As it was approaching the early morning, after many magic experiments, Lucien finally learned and mastered five informal magics: "Eye of Stars", "Frost Ray", "Forbidden Light Technique", "Master's Hand" and "Acid Sputtering". As for what he learned yesterday and tried "Out of Control" without spell casting, Lucien stabilized the casting time to about three seconds.

Comparing the witch's own records, Lucien found that the time she analyzed magic, learned magic, and mastered magic was astonishingly fast. Apart from the "lost control ring" that the witch did not understand and forced to master, the elemental magic "acid sputtering" and "frost rays" that she was good at, usually three to four days, twenty hours, hundreds of magic experiments and casting practices were analyzed and mastered. Lucien used "acid sputtering" five times, "frost rays" seven times, and "Eye of Stars" ten times, and only "Forbidden Light Technique" was mastered thirty times due to insufficient analysis and understanding in advance.

In Lucien's view, this is mainly because the magic structure seems to be based on mathematical models, and then integrates his understanding of the magic construction process. The model structure of informal magic is just a simple rune figure, which is equivalent to the level of plane geometry in the first and high school of hexagrams. After reviewing the literature in the library for a while, most of the analysis of informal magic has become very simple.

Lucien also relies on past knowledge to understand the magic construction process, such as understanding "acid sputtering" as using sulfur to make sulfuric acid. However, when it comes to light-forbidden, Lucien could not understand it based on past knowledge. He could only think that reversely destroying the structure of "fluorescent grass" can allow it to actively absorb light without reflection. The result is not bad, but it is not good. It has been mastered after many practices.

This made Lucien reflect on himself: "You can't rely too much on past knowledge. The magic of this world should have its own unique features. Although some of it can combine knowledge of physics, chemistry, etc., the others have to be analyzed slowly by themselves. After all, the elements and rules of this world are likely to be different from the earth, and they are sceptical, such as precious materials such as mitril silver and gold recorded by witches, such as why astrology can be used to distinguish good and bad luck, fate, etc."

As for the "Ring of Out of Control", since Lucien fully understands that it is a magic under gravity, he can shorten the casting time to its current limit so quickly.

After resting his mental power with ten minutes of quiet rest, Lucien began to simply deal with the traces left behind, such as the corroded stone surface.

"The power of informal magic is indeed not strong enough. Frost rays can only directly kill an adult if they hit the vital points such as the heart and throat, causing cardiac arrest and suffocation. Otherwise, all three frost rays will hit. If you only hit a moment, at most you will suffer severe frostbite and your movements and thinking will become slow. Due to the concentration and intensity of the acid, the sputtering of acid also has to hit the vital points." Lucien calmly analyzed the apprentice-level magic he knew, and was not disappointed. Although many magics don't look strong, as long as they are used well, the effect will be amazing in specific occasions and at specific times.

After processing the traces, Lucien placed the casting materials in his pocket in a concealed and convenient way to use. Then he did not return to the ground, but continued to explore the sewer towards the slum outlet.

This is because Lucien considered that to find the black corpse mushroom, one must first find the rotten corpse. When the cemetery is likely to be secretly monitored by the church, the sewer is the only place except for the wild beasts and humans that died in the Black Forest of Mezel. There is hope of finding the rotten corpse. After all, many poor people and beggars live here, not even shrouds. If there is no friends and relatives I know, it is impossible to rule out that no one can die in the depths of the sewer knowingly. As for dead animals, rotten meat dumped in the sewer, etc. will not be rare.

Moreover, the witch also explored the sewer, initially for the black corpse mushroom, and later to find the origin of the red-eyed rat, but never encountered any danger, so Lucien dared to explore this sewer first.

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The mental power dissipated and faintly sensed the surroundings. Lucien walked carefully in the sewer.

In the past twenty minutes, Lucien had explored several places and found three rotten corpses, two mice and a strange jelly-shaped animal. Unfortunately, they did not have black corpse mushrooms growing on them.

Turning around a corner, Lucien's eyes suddenly became wide open, and he finally found the beggars living in the sewer.

The sewer in this section is very wide, with a quiet river flowing quietly and some garbage in the middle. It will flow all the way to the outlet and flow into the Beren River. On both sides, there are rows of rags, clay pots and other things on each of them. Several beggars whose clothes are torn to reveal a lot of skin are gathered in the corridor on the side, not knowing what they are doing.

Seeing that it was just a beggar, without evasion, and had been discovered, Lucien tried to pass through the corridor on the other side with steady steps.

"Young man, the sewer is not where you should come. What's your purpose?" An old man who looked in his sixties, with a protruding rib and extremely shriveled, but he could hear his voice, but he was at most about forty years old.

