371 The Good News (1/2)
Chapter 371: The Good News
Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion
After the short speech, Schokola put the dark gray magic robe on Lucien and said, ”The exploration of the secret of life shall bring us the real immortality.”
As told, Lucien left his spirit mark in the magic robe and got its information:
”Fountain of Life, level seven perfect-rank magic item (one layer of seal). A sorcerer whose spiritual power has reached the senior rank can unseal it and the magic robe's full power could be released.
”When wearing the magic robe, the wearer can awaken all the dead bodies within two kilometers (except those above senior rank) and make them fight for the wearer. When wearing the magic robe, the wearer can have the ability of transformation. Without the careful check, even senior-rank sorcerers and archmages will not be able to notice the difference. When wearing the magic robe, if the wearer dies, his soul will be protected by the magic robe, and once someone else tried to possess the magic robe by controlling its core, the magic robe will exchange the two souls between, and thus the wearer can take over the new body.
”The magic robe also offers the wearer the magic resistance power of a fifth-circle sorcerer and the defense of a level three grand knight. The great power of death enables the wearer to cast Soul Cage, the fifth-circle spell, three times a day, Ghost Transformation three times a day, and Weakening Ray, the seventh-circle spell, three times a day. When sealed, the wearer, before reaching level six, can still force to cast the seventh-circle spell once at the cost of completely draining up his spiritual power and damaging his life force.
”October, Year 819, for Mr. Lucien Evans' great contribution to the origin of life.
”The origin of life contains the secret of immortality!
”From: Gauci Cromwell.”
Putting on the magic robe, Lucien was a bit amused by the stinginess of the Hand of Paleness: The enchanted magic effect on the robe was transformation, and the two fifth-circle spells were almost useless. Soul Cage could draw one's soul out of the person's body when the person was still alive and put the person's soul into a magic item, which was used mainly for getting information, and it did not work on a dead person whose soul had not dismissed. Ghost Transformation could turn the common undead creatures and the caster into the form of a ghost.
Lucien was definitely hoping for something better, such as replenishing his life force or regrowing limbs, so he would be able to use his rings with no fear. However, there was no way that the Hand of Paleness would be that considerate.
Fortunately, Lucien still quite liked the seventh-circle spell and the other enchanted magic effect. Weakening Ray, like Dark Sword, could ignore the target's defense level and lower the target's power by one level. If no action was taken, the target's power level would be further lowered twelve seconds later. However, unlike Dark Sword which required one to conduct the special rite to recover the power, Weakening Ray's effect could only last five minutes, and it could be counteracted by other spells.
Although Lucien felt that it was quite dirty hiding oneself in the magic robe and stealing another person's body, Lucien had to concede that it was a perfect way to save one's life and the only left hope, which complied with the style of the Hand of Paleness.
”Mr. Lucien Evans, would you like to share with us your feeling right now and your insight into Necromancy?” asked Schokola with no facial expression as he only had the skull.
”My insight… in Necromancy?” Lucien murmured to himself. He took a step forward the saw the cold face of Felipe and Sousa's eyes shining with red light.
Lucien remained rather calm and said, ”The immortality of life is the ultimate pursuit of the School of Necromancy, and this is also the terrain we hold the most respect toward. There are so many things we want to explore: why can the bloodline be passed on? Why can blood powers be combined? Why do people age? When aging, what happens to the cells? However, our ways of investigation are restraining us from going further, and thus we need the other schools of magic to work together. There is no such a thing as an isolated school of magic!”
Hearing Lucien's words, Felipe frowned a bit. He wondered what kind of progress Lucien had made. Was Lucien facing the same difficulty as he was?
Lucien finished his short speech, and Felipe saw him walking off the stage directly toward him, with a gentle but suspicious smile. So he asked confusedly, ”What?”
”I remember… we once had a promise.” Lucien grinned. He almost forgot the promise, but when he saw Felipe's face on the stage, Lucien was reminded of it.
Felipe's facial expression changed, ”What do you want? Prolong your life-span? Strengthen your soul?”
Felipe was reminded by Lucien. He remembered that after escaping the assassination from Traquair, he was being rather short-tempered to take his revenge, so he instigated and also threatened Lucien to publish his paper on the synthesized carbamide. Felipe promised Lucien that he would run a rite for him.
”Strengthen my soul. My soul potential has just got developed, so the common magic rites won't work,” said Lucien with a meaningful smile on his face.
Felipe squinted a bit, ”The Hand of Paleness does have some special rites.”
However, those rites were very expensive! Still, a promise was a promise. Proud as Felipe was, he would not fail his own words. No matter how expensive the rite was, he had to pay for it. He indeed earned some decent money from improving Life Hiding, but now the money would be soon gone.
He had to say that he did feel a bit regretful.
”Thank you very much. I hope that you can kindly run the rite for me as soon as possible. Well… in Allyn, under the watch of my teacher, Mr. Fernando.” Lucien grinned and slightly bowed to Felipe.
Felipe's hands clenched into fists in the pockets and he wished that he could directly punch Lucien's smiling face. And he said the words one by one from his teeth, ”You have to give me five days to get prepared.”