to upgrade came with risks, and the risks were even greater when sorcerers needed to move forward to senior rank, archmage or even legendary archmage level. In the worst scenario, a sorcerer might die from it.
Lucien knew that a magic ring like Elements must be worth at least hundreds of thousands of Thales or arcana points, which could easily buy out a busy city together with its surrounding towns and villages. While the Will of Elements and Holm Royal Magic Academy were being very generous, in comparison, the Congress of Magic seemed to be a bit cheap.
Staring at the ring, lots of thoughts flashed through Lucien’s mind. He knew that many other prizes following Holm Crown prize also awarded their winners with great level seven perfect rank magic items: necklaces or amulets from Immortal Throne award; medals from Silver Moon award and Ice & Snow award; crowns and other headdresses from Sorcerer Laurel; staffs from Arcana Staff award… Lucien wondered how would it be if he could win all of them…
After realizing he was grinning like an idiot, he cleared his throat a bit and tried to calm down.
Morris knew what Lucien was thinking just now when he was staring at the ring. No one knew better than him, the ring maker, how valuable this ring was. Fortunately, technically speaking, there should be only one winner of Holm Crown prize every ten years.
After the award ceremony, most arcanists left the main hall within five minutes, as they could not wait to do experiments following Lucien’s suggestion.
When Lucien was about to go back to Allyn with Lazar, Gaston and a beautiful lady walked to him.
”Evans, would you like to join us, the Will of Elements?” asked Gaston directly.
That was exactly what Lucien wanted, so he also answered directly, ”I’m more than willing to.”
Gaston nodded with satisfaction, and then he took a glance at Morris.
Morris laughed, and then he reached out his right hand to Lucien, ”Welcome, Evans. As a gift for you, later you can go to the headquarter of the Will of Elements, Holm Royal Magic Tower, to pick up any magic items, potions or ingredients within two thousand arcana points in total.”
For low-rank sorcerers, gifts worth of only fifty to two hundred arcana points were often given. However, despite the fact that Lucien had not updated his arcana badge, in everyone’s eyes, he was already a level four arcanist who was the winner of Holm Crown prize!
After shaking hands with Morris, Lucien asked, ”Any tasks or responsibilities coming with the gifts?”
Morris adjusted his purple robe a bit and smiled, ”Yes, there are some. We protect our members, and we also want our members to make their contributions. But if you feel that some tasks are too risky, at a certain cost, you can replace those with something else. For you, Evans, we’ll protect you as much as we can, and you only need to focus on your research so far.”
”Thanks a lot, Mr. Morris.” Lucien nodded. After a second thought, Lucien stopped himself from showing the president the Holm Crown ring from Natasha.
”Work hard, Evans.” Morris patted Lucien’s shoulder, ”Well, you can go and get your gifts from Holm Royal Magic Tower now, and Florencia will tell you what task you’ll be given next.”
Morris looked down at the ring on Lucien’s hand, and then he left the hall with Gaston, leaving Lucien alone to deal with the mature and charming lady, Florencia.
Florencia smiled, and her green eyes glanced at Lucien from head to toe, ”Good-looking, elegant, polite, smart, decent, humble, famous. What a dream lover you are, Evans. Honestly speaking, Lucien, I’d love to have a date with you.”