No matter how worn or cheap Lucien wore a linen top, it could not hide his identity as a poor man, but compared with these beggars, it was as gorgeous as a nobleman, at least it would not rot to expose most of his skin, at least it was very clean, so the old man recognized Lucien at first glance not the "indigenous" of the sewer.

Lucien replied with a smile: "I have a friend living in the sewer, and I came to him." He spoke confidently and stylishly, and seemed to not take these beggars seriously, because in this dark sewer without laws, it is the best way to show that he is very strong.

Behind the thin old man, several other beggars stood up, staring at Lucien with fierce and greedy eyes, but Lucien looked around them without any weakness, showing his fair body and a dagger that emitted a faint cold light.

This made them subconsciously avoid Lucien's gaze.

Watching Lucien walking forward step by step, the shriveled old man suddenly laughed: "Young man, I see that you are not well dressed, and you have a dagger in your hand. It seems that you are doing something inappropriate."

Lucien was a little surprised that he would talk to him, thought for a while, and replied coldly: "It has nothing to do with you."

The shriveled old man smiled: "No matter what, you can see that you have a hard time. Since young people who work so hard and work hard like you cannot eat white bread and beef every day, I think it is definitely not your fault. The teachings of the truth tell us that everyone is the Lamb of the Lord, but why can the nobles live a luxurious life, while the poor who believe in him can't change their destiny. Everyone is born guilty!"

"I'm not interested in what you said, don't talk to me anymore." Lucien said coldly.

Although the shriveled old man said it very obscurely and did not leave any handle for others, it would be unclear if others had changed, but from his words, Lucien smelled a familiar smell, that was the smell of being preached. From his meaning, it was definitely not the God of Truth. As for other gods or devils, Lucien is not interested for the time being. Without enough strength, he will rashly contact these things. It is a way to die.

He did not let him say too much because the more he knew, the less he could leave. Under the control of the God of Truth, spreading other sects is absolutely accused of being on the stake. These beggars will not risk leaking the news.

The shriveled old man and several beggars did not expect Lucien to refuse so simply and directly. They couldn't help but stare at Lucien in anger, as if he had been desecrated with precious things.

"Do you want to try my dagger?" Lucien shook the dagger in his hand, then walked forward calmly and steadily.

While intersecting the sewer between them, Lucien keenly discovered that in the place where they had been surrounded, there was a clean black cloth with a curved corner of silver light drawn on it.

The thin old man recalled what he said and felt that he had not revealed anything. It was like the complaint of an ordinary poor man, who just focused the complaint on the nobles. At the same time, he measured Lucien's age, physical condition, and the dagger in his hand, so he sat down helplessly.

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After leaving the beggars and walking through the sewer for more than ten minutes, the sound of water in Lucien's ears suddenly became loud.

"It seems that I have reached the outlet, and it should be the edge of the Beren River outside." Lucien saw that the underground river became slightly surging and flowed to a hole covered with a large wire mesh, so he walked slowly in the corridor next to him, looking for the rotten corpse in this place with the most dense garbage.

Walking until the barbed wire, Lucien didn't notice anything. He was slightly disappointed and prepared to return to the ground.

But when Lucien turned around and glanced at the part where the wire mesh was in contact with the water surface, he was surprised to find that the fluorescent light shone and the water waves were shaking, and the barbed wire mesh seemed to be in contact with the water surface.

Curiously, Lucien walked to the side, shook, lifted the barbed wire, and looked carefully. There must be a large hole under the barbed wire.

Before he could tell whether it was broken naturally or destroyed by humans, Lucien saw a large black object slowly floating up, right in front of him, as if it was because of the violent shaking of the barbed wire just now.

When it slowly floated to the surface and hit the barbed wire under the impact of the river in the underground river, Lucien saw clearly that it was a swelling body. The muscles on his face had rotted a lot, and he could only vaguely identify the outline. His clothes were covered with garbage, and some were very buoyant.

Lucien resisted the disgust of seeing the rotten corpse and carefully looked for if there was a black corpse mushroom on him. Although there was little hope, it was soaked in the water, so maybe there was a surprise?

As he looked, Lucien frowned, because the cause of death of the corpse was strange, and his chest was broken. He had just touched it with a dagger and found that his heart was gone, and it seemed that he had been dug up alive.

"Who is so cruel?" Lucien looked up and down the corpse, and suddenly, he found a tangled purse at the waist of the corpse. "Why is it a bit familiar?"

He picked it up with a dagger, and Lucien took a closer look: "This is my wallet!"

This was the purse that Lucien had been snatched away by a gangster and had not had time to get it back. It actually appeared on a dead and weird rotten corpse in the sewer.

Surprised, without caring about disgust, Lucien looked at the corpse's face again:

"Andre?"

After thinking about it, Lucien became more and more like him. How could Andre, the Aaron gangster, die here?!

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Chapter completed!