244 Simple Task (2/2)

”Mr. Evans?” They were surprised.

”You two cannot fall asleep?” Lucien smiled, ”What about having another set of arcana exercise?”

The two young girls suddenly sensed great danger and took a step backward together, ”No, thanks, Mr. Evans. We're fine here. We just want to… close the window. Happy new year and wish you become a middle-rank mage this year!”

Then they closed the window right in front of Lucien.

Two seconds later, the window opened again. The two girls were right now staring at Lucien who was floating in the air, and they looked shocked,

”Mr. Evans, have you upgraded already? Did we just sleep in for the whole year?!”

...

In the past two weeks, Lucien constructed another third circle magic, Maskelyne's Star, in his soul. After making sure that his new power was already stable, Lucien was now heading for Allyn Magic Tower to upgrade his magic badge.

So far, Lucien had constructed twenty-seven first-circle, seventeen second-circle, and three third-circle spells in his soul, and that was twenty percent more than the amount that a new third-circle sorcerer could have on average. Furthermore, the best thing was that all of Lucien's third-circle spells, except Flying, were all his exclusive spells!

In Sorcerer Administrative Department, Eric's surprised look was nothing new to Lucien anymore. He reached out his hand and said, ”Congratulations, Evans, you're really a genius. Even though you used the magic potion, you still have a very solid mathematical foundation. In most cases, soon some senior-rank sorcerers or archmages will want you to become their student.”

”Thank you, Mr. Eric.” Lucien shook hands with Eric and handed his magic badge to him, ”Except for Element and Astrology, I'm still very new in other fields.”

Eric took a look at Lucien's magic badge and reminded him, ”Now you can choose a permanent magic buff on it. What do you want?”

”Can I choose other stuff other than a magic buff?” Having the ring, Element, Lucien did not really need a middle-rank magic buff on his badge, so he asked for alternatives directly.

It was not the first time that Eric encountered this question, so he asked cut and dry, ”What do you want? It cannot outvalue a middle-rank magic buff.”

”I want a sculpt spell, Mr. Eric, to increase the effective length of a spell.” Lucien needed it for Lucien's Great Fireball. Although he had to spend twice the amount of spiritual power to cast both the spell and the sculpt spell, that could stabilize the effects of his own fireball.

The congress had been developing various kinds of enhancing spells, including silent casting, quick casting, enhanced casting, all kinds of sculpt spells and so on. Arcanists or sorcerers needed to meet level requirement to get those spells by exchanging, and they were not cheap for sure. The sculpt spell that Lucien was asking for was the cheapest.

”It's about the same value.” Eric nodded, ”But still, you might need to pay an extra ten to fifty points.”

”No problem.” Although Lucien said so, his heart was bleeding. He just paid for his penalty, and right now he only had thirty-one points. And this thirty-one points was from what was left after he sold his Grimsteel Dagger from before. If he still needed more money later, Lucien needed to sell his Asthenia Dagger then.

Eric put Lucien's badge together with a piece of note in the magic cage and then pulled the bell. Silver light burst out and the items in the cage disappeared.

Ten minutes later, the bell started ringing. The badge was sent back, together with a thick roll of parchment.

Eric handed the badge to Lucien and frowned a bit, ”Evans, you just paid thirty points for the sculpt spell, and you've also got a mandatory task.”

Lucien was a middle-rank mage now. Receiving one mandatory task from the congress was just normal, and it happened to be the beginning of the new year.

However, Lucien was still a bit surprised that he just got his task so soon. He took over the badge and the parchment roll written with the sculpt spell, and started to sense the task information contained in the magic badge.

”Demon Cleansing (Simple): In Mount Kapas, Holm, a third-circle sorcerer tried to summon low-rank demons but failed. The sorcerer died from this and the demons occupied his castle. You need to eliminate the demons together with other sorcerers who were also given the task. Reward: fifty arcana points.”