Returning from the abyss

Chapter 466 Notices and New Cases
Lu Ning gained very little from Zafi's lessons, not even comparable to Soygo and Geer.Elemental magic theory is indeed very useful, but what Lu Ning needs is not these, after all, these things are useless in another scene.

She did not choose to ask questions after class, but left after the lecture.But as soon as she walked out of this building, she saw a lot of students from the school surrounded by a bulletin board in the school.

coming.

The Magic Council will definitely respond to yesterday's new round of magic book theft. Lu Ning has a premonition, and the reaction has finally been announced.She followed the crowd to the bulletin board, and the bulletin with the seal of the Supreme Council was posted at the highest point, so it could be seen without going to the innermost.

But the content surprised Lu Ning.

[Notice to all students of Ewa Lane:
In view of the fruitful results of the magicians from all sides in this exchange meeting, the council decided to open the door on the first floor of the library within three days from No. 17 to [-] on the exchange day, allowing all students or professors to The magician enters.All necessary measures for the library have been prepared, please rest assured to visit.

Magic Council]

This announcement obviously caused quite a stir among the students.

Entry to the Violet Library still requires an application, and the library is a place that students like them don't even think about.Although the magic guide book has been repeatedly reminded of its dangers, at the same time, the huge magical knowledge contained in it is also fascinating.

Lu Ning withdrew from the crowd, thinking about the purpose of this step of the Magic Council.

If there is no accident, this is probably the condition of "opening the library" mentioned in the mission.But this is the strategy of the Magic Council?A plan to clear out the ghost?Or is there some other arrangement?
Since the Twilight Thieves Group had already acted last night, it was definitely not just a place in the Opal District.Have all events been contained?If this kind of quick response is really possible, it won't be particularly difficult to find the ghost, right?

All of these can only be guessed. The reason is that Lu Ning cannot get in touch with people at the level of the parliament now, let alone think from their perspective.

So from another perspective, what will the opening of the library cause?

There is absolutely no need for the insider of the council to do anything at this time. The previous two successes proved that that person can start stealing the magic book at any time. Doing so at such a time is to expose his identity.Tourists may take this opportunity to get in touch with the magic book, but Lu Ning is sure that every tourist is aware of the benefits of the magic book. This time, they may just go there with the mentality of stepping on the spot, or they may even not go.

No, there is another problem, which is the main task of the magic book rubbings.The parchments that Lu Ning got together cannot be called a rubbings, after all, it is not a complete magic book.This was also confirmed by her verifying task completion while meditating.But the divination given by Geer is also accurate. The rubbings of the magic book really need to be transcribed manually. Obviously, low-level magicians can't complete such a task at all. Only those who are qualified to read can be qualified to transcribe.

What Lu Ning thought of here was the last sentence of the announcement.

"Necessary measures..."

Rubbing changed the magic book from being only accessible through magic perception into concrete text. Although the text is still mysterious and difficult to understand, it is readable for anyone and loses the polluting nature. Wouldn't it be one of the necessary measures?

Describing all kinds of possibilities in her heart, Lu Ning quietly left the Shinto Academy and embarked on the road back.

At dusk, she finally returned to the Moonstone area. To return to the one-eyed squid, she had to pass through the commercial street. Lu Ning stopped by and walked around, and found that there were not many changes here. Based on the observations along the way, it can be basically concluded that what happened in the place she passed Everything was quietly suppressed.

"Lilian?"

Just as she was about to leave, a person walked up to her and greeted her.It was Rochester, an intermediate alchemist from Rainbow Mushroom. At this moment, his expression was seven points pleasantly surprised, but also three points haggard.

"Mr. Rochester?"

"What a coincidence." Rochester walked over, and Lu Ning saw that he was carrying a medicine package in his hand, which contained some materials and the like.

"I remember that Mr. Rochester seemed to say that he won't go to work after the public day?"

"Yes, I'm just here for shopping. I've learned a lot from some courses these days..." Rochester smiled, "What about you? Have you listened to the courses of those alchemy masters?"

Lu Ning nodded.

"Very good. Although alchemy has grades, there is no real threshold. After all, it is a skill. Even if it is an apprentice level, it is good to listen to the experience of the master."

"Mr. Rochester, you seem to be in a bad state of mind?"

"Hmm." Rochester rubbed his eyes, "You've seen it all. It seems that I'm really not very well...Your mind is very flexible, can you guess the reason?"

"Then, please allow me to take the liberty to speculate. Your complexion is not good, and it is more gratifying to see my smile. You don't know my personal entry, and it is impossible to tell the level of alchemy at a glance. Then It’s not because I’m good at academics that I laughed. From the communication a few days ago, I can see that you are a good teacher, but you also have your own humility. If you really meet a famous teacher, you will definitely give me advice at this time. During the conversation, you just said some clichés, and I can rule out the possibility of not finding a famous teacher who can be recommended to me because of the quality of the instructors selected by Avalon, so in fact, you did not participate in any alchemy courses."

Rochester raised his eyebrows.

Lu Ning continued: "This is a plan that you have already put in your schedule. It must be a more important event if you can make you give up the opportunity of this plan. The medical level of Ewalang is extremely high. With your financial resources, it will not be possible. It may be a problem of family illness. You have exhausted a lot of energy, but you can still greet me with a smile when you see me, which means that you don’t have no rest time at all. Based on the above three information, you are concerned because you are the most direct to me The reaction is an alchemist, and the lack of energy is to do something with others in shifts, and this thing must be more important than your alchemy entry—please tell me, which alchemist it is, or, Which ones are in danger of life?"

After she finished speaking, Rochester completely restrained the smile on his face, and replaced it with a troubled and distressed expression.

