225 Preparation (2/2)
Wearing a long, black robe which covered all his body and had white skulls on the collar, Pesor’s face was not revealed. There were only two small clusters of red flame that were flickering under his hood, ”Raventi, our member was also attacked. Before we find any evidence, the Hand of Paleness is also the victim.”
Pesor was a level-eight arcanist, ninth-circle necromancer, member of Arcana Review Board. He was not known for having a good temper, however, in front of Raventi, Pesor appeared to be quite mild in contrast.
Then Pesor pointed at the amulet and the ring on the ground, and he used magic to pick them up,
”Hand of Rehabilitation… It’s Felipe…”
After checking around and talking with Lucien a bit, Gaston also stopped Raventi, ”It was the winner of Holm Crown prize and the winner of Immortal Throne award who were attacked, Lucien Evans and Felipe Carneiro respectively. The attacker was Traquair from the Hand of Paleness.”
Then Gaston looked at the other side, ”Do you two have any clues?”
Tina-Timos, the female sorcerer who had a hellish succubus look said unpleasantly, ”We’ll figure this out!”
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In a secret chamber of a magic tower in Heidler, a fine box decorated with lots of beautiful jewels was placed in the center of a complicated magic circle.
All of a sudden, the box started shining with dazzling white light. A piece of a finger appeared. As it was floating in the air, the finger started twitching and growing. It grew bigger and bigger and eventually the finger turned into a naked man!
It was Felipe.
”Again… I needed Mr. Demigod-lich to conduct this Life Hiding rite for me by utilizing cellular memory…” Felipe looked at his new body and walked toward the bedroom to put on some clothes, ”I’m bankrupt again…”
After Felipe took care of everything, Rogerio arrived. He looked very serious, ”What happened?”
Felipe answered coldly, ”Someone else knows that I’m working on synthesizing life ingredients. We have a traitor among us, Mr. Rogerio.”
”As Mr. Demigod-lich and Mr. Thanatos have got the news, and they knew how serious it was, there shouldn’t be another assassination attempt. Right now we still have to focus on the experiment. How’s it going?”
”It’s in the final stage now.” Felipe put his hands into his pockets as usual, ”I’m relatively confident that it’s going to succeed in one week.”
He did not mention anything about Professor.
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While in another magic tower in Heidler, when Traquair’s soul started reuniting inside a purple gem, a hand suddenly grabbed the gem and smashed it into ashes with the black power of death.
There were shrill cries coming from the inside of the gem, but they soon disappeared.
”Mr. Adol, thank you for your information. Unfortunately, we failed.”
”Sorry to hear it.”
After a short conversation, the chamber quieted down. A space gap appeared, and Adol returned to the World of Souls.
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In a manor in Sariva.
After half day of rest, Lucien was almost fully recovered because of his own good physique and the help of the ring, Element. He destroyed the partly-done paper that he wrote before and developed a new paper:
The Method for Large-scale Production of the Several Useful Alchemical Products Found in Oat Planting Experiment and the Discussion of Their Proper Use.