Throne of Magical Arcana

Lucien froze in place, and Lazar almost bumped into his back, but fortunately he reacted in time:

"What's wrong?"

"The vase has a curse." Lucien didn't have time to identify it, so he chose the easiest way for Lazar to understand.

"What? Curse!" Lazar's voice suddenly became high-pitched, completely unable to understand Lucien's unhurried, calm and calm attitude, and seemed to be faintly excited? !

"Mystery! Lucien, this is using a curse to murder you! Why do you seem to be talking about today's weather?" Lazar pulled Lucien away from the vase, sure and sure that he saw the road. A gleam of frantic excitement flickered across Sean's eyes.

Lucien suppressed his excitement, stopped the saliva that seemed to be flowing out, and made himself behave like a victim. His voice was suppressed and angry: "Lazar, close the atomic research institute and prevent anyone from going out. Collect all the gifts received by time. I will report to the affairs committee."

"Okay!" Lazar usually looks hippie smiling, optimistic and enthusiastic, but he is never wordy at critical moments.

After Lazar left and opened the sealing magic circle to let Rock, Annick and other magicians and apprentices put all the gifts they received into the small conference room, Lucien carefully looked at this elegant vase.

Since it has caused the electronic induction in the self-cognized world within a short range, it is likely to be beta rays (also electron flow), so the possibility of radioactive elements is the greatest.

In fact, Lucien searched for elements with strong enough radioactivity among the dozens of elements that had been discovered a long time ago. Unstable isotopes are all radioactive, but none of them met Lucien's requirements. It was not until today that he was "cursed" that he had an unexpected harvest.

Without wasting any time, Lucien pushed the monocle on his left eye: "Tang Pu, I found a cursed vase in the office of my Institute of Atomic Sciences. I suspect it was an assassination by the church. Send someone over to investigate as soon as possible." .”

"I'm currently outside, let the investigators from the Department of Corrections come over immediately. I'll hurry back." A member of the Arcane Review Committee was assassinated with a curse. Even if Tang Pu, a high-ranking arcanist who had just submitted his thesis, left without any hesitation, he gave up what he was doing and returned directly.

Also at the parliament headquarters, investigators from the Department of Corrections entered the Atomic Research Institute in less than three minutes.

There are five investigators in total, and the leader is a middle-aged man with brown curly hair and dark skin. On his chest, he wears the "Black Scepter" badge of the Department of Corrections, the arcane badge with four silver stars, and the magic badge with six black rings. .

"Commissioner Evans, I am Barack, the deacon of the Corrections Department. I am on duty in the Corrections Department today. I am here to investigate the curse incident under the order of Commissioner Tang Pu." With dark skin, he seems to be the desert race of the Principality of Calais and the southern part of the Kingdom of Briana. Lak's expression was unusually dignified and serious.

The Department of Punishment does not have a minister, and is directly under the leadership of the affairs committee. There are only 12 deputy ministers whose arcane level is not high, and whose magic level is at the seventh or eighth ring, to deal with daily affairs, so even if Barak is a high-level magician, he can only become a deacon.

Lucien asked Rock and other magicians and apprentices to gather in an office, and another investigator interrogated him. He and Lazar took Barack into a small conference room, pointed to the vase in his room before and said: " Barack, it is this vase that is cursed."

Barack released the inspection magic, but the vase did not respond.

"No problem?" Barack whispered while activating a certain magic item on his body. The light green light sprinkled on the vase, but there was still no response.

After changing several inspection magics of different levels and domains in a row, Barack didn't notice anything, so he turned his head to look at Lucien in doubt: "Commander Evans, after my inspection, there is no curse. Or do you have any special inspections? Magic? Can the curse be inspired?"

Although facing the review committee, Barack, who is also a high-level magician, still has the courage to express different opinions.

"I don't have the corresponding magic, but I can use the magic circle in the laboratory to detect a kind of ray." Lucien explained.

Barack didn't believe it directly: "Can you demonstrate, Commissioner Evans? As an investigator, I have to verify every detail."

"No problem." Lucien asked Barack to take the vase and other objects containing "curse" that he sensed into the laboratory.

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"This, isn't this a cathode ray? No, the energy seems to be much higher!" Seeing the familiar reactions and properties, Lazar couldn't help but lose his voice.

Then he suddenly realized: "No wonder you, Lucien, can sense the curse. The rays you touch every day will always feel familiar!"

This is not an exaggeration. For magicians with soul mutations, enhanced mental powers, and perceptions of the world reflecting reality, it is easy to feel familiar with something after a long period of contact with it and a clear understanding of its characteristics. This sense of familiarity is clearer in high-level magicians who have initially materialized the cognitive world, because the reflection of this thing in their cognitive world will enhance the induction.

"But what does this have to do with the curse? Isn't it the new particle you discovered, Commissioner Evans?" Barack still didn't believe it was a "curse", "Maybe the vase is made of a special material that can emit electrons freely? I think you may Too sensitive, probably just a coincidence."

"I insist that it is a curse, and my star of destiny senses the danger." Lucien pushed the question to the star of destiny and astrology, anyway, no one knows his own strength in this area.

