219 Lucien’s Research Group (1/2)
Chapter 219: Lucien’s Research Group
Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion
”Am I gonna just leave those little druids alone to let them destroy our research?! Am I that stupid in your eyes, Douglas?!” Lord of Storm yelled at President Douglas furiously. Meanwhile, all the archmages present slightly leaned backwards in their chair, trying to stay away from Lord of Storm’s howling.
Douglas, however, remained rather calm. Obviously, he was very used to it, and he comforted Lord of Storm, smiling, ”Fernando, your major task when working with Hathaway and Vicente is to cooperate with Malfurion to reveal and understand the secrets of the power of nature. And I’m sure that everyone here is willing to assist you.”
The names of many ancient sorcerers who established the Congress of Magic with Douglas had gradually faded away due to the development of arcana, and right now only five of them were still here. The rest of the six grand arcanists were more or less juniors in Douglas’s eyes, and two of them could even be regarded as his students.
Brook, a middle-aged gentleman wearing a wig and a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles, Oliver Constantine, an elegant middle-aged man with black hair and eyes, and Hellen Price, a beautiful, elf-looking lady, all nodded slightly. No matter how they competed with each other most of the time and whether they could get along well together, right now, they were all willing to offer their help, as they knew how important this project was.
If they could reveal the secret of nature magic, they would be one step closer to cracking the secret of divine power. Once all the sorcerers could cast divine spells, most pastors, cardinals and knights would not be able to believe in their faith anymore. They would either be devoured by holy light, or lose all their power.
Nothing was more important than this to the Congress of Magic!
”Besides, Fernando, you think those druids from Nature Rebellion are the only ones who wants to interrupt our project? You think they would not report this to the Church secretly? Soon, you’ll be facing the great pressure from both Nature Rebellion and the Church, but I want you all to stay focused on the project, and this is why I want to eliminate this hidden danger for you right now in advance.”
It was obvious now that the true intention of the president asking them to come here was to discuss how to prevent the Church from ruining their project. The topic about the druids from Nature Rebellion was just today’s appetizer.
”I see… President Douglas, I am to blame. Although Philibell has been quite restrained, there are always things that are out of his control.” After understanding Douglas’ plan, Fernando admitted his fault straightforward.
Across the round table sat a middle-aged, pale man wearing black cloak. He looked so skinny that it seemed that there was only a layer of skin covering his skeleton. In the man’s eyes, two clusters of dark-red flame were flickering.
He said in a low voice, ”You never put much thought into things other than arcana and magic, Old Psychopath. I think we should secretly marginalize those incooperative druids by assigning them to famous arcanists who are actually not gonna be really involved in the project.”
Being called his monicker, Old Psychopath, Fernando did not really mind, ”That’s why you never dare discuss mathematic and arcana problems with me, Vicente…”
”How famous do you think the arcanists should be, Mr. Vicente?” asked another legendary archmage, Klaus, who tried not to let the situation embarrass Vicente.
After taking a glance at Hathaway, who was sitting there silently like a statue, Vicente answered, ”The recent winner of Immortal Throne award and the youngest winner of Holm Crown prize should be enough. Felipe’s busy with his recent experiments, so he would not be really involved. As for Lucien Evans from the Will of Elements, he’s not yet capable of analyzing divine spells. Mrs. Florencia introduced him to the project only hoping that he could learn something from it. However, their reputation should be persuasive enough for those druids.”
”Sounds good. How do you feel, my teacher?” Brook, the very influential arcanist who put forward his own understanding of the form of spiritual power against Douglas, was, surprisingly, Douglas’ student.
However, they seemed to be quite cold to each other. Some rumours about them seemed to be true.
Before Douglas nodded, Hathaway suddenly said to all of them, as her silvery-gray eyes looked around at all the sorcerers present, ”Each of the two leads one group, in order to separate the druids who are not cooperative.”
Douglas agreed, ”That’s even better. If everyone here agrees on this plan, we shall now move on to the next topic—how to prevent the Church from destroying our project.”
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Douglas, in Lucien’s villa.
”Wow… It’s only been several days, and our green hand teacher, Lucien Evans, has become the winner of Holm Crown prize… the youngest one!” Rock walked and jumped around Lucien excitedly, ”How do you feel right now?! You’re definitely the fastest one in history to become level four in arcana!”