After this restless night, a normal day came.
The Magic Council demonstrated their emergency response methods. Even a new store was rebuilt in the place of the dilapidated tavern that was burned down by the flames last night. A man with some people and artificial life was repairing the store. After decoration and adjustments, it will probably open in less than two days.
As for what happened…
"It was summed up in the magic experiment accident." Pierre said a little tiredly. At this time, everyone had returned to the Crow Hotel. As the leader of the parties at the scene, Pierre also had to go to the guards to report it. Of course, the memory was erased. No matter what, probably because of Xue Ni's face, Pierre was not embarrassed and returned to the store in the early morning.
"In addition, there were a total of fourteen cases of magic book contamination that broke out from last night to this morning. Some of the chapters of the magic book have been recycled, but no one knows about the one in our hands. .”
"Have they all been dealt with?" Black Rose didn't sleep all night, but he was a thief, so it was nothing serious.
"All hazards are limited to a room at most. The emergency response team's work efficiency is the fastest among the parliament's direct staff. There is no one who can cause large-scale damage... It is better to say that the parliament has been waiting for a long time. There are people who are causing sabotage, so we might as well catch them all."
"Caught?"
"Caught. All 257 suspected participants have been arrested. This kind of thing will definitely approve the use of veritaserum and even soul searching. Those memory masters will even know what color these bastards wore when they were children. I even asked about my pants."
Pierre poured himself a glass of wine: "There are still some broken pages that have not been recovered, but under such close surveillance, it is only a matter of time. Lilian, find an opportunity to hand over the magic book in your hand." Miss, she can be handed over safely, and you don’t have to face any news.”
"Yeah." Lu Ning nodded.
Everyone knows that they have only dealt with the superficial problems at this time, and the deeper problems have not been solved at all, but there is nothing they can do now.
After leaving the Crow Hotel, Lu Ning received a message from Xueni. Her voice became hoarse, but nothing else changed.
"Lillian, thank you for your hard work."
"Where did you run away? Anyway, I told Catherine this..." Lu Ning repeated what she said to Xueni.
"Okay, I will add a reasonable lie based on this. In addition, you should keep the magic book in your hand first. I will ask you for it in person when I want it, and then give it to me."
"clear."
"For the time being, pretend that nothing has happened. For us, self-preservation is the first priority. Those major events..."
"Xue Ni, I have something to tell you." Lu Ning interrupted her and directly recounted her experience last night.
"Broken Monk? Strange black shadow... Sorry, Lillian, I am only a junior magician in terms of magic. This kind of magic is not within the scope of my knowledge. I will try to ask the teacher, but don't hold too much hope. Great expectations.”
"knew."
"Don't be so upset, Lilian. You have at least proven that you are very talented in magic and other aspects. I won't ask you what you did during this period. At least the results are satisfactory to me. That's enough. In the next time, you can prepare carefully for any problems you may encounter during public lectures and who you should look for to learn from. The minimum level of lecturers should be magister level, so this is a good opportunity that you can’t find anywhere else outside."
"I will, thank you."
"Besides, after Catherine's preparations are over, you may still have something to do...don't worry, it won't be this kind of thing."
Lu Ning was actually looking forward to a few more big events. Although the clues were broken this time, it gave her a little understanding of the hidden situation in the city. She would have something to investigate after the scene.
After saying goodbye to Xue Ni, Lu Ning returned to the One-Eyed Squid.
In the next five days, her life became regular. She would make potions after getting up in the morning, and then wander around the commercial street in the morning to learn about the items sold in various stores and see if she could buy some cheap materials. Occasionally, Catherine would give her a message, asking her to purchase some things to send to the academy. Because of the eldest lady's spending on magic, Lu Ning obtained a crystal card, which allowed her to purchase extremely expensive items with her approval. s material.
Although she couldn't use the crystal card privately, Lu Ning's knowledge of magic increased dramatically just because the card allowed her to pass through the area. She even saw one of her mission targets, a crystal of darkness, in the VIP exhibition hall of a high-end crystallization material store.
The instructions written in common text also gave Lu Ning some understanding of the type of crystal magic. Its power is different from the elements, arcana, nature and other categories that have a large number of students. It is completely brought about by the ultimate purity.
Users of crystal magic are able to purify anything and crystallize it through some secret technique of crystallography, hence the name. Under these conditions, magicians generally use high-quality gems, precious raw ores, and magic tools containing powerful magic as magic tools. Even such things will themselves become deformed after using crystal magic for a long time. Crystals begin to precipitate and are slowly scrapped.
Dark crystal is a very high-grade material among these materials. It is of course also extremely rare in other magic categories. For crystal magicians, this is a high-quality magic item that can be used by advanced magicians for about fifty years. No wonder Lu Ning had never heard of it before.
In addition, even Catherine does not have the financial resources to buy this thing.
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, there were still two days before the public lecture day. Lu Ning also read the annotated "Elementary Alchemy" and several miscellaneous books. She was in good spirits after reading in the morning. After learning a lot, I walked out and started today’s alchemy work.
After many days of training, she was able to control the refining formation to refine two potions at the same time without wasting a lot of magic power in the adjustment process. Today, she even tried to make a bottle of healing potion, which already belongs to the category of junior alchemist's potion. It can quickly sterilize and stop bleeding and accelerate healing of wounds. It is very popular among those who are adventurous.
Lu Ning smiled, prepared six bottles of medicine, put them in boxes and walked to the front.
"Lillian, good morning." Howard still sat in the store on time.
"Dad, there is something I want to tell you."
In the past few days, she had started to call Howard "Dad" like other store clerks. Although Howard got up early every day to call for people, the clerks still respected him. After all, apart from rushing work, Howard did not treat them badly in terms of food or housing.
"What's the matter? Oh? Why are there six bottles today?"
