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[attr="class","field"]Developing the greatest magus in a Homunculus was the Bárány's dream. Luca studied alchemy without questioning why and excelled in magic. Yet, it was not Luca who received attention. It was the Homunculus, the subject, the prized creation. Though his father was pleased and excited with Luca's potential, their conversations always led to their research. Luca was always enthusiastic too. He and his father always spent their time together, but at some point, something stirred inside Luca, wanting more. He asked himself, "What if I become more powerful than the greatest Homunculus could be?"

In his teenage years, Luca became rebellious, distancing himself from the family to seek his own path. He became envious of the Homunculus, bitter with his disapproving father, and disgusted by the Bárány Crest. He forgot the reason he worked hard to learn other branches of magic was to achieve the Bárány's dream of the ultimate magus.

Then, as an adult, when he had rightfully earned many achievements, he went back. Old spats were forgotten and no resentment remained. Luca felt accomplished, realized how far he had gone, and simply moved on. It was a sense of fulfillment. He remembered his dream as a child and felt not a shred of sentiment for it. There was distance, vaguely with some amusement. To him, it didn't mean anything. That was probably just how life went.

When the Bárány decided to use the war to gather information, they sent in their latest Homunculus, Csilla. Very conveniently, Luca was already working on a backup Csilla. Luca accompanied Csilla to Taixuan to help her adjust to the human life and protect the generations of information stored in her consciousness.

[attr="class","field"]The prodigal son at his prime is seeking for more challenges to push his magecraft to the limits. He inherits the Bárány's thirst for knowledge but has desired to take it outside the laboratory to spread his wings and fly. Though a quirky man among the clan, there is no denying of Luca's position as its successor. And as its future head, Luca merely sees it as a title he has longed overgrown into. There is no real worth to it anymore.

Luca is the type of man who reads by the window in a well-lighted pastel room and eats with a napkin on the lap with his elbows extended in a perfect 30 degrees. He doesn't care about trimming bonsai or raising roses. His writing is cursive and graceful. He wears purple because it's what catches his eye instantly.

"A dignified man. A magus unworthy of any less respect," according to an associate who has read much of Luca's research and met the very man for the very first time. The associate was admittedly baffled finding Luca prowling on the streets like a cat one night, but his statement stood firm.

Luca has always been unconventional. He has the attitude of an experimenter, beginning with a simple question of "what-if?" He explores choices just as he first did when he was a child. He does not pause to reflect to realize this. He's always looking forward, enthusiastically meeting with a simple smile the many more he can absorb in his lifetime.

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• BÁRÁNY CREST. Alchemy focused on the creation and development of Homunculus. Csilla Bárány is the latest result of their ingenuity. Luca did not contribute in the creation of War Csilla but had been the one to create the backup Csilla. The Bárány Crest is not fit for combat, but Luca took inspiration for use of its Transmutation for combat purposes from the Einzbern, another major family researching on the creation of life.
• BATTLE MAGE. Luca shows expert proficiency in using and manipulating an array of spells outside his elemental affinity and family crest, making him a versatile and unpredictable opponent.
  
  ELEMENTAL MAGECRAFT
  Luca has an affinity for Wind Magic, but is also competent enough in the other three natural elements. Some of his spells include:
  
  1. Magnetism (Wind sub-element) - To repel or to attract. By manipulating electric currents, Luca can create a magnetic field from his hands. The size isn't amazing, but it's strong enough to send a speeding truck reeling backward from its repelling force.
  
  2. Invisible Air (Wind) - The magecraft used as the sheathe for King Arthur's Excalibur to hide his identity as a Servant. Due to the immense prana required to maintain it, Luca does not rely on it for invisibility. Instead of covering an entire object, Luca covers only one side, usually toward his enemy's line of sight, to get them off-guard. He maintains it for only several seconds.
  
  3. Solid Air (Wind) - He can super compress layers of air similar to the theory behind Invisible Air. Luca mainly uses it to walk on air.
  
  4. "Invisible" Flames (Fire) - By decreasing the process of oxidation in the combustion of flames, Luca can make it seem like the flame is invisible until the last second. Essentially like a time bomb without it not being an actual bomb. Just fire with a trick added to it.
  
  5. Cyclone (Wind) - With him at the centre, Luca manipulates the wind inward in a spiralling motion like its namesake. Its speed can drag others close to the centre and immobilize them if they don't want to get thrown off. It's a free game up though. The cyclone only spins in one side. Weak at the start, stronger when the speed really picks up.
  
  6. Air Bullet (Wind) - One super compressed and slightly-slower-than-light speed that can punch a small hole on a rock. Spammable in numbers but can be easily ignored by any proper shields.
  
  7. Drag Pathways (Wind) - Luca creates horizontal paths with zero air resistance even while in motion.
  
  TRANSMUTATION
  Luca's strongest skill is to direct the flow of prana on any object and shape them according to his mental image. Used with materials like wires, he may able to create deadly weapons for combat. But Luca's level of skill goes beyond manipulation. He is able to pass prana through the air, allowing him to manipulate objects at a distance as far as six feet and if within his sight.
• RESEARCHER. Not only is he a practitioner, he is also a researcher, creating Mystic Codes and taking his magic to higher heights.
  
  MYSTIC CODE
  The Magician's Gloves - Increases Luca's spell-weaving and transmutation skills.
  
  MYSTIC CODE
  The Magician's Mask - Luca is able to recall things he'd seen through the mask with perfect clarity. Does not negate the effects of any NP or a C-ranked or above of a Servant's skill.
  
  MYSTIC CODE
  The Magician's Cloak - A bounded field from the inside where Luca can store a finite number of inanimate object. The outside of the cloak is drawn with sigils and has to be maintained from time to time to keep it functioning.
• NOBLE PHANTASM. Among the surviving Noble Phantasms recovered in the modern era is The Sea God's Crossbow (Rank C), the weapon Qin Shi Huang used in his dream where he believed he was sea god and had slain a gigantic fish. Albeit a dream, Qin Shi Huang was convinced he was the sea god and sought to shoot giant fishes in the sea. The story's popularity in the court was the epitome of mockery toward Qin Shi Huang's degrading sanity.
  
  The crossbow could be used by an ordinary magus as a phantasmal weapon. As someone as experienced and endowed with Magic Circuits as Luca, he is capable of exhausting himself up to five shots with the crossbow. When the arrow is over water, its trajectory remains constant and cuts through liquid without resistance. The wielder gains Divinity equal to their madness, if any. (Note: Divinity can reduce the effect of any saint-related things.)
  
  Luca stole it from the catalyst collector Meng Na when he was a teenager. He's had no interest in it but has kept it all these years. He brought it over to Taixuan and kept it hidden in his cloak in case he might need it. And because memories!