Chapter 139 Characteristics of the Path Lily Chooses

Once Aiwass chose the entry, the other two options were shattered.

He felt his body become light... Looking down, he saw that his body had turned into a gray shell, entangled with the shadow demon, and then condensed and reappeared.

The power from the Shadow Demon flowed continuously into his body along the contract. What had once flowed like a faucet now became a whistling drainpipe, and the mana pool within his body finally expanded to accommodate this extra dark mana!

When Aiwass woke up from his dream, the sun had not yet risen and it was still pitch black outside.

The chicken-blood robe he was wearing had dried and was giving off a faint, unpleasant smell. Lily hadn't woken up yet, probably still choosing her entry.

His attribute panel also changes accordingly:

Demonologist LV10: [Demonology - Level 2 (97%)], [Basic Ritual - Level 2 (0%)], [Demon Contract - Level 4 (0%)], [Shepherding (Essence) - Level 2 (0%)]

Mana Pool: 27/27 (Light), 24/24 (Dark), 47/47 (Fire)

Road characteristics——

Transcendence - Shadow Incarnation (Balance): You are both a vessel and an incarnation. Shadows are no longer your enemy. Your Shadow Affinity and Dark Vessel rank increase by 1.

Transcendence - Shadow Affinity LV2: You sign a life contract with the Shadow Fiend, and can use the second-level shadow power at will.

Transcendence - Dark Vessel LV1: You touch the Feather of the Serpent Father, and the maximum capacity of your Mana Pool (Dark) increases by 14.

——It’s done.

Aiwass now has a level 15 priest and a level 10 demonologist, and his experience is basically useless.

In other words, he can advance twice more next month!

And this time, Aiwass finally confirmed one thing, that is, the entries can indeed be controlled by behavior!

"But how can I obtain the container entries for the three attributes of wind, earth, and water?"

Aiwass fell into deep thought.

He shook his head, deciding to think about that later.

Aiwass changed his clothes and began to clean up the traces of the ceremony.

He waited for more than ten minutes before Lily, who was sleeping on the sofa, suddenly made an incomprehensible sound like a dream, hummed, and then slowly woke up.

Aiwass, who was finishing up the ceremony, looked up and saw Lily looking at him silently with her clear gray eyes wide open.

After this ceremony, their relationship became much closer.

In the past, she would have jumped up in a panic and started working for Aiwass the first thing she did when she woke up. Besides work, she almost never chatted or talked with Aiwass.

She just habitually kept her distance from the master she served - this was the reserve and professional ethics of being a personal maid. Unless the master needed her to, she would not express her opinions.

She usually preferred to remain silent, but that wasn't because she didn't like talking. In fact, she could even have a long and enjoyable chat with Princess Isabel... provided Aiwass wasn't around.

Because Lily knew she was a lowly person, living under someone else's roof, she kept a distance from others to protect herself. Knowing too much wasn't good for her, so she pretended not to see or hear, preferring to be invisible to everyone.

But now, when Lily looked at Aiwass again, she only felt a sense of tranquility.

It is not silence chosen based on the principle of "being cautious in what you say and do".

Instead, I don't want to think about anything, and I feel a quiet and warm sense of security.

It’s like when I was very young, sometimes I would be held in my mother’s arms, who rarely calmed down.

That's when Lily would feel this sense of peace.

Lily's mother had a bad temper, or was a little neurotic. In most cases, she was very irritable and unreasonable, but occasionally she would calm down and become very gentle.

But Lily didn't hate her. Unlike her peers, her mother wasn't determined to let her daughter follow the same fate as herself. Her mother's only wish was for Lily to study hard and ultimately change her fate. For this reason alone, she held no hatred for her mother.

Lily knew she had no way out, so she studied very hard and remained at the top of her class until middle school.

Until Lily was thirteen years old. Because Lily was beautiful, quiet and dignified, many classmates wanted to pursue her.

This is actually a way to change your destiny.

As long as she can find a suitable husband, she can also break free from the constraints of her background.

But Lily was born in Lloyd's district, was very mature and had a wide range of knowledge, so she knew that the possibility was not high.

The more likely scenario was that she would be toyed with and then casually abandoned, wasting her youth and time. Therefore, Lily didn't cherish such a fluke mentality, but instead focused on her studies. So she rejected these people's pursuit.

But Lily didn't know that being unrequited would actually pique people's interest. So the boys who pursued her began to investigate her background, preferences, and interests... and unexpectedly discovered her mother's occupation, and also learned that Lily was an illegitimate child and that her last name was her mother's.

