Returning from the abyss

Chapter 447 The Daily Return

After this restless night, it ushered in a normal day instead.

The Magic Council showed their emergency response methods, and even a new shop was rebuilt in the place of the dilapidated tavern that was burned down by the flames last night. A man brought some people and artificial life to the shop. Decoration and adjustments, it will probably open in less than two days.

As for what happened...

"It was attributed to the magic experiment accident." Pierre said a little tiredly. At this time, everyone had returned to the Crow Hotel. As the leader of the party involved at the scene, Pierre had to report to the guards. Forget it, probably because of Xue Ni's face, Pierre was not embarrassed, and returned to the shop in the early hours of the morning.

"In addition, from last night to this morning, there were a total of [-] cases of pollution of magic books, and some chapters of magic books have been recovered, but no one knows about the one in our hand. .”

"Have they all been dealt with?" Black Rose didn't sleep all night, but he was a thief in the first place, so there was nothing serious about it.

"All hazards are confined within the scope of at most one room. The efficiency of the emergency management team is the fastest in the establishment directly under the parliament. There is no one who can cause large-scale damage... It would be better to say that the parliament has been waiting for a long time. If someone sabotages, it’s better to catch them all.”

"Caught it?"

"Caught it. The suspected participants totaled 250 and seven people were arrested. This kind of thing will definitely approve the use of Veritaserum and even soul search. Those memory masters will not even know what color pants these bastards wore when they were young." Ask."

Pierre poured himself a glass of wine: "There are still some broken pages that have not been recovered, but under this kind of close monitoring, it is only a matter of time. Lilian, find a chance to hand over the magic book in your hand Miss, she can hand it in safely, and you don't have to face any news."

"Yeah." Lu Ning nodded.

Everyone knows that at this time, the superficial problems have only been dealt with, and the deeper problems have not been solved at all, but they can't do anything now.

After leaving the Crow Hotel, Lu Ning received a communication from Xue Ni. Her voice became hoarse, but nothing else changed.

"Lilian, thank you for your hard work."

"Where did you go? Anyway, I told Catherine that..." Lu Ning repeated what she said to Xue Ni.

"Okay, I will add a reasonable lie according to this. In addition, you keep the magic book in your hand first, and when I ask you for it in person, I will give it to me."

"clear."

"Let's pretend nothing happened. For us, protecting ourselves is the first priority. Those big things..."

"Xue Ni, I have something to tell you." Lu Ning interrupted her, directly recounting the experience of last night.

"Broken Monk? A strange black shadow... Sorry, Lilian, I am only a junior magician in magic, and this kind of magic is not within the scope of my knowledge. I will try to ask the teacher, but don't hold back too much." Big expectations."

"understood."

"Don't be so upset, Lilian, you at least proved that you have a strong talent in magic or other aspects, I won't ask you what you did during this period, at least the result is satisfactory to me, that's enough. In the next time, you can make good preparations for any problems during the public lectures, and who to study with. The minimum lecturers are magisters, and this is a good opportunity to find nowhere to find outside."

"I will, thank you."

"Also, after the preparations for Catherine's affairs are over, you may still have something... Don't worry about it, it won't be such a thing."

Lu Ning was actually looking forward to a few more major events. Although the clues were broken this time, it gave her a little understanding of the situation inside the city, and she had 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 more regular. After waking up in the morning, she refined potions, and went to 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 send her a message asking her to purchase some items and send them to the academy, and because of the young lady's spending on magic, Lu Ning obtained a crystal card, which allowed her to purchase those extremely expensive items with her approval. s material.

Although she couldn't use the crystal card privately, Lu Ning's knowledge of magic increased sharply just because of the area that the card could allow her to pass through.She even saw one of her mission goals, a crystal of darkness, in the VIP exhibition hall of a high-end crystal material store.

The instructions written in common characters also gave Lu Ning a little understanding of the type of crystal magic.Its power is different from the elemental, arcane, and natural categories that have a large number of students, and it is completely brought about by the ultimate purity.

Users of crystallization magic are able to purify anything and crystallize the vegans through some secret crystallographic technique, hence the name.Under this condition, magicians generally use high-quality gemstones, precious raw ore, and magic tools containing powerful magic power as spell-casting supplies, and even such things will themselves become weak after casting crystal magic for a long time. Crystals began to precipitate, and it was slowly scrapped.

The Crystal of Darkness is a very advanced material among these materials. Of course, it is also extremely rare in other magic classifications. For crystal magicians, this is a high-quality magic item that can be used by high-level magicians for about 50 years. No wonder Lu Ning had never heard of it before.

In addition, even Catherine didn't have the financial resources to buy this thing.

Time passed quickly, and it was two days before the public lecture day. Lu Ning also read the annotated "Elementary Alchemy" and a few miscellaneous books. After the morning reading, her spirits were also good. Quite a few, went out to start today's alchemy work.

After many days of training, she can already control the alchemy array to refine two types of potions at the same time without wasting a lot of mana in the adjustment process.Today, she even tried to make a bottle of healing potion, which already belongs to the category of potions for junior alchemists. It can quickly sterilize wounds, stop bleeding and speed up healing. It is very popular in the eyes of adventurous people.

Lu Ning smiled, prepared six bottles of medicine, put them in a box and walked to the front.

"Lilian, good morning." Howard was still sitting in the shop on time.

"Father, there is something I want to tell you."

