236 Lucien’s New Magic (2/2)
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The research project was over, and what they needed to do was just to wait for another four to five months until the crops turned ripe. So the druids were now about to head back to Stroop Forest by taking the magic steam train.
The druids felt that they had experienced and seen a lot in this trip, especially with the experiment. Although all those human being’s creations such as the train were quite nice, they were still not even close to the greatness of nature, which could produce and nurture the miracle of life!
”Then, Mr. Evans, see you five months later.” Iristine waved her hands toward Lucien through the train window with a sweet smile on her face, ”I really hope that the alchemical product that you found can save the farmers from starving.”
To some degree, both elves’ and human beings’ way of thinking could be quite strange. When an elf or a person hated someone, no matter what that the person did, everything appeared to be nasty. However, once they changed their impression toward that person, everything started to be more acceptable.
”Mr. Evans,” said Iristine in a nice way, ”honestly speaking, I feel that you’re pretty thoughtful with your understanding of how we should protect mother nature from our recent conversations. The only thing is that you always take your human being’s perspective.”
Beside her, Arcelion turned around and slight nodded, ”Mr. Evans, you are welcome to visit Stroop. I believe that when you’re actually there, you’ll appreciate mother nature even more. Of course, you’ll find nice elven music there as well.”
Lucien, with his one hand in his long jacket pocket, waved the other hand slightly, ”Your highness, see you five months later. Actually, I’m more interested in the old books developed from the long history of elves.”
Lucien’ magic robe, Transformation, was already fixed, and the Hand of Paleness paid for it.
The train whistle tooted. Gradually accelerating, the magic steam train left the station.
Putting the other hand into the pocket, Lucien walked to the other end of the station to meet with other senior sorcerers from the Will of Elements, and there he saw a familiar face.
”When did you come back, K!” Lucien was quite surprised. Without K’s help, Lucien would have never published his periodic table of elements paper on Element.
K did not change much in the past month. He was still strong and tall, wearing the same long, black coat, and he was still shy.
”I just came back. And I met Mr. Larry.” K lightly scratched the back of his head.
”Was everything okay when you went back?” asked Lucien in a concerned way.
”The problem’s been solved,” said K mildly. ”It was actually not a big deal. My parents got scared when a senior official from the city council was giving them a hard time. Since I’m a sorcerer, I’m also a member of the city council, and that was why they wanted me to go back.”
”Great. Let’s go back to Allyn together, then?” Seeing the train was arriving, Lucien asked him.
K took a quick look at Larry who was standing beside him a bit shyly, ”Thanks for your invitation, Lucien. But from today on, I’ll be following Mr. Larry around and doing research after him. I’ve heard your stories, and they were amazing. I could not believe that you not only won the Holm Crown prize but also led to the overturn of Life Force Theory within the past one month. You know… I feel like you’re still a teacher in the school, measuring elements behind my back. Life’s just amazing.”
Shy as K, he was more talkative than usual as he was trying to express his great surprise.
”I’m going to stay in the Royal Magic Tower of Holm for a while.” Larry joined their conversation, ”Those questions put forward by you offered Mr. Gaston and me lots of ideas and great inspiration, and we are heading toward a new direction in studying the dissolution of some alchemical products. Thank you, Lucien. Your sharp way of thinking is really valuable.”
Then, Larry quickly shook hands with Lucien.
”By the way,” Larry continued, ”the fifth circle spell, Fernando’s Electromagnetic Message, which was inspired by your bat experiment, really helped us a lot this time. From now on, communication between middle-rank sorcerers and above shall be much easier. Of course, we can still improve the spell further. Right now, the way of communication is facing a few problems, such as its confidentiality issue, the fact that it can be easily interrupted by lightnings, and that it cannot go through the barriers between different spaces… But anyway, this is a great spell, especially when you think about how expensive casting a voice messaging spell can be.”
Lucien nodded, ”I’m sure that the spell will be further improved.”
In his mind, Lucien was very impressed by this spell created by Lord of Storm after combining radio wave, cryptology and electromagnetic wave together. When two sorcerers agreed on a certain wave frequency, they could talk to each other directly. Even for those junior-rank sorcerers who could not learn this spell, they could still buy a magic item enchanted with this spell with their approximate ten-year’s saving.
Lucien knew that there was still a deep and wide gap between Lord of Storm and himself. Although the invention of this spell was because of his bat research, Lucien was not going to be blindly proud of himself. He knew that it was time for him to study hard again, in order to create some of his own new spells, and one of them would be called Lucien’s Infrared Eyes.
Gaston gave Lucien a sign to get him aboard the train, then he said to him, ”Evans, because of your great contribution to the project, the congress and the Will of Elements have decided to give you a garden villa in Allyn as your reward, equipped with a magic lab set up by a senior-rank sorcerer, where most low to middle-rank experimental facilities are available. We hope that you can focus on studying arcana, so for the next whole year, you won’t be receiving any tasks from either the Congress or the Will of Elements.”
”That’s great.” Lucien nodded. After waving to Gaston, Larry and K, he boarded the train.