Throne of Magical Arcana

Holding a white porcelain teacup, Lucien nodded his head slightly: "I know. If the person sitting in his position hadn't been ruthless, he would have become a corpse in the wild without a grave. It's a pity, what kind of bones are there around him?" The guards don't even know, or else..."

The tone was mild and flat, but Leo felt cold. His employer was a kind of magician who was so calm and terrifying. If he knew how many powerful guards Ivanovsky had around him now, he would definitely analyze it immediately. Their defense loopholes, psychological blind spots, and the possibility and risk of plan completion, strive to eliminate hidden dangers in the shortest possible time.

"When I was working for Ivanovsky, he was only followed by a great knight or a middle-level magician on the surface, but there must be something hidden in the dark. Several times the assassins sent by competitors did not even have him by his side. When he arrived, he died inexplicably outside the house. There was also a time when he came to assassinate a second-level knight who was good at hiding. He attacked and seriously injured the big knight who protected him, but he was about to succeed. After the darkness, the assassin had already fallen. The expression frozen on his face was full of horror." Leo fully told what he knew about Ivanovsky.

Lucien said with a smile on his face: "I just summoned the 'Invisible Servant' to follow from a distance, but I was almost spotted. Fortunately, I also confirmed that Ivanovsky's room is surrounded by similar 'See Through Invisibility' and The hidden magic effects such as 'avoid detection' are difficult to spy on, so if you want to get rid of him, you can't assassinate him at his predetermined place, but let him follow our rhythm."

"Master." Leo said hesitantly, "If you give me a mid-level magic item, I will find a chance to die with Ivanovsky."

In his view, the main reason why those assassins couldn't kill Ivanovsky was that they were reluctant to bear their own lives. Take out Ivanovsky first.

Lucien looked around the house: "It's not necessary for now, you should rest first."

At present, his biggest advantage is that Ivanovsky does not know his own strength. Whether he sends someone to assassinate him or uses other means, he may make a wrong judgment. And this kind of mistake is his own opportunity, which can eat away at his subordinates separately. Of course, if he didn't have the intention of killing people, that would be the best result, so there was no need to send Leo to make a body bomb to alert Ivanovsky and let him deal with him with all his might.

At the same time, Lucien secretly arranged a hidden magic circle unique to the Magic Council. It does not prevent others from snooping, the only effect is to increase the sensitivity of the magic circle operator's mental force field, so that he can detect extremely small and abnormally convergent magic fluctuations - which is impossible to sense at the current level under normal circumstances of.

The moonlight was soft and quiet. Lucien leaned back on the sofa and closed his eyes, as if he fell asleep while admiring the moon.

As the night darkened and became quiet, Lucien suddenly felt a slight magical fluctuation.

It almost merged with the breeze in the darkness. If the magic circle hadn't been arranged in advance, Lucien wouldn't have been able to find it.

The magic fluctuated slowly and almost subsided, but it was always hanging in the air, shining on Lucien like a mirror, observing his every move.

And Lucien twisted his body occasionally, as if he had fallen into a deep sleep.

This "harmonious" scene lasted until dawn, and nothing happened.

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Ural City, "Green Vine" luxury hotel.

After processing most of the goods he brought in this bustling city and replenishing a lot of ironware, Belf looked very leisurely.

After breakfast, he has been sitting in the corner of the hotel lobby, drinking spirits, idly looking at the guests coming and going, and whispering with another alcoholic, judging the other party's identity, status, hobbies, personality, etc. .

"Father, why are you drinking so early in the morning?" Lena, who was wearing a white fur coat, accepted Igor's apology last night, reconciled with him, and is preparing to go to the market area, blacksmith area and other places with him today , but unexpectedly discovered that his father had become drunk early in the morning, so he asked a little angrily.

Berv hiccupped and said with a drunken smile, "Little Lena, I'm leaving the Urals tomorrow to go home, let me drink for a day, and the more I drink, the more energetic I will be." The next stop is the end point of this caravan, the capital of Kinov province.

"Father, you've been drinking for two days!" Lena frowned, "Then you promise not to drink a single drop of alcohol during the journey from Ural City to home!"

Berv laughed and said, "Little Lena, don't think that I will just agree indiscriminately when I'm drunk. You still have to drink breakfast wine, lunch wine and dinner wine."

Just after he finished speaking, he stood up abruptly, and said a little shakyly, "Mr. Peter, welcome back, I thought you would stay with Baroness Karilena."

His tone was ambiguous, not like an old man at all.

At this time, Lucien was bringing Leo in through the hotel gate, with brilliant blond hair and high spirits—after breakfast, Karilena, who had obviously calmed down, sent a coachman to take Lucien back to Ural City. It was in line with Lucien's mind, but he didn't relax his guard because of it.

"Mr. Peter, good morning." Lena said happily. She always thought that Mr. Peter was a decent gentleman.

Lucien looked at her and Igor with a smile and said, "Miss Lena, good morning. You seem to be reconciled? Then I can rest assured."

The obvious joking words made Lena blush, and Igor, a young man who didn't like Lucien very much, scratched the back of his head shyly, not knowing how to answer.

Fortunately, a drunk beside him changed the subject, and Berff patted Lucien on the shoulder and comforted him: "Mr. Peter, don't be depressed, you are actually very popular with girls, hiccup, Mrs. Karilena probably I only like the orthodox Shahran men, the tall, majestic and rude ones."