Barack took out the notebook and recorded in detail: "I will ask the affairs committee to send a high-level magician or archmage in the field of curses to help confirm. Commissioner Evans, please wait patiently. Don't worry, we will investigate even if we cannot confirm. The origin of the vase will not delay the time to trace the clues."

This is the treatment an arcane review committee should receive.

"Okay." Lucien returned to the small meeting room with Lazar and Barack.

For fear of a curse, Barack didn't let the two of them in, and went to the other investigator's place to check what was asked.

"What kind of material is the vase that can emit 'cathode rays' by itself?" Lazar said amusedly and puzzled, "If we knew there was such a material, why would we bother to study it with gas discharge?"

Lucien covered his mouth and said, "It's probably a special material. I hope it's not simulated by a curse. There's always something to be gained from being assassinated once."

"No wonder I thought you were very excited before, Lucien, your money-greedy side is getting worse, and one day you will become like a dragon." Lazar suddenly realized, and casually teased Lucien.

Lucien gave him a look of "contempt": "That means you have never seen a real dragon."

After waiting for more than ten minutes, several investigators preliminarily sorted out the interrogation transcripts, and the door of the Atomic Research Institute opened without warning, and Tang Pu walked in accompanied by a tall and thin old man.

This old man has an ordinary face, his eyes are closed, his hair is covered by a hood, and his black magic robe has no trace of color, like the darkest night.

"Your Excellency Cursed Eye?" Lucien recognized him as Atlant Forman, the "Cursed Eye" who had been to the Atomic Research Institute.

"I haven't returned to Calais yet, and I plan to stay at the headquarters for a while. I heard from Fernando that you encountered a strange curse incident, so come and have a look. Collecting all kinds of weird curses is my hobby." Atlante's voice was flat Soft, long-winded but not annoying, it makes people "heart" doubts disappear.

"Excuse me, Your Excellency." Facing the "Cursed Eye" who left behind all kinds of weird legends, even though Lucien was used to the legends, there was a feeling of fear "from the bottom of his heart".

Atlante nodded leisurely, walked slowly to the vase, paused for a few seconds, suddenly opened his eyes, and the whole vase was suddenly dyed with a layer of dark green.

When he opened his eyes, Lucien was in a trance for a while, and there seemed to be countless figures reflected in his black pupils, deep and strange!

"It is indeed a curse." There was a little bit of black in the dark green meaning, and Atlante, the "Eye of the Curse", made a judgment, "The spell model itself is very simple, mainly relying on the special materials, so it cannot be used by most people." Check the magic perception. It is preliminarily determined that if you are affected by this curse for a long time, you will be inexplicably exhausted, suffer from various serious diseases, and die."

Lucien nodded secretly, finally affirming that radioactivity was part of the curse magic, and Lucien was not clear about the weirder ones.

"Thank you, Lord Atlante, for your confirmation. After I asked here, I also targeted a few magicians, but I'm not sure whether they were intentional or unintentional, because the cursed items containing special materials seem to be produced by the same business. , the details are very similar." Barack reported to Cursed Eye, Tang Pu, and Lucien.

"Thorough investigation!" Tang Pu was usually gentle and amiable, but now he was extremely cold.

Atlante smiled slightly: "I won't get involved in the investigation. Can you give me a curse vase? I'm curious about this curse and special materials."

"No problem, there are many cursed items." How could Tang Pu reject a legend's request.

Lucien quickly echoed: "Can you also leave me some cursed items, I am very interested in special materials, and it has a lot to do with the 'electronics' I have recently studied."

"There is no problem. The exploration of the microcosm is the current focus of the council." Tang Pu admired Lucien's "fanatic" research spirit very much. Young people can get so many honors!

After leaving an investigator to guard the items at the scene, Barack led the remaining three people to start a follow-up investigation.

Because the matter has not been cleared up, except for Lucien, Lazar, Roque and others were all required to stay overnight at the parliament headquarters, so Lucien comforted Heidi, Katrina, Annick and other magic apprentices For a while, let them take it easy and things will work out.

After finishing all this, the sky was getting dark, and Lucien simply stayed in the magic laboratory, planning to seize the time to analyze the radioactive elements contained in the vase.

Only a few days later, a cursed item was delivered to the door, and Lucien inevitably felt a sense of danger, so he temporarily suspended the creation of the four-ring magic "X-ray" attached to the "cathode ray", and prepared to create two or three unique ones. Attack or defense magic, in case of emergency.

There are many, many magics that radioactive elements can bring, except for the theory of relativity and the mass-energy equation that Lucien is temporarily unable to deduce (the corresponding books in the soul library are still sealed, and Lucien has never studied them in the past. And even Constructed, it is estimated that it is also legendary level magic, far water cannot save near fire), there are also "curse" magic, the discovery of "helium" elements, etc.

Among them, if the "helium" element is discovered, Lucien can use its liquefaction structure magic to lower the limit of ultra-low temperature again, even to the point where it is only three or four degrees Celsius away from absolute zero.

This ice and snow magic is likely to be more terrifying than high-level magic!

The only problem is that material coordination is likely to be required when casting a spell, and if the range is wrong, you will freeze yourself to death.

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