444 Draw on Advantages and Avoid Disadvantages (2/2)

”I'll be waiting for it!” Pan said excitedly, as Lucien Evans did not reject directly.

”Me too!” For the first time ever, Annick spoke out this loud.

When he was studying hard all alone in Violet, and when he was about to give up facing against the difficulties, it was the Symphony of Fate that gave him the power to proceed!

Layria, Heidi, and Katrina's face flushed lightly. When they were younger, the great musician Lucien Evans was the prince charming in their dreams. Although they had only seen him on the newspapers' blurry pictures, the beautiful music triggered endless fantasies. Yet the fact that the person they were dreaming about turned out to be their most respected teacher made them feel a bit strange and embarrassed. Fortunately, they never talked about the great musician in front of Lucien Evans.

”The Demon of Origin? Is that your new title?” Asked Louise, who relaxed a bit seeing Lucien was being very friendly and kind.

Heidi answered proudly, ”although the title from the Church doesn't sound nice, it matches Mr. Evans' rank on the Cleansing List — No. 53!”

Fifty-third?! Klein, Louise, and the rest two felt that what they just heard was a myth. In the past half year, they had stopped keeping track of the Cleansing List as they had to run for their lives on their way to Allyn. They had no idea since when the Demon of Origin appeared on the list. Lucien Evans must have done something that could threaten the entire Church to get to this rank. If they remembered correctly, such a high rank was supposed to be only for the legendaries!

They thought Lucien Evans had revealed to them his biggest secret when they found out his true identity, but now they realized that this young man who was always wearing a tender smile was much more powerful and mysterious than they thought!

Lucien noticed that more and more sorcerer were slowing down their pace and started to gather around, so he said, ”I'll let you guys go for registration right now. We can talk later.”

Then an idea came up to Lucien, and he quickly asked, ”Klein, Louise… I wonder if you're interested in doing a part-time job for me.”

”Part time job?” Louise had no idea how she could be of help for the powerful Lucien Evans.

Lucien said briefly, ”I'm preparing a program called Arcana Voice, for the purpose of creating some short music pieces for the farmers, the townspeople, and the general public. I hope you can help me here, Louise. It's hard to find sorcerers like you in Allyn who is both talented in music and currently has some free time.”

Lucien would prefer classical music to heavy metal in his program.

Louise was a bit lost, as she did not understand what Arcana Voice was and what a program was. However, working with such an influential sorcerer and musician sounded not bad at all to her, as she could still stick to her hobby of music while studying magic.

So she nodded. ”Sure.”

”Mr. Klein, I know you were the consul of Aalto, so I suppose that you know some of the secrets of the Church and how their followers are living their life. I hope that you can run a program on this,” said Lucien. ”… The congress will pay, and the pay will be good.”

Klein also nodded without hesitation. ”My pleasure.”

”Good. After registration, you two can wait for me in my office of the Arcana Review Board,” said Lucien.

Then he walked to the elevator together with his apprentices and headed for the Atom Institution.

...

In a desolated graveyard in Heidler, the gray fog was rather condensed.

Adol, the spectre, stared at the magic towers at distance and said gloomily, ”actions have to be taken to prevent the Congress of Magic from investigating further, or it would be just a matter of time for the gaps to be exposed.”

The new spectre beside looked at him. ”You seem to have a plan, Adol.”

Adol nodded. ”Did you read the latest Arcana? Lucien Evans has joined the war, and now he's under the attack from the supporters of the wave theory.”

”So?” asked the new senior-rank spectre.

Adol's voice was dry and coarse. ”I know it from Rogerio that Lucien Evans killed a Electromagnetics sorcerer who supported the wave theory after receiving a threatening letter from him. This is our chance. Those wave theory supporters must be furious if they know about this. If we fuel their anger properly, some of them will do things that can greatly infuriate Lucien Evans again. According to his temperament, Lucien Evans will again seek revenge for sure.

”… Then, those who support Lucien — say, Fernando, Hathaway, and Douglas — and those who are on the other side — Brook, Oliver, Hellen, Miranda, and most of the remaining arcanists — will fight against each other. The Congress of Magic will be caught in an unprecedented mess, and at that time, Heidler will be forgotten.”

The new spectre's bones clapped. ”Great idea.”

Then the two spectres secretly returned to the magic tower.

At this time, in the desolated graveyard, several pieces of rotten flesh suddenly started wriggling on the ground like worms and disappeared in situ.

In a newly-built magic tower in Heidler, Felipe opened his hand and stared at the flesh worms on his palm. Very rarely, he looked a bit bewildered.

Although his study of arcana had come to a pause recently because of the limitation on the observation methods, Felipe had progressed some further in magic.

The World of Souls was not a peaceful place. Recalling the scarlet moon incident, Felipe stared at the entrance of the two demiplanes and wondered why Adol still wanted to trust and work with those from the World of Souls.

However, Felipe soon made his decision. He could not see any benefits but only promised danger in betraying the Congress for their suspicious partner, the World of Souls, especially since he was only a new senior-rank.

He quickly found some letter paper and murmured to himself,

”Lucien Evans is out of his mind! This is such a ridiculous hypothesis. I must write to him and teach him a lesson!”