In the past few days, like some other shop assistants, she has started to call Howard by "Daddy".Although Howard got up early every day to call people, those shop assistants still respected him. After all, apart from rushing to work, Howard did not treat them badly in terms of food or housing.

"What's the matter? Oh? Why is it six bottles today?"

Lu Ning took out the bottle of healing potion and smiled triumphantly.

"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 beneficial to let you do more work. You are talented and eager to learn, and it will be a matter of time."

"I want to ask you to order this bottle of potion as a souvenir. I will pay for it," Lu Ning said.

"I gave it to you, and it's 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 is showing his generosity, but based on Lu Ning's understanding of him in the past few days, Howard probably thinks that he just let it go and waived the money for officially giving Lu Ning a gift. Responses were astonishingly fast.

She didn't think Howard was necessary, 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, put the other five bottles on the table, and a clerk came to sort it out.

"By the way, I didn't see Bolivar today." Lu Ning said.

"The kid hasn't gotten up yet?" Howard frowned, and climbed up from the chair, "That's not okay, you are young, just sleep a little longer in the morning and you'll be done. What's it like to sleep until noon!"

Lu Ning looked up at the sky, at most 08:30.

The two walked to a small wing room in the backyard one by one, a little further inward than where Lu Ning lived.Howard untied a bunch of keys from his waist, and opened the door without even knocking.

"Bollywell! What are you doing, boy!" Howard opened the door, and there was a smell of medicine inside, and Bollywell was lying on the bed, the light from outside entered the room, and the air could be faintly seen green.

"Dad! Don't go in yet!" Lu Ning hurriedly grabbed Howard, ran to the window and knocked twice, used a simple lockpicking trick, and then pulled the window open. When the curtains were parted, a puff of green gas flowed from the room floated out.

"What are you playing in the house, boy!" Howard exclaimed, and the light was sufficient at this time, and he could see Bolivar's face—blue-faced and unconscious on the bed.

"This kid committed suicide!" Howard pulled up his collar to block his mouth and nose, and rushed directly into the room. He rushed to the bedside and picked up Bolivar in three or two steps, turned around and ran out, and put him on the bed. on the ground.Just this action doesn't look old at all.

Lu Ning moved closer, took a breath, took out a piece of parchment from her pocket, and slapped Bolivar on the head twice. After finding nothing unusual, she began to check what happened to him.

Howard also squatted next to him. Of course he knew that Bolivar was still alive when he carried the man out, but he was a little at a loss. After squatting for a while, he immediately got up and walked into the store.

After some inspections, Lu Ning found that Bolivar was only showing some signs of weakness and poisoning, but he hadn't hurt his life. Even the green air in the room didn't know how it came out, and it hasn't dissipated yet.

Soon, Howard came back with a bottle of medicine, which was a generic antidote. He confirmed it to Lu Ning, then lifted Bolivar's neck and poured it down for him.

After a while, Bolivar woke up with a cough. He opened his mouth and looked at the two people next to him, confused: "Why did I sleep outside?"

"Get up!" The man woke up and seemed to be all right. 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 Do you use the alchemy laboratory? Tell me what is this green thing? Why do you want to dye your hair?"

Bolivar stared at his room dumbfounded.

"I don't know... I'm here when I wake up."

"Don't you know? Can you still emit green smoke in the house?"

Seeing that the two people couldn't explain clearly, Lu Ning sighed: "Why don't 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." Bolivar nodded repeatedly, raised his hands, and chanted a short mantra. The cool wind rose from the yard, poured into the room, and squeezed out the green air. After repeating this several times , Finally, there is no gas coming out of the room.

"Take three bottles of antidote, let's go in and see the situation." Howard said angrily.

The furnishings in the room are very ordinary, and there are some messes in line with Bollywell's usual style.When Lu Ning approached the door, she smelled it a little, and there was no such stinky smell of medicine anymore, it seemed to be the smell of gas.

This room was bigger than the one Lu Ning lived in. There were a lot of things in a mess on the desk, and there was a bundle of half-used parchment paper, but the three of them looked through it and found nothing wrong.

"Bed." Howard reached out and lifted the quilt on the bed to the side, but it was a wooden bed, and there was nothing worth noting.

Bolivar lay down and looked under the bed. There was nothing strange on the ground. Instead, he was coughed by the dust raised by the wind just now.

"Nothing." Howard said strangely.

"Turn over the bed board." Lu Ning was helpless with the completely careless search of the two.

The wooden bed board was quite heavy, and with some magical assistance, Howard and Bolivar turned the bed board over and found that there were dots of black scorched marks on it.

"What is this?"

"Change formation." Lu Ning and Bolivar spoke at the same time, answering Howard's question.

Howard was taken aback: "Does this thing look like this?" He had seen the alchemy transformation in the alchemy laboratory.

"The refinement formation can also be changed in some details according to different needs. One refinement formation can carry out any alchemy work, but if you really pursue meticulousness, it is actually better to use different refinement formations for different refined objects." Bolivar explained to Howard a little, then turned to look at Lu Ning, "But Lilian, how did you recognize it?"

Lu Ning stretched out her finger on the messy table.

"There is a parchment on your desk with the same transformation, so I can recognize it."

Hearing this, Howard immediately stared.

"Sure enough, it's your kid's fault, isn't it?"

The corner of Bolivar's mouth twitched. He didn't know how to explain, so he could only shake his head desperately.

(End of this chapter)