"you are right."

The two walked into a relatively quiet street, and Rochester told Lu Ning about the problems they encountered.

Almost one day before the opening day, Rochester received a letter from the Alchemist Association. It was actually a bit strange to receive a letter at this time, but Rochester still passed.There he heard that a senior alchemist had been attacked, his clothes turned into hot metal, and the alchemist suffered extensive burns all over his body.But the magician still had some self-protection methods after all. He barely fled back to the association, asked for help and left a word.

"Let alchemists be vigilant, especially intermediate and advanced ones."

The association was not sure what the specific situation was, but there was evidence, and they would not ignore it, so they urgently summoned all mid- and high-level alchemists to notify.

And the next day, when Rochester was going to listen to the lecture according to the schedule, he heard that his friend, the artificial life alchemist from Rainbow Mushroom, had an accident during the practice of refining today. The artificial life doll he made at random turned into a cursed doll. He was accidentally stabbed four times and then shattered the cursed doll with a powerful explosion magic. However, he himself fell into a coma due to the powerful curse. The magician obtained it by analyzing the situation present.

But Rochester knew his friend well. His alchemy to refine a hand-crafted artificial life would definitely not be biased toward cursing dolls. That thing is much more complicated, and it is definitely not something that can be refined by casual refining.The problem was that no one else was there at the time, and no one knew what was wrong with the friend's alchemy.By the time the magic flow was discovered, it would have dissipated long ago.

Immediately afterwards, that night was the No.3 alchemist. He was attacked when he returned to his residence after an afternoon class, and he was also the first person to wake up.According to his description, when he was passing through a narrow alley on his way home, light suddenly shone under his feet, and then his legs were in severe pain.But the bones of both legs had turned into liquid when they were discovered.

The fourth incident occurred in the early hours of yesterday and was also the first fatal incident.The flowers that an alchemist raised on the windowsill to provide daily alchemy materials released nerve gas at night, and the alchemist suffocated to death in his sleep.His body was discovered by a companion who asked him to go to class with him this morning. This death incident caused the association to gather all the alchemists again and inspect each scene together.With all this and looking after friends, Rochester simply didn't have time for class.

"You still dare to come out?"

"Even if we know that there is such a person, it is impossible to stay at home forever. Besides, the fourth incident has proved that even being at home is not safe." Rochester smiled bitterly, "Lilian, you just guessed the reason for my state, Can you do us a favor? Alchemists are experts when it comes to formula theory, but such attacks and murders...we really can't handle it."

"Then I have to ask a few questions."

"Say."

"Where did the four incidents take place so far?"

"They are all in the Moonstone area, so the guards also think that the murderer is around the Moonstone area. If you need me, I can tell you the address."

"Perhaps, the second question, all four were attacked alone?"

"For sure, there are no witnesses around. The one who was awake was also attacked when he went home alone."

"Three, the alchemist levels of these four people."

"In chronological order, advanced, intermediate, advanced, intermediate."

"That is to say, it was right for the man to let the middle and high-level alchemists pay attention to it at the beginning? But how did he know? Could it be that he had fought against the murderer?"

"I'm not sure about that, because that person is still receiving treatment, and the association sends people to watch him every day. After this death, everything around him was removed and replaced."

"Why didn't the association notify apprentices and junior alchemists?"

"Because the first three incidents have obvious directions, and there are too many unregistered low-level alchemists at this time, and it is impossible to notify them all. They can only be delegated to us, which is why I subconsciously smiled when I saw you. " Rochester sighed.

"The last question, so many days have passed, the guards should have intervened for a long time, don't they have any clues?"

"All the on-site inspection results were determined by the association and the guards together, and the street surveillance has not stopped. As long as the normal order is not disturbed, it is indeed... nothing found."

"...I see, I need to visit all four places." Lu Ning said.

"How about tomorrow? I can spare some time, and I know a lot of people in the association."

"Okay, please come to the one-eyed squid to find me tomorrow."

Rochester left with a not relaxed expression.

Another mystery, but not particularly one.Lu Ning had a similar experience, and since the Alchemist Association skipped the notice to the junior alchemists, it naturally failed to verify another similar incident, that is, the green gas incident in Boliwell.

No - wait a minute.

Is it really only Bollywell that she experienced?

It was at this time that Lu Ning's thinking became extremely flexible.

If she remembers correctly, on the morning before the open day, when she was refining the holy bell for Jefni, there should have been some abnormal changes in the magic power flow of the transformation formation, similar to the disturbance of magic power, but not It shouldn't happen in a laboratory with an isolation circle.At that time, she didn't care, turned the magic flow back to the original position and continued refining.

Ordinary people's first reaction when recalling this kind of thing should be fear, but Lu Ning was inexplicably excited.

There is always human logic in man-made cases, even if a lunatic commits a crime, there are traces to follow, and if you are a link in this chain, then continuing to reason will become much smoother.

"Including Bolivar and me, there are... six people were attacked, and only the last one died. The several attacks Rochester described seemed fatal, but they were far from the level of those alchemists. To the point of fatality, the only difference between them - time."

One day passed between the Bollywell incident and Lu Ning's refinement of the holy bell for Geoffrey, followed by the metallization incident at dusk that day, the cursed doll incident by Rochester's friend the next morning, and the liquefied bones incident in the alley that night.The intervals between these events are very short, while the events in the early hours of yesterday were separated by several days, which is already a relatively long time span.

"Then... there is one more thing to confirm."

Lu Ning adjusted her direction, instead of returning to the one-eyed squid, she went straight to the Bell Tower Academy.

(End of this chapter)