Chapter 159: Past
"The three golden seats are..."
Hearing Odd's strange words, Dorothy tilted her head and asked with a hint of confusion, and the other party answered her immediately.
"It is the highest level of the Stonemasons Union. Although the Stonemasons Union is a relatively loose organization, it is large enough, so it also needs a strong enough leadership group to ensure the basic operation of the group and to ensure its integrity without splitting. This leadership group is the Golden Three Seats, which is composed of three gold-level Extraordinaries, usually on the path of "Stone". Occasionally there will be vacancies, and at this time, a candidate must be selected from the Extraordinaries of the middle level in the group, and then the group's resources will be poured into helping him or her be promoted to gold and enter the three seats."
"Good fellow, three gold-level extraordinary people are the highest level, it is indeed a world-class grand gathering, much better than a small gathering in a small place like the Holy Communion."
"So, these three golden seats were absent two weeks ago. You and that Deer Skull, both top-level members of the Artisans' Guild, competed for the seats, and the competition led to hatred?" Dorothy continued to ask, and Odki nodded in response.
"Yes... competition is the beginning of hatred, but competition alone is not enough to develop to the point of life and death today. The deepening of hatred is a process of competition."
"In the competition process? How do you compete?"
"Craftsmen naturally compete in a craftsman's way. Creating works and competing in skills is the only way for Beyonders of Stone to compete besides fighting each other. At that time, both of us were members of the same clan, so it was naturally inconvenient for us to fight each other. Therefore, we used our works as a means of competition.
"The two of us have agreed under the witness of the upper echelons that we will create a sufficiently powerful, exquisite, and artistic work within a specified time. This work is not only a testimony to the difference in skills between us, but will also be the key to our future golden advancement ceremony."
"The key to the Golden Advancement Ceremony? Do you need to apply the Golden Advancement Ceremony to your own works?" Dorothy asked curiously after hearing Odmich's words, and Odmich nodded.
"Yes, many 'Stone' branches need to devote all their life's efforts to create an epic and extraordinary work that meets the characteristics of this branch when they advance to gold! In fact, the creation process of this work is an important part of the advancement ceremony, and the final quality of the work will also affect the success rate of the final advancement ceremony."
After saying this, Odditch slowly took a sip of tea, and Dorothy had some insights after hearing this information.
"The Stone Path is indeed a path of craftsmen. It seems that all of their branches are made up of different kinds of craftsmen. Even the ceremony of advancing to the Golden Stage is to devote all their efforts to creating an epic work... It is estimated that most of the extraordinary items in the entire secret world are made by this group of craftsmen. I wonder how powerful the extraordinary items created by those advanced Golden Stage craftsmen are."
Dorothy sighed in her heart, and Odditch on the other side slowly finished drinking the water and continued to tell the story.
"The time limit between me and that guy is 30 days. Within 30 days, we should produce the best works of each other and then be judged by the gold seats. The winner can get the support of the group and be promoted to gold. The problem lies in the 30-day production process."
"What's the problem?" Dorothy continued to ask, and Oldman answered in a deep voice.
"I've told you before that the bone master's training method requires living people as materials, taking bones and souls. Normally, he would just do small things, but this time he was so eager to win in order to defeat me, he seriously crossed the line."
"Wait...you said that minor fights are nothing, do you mean that your craftsmen will not care about his communion-like way of killing people? " Dorothy said in surprise after listening to Odditch's words, and Odditch responded calmly.
"Why should I care? I've told you before that our Stonemasons Union is a relatively loose organization. As long as you don't violate the basic principles of the union, no one will care what you do.
"The principles of the Stonemasons' Guild are neutrality, contracts, trade, and equality... There is no morality and mercy. We don't have to have pity and sympathy for ordinary people. It's Deer Skull's own will that he wants to attack them, and no one can do anything about it. In fact, there are many people like this in the entire Stonemasons' Guild. We are craftsmen, businessmen, developers... Not messengers of justice. Please recognize this, Miss Meshhos." With a serious look, Odchi said to Dorothy, and Dorothy frowned and asked back.
"So... what exactly do you mean by crossing the line? Since you don't care about killing innocent people, then how did the deer skull cross the line and what line did it cross?"
"Hehe... We don't care about killing innocent people, but there are other organizations that care. Deer Skull went too far in order to defeat me, which caused dissatisfaction among other organizations.
"The bone master's constructions are the combination of dead spirits and bones. Deer Skull's work is a bone that restrains countless ancient powerful evil spirits. These evil spirits were obtained when he excavated the ruins of ancient cities. It is rumored that they are the souls of seven extremely evil people. He spent all his wealth to make powerful bones to restrain these ancient evil spirits, and then made these evil spirits even more powerful, so he let them devour the souls of ordinary people.
“If Lu Ku was just doing small things, secretly capturing a few people to train their souls, and then cleaning up the traces, that would be fine, but his appetite was getting bigger and bigger. In order to create more powerful works, he began to recklessly drive evil spirits to devour the souls of ordinary people in order to improve the quality of his bones.
"At first, it was a few settlements, then a few villages, and then a few small towns. However, none of these made him feel that he could definitely beat me, so... he set his sights on a city."
Sitting in the chair, Odditch reminisced about the past and Dorothy was surprised to hear his words.
"What? You mean he let the evil spirits devour a city just to win the game against you!?"
Dorothy said in amazement, in this era, the largest cities have tens of thousands of people, and the smallest have tens of thousands of people. This guy is actually going to swallow up an entire city just to win the competition and get promoted?
"Hehe... He was going to do that, but he didn't succeed because his series of actions were too loud and he was targeted by the secret agents of the country where he committed the crime and the Glorious Church. It's impossible for them not to care about this extraordinary situation where the lives of the people in the city are in danger."
"So... it was the country's secret agents and the Glowing Church who stopped the Deer Skull?" Dorothy asked curiously when she heard this, and Odki shook his head in response.
"No, it's the Artisans Guild."
"What? Didn't you say that the Craftsmen's Guild wouldn't care about Deer Skull killing people?"
“I told you before that the Artisans Guild would not care what its members did as long as it did not violate the principles. It’s okay for Lu Skull to kill people, but if he kills too many people and causes hostility from other major forces towards the Artisans Guild, then that would be a big problem.
"I've said before that one of the main principles of the Artisan Guild is neutrality. Deer Skull's actions are equivalent to declaring war on a country and slapping the face of the Glorious Church. This seriously violates the neutrality principle of the Artisan Guild. So after the secret agents and the Glorious Church came to talk about the problem, the Golden Seat investigated the situation and believed that Deer Skull had seriously violated the rules. After stopping his actions, he was expelled from the Artisan Guild."
"It seems that they provoked other forces, so they took action to ensure the principle of neutrality... This Stonemason Union is really speechless..."
Dorothy thought so in her heart, and then she thought about it and said to Odditch again.
"Lu Ku was expelled from the Stonemasons Guild, so he lost the qualification to participate in the competition. So he resented that he had no opponent, right?"
"Of course, there's more to it than that. Lu Ku also suspected that I was the one who found out his intelligence and reported him to the Glorious Church and the secret agents, which made his carefully planned disguise go awry."
"And what about the truth?"
“That’s exactly what happened.”
Waving his hand, Odditch raised his eyebrows and said, Dorothy's mouth twitched slightly after hearing it.
"Oh my goodness, you are also a whistleblower."
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