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Chapter 230: Secret Conversation

Translator: _Leo_Editor: Vermillion

”Evans, what’s the experiment about? The artificially synthesized living substance?” Raventi’s white hair was neat. He looked like a gentleman with a pair of sharp eyes, and Lucien could feel the pressure as he was being stared at.

Morris and Gaston were looking at Lucien with relaxed smiles on their faces. They were trying to guess what the man was thinking and they wanted to know if he had come up with some unusual experiments again. Lucien had brought the storm to the areas that were strongly influenced by the church and Allyn, but it was still hard to believe that he just wanted to discuss arcana problems with the senior-rank arcanists.

Lucien knew that these senior-rank arcanists had different thoughts about him, so he tried to stay calm and started explaining deliberately, ”Actually, the experiment is not complete, but I have a general idea about the basics and the first experiment was done with several simple magic circles. The result met my expectation, however, the experiment environment that was built with the magic circles had too many flaws, and I don’t think the result is accurate.”

After submitting the paper about carbamide, Lucien borrowed the magic laboratory and completed the experiment once while waiting for Felipe to reveal the decisive evidence.

Raventi interrupted when Lucien was trying to finish the introduction, ”Evans, go straight to the point.”

Morris and Gaston smiled at each other as they knew that Raventi was short-tempered, his papers usually put a strong emphasis on the key points, and he hated to listen to the matters that were irrelevant to the main point.

However, they did not expect that Lucien could still talk like he did not feel the pressure from Raventi, ”Alright, Mr. Raventi, I’ll go to the key points now. After learning about the knowledge of arcana in Aalto, the magic experiments caught my attention, and that was the reason why I designed so many experiments, however, I’m not strong enough to prepare the high-rank magic circles, there are many experiments that I can’t complete and verify. Things changed after I wandered into an abandoned magic laboratory left by an ancient sorcerer during an exploration, with the help of the magic circles and alchemy circles I found in the laboratory, I finally completed some of the experiments, including the experiment about the artificially synthesized carbamide.”

”That’s not the key point, Evans.” Raventi was almost shouting. He was not concerned about the ruin of the ancient sorcerer unless it was a demiplane or a lost magic lock from the legendary sorcerers.

Lucien cleared his throat and continued, ”Personally, I think that a human body can be created with nonliving substances after completing the experiment. A small part of the life force will be able to support their activities and the rest of the life force will be used on the soul. I don’t know the details as I didn’t do a lot of research in this field.”

”Evans, tell me, what exactly is your experiment about?!” Raventi roared, and Morris and Gaston unconsciously backed off slightly.

Lucien did not expect Raventi’s bluster to be so terrifying. The man was imposing. However, Lucien’s goal had been accomplished. He did not want the three to pay too much attention to his past so he mixed the experience with the background of the experiment, only leaving a blurry impression in their mind.

”It’s about an experiment that can overthrow the Life Force Theory even further. No matter if the necromancers accepted it or not, deep in their minds they already know by now that the theory was wrong. However, our biggest enemy is the Church and we can’t let the necromancers recover using the chance. We need to strike them again before they can find a new theory to support them. They’ll take a huge hit if we can make them lose their faith.”

As a sorcerer, Lucien would not miss any chance to weaken the Church. He used some of the popular phrases from the Earth, however, they sounded a bit strange grammatically when they were translated into the universal language.

The war between the Congress of Magic and the Church would be long and complicated. Lucien had already chosen to walk the path of sorcery, so he would side with the Congress of Magic and try his best to fight against the church while increasing his power and exploring the secrets of the world.

Lucien understood that there was no way for him to win the war alone when the enemy was so strong.

Gaston stared at Lucien with his strange yellow eyes. ”Again, what’s the experiment? Did you and Felipe come to the agreement after being ambushed?”

One should never sneeze at an arcanist’s wisdom, Gaston recalled the event and reasoned out how it happened after he confirmed that Lucien was the ”Professor”.

”Felipe and I are enemies and competitors, but we’re not friends. Felipe wants to strike the extremists in the Hand of Paleness. For me, it’s a revenge and it’s also a chance to weaken the Church. However, if I successfully complete the experiment in a strictly controlled environment, the Church will do whatever they can to retaliate. I can submit my experiment to the Will of Elements but I want you to keep it a secret, also, it’ll be great if you can complete the experiment and publish the result for me.”

Lucien made the request with a serious expression on his face. Felipe had just attracted the haters’ attention and there was no point for Lucien to share it with him.

Raventi’s brow furrowed and he spoke in a loud voice, ”I’d never take someone else’s achievement as my own. If your experiment is guaranteed to overthrow the Life Force Theory further, I’ll ask Hathaway to use the Grand Arcanist’s privilege and make the author’s information strictly confidential. We will inform the public that the paper is completed by the important members of the Will of Elements. You can claim the honor when you’re strong enough and when you’re prepared for the possible consequences but I think you’ll already be an important member of the Will of Elements by then.”