Lu Ning took out the bottle of healing potion and put on a proud smile.
"Healing potion? You girl... are you a junior alchemist?"
"I haven't taken the test yet, but now that I have this, it means that my skills have improved a lot."
Howard laughed.
"It's an improvement, not bad! It seems that it is good for you to use your hands more. You are talented and eager to learn, so it will only happen sooner or later."
"I want to ask you to ask for this bottle of potion as a souvenir. I will pay for it." Lu Ning said.
"I gave it to you. Just think of it as a gift to congratulate you on becoming a junior alchemist." Howard waved his hand.
Lu Ning didn't know what to say for a moment.
It seems that Howard showed his generosity, but based on Lu Ning's understanding of him in the past few days, Howard probably thought that he would just give in and save the money for a formal gift to Lu Ning. This is what this person does. The response is amazingly fast.
She felt that Howard didn't need it because she didn't think about asking for a gift. But now that he had said it all, Lu Ning nodded and accepted the potion, placed the other five bottles on the table, and a clerk came to sort them out.
"By the way, I didn't see Boliwell today." Lu Ning said.
"The kid hasn't gotten up yet?" Howard frowned and climbed up from the chair, "That's not possible. He's so young. He's just going to sleep a little longer in the morning. What's the point of sleeping until noon!"
Lu Ning looked up at the sky. It was half past eight at most.
The two of them walked to a small room in the backyard one after another, which was further inside than where Lu Ning lived. Howard took off a bunch of keys from his waist and opened the door without knocking.
"Boliwell! What are you doing!" Howard opened the door, and there was a smell of medicine inside. Boliwell was lying on the bed, and the light from outside entered the room, and he could faintly see some smell in the air. Turn green.
"Dad! Don't go in yet!" Lu Ning hurriedly grabbed Howard, ran to the window, knocked twice, used a simple unlocking trick, and then pulled the window open. When the curtains parted, a green gas came out of the room. Floated out.
"What are you kid playing in the house!" Howard exclaimed. There was enough light at this time, and he could also see Boliwell's appearance - he was lying unconscious on the bed with a blue face.
"This kid committed suicide!" Howard pulled up his collar and blocked his mouth and nose, rushed into the room, rushed to the bed in three or two steps, picked up Boliwell, turned around, ran out, and put the person on his back. on the ground. Just this action doesn't look old at all.
Lu Ning came closer, took a breath, took out a piece of parchment from his pocket and slapped Boliwell on the head twice. After finding nothing unusual, he started to check what happened to him.
Howard was also squatting next to him. Of course he knew that Boliwell was still alive when he carried people out, but he was a little overwhelmed. After squatting for a moment, he immediately got up and walked into the store.
After some inspections, Lu Ning found that Boliwell only showed some signs of weakness and poisoning, but it had not hurt his life. Even the green energy in the room was unknown, and it has not dissipated yet.
Soon, Howard came back with a bottle of medicine, which was a universal antidote. He confirmed it with Lu Ning, then lifted Boliwell's neck and drank it down to him.
After a while, Boliwell woke up coughing. He looked at the two people next to him with his mouth open, and he looked confused: "Why am I sleeping outside?"
"Get up!" The man woke up and seemed to be fine. Howard immediately returned to his original appearance, roughly pulled him up from the ground, pointed at the room and asked loudly: "What are you doing in the room? I didn't let him Do you use an alchemy laboratory? Tell me what this green thing is? Why do you want to dye your hair?"
Boliwell stared at his room, dumbfounded.
"I don't know...I woke up here."
"You don't know? Is it possible that green smoke can still be emitted from the house?"
Seeing that the two people couldn't explain clearly, Lu Ning sighed: "How about we clean up the house first, and then go in to see what's going on? It seems that the green air is still dissipating."
"Oh, oh." Boliwell nodded repeatedly, raised his hands, and recited a short spell. The cool wind rose from the yard, poured into the room, and squeezed out the green air. After repeating this several times , there was finally no gas coming out of the room.
"Get three bottles of antidote and let's go in and take a look at the situation." Howard said angrily.
The furnishings in the room are very ordinary, and a bit messy in line with Boliwell's usual style. When Lu Ning approached the door, she smelled it and found that the smell of medicine was no longer there. It seemed to be the smell of gas.
This room was larger than the one Lu Ning lived in. There were many things scattered on the desk, as well as a bundle of half-used parchment, but the three of them looked through it and found nothing wrong.
"The bed." Howard reached out and pushed the quilts aside, but it was just a wooden bed, and there was nothing noteworthy about it.
Boliwell lay down and looked under the bed. There was nothing strange on the ground. Instead, he choked and coughed due to the dust raised by the wind.
"Nothing." Howard said strangely.
"Turn over the bed board." Lu Ning was helpless at the two people's completely careless search.
The wooden bed board was very heavy. With some magic assistance, Howard and Boliwell turned the bed board over and found that there were dots of black scorch marks on it.
"What is this?"
"Refining the formation." Lu Ning and Boliwell spoke at the same time, answering Howard's question.
Howard was stunned: "Does this thing look like this?" He had seen the transformation formation in the alchemy laboratory.
"The refining transformation array can also make some detailed changes according to different needs. One refining transformation array can perform any alchemical work, but if you really pursue meticulousness, it is actually better to use different refining transformation arrays for different refined products." Boliwell explained a little to Howard, then turned to look at Lu Ning, "But Lilian, how did you recognize it?"
Lu Ning pointed at the messy table.
"There is an identical refining formation drawn on a piece of parchment on your desk, so I can recognize it."
After hearing this, Howard suddenly stared.
"Sure enough, it's your kid who did it, isn't it?"
The corner of Boliwell's mouth twitched. He didn't know how to defend himself, so he could only shake his head desperately.
