369 Urgency (2/2)
Lucien smiled, feeling a bit embarrassed. He switched the topic by joking, ”Really? I'm thinking of establishing a board called Sorcerers' Development and Mental Health.”
”Hahaha… Sounds awesome!” Florencia laughed really hard.
On the stage, Larry was giving a short speech.
After taking a sip at her dry throat from laughing too much, Florencia said to Lucien through the electromagnetic message, ”You asked me to look into where the special material came from, and I've got some clues here. Although it was the Church who provided Bellak with the special material, as it is very special, we have traced it back to the desert in the south part of Gusta.”
”It's really a good news,” said Lucien sincerely. In the future, he was going to need the special material made from the unique mineral.
Florencia's green eyes stared at Lucien and asked through the secret messaging, ”Although the special material consists of the new element, why is it so important to you?”
Lucien did not keep the first part of his paper as a secret—the part discovering the new element, Uranium, and he got thirty arcana credits from it. Facing Florencia's question, Lucien just smiled but did not give her an answer.
Florencia was always very curious, but she knew how to restrain herself. Seeing that Lucien did not want to say, she joked, ”Oh, my poor teacher, Mr. Morris…”
Their conversation ended there, and they turned to look at Larry on the stage giving his speech.
Larry was calmer now, and his speech was more and more fluent:
”Just as what Evans mentioned, the most unexpected accidents can also contain inevitability. So I am thinking: why when a substance dissolves, it will be broken down into ions carrying different charges? Why do we have valence states? Why do the states show periodicity? Does it have anything to do with the internal structure of atoms? Does it have anything to do with Evans's newly discovered electron? In the world of arcana, if there is a result, there must be a reason. Any phenomenon is strictly determined by the law, so we cannot be satisfied with simply getting the result, but we need to explore further.”
Florencia looked at Lucien and joked, ”Mr. Douglas is really acting like a role model. More and more people resemble the president, and you are the No. 1, Lucien.”
”My great honor.” Lucien smiled.
...
In the wilderness of death, where tombstones were everywhere.
Lucien, Alferris, and a skull-headed lich wearing a dark brown robe showed up at the edge of the wilderness.
”So this is the Land of Long Sleep?” Lucien looked around curiously at the demiplane belonging to Thanatos.
”Yes,” replied the skull-headed lich whose eyes were the two spots white flame, ”His Excellency Thanatos created the place. We should move on now, Evans.”
”Sure, sir Morus.” Lucien grabbed Alferris since it was trying to rob the tombs, and walked to the teleportation circle after the lich.
The Hand of Paleness was very unwilling to give Lucien the award, and thus it was not going to spoil Lucien like how the Will of Elements did by holding the ceremony in Allyn. However, at the same time, as the organizer, the Hand of Paleness also had the responsibility to protect Lucien. Therefore, Morus, the vice president, a level eight arcanist, ninth-circle necromancy archmage, was given the task to welcome and protect Lucien.
Time and space changed. After the familiar feeling of dizziness, Lucien arrived at the headquarter of the Hand of Paleness.
Morus led Lucien to the lounge and said to him:
”Evans, you take a rest here. Two hours later, I'll take you to the banquet hall. By the way, many of our researches are not very pleasant to be observed and many necromancers don't like you, so you might not want to walk around. If anything happens, it would be a trouble to every one of us.”
After Morus left, Lucien stood beside the window and stared at the quiet streets down there and the gray sky.
Heidler was different from other cities. Although there were a few human-shaped creatures wandering on the streets, they rarely talked to each other. Most of them were ghosts, zombies, ghouls, skeletons, and the low intelligence undead creatures developed by the Hand of Paleness such as the Skinless, whose eyes were shining with red light, and zombie dogs.
Looking into the distance, Lucien saw an invisible gap connecting to the World of Souls surrounded by the magic tower. An idea came to him—did the Hand of Paleness find the existence of the World of Souls?
When Lucien was thinking, he felt that one spot in his neck was burning. He was surprised that Mr. Rhine was now reaching to him. When being close to the gap, the power of Rhine's casting could be intensified.
”Alferris, I need to take some rest. You have fun,” Lucien said to the little dragon and lay in the bed.
Lucien hypnotized himself in the bed and soon fell asleep. Seeing that Lucien had fallen asleep, Alferris jumped toward the bed and sat beside it like a little puppy, staring at the three Holm Crown rings while drooling.
Suddenly, Alferris snuffled a bit confusedly and its big amber-colored eyes blinked, as if it felt something, however, it did not find anything. Soon, its attention was drawn to the rings again.
In Lucien's dream, Rhine showed up again. He said to Lucien directly, ”Something big happened to the World of Souls. Soon, the world is going to change.”