Even though Lucien was a few centimeters taller after being disguised, he was still a head shorter than most men in the Shahran Empire, and his stature was even far behind.

With Berff's interruption, the awkward atmosphere quickly disappeared.

After Igor reconciled with his sweetheart, he was in a good mood, and suddenly remembered something: "By the way, Mr. Peter, go back to your room and check your luggage! I was so happy last night that I couldn't sleep, but I heard your room next door There was a slight noise and then disappeared quickly, I don’t know if it’s my hallucination or there are mice or thieves..."

Lucien looked sideways at Leo, saw the same seriousness, and then smiled calmly: "Thank you for your reminder, Igor. I'll go back to my room and have a look."

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In the room, Lucien carefully checked the magic imprints, teacups, kettles and other items left by him in the hiding place, and said to Leo with a little doubt: "There is no magic trap or poison, so it's really a mouse? "

The magic trap in Lucien's words no longer refers to an apprentice-level simple magic circle, but returns to the original meaning of a trap.

"Master, it shouldn't be such a coincidence." Leo had lingering fears about Ivanovsky's cruelty.

Lucien nodded while looking around the room again, checking each item.

The suitcases opened by myself, the clothes "changed and washed", the folk music manuscripts collected, and the special items bought on the road as travel souvenirs...

When Lucien's mental power was concentrated on a colorful nesting doll, he finally felt the faint vicious aura contained in it, which set off the exaggerated and funny face of that nesting doll a bit eerie.

"Curse?" Lucien, who has been studying this knowledge for the past year, judged sharply.

Leo looked at the nesting doll following Lucien's gaze: "Master, is there something wrong with it? What should I do?"

Lucien pondered for a few minutes, then smiled and said, "Do what a noble should do!"

The "Crown of the Sun" amulet on his chest was activated, and the sacred and vast anti-death barrier protected Lucien's body.

Then, Lucien picked up the doll and spun it open as usual.

On the first floor, second floor, and third floor, when an exaggerated portrait of an old woman appeared on the fourth floor, countless black insect-like gas that could not be seen by the naked eye but was exposed under the sacred light of the anti-death barrier quickly moved towards Lucien. Covered from the body.

It's a pity that they couldn't pass through the death barrier, and disappeared in it one by one.

Seeing that the death barrier was about to disappear, Lucien "roared angrily": "There is a magician who wants to assassinate me! There are still magicians in the empire who dare to do such a thing! Fortunately, I have the blessing of the Lord, the Lord gift!"

While "roaring uncontrollably", Lucien asked Leo to wrap the doll in his clothes, and then, under the astonished eyes of Berv and the others, led Leo directly to the nearby church!

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Inside the hidden room of the church.

"My lord bishop, I think you have checked the magical aura on the nesting doll that has not disappeared, and you have also confirmed the condition of the death barrier on my body." Lucien still "maintained" angrily to a Ural city bishop said.

The bishop looked like a bear in a white robe. He was tall and strong, with thick hair all over his body. He comforted him and said, "Yes, Mr. Peter, I have confirmed the damage to the magical aura and the death barrier on your body."

Lucien said "emotionally unstable": "Then, do you have any questions, my lord bishop? Why didn't you go after that damned magician? If I hadn't noticed it in time and activated the amulet bestowed on me by the Lord, I'm afraid I would have died." Became a victim of an evil magician! Does the church allow magicians to do whatever they want in the empire?"

After speaking, Lucien deliberately took out the Sun Crown and shook it. As long as you don't check it directly, it is completely a fifth-level magical item that has only unlocked two layers of seals.

"Mr. Peter, I can understand your anger, but we still need to investigate. After all, there is no information about the magician yet." The bishop said kindly.

Lucien became serious: "Master Bishop, I think I know who the murderer is! It's Ivanovsky and Karilena! They secretly asked the magician to kill me in order to seize the count's property!"

Then Lucien said the matter "as it was".

"However, Mr. Peter, Baroness Karilena and Mr. Ivanovsky did what normal people would do. They just knew the news in advance, prepared in advance, and did not violate any laws, whether it was the empire, It’s still from the church, why is there a need to kill people to silence it? Lord Nevsky also knows about it.” The bishop shook his head, subconsciously defending the noble flower of Ural City, feeling that Lucien was a little mentally sensitive after being assassinated, “Of course , thank you for the clues, we will investigate them."

Lucien seemed unacceptable and kept accusing Ivanovsky of being the murderer. It was not until more than half an hour later that his emotions stabilized and he left the church.

Leo followed closely behind Lucien and said in a low voice, "Master, why didn't you just point out that Ivanovsky is a big smuggler?"

"Unless you directly testify, they will not be able to believe that there is something wrong with this well-established businessman, and that will expose my true identity. It's enough for things to go to this point, and then it depends on what Ivanovsky does. "Lucien narrowed his eyes slightly.

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Just after returning to the hotel, Lucien saw a handsome middle-aged gentleman waiting for him.

"Mr. Peter, Earl Witte heard that an outstanding young man from the Vladimir family has arrived in Ural City, so I would like to invite you to the castle to meet and chat." The middle-aged gentleman smiled politely.

Lucien was a little stunned, the opportunity did not change quickly, and the originally scheduled arrangement to deal with Ivanovsky seemed to be ruined by Count Witt's invitation.