No one knew who had spread the news, but it spread throughout the school in an instant. Lily's suitors immediately turned away from her, and the more annoying flies came around. Rumors spread everywhere, and Lily could no longer concentrate on her studies. She had to go home and hide in the attic to study.

Lily's mother believed that this would only lead her astray, as her family couldn't provide a learning environment. There were no teachers to teach her, so she approached Lily's biological father... hoping he could provide Lily with resources worthy of the Droste family and give her a surname.

It was not until then that Lily knew that the noble blood of the founding family flowed in her body.

But at that time, she didn't know why she was born. She still imagined that she was the fruit of a love that transcended taboos, and she also imagined all kinds of love stories full of girlish heart.

This is not an unfounded guess.

Because when she first met Minister Droste, he was very friendly.

He even had a long, serious conversation with Lily, carefully asking about her grades, hobbies, relationships, and future aspirations. He also explained his current situation, the various rules of the Knight family, the meaning of being an illegitimate child, and why he couldn't give Lily a surname, and apologized to her in a very equal and humorous manner.

Lily accepted the result.

She learned from Minister Droste that if she had a bad background, she would not be allowed to go to university even if she had good grades - she was the illegitimate child of a prostitute, an unregistered Lloyd's block child since birth, and an illegitimate child of a knight family. All these combined made her basically the offspring of a serious criminal.

Neither the army, the courts, nor the supervisory bureau would recruit her. The best job she could find was as a governess.

Lily followed Minister Droste's instructions and was sent to the Moriarty family, a fellow founding family, to serve as a personal maid to their newly adopted young master, Aiwass.

As a personal maid to a founding family, Lily's status was actually higher than most governesses—because in most cases, personal maids began caring for direct heirs at a very young age, and the age difference wasn't too great. If they were of the opposite sex, they'd usually have had intimate relationships with them, and they were the closest and most engaged peers during their teenage years.

In a sense, the personal maids are the absolutely loyal lovers, best friends and accomplices of these future big men.

Unlike the other maids, they didn't usually wear maid uniforms. Instead, they wore hand-me-downs from their mistresses, or clothes given to them by their husbands. Aside from the rule that they weren't allowed to wear jewelry, their attire was no different from that of the ladies of the capital.

And because they usually accompanied their masters when they traveled, they did not eat servants' meals but the masters' leftovers, and they often ate at the same table with their masters outside of formal banquets.

They also had their own private rooms, unlike other servants who lived in the dormitory. Personal maids were usually not fired and usually accompanied their masters until their death.

In addition, the salary of a personal maid is second only to that of a housekeeper, and she also has paid leave every year to visit relatives.

Even for a girl from a common family, this is a rare and good job.

Not to mention Lily's humble origins... So, while she felt helpless and sad that she could no longer study, she also knew she had reached a destination many others struggled to reach after studying. Furthermore, she found safety and respect within the Moriarty family, and was therefore deeply grateful for Droste's arrangements.

The only thing that made Lily sad was that her mother died soon after she settled down.

It was not until this ceremony that she understood the secret behind it all.

Her mother was murdered by a killer hired by her father.

Perhaps it was because her current master, Aiwass, was involved in the secretary's death, which made Minister Droste angry; or maybe it was because Droste already knew that Moriarty was dead and became bolder... or even just because Lily went to school against his wishes, he felt offended.

He even wants to hire a killer to assassinate Lily!

Lily finally realized that Droste's arrangement wasn't for her own good. She was already in school, and she had never heard of the saying "offspring of prostitutes can't go to school." She had also seen students at the seminary who were descendants of sinners.

So Minister Droste simply didn't want her to show up in public.

He sent Lily to the Moriarty family, hoping to keep her under house arrest and prevent her from ever having the last name of Droste in her lifetime.

——It’s better not to have that kind of thing.

Lily thought.

"I have now obtained something truly worth cherishing. My greatest treasure, the direction of my life..."

She had specifically chosen the "Shadow Affinity" trait this time so that she could better cooperate with Aiwass, who possessed the Shadow Fiend. Combined with the "Shadow Affinity" she gained when she first entered the Adaptation Path, she now had two levels of Shadow Affinity.

This was her plan for her future self. One day, Aiwass would be free from his wheelchair. When that happened, what kind of role would she take to follow Aiwass?

Then she had to find a way to make herself more useful. She already knew who she wanted to live for, and she didn't want to be abandoned again.

Thanks to Tianze Lu for feeding the three leaders, and thanks to Bobo Sha Chong Ya for feeding the leader meow~

(End of this chapter)